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Belfast and Giussano ideas tested in UAD

A UAD battle adapts Belfast and Alberto di Giussano cruiser designs to compare armour, speed, guns, and torpedoes.

Notes

UAD cannot reproduce the historical ships exactly, so the battle preserves their broad design ideas while adjusting displacement and fittings. The game's 9,000-ton cap for light cruisers forces the Belfast-inspired design onto a heavy-cruiser hull, and both sides end up somewhat larger than their real counterparts. The outnumbered Belfast-inspired ships carry armour and twelve-gun broadsides, while the faster Giussano-inspired force relies on numbers and torpedoes. A less powerful gun option keeps the British analogue from overwhelming the thinly protected Italian-inspired ships. The result is a visual experiment, not a precise reconstruction of either class.