Panocek

Majority of players doesn't care about learning, thus you see players with 10k+ battles and being still as potato as on day one. But then GK paint is going to get scratched. Hard when you fluff up or get an idea of bringing rear turrets to bear, as they have IIRC tragic rear firing arcs, completely opening you for penetration when you can use them. Montana and Conqueror have much better firing arcs and in practice, can stay just as tanky as GK when having their full firepower and with less... temperamental gun accuracy

On other hand, NC combines her relatively short barrels with superheavyshells, which results with very slow shell velocity. Thus, some extra lead will be needed. And NC while favors good positioning, she isn't going to implode whenever someone gets a glimpse of your citadel, simply because it ends at waterline. That and she is one of the finest BBs to handle, cruiserlike turning radius and decent rudder shift makes torpedobeats a breeze

On other hand, when you get that single shell "disconnects" from main spread and lands perfectly into your citadel is usually coming from a German BB RNGesus giveth, RNGesus taketh

Oh look, gun reload isn't only one balancing factor Except shell velocity is in game and this is actually historically accurate. What is missing in port specs is shell weight and air drag coefficient, though weight is sometimes mentioned in shell name. But then, shells often have similar weight for a given caliber

Except it will be shitty camper with a shotgun. Replace any secondary oriented skills and upgrades with main gun accuracy, concealment and survivability. And whether uptiered or top tier, wandering off on your own in search of adventure will mostly get you killed.

32mm plating is enough to shrug off 457mm guns found on Kremlin and Conqueror/457. Only Yamato class can overmatch that plating.

Overmatch, so the best Azuma sisters can do is to bait shots to ricochet off citadel main belt...

Only select few ships can penetrate Moskva's 50mm plating with HE... None of them are your nemesis light cruisers. You know what? Get yourself a CL, Helena for a good measure. After all, 15gun, 8s reload, tack IFHE and melt everyone... provided you can hit them

Large cruisers combine BB size and maneuverability with cruiser lack of armor. Same with guns, they lack overmatch of BB and DPM of cruisers, so you're stuck with oddboat. Only Stalingrad and Moskva have armor you can rely upon when angled, but then, you haven't expected bad Russian ship in game developed by Russians for (Belo)russian company have you? And then question which large cruiser you have in mind - Azuma class is pretty much forced into long range standoffs due to massive fuckoff citadel, though Yoshino due to 30mm amidship can bait shots into angled broadside when having close and personal encounter with a BB at late game, as long as said BB doesn't know how to aim in front of turrets. Alaska have underwater citadel so you can't get blapped, but you still can succumb to repeated pen damage.

Considering more than half of existing T10 cruisers already can show middle finger to 400mm sized munitions, adding remaining ones won't make them suddenly leave their island cover

Thats more like MVP approach - Minimum Viable Product... Also explains glorious UI in game

Already have Ayyygle and by the looks of it, Croissant DDs aren't that different from Russian gunboats. MBRB is nice, but ded ships can't pew pew, so heal it is

Which is precisely the point. Besides, Germans aren't only nation to use <430mm guns. That and any overmatching shells will have higher chance to arm and score pen damage on uparmored cruiser, which totally not coincides with fact almost every recent BB addition have 30mm overpen option its not like whole BB AP on DD issue started since uparmoring DDs to 19mm on the hull Bow will remain as is, so bowtanking isn't going to work. But baiting shots to shrug them off on amidship, something that would fall under "skillful play"...

You guys are slightly too speschul for my taste. That and "clan" feature doesn't provide anything of importance, while I certainly can't be arsed to deal with upstart "officer" wanting to fulfill his/her/apache dreams of grandeur in clan battles.

Lack reinforced upper hull, which is more likely target to hit unless peppering stuff with Cleveland at 15km

One thing that makes WoWs even gross uptiering workable is ability to do damage to pretty much anyone. If you want your "F U your HE" option, its already in game in shape of glorious RU BBs, which have plating just right to ignore most HE sent towards it, with Germans being close second. And yet, despite oh so mighty HE spam, BBs have no issues having top notch survivability. Heck, you have to go extra full retard to die quickly in BB, mostly to torpedoes or... wait for it... other battleships AP shells. And give WoT a go. Get a tier 3 light tank, meet KV-1 and feel "fun and engaging" mechanics when you can't dent him no matter what, while he two shots your plebmobile. Thats what are you asking to bring into WoWs.

I'd say (premium) BBs are *mostly* safe bet, as I've yet to see WG do actually something with BB overpopulation. And frankly, T8 BBs aren't as affected by glorious Tier 8 MatchmakingTM as other classes are, in worst case scenario you still can lob shells across the map without worry of someone actually shooting them down or somesuch and still get serviceable results unless RNGesus have hard on for you

Not really, because Azunya will get 27mm amidship as tier 9 cruiser, so IFHElanta isn't going to impress her.

I guess you must be fan of World of Tanks too, where bottom tiers usually can grab their ankles and kiss their arse integrity goodbye Because you can't have ships that can pose even remote threat to baBBies in this game

Something something accuracy you say? And that is the best dispersion after +-5s of flying perfectly straight.

Yep. DD won't be able to dent midtier cruisers at center of mass anymore, no difference on BBs and T8+ cruisers. AP to unarmored bits still going to work tho.

Khaba. Based on datamined AP penetration, only Zao and Minotaur you can have real chances of citadelling outside of secondary range and even then perfect broadside is going to be needed. For long range open water shenanigans in randoms... Tashkent/Kiev. Both have more range than Kebab, actually serviceable torpedo armament and with Concealment upgrade alone, which they can take freely they can stealth torp incoming ships while having signature heal. They lack Kebab armor as well ability to eat full pens though

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