Bayern's B Hull is Missing Armour for Fore Conning Tower?

[GELeto2]

I just upgraded Bayern to her B Hull configuration and noticed something rather odd in the armour viewer.

 

Bayern's A Hull configuration has both a fore and aft conning tower protected by significant armour belts as you can see below.

 

 

Bayern's B Hull configuration has the aft conning tower protected but there is no armour for the fore conning tower, just the minimal 16mm for the superstructure, as shown below.

 

 

I'm not an expert, but it seems odd that a ship upgrade would completely remove the protection for the officers commanding the ship.  Sure it's not a huge target, but the ship deserves all the armour she's supposed to have.  (I tried all the filters, it isn't that.)

 

If someone who knows more about the ship could weigh in I'd appreciate it.

[Unabletony]

Either the fore mast has no armor whatsoever, or something else.

 

She did not get the modernization, so maybe WG left that out...

[Battleship_DukeofYork]

Well, part of the issue, of course, is that the B hull is 100% fiction, manufactured by Wargaming's imagination. There is absolutely zero basis for it in historical fact. Having said that, I want to point out two things:

 

1) You are correct - at least some of that forward bridge structure should be a heavily armored conning tower; both the Imperial Admiralty and the Kriegsmarine put heavy priority on traditionally-armored command units, so the fact that there isn't one strikes me as an error.

 

2) The Bayern B bridge configuration seems to borrow a lot from the Deutschland's rounded bridge. Did that structure contain a compartmentalized conning tower?

 

[GELeto2]

Well, part of the issue, of course, is that the B hull is 100% fiction, manufactured by Wargaming's imagination. There is absolutely zero basis for it in historical fact. Having said that, I want to point out two things:

 

1) You are correct - at least some of that forward bridge structure should be a heavily armored conning tower; both the Imperial Admiralty and the Kriegsmarine put heavy priority on traditionally-armored command units, so the fact that there isn't one strikes me as an error.

 

2) The Bayern B bridge configuration seems to borrow a lot from the Deutschland's rounded bridge. Did that structure contain a compartmentalized conning tower?

 

 

While I'm reluctant to rely on Wikipedia, it does mention this for the Conning Towers of the Deutschland-class cruiser:  "The ships' forward conning tower had 150 mm (5.9 in) thick sides with a 50 mm (2.0 in) thick roof, while the aft conning tower was less well protected, with 50 mm thick sides and a 20 mm (0.79 in) thick roof."  So if that was the model, Bayern B should at least have that much armour; possibly a bit more because she's a Battleship.

 

 

[byronicasian]

Just a quick note I wouldn't trust the in game armor viewer too much at the moment as some things seem to get mis-categorized or additional layers of armor just get filtered out completely. Like Zao's armored bridge is not visible in the current armor viewer, but is seen in the older armor datamines.