Took the Renown yesterday for a first battle to sea and got slapped instantly by a Des Moines :). #kaboom# She seems to be very, very explosive.
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Killed a few of them, 3 in last battle today. Honestly it feels more like an american… cruiser. Des moines for example. Ammo rack shots always end up with big explosion and hitting midship turns entire section black with up to 20% crew loss. I think it will be collecting dust in my inventory till the BR change
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To be fair Renown could have been qualified to stay at 7.0 or at least 6.7 if she had the correct draft. Armour wise she’s actually comparable to, if not better than Kongo (9" vs 8" belt, plus 4" vs 3" slope deck abreast magazine). While Kongo isn’t the top dog at this BR she is still rather competitive ship as her draft makes her ammoracks not as accessible as Renown’s.
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Someone told me renown is also missing some armour, potentially around the magazines, is that true?
She’s missing the slope deck extension beneath the belt, which would extend the protected area by some half metre lower. Nevertheless it won’t stop battleship shells as currently all shells lose insufficient penetration in water.
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I’ve taken her out one time. I got about 3k damage and was eventually killed, but not ammo racked. It definitely requires a lot more finesse than other 7.0 ships to be effective, and I still think it’s over tiered.
The secondary batteries are actually quite good with a 3 second fire rate. If it gets VT fused 4.5" shells for them, it’s going to be an even better AA platform.
I’m going to try to spade it, and see how it goes as long as I don’t start getting one-shotted and frustrated playing it.
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I think with correct draft and 6crh that will make up for 2 less guns (and less accuracy) we can start comparing it to Kongo. But still not sure about the 7.0… the midship compartments are dissolving after each salvo, crew loss seems higher than on Haruna.
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Going to wait till spade before i give judgement but feels more like a heavy cruiser with 15 inch guns than a battlecruiser with wise to survivability
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Well… I would reserve judgement until I’ve spade it… but that seems to be boarderline impossible. Everyone knows its a glass canon and just one taps it in the first 2 minutes
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this seems to suggest lots of missing armour?
I wouldn’t rely on them. These schemes are almost always oversimplified, and not detailed enough.
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This ship is like a paper ship equipped with weapons, even the guns do not have good accuracy
I know that diagram and there were many mistakes. I have photocopied the complete original plans of HMS Renown in 1926 and 1939 refits during my visit to the National Maritime Museum archives and all potential mistakes had been reported.
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Thank you for all of your effort.
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Is there any anti-torpedo bulkhead exist in original plans?
Yeah, this thing is being shelved for the time being. I’m barely able to do anything. The massive shell dispersal means that I cant engage at long but that is all I ever face. Im averaging around around 1000 RP per match. It would be fine vs cruisers. but being 7.0 and people still farming the event. It faces 100% BBs all the time and just gets 1 tapped. I’ve done 6 matches so far, and only managed a single kill, which was against a cruiser.
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Totally agree, even it’s hard against cruisers. This ship can easily be one tapped even by a light cruiser from 6.0. It’s definitly not suitable at 7.0. 6.3 would be much better.
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Going to shelve it until the weekends EC event and see if that helps at all. After that, the only hope might be the upgrade token for 10/10 event, but I really dont want to have to do that.
But I dont have much hope for either
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I believe the sale prize won’t be high due to the terrible game experience. I would rather keep it in harbour until a change. (either the br or the armour)
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