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So basically ship submerged in light blue... And here I thought WG went lazy with recycling brass bits from Richelieu/Gascogne event camo into French DDs paint

Question of other variety: does anyone bought perma camouflages for new pasta cruisers from the armory and can share screenshots how it looks? I can't find any WG screenshots or art or whathaveyou

Fire and don't fired upon, which is somewhat generic cruiser gameplay. Use islands as ballistics are on Freedom side, your smoke when no radars around and beware of tea based propulsion, making things... interesting when it comes to torpedo evasion.

Completed 3rd set of directives and got Trento

One of new AL "halloween" loading arts may raise more than eyebrow...

Kinda can confirm that, especially if it involves Gearing.

Best tip for Implacable - don't play Implacable. Or any other UK CV. They are simply bad by design.

USN 5"/38 are/were hardcapped in range at 16km or so "for historical accuracy". That and apparently someone got offended when Fletcher opened fire at someone at 18km

I wouldn't seek any conspiracy theories there, its just RNG. Granted, russian RNG, but RNG nonetheless Basically don't expect any worthwhile rewards from crates, free or premium ones and you won't be disappointed most of the time

Then your theory is at fault, because depite having 18 or so tier 10 ships in port, no pasta cruisers whatsoever so far. Same was with French DDs, second last crate dropped single ship from the event, tier 6 Guepard.

YOu can b!tch all day long about WG development decisions, but playerbase quality is something WG can't fix no matter how hard you would reee at them.

Trento doesn't look half bad on paper - 8x203 with manageable reload, solid 16km range, 35kts top speed and some fishes on board. Seeing 32kts on Zara makes me question things tho.

Torps besides, what made Grem extra balans was "standard" detection penalty of 30m*shell caliber instead 30m*shell caliber + 2km for other RU DDs back in the day when stealth firing was a thing. So with CE you could stealth fire from 10km onwards, throw AFT into the mix and you had over 4km of stealth firing window. Same as old Błyskawica.

More like someone in Siema gov back then had idea of purchasing Madagascar from French, which initially agreed to, but then French government changed and WW2 happened.

Given Poland never had any overseas colonies, I guess "what if" Polish fleet would end up with handful of large destroyers akin to Błyskawica and maybe cruiser or two to act as "flagship". But then if theorycrafting, we could assume Siema government would actually purchase rights for Madagascar, which in turn would warrant a bit bigger fleet

Given state of the country in 1918 was... not exactly the best, any wet dreams of having biggest guns on the Baltic had to make way for uniforming foot soldiers armament for example as leftovers from Russian, Prussian and Austrian stocks had habit of not being exactly compatible with each other

Yep. Country that (back then) just recently was restored on European map and was ordering ship construction abroad due to lack of any worthwhile industry definitely had dreams of grandeur Even more so as word "Solidarność" (solidarity, fellowship) gained any weight to use as name for, I dunno, warships only after 1980s when trade union named as such started to become main opposition against communist government... so... yeah... its more fake than russian navy and thats quite an achievement

Błyska got Brit 102mm in 1941 or so, to solve issue of not having Swedish 120mm ammo as well to improve her seakeeping for Atlantic. Post war she got Russian 100mm. I don't mean HE pen. I mean slow shell velocity combined with lightweight shells, you'd need negative air drag to not grow full beard when waiting for shells to impact. And Akizuki gets things done due to 1km/s shell velocity

One role Błyska can still fulfill is long(ish) range gunboat that can fall back to stealth torping. Minsk have better ballistics, but only 4km yolo torps. Leningrad trades bit of range for 8km torps, but also she SCREAMS for dedicated captain with EM. Vaquelin outranges Błyska and still can stealth torp, but "bad" doesn't give justice when it comes to describing ballistics of short barreled 139mm outside of short range brawls. Reload buff actually brought Błyska in line with Gadjah Mada, Jervis and Haida in terms of gun dpm while having superior ballistics, she also retains speed advantage. Brit knockoffs still have vast concealment advantage tho, 6.1km, 6.3km and 5.7km respectively which alone makes them better especially when uptiered. So, from spreadshiet perspective, not giving out how important concealment is, you can say Błyska is pretty good Keep in mind "mid war" or "post war" refits with UK 102mm or RU 100mm can backfire at you HARD. With every refit Błyskawica lost speed, going as low as 33kts or so with last refit, when she got Russian B-24 100mm guns. Also ballistics on these guns... lacking would be very generous for a description. So no, you won't get yourself a siemka Akizuki at tier 7

She HAD stealth firing as her main gimmick Since thats gone, she is powercrept by pretty much anything, either outgunned, outspotted or both. Though main offender there is Haida, which packs comparable gunpower and merely 1.1km concealment advantage on top of usual pile of gimmicks

Point of pasta cruisers is to show superiority of glorious rashian designs. That and byproduct of having to balance multiple ships, built to the same specs or bound by the same treaties in a game with very shallow game mechanics. So either you end up with copy/paste or you have to embrace gimmick as your patron deity and keep adding exceptions to established game mechanics

Except they have as much hp as Shokaku ones and are only pinch slower...

Basically play in division. Relying on random teammates to do more than die for the emperor can lead you only into disappointment. Other than that... check team lineup - are CVs around? How many radar ships? In DD you don't deal with carrier, carrier deals with you. You only semi-reliable defense against fly boys is smoke, don't expect AA to do anything unless CV player is speschul enough to reliably catch those puny amount of flak bursts you're spewing out. Against radars, if you have to operate within range of one, have escape route to hard cover ready to GTFO whenever you get radared. For captain build, whole "competitive" ends at 10 points, after securing Last Stand, Survivability Expert and Concealment. Anything on top of that is nice extra. Two DD lines, Akizuki gunboats and tier 9 and 10 UK kinda need IFHE to get the most out of them, so thats 14lvl captain there.

On other hand, you have people who can reliable shove payload when attacking multiple ships. So if you can't but they can, spreadsheet says things are, on average, balanced