Japanese capital ships and British industrial access

The comparison treats foreign technical connections as part of naval power because they can affect machinery, hull scale, and the standard of a fleet's first-generation dreadnoughts. The Japanese design's 48,000-ton hull, higher speed, and fifteen-gun battery are tied to access to leading British technology and shipbuilding infrastructure. Comparing national designs therefore requires looking beyond the formal owner of a ship to the yards and technical networks able to produce it. The game-based counterfactual directs attention to the industrial relationships behind ship design.