Thread:Golurk 88/@comment-30076690-20190524055114/@comment-30076690-20190603010839

actually, sometimes you do want to go broadside to a battleship in a cruiser - some CLs will be consistently overpenned from the side, whereas an overmatch from bow on results in a citadel and death.

and the angling of the thinner armor fore and aft allows shells to bounce when they don't overmatch.

and really, Hood was more than a little bad luck and poor shell design. Hood's 14 inch shells could penetrate the Bismark, they just didn't hit the vital points that result in detonation of the ammunition storage.