The Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts model comes in at about 15,156 tons on a hull with a 16,000-ton allowance, leaving room for additions. Its 7.8-inch main belt is thicker than the design would probably have carried in period. The machinery uses turbines and coal firing with oil spray. Coal supports overseas basing, while spraying oil onto it offers a more efficient burn when needed. A 17-knot cruising speed accompanies the heavy battery of ten 9.2-inch guns intended to defeat other armoured cruisers. These figures describe the game design, whose maximum speed remains uncertain because the captions give conflicting values.
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A 9.2-inch cruiser in Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
The game model puts ten 9.2-inch guns on a roughly 15,000-ton cruiser and tests the balance between protection, propulsion and firepower.