Very good, Ladies. Now try it with both the tech level and the -time for deployment- restrictions of the era Wells wrote in.... >:) (And to be fair, the 'technical invulnerability' of the War Machine was a creation of the movie version; reference the chapter 'Thunder Child'. One torpedo ram took out two of the buggers, and possibly three before she went down. Torpedo Rams were hardly Dreadnaught; more like an overgrown Monitor for coastal defense and close in attack against larger vessels).