Doesn't work that way.


It either hits for is normal damage

Or gets bounced.


1" of belt won't bounce anything but belt fired but maybe KM Flak guns.

Don't get used to armor on US, the only really effect ships are the New Orleans. Even then I would prefer the speed than the armor.

.2-.5 belt max (30%-70% torp damage reduction, note over .5 changes are minimal and almost non-existent.

bulge til just before losing a knot of OH.

My question for that would be are you really "beating" the armor on the ship at range? My understanding, both from the game and real life is that at range you aren't really beating armor, but going around it. The whole idea of the immunity zone was that at close range your belt would protect you, up to a certain distance which was the lower bound of the immunity zone. Any distance farther away than this lower bound, shells would bounce off your belt armor until you reached the upped bound of the zone, after which the shells would be falling at a high enough angle they would hit your deck armor instead, with enough force left to punch through.

From what I know of the game, most people neglect the deck, so at long ranges shells tend to hit unarmored sections of the ship. Plus there's a bonus for HA attacks, which is why its recommended for lower level ships. Its something I've been trying to work on with my Atlanta, but my BO and gunners aren't really high enough to always make it work quite yet.