In all reallity we must ask this questions for a shootout.
1.what were some of these battlewagons design for?
2.armourments both main and secondiry?
3.the armour of these ships?
4.the speed of the ships?
The JIN made only two BB'S at home,the Yamoto and Musihi.Both of there main armourment was made mostly for shore bombirment,there second for AA.The JIN relayed on carriers and knew that the BB'S had seen its better days in the Pacific.
The Brits and Germans made theres for anti-shipping and the north Atlantic.Which is showen in there secondiry armourment and was blenden well for AA.
The Iatlians and the French were mosty heavily armourment and light armour.They where great ships in the hands of a good skilled crew but were easily sunk with torpedos.Tironto-remember.
The US after Pearl Harbor combined these lesions together in the Iowa class.The Montana class was already designed before the Iowa class and was scrapped in favor for the Iowa's.The Iowa's were lightly armour for speed,heavilyed armed with longer range guns for the mains and blended the secondiry armourment with high angle for AA'S.Digger