The fight makes the simulation's 1910 US ship look weaker pound for pound than the Japanese counterfactual. That result is immediately narrowed to what Japan could buy from Britain, with the hypothetical hulls treated as British-built because of their size. The comparison therefore depends on access to another country's yards and technology as much as on the two national design labels. Any conclusion drawn from this counterfactual combat test inherits the industrial assumptions built into its ships.
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What the game's Japanese advantage assumes
The apparent pound-for-pound Japanese advantage is qualified as a result of British technology and construction assumptions inside the scenario.