The scenario rebuilds the force mix of the Battle of the Denmark Strait as a counterfactual design exercise. Britain receives an 18-inch-gun battleship imagined as a larger Agincourt or Queen Elizabeth-type design and an 18-inch-gun battlecruiser based on Hood. Germany receives a heavily protected Scharnhorst-style cruiser alongside an enlarged Bismarck-type battleship, and the cruiser is explicitly treated as an invented design rather than a historical reproduction. These assumptions frame the later battle as a test of roles, range, armour, and game behaviour instead of a replay of 1941.
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Setting up an alternate Denmark Strait battle
The setup exposes the counterfactual assumptions before 18-inch British capital ships face a Scharnhorst-style cruiser and an enlarged Bismarck-type battleship.