Another example is New Mexico: despite having two armored decks in reality, in-game both of them are consolidated into one citadel deck of combined thickness. WG also has a nasty habit of consolidating all layers of deck armor into a single armored deck over the citadel: this is especially evident with high-tier CVs, which have their hangar deck and flight deck armor consolidated into just the flight deck. This entire worry about WG fortifying Iowa's magazine decks stems from the fact that they did it with NC and Alabama despite having no reason to, and their splinter decks are thinner. That's not a ship she should have a fair matchup against, history be damned. What I was concerned about is how this is a buff to Iowa's bow-on survivability against the Yamato. Thickening Iowa's splinter deck over the magazines to beyond 32mm creates an additional surface to autobounce even 18" shells off of. You are absolutely right in that armor is irrelevant besides being a surface to autobounce off of, which is exactly what I was getting at. Citadels below the waterline are a thing for many ships already they're not easy to hit, but they're quite possible to hit - and this is for battleships like New Mexico that have citadel decks too thick to be lolpenned.
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