Nagato is the penultimate boss from 1943: The Battle of Midway. It is a dreadnought-class battleship. It was named Ryofu in the NES version.
Real World Information[]
Nagato (長門), named for Nagato Province, was a dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1910s. The lead ship of her class, she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923. The ship was modernized in 1934–36 with improvements to her armor and machinery and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. Nagato briefly participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She covered the withdrawal of the attacking ships and did not participate in the attack itself.
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In the Game[]
Nagato has a identical design to Mutsu and as such behaves the same way, except more aggressive.
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