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When autoloading 20-inch guns overwhelm a game battleship

A player-designed battleship in Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts shows how automatic loading for an extreme-calibre battery can consume the displacement needed to make the rest of the ship work.

Question

What was the most cursed human-built warship seen in Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts?

Short answer

A battleship with an autoloading 20-inch battery, because the loading machinery drove weight so high that the overall design did not work.

Notes

A human-designed Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts battleship used autoloading 20-inch guns. Within the game’s design system, the automatic-loading machinery made it far heavier than comparable entries. That extra weight left the overall design unworkable despite the effort invested in it. As a simulation example rather than a real historical vessel, it shows how an extreme weapons requirement can consume displacement and undermine the rest of the ship.