HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...

A game-built alternative Dreadnought establishes the battery, speed, and supporting weapons required by an immediate British move to 13.5-inch guns.

Fisher is expected to want at least ten 13.5-inch guns. A revised 1908 game design is judged plausible, while the exact triple and superfiring arrangement remains open.

The game design distinguishes static weight balance from roll and pitch: correcting the weight offset leaves persistent pitching to solve.

Orion's protection figures expose excessive game armour defaults, while secondary guns and barrel lengths consume the weight saved.

A speculative French counterpart illustrates how construction timing could turn one navy's design breakthrough into a wider lead.

It would probably be a roughly 15,000-ton cruiser, with its larger guns also pushing treaty powers to preserve a four-inch calibre gap before capital ships.

The American counterfactual balances a 15,000-ton limit, high speed, shallow draft, and deliberate departures from historical US cruiser practice.

A Japanese counter-design shows how speed, range, aircraft facilities, torpedoes, and thin protection could compete for treaty-cruiser tonnage.

The simulated duel tests whether the Japanese cruiser's extra guns can offset glass-cannon protection against the American design.

The completed American counterfactual combines Panama compatibility with high speed and a battleship-like appearance.

The game permits an attempt at a gun-heavy broadside destroyer, but firing arcs and the ability to hit remain constraints on the extra barrels.

Dividing a flotilla into two approaching groups can trap an opponent between gunfire and torpedo threats from different bearings.

A sacrificial rear-guard action explains how one destroyer could inflict disproportionate losses without proving that Japan could sustain the exchange.

His aggression produced questionable decisions, but credible replacements also needed the seniority, experience, and institutional trust required for major fleet command.

Forward deployment can signal resolve, but positioning a fleet without adequate support may expose it instead of strengthening diplomacy.

A simulated destroyer action becomes a guide to division tactics and the World War II value of Tribal-class gun power.

A counterfactual tonnage allowance could combine Ark Royal's hangar capacity with Illustrious-style protection.

Survival and forward repair mattered to carriers expected to fight Japan far from British shipyards and supply infrastructure.

Illustrious-class patrol work and Ark Royal's concentrated striking role support a plan to find the enemy by day and attack at night.

Correct enemy-location information is the condition behind the proposed British night-strike opportunity during Operation C.

The Swordfish's torpedo-entry arrangement helps the weapon run shallow, giving the reliable biplane a delivery advantage.

British carrier operating capacity depends on night training, landing aids and the weather conditions in which aircraft can remain on deck.

An immense British counterfactual balances twelve 18-inch guns, a heavy secondary battery, 28-knot speed, and long-range protection.

Plans are recalled, but whether Yamato carried them out is left uncertain.

Displayed main- and secondary-gun ranges create successive danger zones around the game-built British battleship.

Experience with triple mountings and details such as a set-back centre gun help explain their effectiveness by the Second World War.

Firing within about a second of each other has only a small effect on accuracy. The effect of a larger delay would depend on how far apart the shots were.

A simulated range mismatch shows how staying at maximum distance can preserve neither safety nor combat power when only one side can reply.

The counterfactual screen combines modified Tribal-style destroyers with a battleship secondary battery that can reach about 30.8 kilometres in the game.

It can be done as a game experiment, but it is historically misleading because British and Japanese resources, construction costs, and available ship numbers were not equivalent.

A no-air-power fleet scenario shows destroyers scouting and screening while torpedoes and heavy secondary guns create sharply different danger zones.

A game's frequent ramming leads to the real loss of HMS Punjabi after a collision with the battleship King George V.

British night-fighting practice sought decisive close range before opening fire, while Japanese torpedo tactics relied on the enemy holding course.

British zig-zag doctrine addressed the submarine threat and also complicated long-range torpedo attacks.

An 18-inch shell can pass through a destroyer and still cause severe damage, including the loss of propulsion and steering in the simulated action.

A roughly 110,000-ton design suggests that removing treaties could leave only the largest industrial powers able to continue a battleship competition.