That’s much better news. So at least Lion’s shell would have better penetration than Nelson, though I’m skeptical it would be better than Vanguard’s.
I just found out that HMS Vanguard in WTM also uses Renown’s turret, which is terrible news
now it rather seems like miracle that HMS Barham uses its own unique 15’’ Mark I modelling, compared to other Royal Navy 15’'s.
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Most of British 15’’ Mark I turret is just copy paste from HMS Renown. How disappointing.
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Makes me worry also about their modelling of the improved turret armour, its only 13" so we need it to be done right as that’s less than even Hood.
I mean Archangelsk still has its Mark I/N mounts which NONE of the R class EVER RECIVED
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Yeah, even soviet bias cannot win Gaijin’s laziness.
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The turret face was 13" inch thick historically. Roof was increased to 6" but that’s it.
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damn, was hoping for a kgv.
not that im not gonna eventually enjoy playing it, but was hoping for something a bit different than another 15 inch slinger into 2 different postcodes
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Thank god for that and they have the 5.25" guns, so will have any extra kick to them.
Also saw they mentioned radar too.
Just have to hope she doesnt sink after 1 hit
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No British capital ships are going to get one tapped easily given their excellent module placement. However bear in mind Vanguard’s armour is not great so if you do something wrong like showing your broadside to enemy with powerful guns, you are going to bleed from crew loss quite badly.
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Rodney was for the first month or so.
Even by destroyers, she just flooded and sunk.
She’s finally been fixed, but took a while.
Had a kronshtadt take 20 minutes to take out my rodney just to instantly get one tapped by my warspite immediately after
Well her ammo and magazines are swapped now which also is very nice. Will be interesting how they model the hoists
FH or CA
Im more concernced about the firepower, do we have anything else we can do or expect for either the shells to be made accurate or an XVIIB(H) shell? representing the hardened versions.
I know, that’s my point, its not very good so the turrets really do need to be done properly to maximise their already poor armour.
It’s a bit of a weird timeline to add Vanguard now but I do sort of understand it. That said I think the UK was tied over fine, i don’t understand why Gaijin keeps giving ships to nations with already full lineups and decent ships rather than investing in trees which are struggling like Italy, USA and France. Then again, this is the first blog, they might add others in this time.
We need the supercharges and the MK.XVIIb (Cardinal hardened variant) and ideally penetration would be based off the IRL firing trials and not the pen calculator.