The comparison is deliberately limited to designs that obeyed the treaty, excluding fantasy ships freed from its displacement and armament rules. The closing question asks viewers to consider cruisers that remained on paper and identify a design that might plausibly have surpassed Algérie. Games and other popular treatments can make such unbuilt ships familiar, but the treaty condition keeps the comparison historically meaningful. The unanswered exercise invites viewers to test Algérie's reputation against credible alternatives while holding displacement, armament, and strategic constraints broadly constant.
Notable Point · 27:30-28:54
Could an unbuilt treaty cruiser have surpassed Algérie?
The closing design exercise asks which paper cruiser, still constrained by treaty limits, might plausibly have bettered Algérie's balance.