Panocek
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Indianapolis, bog standard USN heavy cruiser with 10km radar and longer than average main battery range (16.9km) as gimmicks Aigle is fun gunboat multipurpose destroyer, though to get comfortable with her you need Expert Marksman to help with turret traverse. She is also semi-free as Coal ship
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Maybe escort destroyers are an answer to DD players complaints regarding CV rework?
Panocek replied to HussarKaz's topic in General Discussion
Which we almost have in game in shape of Lightning, as L and M class are sister classes. And that boat is far from effective AA platform. 3 average DP turrets and single (!) mid caliber PomPom. Even replacing one torp launcher with seemingly manually loaded 76 102mm PewPewKanone of sorts doesn't help anything besides gimping anti surface effectiveness. -
Carrier then, Carrier now... both can stomp on singled out targets, so I don't see much difference
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Correct me if I'm wrong... but weren't CVs always permitted into rankeds?
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Maybe escort destroyers are an answer to DD players complaints regarding CV rework?
Panocek replied to HussarKaz's topic in General Discussion
Whole "AA escort destroyer" gets defeated by mere existence of USN DDs, which often have one of the most potent AA + DFAA option. Does it stop CVs from breaching their anal integrity? No. Whole CV issue boils down to automated AA, where player can't do anything besides speccing captain/ship for AA, selecting sector and hoping for the best. If you tune such automated, unavoidable dps to keep good players in check, average joe is going to be brutalized so hard it won't be even funny. Which kinda defeats whole point of popularizing class previously extinct due to such one sided mechanics (old no-fly zones, fighter strafing) where either you had unicums living and thriving or potatoes getting buttfluffed all the time. -
Maybe escort destroyers are an answer to DD players complaints regarding CV rework?
Panocek replied to HussarKaz's topic in General Discussion
How exactly slow and undergunned destroyer escort is going to solve CV complaints I don't even. Besides, most mentioned ships here are destroyers proper. That and there is only so much freeboard on such small vessel to put AA on. If good ol Montana with 20x quad Bofors can't pew pew fast enough to stop T10 CV dead in its tracks, few twin Bofors certainly aren't going to cut it either. -
Concealment is extra handy on IJN carriers, UK on other hand due to tiny reserves and lengthy replacement times certainly can make use of FCM1. On US its kinda case of "go with whatever you want". If you lose planes left right center and diagonal, FCM1 might help you... A little. On other hand Lexington and Midway disappearing at 11.8km and 12.5km respectively can be meme on its own.
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Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)
Panocek replied to Kancolle_Kongou's topic in Off-Topic
That would be Hiei, based on AL Discord mumble And Tashkek is almost must have for RU navy, historical ship and in terms of AL she should get MGM+1 and twin 130 with some Russian Bias stats Anshans default blue 130mm is surprisingly good for a blue, so I'd expect nothing less -
On topic of stealth nerfs, with latest hotfix (or 0.8.2 patch was it?) Minotaur mid range got cut down from 5km do 4km. I've noticed that when Shokeking around and bumped into one. Expected wall of doom and rockets falling one by one at <5km, yet usual long range flak appeared. Checked in game and yep, no longer 5km mid range
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Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)
Panocek replied to Kancolle_Kongou's topic in Off-Topic
I wonder how meme Błyskawica would become in AL. And apparently another shipgrill... interacted with Siren laser when Akashi was tinkering with it -
Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)
Panocek replied to Kancolle_Kongou's topic in Off-Topic
I'd guess some chinesium napkin designs would come first, unless part of WoWs collab. -
I'm not quite sure where you've got "5.4" and "4.3", if you refer to the OP screenshots, those numbers are timers, how long till planes exit their attack run
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Going in circles, sometime sideways is funny indication of lag/connection issues.
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Port slots sometimes drop from daily crates, not sure if one of the base campaigns doesn't reward them as well.
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So are Kektune, Seattle and Wooster. Kektune actually have better long range AA, so for so called fleet screening she would be the best pick due to main battery being dual purpose and then secondary complement of one Daring per broadside. Should planes get closer than 4km however, you would want Minotaur's 76mm AA guns, preferably with BFT and Sector for maximum pew pew. AA in general has been equalized. Previous no-fly zones like Wooster, Mino or DM got nerfed, while ships with crappy dps can at least hope for the kill due to flak burst mechanic. That however requires CV player willing to collect coins flaks
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Still, I don't expect this topic to last long, as MrConway or someone else will close it with "send any bugs to support so we can officially answer them with [pick one]" -working as intended -have you tried to turn it off and on again -let WG check your credit card to find solution to this problem
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But you can always purchase sparkling new* premium carrier to deliver salt yourself New lick of paint on few years old carrier, sanity not included when dealing with T8TM matchmaking
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Or bring something that can actually shoot into skies
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Those are valid targets.
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Art of torping DDs with planes requires ingredient of speschul DD player. Anyone rich enough to pay attention can evade them most of the time
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Closest to that would be my recent Grozo game, where Lex DB went Ctrl+A, Del, Enter. Only one dmg number popped up, 10.5k dmg with two plane kills, less than 1s later 7 planes followed Again, before I've found DFAA key on, though with flak spawning
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Suggesting to purchase Tirpitz, or any T8 premium with current MM is asking for a salt and buyers remorse One thing you forget about Engine Boost is acceleration bonus. Considering battlecruisers just like battleships enjoy full time fires, going with DamaConMod2 is certainly not bad of an idea. But then, you don't have Propulsion/Steering Mod 2 to help with ship handling Also not sure if barely 700m difference in concealment is "good margin". And actually, Alaska with DFAA active barely beats base JB in terms of dps - latter have 308dps@long range and 1071 at mid-short. Alaska have 159, 489 and 571 respectively, with DFAA on that would be 358/978/1142. Flak amount is in JB favor, 9/13 vs 5/10 and both ships have to choose between main battery accuracy and amount of flak upgrade, DFAA temporarily increases flak dmg tho.
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Desync (ship model position doesn't match hitbox) was common-ish occurrence shortly after Open Beta and it seems to return post rework, as shells passing through either my ships bow/stern or enemies without registering happens at times.
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Except in IJN case amount you simply lack option to stomp DDs quickly. You can pester them with rockets, which, granted, gets actually decent on Haku, but unless RNGesus keeps saying "da" repeatedly it will take long time. You can pick off low hp ships, but again, thats something USN can do just fine as well. Besides generic "how to TB", stacking camo to troll Woosters/Minotaurs and throwing dices AP bombs at cruisers and German BBs there isn't really a hattrick to pull off with IJN.
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Had this morning example of imploding squadron without clear reason, sent replay and description to support and I'm awaiting usual "have you tried turning it off and on" reply
