Decisive German Naval Victory in WW1

NothingNow

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If The Far East Squadron had been luckier and the IJN hadn't been so Hyper-competent (or if the didn't overstretch themselves as much,) *Jutland would have won the war for Germany.

Of course, if the Germans had engaged in a mad rush to put ACs, CLs, and BCs out into the Atlantic (and even 1 in 5 actually made it,) it might have drawn enough of the Grand Fleet off to make a real impact.

I doubt Britain would draw enough troops out for the war to be lost. Besides the British would probably draw troops from colonial positions (or maybe the Ottoman front) rather than France, which if lost would be as bad as an invasion.

The western front was never much more than a sideshow.
 
Qualitative superiority of their ships? danwild6, do you have any evidence at all to support that claim? Given issues with such matters as range and the peculiar and disproven German belief that smaller caliber guns could, with a slightly higher rate of fire, outclass larger caliber guns on other ships there are two area right now where German designs were hardly superior.


Also Germany was incapable of surpassing or equalling British ship production before the war and during the war, when the German army needs every man and gun(metal) it can get...
 
Qualitative superiority of their ships? danwild6, do you have any evidence at all to support that claim? Given issues with such matters as range and the peculiar and disproven German belief that smaller caliber guns could, with a slightly higher rate of fire, outclass larger caliber guns on other ships there are two area right now where German designs were hardly superior.

Obviously it's just superior German engineering.:D
 

Adler

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The key is IMO the night fighting. At Jutland the German torpedo boats and destroyer failed to make contact to the battleships because of incompetent leadership (not only the Brits had idiots in this battle, there was also one German). If they made contact and IF Scheer did not make his second turn but waited for the night a torpedo attack might had been desastrous for the RN.

Adler
 
Less of a tendency for German ships to catastrophically explode and more of a tendency for German shells to strike the intended target.
Qualitative superiority of their ships? danwild6, do you have any evidence at all to support that claim?
 
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