The Yamoto class was, in all regards, a super BS. They were huge with incredible amounts of armour. The US had nothing that could match the Yamoto class, which is why the Montana class was designed (although only the keel of the first of the class was ever laid down, and subsequently cancelled), essentially being a heavier armoured Iowa class with 12 main guns, not 9. Even still, lighter armour than the Yamoto, but a heavier broadside.
My point being, you should not be able to sink a Yamoto class with 3 or 4 fish, its gonna take the majority of your torp complement to sink one of these behmoths, and I mean common, no skipper would have sunk a Yamoto class then carried on and sunk a few more BS's or a couple of crusiers for good measure like you can in SH. They would have thrown everything they had at the Yamoto and legged it.
They were a class of super BS's, they were (and still are) the largest BS ever built in the world, I doubt they had a weak spot that a sub could exploit (the only weak spot I have heard of is its pathetic AA defense).
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