Oh forgot to mention that your esteemed opponents are not Beatty. He had a run-in with the Admiralty and Jellicoe over Jutland and that promted him to resign. The new admiral is untested and has a history of a Admiralty lapdog, but perhaps this major advance has shaken him up. He was at Jutland and he seems to have taken a fancy to the battle, trying to find faults and the like.

So far the results are:

1) A: 3
B: 3
C: 1

2) B!!!!

3) A: 2
B: 4

4) A: 2
B: 5

5) A!!!!

So, so far only 1 is really possible for change.