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Originally Posted by Sniper297
Some ships they did a forward and after magazine, the ones with the middle turrets (Iso or Kongo, I forget which) don't seem to have one under the two midships turrets. Yamato is just a little behind the second forward turret or the forward edge of the after turret. Be nice if we had drawings showing the exact location of the main magazines for each ship type but I guess our spies weren't ambitious enough.  |
The reality was that battlships in World War Two were protected by anti-torpedo belts, and the chance of a torpedo explosion reaching the magazines was exceedingly low. Yamato didn't explode until after the ship sank, probably due to fires reaching the magazines. The torpedoes did her in, but they didn't blow her up.