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You can Test it in a Training Room. Or you can Simply look at the Data Provided by the Fitting Tool. Graf Zeppelin. Which is currently the Weakest CV on Tier 8 in terms of Aircraft Attack Power. Has 14k Potential Damage on his AP Bombs. 13k Potential Damage on his Torpedoes. And 11k Potential Damage on his Rockets. And no. I am not Talking about the Alpha Damage. I am talking about the Potential Damage. So the Damage you can actually Do in 1 Drop. For AP Bombs that is the Full 14k Alpha Damage which you get when you do a Double Citadel. For Torpedoes that is the 16k Alpha Damage Minus about 10% Minimum Torpedo Bulge. And for Rockets that is 33k Alpha Damage Divided by 3 because Rockets cannot Citadel and thus Deal Maximum 1/3 of the Alpha Damage. Feel Free to Test it with your own Lexington. You actually have an Even Higher Potential Damage for your Torpedoes. Being able to Deal up to 16k with 1 Drop. Your Bombers come with 18k Potential Damage despite not even being AP Bombers. And Your Rockets are Capable of a bit over 10k Potential Damage per Drop. And See that is the Problem. Sorry Mate. But this is not Chess. And you do not get to be the Queen by Picking CV. Because Guess What. I dont want to be Your Peasant or Knight. In this Game you are not Supposed to be King, Queen and Peasant. Because guess what. Nobody wants to be the Peasant. In this Game we are Supposed to Players which are Equal. And the Game is Supposed to be Balanced in a Way. That 1 Player is Worth 1 Player. CVs right now are not worth 1 but 6 Players. Actually even Shokaku and Graf Zeppelin can do it. So can Enterprise. Kaga might have some Trouble because her HE Bombs dont Citadel and her Torpedoes are too widespread. Implacable should be able to do it with Torpedo Bombers. I dont know about Saipan and Lexington as I havnt seen them in Action yet.

1, No. Detonations happen if the Magazines of your Main Turrets are Penetrated. Thats also why DDs which do not have Citadels. Can be Detonated extremely easily. While a CV which Possesses no Main Turrets. Cannot Detonate even tough he has a Citadel. 2. Actually this could happen in the past. And has happened. Indeed back in the Day. There was no Threshold for a Minimum HP Loss before you could Detonate. The Reason why Torpedoes are often the ones causing a Detonation. Is not due to Hitting the Citadel. But because they have high enough Damage that you can go below the Minimum Threshold in 1 Hit.

Dont know where you take 3-5k Damage with Heavy Losses. When I drop a Minotaur 2 Times I can do depending on Squadron. Somethoung about 20-30k Damage to him. And I will lose maybe 5 Planes in that Run. And Well Mate. Counterquestion. Do you know any T10 Ship that can Attack you from 40km away without any Risk to itself over and over again without anything you can do to make it Stop ? :) The Ability to Attack without Worrying about taking any Damage yourself. If thats not God Mode. Then what do you think Godmode does ? Design of CV right now makes CVs the Most Overpowered Ship in the Game which Defacto gives you Godmode. Because as you Correctly say. If your not the Last Ship to Die you did Something Wrong. But at the Same time. If your not the First who Lands an Attack on the Enemy you also did something. Wrong. Your the Alpha and the Omega of the Match. And basicly. Your a Factor in the Match so Importand. That if you Yolo at the Start of the Match. Your Team will lose 90% of the Time. Thats just how Overpowered this Ship is Right now. And that is an Double Edged Sword. Because if a Ship is so Overpowered that 1 Player Alone holds so much Influence in the Battle. Then not only are all other Players Pissed at you. Because if you mess up they all Lose. But because your so Influental. You are also in a 1 on 1 against another Ship just as Overpowered as you. And you have to Win this 1 on 1 for your Team. If you dont. You lose. Which is why Winratios on CVs are so Extremely Different Compared to other Ships. In another Ship. If you do Bad. Your Influence on the Battle was maybe 5% at best. And your Team can easily make up for you. But as a CV. If you do Bad. Your influence on the Battle was somewhere around 30-50% and making up for that Requires some Serious Hardcore Unicum Players on your Team or some Serious 10-20 WR Noobs in the other Team. Hence. Average and Bad Players in a CV. Do 50k and even 100k Average Damage. But still get Winrates of 30-40% while Good Players with almost the same Average Damage get 60-70% Winrate. But do you Spot the thing ? If not thats Fine. Because most People dont. The Average Damage barely Changes. Because while in every other Ship. If you Suck. You just get Killed and wont really do anything. In a CV. Even if you Suck. You will easily be able to Farm 50k Damage from some Battleship Player even if he is vastly more Skilled than you. And Sorry. But that is not Balanced. Balanced is when Each Player in the Team has the Same Potential Amount of Influence on the Match Result. And right now this is not the Case. Right now as a CV you have as much Potential Influence as a Full Division of BBs which is 2 Tiers above you.

