British ships as well. It was what set our ships apart from literally everyone else was the quality of the radars. It was how HMS Belfast was able to take on and practically defeat Scharnhorst
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doesnt that also apply to US ships (well aware of massive british contributions to radar during ww2, but both nations having excellent radar and fire control was what set their stuff apart)
also from what i have seen the US was better in terms of overall fire control systems during ww2, with direct connection from the guns to the director operator which allowed for a more streamlined process resulting in better accuracy + quicker to shoot
‘Ahem’ Sorry Morvan but screw them. I personally will degrade myself for a Tennessee 🙂😍🐌
Its fine. I’ll just continue to one shot US BBs with our 2 year old HMS Hood
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at this point i think the north carolina or south dakota class are necessary
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South Dakota (BB-49, 1920) for extra spice
@HK_Reporter , I’ve got a question!
Do you know if it is intended for USS Tennessee to have significantly worse deck armor than the preceeding class Mississippi?
As of now, it’s:
Mississippi: 140 + 70 (210)
Tennessee: 120 + 25 (145)
Because if that’s the case… then Tennessee is significantly worse protected than Mississippi, which would be sad, hahah.
Because the armour scheme of Mississippi in game is wrong. They made corrections of Tennessee’s armour but not for Mississippi
I see, thanks!
You just want Armageddon don’t you lmao?
From what I’ve seen the US had a better system of Remote fire control meaning all information was fed to one point and then almost programmed into the turrets, so whilst individual systems on British Ships may have been better in terms of accuracy the systems fusion was overall more advanced in US ships.
One big fallback the UK had with the KGV’s was that the ships were very ‘wet’ as a result of some weight savings linked with the need to also to be able to fire at 0 degrees over the bow, so when the main rangefinders on the turrets got wet it could cause higher degrees of inaccuracy in fire solutions
Later US ships had a range keeper. It was an analogue computer that took radar data and data on the ships movement to generate a constantly updating firing solution. That solution was fed to the guns and updated their aim. If this was implemented in game, you would just select a target and the guns would track automatically. All you would have to do is click the fire button.
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What? Naaaah.
I mean, they’re only from 5 years after the Tennessees. Couldn’t be that much scarier, could they? 😇
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How about this, you guys can have the South Dakota’s, us Brits will take the G3’s?
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I’d honestly be fine with that, but Gaijin wouldn’t let it happen due to the G3s never even being ordered in the first place ;~;
Damn the Washington Naval Treaty.
The G3’s were actually ordered and laid down according to my sources, also parts for them were built and then lightened and used on the Nelsons. The argument always put forward was: Why would the US and Japan cancel ships already under construction from a set of paper designs?
They had to know the UK planned to build them and that starts with laying stuff down.
The idea was always to build them, either the US and Japan got rid of their new fleets, or the UK had 5 new ships that would beat every ship the US and Japanese planned to build as well as their old fleets.
You can see here the UK was gonna build them (I know it doesn’t say laid down but I can’t remember where I saved that source).
But also parts were built and then sheared down to fit on the Nelsons like the secondary battery and autoloaders.
In fact, I have a suggestion on them on this new forum (which I am currently in the process of updating as I got about 3 more book sources and asked some naval historians).
It would be a shame if they didn’t, they’re the best ships the UK could get and the only ones with no treaty influence whatsoever.
Regardless, shell rooms needs to have their ability to detonate removed otherwise its going to be the ahistorical Achilles heels to all US BB
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I assume this is what happened at Jutland then as I am pretty sure that one of the British Battlecruisers detonated the shell room though perhaps it spread down the barbette and into the magazines.
What would be your suggestion for detonation of shell room explosions, perhaps a longer repair time for that turret than is currently to repair turrets/barbettes?
I imagine even if just the shell room exploded the entire loading mechanism would be completely unviable until a complete refit, I know there are gameplay considerations made but also for the same reason US ships would be just as tanky as ships like Scharnhorst without some form of penalty for shell room storage.
This is physically impossible, as all British capital ships before Nelson had their shell rooms placed below magazine, so anything coming from barbette overhead would have reach magazine first rather than the shell room
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