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Yes I can almost hear WG pulling out "global change" card with smoke this time "smoke no longer conceals firing ships, but reduces firing detection penalty to 10 seconds" its not like every "smoke camping wanker" is of rapid firing variety... right? RIGHT?

What game need and what company bank account need do not match

He never claimed to be successful

Yep. Sometimes called "washing machine" I find those to be best suited on BBs - you can't go wrong with +hit on those, though CAs also can capitalize on improved hit rate due to slower reload. Also as most BBs in game except NC and SoDaks have rather average AA, you can use STAAG to improve average AA rate of fire without compromising range nor damage, while keeping harder hitting AA guns on ships with better AA efficiency like Atlantas, Clevelands and whathaveyou And as AA formula seems to favor efficiency over AA stat, SoDaks and NC can get along with STAAG just fine due to merely 100% efficiency on AA guns using gold 113mm as example: Niizuki 135% eff and 193AA deals more damage/shot than Belfasts 100% and 293AA (130*1.35*(100+193)/100=514.2 vs 130*1.00*(100+293)/100=510.9)

99% of CV players don't have patience to stick around when they are in rockets, or when they are in DB/TB, by time they waste their planes strapped to payload and bring rockets another smoke is usually up. Gearing also have 30s (base) downtime on smokes, but that requires one sitting withing smoke for over two minutes. In fat DD without BS shiphanding nor hydro Also 14 smoke memes when in div with another brit DD. Just ask @Yoshanai and middle Two Brother shenanigans

Dunno, britbong derpstroyers, preferably tier 9+ ones with 7 smokes, three heals, 12 minutes of hydro as well top kek gun dpm are still playable

Or tack Aki/Kita/Haru captain on her, if you're using 100mm

But then how you'd complete "set fires" mission in a Yamato?

First decent battle in Trento After landing few juicy salvos, including devstriking misguided Gnevny, finishing off saturated ships with this rate of fire feels like trying to drink big ol mug of tea with tea spoon - it involves lots of effort and time wasted. Also I have odd suspicion dealing with cruisers and DDs only was substantial part of this relative success of pastamobile, as any properly balans BB would easily prove to be unmovable obstacle there.

https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/96958-the-t8-battleship-bow-armor-changes-and-you/ https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/public-test/public-test-0512/ bring yer popcorn Also times when Northern Lights map actually had aurora borealis...

WG tried reducing bow/stern to 25mm on one PTS. Guess why it was one and only PTS run of that change

Traded tokens for 18 pasta crates. meh.

On other hand, on hightiers only two BB branches have armor all around to stop SAP. Rest with all-or-nothing are more like big fat pinatas, just like you would view them in large cruiser

Got today rewards for three years, two years, one year and then 30% coupon. In that order. 45 camouflages total You guys bring "working as intended" to whole new level

Yes and no. Trento lacking ballistics indeed enable her to actually achieve "plunging fire" past 13km or so, but bigger part of that are very good ricochet angles than "bad ballistics". Keep in mind infamous dual purpose mortars used by USN destroyers and Atlanta need to be as far as 12km to actually "stop ricocheting" off the decks, which means 30 degrees angle of impact. 6"/47, used by Cleveland for example needs to be past 15km for the same feat. Also only battleships that can stop SAP outside of ricochet angles are Yamato, Soyuz and Kremlin, as base SAP pen is around 55mm. But due to improving ballistics as you progress in pizza cruisers line, chances of achieving deck pens decrease considerably. So Trento best anti BB pasta cruiser?

So, as thread evolved into generic shippostery sprinkled with wheelbarrow pinch of whiskey tango foxtrot... Russian calendar must be drunk, as I've got today "anniversary" pack of paints as well discount, despite starting playing in what, june? july?

Dunno about Monte and Genova, but on Trento, having low velocity (or rather high air drag, as velocity is in line with Aoba/Pensa) guns on rather "long range oriented" ship doesn't really work Trento and rest of the line seems to have actually decent turning radius, hampered by LONG rudder shift tho.

Guepard have 0.8s worse gun reload, worse torp reload AND damage over Ayyygle. Both need Expert Marksman, Ayyygle have somewhat retarded fring angles and torps are slow, reaction time is the same though. Le Trollible have faster gun and torpedo reload as well better torpedo reaction time despite having slower fishes. Fanta have 200m better concealment, not really helpful as she is still half kilometer worse than competition and "better" AA, but its not going to make any impression on any CV player either. So in stats where it counts for gunboat/hybrid, premiums are better, not mentioning ability to use high lvl captain on them instead trucking along some low level derp

More like silver FR DD line was made sure to not be better than those two

Just like Missouri, Musashi and Kronshtadt were "adjusted"

Unlikely, we're on EU forums afterall. Part of world WG milks, not listens to

What community? You mean these whales, meant to be milked?

Well, Flololomu somehow scored citadel on Balansgrad in Smolbalans in his YT review

It technically is still a thing. But you can't buy "universal" premium for in game premium currencies, only hard cash from the store.