The proposed tactic for Béarn is to close enough for her armour and casemate guns to decide the game's carrier duel. Independence's player jokes that his secondary battery amounts to a 40 mm Bofors gun. Béarn was converted from a battleship, while Independence came from a cruiser. Those different hulls and gun batteries make closing the range dangerous for the American carrier.
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Why Béarn wants to close the range with Independence
The carrier duel contrasts Béarn's battleship armour and casemate guns with Independence's cruiser origins and weak secondary armament.