captainsilver
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Post by captainsilver on Oct 31, 2019 5:31:50 GMT -6
Outside of the port of Djibouti7:01PM, 10.11.1920Having been put on high alert about the potential of a French attack along the coast of Djibouti, the USN Raleigh, one of the oldest ships still serving in the US navy, was put on high alert to be on the look out for possible warships. Shortly after 7PM one of the forward spotters sights an unknown vessel of significant size close by. As the huge French Battleship passes by the Raleigh's bow, the forward gun crew fires a single 6 in shell in the direction of the massive vessel. After a very brief moment of silence a glow appears around the fore section of the enemy vessel before all of a sudden a massive flash followed by a gigantic explosive shockwave rips through the night sky. Every single window aboard the Raleigh shatters instantly, cutting and injuring those unfortunately close enough to them, while the shockwave disorientates and deafens everybody aboard the ship. As the majority of the crew re-orientates themselves, the burning hulk of the French battleship in front of the Raleigh sits in the rather calm seas, with its bow blown off from the rest of the ship and fires raging acros its hull. Within 4 minutes the French battleship slips beneath the waves, sunk by a single 6 in shell fired from a dilapidated US light cruiser from the pre-dreadnought era. French Battleship I sunk: The USS Raleigh: The End of Battle Screen:
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 31, 2019 15:25:10 GMT -6
Having recently witnessed multiple turret top penetration+flash fire caused by 6" HE, I must say that I am not surprised someone would be lucky enough to 1 shot a BB with 6" guns. Still, amusing to see it actually happen, and imagine how the crew of the cruiser must be thinking
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Post by captainsilver on Oct 31, 2019 21:00:45 GMT -6
I know right! I was genuinely shocked and I was trying to figure out what happened. The good news is that most of the crew was highly publicised in the newspapers when they returned to port, quite a few received medals as well. The Raleigh will be turned into a Museum when she retires.
What I don't understand is how I managed to pen the turret top armor. I was less then 5000 yards away and my 6 in guns have like...1 in of pen...
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 31, 2019 21:06:55 GMT -6
I know right! I was genuinely shocked and I was trying to figure out what happened. The good news is that most of the crew was highly publicised in the newspapers when they returned to port, quite a few received medals as well. The Raleigh will be turned into a Museum when she retires. What I don't understand is how I managed to pen the turret top armor. I was less then 5000 yards away and my 6 in guns have like...1 in of pen... HE penetration is not the same as AP. Given your HE tech they can defeat a set amount of armor that isn't shown by the gunnery table(it also shouldn't be affected by range). Given that armor value also have some variance, you can probably get lucky. In my case 6" HE penned 2.5" of turret top 4 times out of 6....I do think in that case I was either insanely lucky, or that the game somehow weakened the turrets armor due to 16" hit they received earlier.
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Post by captainsilver on Oct 31, 2019 23:14:13 GMT -6
I'm not unclear on how HE does damage, what I'm unclear about is the fact that...since a Battleship is generally significantly larger then a light cruiser and its turrets would probably be higher off the water then my light cruiser, how did my cruiser physically hit the top of the turret on that BB when it couldn't see it
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Post by mycophobia on Nov 1, 2019 0:22:11 GMT -6
I'm not unclear on how HE does damage, what I'm unclear about is the fact that...since a Battleship is generally significantly larger then a light cruiser and its turrets would probably be higher off the water then my light cruiser, how did my cruiser physically hit the top of the turret on that BB when it couldn't see it Oh the game assume the turret have a slightly sloped top, thus TT hit can occur even at relatively close range, also given the relative short range of 6" gun, 5000 yard already seems like a med range hit. (And totally not because the French BB built its turret around a funnel, allow the 6" shell to land into the funnel and travel all the way down to turret magazine )
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Post by dizzy on Nov 1, 2019 2:55:31 GMT -6
The light cruiser shell MUST have gone down the main gun barrel of the French BB! One in a billion shot!
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Post by akosjaccik on Nov 1, 2019 3:49:19 GMT -6
Even more amazing, Turret top's code is most certainly 'TT', the log however states 'T', which indicates a hit on ...well, somewhere else. Probably face armor, but that one is up for debate.
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Post by dizzy on Nov 1, 2019 3:59:23 GMT -6
Down the barrel!
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Nov 1, 2019 13:22:43 GMT -6
You know, I bet even a "short" 4000 yard shot has a shell flight apex of 200 feet. If I had more math than none I bet I could figure it out...
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Post by Fredrik W on Nov 1, 2019 14:10:43 GMT -6
This sounds a bit odd I must admit. It would be interesting to se the log of the Colbert.
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Post by captainsilver on Nov 1, 2019 21:26:37 GMT -6
The turret that my light cruiser managed to hit was the forward most turret. And the round had infact hit the turrets main armor, not the roof. (indicated by T hit instead of TT hit)
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