User blog comment:Void Samukai/Worst Heavy Cruiser WW2/@comment-24484083-20151023020059/@comment-27822411-20151023020349

Good thing they were modernised before the war. At first...

Well, they weren't too far behind other nations in design (at least they didn't use casemates) but against other heavy cruisers, they were really bad off, with the exceptions being the York class and the Hawkins class (both British).

After modernisation...well, Furutaka took a massive beating before going down.