How would avoiding the Royal Navy's carrier construction pause affect later classes?
Short answerEarlier completions would free yards and expertise sooner, accelerating Implacable, Indefatigable, Audacious, and Unicorn as well.
NotesCompleting the earlier carriers would release yard space for the ships that followed them. Implacable and Indefatigable are expected to arrive sooner under that counterfactual. Audacious, Unicorn, and the light carriers could also benefit. The effect carries through successive projects because each completed hull makes construction capacity available again.