The 6crh shell is mostly identical to the 4crh but with a much longer windshield giving it better aerodynamic performance. Ofc it would have almost identical penetration to the 4crh at point blank, but that’s basically irrelevant to gameplay. At 10km to 15km the 6crh would penetrate about 50~70mm more than the 4crh and that’s what really matters in gameplay.
With correction to the broken ballistics parameters of other guns in the game, the 6crh will be closely matching Rodney’s 16", Japanese 41cm No.5 and US 14"/50 in terms of penetration plus more explosive fillers than the others.
I just had a match with Rodney in naval EC. I couldn’t get any kills. AP just don’t do the damage as it should… Despite poor dispersion, slow reload and “sinky hull” I feel like the damage per shell needs improvements. On stats the shell looks amazing - decent pen, 20kg+ bursting charge, and it’s a heavy shell… But it just doesn’t feel like you hit them with 400mm shell. Very underwhelming.
2 heavy cruisers almost sunk me, glad my teammate jumped it. I tried AP/HE, it just doesn’t do the damage. I would’ve had easier time with reserve cruiser. I couldn’t sink Hood at like 7km distance, he didn’t even cared about me.
It’s a shame because Rodney looks amazing, has great stats, it should be very powerful ship.
Not doing any damage seems like a widespread issue with all the british BBs and BCs since last update. Having taken a kronshtadt entire ammunition load out to just have it sit on 30% crew the wntire game was really infuriating.
Rodney would be very good if it wasnt flooded as soon as any ship with HE looked at it, and tge fact it always take out 2/3 turrets makes the entire experience awful since it means… you cannot angle today.
Not only in the EC but even realistic it would be much better…
Though because of ballistic mess HK_Reporter mention, current 4crh APC performs much better than it should(Don’t worry, not only British 4crh APC, but all AP except French and Rodney’s one are overperforming for now)
You should completely ignore any pen stat on a large battleship AP shell under the 7500m mark. Prior to that distance any 14” or larger gun is more or less guaranteed to penetrate any ship in game without a strong turtleback. Point blank pen is worthless, what matters is the distance at which armor starts to become effective against a shell, and the new shell will give in game armor schemes much worse immune zones.
They definitely neglect a lot of important information, probably under the idea that bigger numbers means more hype or something. I wish they’d quantify firepower in shots/min and pen at range rather than caliber, barrel number, and point blank pen. Much more informative but not much we can do about it unfortunately
i forgot how fun the 15inch BC’s are after playing Rodney in EC they are so much better in every aspect especially the secondarys for killing light ships
Yeah this is problem for all battleships.
I can feel significant difference between destroyer’s caliber
I can feel differecne between 6’’ and 8’’ for cruiser.
However, I can’t feel difference between 11’’ and 16’’ in battleships. Yes 16’’ does damage more in calculation, but what in need when 11’’ has no problem in destroying module at one salvo as same as 16’'?
This is contrary to why navies irl concentrate on bigger caliber and bigger salvo weight, even sometimes sacrificing reload speed. And why Scharnhorst is so OP for almost two years(let’s exclude when SAP and HE were OP. Scharnhorst was rather prey than OP at that time) even at the time when Gaijin introduce 16’’ battleships. This is one of most severe issue of top BR naval.
I sadly doubt that. Warspite will probably have the same crew compartment layout as Barham which means a big part of the crew is only protected by the 6inch upper belt which makes her die to crew loss relatively quickly compared to Hood.
My biggest concern on Warspite is her draft looking very shallow in the teaser. One of the reason Hood being so survivable in game is that she get the deep load draft. If Warspite is to get the same draft as Barham, she will never be close to Hood in terms of survivability.
