How the Channel battle reshapes later navies

A victorious but battered Royal Navy would launch a crash rebuilding program because much of its existing battle force had been destroyed. Jellicoe could become a Nelson-like national figure whether he survived the action or died in it, while Beatty and many familiar Channel commanders might also be casualties. The basic Harpoon-derived scenario runs are illustrative rather than precise, yet they repeatedly kill Jellicoe, Beatty, and other officers associated with the historical Channel war. The close-range destruction would give designers unusually vivid evidence about armor, gun power, speed, and the survivability of capital ships. The battle's institutional memory would shape the replacement fleet as strongly as the bare numerical losses.