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.
In 1940 she could only make 30 knots.
Though in real life this depended upon the sea conditions, sailing into a head sea when taking on the Scharnhorst for instance she could only make 24-26 knots. At 26 she was shipping green which poured into a hatch blown open by her own guns and the main batteries couldn’t be operated. Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau had lost their destroyer escort as they could only make 22 knots in the rough seas.
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Would you mind giving a link to the reference? It would be a nice addition to my internal report regarding draft issues.
Edit: nvm found it
https://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-HF1940BCS1.htm
I’m sure Fischer’s original specification was for 35 feet of freeboard. Don’t have a reference, just stuff I’ve read over the years. Seems she sits a little below this but not much. She’s about 2 metres higher in the water than she should be when, given the increased weight of AAA and ammunition for such she should be even lower than her 1940 trim.
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" In a brief letter to the Director of Naval Construction dated 12 December 1914 Fisher gave his staff requirements; ‘Battle cruiser Rhadamanthus . Speed 32 knots – Six 15 inch guns – Twenty 4 inch automatic guns all on top deck (20° elevation) Range (? yards) (30° elevation Range 14,000 yards) – armoured like Indefatigable – 2 Torpedo Tubes – All oil – Radius of action at ( ) knots ( ) miles. Freeboard forward 35 feet aft ( ) feet. Length 750 feet – Beam ( ) feet."
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Well the major update’s out now - any sign of them bothering to fix any of the issues?
I don’t think I saw any mention of renown in changelog but didnt open the game either so no idea
It may be better or worse depending on how you interpret this change.
- HMS Renown, HMS Hood — a bug that caused magazine charge hits to not cause a fatal explosion, but shell room hits to cause a fatal explosion, has been fixed.
Does this make it easier or more difficult to one shot it?
Easier. The codes for her magazine and shell rooms were flipped so that the magazine hit would not cause a fatal detonation before the update. Now this get fixed and the magazine which is located above shell rooms would be her fatal spot.
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Oh good. It really needed to be easier to blow up…
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