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Konig deleted my Svietlana from full health. To be fair, this ship can bounce Konig shots if you angle - I made the mistake of showing broadside during wasdhax. It's a very fair ship in this regard, no citadels from crazy angles like you can get on Kirov.

All those t3 BBs (and Mikasa) seem like a type of their own with low range, maneuverability and good concealment. The dispersion is horrendous, though the stats ingame say otherwise. They make for a simple playstyle that doesn't leave room for tactical choices - get up close and try to hit things at 9-10km. No retreat, no repositioning, no mercy. And AP is probably a waste, given that RNGesus will be guiding your shots according to his whims and fancies.

You only get them if you have doubloons to begin with.

Pisa-class for t4? There's a lack of proper heavy cruisers that can tank some damage, Pisa with its 200mm belt should be nice and tough. There's also a general lack of mid-tier premiums, e.g. for Japan and Germany. They seem to keep coming out with overpriced high-tier stuff.

Well if the playerbase sucks more in general during the weekend, even if you get unlucky with teammates, you should, on average, have better personal successes. That's been my experience yesterday.

I don't hate it per se, in fact I like the aesthetic, but this particular bishoujo thing seems like such blatant pandering to a specific demographic. There's a big difference between something thoughtful and original like Ghost in the Shell, and something that clearly combines two foolproof elements (cute girls + military gear) to appeal to males. It just seems exploitative. When that's all the exposure you get of anime, I can see why you'd look down on it. In games, anime seems to entail specific aspects that have been done a million times. It always has to have cute girls acting well beneath their actual age, it has to have an effeminate protagonist (goofball Tidus variety is the worst), it has to end with saving the entire world. I feel like these overdone tropes seriously hampered, say, Valkyria Chronicles, and also from what I've seen, The Last Remnant. Games that I feel would have played out better without these annoying tropes and with a more mature approach. I do like games with this artstyle that tone down or avoid these tropes, such as Suikoden 5.

Can anyone give me a rundown of how they play? So far I know the armor sucks, but the citadel is underwater. How does that work out in terms of survivability? Can the citadel be reliably hit at long range or short range? What about the superior AP shells, do they somehow get better penetration or is it just the damage that's better than other countries? What range are they good at? In general, are these ships meant for brawling, sniping or some other playstyle?

''That must have been a hell of a clickfest for you.'' Said by a salty player to a successful CV (not me).

Can we get some 50% discounts on lower-tier prems? I bought some doubloons just for Krym, Ishi or Murmansk. Keeping my fingers crossed that next week it won't just be Atago 15% off or something.

I just bought some with PP, no issues.

Brotip for low tiers: most players don't yet know about fighter strafing. US carriers are more vulnerable to it because they have to concentrate their fighters in fewer squadrons. Lure them both with one squadron, then have the other strafe the fighting planes. If you aim it right, you should cause some heavy losses, though at least the bait squadron will be dead for sure.

Eh, I say remove the fine and the damage. If someone's intentionally doing it they won't be deterred by a loss in credits, because clearly they enjoy trolling more than playing the game. For actual players, fender-benders are just part of the game in narrow places like the middle of Solomon Islands. Sometimes you just gotta turn abruptly into a friendly in order to dodge torps .

It accounts for skills and modules. E.g. if you're both upgraded/stock same ship and you have BFT but they don't, you'll see the marginal difference in AA.

I would really like lower-tier ships to get discounted too, at their usual 50%. I'd buy Ishi or Krym given the chance, and yes I'm aware of their reputation.

Oh no, I just meant the 5% FXP you get passively. Basically I'm looking for another bread-and-butter ship to add to my Svietlana and Ryujo, preferably something that earns decent creds too. I'm also looking at the Krym, since I like its t4 version.

What happened to WoT to make matches so short and aggressive? Is it just a community issue? Do the rewards favor that type of gameplay? I remember a good bit of camping and scouting 3-4 years ago, not just yolorushing to the base. Maybe it's the community ''maturing'' into something that cares more about quick rewards than not being killed.

I really don't know because I no longer know what to expect. One day they're supposed to be sneaky smoke-projecting buggers, the next there's talk of AP specialization and repair ability. I do like some survivability on my cruisers, so if Brits get crap armor and not the rumored repair consumable, I'll probably steer clear. As for national flavor, I don't care much. Doesn't really matter what flag is on it, or what camo, if I don't feel the characteristics of the ship's gameplay suit me.

I'd agree with you, if AS was 100% fighters and thus purely defensive. A good AS player can seriously hamper his strike CV opponent while his own bombers do their work unopposed. So it evens out. The AS CV is also more at liberty to move his planes around the map freely and has the initiative in any air combat. This means a strike CV can't really do all that much against being spotted by fighters. Which means the strike CV can only be safe way behind his teammates, where he can't be sniped after being spotted, and where his bombers will also have very long travel times. Although I realize this applies mainly to smaller, earlier CVs before they all start getting ridiculously huge and unmaneuverable and you need to stay back regardless. Thanks for the bomber tip, didn't know that.

I want this, will try to get it at 50% because I'm broke. Svietlana is an underrated ship imo. It has definite advantages over same-tier ships and even higher-tier. Good citadel armor for t4 (I've even bounced Koenig shots at an angle and almost never get citadeled unless showing broadside), excellent firestarting potential, absence of any turret traverse issues, spammy torps, guns that are compatible with BFT and AFT. Now granted, I don't know how well that translates to t5, but I'd rather use an upgunned Svietlana over ''Glass Joe'' torpedo-magnet Kirov. Try bouncing BB shots with that thing, see how that turns out.

Not everything in the game has to be about killing ships, you know. Air combat was a thing in that period. Even then, fighters have the hp and speed to be better at scouting than bombers. I don't like this attitude that AS loadouts are ''useless to the team'', they have their purpose against both CVs and other ships.

Decent AA? I see these ships have the bad habit of mounting near-useless 2km-range AA guns instead of something that can actually cover allies. Koenigsberg looks far inferior in that regard to Kirov and even Omaha. But honestly, right now I can't say I'm scared of bombers at t4-t6. There aren't that many CVs around, but there are plenty of AA-heavy German BBs to stay close to if you're playing something like Svietlana.

Yeah, it is a bother than IJN doesn't get any AS loadout until t6. Often with the Zuiho you're basically playing cat-and-mouse with a Bogue, trying to slip some bombers past it. I say give Zuiho a AS loadout too. As for the Bogue, at least you have the glee of knowing it's the slowest ship ingame and will get left behind in high-mobility Domination matches.

Until t7, you get limited plane quantity, and sending them into anything with more than 1 BB/CL in it is going to kill most of or all of a squadron. Then from t5/t6 many ships get fighters and AA fire consumable that kills any accuracy. Trust me, there is a lot of stuff that basically makes it so you'll be lucky if any planes come back. Even with AS and a 62% WR on it, I'm often out of planes by the end of a match. Imagine if you couldn't do anything besides spot, cap and draw fire by the 10-minute mark.

Yes I 've heard the Ishi sucks in some respects but it's the only premium BC that I can afford (and only when it goes 50%) and I don't want to slog through a bunch of dreadnoughts to get the Gneis.

What's normal for t6? My average XP with Ryujo is 950. Then again, my average damage is higher on my AS Ryujo than on my Cleve, lol, and then there are all the planes I shoot down and all the spotting I do. I don't know, I feel properly rewarded and I don't feel like earnings are broken at this tier and with this ship.