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.
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I hope that glorious and renown mean that queen mary and tiger are also in the plans.
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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
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Yeah read my comment
Ah, okay, i read in the dev post that we’re getting a later version with the better secondary guns. So wondered if that included slightly better armor
Well guess our experiences differ.
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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