Panocek

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Bigger question, why not tier 3 CB?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but only time when anyone from "dev team" comes here is to their post copy/paste in DevBlog part of the forum or to show off their (lack of) damage control skills during major shipstorm.

inb4 her performance plummeted and she will return with buffed planes

I was on the fence with Missouri for quite some time with her being literally an Iowa (which I had in port back then) with gimmick. Eventually I've bought her, not so much for radar memes and credits as hopefully long term collecting gem. You underestimate power of Free Exp

Not every ship class have (overpowered) premium sister... Kitakaze for example Then there is case of liking ship visuals or simply obtaining premium/event camo - I've worked my way towards Lightning precisely because of that, despite having "on paper" superior Cossack. Or Implacable, though she's still an extra turd. Same story with anniversary camos for Zed23 and Charles Martel. And quite a number of other ships I think

Well, sometimes you can sit quite exposed in lets say, a cruiser and farm some damage. But once counter jumps up, you know ez time is over. Same with late game duels. Also when someone switches to torps and then to guns, you see counter going down and up.

Kinkyberg have solid range and built in IFHE+, so shouldn't be that big of a deal

Well, you can say WG killed two birds with one stone with the REEEwork - rework carriers themselves and nerf those pesky flanking DDs and cruisers, so battleboats can pew pew in peace Not even WG knows what, if any exp bonuses are for plane kills. So I guess its more of a case of damaging DDs and odd cruiser, as %hp is what matter

Pasta class BB of some sort (Littorio?)

On other hand, if Fries would serve under Russian banner, then 1/4 HE pen would be an instant buff. And heals

"Silver sister ship" argument works both ways - "why buy Tirpitz if you have Bismarck", but also "you can move experienced Bismarck captain to next ship in the line and move him to Tirpitz when you feel like it", as you don't have to retrain captains for premium vessels.

USN=IJN>>>UK USN are versatile hammer - you can spank pretty much every ship type with every kind of payload at your disposal. Decent rockets, though tier 8 and 10 have horrendous disperion on HVAR (multiple small rockets), though can damage plenty of targets with 32mm HE pen. Alternative are TiTs - Tiny Tims, massive rockets with fcukhueg penetration at 68mm and damage close to BB projectile, but very few in numbers, making them prone to RNG trolling. Torps are solid, short arming distance, decent damage. Dive bombers can smack pretty much everything you come across, but accuracy nerfs made them... unreliable against DDs and maneuvering targets. Planes themselves are middle ground - okay speed, decent health. Simply "no nonsense" IJN are precise scalpel - you need to know what targets you can brutalize with what, but once you get hang of that damage potential is I'd say higher than USN. Early rockets are lacking both in damage and numbers, Shokaku ones are much more useable simply because you throw more of them per run. Hakuryu IMO gets the best rockets of all tier 10, due to mix of damage, accuracy and workable 30mm HE pen, so only BBs are out of reach. Torps are top tier across the board in terms of speed and damage, AP bombs are mainly anti cruiser weapon - on quite a number of battleships bombs simply detonate before reaching citadel. Bomb drop trajectory also matters, so definitely skill sensitive. Planes are somewhat fragile, but fast and IJN TB have improved concealment, with maxed out camo you can outspot 152mm armed AA cruisers like Minotaur. UK are turds - small squadrons with long replacement times made of slow but durable planes. While you throw more rockets per plane than usual, smaller attack wing counteracts that and when you get "normal" attack wing size at tier 10, rockets have too small HE pen of 27mm to reliably damage tier 10 cruisers with dispersion leaving you at RNGesus mercy when trying to spank destroyers. Lower tier ships are going to be decimated though. Torps are comparable to USN, but again, until tier 10 you drop less of them. "Dive", or rather "horizontal" bombers are balanced around "what you can hit, you can't penetrate. What you can penetrate, you can't hit". Any ship with reinforced deck is going to shrug off these bomblets, you would be lucky to land more than 4 hits on DD or even cruiser sized target. I'd stick to Ryujo and maybe start working towards Ranger and simply have fun as well getting practice with them in Operations.

1% against tier 10, also DE doesn't buff AP shells unlike BFT

Considering I've got for one free from supercrate, I'm not thrilled by her. Just get QE for free.

Every DD have ASW toy of one flavor or another, though "long range ASW" might be Friesland gimmick

-buy loot boxes to get tokens -buy another lootboxes with tokens -find mission to obtain loot box, where you can find another mission for Enterprise rental -grind your soul away with Rentprise to unlock option to purchase in discounted pack of all four carriers and quackton of other junk for 400€ sounds gud to me

You know the drill, better late than never

So, big pack CV will be nerfed but otherwise no?

sauce?

I wonder if it has something to do with squeezing tier 10 into tier 8

Values aren't far from what ye olde Zao can do... without reload penalty.

But then, isn't "high alpha" flavor of the pasta cruisers? Even if it strips half of the DD its not going to be "healthy" mechanic. But then, Smolensk got greenlight, so why the heck not.

This is why keyboard have A and D keys. Seriously.

Obviously, Enterprisemasterrace... except removed from sales already Sounds exactly like "112" chinese tank from WoT - pulled from sales because unpopular (and kinda was) and then got metric jesuston of buffs