User blog comment:FlammeumDraco333/Tales From the Not so Blocky Seas/@comment-10905876-20150728235953

So, early Japanese battleships are not the way to go for the Japanese line. Shikishima suffers from poor range, poor accuracy, and the usual shortcomings of a Pre Dreadnought fighting a WWII battleship. And good luck hitting any destroyers with those guns too....

Kawaichi is meh, and, while ok on the armament, suffers from kinda thin armor, and the need to distribute it fairly evenly across the hull. Overall, a meh ship that looks kinda nice.

Now the Nassau? She's quite the beast. She can fit the most armor I've seen on an early dreadnought, with like, 20" amidships and such. And, better speed than the similar Kawaichi class. Range is good too, and you can mount torpedoes to annoy the enemy with.