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Different camo and special captain with voice acting. Stats are the same

Wargaming? I just hope that they take some time to actually try and balance the ships and not last minute decide to make sweeping changes (like with RN cruisers losing HE).

You mean to tell me that last year wasn't the 'year of CV's'?

Not to mention that this specific cruiser ability specifically counters DDs, which are supposed to counter BBs.

I believe Dunkerque was actually faster than Richelieu. Richelieu was also commisioned a month after Littorio which also managed 30 knots. Kongo class after rebuilds that effectively made them full on battleships instead of battlecruisers with their engine upgrades also reached 30.5 knots.

That only shows your lack of knowledge of naval history, and doesn't reflect on the service of those ships. Just because you haven't heard of the battle of the Java Sea or Savo Island doesn't make them less relevant, not to mention in the big picture DDs and cruisers (and CV's of course) are way more important to winning a war than BBs. Besides, what is Repulse known for other than sinking? Or Tirpitz? Or half the American BBs other than shore bombardment? Yamato?

Yes, the class that gets oneshot no matter the angle should push in otherwise the poor heavily armored and heal eqquiped high health BBs can't push. 'We can't have a chance that a DD kills us we snipe, but when a DD gets spotted we should be able to gut 80% of their HP with a single salvo of AP and don't need to load HE.' And then you wonder why people think BBs are too dominant? For the same reason a BB gets to oneshot a cruiser from 15km regardless of angle. But oh no we can't expect actual effort from a BB to defend itself like pushing the 2 key to switch ammo type. You do realise that when you shoot a DD with AP for 9k that DD can't heal back up again and he has to play the rest of the game with only half his health remaining right? And why should BBs 'have a tiny chance to defend themselves' from everything? If you get caught out by a DD you are obviously out of position. And a DD doesn't get 'a tiny chance to defend themselves' from CV or cruisers either. But sure, you play BB so therefore BB must be excelently balanced and it is all everything else that is broken.

Extra credits and captain training? Where are the days when people were satisfied with prems not being strait up better than their non-prem counterparts? As for the rest I seriously hope that WG picks a direction they want to go with RN BBs. Right now they just threw every single gimmick onto the RN BBs. Better penetration angles and short fuse AP, 1/4 HE pen with massive fire, Uber heal, short rudder shift, massive AA, massive range. And that isn't even touching the radar and hydro on a BB which I am still fundamentally against. It makes cruisers less usefull, nulifies the importance of teamplay and DDs have no counterplay to the ships they are supposed to counter. Especially radar coupled with short fuse AP giving you full pens anyway you don't even need cruisers to deal with DDs. Or HE ammo. Or a functioning brain. Although with the fire chance you could just sling either AP or HE at everything regardless and you'll be raking in damage. These ships would be the most idiot proof ships in the game and that is even counting the German BBs. And for those saying radar will encourage more aggressive play: The same was said of German BBs with their long range secondaries, hydro, turtleback armour, and poor long range accuracy yet the average potato still sits at 18km doing nothing useful regardless. Then they buffed Iowa/Monty/Mo/Bama/NoCa with lowered citadel to encourage them to get closer and brawl yet they still sit at the map border.

Never underestimate the average WoWs player.

Thank you for telling us how high tier DDs work, person who hasn't played DDs past tier 5. At higher tiers BBs get more accurate, radar becomes more prevalent, hydro, planes are all over the map etc. You'll be visible and you are going to eat BB shells because over half the enemy team will be BBs and they'll all switch fire the moment you become visible. And if you wan to strike back you'd still need to close to within 10km to launch a decent strike with a good chance to hit a non-potato at which distance shell travel time becomes nearly negligable. And why shouldn't BBs be punished for incompetence when shooting AP at DDs, the class that supposedly counters them, instead of HE?

From what I've heard an HSF event is going to start 10th of Juli on EU, so I guess thats when they'll release the sheeps. So no discount (as usual) for us EU plebs who played since beta.

I just realised, isn't one of the gimmicks that is being tested for the British BBs shortened fuse times on AP like the RN cruisers get? Imagine being so overconfident as to be within *gasp* torpedo range of a Conqueror in a DD like Kagero and getting rewarded with radar and full pens from shells with higher damage than the Yamato.

100 damage is not going to be noticable. And the fire chance was probably needed. As someone who owns a Scharn and Tirp I don't really mind.

I mean it's EU so I assume we will get the announcement 2 days after it is in the store.

Don't forget this is the same guy who said that Shima was the best tier 10 DD after Kebab.

They don't need inspiration. They already have a development roadmap:

Yes, overconfidence should be punished. Just like how cowardice is being punished. Oh wait. It is ridiculous how little a BB is punished for bad positioning, bad ammo choice, bad angling, bad awareness, etc compared to a cruiser or DD who get oneshot/mauled or a CV who gets stomped by the oposing CV. Torps to punish bad awareness? Here have hydro. CV punish bad teamplay? Here have higher AA dps than a cruiser. Forgot to angle and you are now broadside? Don't worry, WG will lower your citadel so you can potato all day. Wrong ammo type for shooting DDs? Your AP salvos cripple your counter for the rest of the game anyway. Not to mention that they can heal their damage as well.

Thing is that we don't find many DD players that then go to the forums claiming that every class should be nerfed because their precious battleboat got hurt, which is a large part of the BBaby stereotype. And at this point I think I'd rather have that my BBs yolorush then snipe from the backline. At least you can make the excuse that the DD died because he miscalculated, whereas the BB cowering at the back has no excuse.

Yes.

I am tempted to direct you to Upotte!! (Manga 2009, anime 2012), which predates this by quite some time. It is kind of like Kancolle in that they reference their reallife counterparts with their characters. Note that I went in with no prior warning what kind of show this was, so i wasn't prepared when the SAKO Rk 95 showed up to singlehandedly give the show a 17+ rating. The rest is mostly tame-ish fanservice-comedy-action stuff.

Leaked you mean. At least the aircraft have the correct tier this time, so no weird balancing shenanigans this time I hope. Maybe we will get Aquila in future as well? I was kind of expecting WG to bring RN CV's first anyway. Anyway I am not going to spend money on CV's until WG gives me a reason to be excited for CV gameplay again.

Anyone else playing the Girls Frontline mobile game? It's like Kancolle with guns. Only annoyance is that it is a Chinese game that hasn't been ported to the west (yet), so you'll have to deal with moonrunes and a couple of hoops to aquire it and get it to run properly (I now have a fake Chinese ID and citizen registration number ) http://en.gfwiki.com/wiki/Girls'_Frontline_Wiki has a good tutorial to help annyone interrested get started. It is quite a bit more involved than just clicking on a mission to send them and get ****ed over by a compass fairy, and so far it is quite fun to play. It is actually not that much like Kancolle gameplay wise, and certainly not a KC rip-off like many other games. The sprites in battle are quite cute as well. Also GF has Japanese Voice Acting for some reason (not that I'm complaining).

Tutti Sound - Necrofantasia TAMUSIC - Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World ShibayanRecords - Desert Years (Desire drive - With Yanagi Nagi!) And I blame the both of you

Woohoo! No more big announcements clogging the screen when in a topic and they made the names of likes visible again. That goes a long way for me in making the forums more usable. Still, I'd like to see individual posts take up less screenspace and make it easier to find thread you or WG staff commented on. At least it is good to know stuff is still being worked on, although it kind of feels like we are alpha testing the forums.

I dont't like the new forums. What I do like is this gif: