Yeah it won’t be a slouch of a shell probably a bit disappointing by 16" standards but it will should be better than any current British shell and any 15" shell aside from maybe Vanguards supercharged shell?,
I don’t have the link to the new penetration calculator saved but Id guess it should be on par with Mutsu/amagi’s shells in penetration?
Could’ve been rectified with the addition of Repulse too but what can you do.
In update preview , is there something wrong in Rondy’s armor , I think it is not only 30mm , the right thickness should be 305mm
And the water line seems deeper than historic pictures.
Rodney has a good turret traverse, faster than any BB in the TT so far.
But…
46 second reload time :/
Is that stock or ace?
Not sure
edit: level 100 crew without being even experted
That would be a little less than 40 if aced right?
Yet the Japanese managed to get a faster reload than there 14 inch guns with the same 16 inch caliber
It is hirtorical too
It seems to be just a placeholder anyway:
The waterline should correspond to the the 33’ action condition waterline:
Ship just seems to be not finished. No torpedo, wrong speed, wrong crew, strange module
we just have to wait
But only when the guns stay at the loading angle, at such condition even the US standards could reload in ~24s.
Not that saying I am against it but only if they apply the same standard to all ships consistently
You may call for the documents that passed to developers, but I’m very pessimistic about it. Because wartime records states that standard battleship at best can have 48~ seconds reload, and there are no where aligning gun would spend 20+ seconds. I would rather doubt the condition of that document, as sometimes rounds per minute is not checked with empty guns, but starts with loaded gun firing.
In that case russian 14-inch is known as 3 rounds per minute, and developers give it 2 rounds per minute in game because it is 2 round that can be loaded in one minute. So 2.2 or 2.07 round per minute? Actually would be only 1.2 or 1.07 round per minute, with one round ‘already loaded’ included.
So the HE on Rodney is a lovely surprise.
Why? It exists. No SAP.
I was under the impression the only round for it was the AP round
I may have been mistaken here, ive never seen it referenced but admittedly didnt look very hard.
I had a look too and only found references to the AP round as well.
Best guess, either it was a round that it “could” use but never did. Or maybe Gaijin just made up a round for stock grind hurdle reasons
They fired HE shells in shore bombardment during WW2. HE was started to be issued since 1930s.
Stats of Rondeys 16" guns.
Japanese guns hit harder and have a significantly lower reload rate. If unchanged then it looks like Rodneys primary advantage will be in her superb survivability. She might even have better survivability than Scharnhorst.
Her bursting charge is also no joke, meaning she can do some very funny kills from hitting barbettes.
She looks solid, the only way I can see her being ruined is if she has godawful dispersion to pair with that 46 second reload.
It does look like that only the Japanese can have their RoF based on low angle firing tests. Which is just bizarre and unfair for everyone else.
