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If World of Warships Georgias replaced America's fast battleships

Under the game's performance assumptions, a fleet of Georgias would combine speed with heavy guns and provoke a British status response.

Question

What if America's Iowa, North Carolina, and South Dakota classes became World of Warships Georgias in December 1941?

Short answer

The game's combination of speed and heavy guns is expected to confer a major American advantage, with Britain completing the Lions partly for prestige.

Notes

The counterfactual replaces the Iowa, North Carolina, and South Dakota classes with the game version of Georgia on 10 December 1941. Their roughly 35-knot speed and six 18-inch guns would give the United States a large force that contemporaries could neither catch nor comfortably outgun. Britain would probably complete the Lion class partly because a fleet this conspicuous would demand a status response from another leading navy. Yamato would retain a heavier broadside, but the Georgias' speed, gun range, and numbers would create a much more difficult operational problem, despite their high running cost.