piritskenyer

What exactly makes you think that she will lose her torps? There is no current indication of it, based on the leaks so far.

Yeah, she's fragile, but she's hella hard to hit when appropriately fitted. Even if she gets her RoF reduced to 3/min (which would be... I don't even). she'd be able to blow cruisers out of the water, because lol 46'000 damage potential. Come to think of it, assuming Buffalo will have the superheavy AP, she'll have a 60'000 damage broaside, able to blow any cruiser out of the water at her tier.

I have no info on these ships, and even if I had I couldn't (and wouldn't) share, but imagine this: Suppose the T7 and the T8 have the same RoF and overall gunstats. Suppose they have the exact same stats all over, except for the secondary, AA and main firepower (because number of guns). Now add stealth module to the T8. Which has better tactical flexibility? What bothers me wayyy more is Pensacola at T6. I mean really? That thing has the heaviest current US cruiser broadside at 46'000. To put that into perspective, that makes it easy to oneshot just about any T5 and 6 cruiser currently ingame, and if you're lucky, any T7 cruiser as well (exception being AGS of course). Even if she gets her current stock rounds (4'500 dmg/shot) you'll still have the heaviest broadside of the tier, and 1k less damage isn't going to exactly reduce your oneshot capacity, especially with USN 8" AP bounce angles. Let's suppose that she gets nerfed to the ground. Is that viable? No. Is she actually fine in her current position? Yes, she is (disclaimer: as with any ship, this doesn't apply if you are a braindamaged potato).

Okay. So KM CA AP has base normalisation, base bounce (base norm and base bounce are what IJN and VMF has to contend with), lower than avg pen but higher than average damage. Also, KM CA HE has 1/4 pen. Tell me how all that is underpowered again?

What kind of nerf was there?

Thank you for your well thought-out and considered and ost of all helpful response.

How long and what OS have you been using? I had to reinstall my OS once when it started going erratic from all the crap I installed on it (not viruses, mind, just loads and loads of apps that were never properly cleaned off).

Run a RAM check, also advise inspecting dust levels inside the PC case (and maybe seeing if the thermal paste needs to be refreshed on the CPU). Do you have your new video card already? Have you checked the drivers, and their cross-compatibility? Have you by any chance switched from an AMD to an nvidia or vice-versa? What is your OS? I understand your frustration my friend, I used to have glitches like that too :|

About radar. If you have AP loaded and something spotted you suddenly, without you having fired your guns, reload to HE, and then pop your radar. If you were on HE, just count to ten and pop radar. Trust me, it's gonna be detecting the one spotting you for sure.

I literally just met @Durin_VI who was sailing his Yamato on Haven, while with my division made up of @Rook_US (a real american!), @Kostis_Larsson and myself in our Roon, Yugumo and Baltimore respectively. Despite a pretty good start, team fell apart pretty quickly unfortunately...

This ship is motherfncking awesome.

You know how most people drag Baltimore? Well, I just took on two Bismarck, an Ibuki, a Roon and a Gneisenau in North's A cap. I held up the cap for thirteen minutes, took one of the Bismarcks for 95% of his normal HP, and casually brutalised other people in there, ultimately allowing our team (that for some reason all went to D at the beginning of the match) to get in gear and win it. Also a big shout out to the n°2 on the team, Ignorancedot, who also did a great job and was an awesome banter-buddy.

Jeeeeyzus mate, warn about the cancer hazard next time... Also, if he gets to stream, do I get to stream the crap I do?

"I got beaten by a different approach than my own, therefore they must be cheating."

Three games past, I can definitely feel a strong liking to B-more. One thing I can immediately tell about her is that she is nowhere near as squishy as Ibuki or New Orleans. You don't eat random citadels, the wiggle game feels better than in NO, glancing AP shels bounce instead of doing damage, and if anyone dares to give just a tad too much side angle, BOOM, AP that b1tch. I'm so far very satisfied with her, I have way more confidence to pull off risky plays (perhaps having learned the lesson of having an exit or a rock to hide behind and a more disciplined trigger finger in NO helped), but I don't feel like a bystander who tries to put in as much damage as he can in any given match anymore. One thing I'm not completely sure about yet is this: Do I rig the ship to full antiship: hydro, radar; MAM1, SBM2, MBM3, DCSM1, SGM2, CSM1; http://shipcomrade.com/captcalc/1000000000100010000001100000001119 Do I rig her as a general support: defAA, radar; MAM1, AAGM2, MBM3, DCSM1, SGM2, CSM1; http://shipcomrade.com/captcalc/1000001000100010000011100000000119 - currently used, tho the cpt build is incomplete Do I rig her as a full AA ship: defAA, fighter; AAM1, AAGM2, AAGM3, DCSM1, SGM2, CSM1; http://shipcomrade.com/captcalc/0000100000100010000011000000100119 Like I said I use the general support so I can lend a hand when DD's need flushing out, and I can help out a BB that is being focused by a CV. I don'T see much point in specialising in AA at this point (there are ships at the tier that do that better on the one hand and I got one CV in three games (I think) on the other), and specialising as full antiship, while occasionally useful, may not be as useful in some situations. Thoughts?

The firechance indication isn't a value that shows how many fires you'll have out of a hundred hits, it's a chance of causing fire with every single hit. Unfortunately the value indicated isn't adjusted for the average fire resistance coefficient, and thus usually yields a lower actual firechance, and then you also have to take individual ship setups into account. You just have to fire away over and over and over.

You have Kirov's sister at T6 having the 4th winrate from the top. She has better reload and rudder than Kirov, but Kirov has better range. I think those guns are perfectly workable in T7 They've always been lasers, even with the lower velocity, so that is a pretty clear-cut buff

Nelson's armour is pretty well workable, actually. Her AP was historically weird, with high close-range pen, but sharp dropoff (has to do with the high velocity - "low" weight balance of the shells). I like my Nelson, and don't think she's bad. Or that she needs any buffing in particular. Dunkek however, I maintain should get a slight sigma buff.

Sorry, but, Their primary targets may be BB's, that's not the problem. The problem is that they have the monster firechance and quarter HE penetration, which means they can lolpen quite a few T8 and 9 cruisers with HE and set them on fire for good measure.

Never mind

On a somewhat related note, JapLance, can you be a bit less salty when meeting STs? :D

24. oct. 2017. updated RoF and DPM

Last time such a thing happened it was accidental, and we ended up being four of our clan on the same team. Me, the lone wolf in this case, will admit to have immediately jumped on TS to coordinate with my clannies, but that ddin't really do us any good, because our team fell apart around us, and we couldn't do jack. So yeah, cry moar.