Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD

A Yamato-style design shows why theoretical gun range and the range available at a ship's permitted elevation are not the same thing.

The Lion-class trial uses cruising speed to keep firing steady, contrasting a ship's rated maximum with a tactically useful speed.

A two-versus-two scenario challenges the habit of treating capital-ship history as a sequence of isolated duels.

The two-on-two test shows how repeated 16-inch broadsides and a depleted 18.1-inch battery can outweigh the larger individual shell.

A counterfactual British response to Yamato combines proven quadruple mounts, 16-inch guns, and Lion-class speed in a development of existing equipment.

They were new 1920s battleships built from First World War experience while constrained by treaty limits, British infrastructure, and limited government spending.

Renown is the favourite battlecruiser. Orion, Nelson and Rodney, and the unbuilt Francesco Caracciolo class stand out for different design and historical reasons.

A rapid survey of Narvik, North Cape, River Plate, and Mediterranean fighting puts Bismarck's two engagements in a much wider Royal Navy war.

A fast battlecruiser design exercise balances 36-knot speed, 12 15-inch guns, all-or-nothing protection, and stability.

He likely would have split the force more widely, using Cumberland, Exeter, and the Leanders on separate axes to constrain Graf Spee's escape options.

The trial shows why a fast battlecruiser must preserve its range advantage instead of accepting a close-range fight with a battleship.

A remembered Bismarck-style trial warns that a simulation's armour model can make one protection scheme perform far beyond a defensible historical comparison.

Damage to the forward directors turns the ship's aft director from a secondary fitting into the system responsible for controlling the remaining gunfire.

The design review uses belt and deck weight to show why a warship's protection scheme also influences pitch, roll, and displacement.

A ship intended to fight at long range needs a protection scheme that takes plunging fire and deck strength seriously.

The second Alpha trial turns the design argument into a tactical demonstration by combining a four-kilometre range margin, radar fire control, and 35-knot speed.

The stream turns the simulation into a broader lesson: fast ships with long-range guns should be designed and handled to keep the enemy at distance.

A Narvik-class recreation exposes the compromises required when a game hull and fittings do not match a historical destroyer's layout.

The British half of the destroyer comparison shows how hull shapes, funnels, speed, and gun menus force compromises before the trial even begins.

A Tribal-versus-German destroyer test shows how turret stabilization and game range values can distort historical comparisons.

Similar silhouettes could complicate recognition even when deliberate deception was not the sole aim, including Tribals, Counties, and recurring American turret layouts.