I haven't played the game since Oct, I know there have been some changes and this mod allows some funky designs but what am I supposed to do against this ship? I've noticed a lot of ships with armor schemes just like this one and it makes no sense. I'm going to try to rebuild it in the custom battles but how is this thing not over weight or how does it not cost a fortune to make? I've been struggling to build good ships because I've been struggling for money as Japan even though I own half of all Asia, but even the worse economies are building better ships than me by doing this garbage that makes them impossible to kill. I've been losing money near constantly now, I never have a surplus and sending my fleets out drains my money.
Germany is invading my Chinese provinces through that small port they have with 2 million troops vs 200k on my side (which makes no sense since the port is blockaded and my Chinese provinces have more people than that small port). I can't stop them from taking the province even though I'm invading that port, striking it constantly. France and Germany parked their fleets in the invasion bubble so now it has no chance of success, I couldn't engage their fleets with my largest fleet because this game's stupid mechanic allowing the AI to choose when to fight. So I split off two battleships to head to another port to defend it and magically, now the AI wants to fight that force (even though my larger fleet is in between their task force and the one they want to engage). Now I have this non sense to deal with. Oh and would you look at that, range found bonus giving them god tier aim. They deleted a cruiser in one salvo because nearly every shell hit the target, and that's with mark 4 guns and a regular crew. Meanwhile my ships with the same crew, better optics and same guns can't hit anything, and if they do the round gets blocked.
This has been my most frustrating campaign so far and I'm on the verge of quitting. Shells aren't penning low tier armor at range or up close, only at medium ranges. Early on I met a ship with no armor (literally 0 armor thickness ) and it blocked a 16in round.
I'm gonna uninstall this mod after this playthrough to see if it fixes some of the issues I have because I have a feeling the easier offset balancing when making ships is giving the AI too much power to do what it likes, which is painful when paired with all the other stuff the AI gets away with due to mechanics from the base game.