ollonborre
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Zao still feels fine honestly. Low DPM is offset by having good alpha, shell velocity, number of shells and accuracy (which gets really nice with the legendary). Add to this a relatively stealthy platform that can dump a heavy broadside of torps and you have a really good kiter and if needed DD support thanks to its meaty broadside. As for it not beeing competetive, well that is purely because of the rise of Kremlins and Stalingrads. Versus a HIV in the midrange fight the Zaos more reliable guns will eat a HIV more often than not with equal player skill. For random battles I would still say it is one of the more consistent ships you can play and can't really do wrong with bringing it.
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The hidden potential of Semi Armor Piercing(SAP)
ollonborre replied to anonym_ziPQbxoJkOE7's topic in General Discussion
While I appreciate the effort and enthusiasm, I am not impressed with SAP. Light cruiser SAP is not overly impressive, and while I have not played the 203 mm cruisers I assume it is more of the same. Having an AP round as a sort of makeshift HE brings every disadvantage of an AP shell (bounces, shatters) and not many of the advantages (fires, damage regardless of angling if the plate is thin enough). When it comes to long range sniping or kiting I still argue that the IJN for example are far superiour in that role, with better arcs, great HE and more torps to boot. The Italian ships themselves I kinda like, I like the design, torps are ok ish, the smoke generator has potential (cooldown is bleh though) and they seem to handle atleast average. -
Love 40k, not sure I want that in WoWs as we already have so many derpy aestethics already (and because I already own way to much 40k related stuff)
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I did the grind with the 155 without IFHE and a rudder shift dodge build, and it worked perfectly fine. Sure you will get more shatters but as long as you hit the superstructure the damage is still nice and fire starting potential is great thanks to the amount of shells. Also you will murder DD's. 203 Mogami is IMO just a bit boring and overshadowed by the 155 mm guns, and like Panocek says if you want a 203 mm cruiser pretty much every other tier 8 with them is a better platform.
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It is a rental for CW, so you will loose it when the season ends. And I think they rotate the rentals, so you might get another tier 10 BB instead as a rental.
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I have some experience in torpboats and quite a lot of experience with the 12 km torps, and I can't quite find the justification both in practice and theory for torp acceleration on the 12 km torps as I feel there are more use for 2 points. As for the F3, well I don't know. Feels like they were buried a long time ago and with the CV rework a 1 km range increse might not be enough.
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Or just run the 12 km torps without torp accel and make a different build? The 12 km are not great in terms of concealment but the damage is great and the reload is not so bad for 15 torps.
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I run PT, LS, AR SE, BFT, CE and IFHE. BFT is just an overall great skill. The flat HP is often better from SE than an extra heal, so BFT is your most valid option. 10 % faster RoF means better DPM, more fires and while Daring AA is pretty bad you can atleast down a plane or 2 in smoke so it does help in that sense. I say get BFT.
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I've received an Italian Cruiser. Is it permanent or temporary?
ollonborre replied to Purnylla's topic in General Discussion
You keep the ship, and it functions like any tech tree ship regarding XP and captain. -
Italian cruisers are intentionally that bad?
ollonborre replied to Fede15thPzDiv's topic in General Discussion
Except it isn't really. If they had normal HE then yes, they would be pretty ordinary and I would be fine with that. But they don't, instead they have AP and a gimmicky type ammo that is very iffy in its use and that makes them annoying instead of ordinary or unique. If they were normal with HE and good velocity on the AP then I would be all for it. -
Because dedicated premium ships have a higher credit modifier by default. And being lower tier they also have lower service cost meaning you don't burn credits that way.
