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You really need to check out KM/USN/RN BB bow armor at T5 and then compare it to GCs 19mm. I will give you a hint: 30mm. Nothing in their MM can overmatch that. Btw, how often do you meet Yamatos in your GC?

Question is not if you have experienced it. The question is how common are those citadels? I strongly believe that they are exception, and normal penetrations are what you will usually get. And again, GC will take significant damage through normal penetrations bow on. That is a massive weakness, which is not mitigated by the missing occasional citadels.

How often do you really take citadels through the bow in other ships? If you meet a Warpsite or Nagato, you will usually just eat normal penetrations, that can still do 20k (or even more) in a good salvo.

That is nothing special (no citadels through the bow). Normal penetrations are still a weakness. In fact most BBs are like Yamato against you.

I keep reading GC had no real weakness. The ship is not only vulnerable to citadels, it will also eat normal penetrations trough the bow.

GC demands good positioning+angling and proper aim, so I am not sure how popular it is around lesser players. Good players should get better results with speed and accuracy. But bad players should not profit too much from that, and rather die from bad positioning or showing broadside.

Hey! Our initial push secured B+C, so we just had to defend B. I even lured a whole bunch of guys away in my Khaba, but it wasn't enough. Sometimes its just not in the cards. GG, we'll get them next time.

And DDs should not be the main plane shredders. They should just be able to prevent an accurate drop, like other guys stated above.

Yes, I mean it is a better gunboat because of the staying power. And yes, I also think the x4 multiplier is too much. They should have rather just buffed the duration of Defensive AA instead.

Yeah I guess it has a major advantage in any competitive environment. If we get T8 Ranked, it will be P2W for that...

Not comparable. Imperator, Belfast(many prefer Fiji though), Kutuzov(debatable) and Missouri are flat out better than their tech tree counterparts. Kidd is just a better gunboat and a much worse torpedo boat compared to the Benson. It is better around caps but much worse at countering an enemy push. It simply has its own flavor, which is perfect.

Giving up a huge part of your damage potential to gain T9 AA and a Heal is not P2W, not even if you div with a CV. It is just a flavor choice.

Yeah that should be quite filthy. But so are countless other division choices...

And T8+ CVs are much more rare than T6/T7 (which Grozovoi will not meet).

Getting Grozovoi for AA? How often do you think you will meet CVs at TX? Its like 1/10 of the games... And yeah, the Kidd is giving up enough damage potential to get that AA.

Z-52 (4 tiers higher) needs torpedo reload upgrade, and torpedo reload skill to reach the same 68 sec. And the only real difference is 2.5 km more range... ... so yes, the T-61 torpedo reload seems to be a little too much.

If you are aware of enemy DD positions, Vigilance is usually enough to evade torps. The Radar is very useful to put super accurate AP into DDs that try to disengage and cruisers that sit in their smokes. Still you can counter CVs/DDs much better than a Yamato.

And great accuracy! Strong AA + Radar lets you counter both of your hardcounters (CV/DD) btw, which is actually ridiculous.

That is not exactly true. Many people greatly underestimate the advantage of a higher alpha damage. It gives you time to kite/angle and it makes it easier to hit and run. Blys even has more RoF overall, so it gives up nothing. Also gun handling/angles are better. In a 1v1 or in Ranked, I would rather play the Blys. But Leningrad offers a better package for Random Battles. Haven't played either in forever though...

In Tanks you can select to exclude shitty gamemodes from Random MM. Perfect.

Why would it be removed? It is balanced now, without SF. WG said the same. Where did you read that? I would rather get the Leningrad. Blys has more alpha damage and better gun handling. But it is not really needed for random play. Leningrad has much better acceleration, higher top speed, better torpedoes and it can train useful russian captains.

New T-61 T6 german premium DD will be out soon. That will fit your german DDs.

From your description, I say go with Leningrad. - You have 8 torpedoes that you can use from stealth (Blys has only 6) - You have russian DD speed and guns to play like a super light cruiser Hands down more fun than Blys and can train russian captains. Blys is only better around the cap, but not as torpedo boat and not cruiser like.

A slight angle is enough to break Akizuki AP DPM. It completely sucks against a kiting ship. Kidd has the speed to disengage and the heal to outlast the Akizuki in the end. The ship is just not meant to rush ALL-IN, but to hit and run.

Didn't see an announcement on any of the regional websites. I hope they didn't change it back to Sa-Tue.