If I were to level one criticism against this guy, it's that he let the enemy vessels get too close. He had a speed advantage over every enemy vessel with the possible exception of Spence and his radars also gave a pretty decisive detection advantage. If he had conducted a fighting retreat, he would have forced the enemy to spread out to chase him down and while Spence might have been able to catch up, Mr. Sea Sparrow and Mr. Harpoon would not have been her friend. He also wouldn't have had to deal with Akagi's aircraft and Musashi simultaneously. Akagi-chan did seriously gimp her striking range when switching to the triple-flight deck loadout so after dealing with Spence and Akagi-chan's aircraft, he could have closed in and either knocked out Akagi-chan with numerous Harpoon strikes or blasted Musashi/FdG with multiple SAM shots to the bridge while staying out of gunnery range, depending on which unlucky sod he spotted first. Instead, he ended up facing all of them at once and paid the price for it.