I mean the Stringbag entered service in 1936. Bismarck was laid down in 1936. Clearly they are of the same era and must be equal in capability
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german mains are like their historical tacticians, a level 1 crewslot in ability. Stringbag mogs it
TBF stringbag had quite an impressive service life, the taranto bay attack was huge in its impact in tying down several capital ships for maintenance
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From what I remember, Iowa sank Katori and made a super long range (possibly record breaking) shot on Nowaki. Aside from Iowa none of the other ships aside from Yamato sank ships so you’re partially right there. Yamato managed to sink at minimum two ships at Samar but there’s been talks she may have sank a third.
Granted POW also caused severe damage to Bismarck. Said damage being enough to force Lutjens to retire from the battle, as she was no longer combat effective due to the heavy flooding in her bow. That plus the later torpedo damage ended up dooming the ship.
Not to get into that debate. All I’ll say is Bismarck would have sunk anyway as she had taken far too much damage to stay afloat. With that in mind the scuttling argument is a moot point, and at the end of the day the RN still sank her
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This hit from PoW also caused an fuel or oil leak leaving a long trail in the ocean, which helped the Catalina locate her
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Pow managed to destroy Bismarcks Forward electrical room and flood a boiler room. Must have been a magic 14 inch shell then when her protection was so good
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Indeed, and that leak, along with the flooding, convinced Lutjens she was no longer combat-capable
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Edit: Awesome song
Time for more German naval players to get handheld to the point of being literally invulnerable despite sitting full broadside 8km away from a full salvo of 16".
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Scuttling wasn’t done to “prevent capture”, it was done to save crew.
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They used a different damage model than WT’s.
how does that work?
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Iowa has a kill. Richelieu doesn’t have a kill but scored several hits, which despite what you may believe does constitute a combat record.
But really, who cares?
From my youth - this was a standard march played by the silver band I was in as a teen :)
BTW your source doesnt happen to be the cameron expedition? because that is saying something completly different XD
In addition to the hit from POW which flooded a boiler room and an electrical switching room behind the thikest part of the protection, a 14 inch shell penned the 350mm thick conning tower from range… but for some reason it couldn’t pen the 320mm main belt from point blank? Sure Sure
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The wreck literraly contradicts you
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How does sinking your own ship help to save crew?
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best battleship ever made tho right?
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“And the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm
Sign of power, show of force
Raise the anchor, battleship’s plotting its course”
to be fair 4 lancasters crashed before they could take off with the bomb cause how big they needed to make it
yeah the turtle back armor scheme is stronger the closer you are plunging fire negates the turtle back