Which basicly Means that CVs are Overpowered and God Mode. Because right now. If I am in my T8 CV. I can Kill a Player which is Vastly more Skilled than me in his T10 Ship. But as far as what WG is always saying I dont give a Damn to be Honest. WG also said that Ships that cant defend themselves against Aircraft are a thing of the Past. And right now there is not a Single Ship in the Game capable of Effectively Defending itself against Aircraft....

Again Mate. Then Remove the Signal Flag which Removes it so it at least Actually affects everyone. Right now its just one more Pay to Win Option to take if you dont want to be Killed by RNGesus.

I never Giggle at that. It means I cant put the Result in Peoples Face because its not my Skill which gave me that Kill but Dumb Luck and a Stupid RNG Mechanic. And yes I rage if it happens to me. Because its an RNG Mechanic thats Stupid and not serving any Purpose aside from Annoying you and making you use Signals.

Well Mate. As I said. You can Question the Morality of this. But Legally they Reduced a way to Buy Doubloons by almost 30% so they did not Lie :P

Thats why said "nearly" 100% of the AA Damage. Most Ships Heavy AA Clouds have a Damage of nearly 2000 DPS. And if you Include Potential Mutli Cloud Hits it gets even Worse. DPS on the other Hand is usually Values around 150-200 at best. And thats High Values. Even if you take the Close Range Value which Includes all Outer Auras. You dont get anywhere near the 2000 DPS Value of the Heavy AA Clouds. But since the Near Aura is usually very Limited you can for most Part just Stay outside it. In the End. The only Damage you cant Evade is the DPS Value. Which makes up maybe 5-10% of the Total AA Damage. And thats the thing. The DPS Values are so Low that currently. Even when a T8 CV Attacks a T10 AA Cruiser like Minotaur. If he knows what he is doing. He can Drop that Minotaur 2 Times with his T8 Aircraft. And the Minotaur no matter how Skilled he is. Has to Hope that the CV Misses. Because except for the Torpedoes which against which he can at least Reduce the Damage by Maneuvering. He cant do anything to Prevent himself from being Hit.

Psst. Dont give them any Ideas they might actually end up Implementing....

Yep. And there is a Bigass difference between 30% mentioned and 27% given. And 90% offered and 10% given. :) 27% is Qualifying Perfectly Fine as "Almost 30%" :) As I said. You can Question WGs Morales in this. But Legally they are perfectly Covered :P

Oh Yeah. If just the Hood would have had a Signal Flag to Remove this Stupid Mechanic of the War. Mate no Offense. But this Mechanic is just there to Annoy you and make you use Signals....

No. I am talking about Heavy AA and Normal Flying. Shall I tell you a Trick ? Torpedo Bombers can Dive below Heavy AA. And as you can Start the Attack Run nearly 10km away. You can go into Attack Run before entering AA Range. Thus not a Single Heavy AA Cloud will Hit you. Meaning you only take the DPS Damage which is not even 5% of the Total AA Damage. With Divebombers. You can Slingshot in Theory. But I consider it an Exploit and dont Use it. But you can actually just Fly in between the Flak Clouds without being Hit at all if you learned the Rythm of the Flak Bursts. Its not that Hard to Learn actually. Just View the Black Puffs Spawning. And then in the same Rythm Change your Heading or Speed. So they dont Spawn ontop of you. With Rocket Planes you have to do this to Succeed. But thanks to the Fast Refilling Motorboost. They can Change Speed Constantly. And thus are pretty easy to get through Flak without being Hit. Believe me. Its not that Hard to Learn really. Take a Training Room. Place a Minotaur or something. And just Figure out the Rythm without any Pressure.

