one turret is a 33% increase in damage thats quite a bit
Scharnhorst has 28.3s with a 17.2 second reload
Gneisenau has 6 38s on an overall worse platform. Not that it matters since Gneisenau is just as oppressive in a same tier/down tier as Bismarck.
The slightly worse armor means little when Bismarck’s turtleback is notably thicker
The issue is compression…
At 7.3 you have, for example, Alaska… so you can have Alaska facing Bismarck lmao
Although then you have Gneisenau SOMEHOW sitting at 7.7, which is just hilarious xD
According to Gaijin, Alaska and Gneisenau are 0.3 BRs apart in capabilities.
Naval balance is a mess.
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Alaska can actually kill Bismarck despite being an oversized cruiser.
In real life, maybe…
Ingame, try even turning anything yellow before the Bismarck sneezes in your general direction and erases your existence xD
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The 30.5cms hit hard enough, problem is Alaska shares the Kronshtadt problem: made of glass.
If ure saying the Bismarck should be doing something other than broadsides then what even are u doing. the last thing u want to do with these german ships is go full front or backside ud need to angle it a bit and then still hope that the enemy doesnt aim for the front
Turtleback is honestly quite useless at that Br lol
Depends on the range since there’s quite a few posts of people whining they can’t ‘kill a Scharnhorst’ with a Soyuz.
If they’re struggling against a Scharnhorst, Bismarck at the same ranges is gonna have a field day.
Thats just an insane skill issue on those peoples parts ngl the Soyuz is so insanely broken lmao.
Also as i said before Bismarck is technically easier to kill than Gneisenau and Scharnhorst because of funny Barbette armour differences
For your entertainment
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People who play Germany have an insane skill issue. They’re super handheld.
Bismarck is really the only “fair” ship at those higher tiers.
America with the exception of the Omahas and dreadnoughts:
Germany is consistently strong until you get to Scharnhorst and Bismarck, then they’re ridiculous in specific scenarios.
The only ships that actually suck out of the german bluewater tree is the Elbing… Because it’s the Elbing and the K2 (Because it doesn’t belong in Bluewater and before leviathans was actually FUN to play)
Oh shall we also bring up the removed costal ships too for Germany? The ones whom to this day can shrug of any kind of shell from a destroyer / light cruiser with ease.
They’re still way too tanky.
Shall I bring up the SKR-7’s RBUs?
The fact many pt boats - not just German - can survive a 46cm APCBC that would realistically erase it in real life?
We can argue all day.
What of them? RBUs are good in brawls, but the SKRs are very squishy now.
I still find it funny that Sovetsky’s ammo rooms are literally just a copy and paste of Kronshtadt’s ammo rooms.
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Visually, not physically. Likely a placeholder visual model that has yet to be fixed.
Doesn’t mean SKRs can’t be annoyingly tanky.
Scharnhorst class will usually pop within 1 to 3 salvos to turrets 1 and 2.
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