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Short Hand · 11-06-2005, 02:12 PM

It makes perfect sense according to the article, The British ships were much more numerous, and had a whole ton of ammo, so going face to face would have been insane, the plan was to out manuver (germans = good cordination) and cripple the fleet from the side on an eqaul basis. (British doctrine according to this at the time was to volley out as much fire as possible.)

Few problems =

-Poor British communication

-to much cordite onboard = boom

-defective shells which would explode outside of the german armour.

-Seems the British QE class = extremely bad design, not enough safe ammo storage, mixed with lower end guns, which just could not compete with the Germans.

-THE only saving graces for the British in this battle were their overwhelming numbers, the Dreadnaught's, and the signal interception which told them the Gemrans fleet was there, so they never fell for the trap.

The Germans suffered more from the effects of a smaller fleet. Other then that, their ships generally had better armour and decent guns. + superior communication.

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Short Hand is Offline Brigadier General Posts: 10,721 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: C-eH-N-eH-D-eH eH?	11-06-2005, 02:12 PM It makes perfect sense according to the article, The British ships were much more numerous, and had a whole ton of ammo, so going face to face would have been insane, the plan was to out manuver (germans = good cordination) and cripple the fleet from the side on an eqaul basis. (British doctrine according to this at the time was to volley out as much fire as possible.) Few problems = -Poor British communication -to much cordite onboard = boom -defective shells which would explode outside of the german armour. -Seems the British QE class = extremely bad design, not enough safe ammo storage, mixed with lower end guns, which just could not compete with the Germans. -THE only saving graces for the British in this battle were their overwhelming numbers, the Dreadnaught's, and the signal interception which told them the Gemrans fleet was there, so they never fell for the trap. The Germans suffered more from the effects of a smaller fleet. Other then that, their ships generally had better armour and decent guns. + superior communication.