A maximum British battleship is sketched with five triple 16.5-inch turrets, small-tube boilers, roughly 28 knots, and a displacement around 45,000 tons. The exact game-derived dimensions are illustrative, while British yards and gun makers possessed the industrial capacity to pursue the underlying design. Its size, cost, schedule, and demands on heavy-gun production would have affected the fleet as a whole. The counterfactual shows how much design space Britain left unused when it approved the historical Queen Elizabeth class.
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The Queen Elizabeth Maximus counterfactual
A deliberately extreme design combines fifteen 16.5-inch guns, small-tube boilers, about 28 knots, and much heavier protection to test Britain's industrial limits.