Who wins between Hoche and Mikasa?
Short answerMikasa wins decisively because she combines a later all-steel design generation with better armor, guns, and secondary-battery arrangement.
NotesHoche does not belong to the same design generation as Mikasa. Hoche is characterized as a late ironclad, while Mikasa is a mature British-built pre-dreadnought optimized from an already capable Royal Navy design. Mikasa also belonged to Japan's six-six plan, where six armored cruisers were expected to delay enemy battleships until the Japanese battle line could finish them. That force structure sought deterrence by making any attack on Japan costly even when Japan could not match every larger navy ship for ship.