As a rule, plans laid on paper in headquarters never work out the way they were intended once they meet reality. And more often than not, “the ordered music is played in the wrong notes.” So it is that the ships of the 1st Pacific Squadron leave Port Arthur and head out to sea, toward Japanese forces—toward a decisive general battle. Will Vitgeft succeed, in this new version, in holding out? Will Rozhdestvensky manage, as planned, to lead his squadron into the crucial moment? Or can Admiral Tōgō break the Russians apart… piece by piece…