I want 18in +1quality

[yousyokumarimo]

I want 18in〜20in gun +1quality as same as 17in. It is more Scalability game.

[director]

I'll leave an exact answer to those who know more about gunnery but personally I have doubts that anyone but the US or UK could build that quality of gun in that size - if even they could. There are limitations on strength of materials, diminishing returns for extended range in a pre-radar era and significant costs in terms of ship size required and barrel wear incurred. I'd rather have a Montana with 12x16" guns than an improved Yamato with 6x20", for reasons listed above.

[oldpop2000]

Jun 28, 2020 12:15:32 GMT -6 director said:

I'll leave an exact answer to those who know more about gunnery but personally I have doubts that anyone but the US or UK could build that quality of gun in that size - if even they could. There are limitations on strength of materials, diminishing returns for extended range in a pre-radar era and significant costs in terms of ship size required and barrel wear incurred. I'd rather have a Montana with 12x16" guns than an improved Yamato with 6x20", for reasons listed above.

Agreed and the problem of barrel drop along with ammunition storage is really got to be a problem.

[director]

oldpop2000 - I thought about 'droop snoot' but couldn't remember if it was a problem with the Yamatos, or if they just weren't around long enough to suffer. I know it was an issue with the Nelson class's 16" guns but I thought that was from being wire-wound.

Talking completely out of my memory here, which means I may not have my facts right.

[oldpop2000]

Jun 28, 2020 12:29:02 GMT -6 director said:

oldpop2000 - I thought about 'droop snoot' but couldn't remember if it was a problem with the Yamatos, or if they just weren't around long enough to suffer. I know it was an issue with the Nelson class's 16" guns but I thought that was from being wire-wound.

Talking completely out of my memory here, which means I may not have my facts right.

First of all, all guns droop although wire-wound droop more.  The larger the gun, the more it droops. 

Droop may be defined as the bending of a gun due to the elasticity of the metal in the gun and to the imperfections in the manufacture of the gun . It may be expressed also as the angle that the final tangent of the curved bore makes with the axis of the gun at the breech produced . The subject of droop of guns is one that has been given but little thought until of recent date . This is due to the fact that until lately the length of guns was such as not to cause any appreciable bending of the bore . With the building of 12 - inch and larger caliber guns , however , the length of the bore forward of the trunnions has become so great as to cause a bending of the bore that , in some cases , can be detected with the naked eye . The droop has been found in some cases to be more than one - half an inch . The causes of the droop of guns may be divided into three general heads , viz . :

Elasticity of metal

Design of gun 

Imperfection in the manufacture of the gun . 

[Enderminion]

All guns can range from -1 to +1 quality, it's just that the very large guns are difficult to research in the first place. I'd set gun research to high and remove most of the other High research areas down to Medium or even low, at that point all you can do is wait; or edit the save file.