unfortunately there are situations where you dont get your moneys worth out of the exchange... like take those japanese super battleships, the Musashi and the Yamato, they were never really involved in any real major surface action... i mean the Yamato was during the engagement with Taffy 3, but none of her shots were all that effective... you can't always expect to get your money's worth out of everything that you create, thats just the way war was... and i agree with everybody else about the fate of GS... no matter what, it was doomed, and i think that the captain was thinking on a level of "why condem the rest of your comrades to a fight that will surely end most of their lives" in that way, i think it was right for him to do what he did... those are just my thoughts on the whole situation