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WG "surveys" are not about game development, but about means WG can monetize further. Hence "inane" questions of favourite food, music band, movies, other games and whatnot. And as @El2aZeR mentioned some time ago, I wouldn't be surprised if his trolling weeb answers were part of Azur Lane collab expanding

Or WG dev team run out of ships/ideas and they try to come up with *something* so boss will stop spanking everyone with quarterly financial report showing not-as-high increase in profits as expected compared to older years

Actual armor platings are surprisingly accurate, its just WG who considered constructional steel of bow/stern to be of any value. If you were to remove that, you would turn ships into armored shoebox, pretty much negating angling outside of minimizing target profile

Just like premium carrier balancing was done in 0.8.2

Cleveland IIRC needs to fire at targets beyond 15km to for shells to stop ricocheting to start with, even her "moon arcs" are flatter than they look

I still remember when BFT/AFT worked for CL guns... And that glorious "17km range, 17s shell flight time" But hey, deck penetrations at least were a thing with AP

Not quite. 25mm plating eats BB AP and HE as usual, no smoke/heal of Edin nor range and ballistics of Chapa. So when cap shenanigans go awry, you better have good escape route.

CV REEEwork made me go full f2p, to the point I don't see the point of spending already accumulated doubloons. And looking back at WoT, I guess its WG modus operandi to start screwing up with the game at 4 year mark

And Cleveland is?

Enlighten me, how EXACTLY "free premium consumables" will offset NTC'd ship, as it will have access to them anyway?

Its a habit, just like World of Tanks before. And like WoT, apparently WG have to start screwing up the game at about 4 year mark

They did, so its pretty much a rerun + some NTC sprinking for extra butthurt

Dunno, they cost 22.5k for me Last time I've seen Cleve with fighter plane was when she was tier 6... more than year ago. Spotter plane is entirely different matter.

At some point Miss had radar range "unified" to 10km, only to rolled back to her 9.5km in next patch or hotfix. And for USN radars: CA - 10km CL - 9km Atlanta/Salem - 8.5km Miss - 9.5km Which is extra hilarious, because WG nerfed USN CL as rapid firing light cruiser with better camo than radar is bad for balans... unless we're talking about Russian/UK CL or rapid firing CA

Skill gaps are no bueno, but grind gaps are of balans camrade, especially if you can shorten them with premium and loot boxes surprise mechanics

Regarding newest WG stunt...

And Uncle Vlad upper hull/deck. Which will be within base HE pen capability 240/6=40

And Roma. Which ENTIRELY justifies spending 4 points on skill to counter two ships two tier lower. Two more if we count faildivisioned Scharnhorst sisters' tiny stripe of upper hull

There is no need for IFHE if it gives no benefit whatsoever no platings between 40mm and 48mm as I recall I run all my cruisers except Croissants with Propulsion mod2, especially as Rudder shift time shown in port is from maximum to maximum, so in practice, Yoshie stock have 7s rudder time from neutral. Not very bad, but due to turning radius she relies more on WS part of WSAD hax

Shoot yourself in left or right foot, which one you prefer?

Have to agree, Yoshie isn't BAD ship per se... but every other one is kinda better. Survivability leaves something to be desired, HE shells hit quite hard, but reload is lacking (compared to cruisers) and even "improved" dispersion is still below cruiser level. 20km torps are memes, 12km are late game brawls and maybe smoke sweeping only option, as any attempt to exert pressure especially early on will end up with you eating cits or thorough HEblasting. Though if IFHE change gets through, Henri would lose its anti BB/Moskvagrad status due to losing 50mm HE pen.

Just realized Henri IV is going to get hit by this, removing his feature of 50mm HE pen, which may or may not affect its CW utility. There isn't much reason to run IFHE on Kebab, Atlanta class do benefit from it more, but its still less mandatory than current IFHE on 152mm guns.

THIS. Bonuses for internet bragging rights, d!ck measuring contests and overall flexing instead actual combat bonuses.

Precisely THE reason WG put out half price discounted yearly premium just month before REEEwork hit the game, just to hook players "but my premium is running out"