Wow, just like literally most ships under 8.0 BR do in return to shinyhorse!
Except they don’t have any armor at all, while shinyhorse does.
It’s literally like the naval version of the M4 Sherman Jumbo, you get stupid armor, and good speed in exchange for firepower being weaker (but far from so weak that it’s un-usable).
the pen on 283mm is good but its only gonna get you so far at 7.7 with no 15 inch guns you just get assaulted by 16 inch BBs like mutsu amagi let alone iowa and soyuz and yamato
and that pen is only good at close range even point blank you cant pen most 8.7 BBs
you can just ignore it to as you can hurt it much more than it can from range especially on circle maps hence why its 7.3 but that just compression and naval needs more decompression
She’s got good RoF that compensates and the shells are fairly decent. 7.7 would be perfectly reasonable for her
Rate fire doesnt mean much at range as shells again cant pen the armor especially if its something with big guns then your basically screwed scarns really only OP when in CQC