https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/zKDe2LeJjXdP?comment=NiHuGQ6iUgPLIx8VrKFHyGX8
Riley has the sources from the national archives, but I dont think Rodney is covered unfortunately
Am i supposed to be satisfied or what, i am a bit confused here
I dont really mind tbh, I saw people complain how a single breach reduced her fire rate to 80s/salvo and gave up on the thought.
What do you want then?
Like, what should be the desired result here? Is the Not A Bug response acceptable or it is not good? I am a bit unsure about this
Did you look at all the attatched sources on the side??
I saw them, but I have very limited knowledge about navy so the whole “broadside fire reduces accuracy” I cannot know if that is the case IRL or not
Firing adjacent guns at the same time caused the muzzle blast of each gun to interfere with the flight of the shell from the other gun, and ther were some expedients used to minimise this, such as firing the salvo from a turret with a slight time delay between the guns - the British fmously set the middle gun back a bi from the other 2 in their 6" triple turrets - see United Kingdom / Britain 6"/50 (15.2 cm) BL Mark XXIII - NavWeaps, which also made working the guns a wee bit easier as the crews interfered with each other less.
The US just used delay coils to stagger the firing - eg see International Naval Research Organization Articles - Evolution of Battleship Gunnery in the U.S. Navy - NavWeaps -
The question now is, does it justify for 4 times and after the buff id assume 3 times IRL spread? If anything, not mentioning scharnhost, the BL 15in should go wherever the player wants to go. Even on a full broadside how much worse could it be?
What info is there out there about the actual accuracy of the guns and under what firing conditions?
Better than nothing.
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