Why i suggest 5.25" gun instead, anyone ever used HMS Dido in game would understand how good its firepower can fight off even Hipper-level armor although it doesn’t ammorack it in one salvo… and this gun are much better in medium-long range firefight against even heavy cruiser despite its difficulty of using this gun…
To add some more info, despite having difficulty to shoot aircraft, it indeed capable of shooting high-altitude bomber than 5" gun on USS Atlanta and only on par with HMS Tiger’s 6" gun when barraging the skies…
While USS Atlanta can barrage the skies single-handedly, deterring multiple high-altitude bomber that flies under 4km, its gun are not enough to deter any plane that flies 4km and above which basically BR 6.3 and above would normally fly especially early JETS
Think you’re completely missing his point there… Secondaries are not the main point. Giving Renown HE-VT for the secondaries is more of a fairness issue compared to Alaska and Nevada which already have HE-VT, than a true deciding factor in her BR. Against late cruisers and capital ships, the 4.5" and 5.25" won’t make much difference(aside from the obvious historical fact that Renown was never equipped with the latter). The 4.5" is actually arguably better due to the higher HE shells DPM, which is the main purpose of such secondaries at such high BR fights.
The same’s true for most current 6.3s when they get downtiered. Again, uptiers and downtiers can’t really be used to argue for or against certain BRs within the current extreme compression. And Ikoma and Spee can also be easily one-shot by Renown. They’re worse than stuff like Helena for a reason.
Not really. It still can’t do much against 6.0+ cruisers, which would still be the majority of the cruisers you wil see, even if Renown’s BR gets lowered. And as I said above, all this doesn’t matter in the end, as Renown was historically never fitted with the 5.25" guns.
4.5" guns with HE-VT would still be more than enough against both other high BR ships and aircraft.
IF players using big bomber and flies lower than 4000m height then it’s 4.5" HE-TF can deter it BUT SADLY it doesn’t have HE-VT shell hence my comments…
Yes that’s why we’re all asking for HE-VT here in the first place.
Hopefully Gaijin add it in game… sooner the better… BUT still i hope that Gaijin lowers its BR to 6.7 at least along with adding HEVT shell and fix some part that make this ship true glass cannon that easily got ammoracked by 8" AP shell based on what i’ve seen on youtube video…
Yeah. All that is what we’re all asking for here.
Though 8" AP can only detonate a normal Renown with lucky underwater shots which are not easy with that caliber. The videos going around are mostly situations where the Renown was listing to one side, exposing the magazines even more and allowing even 8" AP to reach the magazines without going through water and thick armor.
Does all 8" AP or SAP can get that lucky hit or only a few one including super-heavy APCBC from Baltimore-type & Des Moines can do that??
Not all of us have managed to ammoracked dreadnoughts with 8" AP/SAP shell so far except chipping its HP down
With Gaijin’s unhistorical underwater trajectory, 6 inch base fuze HE can explode HMS Renown. Moderator already tested that every capital ship can be exploded with 8’’ APCBC in 10 km.
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Thanks for this info… That would be all from me about HMS Renown… next time you guys heard my post would be on the other post
So far I’ve only seen the Baltimore and Des Moines’s AP do it. But there’s no reason to believe that other 8" guns won’t be able to do the same.
dying also cuts down your dps. If Im fighting a cruiser or severly damaged BB I sometimes use a bit of secondaries but in a fight with fully operational BB my best chance of survival is not exposing the ammoracks
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Sorry for repeating this if you did read my previous comment. But in my opinion going broadside is not exposing the ammo racks, and not the other way around, for Renown. The fore and aft bulkheads are just such a weakness that you really don’t want to expose.
Record breaking ammorack:
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No, I’ve had worse, Helena HE-VT
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How you may ask, I have absolutely no clue.
I can only imagine that the 8 inchers did the damage and one of the smaller rounds came in latest.
well I have totally different experience, both from playing renown and against it.
Is there a possibility its armor was already cracked? I ammoracked yesterday bayern by secondary SAP that slipped in just after my main salvo. Also saw a 6inch ammorack Dullio few days before.
First hit received at the opening of battle
Could it be a rare occurance of the “HE bug”? IIRC that wasn’t 100% eliminated.