Building A British Super Battleship!

The design begins with geared turbines, very heavy guns, and the first difficult tradeoffs among range, stability, and displacement.

An overweight 18-inch-gun design retreats to twelve 16.5-inch weapons to preserve firepower within the available displacement.

The first combat trial pits twelve British 16.5-inch guns against eight Italian 15-inch guns and tests how the design fights at range.

The no-secondary trial suggests that fitting secondary guns may encourage a battleship to close instead of exploiting long-range firepower.

It must be wide enough for the turret, ammunition handling, and protection, but excessive width can create dangerous stress points in the hull.

Its physics engine appears to produce similar effects, which makes the design exercise useful, though it is not claimed as an exact real-world simulation.

A dramatic turret loss leads to a distinction between separate magazines and the catastrophic hull damage a true magazine explosion would cause.

The redesigned battleship gains a huge six-inch broadside, forcing another round of pitch, balance, armor, and displacement compromises.

Pushing deck and belt armor to absurd thicknesses improves the balance figure but produces a ship whose practicality and buoyancy are doubtful.

A fresh hull starts with maximum ambitions and then works downward through gun caliber, protection, speed, and survivability systems.

The budget and opposing Standard type must be specified. A 24-knot approach is sketched, though no viable 35-million design is finished during the stream.

It gives a reasonable rough indication, but historical designs such as the Queen Elizabeth class do not reproduce their real costs precisely.

The completed 32-knot design combines twelve 16.5-inch guns with a distributed six-inch battery while bringing weight and stability under control.

An early hit disrupts long-range fire control, but Rodney then closes to six-inch range instead of exploiting the opponent's damage.