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Maybe this time it'll be called "synchronized binocular scanning", yet still acting the exact same way.

Don't need to buff it much, just manual AA, which is always a smart choice considering the limited choice of skills.That alone is a nice deathzone around your ship. Seriously, people considering that the second best ship in terms of AA has "bad AA" is very probably a reason why there's always a MASSIVE powercreep in WG's games. If something isn't the best, then it's bad => queue a series of buff and the next line of the same class being even stronger.

99 dps at 4.5km 134 dps at 3.5km plus some 40-ish at 2km that doesn't really matter That's more AA at all ranges than the Chapayev, Edinburgh better long and mid range than the NO by a large margin (which gets half its DPS from 20mm guns). The only one to beat her and the Hipper is the Kutuzov, and even then only by 30 dps of long range AA. Claiming it has bad AA is confounding, and quite probably the reason BBs have been uberbuffed in the AA department.

With guns more powerful than tier8 cruisers no less.

Something I've been fearing ever since I saw hordes of Kongos utterly dominating back during the first beta weekend. I though to myself "this is the class that's going to be the problem child". Lo and behold, 2 years later, it's even more true than before. Honestly, they should just makes a 12v12 BB gamemode, and have a 2 or 3 BB per team hardcap in regular battles, with no more than 1 BBs per division. If they want to make BBs the dominating powerhouses they're turning into, fine. But not at the detriment of the rest of the game.

But by doing that, you turn a very real and important class of ship into a paper design, just because you think you can't make 356mm guns work at tier8. Honestly, if you can't make guns that size work at tier8, I question your ability to aim. I mean, according to your own posts, there's only a 10-20mm penetration different at all distances between the 14" and 15" guns. All that so you can try to overmatch a ship's bow that : a) you're not even guaranteed to penetrate b) will only ever hit with one or two shells per salvo There's really nothing wrong with 14" guns. If a Hipper can deal lots of damage with 8" guns at tier8, you should be able to do so as well with 14" guns.

I still maintain that trying to convince anyone that 356mm guns at tier8 being weak is a pointless endeavour, especially when WG can just hop in notepad and change ricochet angles, normalization angles, and many other relevant things should it not perform. I'll say it once again, butchering a well known class in order to fit her in tier7 while you could instead just tweak her ONE weakness in order to fit seamlessly at tier8 is utter nonsense. It would be a bit akin to trying to argue that the Gneisenau should be tier 6 because her guns are smaller than the others at that tier. Damn the poor bastards it's going to club at tier5 to 7, all that matters is that one scenario where a tier 8-10 cruiser goes bow on for approximately 30 seconds, slowly but surely getting closer to the ship with 10 guns with shells that has the perfect fuze settings to citpen tier 7-10 cruisers without overpenning the citadel..

Angry BBaby spotted

And 380mm guns could in fact citpen Pensacolas and Shchors, Aobas, and basically everything below tier6 Guns which are available from tier6.

At least now I don't have to hesistate between getting the Udaloi or the Izumo. Obviously the devs don't want us playing anything other than BalanceBoats.

It's a skill that tells you where the nearest hidden unit is. Imagine you're a stealthy DD trying to kill an isolated BB that has no idea if he's spotted by a DD, or by someone 16km away. Well no more with that skill. That BB will be able to see that there's a hidden unit somewhere off to his right or where ever, and he'll be expecting torpedoes coming from there. In short, with that skill, you kill off stealth torpedoes.

I can start right now. No more torpedo ambush hidden behind an island. That's gone. Oh, you have a low tier RU or US DD, torpedo cruiser or even a BB with torpedoes looking for a quick strike? Nope, jokes on you, you can't use those torpedoes anymore if someone has a magic skill.

Can you honestly say that any other forum in any other region doesn't have the identical reaction to that skill being introduced?

Alright, how about this feedback: Keen intuition/radio position finding/whatever you want to call this broken skill absolutely destroys the gameplay of both stealthy DDs that rely on surprise to get hits AND cruisers wanting to plan ambushes. In short, it's a skill that completely and utterly wrecks the very notion of stealth and ambush gameplay. You might as well just have everyone spotted at all times.

I'm approaching the Udaloi quite fast, and I don't intend on getting the Kebab. Can any one with experience recommend speccing the captain in order to stealth torp, or is that just counter productive? Basically, I want to know if it's better to get CE rather than falling back on the good old DE as a fifth skill for the purpose of the Udaloi. I know it's possible to stealth torp with her, but it it really wise to do so, or should I just follow the long range pew pew Russian mantra?

