Talk:Roma/@comment-85.232.128.73-20150909152610/@comment-24093250-20151026160749

>That said, Roma's armor were indeed lower than most other battleships...

The Littorio-class protection was not particularly low, relatively to the time they were built; her belt armor was thicker than that of the Bismarck and the Richelieu, just to say.

That being said, the armor scheme was somewhat archaic, in being primarily focused on vertical protection and being somewhat weak in terms of horizontal protection. But it should be kept in mind that the Littorio-class was the first class of modern super-dreadnought designed and laid down after the Washington Naval Treaty; all the others came later.