This approach of providing either total or negligible protection is referred to as 'all or nothing'. Most of the other compartments are almost completely unarmored. Therefore, some later battleship designers tried to save some of that weight by placing heavy armor only around the vital parts of the ship: the ammunition and propellant magazines, the propulsion plant, the fire-control, command and communications sections. The armor tends to be very heavy: on a typical battleship it takes up around 40% of the total displacement of the vessel. In this regard the developers attempted to adhere to historical realism and simulate all significant layers of armor.

So to you battleship drivers, especially those experienced with high tier BB play, how do you utilize the 2 shell types? Because from my angle it just seems to be mostly AP even against something as tanky as bow on NC's or Iowas.A projectile that enters the ship can encounter up to four or five layers of armor and may stop or ricochet at each layer. when broadside or slightly angled using AP and when bow on or heavily angled I use HE due to the high fire chance. So far, I've changed shell types often in BB's to match the situation i.e.

Down at the mid tier you see people still grasping and still see some frequency of people sailing broadside on to get AP nuked, but in high tier it's a lot more bow and long range sniping from what I've seen playing my Benson and Fletcher. Since I'm approaching the North Carolina I've a question about some of the tactics regarding shell types. Up to now I've mostly played and had my successes in the American destroyers but slowly going up the American battleship line since I've done fairly well in the New Mexico and Colorado so far. New guy here on the forums, but I've been playing the game for a while now on a verge of surpassing 1500 matches.

World of warships when to use ap vs he