The comic trigger is a device for an otherwise serious force-design comparison. Britain sends ships to escort a Canadian convoy while the United States attempts to stop it, producing a limited clash rather than a total war. The late-1920s or early-1930s setting places both forces inside the alternative equitable-treaty system. The scenario compares fleets shaped by that system without assuming either navy can strip every other theatre bare.
Chapter · 0:13-2:10
A deliberately improbable Anglo-American crisis
The hypothetical maple-syrup dispute supplies a deliberately light-hearted reason to test a British and American battle-squadron encounter in the late 1920s.