The encounter compares two different turret arrangements around broadly similar heavy guns. Agincourt carries eight guns in four twin mountings, while Yamato has nine guns in three triple mountings. Agincourt has a slight range and speed advantage, while the reconstructed Yamato outweighs it by about 35,000 tons, roughly the displacement of a treaty battleship. The game also cannot reproduce the historical dispersion problems associated with Yamato's real mountings. The extra turret and the extra gun can be compared, although the surrounding ships are far from controlled laboratory equivalents.
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Four twin turrets or three triples?
The Agincourt-Yamato test compares four twin 18-inch turrets with three triples while acknowledging major differences in mass, speed, and range.