Giving HMS Vanguard this early doesn’t make me feel good though I’m Royal Navy lover. It’s not what GB naval needs right now, and just make me worry one of finest ship in tree lose it’s full potential.
What GB naval needs right now is 25 seconds reload for 15’’ and 30 seconds reload for 16’', not HMS Vangaurd. Already GB has good capital ship line-up in 7.0 with HMS Hood, HMS Warspite and HMS Rodney, which will be tanky ships even if they were not 7.0. But what they lack is firepower, especially on damage per minute they can give. If this is not solved, HMS Vanguard would be no meaning even if it added. It’s just replacement of HMS Hood or HMS Warspite.
Addition of HMS Vanguard this early also makes me worry about non-existence of supercharge ingame. It’s what HMS Vanguard would really need as it would be the one of end-lineup when all potential battleships were added in every nation. Without supercharge, 475 mm penetration at 10 km is problematic against latest capital ship added to each nation.
It’s just not time of HMS Vanguard. British needed buff of existing 15’’ and 16’’ ship, not new ship that has to be end of tech tree. I would rather want USS North Carolina at US tech tree, as USA is currently one of most suffering nation at top BR.
Vanguard managed to claw out 58.4kmh during sea trials but I’d much rather have her be a 30knot ship and at deep water load than a 32 knot ship and get a lower belt penetration
N3 would be superior to Yamato except turret front armor, AA and speed
G3… will be little hard to fight against as it uses same AP with Rodney but will be decent if able to become close.
Is my memory correct but during lions development post 42 were they planing on making faster fire rate turrets for the ship I remember hearing something along those lines a while back while watching one of drachinifel’s vids but it might have been one of the drydocks and I have no idea which one it was
Similar gun power, both in penetration and after-pen damage(If considering SAP, much better)
better hull armor layout which doesn’t have cheek weakness of Yamato, and having straight forward bow bulkhead which is useful in angling.
And much better citadel layout, while Yamato has every shell room above waterline and one magazine near waterline, N3 has layout same as Rodney, which is extremely survivable.
I think several of our top tier BBs should have radar, they could have come in later refits with more AAA (not that they have that option for Vanguard) and Warspite and Renown have been denied HE-VT for their secondaries for “balancing reasons” (even though US BBs have them)
i know for a fact that renown should have a radar but many ships were added before radars were in navel meaning that they dont have working ones and because there is one guy working on the whole of navel they have not and likely wont get them