The campaign's central problem is the cost of keeping an oversized force ready during peace. Wartime funding had produced a large surplus, but the peacetime budget now leaves Britain in deficit despite the empire's size. Training and technology are already funded at their maximum settings, while fleet maintenance and fixed expenses consume the available money. Eliminating research would buy only a few more months. Keeping the force intact would therefore require cuts to readiness, research, or construction. The figures belong to the game, while the competition among budget categories closely resembles a real naval planning problem.
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Peacetime budgets versus a wartime-scale fleet
A postwar funding cut leaves a huge British fleet unaffordable, showing how maintenance, training, research, and shipyard capacity compete for naval money.