Talk:Choukai/@comment-222.150.74.176-20150316185639/@comment-203.173.92.26-20150327064423

The smart guy character is actually very important, if you know what are the ships she sank. Those are New Orleans class heavy cruisers (3 of them), the slightly updated Portland class and is one of the best US cruiser models in the war (plus an Australian cruiser). They can and will wipe the floor with her group if they got into a straight fight with them, or even just look at them wrong.

So she has to be smart, taking advantage of what the Japanese crew is better at (night battle) and the fact that the Allied crew have been on high alert for days, they are very tired and are sleep deprived. In fact, the captains of those ships were asleep when they strike, catching them with their pants down and when they are too far apart to help each other.