The RN lost percentage wise fewer ships sunk with explosions than both the USN and KM in WWII, The Yamato, Scharnhorst, Blucher and Tirpitz all blew up when they rolled over also just like the Barham and they did not have AA amunition stacked up outside magazines
. The Hood was lost because she could not keep 15 inch shells out, nothing to do with unstable cordite but purely obselete design. Pre war a County class turret brewed up funnily enough the ship survived. The British thought flash protection on German ships post war wernt up to standard so go figure.
The RN wouldn't go around saying the KM ships were better after the war, wouldn't they? Thats bad for business... Campbell made it simple, the German safety measures were better, taking into consideration their propellant, than the RN ones since they had to deal with the much more dangerous cordite.
And remember that the opinion you mentioned was formulated AFTER the RN modified its cordite handling regulations as a consequence of Jutland, so, game wise, they are irrelevant.
The ships you mentioned didn't blew up because of ther propellant, didn't they? So how are they rellevant to the issue? Hood blew up because of propellant fire caused by a hit, the others didnt.
You are aware that Tirpitz and Scharnhorst did not blow up, right? We are talking of catastrophic explosions that split a ship in two...
The evidence the game uses to state a flash would destroy a ship no matter what post Jutland is based on the Lion. What they dont tell you and you can read for yourself in Campbell is when the turret was hit one of gunners died he fell on a lever that sent the cage loaded back down the lift which went down to four feet of the working chamber whose doors were open because the cycle had been broken and had the next load of cordite ready so there was more than regulations. The flash started in the handling room whose doors were also open becasue of the cycle. ie a small space and ignited the charges in the working chamber above. If the turret roof was not on it might have increased. A hit with all the handling procedures post Jutland would not have produced the same effect unless of course the cycle was broken (unlikey). There would be a turret knocked out but no flash reaching the magazine.
So when people tell you regulations were met check it out
page 65-66
You are missing the point, the cordite was bound to explode violently instead of burning as in the German ships, that is a danger inherent to the propellant itself and requires greater and better safety measures that were missing at the time:
"The real cause of the disasters was that the precautions for preventing flash of ignited propellant reaching a magazine were not matched to the behaviour of British charges, though if the British ships had had German charges it is very unlikely that they would have blown up. This was not, however, clear at the time."
"If the Seydlitz had had British charges at the Dogger Bank she would unquestionably have blown up."
The Germans has several turrets and magazines completely burned out with no catastrophic explosions.
"German charges were by no means flash proof when out of their magazine cases, but their ignition was delayed and they burnt relatively slowly, and no dangerous pressure rise occurred from a number of charges violently igniting at nearly the same instant, as occurred with British charges. Thus even in the Seydlitz at the Dogger Bank battle, when 62 complete 11Iin charges were involved in the fire in her after turrets, there was no explosion. There is no doubt that far too great a number of exposed charges were present in many British ships at Jutland, but this was at most only a contributory cause of the disasters that occurred. In the Lion's 'Q turret the ignition of 8-13.5in charges between magazines and guns, all of which were in hoist cages or authorised waiting positions, would have blown up the ship if `Q' magazines had not been closed, and very probably would have done so anyway if they had not been flooded, though the total weight of propellant that ignited was only about a sixth of that in the Seydlitz's fire."
Thx for the diagram.