Tempest_Poet

Hiho @all, just an easy simple question i hope someone has a definite answer where exactly the secondary armament aims at enemy ships. My Reason for asking this is quite obvious. If i consider a secondary build, one commander skill comes into mind: Manual secondary. Lets assume i wanna use it on my GK. So Manual Secondary would theoretically improve damage one would think. But a) is less dispersion less parts hit -> less fires probably and b) if the secondary always aims at the same spot (which i assume it does) and that part is not the superstructure but for example somewhere on the broadside, it will actually lessen the damage even more against quite a few ships which have more than 32mm Armor on said part. That would result in having less damage with better dispersion. So if anyone can clarify if Manual secondary shoots at a certain point of a selected ship and in case it does, where exactly it aims at, would be awesome. Thanks in advance. P.s.: Another bad side effect of Manual Secondary is ofc, that ur secondaries, even while having selected a valid current target, won't shoot on targets on for example the other side of ur ship. Granted, that shouldnt happen often, but it will sometimes, inevitably.

That actually may have had other reasons. To start firing, your ship needs to see the highest part of the enemy (or have another ship spot it for you). As long as you do, you see the ship and i assume, your secondaries do also (in terms of "i can fire"). Just had a game with tirpitz for example, where my secondaries shot over islands on a mogami at 8ish km, which i couldnt hit with my mains and did only see by spotting from other sources. I can't remember if i had my spotter up, so that you yourself has to see the target or not.

Secondary Dispersion is like, i believe 188m without Manuals (took the value from fitting tool). So its not that bad at 11ish km imho. Especially if you add in the other drawbacks, like less fire setup chances, not bein able to fire at multiple targets at once etc. And the 4 points you could invest in Fire PRevention or CE. But u will lose the heavy nuke potential against dd's, hich is not to underestimate i guess.

Well, thats what i was suspecting. Thanks for the fast answer!

Okay what i would love to know is how the Artillery Plotting room and similar upgrades change the values in terms of penetration/impact angle. Does it change the shell arc or does it stay the same with just increased range. which would mean the pen would be somewhat improved compared to the "standard" range, right? Any1 knows how this works? Since for example American BB's don't really need the Plotting Room just for the Range. Only upside is a lil bit dispersion improvement. However, if it also helps you pen ships that you normally wouldnt at the same ranges, it'd be another very beneficial upside.