Panocek

We are talking about WG, so their way to turn gunboat into torpedoboat is by taking guns away.

And they did. Can't you see missing 3rd gun turret?

I had back in the day few 12v12 battleships battles, and guess what - campfiesta level 9000, so I wouldn't blame "DD = must kemp tictac bcoz op torps"

Well, I've experienced occasional lag spikes, pointing somewhat towards server-player connection. I couldn't blame my internet connection as skype was running just fine, server hamsters also had alibi of friends games running just fine at the time of my boat freezing in her track. And no, my borderline ancient-ish PC isn't to blame either, as game (at least entering options), web browser and stuff were responsive as usual.

Because BB are basically top of the food chain, with only other BB (and stupidity) being real threat to them? New cruiser line gets released -> MM is flooded with cruisers -> BB numbers quickly rise to farm cruisers New DD line gets released -> MM is flooded with destroyers -> cruisers show up to counter them -> BB show up to farm cruisers New BB line gets released -> MM gets BSOD from battleboat numbers

BB players stuck in eternal queue

Its Wargaming after all... In WoT Blitz (tonks portable) I've already got tier 8 and 6 premiums for inactivity

Working as intended?

You're wrong about "weekend players crawling out of their rocks again". They never returned to their rocks in the first place.

HE shatters when its penetration is not enough to defeat plating it met. So base HE pen for Monarch being 95mm, it can citadel Atlanta for example, but will fail to impress 100mm plating on Fiji citadel. And angle doesn't matter for HE, only it connects And guess what, IFHE does exactly what it does - improves HE penetration by 30%, so HE pen goes up to 123mm. Enough to impress Fiji citadel, but not enough to damage 127mm citadel on New Orleans

HE ignores angle of impact. And while Monarch have decent caliber of 381mm, her main issue is inability to hit things. So what she has hilarious 10.9km detection, when on every try to ambush cruiser all you do is embarrass yourself with dispersion. And 18km range is surprisingly short on oh so notorious T10 matches. For "battlecruiser" gameplay you're better off with Richelieu - same gun caliber, but these guns actually can hit things, top kek 36kts speed with engine boost and 25km range. Handy when game devolves into long range standoff

Well, 100mm citadel plating on cruisers is rather common. While IFHE on RN battleboats is a waste of points, its not as useless on QE/KGV/Monarch. Still, last boat of these three is beyond redemption, not matter what you tack to it.

Basically 1950 cruiser is as good as prewar stuff... Thats some special level of russian bias

I agree 1/4 HE was WG level of derp, but your standard issue, potato mk.1 might temporarily outshine BB whine threads with "nerfed Hinden" ones. Also line would return to initial concept of stronk AP, not so much HE. On other hand, 15cm on Konig and Nopeburger might stay as they are, unless we're willing to harry potter the hell out of these lightweight AP shells.

So, to balance extra penetration what you're willing to sacrifice? AP damage? Torps? Range? Reload? Because WG is clearly willing to gimmick Hinden into "tank" role

150mm+ main belt exists on hightier USN CA, Moskva and Henri IV. Rest is stuck with 100mm And we're still talking about 15km distance, not exactly short range for a cruiser. Penetration is also enough for brutalizing upper hull on all but German battlebotes, while mythical Moskva needs to be <8km for any hopes of punching through 400mm worth of steel.

Spaced armor eating shells is more of a baguette gimmick than example of crappy AP pen. And based on wowsft ballistic chart thingy, German 203 AP is 3rd worst penetration wise after Furutaka-Ibuki 203mm AP and French 203mm on CM and St. Loli. And yet, difference isn't that large - 169mm pen @ 15km compared to Zao 220mm @ 15km.

IIRC American Piercing was a solution years ago to make USN CA less shitty - back in the day, without radar, without anything to stand out except AA, Pensacola, New Orleans and Baltimore were speedbumps toward Des Moines compared to IJN equivalents. http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Update_0.5.1 Basically in 2015 Baltimore was so bad you could call Ibuki overpowered

One thing present on CV test server - displayed HE penetration (finally). Also mentioned "CL won't penetrate CA/BB plating" is as it is now, so I guess it will be IFHE nerf - increased HE pen at complete removal of fire chance. Or HE shells deal chip damage (lets say 10%) when HE shells fail to penetrate struck plating

For that to hold any water WG would have to assign HE pen per tier or change HE mechanics to less binary. Either you have OP DPM monster or harmless firestarter.

"best anti DD guns in battleboat caliber" - I guess you've yet to experience Montana/Iowa class blapping your DD, somehow these guns just print regular pens on destroyers. Musashi in terms of straight up BB vs BB in mid/long range standoff is better simply due to lol overmatch and tier 10 hp/armor. But outside of being roadblock, Musashi isn't that great. Prime CV target and just like Yamato, you don't want to get caught broadside, especially on medium ranges and below. Accuracy is worse than Yamato, almost to the point why play Musashi when you can tack premium paint on Yamato and have better boat in 90% battles. And even if you get tier 7 to massage with Musashi, her guns are overpen simulator 2018 against T7 cruisers. Musashi might excel in World of Battleships at tier 9, but against everything else I'd pick Missouri.

Missouri and Iowa have great accuracy, outside of those RNGesus middle finger moments. Radar isn't long ranged enough to compete with Miss detection, but it certainly makes DD uncomfortable, as somehow these Freedom 16" are the best anti DD guns in battleboat caliber. Combination of these two makes surprisingly good when it comes to pushing people out of caps. I guess you can call Miss the best T9 cruiser, because she can quite well push DDs and doesn't implode when BB looks at her. And for a 270m long piece of navy hardware, her handling is actually not that bad.

QE is still faster than Freedom Glaciers, lack of armor is balances by those fabulous 15inchers, their accuracy is sprinkled with overmatch on top of that. AA is nothing to sneeze at either

Other battlebotes have guns too... And I don't recall USN ones to be particularly good at anything.

If you would read till the end it would be great. Ok. So what exactly New York, New Mexico and Colorado have to justify their (lack of) armor plating, their speed and for first two over 34s reload?