No pressure. Nope. None at all. Jeez, Hatsukaze's captain must have been sweating blood that night.

Well this is what happens when you hemorrhage all your destroyers futility running cargo and getting torpedoed escorting slow moving convoys because you didn't bother to build any dedicated escort ships before the war while simultaneously hording your capital units for a battle that's never going to happen...

Thats what happens when you put combat preparations before logistical preparations.

Three capital ships with one workhorse ship for a small battlegroup? Many a person would probably buy the captain and the crew gigantic beer kegs for this.

Secret "Trump Card"... right... bullet sponge more like.