Sniper

Sinking a battleship with gunfire in WW2 was a rare event. Don't be seduced by armour thicknesses too much. A near miss from a bomb on Prince of Wales caused enough internal damage to shut down her AA Turret Hydraulics without penetrating for example. Most heavy ships like Bismarck were reduced to burning wrecks but were finished off by other means. It isn't a matter of penetrating the armour so much as making the ship impossible to fight or handle that characterises gun duels. Hood was particularly unlucky in this respect. I think in daylight the German's better gunnery technology would have allowed them to straddle Yamato early and start to knock out things like direction finders and stereoscopes, maybe jam a turret mechanism - but a lot of this is based on luck. Poor Scharnhorst had her radar taken away by a Cruiser round at North Cape which blinded her: allowing DoY to make her approaches - just an example of 1 hit on an unarmoured area that changed the course of a battle.

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