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She was not a battlecruiser, despite being called such unofficially. The heart of the matter is that she is a scaled up cruiser rather than a stripped down battleship. A better way of putting it would be this: would you rather have a Pensacola or a Myoko face off against the Alaska, or would you rather have a Des Moines or a Zao do so instead? Yes, cruisers at tier 7 would do incredibly poorly against Alaska, but tier 10 cruisers will have a better time of it, along with having the added benefit of tier 10 battleships being a better counter balance to Alaska's cruiser hunting escapades than the tier 6 or 7 battleships ever would. The second anyone shows even the most minuscule amount of side will have their French battleship blown out from under them. Her armor was designed to counter the Graf Spee's 11" guns, not the 14" or 15" guns that were common on battleships by the time of her construction. The only reason that citadel hits on the Dunkerque haven't become a meme of the same magnitude of Iowa citadel hits, is because no one ever shows the sides of the ship and just bow camp till the cows come home. The Dunkerque isn't exactly known for being well protected. Thus, if you were to have her at tier 6 or 7, then we'd see nerfs to shoe horn her in that would make the Cleveland nerfs look light handed. While her guns may have the penetrating power of 14" guns, that still doesn't change the fact her citadel hits would feel more like 12" shells instead of 14" guns, ergo, less damage.Īlaska's AA power was considered to be between that of an Iowa battleship and a Baltimore heavy cruiser. Hell, even at tier 5, Alaska's guns would only be bigger than the German battleship's. Alaska would also have the smallest guns of the tier 6 battleships, most of whom are packing 14" guns at minimum. She'd have the worst armor out of all of the tier 6 battleship on thickness alone, let alone tier 7, whilst the protection scheme is based off of cruiser designs(read: no underwater protection against torpedoes or shells that hit below the belt armor).
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