User blog comment:Tybaltcapulet/Chester Nimitz vs Karl Dönitz/@comment-3189283-20190401122029

Let’s see shall we

Battleship

The Bismarck has all the advantages you’d want with a faster top speed, longer range and almost triple the armaments of the Colorado. Granted the Colorado does have torpedoes which will be more successful at taking down enemy ships than the guns, but the Bismarck is still the technically superior ship.

Edge: Karl Dönitz

Cruiser

It’s the opposite way around in this comparison with the Northampton utterly outclassing it’s German counterpart. While only having a negligible advantage in speed it has a huge range advantage and is armed to the teeth with guns with 71 in total compared to the rather pitiful 11 the Königsberg has. It’s not all doom and gloom for the Königsberg as it does have double the torpedoes and comes equipped with mines to enable a more defensive strategy but in general combat the Northampton has it beaten.

Edge: Chester Nimitz

Destroyer

This one is a much closer run thing. Specifications wise the 1936A is slightly faster with the M. Summer having a considerable range advantage. The M. Summer is rocking more guns and depth charge throwers but the 1936’s guns are more powerful which makes up for the smaller number and they also come equipped with mines for another dimension to their offensive capabilities. While they aren’t exactly evenly matched the different advantages, each has over the other is enough for me to call them equal.

Edge: Even

Submarines

The U-Boats are iconic, but I think that they’re outclassed here. The only real advantage they have is that they can dive deeper, but they have less torpedoes and a slower moving speed which the more important features for a submarine are when it comes down to it.

Edge: Chester Nimitz

Final Verdict

I'm going to have to go with the crowd here and also vote for Chester Nimitz. He has the better and more technologically advanced ships with the only area he loses out being the Battleship which is only a small percentage of his total fleet. His submarines and Cruisers are vastly superior to those used by his German counterpart thus helping to make up his inferior Battleship and bolster the destroyers. In terms of X Factors, he’s also the more experienced and well-trained commander and while he did have to rely on intelligence a lot in his strategy, I have no doubts he’d be able to adapt to a more offensive approach. While logistics are unlikely to affect a small scale battle the grander scope of the US’s greater logistical strength shows in their technologically superior ships and radar and would spill over into better trained and more capable crew which the Germans just can’t match.

Chester Nimitz: 3,500

Karl Dönitz: 1,500