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The tool has been 'advertised' on forum before, to bad it's 3rd party and subscription based for full access Also, T7 BB vs broadside cruiser at close range isn't any different then tier IV bb vs broadside cruiser, why do you think otherwise? The gun diameter on BB's scales with tiers less than armor belt thickness on CA's

That is only partially true, mistakes are only mistakes the first time, subsequent times they are no longer 'mistakes' and should be punished as harshly as possible imo.

In Cleveland's case we're not talking about Montana/Yamato but Amagi and North Carolina right, as that is the max it should meet without fail divisions or wonky MM because of low population. I hate playing Cleve, yes I got 67% wr with her ( don't know why.... ) and ok damage ( HE spam is real! ) but it's very much a one trick pony unlike the IJN CA's who allow a more diverse play style.

I can citadel Tenryu with 63mm flat citadel with any tier IV BB even at < 3km, just aim 'slightly' below the waterline. You're right though sorry, I wasn't 100% running on all gears this morning, you can indeed overpen citadel area ( I think this is the thread you referred to earlier -> http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/41052-is-new-overpen-feature-the-reason-of-crappy-dmg-from-high-caliber-ap-rounds/page__view__findpost__p__773179__hl__%2Bcitadel+%2Boverpen__fromsearch__1 ). http://gamemodels3d.com/worldofwarships/vehicles/pjsc015 There is 143mm of effective armor if you hit the 63mm belt below the waterline depending on angle ( it will show this if you move your mouse over the armor model ). That site is very good for finding where to shoot ships edit: also I have a lot more ships on 'other' WoWs servers ;) edit2: yes, I got up at 6:50, took care of the kids going to school and went back to bed till 1 in the afternoon, so my post was indeed done when I was just waking up

Yup I just linked someone to gamesmodel3d to check Cleve's citadel location, sadly I don't have an paid account so no access to DM Btw, just to make sure, was the Ibuki being captained by some scrub named mtm78? I can remember getting my [edited]kicked by a Myoko not long ago ( I really don't like Ibuki... ). Which would support my thesis that a Cleveland in a tier 8 battle is still very much a front line ship There is overmatch, afaik it's done before angle normalization ( the only part in armor modeling which has a little bit of RNG btw ). There is a video about it I seen, and articles/Q&A on RU server about it, but I don't know where to find those atm

Bye immersion, bye incentive to not be an idiot... I'm glad they don't turn off team damage. In fact I don't like it that they changed mechanics to 'lessen the burden' of 'players' who friendly torp instead of heightening it so they eventually learn or go play tetris like they should.

I'm worried though, BW engine is still DX9 and adding these effects using older DX versions is much more resource demanding compared with newer DX versions. I think the decision to not add to much graphical effects is aided by technical limitations ( considering WG wants to have an as large as possible market they need to make sure it runs on mid range hardware )

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Afaik the hull of Cleveland and Baltimore / Des Moines are identical in module layout ( citadel ) and the 30mm armor wouldn't/doesn't really affect it much would it? I only played DM a lot during CBT though and back then armor model was different in game so I might be off the mark. Cleveland is 'special', I wouldn't have commented if you said Aoba

I don't think USN cruisers get any better hull ( armor protection ) from Cleveland upwards so if you want to be front line with a Des Moines you can do it with a Cleveland as well ( just without the heals ). And in a Cleveland due to shell arc, I would actually advise to be reasonably close to the front lines if you don't want BB's dodging your salvo's due to flight time ps. this ofc only applies to Cleveland and does not mean you're wrong in general /me runs away and hides under his desk

Overpen on citadel is not happening, you can't overpen citadel area afaik. So if you're not getting citadels on shorter distances, you're not hitting the actual citadel. At longer ranges you have plunging fire which helps getting citadels. You can check gamesmodel3d site to see where the citadel's are ( relative to waterline ). IJN - Imperial Japanese Navy. JAP - engine manufacturer ( from the UK ) -> https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAP

Lol, those decisions are not exclusive to BB's, in fact in my CA I have to make those decisions a lot more often then in any BB BB's which aren't scrubs know how to deal with fire's through repair party and heal, sure you can succumb to fire eventually but to say a BB is powerless is nonsense. And IJN ( not jap.. ) CA's immune for 400mm+ AP from up close? You must be sailing other ships then me

Still not enough battles to be really conclusive, but I will give an anecdote from one off yesterday's matches Enemy Izumo ( forumite, he might even read this ) spend entire match back pedaling and gave me nice opportunity to pepper with HE. Some 76 hits laters ( I know, not really peppering right but still... ) I started 4 fires and did a whooping 1800 damage. So I probably annoyed the heck out of him, but effective it was not. I got some good fire damage with 10 fires in total so that was good, but that's a bit luck dependent ( did he just use his repair party.. if so ). Game was saved with torping a CA for 23k damage and some scattered damage across enemy team. --- I remember when I was doing 8k salvo's to Yamato's... Now even Izumo seems to have very high HE resistance ( shooting at my concealment range of 17km aka HE plunging fore on the deck and superstructure ). Still think so far the small guns are best because of their versatility. I might not have damaged the Izumo much but I think he didn't like the rain either ( there is a psychological aspect in fighting with BB's ), and I still think the increased engagement distance makes it easier to dodge return fire. Dead ships don't do damage at all, so I rather have a lower effective dpm depending on the target, then dying sooner and not being able to do damage that way. I think I got 17 games with screenshots from the past week or so, forgot to make some though. I can tell already my average damage is only slightly dropping ( and that is with taking a Mogami into places I normally wouldn't just to have more chance to kill DD's ).

Redistributing points costs doubloons as well so where is the 'advantage'? Also, retraining is done by total captain experience afaik and not distributed one so it wouldn't matter anyway ( 99% sure... ). Or has my coffee intake been to low this morning

BB's can't 'get by on their own by sniping at 20km+' because that is not what they are meant to do. BB's need team play because they need to push and tank and need CA's and DD's to help them. CA's are by far the class which is least reliant on teamwork to have 'reasonable' matches. Why do you think CA's are so easy to play?

You could try the compressed textures mod, that allows people to load into battle quicker at the cost of reduced visual quality. Could you post your system specs?

Ye BB's might get me better wr/dmg per game then CA but it also adds a whole lot of frustration. Just now I had a New Orleans in a battle which camped behind his CV/BB the whole time, ran away from a Kageroo going for our carrier and just only interested in not risking his hp for the team or the game objectives. I want team battles, that way we can make sure we don't have that kind of 'players' in our teams.

Happy to help

That was quick

You don't get chat bans easily, it takes quite a few reports in a short time to get an automatic chat ban ( iirc, not even sure I admit, there might not even be an automatic ban in which case you been manually reviewed and chat banned ). If you really don't think it's valid, just make a ticket with support. Server logs contains all chat from your recent matches, they will be able to help you a> by telling you the ban is correct and what for b> going through server logs and finding the ban to be incorrect.

English plox, wrong section to talk German ;)

Music is out of sync man, the finale should have coincided with your death Also, no naming and shaming on forums, YT however... btw pm me their names I want to see their profile.

right click, save as - rename to preferences.xml ( it will change the name when you download ). Sorry, next time I'll zip the xml so it's easier to download.

preferences.xml 6.67K there you go, should work now edit: Just to be sure, I'll attach my own as well ( but be advised, you will have to change all your graphical/audio/keybinding settings preferences.xml 7.76K preferences.xml preferences.xml

Zip your preferences.xml and attach it to a post, I will edit it for you. I won't give you mine as preferences also holds all your graphical/audio/keybinding settings. He said he tried to do it himself a couple of times already