Some actions showed a run of good projectiles, where others were plagued by terribly bad examples. Iachino complained about this in post-war books.
This was the problem with the Model 1934 - the firms producing the ammunition did not all produce projectiles of proper quality. In Italy, the firm producing the equipment would have the advantage of providing the item for test, thereby possibly delivering an example which would be of atypically good quality with respect to serialized units. In the U.S., for example, if one wished to test a sample of 16" shells, they might pull an example from stock, and inspect it directly. Unfortunately, the materials and supply process in Italy works differently than it does in most other countries. "The Model 1934 was extremely accurate and was able to deliver very consistent and predictable patterns with devastating hitting power - with the ammunition used for trials. Yes, the Italian 381mm shells had big issues. In reality their dispersion was terrible due to poor quality control of the shells in manufacturing. I'm pretty sure my jaw dropped when I saw 7 ricochets on the Mino. Never used SAP before, I had thought it was super punchy vs cruisers, but now I'm curious.is it really just for superstructure or angled ships? IE I shouldn't try to pen cruiser citadels with it? This was on a nearly broadside Mino, he was angled a bit, but nothing remotely extreme, If I'd had my Roma and AP loaded, I've have dev struck it. Sure enough the Mino pope out behind an island near broadside at like 4KM, I had all guns loaded with SAP, fired. I've never used SAP before, and the game was pretty much a disaster (spawned on a side where our DD hid and the CA committed suicide, spent the next 8 minutes running to the other side of the map)ĭIdn't really play well this game, (this isn't one of those "I tried to carrt but the team was so bad." stories) but.I did guess where the enemy Minotaur was going to appear. Was lucky enough to get the Lepanto in a drop, and took it out for my first game
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