Tenshinai wrote:And wouldn´t it have been fun if the Satsuma had been the first "Dreadnought" instead of "Dreadnought"?
(Satsuma was meant to have a unified heavy gun armament but didn´t get it because enough 12" guns would take too long to make, and the second ship of the class(Aki) also got steam turbines instead of triple expansion engines less than 2 years later, while the Satsuma was launched a year before Dreadnought, as the first Japanese homebuilt capital ship, so it was pretty much just one or two political decisions away from being the kind of ship Dreadnought was, but a year earlier)
I suspect "Satsuma" would have had a lot less tendency to adhere to a class of dangerous warships than "Dreadnought".