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| | As the largest and most powerful battleships ever built, the Yamato-class boasts the highest combat stats among all battleships available to the player. They also have the longest range in-game as base, enabling them to fire first in almost every battle they partake in. Their firepower is so high that they can still achieve the daytime damage cap even when sufficiently damaged. It should be noted that their outstanding power comes with a cost, in the form of immense deployment costs, roughly 2,5x times that of the [[Nagato]]-class. | | As the largest and most powerful battleships ever built, the Yamato-class boasts the highest combat stats among all battleships available to the player. They also have the longest range in-game as base, enabling them to fire first in almost every battle they partake in. Their firepower is so high that they can still achieve the daytime damage cap even when sufficiently damaged. It should be noted that their outstanding power comes with a cost, in the form of immense deployment costs, roughly 2,5x times that of the [[Nagato]]-class. |
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| | Yamato is best used conservatively due to her immense resource consumption, since not only does deploying her cost a lot of resources, but also her repairs, which can cost up to thousands of fuel and steel or more quite easily if she is heavily damaged, not counting the fuel and ammo used in deploying her. Often when the firepower of other [[Elitebb|Battleships]] does not prove to be enough against tougher enemies such as [[Battleship_Water_Demon| a Battleship Water Demon]] despite using the proper equipment setups. Even then, it is best to exercise discretion, since it may prove costly on the long run. | | Yamato is best used conservatively due to her immense resource consumption, since not only does deploying her cost a lot of resources, but also her repairs, which can cost up to thousands of fuel and steel or more quite easily if she is heavily damaged, not counting the fuel and ammo used in deploying her. Often when the firepower of other [[Elitebb|Battleships]] does not prove to be enough against tougher enemies such as [[Battleship_Water_Demon| a Battleship Water Demon]] despite using the proper equipment setups. Even then, it is best to exercise discretion, since it may prove costly on the long run. |
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| − | ''{{Main|Wikipedia:Japanese battleship Yamato|l1=Japanese battleship Yamato in Wikipedia}}''
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| − | '''Yamato''' (大和?) was the lead ship of the Yamato class of Imperial Japanese Navy World War II battleships. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) 45 Caliber Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship. Neither ship survived the war.
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| − | Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Pearl Harbor attack in late 1941. Throughout 1942, she served as the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous defeat for Japan. Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year, and much of 1944, moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats. Although present at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, she played no part in the battle.
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| − | The only time Yamato fired her main guns at enemy surface targets was in October 1944, when she was sent to engage American forces invading the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On the verge of success, the Japanese force turned back, believing they were engaging an entire US carrier fleet rather than the light escort carrier group that was all that stood between the battleship and the vulnerable troop transports.
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| − | During 1944, the balance of naval power in the Pacific decisively turned against Japan, and by early 1945, its fleet was much depleted and badly hobbled by critical fuel shortages in the home islands. In a desperate attempt to slow the Allied advance, Yamato was dispatched on a one-way mission to Okinawa in April 1945, with orders to beach herself and fight until destroyed protecting the island. The task force was spotted south of Kyushu by US submarines and aircraft, and on 7 April 1945 she was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers with the loss of most of her crew.
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