Panocek

Kpt, good news for ya - AA on Freedom Bottlesheeps start entering ridiculous area NC also seems to have tad flatter trajectory and rear turret no longer have potato firing angles

"cruisers should escort battleships to protect them from carriers, its called teamwork" - CV guy "carriers need to ask friendly cruisers to soften up battleship AA" - ermagad CV can't one click random ship of choice, class is ded *CV guy ragequits* I've made it to North Carolina. So far: Fully AA specced NC in theory greets planes with 650dps at 5km Rear turret have vastly improved firing angles - 32 degrees from the axis, previously it was 45 IIRC. Basically comparable to Iowa Improved main battery accuracy... can't say for sure. Derpy shots still happen. Iowa: even more dakka, 19th quad Bofors sits on C turret, A and B are without tumors 33knots takes forever to reach, lowest sustained speed when doing hard turns is 23.3kn (Sanders asked for this IIRC) Again, can't say for sure about accuracy improvement

I guess it can be kinda crowded at times.

So who is test servering about?

Russian DDs are pure gunboats, carrying stronk rashian dakkas relying on AP for damage dealing against EVERYTHING broadside. But USN DDs are the best "teamwork" ships - decent concealment combined with fast firing guns in fast turning turrets (and good torps from Fletcher onwards) makes them excellent at cap contesting and pushing against IJN derpstroyers. USN 5in Dual Purpose Mortars are ineffective at firing at things past 10km, hell, even 8km DD taking "evasive actions" can evade plenty of shots and these guns are almost equally ineffective against battleships - notorious 0dmg hits and puny fire chance pretty much limits you to molesting DDs and occasional cruiser. Still, you can get obscene amount of exp by controlling cap or two, defending and recapping them. Although special mention goes to Błyskawica - this ship combines almost Russian speed, 3rd best concealment (bested by Hatsuharu and Sims) with IMO the best DD guns ever - 120mm Bofors have perfectly workable ballistics until you start firing past 14km, AP is adequate but HE deals consistent damage and is notorious to start fires. Add to that workable 8km torps and ability to stealth fire and stealth torp from day one and here you go

Play tier higher than St Louis

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Because now you have to wait for loading dozen of megabytes, coupled with dying/worn out HDD it can be certified pain in the arse. Also discrepancy between read/write speeds compared to average file size back in the day and now - software of old was usually handful of floppies, data transfer I can't find figures but guessing it would be single digit megabytes. Now you have 20GB+ worth of bullsheet and data transfer of decent HDD is around 100MB/s, less if device needs to access data from various points on disk. To sum it up, SSDmustardrice

One can't appreciate decent ship without playing Baltimore before... Personally I wouldn't buy Iowa and certainly not Montana, but Udaloi is definitely bag of fun, Benson is great cap contester so I guess same applies for Fletcher. Ibuki isn't as bad as Baltimore and treat at the end is definitely a good one (Zao)

Destroyers, especially IJN ones aren't very sensitive to tiers they encounter. Isokaze/Minekaze carry powerful torps and can ninjatorp people just fine, only when they bump into lets say Fletcher they will be shafted big time. But then, Kagero vs Fletcher isn't easy encounter for the former too.

Cruisers can get the job done as well, provided you don't get rebalanced by battleships early

I've never had any loading issues whatsoever, but then, SSD and 32gigs of RAM And since MoBo swap W10 runs flawlessly

Maybe he was arty player back in the WoT days...

Accuracy is identical for NC, Iowa and Montana, only redeeming factor for latters is 7% accuracy upgrade for 3mil credits. Actually I think I've read somewhere BB accuracy have one "nation wide" formula, so South Carolina is as "accurate" as Iowa at the same range. Iowa I'm afraid is inferior to North Carolina considering tiers and matchmaking. Iowa guns may have tad better shell velocity and penetration, but from my experience these shells either notoriously overpen cruisers or fail to penetrate non broadside BBs at most distances you're fighting, while steep NC trajectory makes plunging fire citadels actually a thing. Also Iowa is much less agile compared to NC, combined with abundance of torps, be it ship or air delivered isn't exactly a good thing, especially as Iowa still doesn't have meaningful torpedo belt. One thing Iowa is actually decent at is providing AA screening for CVs or IJN BBs, while taking random pot shots here and there...

http://wowreplays.com/Replay/6475-Panocek-Des-Moines-Tears-of-the-Desert Lots of Freedom right there

Molotov? Its more of a citadelrektmachine

Ważne jest do czego strzelasz. Taki Nowy Meksyk ma na tyle opancerzoną nadbudówkę, że HE Clevelanda na nim nie robią żadnego wrażenia oprócz pożarów, to i pewnie Budyń i reszta krążków 152/155 będzie mieć z nim problemy.

A nie wystarczy wyłączyć autouzupełnianie kamuflażu? Potem rozegrać jedną bitwę i okręt powinien być goły z farby, a wciąż powinna być dostępna do nałożenia.

From brawler midtier cruisers you can't go wrong with Cleveland. Not very fast by cruiser standards, but surprisingly nimble and 12 shells every 8 seconds below 10km can outdemocracy a lot of ships. Destroyers just evaporate from HE salvos, AP is powerful enough to citadel broadside cruisers and it can be ridiculously effective against battleships superstructure. Having the best AA out there is a bonus too. Cleve was nerfed plenty of times (global rudder changes in deep beta, HE shells nerf, AFT/BFT/EM nerfs, no longer separated engine rooms), but it still strong when close and personal, its simply is not idiotproof anymore.

Atago, for being higher tier premium is flat out better at printing credits. But keep in mind Atago, or hightier cruisers in particular aren't easy to play, so if you aren't exactly experienced in hightier cruisers, you will be better with Murmansk I'm afraid. Premiums can be used as crew trainers, so keep that in mind as well.

3x2 launchers can be useful, balanced and fun, 3x5 is just too hard to balance. 15 torps every 45s is just nope.avi, unless you give them like 8k damage per torpedo.

Destructive power from cannon rounds against aircraft comes from explosion tearing off skin and damaging/breaking wing spars, as well from shrapnels shredding cables/links/pulleys/pipes/whatever to make plane uncontrollable. Mentioned Spitfire simply had skin thick enough to glance off shots from the rear.

Kuma looks to be made of Balancium it seems

Shell velocity isn't so much an issue, stronk dispersion is. And for me Iowa have exactly the same derp guns with only slightly better shell velocity, while ship itself is much bigger and less agile. Also being tier 9 means its prone to be put as "equal" to Yamato by matchmaking

Wat to rebuy... wat to rebuy... Bogue should be gud for daily Clear Sky farming. That or get Ranger, but then I'm not really fond of CV clicking into people, especially with "stronk" USN lineups...