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I get 50k average on Strike Bogue, it's still workable but it definitely feels like they took the scisssors approach to balancing the lower tiers. Just take away a core feature, that'll fix it.

I'm not sure what I got. Is the Restless Fire flag from there?

I have an invite code that gives an Emden and some other stuff, no idea if can work together with the referral thing.

Urgh, this is why you should never, ever brawl BBs with Nelson. Even angling can't save you from 400mms. Or, to be more accurate, the angling needed is just too specific.

Honestly, every time I see a BB perfectly dodge 1.1km stealth range torps, coming from a favorable angle, I can't wait for the DW ones. I'll be saying this a lot.

Mate, the thing costs 100+ bucks in doubloons. It already costs more than the super-duper ultimate collector's edition of a AAA game that you'll actually get to keep indefinitely, as opposed to a ''microtransaction'' in an online game. And in order to even get more than 10 of each of those signals from the current event, you had to already have put hundreds of hours into the game (you got 10 for each 1000 battles). So let's put things into perspective here. It's a great earner but it requires either ungodly grinding or 110 euros. It's not cheap.

They seem to be in ''smoke is the devil'' mode right now, like they suddenly decided smoke-firing is the biggest thing hurting the game, months after they released something with smoke+hydro+radar.

For me, the real loot of the event was the 50 of each special signal I got. Combined with 300% dailies and 24h premium, I farmed a good 90k FXP. As far as I'm concerned, that's quite generous. The permacamos are weird, like how did they choose those 4 ships? But whatever, not going to complain about free stuff even if I was left out of the t10 missions. I will say this though: it wasn't cool that they made the achievs so demanding and specific. Last year was better, anyone could get all the achievs with a bit of time and effort, and everyone got the same rewards.

I remember this being by far the hardest scenario. Did they decrease the difficulty any since launch?

New campaign gives more incentive to play t8+ and don't forget the current achievs either.

It's too gimmicky to be consistent. It wants to fight at ranges where it can't keep up with the team (not that you're fast enough anyway), which leaves you vulnerable to bombers. You have to bowtank for dear life against BBs, which leaves you open to torping, which is a hard counter to your superheal. It can do good work if you're top-tier and you don't get targeted by decent CVs or torpboats. I'm sure Missouri is a better investment despite the price but if you like weird, gimmicky ships, Nelson has got you covered. I just can't justify the cost when Missouri earns so much more and is a better-rounded ship.

If you have to sacrifice smoke for it, I don't think it'll be OP depending on the range and duration, but it'll make for yet another aggravation to stealthy high-tier DDs while not hurting Khaba-types very much. I mean damn, we already have gimmicks like BB hydro, BB radar and even some DD radar. Hoping this line won't catch on, and judging by the lack of community interest, it seems likely. I'll want to play it, but probably won't go for the radar. Honestly, I want the gimmicks, especially if it's something new and different. A new line with a slightly different arrangement of stats isn't going to excite me. I don't cream my pants over national flags and famous names, I need an interesting new way to play the game if I'm going to go to the trouble of starting a new line. I don't see why anyone would like for the game to remain stagnant and not get new mechanics.

Is SI a good idea if you use the premium version? I feel like if you just eat one torp or a few pens, you won't get to use that 4th charge simply because that damage can't be healed. I'm used to dreadnoughts and this is a completely different playstyle. It's a very lopsided ship - can't brawl, all guns are concentrated, massive citadel, horrible aft armor - it requires an entirely different approach to any early BB except maybe Dunk. The reliance on superheal makes it that much more unstable and eclectic.

On closer inspection, it looks like even if I stick to co-op for the 2 achievs you can do there, it should only take 4 days to get enough duplicates. Still, would go faster if I knew which achievs are for the 3rd subcollection, the one that gives the Z-23 camo when done.

So how can you get containers without paying for them? And can someone tell me the optimal way to get the Z-23 camo without paying?

I'm looking forward to this line. I think the much-improved detection will be more than worth sacrificing the rare occasion when you incidentally hit a DD. Especially on those slow-reloading launchers. It's really disheartening watching a BB slip through your accurate salvo without even having hydro, or being parallel to the torps. These DW torps should be nigh-undodgeable to BBs if they appear perpendicular to the ship, unless they get detected early.

I don't undestand why teams are so awful in this operation. Getting 3 stars should be simple. Yet players constantly ignore the Kaiser and CV to kill the unarmed ships, then head in the opposite direction of the exit. How can they be so bad when Aegis was usually a 5-star win? Do good players just not bother with this op?

Gonna be a contrarian here and say I'm getting back into my Bogue because manual drop was removed. I can't deal with strafing, I don't like it as a mechanic and due to the very high latency my internet gives me, I can't quickly adjust to sudden movements. So a clickfight is much more preferable. I also feel that t5 has a bit of an unseen advantage for strike loadouts - because strafing is disabled, some bomber-specific buffs (Evasive Maneuver + any rear gun buff) get much more value. Sure, on occasion I'll encounter a t6 CV and get clubbed, so tough luck but I won't feel responsible for that loss because everyone knows t5 CV vs t6 CV is a matchup that should not be happening, even if it's mirrored.

Just get V-25 and pretend it's a surfaced sub.

Well I got mine and it's even more gimmicky than expected. It's like the heaviest cruiser ever made. It does well vs. CAs, especially the IFHE-spamming types, but BBs of any kind are a grave threat. It simply melts at brawling range and if something gets behind you, you're just toast. So, a second-line artillery platform that dies very quickly if it finds itself exposed and focused by BBs. Kinda like some cruiser lines. Nice guns though, no one can question that, it's just that it feels that everything else on the ship is supplemental and mediocre. I feel that this is a ship that desperately depends on having teammates as a meatshield in front of it to keep BBs at a distance, yet it's so slow that it might have trouble engaging/disengaging as needed, and the rear armor looks like it was mandated by Stalin to discourage retreating. Positioning and situational awareness are everything, I imagine this is also enforced on high-tier US BBs, except Nelson has their pre-buff citadel.

Some torps have less than 1.2km, check what launched them.

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest, I fully expected firespam would be the new meta. Now, whether it's here to stay or the community will adapt, we'll see. I feel even worse for CAs now, they have to compete for fire ''slots'' with the BBs. I suspect German secondary builds are also compromised by this.

I don't have one myself but I plan on getting Gneis soon, and I'll avoid a secondary build. Why? Because the most popular line for at the very least the next few months - and possibly indefinitely, especially on the EU server - is going to be basically invulnerable to HE and fires. No, I'd rather pick up FP and BoS to deal with the ludicrous amount of HE-spamming we'll be seeing for a good long while.

I have a slow, slow, slow connection. If they muck up, hopefully we'll get premium time like the last time they uploaded a large patch.