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Originally Posted by MarchHare
The problem is the admirals who foolishly used battlecruisers as part of their fleets' main line of battle. That should have been exclusively the role of battleships and their escorts, never battlecruisers.
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The Imperial German Navy, knowing that it would be outnumbered in any war with Britain, did plan to have to their battlecruisers fight in the battle line. But they designed theirs to have near battleship-level armor at the sacrifice of more guns. So at Jutland, they acquitted themselves well, by out-dueling the British battlecruisers in the first phase of the battle, then despite getting hit hard by battleship shells when the Germany Navy got its T crossed, managed to mostly limp home.