Talk:Bismarck/@comment-474862-20140314110652/@comment-474862-20140315055417

Now that I'm looking back at forth at Bismarck's listed stats... If the stats here are her maximums possible as Bismarck Improved, she does seem to be basically trading a fair bit of AA, detection range and some firepower for significantly higher defensive stats (a whopping 19 HP more, evasion, armor) over Kongou's first remodel, so she's not entirely a replacement for other BBs.

On the other hand, if you want to compare her to Kongou Kai 2, she's pretty much not worth the extra resources.

As a side note, historically, she displaced 50 kilotons at full load, but still made 30 knots! Wow.