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This isn't going to get more people to play CV's though. It might make USN better but CV gameplay overall is still the same mess it was a year ago.

I see WG is hard at work lowering the skill gap between CV players.

Being able to move while constantly being smoked is the entire selling point of the Perth. Sure you can sit still in a smoke screen but why even bother spending money on it if you could just get a Leander instead to do the exact same thing? Also the smoke doesn't last that long so everyone who wants to benefit from it has to keep moving with the Perth as well.

Nah, they'll just lower the BB citadel so it can derp around showing broadside all day and nerf torp detection and give hydro/radar to BBs

I really don't get why WG/Lesta has such a hard-on for getting CV players to use autodrop by making it so powerful or in in the case of T4-5 CV mandatory (or going back even further to beta etc). It is not very engaging, puts you more in the hands of RNGesus, and doesn't really require any skill or functioning braincells. Aerroon later drops a Bismarck for like 15k. Damage output being so wildly inconsistent would probably be quite frustrating as well. I'd rather that they tone down the 1 shots and instead let them drop 30k with decent consistency.

Just going to leave this here.

This goes too far imho. While I am all for making USN CV's more relevant, encouraging teamplay should also be a focus and still give a somewhat effective counter. If a Enterprise can instagib a Fuso with just its dive bombers, then sailing with def AA cruisers should at least give them decent protection against getting oneshotted. Otherwise there isn't much stopping Big E and perhaps soon Ranger/Lex/Essex/Midway from just bumrushing any uptiered ship at the start of the game, nor does it feel very rewarding for or encourage cruisers to actually protect their allies if they get crumped regardless.

What about winning the actual game?

I am actually surprised that it took me this long to post on this thread considering my propensity to alcoholism discussion of random memes topics. In terms of terrible puns (and my recent trip across Italy): What did the grape say when it was crushed? Nothing, it just let out a little wine.

The damage outup is should be lowe AS loadout than on AS because otherwise there would be no reason to pick torp bombers, esprecially in the BB rich enviroment and especially when your planes are tier 9 at tier 7. As it stands Saipan is already the strongest tier 7 CV and the autopick for anything competitive.

Looks interesting. Will have to see how well Nagato and Amagi would weather such a strike. These bombs on Saipan however is a buff that is absolutely not needed.

I thought WG said that the new weapon would come with the second Soviet DD branch split?

How is any of this a recent development? And what do cruiser torps or DDs in smoke have to do with P2W? I am not sure how one supposedly buys higher damage output in this game. Oh and this guy once said that torps should have limited ammo and that cruisers should be penalized for shooting a BB if another cruiser is in range. Overall I rate 8/8

They better make the ranked rewards balanced for once. First it was USS Flint, then it was USS Broken Black, now in WoT it is the superior upgrades. I'm pretty sure that the people who play WoT/WoWs somewhat competitively want to play it on a even playing field as a OP reward takes the challenge and fun out of the game, while the people who can't/don't care for going for rank 1 would probably not want to face people piloting OP ships or having some other unfair advantage. Besides, getting to rank 1 can be achieved just as easily by investing a huge amount of time and isn't necessarily a testament of player skill. Just make the rewards something cosmetic so unicums (or people with way too much time) have something to brag about without impacting game balance.

I am still tempted to just play her with Akizuki guns. USN guns seem kind of lacklustre.

Make B hull 9x15" (3x3 turrets) instead as that was the actual upgrade the RN planned. Also I doubt WG will ever introduce ships with preferential MM again.

Uh what? Kirov is the fastest T5 cruiser after Emile Bertin. If it had the same rudder and concealment as Molotov and minor reload buff it would be pretty decent.

Limited damage control? That will be interesting, I am curious to see how it works out although I suspect it won't. Premium would be mandatory at least.

Considering she is coming to join WoWs soon: YPAAAAAA I really like her design, she looks badass and she has quickly become one of my fav BBs, unlike the actual ship which just looks derpy.

To be fair boat cloaks are pretty cool. Although that didn't help me remember her name. I have not heard anything about what they plan to do with the captains yet however. I hope you get to choose as Mashiro was a better char than the main char whose name I also forgot and who has the most generic anime personality. What I do know or at least appears to be the case is that the voices are together so you won't have seperate voice files for the characters but get them together. So Mina and whatshername are the same file and in battle they'll alternate speaking as 1st and 2nd in command. I am not 100% sure if that is the case so don't quote me on this if their voice overs do come seperately. Also they throw in random german words from time to time because why not. <br> I believe this mod is using the actual voice files WG will implement. Also apparently no Torikaji ippai/omokaji ippai for Harekaze because the game makes no distinction when setting the rudder to either port or starboard, only between half and full rudder

CL/CA: Duca d'Aosta, Myoko, Mogami BB: Scharn, Amagi, Fuso DD: Akatsuki, old Tier 8 Fubuki, Clemson, possibly Akizuki as I just unlocked her

The fact that you need to unlock the fire extinguisher is the most idiotic and terrible design decision in WT. The air combat part is still kind of enjoyable though.

Those fuse times are especially what pisses me of. Can you imagine getting radared as a DD and getting full pen damage from a Conquerer shooting AP? Or just oneshot by HE? Then again I can also see the average derp only spamming HE. That ship is so brokenly forgiving that the ammo you load doesn't even matter as you'll be doing monstrous damage regardless of what you are shooting at. Oh I also forgot the british überheal because it wasn't balanced enough.

That moment when WG makes a 29km range 457mm gun with the highest HE damage with a 1/4 pen modifier and 63% fire chance for a radar armed BB with 9 sec rudder shift and over 500 AA aura, yet can't even give IJN DD torps reaction times comparable to their tier German/USN counterparts or buff USN non premium CV's.

I really dread the day that the RN BB patch rolls around and the queues are filled with 600 BBraindeads (and a few reasonable people) grinding for their tier 10 Conquerors so they can sit at 29km plinging (HE only ofc) away at each other while complaining that 'sky **ncer' and DDs require no skill.