User blog comment:Void Samukai/Alaska class discussion post/@comment-10905876-20150621052250/@comment-10905876-20150621144441

I think the biggest thing for me that classifies Hood as a battlecruiser is that she compromises too much protection for speed. Her decks were like paper, and her belt, while sloped for better effectiveness, was still pretty thin. Though, in argument of her just being an obsolete battleship, at the time she was built she was pretty good. And if we were to pit a Queen Elizabeth against Bismarck, would that ship have fared much better?

Anyways, stupid Brits! If they had modernized the Hood, Denmark Straights might have been less disastrous.