Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-16140480-20130822181206/@comment-32656-20130823120156

Go with him not dying - or, heck, even the guy that replaced him not dying. Either would be better than the guys that were after them. I mean, they just sat in the harbor after the Japanese were able to get artillery in range of the ships. Just about the most foolish thing I can think of, really, to stay there even if the enemy fleet is stronger.

Really not possible to avoid Tsushima, imo. Russians didn't have the supplies to go around Japan - nor could they - so they had to go through that strait. And the Japanese knew they were coming, so the fleets meeting there is more or less a given.