Tokugawa...

[Spectre]

Comparing the Valor and the Tokugawa isn't much of a fair match. Both are heavies, yes. Both have 4 'regular' heavy slots, yes. Both have relatively the same shape, albeit just flipped 90 degrees, yes. But there's more than just the Valor that you can compare it to. [EDIT: There was a whole rant here about the Tokugawa's battleship opponents, but I edited it out because the final one it really the meat of the post. TL;DR, the Bismarck is a better comparison, since the Tokugawa fights it (or at least did) on a regular occasion.]


Bismarck -
Advantages for Tokugawa: Thin, flat shape fore and aft, More heavies up and down.
Advantages for Bismarck: More HP, more fore and aft firing prims and heavies, more broadside heavies, faster turning rate.

The Bismarck (to my knowledge) was the main reason the Tokugawa got its heavy nerf. There is so much wrong here it's absolutely nonsensical.
Many people like to forget just how made the Bismarck's life is. It's easily the tankiest of the house dreadnoughts (2.8mil HP), it has better firing prims, better firing heavies and it turns as fast or faster than any other ship in its class save for the Legate. It can broadside better than the Tokugawa can, having an extra heavy and more HP, it can chase better, having one more heavy and more HP, and it can actually run better, again having one more heavy and more HP. Most people forget that a turret's actual maximum angle is not its effective maximum firing angle. The Bismarck (tested in conn with cerbs) can fire every single heavy in every horizontal direction except forward, and even then it's a really close call (that back heavy can fire so far forward it's absurd). The Tokugawa can't do that. It never could. It could fire all four forward, or two backwards, and only ever three to a side or up and down. Now, it can fire 3 in all directions. Compared to the Bismarck, the Tokugawa may as well be a medium battleship.
Prims are another issue. The Tokugawa can fire all four forward, two back, all down and two to either side. The Bismarck can fire all fore and aft, two to either side and up and down. Tanking, the Bismarck wins in raw DPS. Chasing, the Bismarck again wins in raw DPS. Running, the Bismarck wins in raw DPS.
In any fight, the Bismarck wins in guns alone. Add in that its HP pool is a full 350k higher than the Tokugawa's, and you're basically flailing a colony of red flags at this point.

It needs to go back. There was nothing wrong with the Tokugawa to begin with. It's been the same for as long as it's been in the mod, and it makes no sense to nerf it because people ran in the worst running ships in the mod and got slapped for it.


TL;DR
I agree. Sorry for making a wall of text alongside your wall of text.