![]() These two adjustments would likely solve 80% of the balancing problems of Izumo (other than how fugly she is). The Izumo simply needs the concealment knocked down to 17 km base or so (or around that of Yamato) and have the center part of her weather deck increased to 38 mm so that she isn't completely wrecked by cruiser HE. I'm well aware that Izumo has a ton of survivability issues in spite of being comparably easy/difficult to citadel (compared to Iowa at least, FDG and Lion are completely different in that regard), but the topic at hand is how to reliably citadel these ships. Don't see 3-4 IJN BB's in a match at a time. ![]() So what have we come to? The IJN BB's have the weakest overall BB armor at high tiers. For that reason alone I would say advantage USN. Tier 9 is debatable but Izumo has far greater issues than just the citadel. However, everywhere else she's armored poorly and eats penetrations left and right. KGV for example has a waterline citadel and very tough belt protection. But you still can bag lots of penetrations. Still, with some range you can citadel them though it can be hard. So it pays to learn which ones are like this. ![]() Those ships I listed for example, not all ships of their respective lines have that characteristic. Cruiser AP, RN BB AP, try the superstructure of these ships.Īlso, some BBs have waterline or even below waterline citadels. So with German BBs, aim for their upper hull which has nowhere near the protection that the waterline does. You have better luck citadeling them from long range gunfire, in particular by USN BBs Tier VIII+ with their arcing and very, very heavy American Piercing shells. German BBs? Turtlebacks make them extremely hard to citadel the closer the range is. Waterline aiming is the general rule to bag citadels, most especially if the target is turning with the ship rolling a tad bit and showing some interesting views of their hull.
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