Talk:Zara/@comment-25863825-20170228114132/@comment-24093250-20170228231322

IRL the gun was not inaccurate to the point of ineffectiveness, that's true, but the dispersion patterns remained too high to reliably hit a fast-moving and maneuvering target, especially at those distances. The fact that the Berwick was hit twice in that engagement doesn't prove that Italian fire did not suffer from dispersio; it should also be highlighted that these two hits were all the results that came from expending some 666 shells by the Italian heavy cruisers.

Luck, and some good training, can allow you to score hits even with guns like these. The light cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli managed to land a shell on the minesweeper HMS Hebe at more than 23'000 yards, but that doesn't mean that her salvo patterns weren't noticeably large.