Talk:Iowa/@comment-121.54.32.174-20160224212130/@comment-68.191.49.101-20160225015830

It's one of those cases where balance trumps historical accurassay, because otherwise, Iowa would completely overshadow her FBB teamates in terms of flexibility. When people say Iowa was a fuel hog, they are talking about her max speed, which was a good 6+ knots more than a Yamato, depending on how much her crew pushed the engines. Otherwise, Iowa is one of the most fuel efficent BBs in the entire KanColle cast, who if sailing around the same speed as say Littorio or Nagato, would actually consume less fuel then them do to how advance her engines where at the time.