Bismark WIP

[Adler17]

Who is interested in this ship should go to the side of the old Bisnmarck unit. There we had a big discussion about her. I do not want to warm this one up.

Adler

 

[Bahamut777x]

The Bismark was also Notorious because the Birtish had nothing that could counter her and the Tirpitz. I have a few books on the damn thing, and well, it was a beast. Battleships rule had listed the tonnage max at less than 30,000 I think, for WW2, and the british never built massive units like the Germans did.

Eventually, due to a lucky Rudder Shot, the Bismark was sunk by a sizable portion of the british navy, including a coupl of Aircraft carriers, 6 destroyers, and a few cruisers that were daring enough to get in range of its guns.

 

[Adler17]

The Bismarck indeed was scuttled after the ammo was depleted and/or the guns destroyed. The Brits couldn´t even sink her after two hours shooting her at clostest range! That´s why a year later only the rumor the Tirpitz were at sea was enough to abanton convoy PQ 17 with the loss of 2/3 of the convoy. The Tripitz went home before being in range...

Adler

 

[Akula]

First off all the british actually built battleships worth roughly 39.000 tons and the Hood was at a tonnage of roughly 41.500 Tons also the Vanguard commissioned in 1946 was at over 50.000 tons, thus beating the Bismarck
Also at the time of operation Rheinübung had the wast majority of the Royal Navy intact, at September 1st 1939 the Royal navy consisted of
11 Carriers
17 Heavy armored ships (BB and BC's)
76 Cruisers (both CA and CL)
243 Destroyers
Although the fleet the Royal navy had in the hunt was roughly 100 the number of ships that Bismarck faced (and fought) in the final battle was much much less
2 Battleships (Rodney and King George) and 2 Cruisers (Dorsetshire and Norfolk)
Also while we're at this a single hit from Rodney's 16" guns knocked out both Bismarcks front 38cm turrets, also a 8" shell hit from Norfolk destroyed the main command tower and soon after the main director position was destroyed, those are BTW some of the very heavely armored parts of the ship
Also if we look at the angeling of the british cannons you'd notice one small problem in sinking the ship, the minimum angle of the british ship's cannons makes it practically impossible to make underwater hits on the Bismarck practically making it impossible to actually sink it!
Also all searches of the wreck have either turned out noting or very unlear results, mostly indicating that the ship had suffered fatal damage, this and the very few survivors (and no senior crew members) makes it very hard to prove or disprove anything, it's a fact though that within 12 minutes of the opening salvo the ship was practically lost, having lost both front turrets and the main director position
All this makes it very hard to judge, but in my oppinion if the british battleships had been positioned properly they could propably inflict severe underwater damage, the above surface damage indicate that if they had scored underwater hits they would have sunk Bismarck quite easely even

 

[Wyrmshadow]

This has been argued into the ground on another thread. Adler, don't start up again.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

update

 

[Bobisback]

Cool death, but what are those things that fall off the sides in the flc after the death?

 

[MarineCorps]

Originally posted by Bobisback
Cool death

Indeed. IMHO it's his best death flc to date

Originally posted by Bobisback
but what are those things that fall off the sides in the flc after the death?

Gun turrent. But theres only one turrent that pops off.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Unit Finished

 

[Adler17]

SUUUUUUUUUUUUUPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!


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