Panocek

its p2w if you're on receiving end of Roma broadside, but when you're in Roma it suddenly sucks.

Where I had this screenshot of Moskva citadelling Yamato broadside... oh even better, whole clip (not mine) 400mm of armor sounds proper, until you realize how powerful guns are. Some food for thought

Not so much "Roma stronk when close and personal" as Yamato doesn't fare well when up close, especially if caught with pants down. Unfortunately, Yamato is of old, dying breed of battleships punishing players for their mistakes. If you want to go full retard and still do okayish, Conqueror of british flavor might be your thing

Shell dispersion is pure RNG and you can't do much to it, maybe some prayers or offerings to RNGesus could help

So far my Fushun captain have PT, LS, EM, BFT, CE. Next picks will be SE, AR and finally JoaT. on Gandja I'll go with PT, LS, BFT, CE, then SE, TAE and AR with last point stuffed god knows where. IFHE if anything I'd pick on Fushun, but even then its kinda mixed blessing. You can bother hightier cruisers including Hipper and non german midtier BBs, but all the Derpitzes, Carolinas and T8 whatnot will be out of reach anyway. T5 battleboats and up to T7 cruisers are within reach of base HE pen.

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!

Single game in Yamato and missions appeared. You need to "enter" whole affair via button in announcement page tho.

3k doubloons for -3% to surface detectability range. +4% to maximum dispersion of shells fired by the enemy at your ship. -10% to the cost of ship's post-battle service. +10% credits earned in the battle. +50% experience earned in the battle. +50% Commander experience earned in the battle.

I'd say it gets more interesting, as you can farm captain exp for skill respecs or training new captains

Well, Missouri certainly is more flexible and seemingly earns more than Musashi. Latter is basically one trick pony

And his infamous nerf file Guy is afaik unrelated to WoWs development though

Except La Gasoline needs Engine Boost to keep up the pace with Buddy, otherwise you're crawling at 31kts.

If shell runs out of ship to explode within, then yes, overpen happens

On other hand Memetaur have 5.4km detection in smoke, so I either grind through or insert coin to skip level

1) "light" in light cruisers refers to armament, that is 155mm guns or smaller 2) In terms of citadel plating TeaKruzers are on par with other nations and only on Neptune/Minotaur they have it considerably exposed. Rest of the ship is unnaturally thin though, making them vulnerable to all HE thrown their way. Still +100mm plating all you can count is to stop DD AP shells and when angled (but not enough to ricochet shells) can, but doesn't have to withstand 152/155mm AP. For 203mm and bigger you need ricochet angle to not get penetrater

Truth is, battleships are bigger cancer than carriers

Moskva is most "random friendly" - she can work just fine in large open maps with her superb ballistics and range, her armor when angled is nothing to sneeze at either. Henri seems to be tad inferior to Moskva in gunnery department, but she can zip around with her engine booster at near Kebab speeds. Hindenburg has high potential, but as Hipper and Roon shows, German 203mm are kinda inconsistent in terms of penetration. These guns can punish broadsides HARD with their above average damage, but any sort of angling and they rapidly detoriate in effectiveness. HE is mixed blessing - 51mm penetration allows to damage most BB decks in game, but damage done is on meh side.

You can't go wrong watching Flamu reviews/tutorials as well watching replays as food for thought

Frankly, Yamato citadel is armored enough to withstand majority of shells when angled and with some distance to target.

Back in the day when Iowa/Montana had raised citadel, any sort of broadside on these ships meant instant deletion. Even high powered cruiser guns were drastic against them. Germans, lowered citadel Iowa/Montana and now Tea battleboats follow trend of not punishing players idiocy. Keep in mind, you can heal 50% of penetration damage just fine, so losing 30k health only to recover 15k of it 30s later is simply too potato friendly... which is what WG want. Citadels on other hand you can heal back only 10%, which is why turtleback is so "OP" 12-10km is your go-to distance in Bismarck - you're far enough to avoid being torpedo rushed, guns accuracy is lesser concern and secondaries keep blazing. You shouldn't just yolo off on first spotted enemy tho. Best case would be determined push of multiple battleships, with guns blazing rare occurence, because most BB players don't want to scratch their precious... and if you can stack spotter plane and range upgrade for 30km+ to pew pew in peace... who cares even beached carrier has enough time to evade salvos from that far, BB player can hear boomy noises

Don't worry, WG will balance her with 1mil+ pricetag if data proves she is even remotely OP

Don't show broadside. Yamato can't overmatch Bismarck turtleback because all Yamato guns can overmatch is 32mm plating and below. So reinforced bow at waterline with some ship angling makes Bis/Derpitz uncomfortably tough nut to crack. Even sailing perfect broadside agaist Montana/Currywurst/Conqueror that somehow loaded AP will result in merely 25-35k dmg taken from regular penetrations, citadel intact. Where turtleback doesn't work is long range combat - showing broadsides to 406mm+ armed battleboats past 15km can and often will result in citadels.

And I had plenty of battles in cruisers where single UK BB salvo shaves entire AA clean, most notorious on Minotaur... I've yet to see single 203mm HE salvo clearing entire AA of a battleship.

Not mentioning Shokek enjoys benefit of T8 matchmaking, so you can adapt and evolve against Minotaurs, Montanas and such

Convenient islands around caps are convenient for a reason.