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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The Battle of Leyte Gulf really signaled the starting of the end of Battleships in terms of ship to ship effectiveness.
The Japanese were banking heavily on their Super Battleships to win the day (18.1 Inch rifles as oppossed to the American 16 Inch Guns)
Yamata was destroyed by concentrated air and submarine attacks.
Mushasi was overwhelmed by air and submarine attacks
Shinano was destroyed by the American Submarine Archer Fish.
I also remember that one of the Japanese Battleships was crippled or Destroyed by a American Destroyer via torpedo hits.
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There were a couple of timing and tactical things during the Pacific war that definitely affected the short term outcome. (The long term outcome once Germany was defeated is pretty clear.) IIRC there was a Super Carrier that was sunk or bombed out at a very inopportune time, or it was just about to be finished and the Americans had already pushed too far for it to matter. Also several strategic battles, as well as the Japanese not being able to catch the American carriers in Pearl Harbor really hurt things.
That and the Japanese not being able to sink the Enterprise! (Picard is one hell of a captain.
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edit: Hilarious that our mods have made it so that Picard is automatically upper-cased. Stand up and take a bow, oh nerdy overlords of CP.