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World of Warships designs inserted into the 1936 Royal Navy

Replacing the 1936 Royal Navy with game-derived ships would upset treaty limits and leave contemporary rival fleets far behind.

Question

What if Britain's battleships, cruisers, and carriers in 1936 were replaced by the game's Conqueror, Gibraltar, and Malta designs?

Short answer

The imported game fleet would overwhelm contemporary naval balances, probably collapse treaty restraint, and force every major power to reconsider construction, diplomacy, and war plans.

Notes

In this game counterfactual, Conqueror battleships carry twelve 16.5-inch guns and make about 29.5 knots. Replacing Britain's existing battleships with those ships would leave contemporary rivals far behind and threaten the Second London Naval Treaty. Malta carriers and Gibraltar cruisers would compound the advantage. The date in the initial caption reads 1946, but the subsequent calculations explicitly use 1936. These are the game's capabilities imported into a historical setting, rather than claims about completed historical warships.