Talk:Zara/@comment-26375216-20160210191609/@comment-4125495-20160211000248

It's a bit unfair to compare IJN heavy cruisers against most other navies. The IJN's quality-over-quantity approach to warship design meant they were years ahead of other nations. Zara was pretty much par for a treaty cruiser laid down in the late 1920s. It was just that Japan was about a decade ahead. Zara was designed to counter French and British designs of the time, which she did pretty well.

Also not fair to compare her against Prinz Eugen. The Admiral Hipper class wasn't built to Washington Teaty limits and was laid down in the late 1930s.

Game-wise her stats are about accurate. She's pretty much shit compared to IJN ships but recently that's been par for the course for the end-of-event trophy ships.

I'm more disappointed that they stuck with JiJi for the art. Not a fan at all. Better than Roma at least I guess.