Current USS Arizona’s shell room is notorious for stationed at barbette above the main armor, makes it detonate in any angle she encounters with battleship having gun with high penetration.
However from the sources what I can find, USS Arizona has its handling room on the barbette inside the main armor. Image from official document OP-1112, shows that handling room(which is equivalent for shell room ingame) for Penssylvania class is in the ‘thin’ side of barbette, which is existed inside the main armor.
Also, seeing in the general plan of USS Arizona in 1941, we could see that ‘14’’ handlig room’ is stationed at lowest part of barbette. Considering the above OP-1112, the real shell room position would be the red place on the second image.
But curious thing is that Gaijin originally stationed shell room in those postion and then changed after. Above image is one of youtube USS Arizona review made in April of 2022, just after the USS Arizona first introduced. We could see shell room is inside the main armor, directly above the waterline. However later, maybe start of this year if I remember correctly, Gaijin suddenly moves shell room above the main armor like what ingame USS Arizona has now.
Is it just Gaijin do things without proper consideration so I have to report this or Gaijin having documents with superior priority so this thread should just left in machinery of war discussion?
