Well yeah. The compression just makes it really hard to compare ships even at the same BR… Poltava and Mariya also have pretty exposed ammo racks and not a lot of armor. Remember Poltava’s belt is just 225mm, not any better than what Renown will get. Duilio has decent guns and underwater ammo racks, but her armor is still quite thin. And if you consider Kommuna and Kongo/Haruna to be 6.7 worthy(since they certainly aren’t worth 7.0 rn), there are actually quite a few ships that could be called comparable to Renown if you want.
If Renown has exposed ammo racks, she’ll be 6.3 worthy. If she doesn’t, she’ll be 6.7 worthy. That’s my opinion. She’ll still see a lot of 7.0s in battle regardless anyway.
Nah. Renown already received all the extra armor she could get during her 1930s refits. Hood (and Repulse) was just set to be refitted in a similar manner. AKAIK no additional armor was added during the war.
Kongo Haruna and parizkaya are 7.0 worthy but 7.3 is much needed. As I said after decompression renown can be 6.7 imo. It can be compared to those by its weak armor but the ones liated have much better salvos and can sometimes soak up shells.
Idk, if renown has better survivability the higherBr can be surely justified, but again if it is anything like Hood’s then it is a no go
Actually armor refit of changing 6-inch armor belt to 9-inch armor belt was done right after the battle of Jutland, at 1917. Armor change during great modification of 1930s was focused on deck armor not on armor belt. Actually, to compensate weight increase, 6-inch armor on upper armor belt was removed and changed to 1.5-inch armor, only capable of defence against high explosive shell.
Well if you’re talking about Hood got ammoracked over 10 km, it is same for all ships right now in La Royale so not problem of Hood. Actually Hood has safest position of ammunition storage so in close battle it is almost impossible to blow out its shell room or ammunition storage, unlike USA/JPN/USSR capital ships.
You are not gonna reach close battle. None of the hoods I saw did. It is one of the worst 7.0s in terms of ammo rack survivability I already wrote that in different comment.
Well, personal experience difference I think. I have so many battle with Hood in 4~7 km battle. If you think Hood is worst among terms of ammo rack, Alaska will be sad as real worst ship among 7.0
I mean battlecruiser HMS Tiger, completed in first year of WWI. Both germany and Britain should have already plenty of WWI battlecruisers in their trees, Im hoping to see more of them in the 2nd half of the year.
Hood is a beast, keep it at max angle and it will tank most things with ease. Only ship that scares me (but its the same in all battleships) is the russians HE.
The 114mm gun is the 4.5" DP as fitted to several British/Australian destroyers and frigates in game - this pic is from Navweapons, where it also notes that 25% of HE rounds were to have VT fuzes, rising to 50% as they became more available: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_45-45_mk1.php
According to that site this mounting (BD Mk II) had a rate of fire of 15 rounds per minute per gun thanks to “Metadyne Mark VII fuze-setters in the hoists that were controlled by the USN Mark 37 GFCS. This combination reduced handling of the projectiles and thus sped up the loading cycle.”
Interesting factoid - the amour for this was that left surplus by conversion of the Chilean BB Admiral Cochrane to the carrier HMS Eagle.
Admiral Cochrane had a fair bit of work left to be done when the war broke out - work was suspended and then the British purchased the ship from Chile in 1917
It was a sister ship to Almirante Latorre , purchased by the British Admiralty almost-complete, which then in 1915 entered service as HMS Canada.
HMS Canada would be a good event or gift ship I think, being a unique instance in the RN. Canada was renamed Almirante Latorre once again and formally handed over to the Chilean government on 27 November 1920.
It was modernised a bit in 1930’s, but never to WW2 standards, and when eventually broken up in Japan some of its parts were used to help refurbish Mikasa - the Japanese museum pre-dreadnought that had fought at Tsushima.
