Bomb, not missile. It was the frits x (i think the only ship sunk by one). Its a 1400kg armour piercing bomb that can penatrate most ships from 5km up.
There is photo footage from the Do 217 weapons officer where you can see it closing in towards the Roma. Looks like a missile. Seems to slam into her side near B turret. A bomb falls down from above. But dunno how its officially classified.
how comes the Roma has no radar?
early on it penetrated ships and went through the bottom so they redesigned the tail
been having that trouble in sim lol, was wondering why i wasnt killing the cruisers. Turns out the damage was it blowing up bellow the ship after going right though it.
Apparently, they decided the late refit doesnt count, no clue why. Probably going to give it to the littorio or something… for an 8.3 battleship it should have its radar. Just stupid.
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Its dropped from 5km (roughly, could have been higher), By that time any bomb is going to be going side on quite a bit, especially if its being guided in like the frits x. The glowing bit at the back is a tracer, it was so the crew could guide it in as the minimum drop alt was 5km so it would have made it quite hard to guide.
As its not Moving under propulsion but gravity it would be considered a guided bomb. If it had a rocket motor it would be a missile. Although missiles with ram jets like on the meteor are also considered missiles.
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It should have the RE.2000 tbh
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Considering in War Thunder reload is very important factor, I don’t think lowering BR would help if reload remains 45 seconds at ace.
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rather than buff Italy, the gaijin would prefer to sell his soul to Satan
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The ship just can’t penetrate armour. They modelled the shells so poorly. It’s always on fire. I always get detonated by an Iowa or a Yamato. Once in a while I hit the magazines on the other ship. It’s really under performing. The Duilio is way better and does much more damage to ships since it fires faster. They knew how much this ship means to Italy and Italians and they did this to her. Can you imagine if they did this to the Bismarck? A travesty beyond belief and a real slap in the face to all Italophiles.
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I was so excited for Roma’s arrival! I had started playing Naval and was getting hooked, but having seen all this has put me off. I’m sad and feel “betrayed” — this isn’t the Gaijin I want! Do the premiums, the packages and other paid content, but please don’t treat those who play for free badly! We are part of this community too
If we want to be positive everything that’s holding back Roma right now are artificial nerfs and bugs:
- Bad reload ( that we proved to be wrong as the ship can reach 30s like the others)
- Bad dispersion ( wich is a mith proven wrong by multiple tables published in recent years now that hystorians had acces to some new documents)
- No cement foam armor ( don’t know why they did’t implement it)
- Turret 3 blocked by life boats not despawning ( bug being worked on)
- Fires on the 152mm turrets causing detonation ( bug that they’re working on)
- Crew outside the citadel (really hope they’ll fix this ASAP) ( example of Bismarck, Vanguard and Roma):
- and other minor bugs
By itself the ship is fine, it’s not a RP pinata like Yamato at the start of each game, but it also feels like a pre-alpha compared to the other ships, more polished in every aspect.
Let’s hope they’ll fix all these problems to judge how effective Roma really is.
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its also missing internal belt armour behind the first turret elevator(already acceptd bug report), so you have a huge weakspot like Yamato there even if you angle the ship to increase its LoS thickness and also turret burn down much quicker via elevator fire damage compared to other ships, but bug report mod says its working like intended so they closed it as not a bug
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Very true, after almost spading her(only missing 152mm shells research and AAA turret speed) what really is holding her back is not really the reload but all the other bugs with fire damage, armour and rear turret maximum firing arc angle, if they also fix the reload alongside the other bugs, i can see Roma as an equal to Iowa and superior to Yamato
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Some will probably scream at this statement but, based on how the game works now, it’s not far off from the thruth.
Iowa and Yamato were built for far bigger theaters than what we have.
I just hope that Yamato won’t end up like the Maus being so difficult to balance due to the difference in performance between her armor and her massive shells.
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Im non expert but if i have to choose i will take any other top of the line bb over the roma just bcuz of the reload and dispersion
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key word, “if”
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I honestly don’t understand why they are so stubborn on making Roma worse than it’s, should be vice versa considering Littorio is the best class Italy can have, Gaijin should take bug reports as hot cakes, instead of leaving the ship in nerfed state and waiting for some statistics (genious decision to look for statistics on one of the least popular nations and a ship painful to play due to its current state, mainly RoF and accuracy).
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On this regard I think we’ll see a change probably by the end of the year.
We’re only a month in and the data they have collected can only show the least and the most played BBs of the patch ( and the most OP one, but there wasn’t any doubt about that ).
After they fixed the secondary fires that caused detonations it’s easier to kite without blowing up constantly.
For now, when you don’t bully american BBs (sorry but those pop like a firework), you are the “assist master” with very low income of RP and SL.
Don’t think they’ll change things soon, but I hope they fix turret 3’s firing angles before the next update, this will make her a little better.
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