German and British warships

>>1855948
Rule of thumb:
German ships may have been better quality, since they were mostly brand new, but British had waaay more of them. Sheer numbers win strategy.

>>1855954
Ahem, no. Both sides were brand new for the ships that mattered, since the Dreadnought had only been built in 1906. By definition, its impossible for any side to have old capital ships of worth, since everything was built since 1906.
The Germans actually would be the ones with older ships relatively, since at Jutland they deployed a squadron of pre-dreadnoughts to increase the strength of their battle line.

>>1855948
They were pretty similar.

German guns were more accurate but had a shorter range.

German ships had better night fighting equipment.

>>1855962
My mistake. Well in that case the Germans were fucked to be blockaded since the beginning. Their only hope was to catch Britain with their pants down somehow.

>>1855954
Sure quantity has a quality of its own, but this is purely just about the quality of individual ship classes.

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>>1855948
>jutland

How much of the poor performance of the battlecruisers at Jutland can be attributed to poor British safety and how much to lol battlecruisers?

>>1855948
Germans stored their ammunition in armored depots.
The British on the otherhand would often leave a shit ton of their rounds up on deck, which was, needless to say, very stupid.

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>>1856144
>lol battlecruisers
u wot m8