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Japanese ships in general had worse fire control systems but I guess that's more down to the optics themselves. A definite drawback to the pagoda style towers were that they were so tall that in some ships (mainly the really tall ones like Fuso) the ship rocked sideways a lot and therefore stability was pretty bad.

Well not really as Yamato had that design too. Also as Bluishdoor76 said, to increase the tonnage without changing the overall curvature of the lines you really don't have any other option than physically elongating the hull. Imagine how much of a nightmare it would be to increase the entire hull's length and width every time you change the displacement.

If all dimensions are proportional it would be about 37% heavier. But then you would need more propellant to accelerate the shell up to speed, so not necessarily a 37% increase in kinetic energy and momentum. Also keep in mind Japanese iron was of lower quality than other naval powers, and the Japanese steelworks industry was incapable of producing steel as high quality as other nations. This would have severely impacted the gun's performance.

Oooh thanks a lot!

Do you have a source for the second part? If it's a lengthy book or journal I would like to read more about it myself

Did Japan have that problem too? I know Bismarck knocked her radar clean off with the blast of her 15" guns

Nah I mean like because they changed the name from Yashima -> Shikishima, wouldn't it make more sense that WG thought Yashima sounded too close to Yoshino so they changed it to Shikishima? Cause in your original comment you said it was too close to Shimakaze so they changed it, which should have made the conversion Shikishima -> Yashima.

Don't you mean Yoshino? Cause the name was changed from Yashima->Shikishima

God why do people refer to the A-150 plan as the Shikishima. Shikishima is just a name given by Wargaming for their version of the A-150. There are no official names for the A-150. Sorry if I sound excessively salty but I've seen this too many times, both here and elsewhere

Not just the Japanese but also the Germans had plans for 50.8cm guns for their H44 class. Maybe this could be an Axis wonder weapon quirk where they have access to bigger guns?

That's not how it works. Let's say your guns indeed don't move when they fire. Where will all the recoil go? A recoil dampener stretches out the recoil so that the force exerted onto the gun and turret mounts is not too big, so if there isn't a recoil buffer that turret is not going to last too long.

Huh my timestamp made it to the forums. Nice.

Tschi as in german "tschi" because so many people read chi as 'ki'. There isn't a tsu sound implied in my comment whatsoever

Tbf the pronunciation is Ka-wa-tschi not Ka-wa-cki. Although I have to agree on you that "Dreadnought" sounds really cool because it kind of reflects the technological revolution it was

I noticed a lot of the Japanese battleships had very similar pagoda style superstructures, from the Kongo class, Fuso class (namely Yamashiro), Ise class, and all the way to the Nagato class (all post-modernization). Also it seems very likely that the canceled types like the Amagi class, Tosa class, Kii class would have also received this type of superstructure after their refits. Will this be implemented into the game? I'm guessing the devs could add it into the campaign as well as a Japanese compromise-refit, where the superstructure refit takes less resources and time but improves the ship's targeting capability less compared to other nations.

5 Scharnhorst class battleships in a line of battle. Inspired by this image: https://i.imgur.com/JZvTQrB.jpg

Just received my Xsolla key Thanks devs

3:16 PM right now in UTC+9, fingers crossed!

So for example, it would show Stereoscopic Rangefinder: +15% / 140t or something like that? That would be nice.

You can't, it was open for sale until I think the end of May

Wait, so if I understood this correctly, the Steam Early Access has been delayed, and for compensation Standard Edition purchasers will get the game this week? Is that right?

Yes the 50$ edition is still there

As someone who builds surface vessels and aircraft carriers in KSP I think this is a pretty good analogy

We already have a lot of people playing UAD through the 'Limited Edition' option. The devs said they will be giving out Steam Keys for the people who have bought the Standard Edition but these will not be playable until late July or early August. Why not just give out keys like the ones the Limited Edition buyers have? Does that type of key no longer work?

I think I read from that post that we can get the keys but the game itself will not be released on Steam until like August or at best July. The keys are Steam Keys mind you. So... no UAD until late summer?