Skill Ceiling: Low / Moderate / HIGH / Extreme Skill Floor: Simple / Casual / CHALLENGING / Difficult These fire angles screwed me over more times than I can count. Vanguard's terrible fire angles so utterly dominate her game play, I felt the tremendous compulsion to wear white-lace and beg her to be gentle. They're not even veteran-player friendly. The maximum rotation positions of X and Y turret (her rear guns). Large turning radius of 850m and slow rate of turn exacerbates the issues with her fire angles. Main battery is only eight 381mm rifles creating issues with overmatching and DPM.ĪA defense is for self defense only and is concentrated in 3.5km range, medium caliber mounts that are easily knocked out. Improved Repair Party, queuing and healing back more than standard and with fast reset timer.Ībsolutely appalling firing angles on her main battery. Very fast rudder shift time for a battleship of 9.7 seconds. Has the same dispersion pattern as Warspite, Hood and Queen Elizabeth and boasts 2.0 sigma, making her one of the most precise battleships in the game.Įxcellent AP and HE performance for a 381mm shell, including good penetration and damage values, rewarding versatile ammunition choice. Main battery has a quick 25s reload and excellent gun handling. This is the release version of the vessel and all of the statistics discussed here are current as of November 15th, 2018. I want to thank Wargaming for providing me access to this ship. They included HMS Monarch's excellent high explosive shells to Vanguard's arsenal, ensuring that these two players can continue spamming HE without a guilty conscience while everyone else rolls their eyes. Wargaming has offered some concessions to both of the fans of the current Royal Navy battleship line. What's most exciting: Her AP shells are wonderful. For a high-tier Royal Navy battleship, she's surprisingly not idiot-proof, with a vulnerable citadel that needs to be protected with angling and manoeuvres. However, Vanguard falls short of this aspiration. Ostensibly, HMS Vanguard was designed to be a tier VIII version of HMS Warspite. HMS Vanguard is the ghost of the Royal Navy battleship tech tree everyone wanted to see.

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