Exactly, could be an good bug report for missing those Vickers, it’s the 1939 model, not 1942 too ( should have more AA on the top of thee principal Turrets )
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We would need a source for that there modification has .50 Vickers. (would have)
Might be hard since as far as I’m aware these weren’t present in the original blueprints of KGV’s either. They weren’t crucial part of ship’s structure unlike Pom-Pom nests, so they were just skipped in the macro-scale blueprints like some other details. I’ll dig anyway.
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Actually waterline should be deeper, means that ammo also should be in deeper
shes sadly suffering from elevator fires which makes her detonatable
Case similar to Rodney I presume.
Also I’m not in favor of her being on 8.7. I just can’t agree with it being classed as equal to Soyuz-class, Iowa-class and Yamato-class battleships. They should somewhat decompress BRs in naval and introduce naval-specific Air-BRs like in ground battles.
They do
My bad, haven’t played Naval for a while or I simply didn’t noticed. Don’t have that much time nowdays unfortunately.
UPDATE
As of now I wasn’t able to find any evidence of quadruple 0.50 Vickers mount being present on ordered Lion battleships, it seems like Admiralty decided to double down on octuple 40mms. I did however find something suggesting that Lions were to be fitted with some other seaplane than Walrus (check the blueprint). Can somebody try and identify this plane?
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Could it be
They went for a 1938 model apparently from there post. Truth be told the .50cal when it lights up does not bring anything meaningful to the party the pom pom though hit like a truck and have enough range to stop aircraft.
Aye, it’s design 16F-38, which is the final preliminary design before Lion was officially ordered
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was there ever one? i’ve never seen one with floats
I didn’t find any mention of such plane either, but whoever drew this blueprint had a reason to draw this plane the way they did. Walrus has a very distinctive shape and Swordwish doesn’t have canopy and engine bay looks way too different. There must be a good reason for this.
The second prototype Albacore was flown with floats but it was subsequently abandoned.
There are supposedly a couple of photos of it floating (haha) around, but people are weirdly cagey about sharing them.
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I will try to gather some more info and push it to replace Walrus in game if possible.