The final simulation imagines a 30-knot British battleship with four quadruple 16-inch turrets. It is a panic-button response to Yamato, not a documented design. The concept scales two known lines of work: Lion's 16-inch gun and the King George V class's quadruple turret. Its sixteen faster-firing guns can overwhelm Yamato at long range through salvo weight and rate of fire, although the software keeps Yamato afloat after a magazine event that would probably destroy a real ship. The exercise therefore depends on adjusting the model's toughness to approximate historical effects. Even the name Dreadnought is speculative, chosen here as a prestige claim rather than an archival naming decision.
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The sixteen-gun Dreadnought thought experiment
A hypothetical 30-knot battleship with sixteen 16-inch guns tests the extreme end of a British response to Yamato.