Originally Posted by DeathAddict
Originally Posted by Elliot2lazy
if you put 20" of UK deck armor on a ship...basically a ship without all their main guns, bombs will bounce not matter how strong they are even the old over powered MN bombs before they got nerfed. I know.... me and a few mods tested it out a few months ago.
The question is.......... will it Bounce an SY or Amagi SHOT!?
I own both an SY and also an L1.
If I armor the L1 to 12.9 of deck armor and take it out into GB, it will bounce everything at MAX RANGE except the SY. Everything else, Monty, L2, H44, Alsac, and the SN BB5 all bounce with multiple zeros popping up or two digit numbers. About half of the SY's shot still get through. I know that the SYs are firing at angle at least 43 or greater because I am out ranged in my L1 when they are shooting. In order to effectively bounce their shots I estimate that the L1 has to get under the SY's angle 40.
The only problem is in order to reach 12.9 of deck with the L1, I use 2 of the Hood's level 81 guns which have light enough weight to do this. This means I have a severe drop in firepower. With 12.9 of deck, you basically become a ship that distracts the other team so that your team can safely come in and deal out massive damage while you twist and turn trying to avoid the other sides AP shots (if they are smart enough to carry and use them - and many times they are not). All the while you pepper them with your 4 shells. You are depending on your team to damage the other side while you make your self a distracting target for the other side.
Now one on one with an SY is a problem because an AW L1 only goes 36 knts. Whereas an SY goes 42knts. So they can effectively run out of the L1's range and stay out of range and meanwhile cause severe damage.
And if there's a Junsen or better sub, pretty much 12.9 inches of deck means the AW sinks very fast since itcan't get away from thesub or manover fast enough.
