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They look stiff, but much more responsive. Torpedo planes are clearly being buffed in favor of not being able to strike with multiple squadrons. Concerning for large DDs.

yes, most people guessing: "Me" "Trololol guy" "Boobs" and other trolly stuff and totally in it only for the free stuff, with all those serious guesses. Clearly a poignant social commentary on your end. Keep up the important social academics. You're a pro at this.

That's phase 1 of balancing, aka "Oh god we can't really put *that* in battles with other T9 CAs !" In comes community pressure to have their waifu. Phase 2 will be buffing the wrong attributes that won't change a thing. Phase 3 will be giving up and just buffing sigma and lowering the citadel.

Meet @Boris_MNE , approximately 95% of all that he says is advanced sarcasm. Next level sarcasm, some would say. Others would call it trolling. In any case, sounds like you're getting an all expenses paid trip to sunny Siberia again soon, Boris

So they went with "rockets have the same effect as IJN 500kg bombs" lul Can wait to see the Tiny Tim in action. Every ship within 2km with 4 fires, and 6k damage. Kappa

No, that's the weight of a 5" shell. And since you won't hit everything, you essentially have a dozen 5" shells hitting your target. Very meh for a strike run that takes minutes to coordinate.

They have about as much explosive filler as 5" shells, so I wouldn't bet on it that much. The way I see it, either they uber buff rockets so they have the same effectiveness as 100kg bombs at the risk of shitting all over DDs and do nothing but set fires and deal light superstructure damage to bigger ships , or they're effectively worthless. That, and the distinct risk of "top kek your ship was just hit by an unavoidable torpedo" Tiny Tim, if rockets make their way to the Essex and Midway, again shitting all over DDs and this time cruisers as well with 60kg of explosives going off inside the ship. Useless, overpowered or overbuffed to the point of having the same effect as Japanese 500kg bombs. Meh, I remain highly skeptical. Especially with the rather light RN rockets, inadapted at fighting capital ships, let alone heavy cruisers.

The RN wasn't a good choice for rockets... Sure they made extensive use of them, but they weren't big enough to take on larger warships like the ones we see ingame. Having anti merchant ship, DDE and submarine weapons in a game where to most numerous class you'll see in a given battle is a battleship is odd... There's no real scaling for the game. Nothing to help rockets stay relevant past mid tier. The only country that could have used rockets is the USN, and even then there's a hugh scaling issue since you jump from small rockets made to destroy small ships to larger ship killers, precursors to anti ship cruise missiles.

Oh god, a German cruiser going full potato and getting citpenned like all the other cruiser for plebs? How could this be!?

I feel left out again...

Excerpt from team chat: "We all go die in A like men" "Wait for a free win" "Don't cap it's a trap" after the enemy holds B and C, and us nothing. They even managed to lose A badly.

If you're playing mid tier and still haven't left spawn after 8 minutes of battle on a small low tier map, you're sabotaging the match and calling you out on it is natural behavior. If you're a bottom tier CV clickfighting fighters over enemy top tier BB AA and spamming me to use my bottom tier cruiser to shoot down those planes, insisting that I must do it beacause it's my job, I'm calling you an idiot. I'm not asking for everyone to be gaming gods, but damn, having 5 and a half braincells lighting up to press "W" once and 6 more braincells to figure out that T8 BB AA > T6 CL AA isn't much in a damn team PVP game.

The similarities end when you realize that those oxen are pulling in the correct direction. WoWS oxen would have to be pulling in all different directions including into a meat grinder and an active volcano.

By the way, what do you call a group of [edited] on WoWS? Just like crows, it's a murder of [edited]. Or as I prefer to call it, random battle.

If I can stop a strike using Italian spaghetti propeller AA with tops 4km range on the Aosta that has the average AA dps of a stock t6 cruiser, and literally not a single point or module increasing AA effectiveness, i'm sure you can manage too.

I'm so glad that you decided to use that very image, because you just showed how completely oblivious you are to your own complete lack of self-awareness. No, a 100 person poll with extremely biased answers isn't significant compared to hundreds of thousands of accounts over 4 servers.

"Let's make a flawed poll about a polarizing class and draw conclusions for it!" You know, I'm going to make a poll later than asks "Are DDs with 1/4th HE pen, torpedo reload boosters on 23k alpha torpedoes fine the way they are, or should we delete the entire class?", and when everyone votes to not delete DDs, ask WG to make every single DD from now on like the Harugumo, because clearly everyone loves it. Let me try something... Wow, it also fits perfectly! BBs clearly too stronk with terrible destructive abilities that make entertaining shootouts between cruisers and DDs impossible. Please remove BBs. If CVs weren't in game, the swarming masses of braindead potatoes (to remain polite) would demand the immediate removal of DDs because of stealth torping. In every game, there's an obvious scapegoat that people pile on to in order to explain their failings and frustrations. Clearly CVs are at fault for you dying when you're alone on a flank with no more AA mounts and should be removed. Clearly sniper rifles are at fault for you sitting on top of a hill with a machinegun in Battlefield, and should be removed. Clearly gankers are at fault for you AFK jungling in a MOBA game, and should be immediately removed.

The second one I opened was a duplicate. Checkmate.

The irony of saying that about 11.5s of flight time, but doing nothing while an aircraft strike 40 seconds away on the minimap then claiming there's no time to evade is astounding.

I was once playing a Lexington and saw a spotted DD and thought "hooray, he's slowing down in a single puff of smoke, so I can bomb him while he slows down" Turns out that there was an unspotted Kutuzov 3km behind him parking in that smoke. I lost all 3 squadrons in literally less time than it took to make them turn around. In a shocking relevation, actually playing the damn class and seeing the other side of the issue gives insight, like the fact that sometimes you're randomly going to lose a squadron because a previously unspotted AA cruiser with 7.2km AA range just popped DFAA. Or sometimes, you're randomly going to lose two planes on the first few damage ticks of entering a Minotaur's 8km deathzone. He said, playing almost exclusively T10 BBs, and mostly Conqueror and Yamato.

Let's go further into the analysis! Has a torpedo spread so large it can the ship can be in the middle of a map and hit both A and C caps in a single salvo: Minotaur: NO Wooster: NO Harugumo: Yes. Twice.

"My job is to analyse data on a daily basis" translated from internet expert to regular means "I browse wowsft.com and compare my waifus" Trust me, I analyse data on a daily basis.