Great minds think alike
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Damn you’re right, if only we’d built the osa class corvette
Unfortunately the OPV’s are not very good for any in-game purpose (or arguably IRL purpose either)
But Britain hasn’t built a corvette since the late 19th century
I won’t lie, I really don’t like Barham. The distributed armour scheme doesn’t work for me, just everything makes her leech crew as you said here,
My other issues, the rangefinder has abysmal accuracy, the SAP shell seems to fuse prematurely so is basically worthless, the AP is not ballistic capped so dumps all its penetration immediately. Her engine blocks seem vulnerable, I’m not sure if its because people just shoot centre mass or if there’s something else dispersion is shite as we already knew impossible to hit anything accurately at range.
All in all she just seems like the 7.0 version of Orion. Again I will defer back to Hood (weirdly enough, I find Marlborough much more playable probably due to the aforementioned dispersion issue).
So the TL:DR is i’m looking forward to either, a modernised variant with better shells, rangefinder, radar etc. Or KGV which also adds the benefit of AoN armour scheme.
I’ve been enjoying having the 6x 6 inch guns to pump into targets between main gun reloads, but yeah, it feels so slow and heavy compared to Hood/Renown that once spaded (and gunna save the spade bonus for whatever is new) i’ll probably not play it much
Yeah the 6 inch secondaries I have to admit are fantastic, IMO a big step up from Hood (imagine if she had 6" secondaries like Kongo-style or 5.25" or 4.5" DP guns…)
Give me KGV or Vanguard for 5.25" or Nelson for 6"
well they are good for getting up the score but that is the main job for the secondarys sue to not getting he-vt
Yeah… British built coastal boat options are limited. Going to need to lean into the Commonwealth for help.
Several nice options would be available.
Not a Barham specific problem, generally all ships with distributed armour scheme have such weakness (including Hood except her magazine is exempted from this)
Sees a British 15 inch ship in trailer. Looks closer and it is copy paste
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All Revenge class ships have distinct crow’s nests - it appears to be the Renown, already in game.
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Saw that too,
Is it HMS Vanguard?
Well I saw the secondarys and thought it was either qe or valiant but the placement of them is wrong and vanguard uses the dido turrets
Yeah, online pictures, looks really different but in game, its 100% renown.
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It makes me really confused why it was in the trailer unless it was to say haha you don’t get a new top boat
Either it was just a random pick and focusing on something else like AI aircraft or something (someone suggested maybe naval assault?)
Or maybe its getting HE-VT.
Just really hoping HMS Repulse isnt our new Rank VI
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It won’t be repulse as she never got the aa upgraded which also changed the secondarys from those on glorious to the frying pan 4.25 inch
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friends and i looked at it and it’s just a model of renown rn. so unless they’re just using it as placeholder for repulse i don’t understand what they’re trying to do since renown already exists
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