Never said they are Saint. Just said they didnt break any Laws. And that you Misunderstood the Text because they nowhere said anything of a 30% Discount on Doubloon Ships and only said they Reduced Prices on Doubloons by almost 30% And well they used a Typical Tactic of Companies. They Reduced Prices and of course Advertised based on the Biggest Percentage Reduction. Thats Perfectly Normal and happens all the Time. Its the same as when on the Shop Window there is a Big Sign "Big Sale up to 50% Discount" and then Very often you go into the Shop and will find that alot of the Stuff is actually not Reduced in Price at all. While other Stuff is Reduced by 10% maybe 20% and only a few Items are Reduced by 50% Its happening in Steam right now. With a Big Sale of some Publisher Promising up to 90% Discounts. And then you Check the actual Offers. And you see. No Discount on the Newer and Bigger Titles. 10% and 25% on Bigger but Older Titles. 33% on some of the Medium Titles. And then 67% and 80% on the Really Really Old and Small Titles which only Cost 10 Euro to begin with. Joke is. I have not even Found a Single Title for 90% Discount in the List lol. But they dont need to. Because it only says. "Up to 90" not actual 90% So anything below 90% is Fine. And well. In this case. It says Almost 30% so as you Correctly Said. 27% on the Small Doubloon Package is Perfectly Adequate to Fit that Description :) Thats really Common. And not Illegal. Would it have been more Honest to say. "We Reduced Doubloon Prices by 10-27%" ? Yes Certainly. But its not a Legal Requirement. :P Also. They did Reduce some of the Bigger Packages by 10% So its at least not for Naught :P

Problem is. Currently a Really Skilled Player can Evade nearly 100% of the AA Damage. But a Really Skilled Player can barely barely Avoid 1 out of 3 Strike Types. And even that one he can only Reduce Damage not actually Dodge it. And no. The CV missing does not Count. If a BB Misses you because it Aimed wrong. It missed. You did not Avoid it.

I actually just said that I am not. But given that you obviously did not even understand that much. I really Wish I was. Then it would be less Embarassing that I understood it while you didnt... But as I said to the other Guy. If your so Convinced that you can Sue Evil WG on this. I wish you the Best of Luck.

You basicly Answered your own Question Then. FFS. Just go an Sue WG then.... Good Luck.

Erm Can you not Read ? 1. "The Price of """DOUBLOONS"""" has been reduced by """ALMOST""" 30% 2. "and dont forget to use your 25% discount coupon" You got that 25% Coupon in your Armory. Its not Time Limited and Still Available to you. Its the First Coupon on the Upper Left under Coupons and can be used for Premium Ships. The Text above only talks about the Price of Doubloons. Sorry. But thats a pretty Clear Statement if you ask me. If you say English is not your First Language then I guess I can understand you might misunderstand it. I sometimes fail to say something right thanks to not being Native English Speaker either. But this Text is really Pretty Clear. And a 30% Discount on Premium Ships is not Mentioned anywhere in this Email.

That is Wrong. I have the Email as well. And the Exact Wording is. "The Price of Doubloons has been Reduced by almost 30%" No Words of a Coupon or even Ships Discount. This clearly Indicates the Price of the Doubloons itself. And not the Ships bought for Doubloons. And as I said. Prices for Doubloons have clearly been Reduced. 5500 Doubloon Pack has been Reduced by 10% What I did just Notice. The "Any Amount of Doubloons" Option. Is now almost Perfectly Matching the Prices of the Packages down to a few Cents. So maybe thats where they Reduced Prices ? :)

No. Very likely she is still pretty Overpowered. In Fact she might be even more Overpowered now. Because with a Kremlin you never Fight on High Range anyways. And with the Extra Penetration it will be even Easier to Penetrate enemy BBs in Close Range....

