Talk:8inch Triple Gun Mount Mk.9/@comment-68.188.237.90-20190929134216/@comment-2605:6000:1715:4096:943E:EBED:DE22:402C-20190930170907

It will probably be both. Pensacola might have had the more exicting life(and lived) but Northampton is said to have been better hullwise(though they were both the equivalent of the Furutaka and Aoba class Heavy-Light Cruisers which were reactions to the omaha class.  Pensacola and her derivatives Northampton and Portland are said to be a reaction to Furutaka/Aoba). Then of course you have Myoko/Takao being reactions to the new Western Heavy cruisers while New Orleans was a reaction to them.