The playful counterfactual prefers 16.5-inch weapons to the 14-inch caliber under discussion. It redesigns the Queen Elizabeth class with four triple turrets, producing a twelve-gun heavy battery. Such a layout would be a radical departure from the historical class rather than a minor caliber substitution. Changing gun size and turret arrangement on that scale would reshape displacement, balance, protection, and the international response to the ships.
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A twelve-gun Queen Elizabeth-class counterfactual
A Queen Elizabeth design rebuilt around four triple 16.5-inch turrets would radically alter the dreadnought competition.