Well. For me it Worked. So I am not Complaining. But its also Possible that the Email means the General Price Reduction. A Few Months Ago a Package of 5500 Doubloons cost 20 Euro. Now its 18 Euro. So Reduced by 10% Its possible that the Higher Packages have been Reduced by 30% in General. Because the Big Package with 14k Doubloons is now below 50 Euro and I think it was way above 50 Euro before. So maybe its not a Coupon but a Permanent Decrease in Price. And they (as is Typical for Companies) Advertised the Decrease on the Biggest Package. If someone would happen to know the Old Prices maybe he could Answer this ? Which by the way does not Change the 25% Coupon for Doubloon Ships which does not Expire and which you can use :P

I think the Problem is actually a Misundestanding. There was 2 Discounts. 1. They Seperated Premium Ships and Freemium Ships. So Doubloon Ships got their own Section now. And Coal/Steel etc Ships have a different one. With that they also made a New Coupon. Which gives you 25% Discount on Premium Ships you Buy for Doubloons. I actually used mine to Buy the Roma due to which mine is on Cooldown until March 2020 :) 2. There was a 30% Discount not on Doubloon Cost on Buying a Ship. But on Buying Doubloons itself. That one could be Redeemed under Coupons in the Premium Shop not in the Armory. But I am pretty sure that one was Time Limited. So I am not sure if its still there.

Wow. Long Discussion in the Topic and I am not Involved. How the Hell did that Happen ? Also did I just read someone is Proud that he can Manage 15 Aircraft Kills against the Noob Players in T4 ? I mean no Offense. But in T4 most CV Players wont even Hit you with their Strikes if you freaking Beached yourself and got Stuck. If you got 2 CVs on T4 and get Striked 15 Times that Match without the CVs actually doing any Damage to you thanks to Dropping their Ordnance into the Water. Then you will get 15 Aircraft Kills pretty easily. Because you Shoot down 1 Aircraft for Squadron he Sends... Not that he Really Cares. Because he can Still Strike you 2-3 Times with each Squadron. But you do still get Aircraft Kills lol.

