[The year is 1941, and at a shipyard in Japan, a huge naval slipway’s roof has just opened clamshell-style. Into the air slowly rises the form of the mighty Yamato… onward she climbs, staggering to a full 19 feet above the water before her engines, designed to handle a ship half her size, finally fail. The huge form slams down on the water, sending a small tidal wave over the nearby villages. Bobbing like a cork, the most powerful dreadnought in the world sits helpless as tugs move in to try to dock her. Nearby on a dock, two men watch in stunned horror.][Nameless admiral] GooGAH! What the hell just happened?[Nameless engineer] I told you not to try to snow us on the size of that thing! You told us 35,000 tons, we build engines for 35,000!You fool! She’s 72,000!Well, now we know. Fantastic. Any ideas, Ahab?...More engines?Great, I’m sure we have room for that. While we’re at it, there’s room for Coke machines in every compartment, a dance floor under the catapults, and I think we have enough room to fit a couple of submarines between the ****** rudders. Want to explain how I’m supposed to ‘add more engines’, ‘sir’?Er… ok, well, we can try to knock off some weight. Lose the side-mount 6.1 inch turrets… ah… we don’t really need seven planes in the hangar, three will work…...You know what needs to go.No. Absolutely not. That doesn’t go anywhere.She won’t fly otherwise. You know it, I know it, the laws of physics know it....Fine. No wave-motion gun. Make it so. I’m going to go cry in my quarters.*sigh* I should have worked on the flying submarine-carrier program.
That's a post-WWII development, and would drastically change the nature of the game.For more fun, imagine CBT-quality fusion reactors...
Oh My!
