You should completely ignore any pen stat on a large battleship AP shell under the 7500m mark. Prior to that distance any 14” or larger gun is more or less guaranteed to penetrate any ship in game without a strong turtleback. Point blank pen is worthless, what matters is the distance at which armor starts to become effective against a shell, and the new shell will give in game armor schemes much worse immune zones.
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Yeah ik, that is just the stat they used which I find funny, it should have increasingly better pen over the current shells at longer ranges
They definitely neglect a lot of important information, probably under the idea that bigger numbers means more hype or something. I wish they’d quantify firepower in shots/min and pen at range rather than caliber, barrel number, and point blank pen. Much more informative but not much we can do about it unfortunately
i forgot how fun the 15inch BC’s are after playing Rodney in EC they are so much better in every aspect especially the secondarys for killing light ships
Yeah. Rodney in EC is a no go right now
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I think it goes across all top tier BB’s.
I feel it would be nice to get an increase for shell shrapnel damage and penetration. So shell weight would mean more , not just tnt.
Because right now I don’t think there much difference between 500kg shell and 1000kg shell (if they would have the same amount of tnt)
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Well Britain will get Warspite. So maybe she’ll be better than hood.
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Yeah this is problem for all battleships.
I can feel significant difference between destroyer’s caliber
I can feel differecne between 6’’ and 8’’ for cruiser.
However, I can’t feel difference between 11’’ and 16’’ in battleships. Yes 16’’ does damage more in calculation, but what in need when 11’’ has no problem in destroying module at one salvo as same as 16’'?
This is contrary to why navies irl concentrate on bigger caliber and bigger salvo weight, even sometimes sacrificing reload speed. And why Scharnhorst is so OP for almost two years(let’s exclude when SAP and HE were OP. Scharnhorst was rather prey than OP at that time) even at the time when Gaijin introduce 16’’ battleships. This is one of most severe issue of top BR naval.
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HMS Warspite would naturally come after HMS Malborough in the tech tree, right?
Trying to plan progression, which I will grind during Strasbourg event.
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I sadly doubt that. Warspite will probably have the same crew compartment layout as Barham which means a big part of the crew is only protected by the 6inch upper belt which makes her die to crew loss relatively quickly compared to Hood.
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As much as I love EC, the way to win it is to have 3 squamates who are super experienced at naval EC
My biggest concern on Warspite is her draft looking very shallow in the teaser. One of the reason Hood being so survivable in game is that she get the deep load draft. If Warspite is to get the same draft as Barham, she will never be close to Hood in terms of survivability.
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Not historically accurate given warspites track record
What didn’t she get hit by in her career
Yeah the devs have a problem with modeling the correct drafts.
Do you know what L.W.L is standing for in the plans?
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Legend waterline
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for some people who have not seen this is kinda insane
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That is the most insane thing I have ever seen
How in the
i really want to know how they do it as it cant be them just all queuing at the same time