User blog comment:Void Samukai/Yamato vs Bismarck:Why?/@comment-13740085-20160126062401/@comment-27822411-20160126063609

It is worth mentioning that in the last battle, the biggest shells that the a Brits could hit her with were 16inch shells, not 18inches, and they weren't even the most powerful 16inches.

Though the RoF on Bismarck is superior to Yamato's, what good is firing the extra shell or so if it fails to penetrate the armour. And Yamato would have as great an option of striking Bismarck's superstructure.

And though it was true that Chokai was scuttled due to massive damage to the superstructure, that was due to the rapid firing of 5inch shells. And Bismarck's gun don't even come close to have that kind of rate of fire. Also, Chokai was heavily damaged by her exploding torpedoes, which Yamato never had, so yeah XD