New book - Super Battleships of World War II

The author states a hypo 1946 battle similar to how the war actually ended in terms of IJN big ship suicide dashes, with not much else left in the escorting fleet. Instead of just rehashing what happened to Musashi/Yamato for the A-150's dash, the author swaps massed US DD torpedo attacks instead of massed air attacks, with the latter hypo weather grounded. This attack by the destroyers basically cripples and finishes off what had been moderate exchanges of fire of sorts over a time period and at range, between Montana & the A-150. The gunnery basically playing out in the way any hypo Iowa/Yamato duel has generally been accepted would. US hitting at range etc. The author states even IJN night fighting wouldn't have made much difference and the A-150s firing comes across as being wild, punch drunk. Although with the few hits it did score on Montana, I think the author was being generous with just a dozen casualties for the latter...20 inch shells and all!

In reality it would have just played out the same as with Musashi/Yamato regardless.