Panocek

if you've grinded 750k Free Exp, then its enough to skip Izumo TWICE (or Nagato>Yamato jump, but then you're missing Nagato and Amagi). If you paid for Free Exp conversion, you would be better with converting 350k Free Exp to skip Izumo and then spend 5k doubloons for Premium camo, which economy wise turn Yamato into premium ship. Yes, she can't be used for captain training, but then, what captain you would want to train if you've got Yamato? HSF paint is nice for a freebie, halved maintenance cost already enables Yamato to stay even without premium.

Old Isokaze was also quite capable at molesting innocent T10 baBBies as well

Because the same Arizona in game full of Bismarcks is certainly going to have an impact

Most ships had enough ammo capacity per gun to make "limited ammo" spectacularly useless feature. Fletcher carrying +-400 rounds per gun, 2000 rounds on board. How likely is you will expend it all in single battle? Even THE spammer of the game, Minotaur carried 400 rounds per gun. that gives 4000 total. Considering my record on hits was around 800 and with my average hit rate of 34% meant I've spent +-2500 rounds that battle. So still plenty in reserve. And thats all "official" numbers, should captain suggest "skipping safety protocols on ammo storage" then god know how much extra rounds you could stuff around the ship. It wasn't uncommon among tank crews to stuff ammo everywhere if prolonged battle was expected.

Since introduction of RN and FR battleboats Yamato class is even more viable, as these two branches on their entirety lack reinforced deck/upper hull plating, thus 460mm shells overmatch them all day long. What Yamato doesn't do well is forgiving mistakes, as she is lone T10 battleship with exposed citadel. But that doesn't mean she can't withstand hilarious amount of abuse when positioned correctly, that is 13-15km away from enemy and angled just enough to use 3rd turret.

Add to that she would be only USN BB that Manual Secondaries are worth considering. Though fully specced Montana with basically two Gearings strapped to each side is amusing, if useless and outdone by Wurst anyway in similar spec.

853m/s velocity you can have already on Pensacola, Nope Orleans, Indianapolis and stock Baltinope. And those AREN'T oh so famous superheavy shells. Though 27mm plating AND 10s reload on T8 Baltimore is overkill. 27mm plating I'm more than happy with, nice alternative to Hipper, which is about to get RoF buff anyway.

I guess that player is on next level of scrub initiation. Like licking hot glass in glassworks... or sand before melting even

If you were to smack Gearing with twelve Freedom shells you would do 16200dmg to start with. And thats assuming none of the shells detonate within ship

After all, USS Gimmick (CL-1337) was light cruiser known for her exemplary service on the Pacific theatre of war

This. There is no gold pot to be found at tier 10... Unless you count 250k+ repair/ammo/consumables bill as one

What if we modify overmatch rule with "shell does not arm fuse on overmatched plate"? That would be the simplest solution to BB AP vs DD with bonus points for cruisers survivability. BB vs BB superstructure pens would be gone tho.

21mm hull plating on Gearing combined with her width is more of a curse than a boon - AP, even from destroyers can do massive damage to Gearing while ship itself eats BB AP pens all the time. Short range gunpower is excellent, making even Kebab worried, long range torps are actually useful at sniping people in 2nd line, who are less likely to evade incoming fire. Not as fun as Fletcher IMO, but in right hands certainly not useless. PA Fletcher and Gearing are actually better due to tad better concealment and more useful smoke. Lack of DFAA can be disturbing at times tho

If you want multipurpose destroyer with bit more focus on guns, Grozovoi might be up your alley. And certainly makes more sense building Grozo for guns than for torps

Still, DM (and to lesser degree T9 Baltimore) have quite exposed citadel that doesn't handle well 406mm+ shells. On other hand, 27mm hull plating enables her to shrug off 380mm sized munitions, common on FR battleboats except T10

That topic escalated quickly

Its not bug if its working as intended

Not only that, 40mm waterline bow armor can shrug off even Ayyymato shells. Thats some serious balancing issue Krupp stahl. Throw actually hidden citadel with turtleback on top of that and why we're not playing World of Hipster Pudding by now?

Bayern, Queen Elizabeth and Warspite says hi

And what T8 cruiser exactly have 30mm bow plating? Or any in game cruiser for that matter? No, Missouri best T9 CA doesn't count

Or bring 15in armed BB to club T8 cruisers in your stronk T6 BB

To wrap it up: you're using the best artillery destroyers game has to offer as torpedo boats and you wonder why they don't work. Its like asking Mini Cooper to haul 8 people with luggage for month long holidays across the world. Its... less than suitable for the task.

418 battles.

If you're not spotted in Russian gunboats then you're doing something wrong

Or you know, hire few voice actors/actresses, give some retexturing/remodeling work of existing ships to "not busy" 3d/texture artist and make monies from selling things to weebs