Ciclone class ocean going torpedo boat Ghibli, thoughts on ships addition & question about a few things

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(I gotta give thanks to the player Adarvik for the screenshots since I’ve no access to the dev server)

I would like to inquire about this upcoming torpedo boat as from the sources I’ve looked up (aka sadly wikis, blogs, forums as I don’t have blueprints or more technical information), but everyone of those all mentioned the Ghibli as having three 100 mm/47 cannons & eight 20 mm/65 autocannons yet as the above screenshot shows the it has the third cannon replaced with a dual autocannon mount, this falls inline more with the second & third group of vessels that had their third cannon replaced, see screenshot below (Naval Encyclopaedia).

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I would like to know if this either:

• just wikis aka all information I’ve found being wrong…

• the devs have mixed up ship names & this is meant to be a ship without the third cannon.

• its in a late war refit that has the third cannon removed in favour of more LAA, in game example Torpedo Boat Chidori, with information coming from another source.

• back to point two, If it would be possible to remodel in the third cannon or add another Ciclone class later on with a third cannon.

Also how is this ship supposed to be a 4.0 on release? As the similar sized & armed Torpedo Boat Jaguar (Type 1924) with three 4" cannons is only 3.7 BR. If the Ghibli is to come in the form it is now then surely it would be a 3.3 ship at that?

Even then as Cost’all TT vessels go the Torpedo Boat Chidori is also only a 3.7 (should be 3.3) yet with only two torpedoes & same amount of LAA but heavier cannon, yet the Ghibli is to be a 4.0? (or are four torpedoes really enough to warrant such a BR?).

Probably not the best place to post but I cannot post in the dev server section unless I’m just being stupid like always & have missed the location to post in.

E, I’m just bloody stupid… how to switch locations… E, found the right location, well that was hard to understand how to switch this tbh (I’m not tech savvy).

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Websites often spread misinformation about Italian Navy, especially when it comes to such vessels with short career, it’s better to ask someone with good knowledge and access to books, like @qwert96

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It’s going to suck unless it gets a boat spawn, anyway for me it’s the best Italian addition this update, the most unique one for sure.

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I doubt such a large & fast an even in this condition well armed vessel having a small craft spawn, take the Buckley class DE similar size & two main cannons plus LAA across the deck yet its a DD spawning ship.

Anyway to your first comment since I forget how to qoute stuff on the new forum on mobile, anyway while it’s definitely true many pages have misinformed information, majority seem to all mention the same information for weaponry layouts.

From my understanding Naval Encyclopaedia uses Conway’s All the Worlds Fighting Ships as a source along with much of their posts coming from a older french version of the site.

Yet I await eagerly to see what qwert96 has to say on this TB.

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Hi, to answer your question.

The Ghibli started its career with three 100/47mm cannons but the middle one was changed with a set of dual 20mm breda guns shortly after.
In game they opted for this refit over the original one that you can find on one of her sister ships like the “Impavido”:

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Torpediniera 1943 scheda

Maybe we’ll get one of those late in the future? (won’t be a hard remodeling work)

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