suppress them with naval gun fire as they try to cross

Edgy.

The Royal Navy's role was to prevent foreign elements from landing upon Britain's shores, right?

Well....

lmao don't try to argue anything with Runes.

Even something as cut and dry as "The RN was meant to defend British shores and foreign interests while acting as an extension of the will of the crown"

While it would be well within the rights of a nation to fire on people attempting to forcibly and illegaly cross their borders.

I have questions about that first bit

That's 1984 as fuck

I want a citation

It'd be aesthetic as fuck if the HMS Dreadnought was still afloat, and they could roll her out to patrol the English Channel against migrant botes.

Her armament is perfectly suited to taking out large numbers of small targets

Or rather, her armament *was* suited.

Is that a viable reason to build battleships? I think YES

Dreadnoughts, actually.

There's 3 general classifications of gunnery capital ships

Pre-dreads, which were... honestly terrible. Dreadnoughts, which introduced superfiring turrets while maintaining the immense secondary battery of the pre-dread era. And finally Battleships, which were designed to forgo secondary battery firepower in exchange for larger main battery guns and high speeds.

@RoflTank who is arguing with me?

I dunno

Pretty sure you’re just trying to stir shit

I don't have a spoon buddy

Also German battleships reject your ideas

Or the nips with their weird fixed gun secondaires

Well the IJN was using up gunned battlecruisers]

And they still held on to the ideals of WWI

Whereas literally none of the German capitals fit in to a standard definition

Like, none of them

Germany stronk

Scharnhorst was more battlecruiser than battleship

Tfw I'll never get to have a sharnhorst battle cruiser

But it wasn't a battlecruiser because it had too much armor

Or a grosserkurfurst

But the guns weren't big enough to be a BB

And then it had enough secondary guns to level a small fleet

but it was battlecruiser fast

Yeah but so were the Bismarcks

Can we just appreciate how mental the German engineers were who developed these

Which is why they defied classification, hilariously enough.

lol

Like turtle back armor is a pretty fucking lit concept

Turtleback is half the reason the Germans could continue using traditional armor layouts