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Having played Atago and Prinz Eugen extensively and recently having aquired Mainz here is my verdict on those ships: Atago +Concealment, heal, torps, alpha -Range, AA, reload Atago is a beast of a cruiser that can use its low concealment both offensively as well as defensively. Coupled with the amount, range and quality of its torps it can even serve as a surrogate DD. Its 10 guns hit like a truck and the cruiser has heal to lessen the impact of any bad luck or misplay. On the downside the guns have relatively short range, the AA is pityful and reload seems to take forever. The later however can be a boon as well as a bane, as you don't loose too much DPM if you want to go dark in between your salvos. Prinz Eugen +Heal, armor, German hydro, range -DPM The Prinz Eugen is best described as the marathon runner of cruisers. Having good armor and AA (for a T8 cruiser), heal and good range your objective is to stay up and fighting for as long as anyhow possible in order to utilize your bad DPM to the best of its mediocre ability. Due to the German hydro you can easily push caps if the situation allows it and if worst comes to worst you are armed with 2 sets of "if you can read this you are too darn close" torpedoes per side. Mainz +DPM, DPM, DPM and even more DPM, good AA, German hydro, range -no heal The DPM of the Mainz is brutal and if you somehow mange to not come into immediate focus any opponent will simply suffer. Having no heal is a major drawback as any damage occured will stick. The Mainz is not especially fast but reasonably nimble so you either have cover, learn how to dodge or die quickly (i.e. for sure more difficult to play than the other 2). Has even more self defense torps than the Eugen but lacking armor and heal even less incentive to go close.

Well I for once would not mind a Jutland type battle on the Ocean map in order to reduce the BB queue load, however I usually also do not run secondary BB builds, so I usually don't care if there is cover or enemies to bully.

Almost the same as OP did, e.g. mapped all heals to T for consistency, especially on high level cruisers (or specials like Graf Spee/ARP Takao/Prinz Eugen).

Got the line to Tier 10 while grinding for Jerzy Swirski and just resetted the line after I got him in order to train him to 19 points.

Not the Friesland! While I would not call the Friesland a bad ship per se in my humble opinion it simply serves no role and for various reasons it is very hard to carry in a Friesland. * To big to easily or early cap contest or scout other DDs for the team (have fun with 6.4 versus all those 5.4 to 5.9 DDs). * No torps means you can not deter any kind of determined push, especially if said push is supported by radar or even worse German hydro, which nowadays will most often be the case. * Needs a spotter instead of being a spotter. The Friesland features unique gameplay for sure, however you will also need a dedicated captain. Alaska and Ägir are both solid choices though.

Sometimes it would even be nice to just know if the compliment came from your own or the enemy team. Many of my own compliments are given to enemy players that either bested me in a smart way or carried their team to victory. As the receiving player does only see a +1 karma (if he does get a notification at all) I can only assume that most of the time people will simply believe that this must have been somebody from their own team instead.

Just use a captain with buffed turret traverse? Gremy + Ovechkin = 22.5s. Additional points if you also use him on Leningrad (27.7 => 18.9). And even a normal captain with EM will bring Anshan to 21.2s.

Best premium ships for what? Carrying potential and/or win rate? Farming easy damage and making credits? Having fun? Ideally those go hand in hand, but not always...

Saw one in one of my battles this week, the torpedo soup was simply glorious!

As in broken in half?

Thats a little better but still means that I have just lost 700m on a Stalingrad's radar. However even a 14km cyclone is still not protecting DDs, its rather protecting bigger ships from getting spammed to death from all angles. If your typical Henri, Smolensk or Venetia etc. needs to come close instead of being able to play to their strength and DPM from afar they will usually be killed rather fast. I consider this another of WGs desperate but ultimately doomed to fail attempt to make the game more action oriented.

Cyclone? Actually the worst weather possible for DDs? https://i.imgur.com/TmZqFwA.mp4

Please also consider WG desperately cramming more and more islands in and around caps. Radar alone is not the problem.

Hehehe...I had this very discussion with a buddy of mine. Me: Complaining about Riga's guns hitting sh1t. Buddy: Watched a Flamu video just recently where he claimed that it is still one of the best T9 cruisers! Me: WTF? How can Riga be better than Alaska or Kronshtadt? Also Me: But wait, if he meant tech tree cruisers, then yes...

Played the Riga for nearly 50 games while working my way up to the Petro. It is not that the Riga is a bad ship and quite tanky even, however I could never make the guns work. Bad dispersion and no improved angles simply made too many AP shells just disappear without effect and the slow reload is not good enough for HE spam either. I usually performed decent due to my damage over time, however rarely by hitting those killer salvos. To be honest Tallin felt a lot better tier for tier.

Don't know what you are going to do, but this 1 million credits will add nicely to my other 847 million on the way to credit billionaire.

I would not make T1-T4 count for each and every daily mission, but it would surely help having some missions and directives that can only be completed in T2-T5 ships instead of T6+ only.

Afaik in WoT you will get half of the damage on any target that you have spotted first for up to 10 seconds (which is the time needed for gun fire bloom to reset in WoT), no matter what your target does and if it is spotted by others a little later (for example because it opens fire itself). So if this is possible in WoT it surely would be possible in WoWs. That the damage is shared in between all spotters once the target "reveals" itself is a pure WoWs decision. If spotting damage would be soley attributed to the ship first spotting the target for up to 20 seconds (gun fire bloom reset) things would be extremely different.

If my old information is still correct it is 50/50 in WoT, a ratio which as per @Excavatus quote not even DDs receive in WoWs.

Spotting as well as tanking are most important for winning, however criminally underrated in terms of XP and credit gain.

Using the available filter and sorting options I can not confirm this behavior.

Related question: Is there anywhere I can look up my chat ban history or do I have to take notes myself? Not wanting to boast or pushing my luck, just being curious.

In order to determine if Roflstomps need fixing (respecitively the amount of fixing) you would first need to establish a general consensus about player priorities, and this is what I find highly improbable. So do you... 1) ...play for fun and exitement? 2) ...play for maximum ingame ressource effectiveness (camo / flags)? 3) ...play for maximum outgame ressource effectiveness (credits and xp per time)? 4) ...??? For example I usually play for fun, it's a game after all. However and especially when grinding lines I will take a quick and dirty win over a series of closer games at almost any time. A win is a win and as such if I can claim my "win of the day" within 10 minutes that is often way better than having to play 3 close but full 20min games and take an hour or more just for this one ship. Sometimes I even embrace a quick defeat. What is the point of fighting if you are already down by a large margin after only a couple of minutes while your side has not made at least some progress of its own (e.g. you are down 3 DDs and caps in a game that has 3 DD per side). So better lose quick because new game, new luck, no?

A lot of seals were hurt during the making of this video...

Underperforming. The ship itself is not especially brittle but the combination of small guns, poor gun handling and small HP pool leaves much to be deserved. Tier for tier does feel a lot worse then Scharnhorst.