I didnt do well in Sinop either. Albeit in my case its also because every Match basicly had 1-3 Sinops per Side so.... But despite that I actually Found it an Rather Overpowered Ship. The Reasons for that are Fairly Simple. The Sinop comes with a Range of Advantages over other BBs. 1. It gets 406mm Guns on T7 which means it can Overpenetration the 25mm Bow and Stern Armor of Enemy Battleships on T5-T7 as well as the 27mm Bow and Stern of T8-T10 Cruisers. A Trait that before this was only given to Nagato and Colorado which in Exchange have Pretty Weak Armor. 2. It gets an Reinforced Armored Bow Covering most of its Bow in more than the Standard 25mm and thus Preventing exactly that Overmatch From Point 1 to be used against this Ship and also Preventing Overmatch from even T8 and T9 Battleships it might meet. A Trait that before was only given to Lyon and Gneisenau. On Gneisenau as it only gets 6 Guns and on Lyon because most of its Guns are Mounted Broadside and cant be used when Driving Bow in. 3. Despite that massive Caliber it gets a Modern BB Turret Layout with 2x3 Guns in Front. Which allows it really abuse the Two Advantages Spoken about above. And go Bow against Literally any Opponent it can Face. Which is something nobody else has. The only other Ship who was Good at going Bow in was Gneisenau with its 2x2 Guns in Front. But of course thanks to the Low Number of Guns which are only 380mm and cant Overmatch T8-T10 Cruisers 27mm Bow. Gneisenau is by far not as Proficient at it as Sinop. 4. It gets a 40 Second Cooldown on the Damage Control Party. Which for Battleships is an Insane Advantage. Because Battleships are in General always at Risk from Fire and Flooding. But Russian BBs while being Limited in how many Times they can use it. Can use it pretty much at any Time they want. So you got 2 Fires going and Put them out ? On any other BB this means for the next 70-80 Seconds you cant do anything if you get Flooded or Set on Fire again. So if that HE Spammer over there now Sets 3 Fires. Well Sucks to be You. Russian BBs including Sinop however. Only have 40 Seconds Cooldown. So by the Time you get any new Fires or Flooding. You will usually be able to Just Press Damage Control again. And as you can Increase the Number of Uses up to 5 Times. You can Generally assume you wont Run out of it unless it really is a very Long Game. And usually you will Die before you can use it 5 Times because the Damage done to you to actually set Fires and Floodings this often Exceed your HP unless its basicly a DD Spamming at you which cant Penetrate you only setting Fires. These are the 4 Advantages which make Sinop Incredible Strong. And which are also the Reason why this Ship is Considered Overpowered. Because as soon as Sinop goes Bow in. It can extremely Easily Overpower any Enemy Battleship at Tier7 and will actually be able to hold its Ground even against most T8 Battleships. Aside from that. Sinop of course also gets a whole Range of Minor Advantages and Generally Sits in the Upper Ranks of T7 BBs. It gets one of the Highest HP Pools of T7 BBs. Its Deck is Pretty Armored. Its Superstructure is rather Small and not easy to Hit for DDs on Range. Its Armor Layout in General Allows for alot of Bounced Shots. Its Turret Arcs allow using the Rear Turret while remaining at very High Angling towards the Enemy. It has Good HE Shells. And it also has some Extra Flak Bursts on High Range to make you an less Attractive Target for CVs. So in Conclusion. The Sinop basicly Unites the Brawler Armor of the German BB Line with the Overmatch Advantage of the Japanese BB Line and the Bow in Roadblock Play Advantage of the French BB Line. In Addition to Stealing these Advantages it also gets the Unique Advantage of the Russian BB line to easily Erase any Fire and Flooding Repeatedly in Short Succession. Thats Pretty Overpowered if you ask me. But well. As with everything. Being Overpowered only means something if you know how to use it. I sure did not when I was using it in the Past.

Going by the Post above. Kremlin will lose 1k AP Damage. So the AP Alpha goes from 15.5k (which was more than the 460mm Guns of the Yamato which have 14.8k) down to 14.5k Kremlin has 9 Shells. So: For Ovepens from 1550 to 1450 For Full Pens from 5166 to 4833 For Citadels from 15500 to 14500 So this is an actual Nerf. But its a very weak Nerf in Practice which wont really affect the Kremlin too much as its Damage output is still Insane. The AP Shell Penetration Change however. Is actually a Buff. The Kremlin Loses some Penetration Power on High Range but Gains some on Lower Range. And the Kremlin is a Brawler. So most of the Time it will Use its Gun in Lower Range to begin with. Meaning that this is effectively a Buff to the Kremlin because it makes her even Stronger in Close Ranges. The Importand Part to this is Angling Thresholds. (Pls note there is some Normalization Mechanics as well as each Shell has an Value for which he Reduces Angling for himself. But we will Ignore them for now to not make this more Complicated than it needs to be) At 60 Degree you Autobounce Shells regardless of Penetration Power. So even just 40mm will Bounce any Shell in the Game. But the moment your on 59 Degree or less. A Penetration Check will happen. Yamato at this Angle has an Armor Value of max 820mm Montana has a Max Armor Value of 818mm Kremlin itself has a Max Value of 860mm Conqueror gets Max of 816mm Republique gets a Max of 864mm And Kurfürst gets 760mm So the Range at which Kremlin will Penetrate even the Thickest Part of the Side Armor of Enemy Battleships. Will go up by about 1km From about 2.5km before to about 3.5km with the New Shell. Of course the Exact Range Varies Depending on each Battleship and the Exact Angling. But in General this means. That Kremlin will have it even Easier to Penetrate you on Close Range when your not 60 Degree or more Angled.

Had that in a Game with my Hosho Yesterday.... It was like Wargaming Literally did not want me to Win this Game. Each time the Team went Slightly ahead. BAM Some Nearly Full HP Ship just Exploded with an Detonation Award...