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I agree with this statement, removing the "sixth sense" from carrier planes would be a useful change, it can be a powerful triangulation tool.

Convoy mode is WIP

I mentioned this previously elsewhere although the only one I care about is Gearing whose 21mm plate used to protect it a little against some 127mm HE but no real response.

This mod is no longer in the correct place and overlaps with some of the damage counters. Does this need to be updated for 0.9.5.1?

Enterprise deserved it. GZ gets improved aiming time by 15%. That's your compensation.

The MM actually does attempt to match up fail divs with other fails divs, if they exist in the queue at the time... WG would be better off just not allowing such a division to even queue up.

The sigma is 0.1 better than regular Amagi, not worse. Worse reload, better shell distribution.

If they gave the option to take something other than AP you'd still take AP because its just stronger, so that doesn't make the ship any weaker.

But he is referring to the change to Pommerns 380mm guns.

Left Ctrl + Left Shift + Backspace enables free camera. Watching older replays is troublesome, if youre happy to just have the videos then you can record them with something like nvidia shadowplay, thats what I use so not really sure of many current alternatives but its useless to you if you're not using an nvidia graphics card. Left Ctrl + J

But Pommern is still not that far behind Alsace in terms of firepower when you consider Pommerns defensive strengths, Alsace should have the better guns because it doesn't have the armor of FDG nor the HP nor hydro, etc.

Shouldn't it be Pommern, not Ludendorff?

Yeah, surprising... I wonder if this is a precursor to some other sort of buff in another department because the ship really doesn't look like an overperformer on paper.

The only way to improve her secondaries would be to nerf her elsewhere at the same time.

You mean increase? Lower sigma is worse and her current sigma is 1.8 which is quite average. She does have her own dispersion model which is better than other Japanese BBs but this still equates to being quite poor up to ~9km.

Tirpitz has torps, Bismarck has hydro instead.

Range is the same so they compete in that regard, but you don't really want IFHE with Massa secondaries, they can penetrate superstructures and DDs but otherwise mostly start fires. German secondaries have improves pen and can deal a lot more raw damage but dont usually start as many fires. What Massa lacks compared to Tirpitz is armor, the armor scheme of german BBs protects their citadels at close range whereas US BBs tend to have citadels that are low, so difficult to aim for, but easy to damage when aimed at correctly. Tirpitz and Bismarck also have torpedos and hydro, respectively, which are useful in tighter areas. Massa compensates for this a little by being more maneuverable than Tirpitz, having reduced repair cooldown allowing you to heal every 40 seconds, and having most of her firepower forward so that being forced into a bow-on position does not cost as much damage output. Massa also has 406mm guns capable of overmatching 27mm plating found on some of the more heavily armored cruisers, Tirpitz' 380mm guns can only overmatch 26mm. You couldn't say that Massa or Tirpitz were really better than the other in a straight up comparison (it would probably indicate some more serious balance issue if one was clearly superior) but Massa is a good ship with a good set of tools, it's main and secondary guns are a decent combination. Tirpitz has better armor, has torpedos, reload faster, moves faster and has secondaries that cause consistent damage rather than relying on the RNG of fires.

Aside from any personal preference for Kaga, Massa is realistically the better option if you are able to develop a secondary spec US BB captain. Because of Massas inclination towards secondary spec it's not a great commander trainer for regular US BBs but its does perform very well in general, producing good credits and secondary spec can be pretty fun. Kaga is a good CV for inexperienced players as plane losses are easier to deal with, but she can feel underpowered by comparison to other T8s and her numerous, low hp planes can feel like fodder that die very quickly. She is a capable IJN CV trainer though.

The question was recently addressed on an official stream saying that development of new Operations and reworking discontinued Operations was halted until further notice.

It would appear in your notifications when you receive Spee. If you missed it, then, you'll just have to believe...

As has been mentioned here repeatedly, the issue is that you do not understand the concealment system. When you set smoke, ships inside the smoke are more difficult to detect by ships outside the smoke, and ships outside the smoke are more difficult to detect by ships inside the smoke. The way that smoke obstructs vision works both ways, the difference between the people on the inside of the smoke and the outside is that the other players on the outside of the smoke can still be spotted normally by everyone else. If someone else is spotting the enemy for you and you use smoke then you will benefit from the smoke but the enemy will remain spotted. If you are the one doing the spotting when you smoke up then you will deny yourself your own vision of the enemy. WGs latest video on how spotting works has comprehensive instruction on concealment, detectability, vision and spotting including the effects of smoke and more such as the consumables that counter the effects of smoke. It is worth watching. https://youtu.be/OgRUSmzcw2s

It should be removed with the next patch if it is still in your Port. If it's still there when patch 0.9.6 goes live then contact support.

I'm not sure I see the point of putting tier 6s against each other, but one team has some tier 5s to support and the other has one or two tier 7s?

It is a semi-fictional aircraft design by WG based upon existing planes, such as the Be-2 KOR-1; a so-called KL-145. https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/history/naval-aviation-1/