Talk:Suzuya/@comment-77.79.55.21-20150507203450/@comment-1915363-20150511025039

The Mogami-class was originally slated to be built as light cruisers, but was redesigned as heavy cruisers thanks to Washington Naval Treaty, with tons of problems afterwards.

Suzuya-class cruisers are improvement from Mogami-class cruisers, among the best of its age in fact, but all that state-of-the-art specs comes through a rather costly rebuilding program. The only reason Mogami had average luck is because she had the luck of having a damecon crew who managed to jettison explosives (including torpedoes) from Mogami back in Midway.

Not to mention, neither Suzuya nor Kumano had received a Kai Ni even now, so...