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Originally Posted by Azgrim

Is this a coincidence, or just a game script?
I don't know. But I liked it.

What do you think?

Coincidence, I guess, but a very good one.

In the book "Neptune's Inferno", by James Hornfischer, in the chapter describing the duel between the USS Washington & the Kirishima, he makes the assertion that the Japanese specifically had shallow angle shells designed to strike an enemy ship below the waterline.

I've read that their shell were designed with this in mind. I don't think it was so much they felt they needed to specifically hit targets there, but that the shell increased the available target surface area, and was an advantage. They didn't say exactly what was different about the shell, though. I don't see what you would need to change about the shell, as long as you had a delayed action, base fuze, which you would want anyway.


About the 5 degree declination, that does seem a bit odd. Perhaps they did expect to make devistating close range broadsides with this.