UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas

A heavier Queen Elizabeth counterfactual exposes the compromises involved in representing unbuilt ships with UAD's available guns and hull components.

An Austro-Hungarian opponent design shows how gun caliber, triple turrets, armor, and oil firing shape a plausible capital-ship reply.

A suspected 18-inch gun program raises an archival problem: special-order labels may conceal the real caliber, and their meaning still needs establishing.

The simulated duel connects distant silhouettes and ranging with the British designs' larger broadside and ability to control engagement distance.

A nearly stopped opponent shows how circling changes the turret movement each side needs to keep firing.

UAD supplies a quick visual model and design parameters for further simulation runs in a Harpoon-based system.

A possible later-era Total War raises choices about world-map scope, playable countries, and distinctive historical warships.

The playful turret arrangement is separated from the historically likelier Royal Navy layout, and the game's later design year is explained.

An Austro-Hungarian battleship that remains afloat after nearly all structural integrity is gone exposes a key limitation in UAD's survivability model.

A King George V alternative exceeds its displacement allowance, and the game's high-speed range figure complicates comparisons with historical endurance.

Reduced armor weight and closer main-turret spacing help fit a 16-inch King George V alternative within its displacement allowance.

British 4.5-inch and 5.25-inch guns fit the game's options poorly, prompting a proposed six-inch dual-purpose alternative.

Kiel Canal access and German gun-layout preferences guide repairs to an implausible automatically generated battleship.

Quadruple 18-inch turrets leave difficult choices over machinery, tower weight, spotting performance, and secondary armament.

An extreme heavy-gun design shows why turret placement, engine efficiency, secondaries, and weight savings matter even in a deliberately exaggerated battleship.

A 28-knot Queen Elizabeth counterfactual faces twelve German 15-inch guns in a deliberately artificial single-ship test.

Funnel plates guide airflow upward to keep smoke away from guns, using the same principle as smoke deflectors on steam locomotives.

The fifteen-gun test ship prompts a focused argument about salvo volume, hit probability, and what a much larger 14-inch broadside might have achieved.

Ajax uses speed to balance gun performance against protection while keeping the opponent's seven-inch battery out of range.

Lower the ship's flags and hoist white flags, although those signals could be difficult to see at long range.

A hypothetical American response to Queen Elizabeth Maximus would retain planned 14-inch ships while pursuing an 18-inch successor, though that reaction remains uncertain.

A revised German battery tests whether Ajax's earlier advantage depended on having more main guns.

Losing speed exposes Ajax to rapid secondary fire that damages structure and reduces fighting efficiency.

Ajax needs screening support to disengage, while a final settings check overturns the initial suspicion that the battle started too close.