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Originally Posted by Klashikari

Leaving the base at the same time doesn't mean they are to attack at the very same time. We don't know how far AL base is, and we don't know about the exact schedule of the operation.

They launched at the same time. If we assume AL is farther away, then MI's strike will go in first and that will be last of the value of the decoy. Even if it is closer, due to the short timings for going everywhere established by the anime, they can't be very much earlier

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Note that Nachi mentioned a certain timing for her orders, which means that at least her squadron are to follow a certain schedule instead of immediately rushing AL.

She says at a certain timing, they are to open the orders. In the meantime, their old orders to pummel AL are active.

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Likewise, This also holds true for Akagi who was supposed to wait for Yamato.

And they were presumably not supposed to be waiting and waiting for Yamato to show up.

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The base was attacked by ONE wo-class.

Which caused one day emergency repair's worth of damage. Trading three or so days to repair the base (let's not pretend it would be lost) for a bunch of enemy carriers is not bad especially since that's a worst case scenario. If they lose because they were skimpy, the enemy Wos will be able to gain sea superiority and then they will never be able to repair the base.

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And it isn't only the bath: the anime already demonstrated it follows a few game mechanics

Fine. If we pretend the game never existed, the anime will establish the 入渠 as the means of repairing shipgirls and no other means mentioned. We are given a time to repair damage of a carrier from a torpedo (15H). We see a carrier damaged a 2nd time, and that one was longer ... say 2-3x as long from the events, which may be explained by individual circumstances or Akagi having already served part of her "sentence". The story heavily implies they cannot freely move since they fold rabbits and do other things to pass the time in the bath. Further, at 8:15 of Ep8 they will establish Shokaku has finished her 入渠. The time was in the range of a few hours, which is shorter but not grossly so, so there's no justification for insisting they somehow aren't finished.

So we've already established some rough parameters even within the anime, and it'll be breaking those parameters to have Shokaku suddenly still be in repair. Thus, it is hard to avoid the conclusion there is a plothole.

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No, Yamato is not supposed to be like that, otherwise the IJN would have used a little more often even due to her costs.

I don't want to dismiss Yamato's firepower, but her armor and survivability are also part of her virtues. If the enemy peck at her, everyone else can attack freely, so she's still performing her function.

Besides, Nagato said that before Yamato announced herself to the world. If we think that didn't bust her and we must not use her during defensive operations against enemy carriers approaching Truk ... one girl is easy to hide.

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They are already struggling with their supply lines.

Their comfortable lives strongly imply that it isn't like their supply lines are being strangled. Any supply difficulties are due to an overly aggressive tempo and while the Abyssals can sting, they are overall winning.

Even if they lose an island like Truk, they can still get it back. Maybe with some difficulty, but they have the assets. Lose said assets and Truk will be gone anyway next week, and they won't get it back.

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There is no way for her to realize if it was a pack of submarines who successfully disabled Kaga or herself, or any of the possible scenario I've mentioned previously.

If it was a pack of submarines, the solution is more escorts, not less. She should have kept Maikaze's division and tacked on Yuudachi plus whatever else she can get. If they are surface attackers, same and aircraft carriers would help. In short, even if we assume Akagi had a much blurrier impression of her dream than we did, it is hard to come up with a threat where the correct solution is fewer assets.

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The initial fleet composition change doesn't contribute to their downfall here.

If they had even one more destroyer, they could have made a picket screen of sorts even after dumping Fubuki and Kongo. That in itself could have improved this Getting Hammered scene into a meeting engagement.

And it is the beginning of a string of weak decisions which lead to their final plight.

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Yeah, and Nagato arguably didn't state they are about to lure the carrier task force to pin them down in a convulated plan. Look, they were to go for a frontal assault, and both fleets meet at a rendez vous point before the assault.

You mean, attacking a base to lure carriers out is not convoluted? Now admittedly, Nagato did improve on Yama-chan's plan by setting an assembly point (though they should have sortied in an assembled state). Other than that...

And then Akagi threw Nagato's improvement away as she sailed forward :-)

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Still a little more than 100km. And that's just the difference IRL.

Can't bring the game back in just when it is convenient :-) 100km is about 5%. It is not significant.

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In the end, it isn't unheard of that DD can deal major damage to larger ships, and it is even more true in the damn franchise.

Since you said I shouldn't use the game, we are left with reality as a external reference. So, we have a destroyer, armed with a 5-inch gun, Heavily Damaging a carrier with one shell (not torpedo, gun). You tell me if there is something forced about this :-)