AA firepower mainly, and the removal of the Float plane launcher and such.
Id really like to see a late war Duke of York.
She by this point had a half American AA layout, with a bunch of quad Bofors mounts around her superstructure, to back up the 8 barrel Pom Pom mounts.
She’s also the Queen of the North, MOST of her service was spent in the North sea, Hunting German raiders, which is how she sunk Scharnhorst.
Id love to see her get a custom model covered in icicles and such, just for fun.
Did you say £80 premium?
Honestly, if it went on sale for $60 occasionally? Maybe.
Also, question, how would you feel about the Early draft KGV’s coming to the game? The ones with the 9, 15in guns?
Those later mark 15in guns that never got a use on a Battleship were absolutely brutal, and id love to see them in a game where they don’t get shafted by garbage “Short fuses” (Looking at you World of Warships)
Id like to see them personally, along with the Lions, i think they would be a good stepping stone from the Vanguard to the Lion.
It’s a problem with a lot of ships. Gaijin is completely inconsistent with ship drafts. If it’s a Soviet ship, it will be practically underwater, but anything else might as well be filled with ping pong balls.
So that is historically accurate then :P
Or you have Something like HMS renown, where she is legit sitting way low in the water, meaning her main belt armor is basically useless.
This is why Gaijin should standardise draught at the vessel’s standard displacement, as both too high and too low of a draught come with big penalties, either exposing the magazine if too high, or by bypassing the scheme entirely if too low.
keeping all vessels at a standard displacement allows for all vessels to get their ideal protection and evens out the playing field between ships, as they are all at their best.
Also Riley, did you ever mull making a “modern ship TT” ?
dam still no R class
Still no County Class Destroyer. I want a British Bluewater ship that has missiles. Russia, US and Germany have one now.
It seems Vanguard and Prince of Wales excluded among the list of anti-torpedo protection not implemented along with Bismarck while almost all other battleships(even including British itself) gets anti-torpedo bulge as module in x-ray.
This is shame as KGV class and Vanguard were one of most well protected against torpedo in real life.
What did they change exactly?
I have serious doubts about that. Considering that the KGV, for example, had very weak torpedo protection and was very small. This has been discussed extensively in many sources.
I can’t comment on the Venguard, but I strongly disagree with the KGV’s claim that it was “all good.”
could you give some sources for that?
It might be down to both vaguard and POW using a torpedo protection system that sits behind the main belt so gajin didnt model it as a bulge since it technically isnt
That can’t explain Nelson class with similar system gets anti-torpedo bulge. Every battleship that has torpedo protection system, no matter of what kind it is, gets anti-torpedo bulge in x-ray except those two and Kriegsmarine’s.
Bit bizarre as yes it would function as a dampener for the initial explosion and as a secondary effect of the anti-torpedo protection system but still, its not a torpedo bulge its still required for reserve buoyancy.
