HMS Renown card?

OK... I have just got the old HMS Repulse card out of my boxes and I am comparing it with the HMS Renown card as I write this.
Checking here:
www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_15-42_mk1.php
and with my volume of John Campbell's Naval Weapons of WW2 suggests that while the new Renown card shown here quite justifies Extended Range 4, I cannot see why the original Repulse card has it. Her guns were unconverted - as were Malaya, Barham and the 5 x 'R' Class.

I can see why Bristling with Guns works for the new card as it reflects war-time improvements in AA director control and radar.

Torpedo Protection for Renown (but not Repulse) is also reasonable as Renown had been rebuilt more extensively. There is no TP on the old Repulse card but the one-off 'Evade Torpedoes' on a die roll of 3+ does mirror her actions with Force Z. It should be noted that the 5 air-dropped torpedoes which eventually struck her were 18-inch and had a WW1-type filling, a smaller blast. So small that the one which struck HMS Prince of Wales' propellor shaft 'A' bracket was not noticed up on deck. The people who noticed it first were the engine room crew who exited their compartment as 5,000+ tons of water surged in, up the shattered propellor tunnel. Therefore Repulse's sinking on five small-ish torpedo hits in real life does suggest her protection was not up to WW2 standard. She had also managed to be hit on both sides which - theoretically - should have helped her. Flooding on one side should have counter-flooded the other. The fact that she capsized indicates that she was overwhelmed.

Sharpshooter is a clear reference to the gun battle in a storm with S & G in 1940, I get that!

As far as the gun factors are concerned I was (note was) going to query the numbers but a close look at HMS Euryalus, KGV and Prince of Wales (5.25-inch AA guns) leads me to figure that their 8 or 10 larger but slower firing guns have been equated with the faster-firing but slightly more numerous 4.5-inch guns on Renown. At a pinch I might have given Renown 5 5 5 for her secondary battery.


On the whole I find this Renown card better balanced than the old Repulse card.


Thank you!

I think ER4 was just a given on all the BBs. The only card I know of from Wizards without it was Schleswig-Holstein, cute lil fella.