Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor

People also don’t seem to understand that the reason she took awhile to sink was that the British were closed in tight and basically shooting flat-on into superstructure, turrets, and the belt armour. They weren’t making many below-waterline hits, which meant a very slow sinking. It wasn’t that the Bismarck was special and super, it was purely just the trajectories of the shell fire.

Yup, another reason people played arcade. I say played, because as one can see, there has been a major drop off, and barring the small uptick from new update, it will continue to decline steadily this coming year.

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Kirishima, which was a much more lightly protected and smaller battleship than Bismarck, took 4 hours to sink after getting brutally blown by the much more powerful 16" Mk 6 at point blank. This is the nature of a wrecked ship with flooded magazine - they just wouldn’t sink quickly under gunfire. Bismarck for sure would have not sunk this rapidly without her crew scuttled the ship, but believing British battleships were unable to sink her can be nothing but idiocy.

Yes because the Germans were aiming for the forward magazine of HMS Hood…Not a lucky shot at all. No difference from the Swordfish run on Bismark.
And instead of withdrawing they hung around and the inevitable happened. Even if Bismark made it back to France she wouldnt have dared risk putting to sea again and thats why the Tirpitz spent the whole war hiding in the Norwegian Fjord. Bismarkls fate would have been similar

Bismark became another German wunderwaffe destroyed by the allied powers.

The skill is still there. just because you aim at a certain point, doesn´t mean all shots land there. There is still some inaccuracy of teh gun and your movement direction in context of the target also effects there ballistic curve.

Though now its less aiming and more where you aim. I generally win because i aim for specific parts of the ship or know when someone moves to irratic to do so. Using there own movement to spread my hits over the ship, by simply keeping the aim centered.

There is still alot of detail to it. But with the old system it was hard to care about those detail, because getting the shots on the enemy in the first place was already difficult enough.

I really hope gaijin simplefies and streamlines the rest of arcade the same way.

There is not, and your posts are either the height of trolling or the height of simplification of games to point and click mobile styles.

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after seeing the dev server update the armor looks really really bad for its BR
is the armor still subject to change ?

Not majorly. Guess what, a WW1 distributed armour scheme will always stay a WW1 distributed armour scheme, and will always be inferior to an all or nothing scheme, no matter how much hype it gets

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