Talk:Zara/@comment-26411685-20160422143652/@comment-25399466-20160512102228

The Zara having less armor than the Prinz Eugen is a joke. Despite all the "battleship" features, the Admiral Hipper class ships were ligthly armored (and that's true also for the "pocket battleships" of the Deutshland class, that really had a decent armor only on the turrets), with their vital parts exposet to the 6" shells of light cruisers at every realistic combat range, and even to the 5" shells of the destroyers at less than 7-6 km (a realistic range for destroyers, that used smoke screens to came close to the bigger ships and try torpedo runs). During the war they showed a good resistance to damages, so the high HP is justifued but it has to be said that, in RL, for heavy cruisers, the torpedo launchers were a liability, since a single hit on them was likely able to send the ship to the bottom of the sea, so there should rather be a bonus for those that don't have them.