What's wrong with the Yamato's turret armor?

[Ice2670]

6-57mm? that's the toughest battleship turret ever built? this is just ridiculous. WG if you don't want wows to be the second wowp you should stop this nonsense nerf. 

 

[_Dreadnaught_]

6-57mm? that's the toughest battleship turret ever built? this is just ridiculous. WG if you don't want wows to be the second wowp you should stop this nonsense nerf. 

 

 

Can you screenshot where it says that? I've only seen armor thickness of ships overall. Learning stuff every day!

 

I'm guessing, 6 mm must be top of turret, side of turret and rear of turret. 57 mm is the turret front. Turrets were made assuming that they were always aimed at the enemy in one direction so that armor should suffice.

 

Considering the weight of the hull I think that super armored turrets would make the ship way too heavy or at least make the turrets too slow and insufficient for battle. Too heavy as in front heavy for the Yamato, thus making it slower than it already is.

[Moguai]

Toughest? I thought it was the heaviest and best armed Battleship ever constructed.

[Elouda]

I've also noticed this, but I think it refers to secondary battery protection only. If you look through all ships, the numbers are similarly off.

 

 

Can you screenshot where it says that? I've only seen armor thickness of ships overall. Learning stuff every day!

 

I'm guessing, 6 mm must be top of turret, side of turret and rear of turret. 57 mm is the turret front. Turrets were made assuming that they were always aimed at the enemy in one direction so that armor should suffice.

 

Considering the weight of the hull I think that super armored turrets would make the ship way too heavy or at least make the turrets too slow and insufficient for battle. Too heavy as in front heavy for the Yamato, thus making it slower than it already is.

 

For Yamato, turrets had 650mm faces, 250mm sides, 270mm crowns.

[Battleship_Unknown2]

The Yamato as it stands in the game strikes me -- from what I have seen -- as the most disadvantaged warship in the game. It's not particularly fast... it has painful reload times... its facing down Essex class carriers in almost every fight... it handles like a bulldozer. I mean, really, other than size, its vulnerabilities are so excessive compared to other BBs that it seems almost pointless.

[_Dreadnaught_]

I've also noticed this, but I think it refers to secondary battery protection only. If you look through all ships, the numbers are similarly off.

 

 

For Yamato, turrets had 650mm faces, 250mm sides, 270mm crowns.

 

oh wow, that is a nerf then lol

[SourHammer]

Yamato does have its advantages though,   26km firing range.    I doubled penned a full health New Orleans the other day for 2 citadel hits from 22km.    10 seconds after my guns loaded at the beginning of the battle and I sunk him in one salvo.

[Fireblood1]

you just know how to use different types of ships