#60 Sho-Go Kongo - Done

I agree. 39 seems fine

Just done a quick check on the class. Without doubt the costs are not consistent on them, which muddies the water. With Kongo & Kirishima your only exchanging flag 1 for night fighter so they could be the same and Haruna compared to them looks off. Bombard is obviously not great unless you house rule it to include forward air strips, then it becomes much more important. But that aside evade bombs is only a 50/50 chance. I see Haruna at only a point-ish higher than the first two if you play bombard as written. Then comes down to whether the lowest of the class should be slightly higher or Haruna lower.

This 44 Kongo is better for AA8 against having a slighter weaker gunnery line. A tactics is a mixed bag depending on how much and often you can use it.

I'm seeing 38-39 just off the others as written really but the whole lot would need a tweak to get bang right.

Bump

Sho-Go Kongo
Battleship 1944
Points 39
Speed 2
MG 14 14 13 11
SG 6 6 5 4
TG 5 5 4
AA 8
A6 V12 H5
EXTENDED RANGE 4: While undamaged, this unit can make range-4 Main Gunnery attacks using its range-3 attack value.
NEAR MISS: The first time an attack would damage or destroy this unit, roll a die. On a 4 or higher that attack has no effect instead.

AGGRESSIVE TACTICS: Friendly Cruisers and Destroyers adjacent to this Ship roll one extra attack die when making Gunnery and Torpedo attacks if no other friendly Ships are in their sectors.

Fluff Text

Sho-Go Kongo

Laid down
17 January 1911
Launched
18 May 1912
Commissioned
16 August 1913
Stricken
20 January 1945
Fate
Sunk by USS Sealion in the Formosa Strait, 21 November 1944

Displacement
36,600 long tons (37,187 t)[1]
Length
222 m (728 ft 4 in)[1]
Beam
31 m (101 ft 8 in)[1]
Draught
9.7 m (31 ft 10 in)[1]
Propulsion
Steam turbines, 4 shafts
Speed
30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)[1]
Range
10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)[1]

1944:
8 × 356 mm (14 in) naval gun (4×2)[1]
8 × 152 mm (6 in) naval gun (8×1)[1]
12 × 127 mm (5.0 in) guns (6×2)
100 × 25 mm Type 96 Antiaircraft autocannon (15×3,8×2,40×1)
Battleship 1944
Points 39
Speed 2
MG 14 14 13 11
SG 6 6 5 4
TG 5 5 4
AA 8
A6 V12 H5
EXTENDED RANGE 4: While undamaged, this unit can make range-4 Main Gunnery attacks using its range-3 attack value.
NEAR MISS: The first time an attack would damage or destroy this unit, roll a die. On a 4 or higher that attack has no effect instead.

AGGRESSIVE TACTICS: Friendly Cruisers and Destroyers adjacent to this Ship roll one extra attack die when making Gunnery and Torpedo attacks if no other friendly Ships are in their sectors.

Namesake of her class, Kongo was the last foreign built battleship of tje Japanese Navy. In October 1944, in company with 4 other battleships she engaged escort carriers and destroyers of Taffy 3 in the action off Samar. The ferocious defences tjese smaller vessels put up blunted the Center Forces strike and convinced Admiral Kurita to withdraw. Kongo is credited with hits on 3 destroyers in the action.

Ok