Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-1915363-20160122233352

AkameXUmi wrote: Bringing Us Ships in kancolle is good but I wish the Us Girls are not that op because if they are op...then they broke Kancolle(which will never happen tho) Not an easy feat as Iowa-class have basically little to no drawbacks.

Bismarck-class weren't really intended for battleship duel, although Bismarck herself did put up a serious fight against Hood and Prince of Wales, the Italian battleships' guns were powerful but has shell dispersion issues. the Yamato-class were even stronger than Iowa, but her armor wasn't exactly of the best quality steel-plating for her size, and she hogs an absolutely massive amount of fuel. In the Kancolle meta, the Iowa-class basically trades Littorio's very long range for extra accuracy, effectively putting them outside the "awesome but impractical" territory. If the devs aren't gonna nerf the Iowa-class to Bismarck's level, then they're gonna eat around 160-200 fuel and maybe 200+ ammo, since they're much heavier than the Littorio-class (at least 45,000 standard tons, roughly equal to Littorio-class at full load, and 57,000 tons at full load).