Talk:Colorado/@comment-116.206.40.37-20190527031213/@comment-49.144.137.161-20190527061306

Again, this was down to Colorado being a WW1-era design. She wasn't high up in the list for ships that would get 40mm AA guns because of how old she was by the 30s. Despite this, her heavier 5"/25-caliber post-refit AA guns proved to be equally effective in AA work thanks to proximity fuzes. Not to mention, she was operating in conjunction with ships optimized for anti-air work, like Fletcher and her sisters. There's also the carrier-based CAP to consider, not to mention fast BBs and cruisers in some assignments.

If anything, we should be disappointed that this early release of Colorado lacks the older AA guns like the 3"/25-caliber gun and the 1.1"/75-caliber Chicago Piano to give it some semblance of self-use AA...