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Well, the idea basically was that the enemy fleet formation is much clumsier and hard to maneuver than individual ships in it. So torpedo battleship, rushing the enemy formation head-on would be hard to evade. And 1900-1920s fire control systems generally didn't work well on fast collision cources (two 20-knots dreadnoughs on collision cources have a closing speed of 40 knots, after all!), because range and bearing changed too fast.