There is nothing wrong with having a team of young, inexperienced lower management staff..... as long as they're willing to put their pride aside and let their employees as well as bosses (constructively) criticize their techniques and actions.

Well, WG being generous at first, then very obviously nerfing the crap out drop rates isn't exactly new. [looks at the container counter hitting 70 without getting a super container]

It can happen. In perfect circumstances, on "poorly" armored BBs like the Fuso, hitting the perfect spot, you can citadel BBs. Realistically? You're better off using HE on any BB other than one showing full broadside at low range.

Just bought 5 more 1€ boxes. Guess who's the proud new owner of 400 zulu flags, and 75 free xp flags? You'd think they would have done something so you don't always get the same flags, of which I already had 500 without the gift containers. Oh well. I guess I won't be spending any more money on this game any time soon.

Yeah, trading hydro, the best secondaries in the game all tiers considered, easily over twice the AA at 3.5 and 2km for one torpedo launcher per side is obviously just a straight forward buff, and the Bismarck has obviously noooooooooooo advantage over that epic torpedo action the Tirpitz has. Also, if the Scharnhorst is such a downgrade, why is she the best performing ship in the game tier by tier ? (only taking into consideration ships that someone here at this very instant can buy through gold or credits) You're so full of **** that it's starting to be sad. Not only are you here defending the fact that the Scharnhorst is bad,despite it having 55% WR and much higher average damage than any tier7 BB, hell more average damage than half the tier8 BBs, but you're all defending the Bismarck in a thread that's not at all about it, completely ignoring all its strengths and pointing out that it's not OP because the Tirpitz is the same ship (it's really not) with torpedoes, and that one doesn't have 53% WR You're so completely delusional that I'm finding myself wondering if you're doing a social study about how long people are willing to debate with you when you're being purposefully obtuse, dishonest and going in all directions at the same time.

I still remember an extremely detailed bug report post about the non-historical (read : too little armor with too soft armor) Maus turret, including historical pictures taken measurements of the turret by the Soviets, more recent ones, tons of technical data in multiple languages about steel composition at different thicknesses. Two days later? "Thread closed Issue resolved." Literally 4 words. Two years later, the Maus still has too little armor with a completely irrelevant hardness coefficient giving it less than 200mm of armor. Gaijin staff are the closest thing to actual Soviet NKVD officers.

The Richelieu and the Zara. The first because it's a bigger, angrier, more overmatchy Dunkerque and the latter because she looks like she has the potential to be one of the finest cruiser tier by tier in the game.

You are so confused, it hurts me physically. The fact that you think that a ship that forces DDs to retreat and CAs to stay at max range does anything but make max range sniping worse is sad. The only max range sniping the Bismarck prevents is the one where Bismarck players are tired of doing it, and decide they want to club at closer range. As if people did NOT want to get pummeled by the best secondaries in the game as soon as they enter a MASSIVE 10km range and have an instant 2 fires within the first 30 seconds, don't want their ships relying on stealth to be charged and hydro'd out of smoke, and BBs don't want to bounce on 10/10 balancedtm turtleback, and prefer staying far away.

Or short range.Or long range. The Fuso is better than the others (arguably apart from the Dunkerque because of her fast battlecruiser pedigree) at all ranges. You can just engage someone at 20km, and keep closing in until you're at 4km, and still come out on top against anything short of an NC charging in bow first.

Buying a Molotov in order to use it as an HE spammer is downright criminal if you ask me. But if your stats were public and I were to go on it, I would probably see that fire damage isn't really OP in your hands, right? Too bad your profile is private and all... But wait, what's this? Warship.today keeps a record before you made it private! And it turns out that all your OP easy mode firestarter HE spam ships are abysmal in damage. Putting aside the Atago (which you're terrible with) because you don't have too much experience at tiers past 7, and you might have played it too aggressively to get any real damage with it, having around 22k damage with HE spam ships like the Omaha and Murmansk isn't exactly helping your case. Hell, you have 11k damage with the St Louis, perhaps the strongest cruiser tier by tier, and one of the best fire starters in the game. The server average the past two weeks was over twice that amount. Now, I hate to play this card, I really do, but since the last screenshot of your stats before you made them private, you had 41% WR in almost 800 battles,and that consistently with every class of ship. Perhaps it's time to stop blaming fire damage and start looking at your own playstyle.