A twelve-gun Scharnhorst counterfactual

Should Germany have built a battleship with sixteen eleven-inch guns?

The preferred alternative is twelve eleven-inch guns in four triple turrets.

The proposed sixteen-gun ship prompts an objection to quadruple turrets. A hypothetical Scharnhorst with four triple eleven-inch turrets is judged a formidable alternative. This is an armament preference within a counterfactual, without a worked-out displacement or machinery design.