Yeah on a serious note, Bismarck is a strong contender.
I think if KGV’s guns were able to pen then she might be a good counter, with a Tennessee-esque belt which Scharnhorsts guns would struggle with, in addition to no barbette weakspot like American ships (though turret faces are weak).
Along with Littorio and Richelieu provided they didn’t have their historical abysmal dispersion as well as uparmoured Nagato.
Then there is also the US ships which even with the barbette weakspots get thicker barbette armour later on (so from Colorado, though base 1920 sodak has poor barbette armour).
I don’t think hood and Barham are that different enough as they are now to justify such a huge br difference. Hood has better AA then the 0 on Barham but the armour protection is comparable and the guns are too.
Also how do you think the battlecruisers like Alaska from late ww2 are lower br then hood from 1918 (with a minor refit)
i would say the current french bb’s should mabye even go down to 6.3 mabye even 6.0 due to how easy they are to kill due to very poor ammo placement but they are less afected by the ammo placement when at close range as the ammo is low down in the ship
barham is nice, bleeds crew especially when stock due to the weakspot made by the 6inch secondaries. dont carry the torpedos and only repair if you feel you have to. renown is ok for a battlecruiser.
barham is decent until a plane turns up it is also quite weak to torpedoes as it can be sunk by them and they take masses of crew due to it breaking all of the secondarys. renown is kinda the oposite as from my experiance it can be very torpedo resistant i have take 6-8 torps to the side and it made it sit even lower in the water but i was alive and the aa and secondary are a god send for the top tier of british navel as hood may have AA but renowns is just much better in the volume of rounds going down range
Long ago, I made a Naval Decompression chart concept, including many potential future additions!
I updated it a little bit to be up to date before uploading it here now, but even then, now I think we would still need MORE decompression than what I showcase here, hahah.
It doesn’t include ALL ships so it’s not overcrowded, but you get an idea.
I believe this would be a step in the right direction:
i assume with this the planes you can bring would be limited due to 8.3 and up jet bombers and other such planes get much better. but they could also add more missile boats but there br’s would have to be adjusted so they are balanced around there anti air
Back to the topic - have used the Barham a half dozen times now - the first game it got 1-shooted on 2nd salvo by a Mutsi, and then the respawn didn’t last very long either so I was a bit “ruh-roh!”!!
Since then it’s been all quite good with lotsa-kills™ and progressing the rest of the modifications quite nicely - without having the AP yet.
a version of the tech tree’s i have preposed made the ships of each of the major classes ei kgv R class and QE that sank earliest in there lives the event ships. but i had put the more important ships ballance wise in the tech tree ie the 16 inch ships and the one with the best AA fits
Why add the undeniably better version of the two as an event?
It made no sense and was just one in the current list of insults towards british naval (and lets not forget Barham is an event vehicle and not techtree). Even funnier is that her gimmick of HE-VT has not even been added robbing the UK of any HE-VT battlecruiser… ever (Hood to early, Repulse never got it, G3 was too early)…
Another one is that HMS Tiger (the cruiser) was for event only, and has no TT counterpart, despite Lion being a literally copy-paste addition as the only two fully competitive cruisers for British naval.
On one hand, I like Barham, on the other hand, i’m exceptionally irritated she was added as an event before the UK got any other top tier…
It’s quite nice, though I found the SAP slightly lacking at range so immediately went for the AP.
She’s a good ship, and probably the best Battleship at top tier for pure BB vs BB combat imo after perhaps Pariskaya Kommuna in my opinion (the RoF great guns, volume of fire and trolly armour really make Paris Kommuna an excellent battleship).
I have been bombed twice though, which is the only slight irritation. I wouldn’t find it to be an issue if we had other QE class with AA though, but we don’t.
i do love that they have said is the being held back for “ballance” looks at the american 5 inch guns on their BB’s and BC’s AND SHOCK they have HE-VT rounds along side the timed fuse
is all of perfect balans ))))
amerkanski fleet never stage ambush against peaceful flottila in disguise of fishing boats, unlike perfidious albion ((((
