Panocek

I'd say discounted Anno 1800 have something to say for both

They can always put more money down the toilet and buy PR out

Gorizia got few buffs along the way, now sitting at 15s reload (compared to 14.5s on Zara) and 6km "German" hydro at expense of joke torpedoes (which shouldn't be there to begin with).

Because you can't ask 59k doubloon price on tier 6 ship

I had an idea of going after Gorizia, but then looking at directives not sure if I can be arsed to get copy of a mediocre-ish ship I have already with permanent camo. And then I've bumped into this piece which suggests this year crates are... lackluster to say the least. Which only reinforced decision of spending christmas money elsewhere

Not in soviet rashia

In Russia, "western" way of "customer relations" is almost a curse word. Russians and central/east european people in general can be very... direct and enthusiastic, as well can say " you" the way englishmen would consider it an art. Same with term "reliable" - in western way, it means something that works and rarely breaks down. In eastern way, it means it can break, but can be fixed on the spot with random spanner, hammer or piece of masonry bundled with cursewords

On second thought, its not the first time as WG put ridiculous pricetag on "event" ship, as Benham, as those who follow Way of the Whale had to spend 35k doubloons in crates.

On REEEddit was mentioned you can spend 24k doubloons on boosters and shortly afterward, you can instantly buyout PR for another mere 35k doubloons. And on NA apparently there are madlads who did exactly that to bring PR on day one.

USS Whale or USS Nolife

Only CLs having range advantage are ones with 152mm dual purpose guns, as in tier 9 and 10 UK and US ones. Technically De Grasse also have main gun of dual purpose variety, but it doesn't give extended range. And then there is glorious AA on Moskvagrad and Kremlin, 130mm guns with 6.6km range because amount of balans must be correct Otherwise, their long range is no different than BB or DD. Not surprising, as often they use literally the same guns for the job.

24k doubloons for three boosters and then you unlock option to buy out for 35k. So 59k doubloons for T10 ship.

Just like Benham?

Its always red HE that does more damage. Odd, as red should improve speed, yellow is for bigger bang

In a game being 1v23 in practice... yes.

No AA in this game is "decent" in 1v1 against CV

NC and SoDak class can be still cit'd from above. Richy is pretty much impossible to do so unless you land freak shot in main deck between turrets. And no AA will stop air attacks of same tier CV. Heck. You will have hard time even inflicting noticeable plane casualties to "deplane" CV before she "dehitpoint" you

For this 1v1 thingy? CV of Enterprise or Shokaku variety. Or Richelieu/Massachusetts. Anything else will depend on enemy being speschul

Then before throwing wallet at the screen, get yourself Le Fanta and see yourself if you would get along with their gameplay. Because while they can be fun and very thrilling, they are far from good in terms of "carrying". Even more so with CV around

Intermediate guns like those on Alaska or Yoshino don't combine "best of both worlds", they combine worst of both worlds. Penetration - only Russian 305mm on Kron and Stalin can threaten other battleships at normal combat ranges, Yoshino and even more so, Alaska/PR needs to be below 10km and need perfect broadside if you intent on perforating 400mm+ of plating. And even if you do make holes... so what, as of all hightier battleships, only Yamato have genuinely exposed citadel. To add more bias, Moskva 220mm are not far off in terms of penetration than Yoshino/Alaska guns. Against cruisers... hightier 203mm can already handle 100-150mm of usual cruiser citadel plating at all combat ranges. One positive, HE by default have 51-52mm of HE pen, so you can reach out and touch battleship decks as well Khabarovsk, Moskva and Stalingrad. Overmatch and fuse: +-305mm guns can overmatch 19mm plating, which in practice means you can not-ricochet off bow/stern of Smolensk and Colbert. But in return, these guns need 51mm of effective armor plating to actually arm the fuse. Combined with usual 25-32mm plating found on cruisers and battleships outside of main armored belt, ricochet angles and pinch of trigonometry, chances of arming fuses vary between "unlikely to impossible"... Unless its Stalingrad, as she have both improved ricochet angles, improved fuse sensitivity and shortened fuse time to reduce chances of shell leaving the ship before bang. Reload - the best case scenario, Yoshino + reload mod gets 16.3s reload. Thats worse than early heavy cruisers and not even remotely close to shell output hightier CA you will be facing in regular basis. Hightier CL will simply bury you in ordnance, with your CB guns unable to overmatch and notoriously overpen normal cruisers unless you land hits on citadel. Accuracy - even with Yoshino/Azuma, whom have "improved" dispersion compared to large cruisers, its still below that of cruisers. For long range jackass, IFHEnri with double rudder mod serves the same purpose as Yoshino without large cruiser flaws. Or simply get a Moskva, park bow on and praise the balans.

Not anytime soon... if at all. And IF they return, they will probably come in their own separate minibranch

PR is essentially downscaled Montana. Or upscaled Buffalo.

Alaska and Yoshino are similar as in both are large cruisers with +-305mm guns. Main reason why NOT Yoshino - she is merely balanced in age of broken ships. Also she is disturbingly fragile due to her sticking out citadel, she just can't get close and personal without imploding

So what of "muh 9 attack wings" when in practice Kaga still can drop with 2/4 attack wing, while Shokek might have hard time doing so with 0/2 attack wing