Yeah fair
Are you talking about the HMS Tiger that’s already in the game or another ship?
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.
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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.”
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Done in 1922 apparently.
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.
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Yeah, no, have you played after recent update? Cause some things might suprise you
I would be keen to see south american BBs in the tech tree, at least some of them. They could provide some decent AA cover and variety on 6.3/7.
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I’ve played more than twenty battles in Hood after the La Royale update, and it is still more survivable than Alaska, Hyuga, and Ise.
Have you ever played Hood? Because when I see your player card you’ve never ride Hood, only Marlborough/Colossus and Dreadnought. Please talk about Hood’s survivability not only watching, but when you’re riding it. I’ve played all 7.0 battleships except Bayern more than 20 times in this update, and still, Hood is most survivable battleship next to Scharnhorst.
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No, you’ve read it wrong. That note is only for the destroyer RP10 Mk. IV* and the post-war BD Mk. II*** mountings. The Renown’s mountings are from before/during WW2, and they are BD Mk. II mountings, as stated by navweaps in the mount/turret data section. These fall under the “World War II twin mountings except RP10 Mark IV*” category, for which navweaps states a RoF figure of 12 rpm.
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@Morvran @NOM1337AD @굴러온 Also from what can be seen in the devblog video, Renown seems to have correct deep-load draft, thankfully. So at least her ammo racks won’t be more exposed than they should be, unlike a number of other vessels in-game.
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Agincourt go brrrr
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The “Gin Palace”, as in “A-Gin-Court” due to luxury fittings!!
It was said that it looked a lot like a battlecruiser blowing up - can’t find any attribution to the quote -
“the resulting sheet of flame was big enough to create the impression that a battle cruiser had blown up; it was awe inspiring.”
Right you are!
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Yes, i play every day
Now she revealed on datamine, though much worse than what we expected.
No 6 crh APC, no 4.5 HE-VT, but what is worst is it’s waterline is shallow so 15 inch magazine is directly below the waterline, which makes HMS Renown unavailable to brawl in close range, what ships having inaccurate 15 inch guns in War Thunder definitely has to.
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Yeah… It’s really sad to see yet another great ship ruined by Gaijin’s lazyness… I honestly didn’t even expect them to give her correct main gun shells, but having no VT on the secondaries really sucks and it’s unfair compared to Alaska and Nevada. And then there’s the too shallow draft…
And then they dare to put her at 7.0!
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At the very least her BR needs to be lowered to 6.7 and the draft fixed, or just lowered to 6.3 in the current state, or I might as well give up my plans to pay GE for her… I suspect others would make similar choices…
No HE-VT is gunna make her secondaries useless vs air targets. Considering this is suppose to be a 1944 version, that is kinda stupid.
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Yep Renown needs some major work if they want to release it at 7.0 - it’s weird that it’s in such an unfinished state, given it’s been in the files for so long!
- Main gun shells are wrong - they need 6crh shells, as well as HE
- Secondaries are also wrong - they’re missing VT, and have the reload of the destroyer version (20rpm), rather than their actual 12rpm - which presumably means they were just copied over
- The speed seems wrong too - I’m getting a bit under 31kts fully upgraded, whereas most places I’ve seen give somewhere between 31 and 32 post-refit
- This one I’m least familiar with so it may be right - but the armour scheme seems very odd compared to other ships, especially the front tower, which seems way too thin
Given none of this implies that they put any work into getting this right whatsoever (aisde from paying someone else to make a lovely visual model), I’d assume there will be other problems too…
Hopefully Gaijin plan on either dropping the br substantially or actually finishing the ship before release - or it’ll be another disappointing Brit vehicle that could have been good if they’d just bothered to get one of their paid ‘Historical Consultants’ to spend half an hour reading a book…
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That’s just British philosophy post-Nelson class. And you didn’t mention the draft, which is the worst thing about her rn.