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Boats that can make use of extra rudder are few and far between. Khaba is kinda forced to take both rudders, baguette class cruisers can make use of it as well, nicely stacks with decent turning circle and engine boost. Not as well on HIV, 14.1km detection on BB sized cruiser certainly makes things... interesting. Tea class CL in theory also could do it, but then you lose stealth torping on Minotaur and Odinburger. IJN already have good rudder shift, hampered by meh turn radius

As much as your ideas sound reasonable, its rather unlikely to happen. Even drilling the living bum out of S_O about it might not help, in worst case it will net you a ban. And midtiers, with tier 7 in particular is good one to stop - somewhat preferential MM, a lot of fine and (mostly) balanced boats to tug around. Only DDs are on shafted end when uptiered due to lack of camo upgrade.

Ground, as in ocean bottom isn't far off.

Le Trollible doesn't have russian grade ballistics to match long range shelling, she also doesn't have smoke nor heal to save you from screw ups. Also tier 8 MM is in... less than forgiving spot. IMO get Kiev for tier 8 gunboat shenanigans

Overpen happens when: shell doesn't meet armor thick enough to arm the fuse shell meet armor thick enough to arm the fuse, but shell runs out of ship before detonating On smaller, or to be specific, narrow cruisers, like UK CL showing broadside at short range its not uncommon to score multiple overpens instead citadels. But as they angle, distance covered by shells increase, often enough to detonate within. You can't exactly find BB narrow enough to make that happen, but then battleboats with actually punishable citadel are bordering on extinction

Overpens at short-ish range of perfect broadsides is modus operandi when it comes to 406mm shells. If you can't live with that on NC, you might not want to try out Iowa guns, which pack even more penetration.

Takao class have 3 more ships to use. Blucher as 3rd of Hipper class, SoDak and Indiana are also an option. And then you have 171 more Fletchers to add.

That would cause butthurt because Moskva is no longer outspotted by Yamato and whatnot

one does not simply read I guess...

Overmatch only skips ricochet check. Effective armor posed by angled plate can arm fuse and in theory it can stop shell. Though its more of a WoT thing, where you have high caliber low velocity howitzers on certain tanks/tank destroyers. AP from these can overmatch certain armor plates, but also can fail penetration check due to crappy actual penetration. Something VERY unlikely to happen in World of boats tho. Quick math - worst 380mm gun in terms of penetration - Bayern would fail to penetrate overmatched 25mm plate at distance of 20km and at 84 degrees angle. Somewhat... rare occurence

12x 356mm at tier 5 might be interesting tho. Fuso already proves you don't need accuracy if you can throw enough stuff at someone, something will stick. So tier 5 Fuso either will need like 12km range or get negative sigma Already come up with gimmick for her - base concealment of 18km, but when firing concealment drops to match 12km range

That way you can russian bias when russian bias Also fixed

Benefit of paper ships - possibilities are endless. WG can always say "mother rashia wanted to build more than 9000 of these boats, so we introduce 8000 premboats, each with unique paintjob. Chrome plated, pearlescent, pink, something for everyone"

You might want to hide in underground bunker to avoid blast wave coming from not so nimble hightier BB vs Fletcher encounter

Funny enough, when Ger/Brit/Baguette BB lines were introduced, WG did not bothered with softcapping BBs, despite BB numbers violating MM with any way imaginable

But... but... how I'm supposed to hunt cruisers with so many battleboats around?

One does not simply grind through pre buff Pensacola when World of Tirpitz happens

I wonder if DFAA could be more of "passive" consumable - tack "overheat" mechanic to AA mounts, ships equipped with DFAA have lets say, +50% longer AA fire till overheat. Overheat could be a nice way of bringing BB AA down "for balancing reasons". When I think of it, Hydro could work similarly - when equipped, it gives passive torpedo/ship detection, but its range degrades the faster ship is going. So to enjoy German 6km lolsonar, you have to be stationary or crawling at 1/4. But then, 6km lolsonar might be tad too much anyway.

The best part is, I find Rich guns to be very consistent in terms of accuracy, only lacking in overmatch department. So... RNGesus giveth, RNGesus taketh?

Except Moskva can outdo even Minotaur when it comes to "goes in boom" department thanks to her "tiny" citadel.

I guess you've yet to witness what happens to Moskva caught broadside, after all all BB have better camo than her. Minotaur can stealth torp too with comfortable window and doesn't suffer from potato firing arcs. Heck, Ibuki can stealth torp too, yet its not exactly "very stronk" piece of boat.

Henry IV and Moskva says hi, neither of these have underwater citadel with turtleback. Also Zao had concealment, HE and "kiting" advantage since... always. All she got were non yolo torps.

Except its THE lightest shell from 203mm variety, so penetration loss is rather considerable.

Frankly you could rework/reshuffle skills and rename those derpy "endurance" "attack" "versatility" categories with senior officers branches.