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.
yeah we had a topic week ago about somebody getting ammoracked in Dante by helena iirc
HE bug is relevant to shatters afaik, meanwhile this was a kinetic round.
Also the lower edge of Renown’s belt is just one and a half metre below the surface, meaning that a shell coming with 8 deg AoF would have to travel “only” 11m to bypass the belt. As game codes say 5" shells can travel up to 13m in water this is entirely possible if the shell fuze doesn’t set off on water (50/50 chance)
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Looks higher than that to me…
How much freeboard does the model have forward? As designed she was 35 feet though by 1940 she was down to 26 feet, which caused some concern. Model looks to be closer to 35 feet…
Saying that she probably had AAA added between 1940 and 1944.
Edit: From the after action report against the Scharnhorst…
“With reference to your submission No. 933/H.F. 1325 of the 29th May, paragraph 6, I am to inform you that their Lordships concur that the displacement of RENOWN has increased some 5,000 tons since the ship was designed, the increase being approximately from 31,000 to 36,000 tons. The freeboard forward has decreased from about 27 feet to about 26 feet.”
I measure the current model’s freeboard as being 32 feet, though no doubt Gaijin’s ruler will differ because… British.
So 26 feet before she had 72 x Oerlikons, a quad pompom, radars and fire directors added. She’s basically a hydrofoil at the moment.