This armour however, is completely purposeless on the Bismarck. Neither of these even quote the turtleback armour scheme, which earns it the nigh-on impossible to citadel position. considering you are a Battleship, and a German Battleship with a forest worth of superstructure to farm - in fact this is even made worse with the Bismarck as it's got more superstructure than the Gneis to hit, and that superstructure is more elevated making it easier to farm - this will come back later.Īrmour: the Bismarck is regarded as having a great armour scheme with and I quote 'High Level of Armour Protection' and 'Her rugged construction, elaborate subdivision into compartments, and extensive armour ensured a high level of endurance' - WOWS bio & tech tree specifics tip. The Bismarck, much like the Gneisenau, is fast for a BB and faster than most if not all of her same tier BBs, but this serves little purpose in kiting etc. Then we get onto armour and manoeuvrability. So Bis' guns perform the same against enemies that are stronger, therefore they are w o r s e. Speaking further on the main battery Gneisenau has a meme record of being the most shotgun useless ship in the entire game, and it's somewhat warranted, except the Bismarck does near on the exact same, and is facing enemies better equipped to face those guns. You can quote stats at me all you like and you can quote confirmation bias but I've watched salvos from triple and quad guns hit in tighter groupings than a single double gun mount on the Bis from both under 10km and above it.

It has a status of having better main guns than the Gneisenau but not being anything really special other than congrats you have 2 more useless shells flying at your enemy, and of course at T8 all your contemporaries are using either bigger guns, or just guns with better ballistics. It's got amazing secondary gun range and other stats, and yet it seems to fall so short compared to most other BBs which apparently have worse secondary armaments.

The Bismarck has some sort of legendary status within this community as the principle Battleship to brawl.

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