highlighting a few problems and some sugestions for the game

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I've actually lost a 16,000t cruiser to a 9" belt pen at ~20,000+ yards (edge of gun range) at ~30* acute angle. I was wondering how it was possible.
6" inclined belt should be proof against that at most ranges. Seems to completely ignore armor thickness.

Using AON armor type... I think you are onto something.

[charliezulu]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the belt number in RtW meant to represent the thickest part of an early British-style incremental/tapered armour scheme, and thus a portion of your vitals are covered by less than what the number says?

[sjpc302]

charliezulu
As far as I understand it, in the log entries B* always means the full belt was penetrated. If it were otherwise it would say BE* for belt extended, or note fore/aft hull and superstructure hits as such. In my example I was using all-or-nothing armor so if it hit the belt it should be full thickness. I also have noticed my issue with hull hits apply in many different situations now that I am more aware of it, for example 4in shells penetrated 6in CA armor at 9kyd and other silliness, so I am 95% sure it is a bug.

[jatzi]

I'm not saying its the best way to do things lol. I was just saying that's a possible reason the devs have done it this way. That's it, nothing more

[wlbjork]

Jun 17, 2021 16:52:02 GMT -6 sjpc302 said:

charliezulu
As far as I understand it, in the log entries B* always means the full belt was penetrated. If it were otherwise it would say BE* for belt extended, or note fore/aft hull and superstructure hits as such. In my example I was using all-or-nothing armor so if it hit the belt it should be full thickness. I also have noticed my issue with hull hits apply in many different situations now that I am more aware of it, for example 4in shells penetrated 6in CA armor at 9kyd and other silliness, so I am 95% sure it is a bug.

Sort of.

Even with AoN, belt armour thickness isn't uniform and tapers off. However, that is the reason for the modified pen roll, which I always thought was capped at +20%.

The likely issues are:

*The pen mod roll is higher than 20%

*There is an effect we are not aware of

*There's an error in the calculation

As it happens, there is a bug report for a 4" shell penetrating 10" turret amour, so this may be a larger issue than first thought.