It’s the deciding factor if you do damage in the first place.
Which is to their benefit since belt armor on the Kronshtadts almost makes the Alaska look armored in comparison.
Think we all know the answer regarding Gaijin and Soviet ships/tanks/aircraft!
No, youre just bad at aiming
ahh… that explains alot
Agreed.
I’ve heard enough. Bismarck to 8.7 and Vanguard to 9.0.
(Does anyone agree with me that torpedo depths should be increased to ~10m so we can get under the armour of battleships?)
No since torpedoes usually instantly kill battleships or severely cripple them at 4m already.
Bismarck suffers similar issues as Scharnhorst abd Gneisenau: Instantly implodes if any shells are dunked down the elevator shaft at mid range.
I really don’t understand what is the logic in demanding everything be pushed up .6/.7 when it will do basically nothing.
I think Ostridge is being sarcastic about saying that Bismark and Vanguard are “better” than Soyuz and need to be increased in BR.
Maybe - I just woke up so my sarcasm radar isn’t exactly operational yet.
Although given how half the people in arcade naval play, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually thought this way.
They really don’t. Battleships have good armour at 4m even the dreadnoughts which are impossible to torpedo at least in my experience.
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Most battleships lose between 1 and 3 sections even to bad torpedoes. Air dropped ones are usually the exception in that they sometimes are a minor inconvenience or just straight up erase the ship.
The issue is consistency.
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Is the Yamato and Bismark underperforming because the players are not good with them or its a modeling problem/Balancing issue? I don’t know if it will be worth my time to grind to naval top tier or just play ground/air.
Yamato instantly dies when anything looks at its bow.
Similarly, Bismarck is oppressive in a down tier
I have the prinz eugen so I guess I will grind german naval when I have time.
As parry already said, Yamato is an Rp pinata if you know where to aim. And Bismarck is just in the classic one BR under top purgatory, Iowas and Soyuzs are just better in every regard and youre playing mostly 8.7. If you get downtiered tho its a complete slaughter, naval compression is truly something
Eugen is a solid cruiser overall. Probably one of the best for its overall ability
Rear magazines are a little exposed though.
To be fair, even same tier can be a slaughter depending on the ship.
Like what can reliably kill HMS Invincible at 5.7 that isn’t glorious or another invincible?
People saying Bismarck is opressive AF in a downtier seemingly dont know that its worse armoured than scharnhorst and gneisenau… (at least in the barbette area where armour actually matters) so uh yeah…
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We do know but does it really matter at 7.3? No it doesnt. The additional firepower over both matters more
i mean 350 above Deck and 365 below deck compared to 360 above and 395 below for scharn and gneisenau (above deck is a bit whatever) but the below deck armor is kinda crazy cause thats where the fires matter. And mind you Gneisenaus Firepower “only” is 1 turret less compared to bismarck and gets a reduce in br by 0.6
It’s the high RoF, high damage guns. They can shred things that might struggle nailing the weakspot, especially if the bismark does anything other than broadside. though most 7.7s at least should probably be fine