After reducing weight and pitch, the virtual design can carry a 22.9-inch belt and a 12-inch deck, figures explicitly rejected as historically credible. A real British design would more likely use roughly a 14- or 15-inch main belt and a deck around 6.25 to 6.5 inches. Its speed would remain about 28 knots rather than preserving the earlier 30- to 31-knot ambition at any cost. The comparison separates values created by the game's balancing system from the protection and performance a treaty-era naval architect might actually accept.
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Turning a game-heavy armour scheme into a plausible treaty design
The completed virtual ship carries implausibly heavy armour to manage game constraints, followed by the belt, deck, and speed figures a credible British treaty design would more likely use.