T6 Aigle, good?

[Panocek]

8 minutes ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

I stopped counting the amount of Prinz Eugens, Hippers and other silly 27 mm cruisers that went full broadside in front of my 38 cm BB and allowed me to just citadel the crap out of them. I really never found this a big issue, though worst case, load HE. Good chance to also knock out the German engine or straight up detonate them.

 

Only ships with 27 mm that I consider straight up dangerous beyond them torp rushing are T10s and the Alaska.

Kongou and Hood are some of the most notable battlecruisers and they have some pretty solid plating vs HE spam.

Not even WG can balance stupid. Kongo have decent HE resistance on amidship, but actual armor thickness doesn't really stop CA sized munitions. Dunno about Hood and sure as hell Amagi class don't mix well with HE

[HaachamaShipping]

3 minutes ago, Panocek said:

Not even WG can balance stupid. Kongo have decent HE resistance on amidship, but actual armor thickness doesn't really stop CA sized munitions. Dunno about Hood and sure as hell Amagi class don't mix well with HE

Only on the extremities all HE pens, like on any T5 BB not names Pyotr Veliky. But actual BBs like Bretagne or New York are a joke in comparison. Hood is basically the most HE-resistant ship at T7, with only the Germans being comparable, but Hood has a 51 mm deck, which means only Yorck and Azuma can pen it, while the vast majority of cruisers and supercruisers fail, even stuff like Hipper. Amagi doesn't tae HE well indeed. But overall, HE resistance is barely a quality of BB vs BC. Heck, Pyotr Veliky is a battlecruiser and it sure as hell is resistant. Meanwhile HE resistance connot be found on any of the USN 21 knot standard BBs or the British from T6 to T10, except on the sole battlecruiser of the British tech tree.