One-on-one, a predread facing off against a dreadnought is most likely screwed if the dreadnought decides to engage, barring unusual circumstances such as a golden twinkie or getting lucky in a point-blank knife-fight where all the smaller guns on a predread can actually do some good. If its purely the 4x12 pre's against the 10 or 12x12 dreads in a match up, probably 2 - 3 of them would be needed. could play a factor at close ranges, whereas the earlier "pure" pre-dreadnoughts with only 4 big guns would be limited to such in any slugfest.Īnother factor is size, since the Dreadnoughts began increasing the size and weight exponentially over their predecessors, and with corresponding armor improvements. The secondary guns of these later pre-dreadnoughts, such as the Aki, Connecticut, Imperator Pavel, etc.
They had the four 12 inch guns in twin turrets, but also boasted ten 9.2 inch guns as her secondary armament. The Lord Nelson class, for instance, is one of the culminating expression of the pre-dreadnoughts, actually completed and commissioned after Dreadnought in 1908. You had many of the pre-dreadnoughts upping the size of their secondary guns, in light of info from the Russo-Japanese war and such. Pre-Dreadnoughts were evolving, even as dream of an "all big gun" capital ship came into being with the Dreadnought and the South Carolina's on the American side.
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