Type of shells

[dorn]

I have seen during battle my capital ship firing at enemy and in ship window information about HE shells are presented. I thought I have some of them but after several months I check my ammunition doctrine and I have found that I use 80 % AP and 20 % SAP on heavy guns.

Is it quite weird, does have anybody similar experience?

[BathTubAdmiral]

Yes, I just stumbled over this as well.

At first, I had my ships set to fire HE only, so I could save some budged on AP shell research, so everything seemed fine.

Then I aquired AP shell tech, re-did the whole ammo selection thing and hit both save buttons several times

and ticked the "auto" checkbox, but it seemed to reset itself at the start of battle (all ships where shown to shoot HE, and after battle the checkbox was unticked again);

On the next turn it seemed to stick eventually.

Last battle, my CA was still shown to shoot HE all the time, yet the AP ammo counter ticked down and after the battle the target ships log showed she has been hit by AP shells?!

I am at the start of another battle atm., I'll check again.

Aunt Edith says: addition for clarification

[JagdFlanker]

Mar 15, 2020 1:05:42 GMT -6 BathTubAdmiral said:

...and set the doctrine to "auto"...

from what i understand Fredrick has never connected the 'Auto Ammo Selection' checkbox to any code, so that checkbox doesn't do anything

[dorn]

I do not use auto and still issue with HE shells is there.

[BathTubAdmiral]

Mar 15, 2020 1:05:42 GMT -6 BathTubAdmiral said:

I am at the start of another battle atm., I'll check again.

Things are rather strange:

BB is shooting AP (ammo counter going down), is shown to shoot AP, target log says AP.

(Up until the BB switches to HE, presumably because she was out of AP? didnt check, though...)

CA (the same as in the aforementioned battles) is still shown to shoot HE all the time, yet the AP counter is ticking down and the target logs AP hits ...

[BathTubAdmiral]

Oh, things turn out to behave even more strangely (culprit is again my CA Aso, who is shown to shoot only HE during battle):

Log from target CA Blücher (I was chasing her down; CA Aso has 5.7@8000 in 1913, Blücher has 1901 armour ...):

00:03:00 8 in 7696 yds Hull hit B * Shell burst limited by coal bunker (CA Aso, AP)
00:05:00 8 in 7571 yds Superstructure hit BE (CA Aso, HE)
00:12:00 8 in 5716 yds Fore/aft hull hit * (CA Aso, AP)
00:13:00 8 in 5409 yds Hull hit B * Shell burst limited by coal bunker (CA Aso, AP)
00:14:00 8 in 5039 yds Engine room hit B (CA Aso, AP)
00:16:00 8 in 4587 yds Hull hit BE * (CA Aso, AP)
00:20:00 8 in 5133 yds Engine room hit B (CA Aso, HE)
00:21:00 8 in 5042 yds Superstructure hit BE (CA Aso, HE)
00:21:00 8 in 5042 yds Fore/aft hull hit * (CA Aso, HE)
00:21:00 8 in 5042 yds Engine room hit B (CA Aso, HE)
00:22:00 8 in 4966 yds Secondary battery hit * (CA Aso, AP)
00:22:00 8 in 4966 yds Superstructure hit BE (CA Aso, AP)
00:22:00 8 in 4966 yds Turret A hit T * Turret disabled (CA Aso, AP)
00:24:00 8 in 5080 yds Hull hit (CA Aso, AP)
00:25:00 8 in 4808 yds Superstructure hit BE (CA Aso, HE)
00:26:00 8 in 4379 yds Hull hit BE * (CA Aso, HE)
00:26:00 8 in 4379 yds Engine room hit B (CA Aso, HE)
00:27:00 8 in 3963 yds Fore/aft hull hit * (CA Aso, AP)
00:27:00 8 in 3963 yds Hull hit. Shell burst limited by coal bunker (CA Aso, AP)
00:28:00 8 in 3704 yds Turret A hit T * (CA Aso, AP)
00:30:00 8 in 3440 yds Hull hit BE * (CA Aso, HE)
00:30:00 8 in 3440 yds Fore/aft hull hit * (CA Aso, HE)

Why is CA Aso constantly switching ammo types?!?!?

This is totally mysterious, unless ...

... this:

Mar 15, 2020 6:24:00 GMT -6 JagdFlanker said:

from what i understand Fredrick has never connected the 'Auto Ammo Selection' checkbox to any code, so that checkbox doesn't do anything

... is not true, and the code actually takes the target angle into account?!