Hi
Recently Ive been defending a few coasts and Ive noticed some interesting differences in the OOBs. If you play UK you get to choose between various gun emplacements, one however is outstanding, the 9.2 inch unit 394. which contains weapon 194 "9.2in Coast Gun"
stats are accuracy 60 and HE penetration 14, no AP rating.
Compare it to the Italians unit 389 "Difesa Costiera" containing weapon 194 "305mm Costiera"
stats are accuracy 13 and HE penetration 07, no AP rating.
Note the italian gun is a 12 inch gun.
Now if im not mistaken these guns are designed to sink or at least set on fire from end to end any ship, battle or otherwise that is silly enough to come within range. In-game the British gun can do this the Italian gun can't.
In fact the British 6 inch gun mounted on the Insect class moniter is also better than the Italian 12 inch gun.
Stats for the ship mounted British 6 inch gun are accuracy 30 and AP penetration 10.
See
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNAust_12-45.htm
Note that these guns were removed from dreadnaughts and used as coast defence. The usual practice in this situation is to also remove and install the ships rangefinders. So it would seem to me that the accuracy values for the british 9.2 inch gun is correct and the italian guns value should be increased to match. The Italian gun also fires a AP round so the penetration value is also way too low. (it may be a "naval" AP shell with a fairly high HE content.)
Also the Italian guns may have been mounted in the origional turrets and so would qualiy for 360 degree traverse. (cant remember where I saw those pictures at the moment)
In a similar vein the germans mounted fully traversing 11 inch gun turrets with attendent rangefinders in Scandanavia. See
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_11-545_skc34.htm
German unit 315 "Coastal Fort" has this weapon 104 "17cm K 18" (6.69 inch) with
accuracy 6 and HE penetration 4 no AP rating.
See
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_675-40_skc04.htm
This gun is ex pre-dreadnaught ordinance and again as its there to shoot at ships probably has way to low an accuracy and certainly should have a much better performance against Armour.
and see
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_8-60_skc34.htm
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_59-45_skc16.htm
for other german coastal guns currently not featured in the game.
Best Regards Chuck.
Coastal Artilley
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