Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "HMS Monmouth - Guide 304" video.

  1. This is all true, but the more important aspects are always the highest ranking officers. No ship is able to counter the idiocy of the own flag-officer.
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  2.  @genericpersonx333  Battlecruisers would have been much better for every nation building warships. The Brits developed ships as Repusle, Renown & Hood after the conclusion that the Germans built battle-cruisers able to engage the enemy in the line of battle. The major misconstruction of cruisers or armoured cruisers is the unsufficiant speed to outmaneuvre bigger ships.
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  3. Yes, but the German admiral was not motivated to sink them all. This is the typical german laziness of staff-officers.
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  4.  @bkjeong4302  On paper British battlecruisers were faster than german ones. But after all seatrials it became obvious that the Germans were faster. Speed, not armament, not gun calibre, is the main factor in warfare at sea. Fischer's evaluation was correct. The German constructions favoured stamina as more eminent than calibre. Smaller calibre with enough penetration ability guarantees faster reloads, as seen in the case of the world record holder in reloading, Seydlitz, at the battle of the Doggerbank. German battlecruisers were the best BBs at Jutland, even I have to admit that König, leading the German line of the highseasfleet at Jutland had more qualities to take hits than the battlecruisers. My critics are more related to the insufficient speed of armoured or light cruisers. In WWII this problem was solved. Without the slow cow Blücher, a modern armoured cruiser, there would have been no battle at the Doggerbank. The Germans could have esaily withdrawn from the battle. At the Falklands von Spee could only take course for the open sea, if his ships would have been faster than Sturdee's battlecruisers. But, as You know, they weren't. So von Spee had to attack or to sail to the sund to take cover from long range fire. But the major problem of the Germans were not the ships, more the flag-officers-staff. They were not educated enough, if do You see the wrong decisions Langsdorff made at the beginning of WWII.
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