German Naval response to RN N3 & G3

By whatever means, but if the RN had been able to build N3 & G3 warships (no Nelson & Rodney). Would the KM's response be the same as OTL - i.e. Graf Spee types, Scharnhorst types, and Bismarck & Tirpitz? Or seeing as how the latter would be outclassed - would the Germans, have gone for bigger ships, or for more smaller ones?

What do you think?
 
By whatever means, but if the RN had been able to build N3 & G3 warships (no Nelson & Rodney). Would the KM's response be the same as OTL - i.e. Graf Spee types, Scharnhorst types, and Bismarck & Tirpitz? Or seeing as how the latter would be outclassed - would the Germans, have gone for bigger ships, or for more smaller ones?

What do you think?
Roughly the same response. Up to the Anglo-German naval treaty, Germany was bound to pay at least lip service to the Treaty of Versailles restrictions. That means the three Panzerschiffes are it. The Germans know they can not out build the RN. They tried that already and lost that race. But they can build a strong enough fleet to dominate the Baltic and/or keep the French out of the North Sea.
 
The Versailles treaty limmitations would still be in place, I assume, so the Panzerschiffe of the Deutschland Class would still be more or less as OTL. Possiboy the Scharnhorst class Battleship would also be as OTL, as it was a logical development of the Original Panzerschiffe on paper, though technically an entirely different kind of animal. (Based on Mackensen, rather than Bayern, or the Panzerschiffe in most aspects.) Bismarck class would likely benefit from the G-3 and N-3 type, due to not be rerstricted to the Washington size limmitations of 35,000 tons. These could be outright started as larger ships with bigger guns, such as the 16.5 inch gun started with the L-20 type design of 1918. Therefor the Kriegsmarine could tehorecitally have four battleships on stock and in service with more different potential than in the OTL where the differences between Scharnhorst and Bismarck class were still large, though mostly based on their different armament, as their armorprotection was more equal and the difference in size not that huge. (More or less around the 10,000 ton difference, rather than a 25,000 - 30,000 ton difference when escalating was allowed)
 
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