Three Austro-Hungarian dreadnoughts, 1917, colorized

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They look intimidating.

Think they could keep them running for more than a day?

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It didn't matter.

The A-H fleet functioned as a "fleet in being", it was a threat to tie up enemy fleets to oppose a theoretical sortie. It's like a rook that sits on the back rank of the chessboard and hardly ever moves, just influences the board by being there.