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But when IJN DDs have that on a much less reliable weapon as a consumable that's separate from smoke, it's OP and needs to be removed. You will be missed smoke+TRB Shira.

Same, but only because unless I'm playing a srs bizness ship, I tend to go a bit gung ho with them. "Go A? Seems stupid, alright." "Don't move, I'm sending torpedoes right in front of you." In fact, it's become a meme that when one of them says torpedoes spotted, the two others look behind them before looking forward Interestingly, I did try that yesterday. By telling my better half what to do in a Cesare (in a T7 match), she managed to be in the top third of the leaderboard in the handful of matches she tried. Fast low tier cruisers however, was a mistake. RIP Duguay-Trouin, 2fast2furious2panic2torpedo'd

To be fair, it doesn't really matter what you use on the Mikasa, you're not going to hit anything in the first place

Actually easily, the accepted list by naval historians in terms of tonnage and number of ships is as follows: 1)RN 2)USN (RN and USN will flip over the course of the war) 3)IJN 4)MN 5)RM ( in my opinion MN and RM are interchangeable. MN had better destroyers and a CV with a second being built, RM more numerous modern battleships) 6)KM 7)Dutch navy The rest is basically irrelevant But hey, if we're going with alternate history, then the Soviet navy would still be better than the KM thanks to a number of Sovietsky Soyuz that would have been built, RM DD ripoffs and overall just a lot of collaboration with the RM. Then again, in alternate history, the KM gets H45s. And that's why we don't use hopes and dreams to make lists like that. I know that hurts some national feelings and Wehrabooes' feelings, but that's the end of it. Trying to argue the contrary is just as laughable as the OP's "Italy bestest navy" post.

Impact of navies? Lulz Clearly KM was impactful with that messing about the Channel, shooting the Hood, then just getting bombed in harbors or fjords for the rest of the war. I have no idea why people want to say that the KM was in any way good or impactful. Well yeah. No all or nothing armor scheme, 4x2 turrets, having 10k more displacement for less guns and less armor? How is that good? Outdated.

KM 4th? lulz 2 outdatedly designed BBs, 2 outdatedly designed BB/BC, 1 outdated armored cruiser, 2 outdatedly designed heavy cruisers, a handful of meh CLs and DDs = 4th? Lulz. KM was ten times more bark than bite, even at its strongest.

That would be a good way to think about it, if, you know, each overpen dealing a 1/10th of BB AP alpha didn't remove 8-10% of a DD's total HP. Pss, War Thunder now uses the exact same detection mechanics with tanks appearing and disappearing in thin air. They did that to combat the rampant cheating, not that it's helping, since said mechanics are extremely lenient.

It took me from 2016 (including Santa crates from 2016 and 2017) to a few weeks ago to get a single ship from an SC, so yeah, me getting a mission for a ship in a freedom container was never going to happen. Ever.

We haven't had a good "We recognize a BB overpopulation and are taking steps to fix it" meme in a while, so here we are.

Stupid. But then again, I've told them that a T8 Jean Bart and a T7 Lyon was [edited]stupid. They sure as hell didn't listen for the Lyon so no reason for them to listen now. By the way... "we don't like having sisterships as premium and regular ships for this branch " S_O telling us bold face lies yet again.

inb4 WoT players demanding arty nerfs, and the Yamato's HE shells just ends up stunning their entire team for the entire match

This. Shooting at an Emerald just feels like bullying an handicapped kid. Yeah it's really easy, but oh god why?

And I told WG that a Lyon on T7 was stupid for everyone involved, and that radar had no place on a BB (Missouri), yet here we are. We can revel in stupid WG decisions, or we can just look at WG had to do with putting said ship on T6 and T7. The Duca is quirky and has ridiculous shell velocity with quirky torpedoes and concealment. A quirky, but gimmicky ship. Fun one, don't get me wrong, but it could have gotten it's historical shell velocity, perhaps a rudder shift nerf and dropped to T5 easily. The Abruzzi is a damn mess that had consumables thrown at it until it was deemed playable enough to throw in the store, where it'll probably be one of the worst selling premiums because of how underwhelming it is. So yeah, I wouldn't use a "I told you so, so Trento T7 and Zara T8!", because believe me when I say that the only thing you're winning is the prediction, certainly not in having a competitive ship. The fact is that 2 years ago, the Zara would have fit right in as a T8. As of today, it has to face competition that have more guns that are almost as potent (or more, depending on the situation, USN 203mm heavy waifu shells) that fire faster, with comparable armor, vastly better AA and simply put a better turret layout. The Hipper is surviving thanks to cheese mechanics like 1/4th HE pen and autobounce at closer range turtleback.

Well you know what they say... Mikasa es tu casa

Take notes, @Boris_MNE

What do you think Space X is? Elon Musk's doing? [laughs in SerB]

WG needs to fund a second office building in a taxhaven

That would be an amazing IJN BB nerf "Spend 30 seconds loading a worthless shell that makes all the AA crew get in cover" lul

[cries in Atlanta and Minotaur]

It's not a stealth nerf if the guns always hate you.. I swear this is my face 90% of the time I play Missouri: I shouldn't have changed Steven's captain icon with a seagull

Somewhere in a WG office, there's a Russian developer with a photo of the Mikasa and a tear in his eyes when he looks at it. "Nyet comrade, never again"

And not playing things that utterly rekt potatoes and tryhard unicorns, especially divisions of them. RIP karma when playing Atlanta, Kebab, or literally any CV. "What's the matter coward Atlanta? Too scared to come out and fight like a man?" Yes. >queue reports

Sorry, I spaced out on reading his post between the "16 barrels of bofors are doing less damage than 80 barrels of bofors and that's unbalanced" and "please introduce upgrade kits for real money that topkek buff ships"

The first step to doing that would be to never do any of the things you suggested, ever.