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Originally Posted by Bluesman
Then you're not fit for your hypothetical command. No decent commander leads his unit into self-destruction and almost hopeless combat. You'd not be tried for EITHER failure to engage the enemy, NOR for endangering the ship and crew, because no trial would be convened for the former, and you likely wouldn't live to see the latter.
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Midway, Fredricksburg, Thermopylae, Salamis, Crecy, Austerlitz, Jutland not all victories but all pitted an on paper inferior force agaisnt a "supreme" enemy and the issue was very much in doubt.