A battleship should normally defeat a cruiser, but five large cruisers radically change the arithmetic. Their combined battery offers twenty 11-inch guns against a Chinese battleship carrying twelve 10-inch guns, turning nominal ship type into a poor guide to local combat power. Concentrated battleship fire might still destroy one cruiser, but the remaining force should be able to finish the target. The action also exposes the limits of automated screening and torpedo avoidance as destroyers penetrate the formation while the cruisers maneuver to open more guns.
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Five heavy cruisers attack a Chinese battleship
A tactically uneven battle tests whether twenty 11-inch cruiser guns can overcome one battleship while screens hunt destroyers and torpedoes.