North Carolina Guns OP. 2 Over Penetrations For 10k Damage.

[saagri]

I just had a weird game where I had a total of 5 over penetrations on a cruiser in two separate volleys deal a combined 23k damage.

 

 

 

Just thought it was interesting to share. Did some digging around on the topic of high over penetration damage and came across this thread: Let's talk about hit ribbons: "high damage" overpenetrations

 

 

[Teahee]

The detailed damage ribbons are bugged, you probably overpenned the superstructure and penetrated the main deck below. 

[MidnightShamalan]

iirc you can overpen the citadel. if that's what happened, it explains the big damage numbers.

 

if not. well. the ribbons have always seemed a bit buggy to me.

[GhostSwordsman]

I had something exactly like that happen in my Amagi a few weeks ago.

 

For me, it amounted to two over-pens followed by two normal (33%) pens. Someone in the thread crunched the numbers and they added up to my exact damage total.

[saagri]

Weird how this can happen. Guess the system doesn't like it when a shell does more than over pen.

[KnightFandragon]

Honestly, what is overpen!?  I mean, really.  If the shell pens the outer shell of the ship, it still has the entire rest of the ship to go through and arm.  Yeah, 16inch APHE would pen, explode and the Cruiser would go HMS Hood on the Admiral's [edited]. 

 

Its absolutely HILARIOUS to see shells meant to pen 356mm of belt armor+127mm deck armor+100mm of citadel armor BOUNCING off 50mm of Cruiser....or over penning...yeah, it would overpen alright, as in pen you so bad you blow up...

[Nikarus]

Honestly, what is overpen!?  I mean, really.  If the shell pens the outer shell of the ship, it still has the entire rest of the ship to go through and arm.  Yeah, 16inch APHE would pen, explode and the Cruiser would go HMS Hood on the Admiral's [edited]. 

 

Its absolutely HILARIOUS to see shells meant to pen 356mm of belt armor+127mm deck armor+100mm of citadel armor BOUNCING off 50mm of Cruiser....or over penning...yeah, it would overpen alright, as in pen you so bad you blow up...

 

Overpen means that the shell didn't hit enough armor at once to trigger the fuse. A shell with a fuse set for 50mm of armor, will be set off by 100 1mm plates.

I don't know the realistic fuse settings of most of these rounds, but they're probably way too high on all ships to give cruisers and DDs a chance. Else they'd get penetrations 24/7 and BBs will be even more broken than they are now.

 

If you're having problems overpenning, wait until the target angles a tiny bit so the shell has more armor to go through.

[TheBossNC]

Gave him some freedom.