Yeah, that part was resolved, but there was another issue from Jutland where they realised that having the shells above the powder charges? (genuinely cant remember which way round it was) was also an issue, so on Vanguard they swapped it.
That in addition to the automatic loaders and better discipline with the storage helped a lot
Okay, and the post i replied too originally was specifically about Barbette/hoist fires.
Vanguard had to get such an extensive rework because the guns and mountings were ww1 designs which still had the older magazines above shell rooms layout. They did this by building a seperate powder elevator which still moved the powder up to the original position of the powder scuttles above the shell room.
KGVs 14inch were new designs so they were designed shell room above magazine from the start as seen in this graphic for the different flash zone subdivisions
(green is cordite handling, yellow is shell room)
Ah… thank you.
and Lion, had she been built, would have had the exact same systems as The KGV’s.
meaning she should be nearly immune to ammunition cook offs unless they are DIRECT hits to the magazines.
County Class Destroyer with Sea Slug Missiles. Its kind of bullshit that only Russia, US and Germany have Destroyers with AA missiles.
Agreed. The perfect missile destroyer for us (though I reckon we’ll just get a C&P of the Australian Charles F Adams though)
basically imagine a big Warspite with the Lion’s guns.
These were designed as the Successors to the Nelsons.
they had one less gun, but better armor, and a far more conventional layout.
Honestly there are ALOT of real laid down designs that need added before Gaijin goes full paper…
Looking at you half the Russian naval tree.
Where are the original South Dakota’s?
I wanna slap a Soyuz with 12, 16in/50 MK2’s.
I want to yeet 12 of those shells down range unsuspecting ships. Especially considering ALL SIX of the original South Dakota’s were more complete than any of the Soyuz Classes.
The most complete Soyuz was in the 20% range, the South Dakota’s were upwards of 40% complete, and a couple of them were reportably FLOATING and ready to go for the Big work, that being fitting the turrets and superstructure, and the fitting out of everything.
is there any report made about HMS Lion’s draft?
Really not sure why we didn’t get the 1945D variant Lion tbh.
Probably because the 38 variant has the most amount of sources on it.
We could make a suggestion for a later Lion
i think they said due to it having a better for the game armor scheme
Also probably because the '38 plan is the one that actually got laid down
…No?
The 1945D variant was similar to the Iowa in size and armor.
Doesn’t matter though; still gonna grind for her.
Iowa has garbage armor tho…
Like hell it does in warthunder.
Nice self report on you not actually playing naval.
its a Factual Statement that the Iowa’s were heavily under armored, a problem that was planned to be fixed with the Montana’s, and the 2nd batch, Kentucky and later were meant to be way heavier armored.
If they aren’t in game, then thats just Gaijin being bullshit again.
Honestly armor in general is really screwy in this game naval wise, I see Alaska’s and Scharnhorst’s Penning the belt of my Barham at 20km and ammo-racking me, yet my Barham can’t belt pen a Des Monies class at like 12km.
Speaking of Barham, She really needs a new Shell, that basic APC shell is just pathetic.
Especially considering other ships with the same guns, modeled in the same era, Like HMS Glorious, get the APCBC.
I don’t see a reason at all for her to be 7.3 with that shell.
