Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-68.191.49.101-20160126093017

123.2.212.1 wrote:

Now the example you're quoting, the Ise-class, survived Leyte Gulf under heavy enemy air superiority. Can the Iowa-class even boast about being in and surviving such a situation during WW2? But now we're derailing from the original topic, which is about whether US ships deserve Yukikaze-level luck.

Very few ships should have Yukikaze-level luck, some like HMS Warspite and USS Enterprise maybe, but not many. The Iowas defintly not some of them.

But I do believe what I counted does warrent the Iowas to have more or about the same points in luck as those of Ise and Littorio, especially Ise since she actually sunk(but got raised and scrapped afterwards). They didn't face that one against the odds battle, but they fought in more battles none the less. It wasn't like they didn't face danger either, they had to deal with real threats like kamikazes and attacking bomber/torpedo aircrafts, which did hit them a few times. And again, fought in multiple wars outside WW2, like Korea and the Gulf War, which is pretty lucky since battleships were relics at the time. And of course escaping the scrapyard multiple attempts when the USN kept trying to get rid of them.

Kadokawa isn't exactly consistent, but they are the ones who are going to determine it anyways.