

If you can not hit a ship's citadel, do not despair.įull pen damage can often times be more reliable than aiming specifically for the citadel.

This is something that you're going to have to learn by looking at the citadels of most ships in the game to figure out the optimal way to shoot at them. Some ship models have citadels that sit below the waterline, and, while shells do curve, don't shoot directly *FOR* the water.Ī lot of ships have torpedo bulges right at the water line amindship too. Now it's also my understanding that if you overpenetrate a ship, and the shell would exit below the water line, it does not create flooding because (once again) the game can't handle shell trajectories through water.Īm I aiming at the right spot? I thought I was doing this right but I'd love to hear more. Or am I wrong, and the game accurately models them as they travel through water? Shells that hit water create a splash animation and disappear don't they? The game just deletes them when they hit water. Is this true? From what I understand about the game mechanics is you can't fire below the water line. Someone in chat said I have to aim below the water line. It hit the spot I aimed for and penetrated. I saw my AP rounds hit, got the pop-up that said I penetrated, and saw little craters on the armor belt below the smokestack on the enemy ship. I was hitting the armor belt just above the water line. I wasn't hitting the superstructure up on top of the deck. (the tower belching the black smoke, not the comm tower) I was firing AP and aiming below the smoke stack. It stupidly exposed its sides to me so I was able to fire close range 90 degree salvos into its sides. I played my Queen Elizabeth today and got into a brawl with another BB.
