I thought it would be pretty durable based on historical pictures of hits.
Musashi and Yamato took bomb and torpedo hits after hits…only being ammo racked after many torpedos hit it
You should never directly draw impressions of the ship’s survivability in a video game from a real life record. Even in real life, the survivability of a ship can never be described by actual battle records:
The “survivability” of ships in a real battle is predominantly determined by luck, following by many other factors, and the armour and protection scheme of the ship itself comes last as the least significant factor.
That is very much not the case as the O class battlecruisers, which only had their powerplants built and their guns just got accepted by the devs as a suggestion.
Suggestions Passed to the Developers - May 2025 - Suggestions - News - War Thunder — official forum
The O class was never laid down and construction never began before the ship was terminated, much akin to the story of the Montanas.
You only need major parts completed to be accepted as a suggestion.
You can suggest the G3 ships if you want as, as far as I am aware, they meet the same standard as the O Class which was just passed along.
As long as the suggestion complies with the guidelines of the suggestion sub forum and is considered of high quality content, it should have chance to be passed to developers by suggestions moderators. A suggestion being passed to developers doesn’t mean developers have to accept or implement it.
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I am aware, however, it does mean that the vessel or vehicle is on the table, in the past this was not an option full stop even at the level of being suggested.
Many people are acting like these vessels cannot be suggested or even talked about because they were not laid down and such is not the case, I seek to stop such rhetoric as it is unproductive and spreading.
It is the case actually, states so in the suggestions section that if the vehicle was not at least partially built or had its weapons system built, it can’t be suggested.
No its not, go and read the suggestion guidelines, if a major component is fabricated for the vehicle it can be considered a “prototype”.
I have multiple times.
Curious then that you willingly missed this.
It is quite a shame that he does not know that there is literal documentation on the parts bought for Montana and are indeed unique.
The only issue with that is that the Montana was never laid down. It was planned, too, but it was never due to delays and redesigns. The only loophole that could be used was that its propulsion system was built (but for use on the Midway-class aircraft carriers, so debatable on if that’s applicable)
Once again, a suggestion requires one of the three items there to be accepted as a suggestion, being laid down is one of the three, it is not required if other options are filled.
Show me one ship in game that was never laid down if you could please
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and it meets none of the requirements. (anything that would be unique would have been repurposed for use on other ships making it no longer unique)
It does, I have already proved such at length above.
Reminder that the O Class guns were repurposed later on for coastal guns, and that ship was accepted as a suggestion, items, purpose built for X vehicle being used later on does not remove the fact that they were built for that vehicle.
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O-class guns? It was gonna use the same guns as the Iowa class
also you just proved my point that its not unique to the ship
Lmao, re-read what I wrote my guy.
no longer vehicle specific, hence no longer usable for suggesting it
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Yet that suggestion was accepted and passed along as I mentioned earlier.
Unless we are holding German suggestion to a different standard than everyone else that is.