World of Warships - A Game of Throws Season Four Episode Six

I don't know if todays' Throw was deliberate or accidental but we'll take it. A Throw's a Throw, after all.

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[LoneWolf-rcgo]

Just a quick note. The removal of the safety procedures on British warships appears to be a strictly WW1 issue. There was a massive kerfuffle after the Battle of Jutland where it was found that flash doors were being left open and charges were being improperly stored. The loss of the Hood was really down to some of the worst bad luck I've ever seen. Literally everything that could go wrong, did go wrong with the whole operation. The final nail in the coffin being a hit below the armoured belt that detonated her secondary then primary magazines.

[MrEifer]

This smells like the Benson throwing on purpose for the shit his team put him through lol

[thorns]

"Seven players per side" yes, never change Saltmine Overlord.

[Pigg]

40 seconds in and Jingles thinks this match is 7-a-side. Never change old man :D

[trex]

It's probably happening soon (in the West coast in the US here), but best wishes for today. I should've given you these 2 pieces of advice for the "night before prep, " but perhaps it could help someone else.
1) During the "Montezuma's Revenge" time, the day before this exam - Chapstick can be very useful.
2) When all is said and done . . . throw the Chapstick away! Good Luck!

[vistaredgt]

You're probably not going to see this but, your videos Mr. Jingles are one of the very few things that I look forward to, and truly enjoy. Your insightful commentary, and witty humor have really have helped me get through some tough times. Thank you so much. ❤

[jimmccormick]

JINGLES! That Norwegian Weather station was an ANGRY Norwegian Weather Station- and a DIRECT threat to the 3rd Reich!🤣

[Uzzgub]

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm

[bill]

Drachinifel did an analysis on why the Hood blew up. At the high speed it was running at, it produced a significant bow wave. This wave was high at the bow but low at the middle exposing the bottom of the belt armor. A lucky shell from the Bismark struck this area and penetrated into the secondary magazine setting it off. The secondary magazine was directly adjacent to the main aft magazine and then boom.

[lexmaximaguy]

That was a throw out of spite for his team

[seaninness]

That guy who called out the Benson at the start seems to have had it right. LOL! Cheers Jingles.

[glenm]

7:00 This is basically describing H.M.S. Pinafore. I love it.

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, and you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navee!

[ojciecvaader]

the story about Royal Navy oficers and the perfect paint - priceless :))).. It sound somehow similar to our history, where in comunistic times if prime secretary planned to visit some town, they painted grass with green paint, so it looked flawlessly.

[Terrathrax]

8:02: OMG, misses that Benson completely from 5.7km. Then the Benson does that at the end. It's like the toddlers rule the asylum.

[Tirless]

I always love the extra history tidbits during these videos. Thank you for the commentary and laughs, and wishing you the best.

[ryanbrewis]

About the issue of RN gunnery, I've read the complete opposite. That actually the standard was quite good, the issue was the BCF under Beatty had been moved to the Firth of Forth and obviously due to it being right by Edinburgh the crews couldn't conduct gunnery practice at anchor as that would rather annoy quite a few people and going out to sea was too risky, so Beatty (unofficially AFAIK) had crews leave doors open and charges stacked to try increase rate of fire. Admiral Hood's battlecruisers didn't have that issue I believe as he kept things rather more ship shape and had just finished his squadron's rotation with the Grand Fleet for gunnery training. As for why they blew up, battlecruisers getting shot at by battleships is not a good thing.
And Hood's demise, at least by Drachinifel's reckoning, was as she turned to bring X and Y turrets to bear a 15" shell managed to slip into a trough, hit under the armour belt and boom.

[maxkennedy]

The issues with British gunnery in WW1 were serious but the Royal Navy did realize in its opening engagements like the Falkland Islands and Heligoland Bight and worked to fix it.

The problem was that while Scapa Flow was big enough to practice gunnery in but the battlecruisers, in the Firth of Forth, would have to sail into the North Sea to practice. Too risky with the German fleet possibly coming out and submarines all over. This lead to the choice to prioritize rate of fire via removing anti flash measures.

The Grand fleet was accurate at Jutland, with the Queen Elizabeth class landing some first salvo straddles with extremely tight groupings on Hipper. The battlecruisers really couldn’t hit much.

By WW2 British gunnery, from the start at the River Plate and onwards was good. Later bolstered by some early adoption of radar fire control.

Warspite famously scored one of the longest ranged naval gunnery hits ever at Calabria, Duke of York crippled Scharnhorst from great distance at North Cape and Mediterranean DD and CL fights tending to go the Royal Navy’s way, it was certainly a lessons learnt. Warships are for killing, not looking good.

[SamuelJamesNary]

Jingles historical commentary is largely in error, or lacking context.

FIRST: The Hood did NOT explode due to poor safety precautions to put more shells on target. That was largely something that was a problem at Jutland and what Royal Navy forces actually determined after Jutland based on what surviving ships reported. Hood was essentially built with the lessons of Jutland in mind and the officers of WW2 likely were taught to avoid the issues that lead to what happened at Jutland. What happened to the Hood was a one in a million hit in which Bismarck scored a penetrating hit that went straight into the powder magazine, with some indication that it may have also bounced in after hitting the water first.

SECOND: Germany did have radar that could assist with the firing of their guns in WW2, but that really wasn't critical to their firing and thus wasn't what was responsible for the drop in accuracy as the fight went on. And in fact, when Bismarck fired on Hood, its forward radar systems were already out of action, or at least compromised, as Bismarck had fired on the smaller warships that had been shadowing the Bismarck earlier... These shots MISSED but did enough to get the lighter British ships to pull away. And while Bismarck did drive the smaller ships off, the shots damaged its radar systems. Which means that things were already compromised before the Battle of the Denmark Strait began.

The thing that really helped German battleships in WW2 be so insanely accurate at the start of an engagement was the stereoscopic sights that were fitted to them, not their radar. The system essentially allowed the natural working of the human eye to measure the range and direction by using these sights and guide the guns that way. And with focus, that can allow for excellent aiming, even when the shots don't hit. For the first shot that Bismarck fired did NOT deliver the hit that destroyed the Hood. However, because this system relies more on the human eye to do a lot of the work... any prolonged engagement will see accuracy decrease as a person can tire, will blink, and do other things that would then affect the accuracy of the guns.

[nigelmilne]

Near death from Man Flu and Jingles drops a vid. Thank you great Overlord, you've cheered thus salt miner up!

[Geoff]

Ah jingles conflates two time periods into one. Never change