00:00so with the opening of the leviathan's dev server we can now take a look at the new top tier
00:05battleships being introduced in the update and we're going to start off by looking at the new
00:09british top tier battleship hms vanguard which is coming in at rank 7 battle rating 8.0 just after
00:16hms warspite now 8.0 sounds like a massive jump in capabilities and to be fair it is from hms
00:23warspite which is a 7.3 battleship but this is actually tied with the italian roma as the lowest
00:29battle rating vessel introduced in this update all of the other ones are coming in at 8.3 and 8.7
00:36and to be frank it's because while this is a big upgrade over warspite it's not as big an upgrade
00:42as the other nations battleships for example the main armament these four twin 15 inch guns are the
00:49same ones as found on hms warspite now to be fair you do get better shells so you've got your semi
00:54armor piercing shell and the mark 17b which is the warspite's top tier shell but we also get the mark 22b
01:03which has a maximum penetration of 631 millimeters to 231 millimeters at 5 000 meters while having the
01:11same explosive content as hms warspite's top tier shell so this is a pretty good increase over the
01:19mark 17b's penetration but not drastically so compared to some of the other nations shells
01:25we also have much better secondary weapons so we've got eight twin 5.25 inch turrets which might seem
01:33like a bit of a downgrade because of course hms warspite had a whole bunch of six inch and four
01:37inch guns but the six inch guns were only good for against enemy vessels and were in sort of not very
01:43good places for against aircraft while the four inch guns were obviously a lower caliber and didn't
01:48necessarily have access to the best anti-air shells whereas vanguard secondaries yeah the
01:53anti-ship weapons aren't necessarily the best so they're not the worst either but we do have access
01:58to the hevt shells so much better for taking down enemy aircraft and of course because they're in
02:04turrets they can be used against aircraft and enemy vessels meanwhile the actual anti-air armament
02:09itself is also much improved for example the eulacans are now gone which were only very good at very
02:14short ranges anyway and instead we've got a whole bunch of bofers so you've got a twin mount right
02:19here at the front you've got 11 40 millimeter single barrel mounts and then you've got 10
02:24sextuple mounts so six barrel both are guns and we've got 10 of them so 60 barrels just between those
02:31armaments plus another 11 so 71 then the dual mount so 73 both are barrels all over the ship
02:37so good long range firepower between the 5.25 inch and the 40 millimeter guns the armor is a bit weird
02:46because it actually maxes out 381 millimeters but towards the rear of the vessel then it tapers down
02:52to 330 millimeters for the center and it goes back to 355 for the front and you see a similar pattern for
03:00the deck so 152 millimeters for the front and rear then tapers down to 127 millimeters for the middle
03:06the barbettes are about 330 to 304 millimeters the turret faces are 330 the roofs 152 and then the
03:17sides and rear 177 the bridge is extremely lightly armored so that's going to be very easy to take
03:23out from enemy high explosive shells the fire control room is below the decks at least and then
03:30the sort of front and rear arm it goes from about 304 to 254 millimeters and luckily the crew is very
03:37much improved over war spite it's 31 miles per hour whereas war spite is about 23.2 miles per hour
03:44so a massive increase in speed there and the crew has now gone to 1,975 from 1,220 so again massive
03:55improvement in survivability from the extra crew and then going back to the fire control room we've
03:59got 12 fire directors and 3 rangefinders so the rangefinders aren't particularly good and they
04:04seem to be centered around the main guns whereas the fire directors are all over the place and
04:10have an accuracy of 93% fire and solution calculation time of 15 seconds and an update time of 8 seconds
04:17and we've got at least three radars so type 277 the 293 and 960 so yeah we've got plenty of fire
04:26directors and rangefinders good amount of radar so you should be able to detect most enemy ships and
04:32get a firing solution pretty quickly and so yeah vanguard seems like it's going to be a very good
04:37addition for the british tech tree it's a shame that we skipped the king georgia v so hopefully we'll
04:42go back and get them at some point in the future but yeah this will struggle a little bit compared to
04:47some of the other nations top tier vessels but it will still do decently well especially against
04:52some of the lower tier battleships so anyway that is hms vanguard hopefully you've enjoyed the video
04:58i've been toreno and i'll see you next time
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