Talk:Prototype 51cm Twin Gun Mount/@comment-26441734-20150528062412

What follows is a personal account, and I have made no attempts of compiling a formal study of any kind. It is also, however, an account of results which I have witnessed over a few hundreds of sorties

I have both a Yamato Kai and a Musashi Kai, and got this gun from the spring event. They were both roughly the same level for most of the time

Yamato is equipped with this gun, a 46cm gun, Type 0 Observation Seaplane and Type 91 AP Shell, which confers her a +4 accuracy bonus in total

Musashi is equipped with a 46cm gun, a 15.5 cm secondary gun, Type 0 Observation Seaplane and a Type 32 Surface Radar, which confers her a +11 accuracy bonus in total

Over hundreds of sorties, a pattern emerged to the point where I'm already calculating battles with this in mind:

- Yamato will invariably hit both rounds of shelling, except for the extremely rare miss which is certainly due to the 97% accuracy cap

- Musashi will usually miss one shot out of the two rounds of shelling. Rarely, she will hit both, and rarely, she will miss both

This accuracy deficit on Musashi's part is observed much more regularly in PvP matches. Missing both shots against higher-level opponents is par-for-the-course for Musashi. Considering she has 7 more accuracy points over Yamato, which is a whooping amount by equipment standards, these are not the expected results at all

Regarding damage output, both ships are well over the attack power soft cap, with Yamato clocking in at 203 and Musashi at 172. This would give Yamato roughly 157 effective attack power, and Musashi roughly 155. The usual results seen in battle are as follows:

- Yamato's damage output is through the roof, to the point where I can only describe it as abnormal. Her double attacks consistently do anywhere between 320 and 490~500 damage. I've witnessed a couple of instances of them failing to reach 320, but only by a couple of points

- Musashi, on the other hand, only goes above 310 on few of occasions, her individual shots usually hitting for 135~145 damage, or 170-180 during night battles

I do not know of any special attributes this gun has, and I cannot vouch to others that this will wield the same results. All I can say is this is a very, VERY consistent pattern which has shown no signs of stopping