User blog comment:Void Samukai/Yamato vs Bismarck:Why?/@comment-26482266-20160126021512

Yamato versus Bismarck?

What kind of fair matchup is that? It is like comparing a Bugatti Veyron to like...a Toyota Prius.

The Bismarck has literally no chance to win against a Yamato; it's 38cm guns cannot penetrate the Yamato's composite armor (even though some parts of the armor was made with questionable craftsmanship). The Yamato's primary gun battery can theoretically go through the Bismarck's citadel like a sniper-bullet going through butter. Hell, even in the case of SECONDARY batteries, Yamato wins out (and it is not short of secondary battery weaponry at all).

The way I see it play out is that the instant the Bismarck closes to a range where it can have a chance at penetrating a Yamato (That is, 15~ kilometers) with AP shells, Yamato would just shotgun Bismarck with it's 460mms. Unlike the Iowa, which has APC Super-Heavy rounds, the Bismarck is stuck with regular AP.

Even speed doesn't stack too favorably to the Bismarck. While it has 3 knots faster speed than the Yamato, the Yamato can TURN faster. Plus, 30 knots won't save you from the 46cm gun turrets turning and training on the Bismarck.

Basically, the only way I can see the Bismarck winning is if the Yamato was suddenly struck by a falling meteorite, and then suddenly getting torn into pieces by 10 tactical nukes hitting it, before getting it's parts whisked away by a category-5 tornado.

By that same probability, the surviving piece of the Yamato will hit the Bismarck at Mach 1, detonate it's magazines, and then somehow have a shell from it's barrettes fly several hundred kilometers away, where it would hit the International Space Station, and from there, the station deorbits into a North-Korean nuclear test site. From there, one piece of shrapnel would destroy the test nuke, and then immediately, all of North Korea explodes in a nuclear fireball.

And you and all of your friends gets zapped by lightning at the same time, at the same day, because probability.