[WIP] Historical Guns Specs

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Nice experiment, V13dweller, can you please upload somewhere your mission and post here the link?

Originally Posted by V13dweller

I was experimenting with the Mission editor again, and I have found that the Scharnhorst and Deutschland Pocket battleships main guns actually don't fire
They track the targets, but they don't fire, the ship only uses it's secondary weapons, like the smaller single barrel cannons.

good finding

both the Scharnhorst and the Deutschland do use 28 cm/54.5 (11") SK C/34 triple guns as main battery. Unlike other guns, they are equipped with an 'unknown' type of shells, i.e. a shell type not listed in Shells.dat. Evidently a blunder by devs, but it won't be difficult fixing it. I will post a fix here as soon as possible

Originally Posted by V13dweller

It's quite strange, I put all of the German battleships in a line, and some British battleships in a line, the Germans won, after a long battle, the Schleswig-Holstien seemed to have been attacked the least, and made most of the kills (Strange for a per-dreadnaught)
The Bismarck charged in and make short work of the destroyer screen guarding the battleships, took some damage but came out alive.

Yes, I am not surprised of that: SH5 weapons/armors system requires a general rebalance

Originally Posted by V13dweller

If you want the statistics of battle, the British had HMS Suffolk, Hood, Barham and Ark royal. 3 Kent heavy cruisers, 2 A class destroyers, 4 flower corvettes, and 2 Black swan sloop's. The Germans had KM Tirpitz, KM Scharnhorst, KM Deutschland, KM Konigsberg KM Koln 4 type 34 destroyers AMC Penguin AMC Komet and KM Emden.
What a battle it was.

I can imagine

Originally Posted by V13dweller

I did my best to make it as fair as possible, because the pocket battleships don't use their main guns.

Also the Auxiliary cruisers did not maneuver to attack the enemy
They just did that zig-zag course non-destroyers do when enemies are nearby.

That's correct. In real life auxiliary cruisers wouldn't have standed a chance against the big pieces of the British Navy. What was left to them is to run away as fast as they could