Talk:Zara/@comment-26375216-20160210191609/@comment-87.145.116.48-20160210230435

What, so she has no torpedoes but she's expected to outrange enemies with her horribly inaccurate, low barrel-life guns? She was neither good at short range nor long range. She couldn't hit anything at long range and at short range her enemies had torpedoes AND guns.

Anyway.

She floated. She could shoot stuff. She had great armor. That's the only truly positive thing you can say about her, everything else was either mediocre or bad. Sure, "it was intentional because Italy's situation blah blah" but OTHER CRUISERS SHOWED THAT YOU COULD ACHIEVE WAY MORE.

A Takao has a turret more with vastly more accurate guns, infinitely better torpedoes and only slightly less armor (the second layer is angled and the sum comes out to around 140 vs Zara's 150.

Italian fire control never improved despite the manifest flaws in their optical control.

She floated. She shot stuff. She performed the things a heavy cruiser does. But there were only a handful of cruisers worse than her, and the vast majority was much much better.