Deamon93

Most likely WG will come with plausible names following naming conventions, at least as far as we can guess from the Japanese tree. The problem is: did the RM even have a naming convention?

I don't have a lot of data on them, that's the reason why i haven't done them yet. Here are links to the info i have available at the moment: -Design 1928: http://www.battlecruisers.org/1928design.htm -Design 1930: http://www.battlecruisers.org/design45367.htm -Design 1933: http://www.battlecruisers.org/1933design.htm When i'll get the missing info i'll write all them down since a lot of info is still missing. I hope to find the original projects at La Spezia but i'm no 100% sure i'll succeed

Cleveland may not be OP but she is the development of Brooklyn which was the answer to Mogami, now placed two tiers higher. That makes no sense, especially since between Omaha and Cleveland there's pretty much every CL developed in the '20s and '30s making future cruiser lines(which have to rely on light cruisers) impossible to build. EDIT: then again we're going OT ^^

Just look at the tree i've made for Italy and see by yourself. Besides there's already an Italian design(Project 7, the tier V DD in the pre-order) and she's far from bad(even too good for the tier in my opinion). I've played all the tiers(although not lately) and the only tiers in which the IJN suffers is where the USN has OP/misplaced ships.

In this patch part of the Japanese CV line was added into the game so, finally, we have a comparison between the two lines. What i personally think is wrong is how WG decided to make the two CV lines behave differently: the Japanese one is more focused on anti-ship warfare while the US one is more focused on anti-plane warfare. All fine and dandy but this makes the Japanese line overall more useful(since the US one would be useful only in case there's an enemy CV on the other side). My personal opinion on how to make the two behave different is this: -US: the US dive bombers were usually superior to the Japanese ones in terms of payload plus they were able to carry AP bombs. Ideally would be nice if the US dive bombers were able to deal more damage plus the option of using AP bombs(making them more useful against armored targets). -Japan: Japan had, for most of the war, the superior torpedo bombers plus they had better aerial torpedoes compared to the USN counterparts. Would be nice if this gets represented ingame. This is of course my personal opinion based on my knowledge on the subject and what's ingame. Would be nice to have a constructive conversation on the matter to avoid castrations like what happened to the US CV line(which became pretty much toothless after this patch). Have a nice day! Deamon93

Germany after WWI was kind of bad on her own, no need to nerf her even further. Anyway too early to talk about this Regarding Japan being bad i haven't played all the lines(only destroyers and battleships) but i don't see them totally outclass except in few slots where the US in totally unbalanced(Cleveland vs Aoba, Des Moine vs Senjo/Zao as examples).

They had but they were too heavy for their dive bombers, at least originally. In any case it's a simplistic opinion, mainly because i don't know how much complicated the game could be(technically). Would be nice to have a complex system for them but first would be nice to see if this "simple" variant is feasible.

Except in AA the two have very similar stats

WG put the stamp of approval on them hence they found the two balanced, stats alone don't tell the whole story. Besides most values are similar so how is Montana supposed to outclass Yamato? Excluding in AA but that doesn't take a lot of effort.

A-140 =/= Yamato. A-140 was an earlier designed supposed to stay within the Washington Treaty limitations as far as i recall. I may be wrong

They just renamed a project made by Hiraga: A-140J2. It's all explained in the topic about the Japanese BB line.

Mogami will get replaced by Myoko so you will have to play with her to get Mogami back.

This is probably the scene which represents perfectly the OP

The order is: -Q/A -ST -PT -live server So before the patch goes live there will be three different tests to iron out bugs, make sure the balance isn't totally off and so on. I know it could look weird from the outside but WG is making sure that 0.3.1(and every other big one after) are working as intended to avoid people saying "the game is broken" etc.

That's true but WG has to make profit and since most of the player base is Russian that's one way to do it. Me neither but thankfully i'll have the possibility to see her before she gets implemented and express my opinion on the matter.

They haven't changed Murmansk so i don't see why they should change Kerch just because.

After the Russians took her they didn't bother in changing her. Besides they didn't even bother in changing Giulio Cesare after they took her, they just brought her back in a reasonable condition and added some Russian equipment on(AA and sensors), that was it(and at that time she was their strongest ship).

The Italian tree will be implemented eventually, when who knows. The only certainty is Russia as third nation and with her there will be Italian ships for sure. I guess it's the best compromise we can possibly get at this stage.

Yeah he is the guy. In any case i haven't put anything at that tier because i'm not sold on Cassone and i'm not 100% convinced on this improved UP.41. Regarding the WG Q&A i'm quite skeptical since they placed Duca d'Aosta at tier VII and i don't see how that ship would ever compete with the known tier VII(Brooklyn) since even Duca degli Abruzzi(a much better design) will have issues already.

I know, that's the reason i'm not 100% sold on her. A guy in NA wrote about a reworked UP.41 with 420 mm guns which may work but i need more info on that.

That would have been wiser, then again that would have marginally helped the lack of resources on other more important ships(the new destroyers). I don't think we would have seen a Medaglie d'Oro in service but who knows.

Akagi and Kaga are tier VIII material after the refit(spot taken by Shokaku). Shinano wasn't exactly great in carrier vs carrier warfare since she had a very limited aircraft complement of her own(47), which is nothing considering the fact the was(as far as i recall) the largest aircraft carrier up to that time. Besides the only paper ship of that whole line is G.15(as far as carriers are concerned, planes are another story).

G.15 existed as project and it's totally not a mix of Taiho and Shinano. Besides both Akagi and Kaga are tier VIII material at best(with their final refit), not higher.

Not only that. The system was developed for Littorio and adapted to fit on the older ships which were reconstructed around the same time. It didn't work that well on the older ships primarily because most of the hull remained unchanged(only the bow got modified). It's kind of difficult to make an underwater protection work on a pre-WWI hull.

It was poor on the reconstructed battleships, on Littorio it behaved decently enough(Littorio got hit three times at Taranto as far as i recall and she was recommissioned few months after).