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Any CL will do. Heck, even destroyers can punch through cruiser belts at short ranges

To be honest, its mostly marketing and balancing teams that have developed a habit of perforating Wargaming foot with firearm in regular intervals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Last time we had 9

Actually not glowing taco is quite refreshing after repeatedly failing to conceal myself on Northern Lights for like three years straight Option to turn event camos into "baseline premium" is one of the best recent features, both for change of looks and saving less than eye candy skins

To get 3rd camo when you want something not-weeb for a change?

Look at it the other way - red Taco is mark of the whale

You probably will have two camouflages, blue one that comes with the ship and additional red one. And technically third, "normal Atago" one should you disable Arpeggio filter in port @MrConway can you confirm Takao will come in two colors for new buyers?

One does not simply disable Arpeggio content filter and have perfectly fine tier 5 and 7 premiums for, given recent events, little effort

Even more so for lastest asset flip additions Minimum Viable Product is name of the (wows) game since 2019... If not earlier actually

Missions already on the portal, opt-in

Don't forget WG actually made effort to swap turrets to wrong model and then paint them correctly

Additionally, WG inflated Takao price with red skin compared to simple Atago. So if you're buying that for skin alone, you're spending +-17€ if I can into math for taco skin. - +-44€ for ship, doubloons you get for already having the ship are worth around 27€. Finely crafted offers to make sure players don't get actually a decent deals

Doubt, as you get less doubloons for ships you already have if you buy whalepack

So, WG pushed Takao with "red" skin with wrong turrets and they are on advertising poster. Thus, someone who bought Takao solely for her wrong turrets might actually ask for refund when/if red skin is actually fixed @MrConway you guys love painting yourselves into corner, don't you

Now thats some actual battle line

And with some GZ grade buffs to them, would be actually viable in Operations. Though I have odd feeling removed CVs might return as premiums, not as "support tech tree". coal tier 10 Taiho, FXP tier 10 Essex when

Interestingly it only happens with russian battleships Whole interaction between stock and top planes could be looked at - top British aircraft in particular are questionable to use, trading recovery time for insignificant amount of hp and speed. Any payload improvements come with dispersion increase, making effective amount of hits unchanged unless repeated RNGesus blessing was in effect. Going with "alternate" loadouts/squadron composition instead "stock" and "top" could be a solution.

That happens when WG is too lazy to fix rendering delay and extends detecting delay to match rendering one Ohh good ol times when ship(s) were immediately spotted on minimap and you were waiting up to 5s waiting for them to materialize AA tracers are rendered only when ship in question is spotted and 3d rendered. Exception being "smoke tracers" with randomized source to make less easy aiming from above at smoked ships If smoke before you're spotted is not an option, then my guess would be turn towards planes to give shortest aiming time window possible, ideally with well timed turn it might save your bacon for second pass. And once in smoke or planes detected you anyway, you're free to engage with AA

Why WG should add tier 11, when they can sell you tier 11 upgrades to existing tier 10 ships via RB?

Considering S_O completely abandoned interactions with REEEddit, posting there at very best will result in few kilobytes of REEEddit server storage taken to contain your "input"

Even then, you will have "we need carriers back" threads. Or "my aa cruiser is useless now"

Have no need of FXP either, be it for Freemium ships nor skipping lines. And then, if you can't skip a line or two with 1.6m fxp, you might do something wrong. Even more so with last two/three years of WG throwing midtiers at everyone

WoWs in terms of game mechanics is shallow as a puddle, any new ship after initial duo/trio is going to be either questionable or will outright powercreep older ships. Perfect example, initial IJN/USN/RU destroyer lines fulfill all "archetypes" of destroyers viable in this game - torpedoboat, cap contester and long range jackass. Any new addition either powercreeps or questions its own existence. Who would use Daring over Gearing, if former wouldn't have heal, even more wicked gun dpm, lolhandling, hydro and "meta convenient" smokes. Why use Le Fanta for long range shelling, when Kiev gets the job done better AND have heal/smoke as "oh " button. The same Fanta is also hilariously put into question as cap contester with her bad concealment and outright bad gun dpm, saved only by equally broken consumable if you actually get to "firing" part of the engagement. On opposite, said Fanta powercreeps Kagero as torpedoboat, as she can get into and then out of position for torping stuff with her railgun fishes.

I haz some

Given absolutely atrocious player quality on high tiers, I'd say the only limiting factor for "sweet spot" is economy. As free2play you're probably aiming at tier 6-7 to manage credits with occasional ventures on higher tiers. If you're willing to throw wallet at the screen (preferably repeatedly), then there is no reason to play anything but tier 10 unless you like Operations or handicapping challenging yourself