Kazomir

Could be a young'un. Cut the guy some slack. 95% winrate is nothing to snort at.

No I was meaning the tier 9 and 10 BBs. By the way, can you please name these designs? Im interested.

Good on you. Keep it up captain.

They need some time making up the tier 9 and 10.

2015 called, wants it's thread back.

Oh you sweet sweet summer child...

The benefit of having a cap point early is huge. Meeting the enemy DD is bound to happen at some point, so it does not matter whether it will be at the cap point if you rush or later. Actually, I prefer to rush the cap so I can meet the enemy DD right off the bat up close and personal without any of his teammates interfering, and seal his fate quickly, cap, then go for annother cap point before his teammates get in range to ruin my life. Without their DD(s) the enemy team becomes blind and you are free to harass them at will while also having a point advantage. That said I wouldnt be so cocky in an IJN destroyer, since in a gunfight it will get destroyed by an USN Destroyer, and you might play an IJN one, therefore your view on things.

A bit outdated, and not really informative. This guy is like "Not my job, don't care"

And since that is impossible, sometimes even for cruisers, most IJN DD players completely switch off their AA at the start of the battle.

DD AA will never be enough to get rid of a whole squadron of fighters shadowing them.

Lets hope that guy taking notes is actually going to do something with them, and it's not just something like this:

You know, firing your AA guns gives your position away.

That is actually BS and not how ranked battles work. DD holding back on a cap point? Only IJN DDs might do that if there is a lot of US ones on enemy team, and even then they usually cap because they can see an US DD First. I myself Rush to cap as many points as I can at the start of the game in my US DD. If i see an IJN DD? I kill it. Bigger ships being torped by DDs as they try to cap is nonsensical too, since they will have a DD escort to spot torps for them if they do it right.

Yes, one decent game really proves a point. Right... Cant wait for WG to nerf the Kawachi cause someone had a good game in it.

BTW here is USS Nields, a Benson-class which had its torpedo tubes removed in favor of more AA armament (some of it appears to not be installed at that point) I think it would be a cool choice, to eschew torpedoes in favor of a good AA suite.

There is no point in this thread no?

Cruisers can cap lol?

The meta in ranked games is different and I dont really see a problem with that (except for the fact that destroyers are too much, but that is because of map design in my opinion). However in Randoms I think Fubuki is better than a Benson.

Only thing wrong with the Mogami that needs to be nerfed are the 155mms or the skills related to these guns. It is in my opinion wrong that they are preferred to the elite guns just cause the secondary armament skills work for them. This blocks choice for both captain skills and gun selection. That or the 203s need a hefty buff to range to bring them on par. The Cruiser as a class at these tiers needs a hefty buff too. Not to Damage dealing but to survivability. And I will still stick with Aoba. Much more nimble and has armor that can be relied upon if angled, unlike the mogami which has almolst the same armor 2 tiers higher. What Mogami has more than aoba is 2 more turrets, one of which has awkward turning, while everything else is worse. And no cleveland is in no way better than Aoba.

Reasons not as much people play the game: 1. No Clans 2. No Clan wars (or clan ranked or whatever) 3. No incentive to play for higher tiers (Clan wars might be an incentive), which are: A/ Not cheap at all B/ Arguably less fun than mid tiers. C/ Definetly less balanced than mid tiers.

Being the best CA at a tier range where CA's generally suck compared to other ships does not mean much, and I highly doubt its one of the best CA/CLs tier for tier in the game (I'd much rather take Kuma/ Aoba on that spot).

I do not think the AA of the US DD's should be buffed. The fact that an enemy carrier is diverting planes to you means that the carrier that is on YOUR TEAM can either: A. Use his fighters to kill the enemy's unprotected bombers. B. Come to your aid and fight under your AA.

Because if a double midway divison chooses to kill ANY SHIP, they can. No matter what that ship does. THere is no escape. Not even if it has cruiser support and they all pop their AA Panic ability.

If a ship HAS to rely on her STOCK guns and some tier 4 captain skill in order to stay even remotely competitive at its tier, then something is VERY Wrong with it

Some of the Benson-classes were modified for maximum AA measure as an anti-kamikaze measure, but at the cost of their torpedo tubes.