Iowa is worth it. It’s just next to Soyuz, and still OP when compared to other ships except Soyuz.
Bismarck and Yamato are, and they are supposed to be, but saying Iowa is nothing to Soyuz is just exaggerating.
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Each Soyuz salvo has the same penetration, with faster reload and TWICE as much TNT equivalent per shell and salvo. The armor is also significantly thicker and with more optimal array.
Iowa is the second best Battleship, yes- but Soyuz still clowns on her.
Soyuz >>>>>>> Iowa >> Yamato > the rest.
When in reality it should be, at most:
Soyuz = Iowa >> Yamato > the rest.
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For firepower I assess two ships as identical or Soyuz little bit better.
For reload, one seconds difference is not big, especially as both guns are around 30 seconds reload.
For AP’s explosive, don’t think it makes much difference as both shells are enough to one tap enemy module.
For ballistic, I’ll prefer Iowa as accuracy is better, and higher trajectory means it is more useful in close range. I have no problem hitting underwater in Iowa unless it’s 2 km close(where actually you can’t aim properly), in Soyuz I’ve suffer even from 5 km.
For protection wise, defnitely better for Soyuz, as it’s bow in is invincible. But Iowa also has strong point in protection with more crews and lower citadel(if you empty upper shell room)
For mobility Iowa is defnitely superior, especially in turning Soyuz is almost at standard level.
So, for me, Soyuz >> Iowa >>>>>> Richelieu >>>>>>> Yamato and others.
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You kinda brainwased in the terms of Russian engineering and industry.
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as for if they were capable to finish it or not and how big their capabilities were that for sure is up to debate, but for whether the ship should be in game or not that doesnt matter at all does it? snail decided they gonna put laid down ships in the game and so they did. in multiple nations.
Would that have given them the opportunity to actually put it in game in a balanced state (cause most if not all of its specs were not final and could have been adjusted to actually create a somewhat balanced top tier naval)? Yes. And somehow, which is kinda mindboggling, they decided to put it in game in this state. For me theres pretty clear consequences to take from this mess. I spaded my yamato, cya naval rb you absolute abomination of a gamemode. Let soyuz shoot at soyuz and iowa shoot at iowa spawning right in each others faces together with 20 bots that all go where they want in one giant floating metal scrapyard while the match is decided by funni guy #12 in a pt boat in 5 minutes. if thats what the snail wants i see zero reason to play it.
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I think you will have same result if you meet Iowa or Yamato.
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I think you have never played the yamato.
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12-15km is still a bit short of a distance for effective plunging fire impact angle, which is much different than the visual impact angle of the trajectory of the shell for some reason idk, you would need to get to 18+km to have enough impact angle for effective plunging fire in this game, in Poltava case, you dont even need plunging fire, just shoot at her rearmost turret elevator and she will explode from magazine detonation since this is the magazine closest to the waterline and the internal armour is almost nonexistent to stop shrapnel from shell with decent tnt yield
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Match starts*
Imaginary Soyuz fires 3 salvos with its imaginary bilion tnt shells
-destroys 3 ships
Gaijin :
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You must have got some good expensive stuff XD
to say that real top battleships like Yamato and Bismarck “suposed to be nothing” compare to layed down hull that was deemed impossible to finish.
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Clearly to fight this menace we need to fight fire with fire. I propose adding the N3 Class battleship with 18 inch guns.
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Nah just nerf it to the bottom where it belongs will do. Also N3 Class battleship was not layed down nor had any parts made specifically for it so it cant be added. I dont think that adding more imaginary stuff is gonna fix anything.
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It had the 6 Inch turrets made
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152 mm are not spefic for that ship. Its main 457 mm guns were never made.
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No they were.
Seems the 18”/45 was probably started just never finished and was eventually cancelled.
It was ordered, and I’m informed there’s a document which might contain information about which variant of the design was ordered and how much work had been done.
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Well go find it.