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I just used my Hiryu with fighter set up. Was over in 2 hours

Not the only one. Too many good games, not enough time. Also, IJN cruisers had no buiseness doing AA duty anyway

Remember this was possible on thursday at 22 pm. Most people do work on a friday and are not up that late to play. Also, a lot of people do not have tier 8 or above so from 22pm on a weekday and onward MM can get weird at that tier range. Just learn to accept it or go lower at those times.

Well, I can't believe I expected anything else but battleships to be pupolarly voted on, well some cruisers as well I suppose. Hell this entire poll is biased anyway. Not even any of the fine carriers or destroyers mentioned in the voting, shame to see soo many wonderfull ships be forgotten, also if there must be a BB bias, at least remember HMS Nelson or some of the french or italien ones. I sense butthurt from a certain player. In any case, I voted for french BB, they have some interesting ones

Hmm, torpedo = new anti zombie weapon? Either that or a very complicated lawn mower

I find it funny that the russian radars have longer range than the US ones. Not that I know much about WW2 radars. Also, I am surprised that the german cruisers don't get any. I was under the impression that they had some rather good ones, was I wrong? Will be interesting too see how this will affect gameplay. I am deffinetly exited.

Well, it was bound to happen, considering the general bust of the other big battleships. In any case I like her.

This will be glorious with the amount of youtubers failing to pronounce them correctly, Not that I can do it better In any case, I am happy to see more ships in the game, not that I am interested in russian cruisrs, but more ships are allways better.

I like this idea. This could be really usefull. At the very least it will be a nice addition. +1

Just had one myself. 2 guys on out team went one way (immediatly died) everyone else went the other (I followed, wasn't going to suicide alone). It was on two brothers. The two guys that went alone ran in to 5 enemies, and as said they died, the rest of the team continued on, despite the enemy now having a clear shot to our base. So me (Blysca), an Amagi and a Pensa went back to defend. Managed to kill all enemies with no losses, and go all the way back to the enemy base and participate in the cap. It took the lemming train that, long to get there. Worst were the friendly torpedoes, with so many ships close together they all fired torps after the enemy, despite not being in range, and the minekaze was in the middle of the blob! But no friendly torp hit an ally! How? Everyone were so close to each other that you could walk from one ship to the other, and the enemy had 3 Hatu who just had to torp spam the blob, yet they didn't... Sometimes I am amazed. That battle was half frustrating the first few min when everything looked like it would go wrong, after that, I was laughing like crazy. Somebody hand me the alcohold, I need to get drunk for this

You are right. The problem is the few way they can change it do to how they decided to make the gameplay in the beginning. It is the same with IJN vs USN CV. They just can't balance them properly.

Carriers will probably allways be a problem to balance. There will probably allways be those CV players that will make it completely OP, and with the limited stats/parameters they can change in this game to balance stuff, it will be very difficult. In any case, I hope they succeed at one point, as I love carriers and not intersted in BB from a historical perspective. But CV just aren't so fun in this game. Really hope they find that sweet spot to not have them be UP but also not OP.

Okay, just realised something. Apparently the new Italian scout plane is the only foreign plane ingame that does not have japanese markings. It has italien ones. Also, apparently E3 boss uses the same guns as Zara.

I would say yes. It is basicly a Gnevy, but can use 8km torps, so it actually has some usable torps for emergency use. It all really comes down to how good you are with using gunboat DD and taking advantage of invisi firering. Just remember that it has crapAA and slow turret traverse, those are the real bad things in my opinion.

Torpedo belts seem to reduce the chance of getting flooding. Not sure if they got hitpoints (like other sections of the ship), and will only save you from the first few hits. This is why aiming torpedoes at the center of the battleship doesn't do as much damage as near the front or rear, I believe.

Agree. Cleveland doesn't really need the range, beside at tier 8 it is more of a support ship than anything else, your job isn't nessecary to do damage. Besides, cruisers get worse the higher you get as BB just nuke you with citadels. Also, what does range help with killing DD? You can't hit at that range anyway. Attacking BB at tier8? Not something you should do, not even at tier 6. Maybe if you got plenty of support, but otherwise cruisers shouldn't. Fighting tier 8 cruisers? Well, you are going against something 2 tiers higher, it won't end well either way. The cleveland is okay, maybe it's shell travel time could use a buff, but that is it.

YES! Just managed to beat E1 hard. Final kill was so difficult mainly due to RNG. I started to use 4 CL, BBV and CVL with full ASW gear except 1 gun on BBV. Then switched over to 5CL and 1BBV for final kill with full ASW gear and no guns. It eventually worked. I didn't need green T as i had thought. It simply came down to getting lucky with the crits. Spend about 3k fuel and ammo as well as about 20 bucket. Some of that was spent farming for ASW gear. I only managed 2 type 3 sonar and 1 type 3 DC.

That seems about right. Her torpedo stats are nowhere near a lot of the kai ni heavy cruisers who go to around 70-80, even the none kai ni can get to around 59 minimum. And the firepower of the kai ni are ofcourse much better. I don't nessecary think that she is so bad, but more that other cruisers have so much better stats when you get them to kai ni. I mean, why would you use Zara when all Myokos have better stats? So for all those people who take stats first, then yeh, her torpedo stat really lets her down when it comes to night battle, and with nothing else to make her special... In this game there are really 2 reasons to use someone, stats wich is generally important when people want to do well at events, and then if people like the designs.

I heard that E1 was easy and some beat it in 1 hour or less on hard. Then again, we all now that the ultimate question is the extra operation map and the farming following it.

Yep, as I wrote in my post, it is the heavy cruiser Zara. Also that 203mm gun seems to have 9 firepowe, 1 AA, -2 accuracy and long range. So it seems that long range and poor accuracy (except when equipped on italian ships themselves) are their specialty. The scout has +1 FP, +1 AA, +2 ASW, +2 accuracy, +1 evasion +4 LOS.

OH GOD! Just saw some new CG or something from the update, and it looks like we got PT Princess or something like that Edit: Also, Italian cruiser Zara is here.

Well, it used to be something like that, but with the way multiplayer gaming is these days, I don't know. Think the only place it really still has something like that is in 1v1. Also mostly seem to be strategy from my experience.

The manga has a lot more. But the point was that they have plenty of condidates to bring in, if they want.

Probably a little too aggressive in my playstyle, I have a tendensy to go too far ahead of my team and die alone. Need to learn the citadels of a lot ships, still can't seem to hit them reliably enough. Also, need to work on my carrier gameplay again, after I took a 2 month break to play other ships, my skills just went down the drain. Probably also has something to do with balance changes. Still, the best way to improve is to know you got a problem.

True, but Bismarck is also in Arpeggio along with a german U-boat, Lexington, sone US battleships, cruisers and Destroyers. We even got 2 some british ships as well, HMS vampire and can't remember the other one.