How does Mag. Box interact with non-AoN designs?

[captaintrek]

As the title suggests, I'm curious what happens if I checkmark mag. box and make the belt, say, 16 inches and the extended belt, say, 14 inches (making it not an AoN design). What parts of this ship would be protected by 16 inches, what parts by 14, what parts by 8, and what parts (possibly?) by 7? What changes if I do this with a sloped deck vs flat deck on top of belt or with a narrow belt?

[dorn]

If you checkmark "magazine box" you get full thickness of belt (B) and deck (D) armour around magazines and half of thickness of belt (B) and deck (D) armour elsewhere, but it has no effect on extended belt (BE) or extended deck (DE). 

In your case you will have thickness:
16" - around magazines
14" - BE
8" - rest of adminship except magazines (practically mainly machinery)

The armour scheme has no effect on this as it is how narrow belt is or how deck armour is used:
sloped deck (standard belt with sloped deck going down to belt armour)
flat deck (deck has no slope and joint belt on top)

[aquelarrefox]

Sept 5, 2020 14:38:40 GMT -6 dorn said:

If you checkmark "magazine box" you get full thickness of belt (B) and deck (D) armour around magazines and half of thickness of belt (B) and deck (D) armour elsewhere, but it has no effect on extended belt (BE) or extended deck (DE). 

In your case you will have thickness:
16" - around magazines
14" - BE
8" - rest of adminship except magazines (practically mainly machinery)

The armour scheme has no effect on this as it is how narrow belt is or how deck armour is used:
sloped deck (standard belt with sloped deck going down to belt armour)
flat deck (deck has no slope and joint belt on top)

Theres any post where the diferences of armour scheme works becose i read a cople of times but i still dont understand it in the manual of game

[dorn]

Sloped deck

Shells hitting belt needs to go through deck (usually sloped part) to penetrate citadel and damage vitals. However less volume is protected by citadel armour.

Flat deck on top of armour

It was used mainly during pre-dreadnought era and later as AoN to protect enough buoyancy. 
As you can see much greater volume is protected but there is not sloped deck so if shell penetrates belt armour it goes directly over vitals.


Practically Sloped deck was not used after WW1 as it was believed that any gunfire of capital ships will be from long distance when plunging fire is more dangerous and for that reason flat belt on top protect more volume and gives overall better protection. The only difference was German capital ships. 

But if you look on history of Bismarck you can see that their protected citadel does not help Bismarck as there are still a lot of systems out of citadel, mainly turrets, fire controls systems, commanding posts, in case of Bismarck communications system etc.