Nerf Scharnhorst Armor or make it 8.0

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#141

Once I realise I’m shooting at a Scharnhorst I usually look for another target. Don’t want to spend all game hitting and looking at 94% crew the entire time and then finding at the end I get next to zero reward due to doing ‘no damage.’

Locked onto a target in a murky, misty game a few days ago; fired a salvo based on estimated relative speed, then another once I’d got the lead marker; was about to fire a third when the first salvo landed, revealing a Scharnhorst. As I was in an 8” cruiser (Mogami, w/ AP round) I started looking for a better target, but before I found one the second salvo landed and detonated the Scharnhorst’s ammo. You don’t see that every day. Couldn’t believe it; that has to be a 1-in-10,000 shot - and by ‘shot’ I mean the entire salvo.

Yesterday I killed 2 in one game, but that was on an open ocean map and they happened to sail into long lance salvoes. ‘Can be killed by long lance’ =/= ‘not OP.’

Been playing cruisers recently, so not really had chance to try the BB calibre HE ‘exploit.’

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#142

True though mk 1 15 inch naval gun was one of if not proven very reliable, warspite proved it, throughout her wartime, career, and it was very effective when used at Jutland with QE class.

#143

Yeah the reliability wasn’t the best on the WW1 era ships but the WW1 15-inch/42-calibre was a very different gun than that of the WW2 era version.

New linings, longer projectiles and a huge amount of other changes were made which is why Britain kept using the guns.

I am confused why they stuck with 42 calibre long weapons though as opposed to the 52-calibre weapons seemingly every other navy used.

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#144

I suspect it was for maximizing plunging fire by reducing velocity, seeing as they didnt seem to have range issues anyways?