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Italian cruisers are intentionally that bad?
ollonborre replied to Fede15thPzDiv's topic in General Discussion
They really aren't. Unless a target present to you a flat broadside or slightly angled at best you will just bounce, shatter, cause miniscule damage or a combo of the above. Not to mention the tier 5 has absolute trash DPM so you can't exactly be a threat to DD's either. -
when will the legendary Nikolay Kuznetsov captain become avalible in the armory??
ollonborre replied to Naval_gunner's topic in General Discussion
Steel. -
Daring is indeed a better cap contester due to Hydro and great handling. But the Grozo is also a very powerful hybrid, with defensive AA, smoke and a heal all at once. IMO I don't think you can go wrong with either of them.
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This 100%. Not introducing more HE spammers and some uniqueness, fine, sure, go ahead. But then they need to make what they have actually work or have enough tools to get into a position for it to work. RN cruisers manage this just fine, because they have better stealth across the board, a long lasting smoke screen and better DPM so they can actually use their AP gimmick when given the chance. As far as the light cruisers are concerned, I rather play the Emerald. Heavy cruisers I have not played but I'm fairly certain I would go with RN instead if I want some AP gimmicks.
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Having played around a bit with the tier 5 tech tree cruiser, my main complaint is this: what in its firepower warrants a 14.3 sec reload? Let's take the Königsberg by comparision. - 7.5 sec vs 14.3 sec reload. - Pretty much the same turret traverse but the Königsberg gets 360 turrets. - AP on the König 3900, 3000 on the Italian. - Not sure on the pen values but it sure as hell feels as if the Königsberg can actually do damage with the AP, where as the Italian is shatter city. - SAP is nice on DD's and cruisers, but wonky as hell and sometimes completely ineffective against certain BB's (shocker). All in all the Königsberg has twice as fast reload, AP that has higher damage potential and while the HE alpha is much lower than SAP it has better actual pen values since SAP can bounce and it can cause fires. IMO the tier 5 atleast needs a DPM buff, or buff the SAP so you can actually dig into BB's. Because against some BB's there is literally nothing you can do apart from yolo torp rushing. EDIT: Oh and on the topic as to which I prefer, RN AP, because if nothing else you have quantity of shells.
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Hang on a minute...what happened to the gun/shell camera?
ollonborre replied to The_Finnster's topic in General Discussion
Aha then in that case I have no idea. -
Worked just fine.
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Hang on a minute...what happened to the gun/shell camera?
ollonborre replied to The_Finnster's topic in General Discussion
Z has always been default for me and 1-2 ammo select. Been to lazy to rebind my keys since Beta. Alternatively I have the option by default to fire with the mouse wheel. This both fire the guns and goes into the shell following camera. -
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Open Letter To War Gaming/WoWs - Double CV Games
ollonborre replied to rilship's topic in General Discussion
As someone who is average at best in english, I feel sort of stupid when reading this honestly. Alright I admit I talked a bit out of my [edited]and used hyperbole when forming my oppinion, but I will still stand by this: even though some devs or WG staff has been active over the years on the different forums, the oppinions of the playerbase has always been neglected or not fully listened to. The things that have been pointed out has pretty much never come into full effect when the thing in question goes live. And as such begging for a response from WG on the general forums is IMO a waste of time. -
Open Letter To War Gaming/WoWs - Double CV Games
ollonborre replied to rilship's topic in General Discussion
Sure the devblog exists. But in the other parts of the forum dev responses have been absent by quite a margain. -
Open Letter To War Gaming/WoWs - Double CV Games
ollonborre replied to rilship's topic in General Discussion
The devs never bothered to visit the forums, not in this game and not in WoT. Only time you might get a word through is on the russian forums or possibly reddit. -
Kremlin and Vladivostok nerf, How do you like the changes
ollonborre replied to Puffin_'s topic in General Discussion
There is pretty much no price to pay when it comes to the Kremlin. Virtually all her negative points are common to all other BB's apart from the range, which is still pretty moot as you have the tools to get up close anyways. -
45 sec turret traverse on a non BB which is also an entry ship to US heavy cruisers is just unreasonable. Also there is no reason and excuse any more to have bad concealment based on ship height. The squishyness and gun performance I'm okay with though, that AP is delicious.
