The revised British cruisers still struggle against the German game ships, raising doubts about the assumptions behind the comparison. The destroyers appear exceptionally steady, unlike the historical gun platforms they are intended to represent. That stability allows their 5.9-inch guns to deliver the heavy firepower sought by the original design. The working suspicion is that efforts to balance the game ships have inadvertently corrected a historical weakness. The German model is therefore altered and its crews reduced from veteran to regular before another run. The changing result must be interpreted alongside those changes rather than treated as a simple comparison of gun calibres.
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An unrealistically stable German destroyer model
The second run suggests that the German model has acquired excessive stability, allowing its heavy guns to perform better than the historical platform could support.