Panocek

Is "mudrange" the distance you can throw mudball?

With random players don't expect voice chat or even cohesive teamwork, for that you would be better off assembling division of two/three players and then roll with some form of voice chat. I suppose you can browse Clan section https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/forum/507-clan-zone/ not necessarily to join, but find clan(s) that wouldn't mind novice as their Discord/TS guest. That or, I assume, Official WoWs Discord have "looking for a division" channels

GZ could and still can attack destroyers with rockets on first pass, even those going head on to force overshoot due to topkek slow planes and only 3s preparation time, nothing changed there. You simply need bigger RNGesus shrine now for first pass, turn around and apply rockets correctly the second time.

Well, it could be fun experiment to give everyone "testing" ships for a weekend, without recording ship stats on players profiles while WG could get some properly live data

Yes

You need to pay before you can pay... Thats sounds like proper russian grade logic to me

And tend to have historical background

Don't forget about Mongolian fleet, just after what-if-Panama-canal-started-seizing-ships, so they got themselves an Iowa class, among many things

inb4 Karl Gerat armed german ship but with like 10km range tops

You have only yourself for blame for purchasing ship with known specs, which are in questionable territory. I can understand purchasing Tirpitz, Hood or what else for historical reasons, but Pommern is recycled WG creation, haphazardly kitbashed just to sell something. Given IFHE/armor rework didn't happened yesterday, going for 380mm guns at high tiers is questionable pick due to lack of overmatch on quite a number of cruisers. Then 12gun on a tier, where 9 is the standard, it will be obvious reload/accuracy penalty will follow, as Alsace has shown.

Not play USN DDs in first place? Certainly not with intent of having functional AA.

Trajectory is flatter, thus can't can't copy 1:1 DM gameplay. But, compared to other large cruisers, her guns have the worst shell velocity. Thus she (and Pay2Rico) are, theoretically, most suitable for island camping.

Then you discover Lovewagon uses HE bombs

With game mechanics shallow as a puddle, there are only so many gimmicks you can get before it gets wonky.

My guess would be Pommern being replacement for removed JB. Same "small caliber" niche.

Smolensk and JB were pulled based on "popularity" reasons. And Tsunderer seems to be following that trend

And tier 10 being airships/zeppelins

WG still can't figure your own customization in their most successful games and you're asking for puzzle WT style Only recently tanks got options to paint things your way

Still, once you exhaust such obvious picks... how do you link weeb/transformers/KFC with sail?

How do you do transformers collab with sailboats?

And what math says on "8*0.8"?

Not happening. Why sell your work for 20€ when it sells even better for 60€?

Normally, just start battle in Massa or any other BB and actually count the seconds how long it takes to move rudder, either using in game clock or your own. And on Massa it takes give or take 8 seconds for rudder to go from neutral to maximum deflection.

Rudder shift mod gives less than it looks, as displayed value in port is from "maximum to maximum" instead "neutral to maximum". So, default rudder shift on Massa is just short of 8s. I'd say it depends on the captain build - if you have BoS skill, then I suppose you can swap DCPmod for rudder. If you don't have BoS, then I'd stick with DCPmod. Obviously you can go with both, but there are diminishing returns when it comes to lowering DoT duration.