this spaced armor was in theory very good at stopping shells on longer distances, but we rarely fight longer than 10km so doubt it will perform like it was intended.
Also all ships you mentioned are better than Littorio. Richeliu was the response to Littorio and I think in current meta it would be very favored since it will never have to expose its sides.
North Carolina both outgunns heavily Littorio and has better armor. Vanguard altho having older 380mm canons is very well armored and has after war fire controls systems allowing for faster and precise aiming.
Iowa and Yamato are different league entirely and no point to compare them to anything here tbh
Littorio had plenty of design flaws… many of them will be irrelevant to WT, but 1 that is likely very important is that the armour belt wasn’t very tall - being restricted by the torpedo defense system.
This might be less of an issue if the TDS works as well in WT as the Italians hoped it would IRL - but they might decide to make it flawed like it was IRL…
See Littorio class design flaws? - Naval History Forums for discussion of this and many other aspects of the design.
Actually those intercapedine(in english, gap) between 70 mm OD(RHA) and 280 mm KC(RCA) are actually not air but cement foam called ‘Cellulite’
I don’t know how Gaijin will implement those ‘Cement’ in armor parameter but at least iRL those 250 mm cement foam has effect as 600 mm air. We already have concrete as armor in War Thunder(AF D1/D3 and Kongo has it) so those cement could be in armor.
Even Gaijin just want to treat as air, air itself is also treated as armor in tanks, so a little bit of armor could be given.
I would put Littorio into the level of Iowa. Gaijin’s unique penetration formula will make Littorio’s penetration outperforming Iowa and Yamato, and she definitely has better protection than Iowa, who will suffer with American style barbette shell room.
If Gaijin gives Littorio 30 seconds reload, which actually possible in training/costal bombardment as they use less charge bags, then it could be in the level of Yamato.
I disagree. Littorio is not the best out of any of them, yes absolutely. But she isn’t bad enough to be at a lower BR than them. Richelieu as built had feeding issues and had the same rate of fire as Littorio. And since Gaijin really enjoys adding ship classes as built and in a late/final configuration, we can probably expect Richelieu with 1.3 rpm and Jean Bart with 2. I believe you’re also wrong by saying North Carolina has better armor than Littorio. Yes, we could debate the effectiveness of the “foam” filling, and whether or not the…wood backing… would have done much, but that still leaves 280mm+70mm of armor on her sides. Spacing armor out like that can help normalize it into penetrating the second plate better, but its still going to be at least as effective as North Carolinas single 305mm plate.
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I think you’re going too far in the opposite direction my friend. The primary function of the Cellulite foam was to prevent water from filling up the space between the armor. I don’t know much more about it other than that but materials like that seem to work like sandbags on a tank; they help normalize the shell against the armor behind it. Of course, even if it was just air, having two spaced armor blocks can do the same thing, that’s part of why battleships having multiple thin armor decks stopped being a thing. Plus two armor pieces are never going to be as strong as a single thick one.
A lot of words to say, Littorio isn’t better protected than Iowa, but rather differently protected. Iowa has a more inclined belt and thicker belt (not like it matters much in this game), while Littorio has a slightly thicker belt but worse deck.
I can’t comment on Gaijins magic armor penetration formula. But I can comment on reducing powder charges to increase rate of fire would probably reduce penetration and that’s something Gaijin might take into consideration.
Regardless, they’re all great ships and I can’t wait to play them in the future. Especially my first love, USS Alabama BB-60.
i’m just glad italy only gave duca d’aosta and guilio cesare to ussr, other wise gaijin would create a full copy paste italy in soviet tree since they have nothing else to add at top tier until svreusfsjdkgky soyuz “projects”. thank god only 2, only 2…
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