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You know Jethro..every time i see that "Saltfree content"-advertisement and check your post above that advertisement...i'm kinda wondering if you're telling the truth

i got a whopping 80 from the first 4...yay

The moment you add a class to a game which is balanced by the fact that with ideal MM there should only be one on the team, you basicly fucked up in the first place. Any combination of the other 3 classes usually results in a more or less playable game (although i concede that games with 5+ DDs per side are usually not much fun), but if you get more than 1 CV per side into a match it usually degrades into a shitshow. It may be realistic that a CV has a lot more impact than a DD or BB in a battle, but realism should not be a priority here. If you design a class which is inherently more powerful than all the other classes in the game, you degrade every player who decides to not play that certain class.

from the dov-bleg: Ranked Sprint From April 29 to May 11, the 11th Ranked Sprint will take place. Battles will be played on Tier IX-X ships of all classes in a 12 v 12 format in the "Arms Race mode". So..yeah..who exactly thought that this was a good idea? I always enjoyed playing Sprint bc you could use ships of lower tiers in a rather small environment. It was a lot more forgiving than the usual sweaty Ranked gameplay and felt more casual after all. Transforming Sprint into a 12 v 12 Ranked clusterfudge will surely keep me from playing a single game this season. As someone else said lately: I really dread any new patchnotes from this game because there is hardly ever a time in which one reads something encouraging anymore.

dov-bleg: We would also like to mention that there won't be a discount on commander skills redistribution this season. This measure was required in previous seasons so that players could adjust their commanders' skills for battles where aircraft carriers were not a factor.

I don't remember exactly when i bought Alaska for FXP but it was around December i think. I was back above 1m FXP probably end of February. Of course, i took full advantage of the 200% Events at Christmas and Chinese New Year (not entirely sure if that was 200% as well) so the math on that is rather skewed. Also i played quite a lot in the last few months. edit: just checked, got Alaska on the 7.1.2020

Sooo..exactly what a CV does to all other classes ingame?

Back in the day, grinding the 1m 750k FXP for Missouri was probably harder than grinding 2m FXP today - that being said, i don't see the same value in the Smaland. The T10 "premium" ships up until now don't have a higher credit multiplier like their T8 or T9 brethren. TBH i don't think the price is outlandish, and i don't remember ppl complaining back in the day that the Missouri cost 125€ (?) worth of dubloons. I guess I'm somewhat indifferent to this bc i really don't care about the upcoming FXP ships and will probably be pretty close to 2m once one pops up which interests me. Overall, 1.5m FXP would have been a more sensible solution, though. edit: got the free exp value for the Missouri wrong, but that does not change the underlying point i'm trying to make

Why are people like this?

It begs the question against what these ships are supposed to be effective in the first place

I wonder how Stalingrad is not excessively effective against anything and thus needs a fuse-time-nerf as well

German battleship Odin, Tier VIII: Fuse arming time of AP shells increased from 0.010 to 0.033 s. German cruiser Ägir, Tier IX: Fuse arming time of AP shells increased from 0.010 to 0.033 s. Odin and Ägir were excessively effective against lightly-armored cruisers and destroyers. ST changes

I have played the RN BBs from T5 to T10, and of all the BB trees i've finished (US/JP/FR/RU) this one was by far the worst. I think the only ship i truly enjoyed was the T7. Any other was either pretty meh (T6) or outright bad (T5/8/9). Especially the Lion was a horrible experience, probably the most inaccurate guns on any high tier BB i've ever played. The Conquerer seems fine because, similiar to the Alsace, many barrels compensate for rather mediocre accuracy. Haven't played too many battles with it yet, though.

The F.D stands for F.... Destroyers

constructive feedback: STOP GIVING THIS CLASS EVEN MORE OPTIONS TO DEAL CITADEL DAMAGE thank you

Gotta eat some crow then, didn't know that.

Azuma is a bit of a special case bc it is coated in 25mm all over - not many cruisers got this (they usually got some armor stripe which can bounce shells when proper angled). Combined with that huge-[edited]citadel of hers, she is a prime target for citadels from all kinds of angles. I'm not saying that armor is bad per se, but i don't think that 90mm will be beneficial in many cases. I guess i'm just disappointed by the ship. It has nothing going for it, just a somewhat upscaled Spee. I don't understand why they can't give the German ships another flavor - i mean they did it with the 2nd US BB line for example. This is just the usual meh-accuracy/crap-HE/meh gun-angles/armored-something with secondaries thrown in as a more or less useless gimmick.

It's kinda funny to see Notser rave about the great armor scheme. The downside of it will be that you will hardly eat any overpens in the Ägir - full pens all day. Furthermore his argument concerning HE spammers is also rather...questionable. Oh well...

referring to the linked video: Would have been nice to see the build, but judging from the secondary range it probably is a full secondary build? Without the end-screen its kinda hard to judge the amount of damage he/she dealt with the secondaries - didn't seem too impressive to me though. But yeah, this looks kinda crap to be honest. Mediocre AP performance (except against that Massa who showed full broadside), the usual lousy german HE, mediocre gun accuracy, eats a crap ton of full pens (just look at the hits from the Freddy). This has nothing to offer over Kronstadt or Alaska except for some gimmick in which you have to spec heavily to make it work (with questionable results). At least the Siegfried had good accuracy and guns which could actually overmatch something.

I can't even fathom why anyone thinks this is a good idea.

I checked the replay, and i was overexaggerating a bit - he died after 5 minutes - but to Bismarck main battery fire. I don't know if the autopilot was responsible for it or not but..well...it didnt help our team either way.

Today i was blessed with a Kidd player who, aftere several hundred battles with this ship, is averaging 3.8k damage per game - he died as fast as he could. The next casualty was our CV who died 4 minutes into the game. I'm still trying to figure out how he managed to do that.

Thought about going further than R10, but nah - not worth the amount of frustration it would bring. I'm not a huge fan of arms race, and putting CVs into the mix as well killed it for me.

Purely techtree, i would definitely roll with Japan.

I guess this is a twisted "sign of approval" :D