philjd

I was emphasising that I hadn't TK'd anyone OR even turned pink The last part confused me a bit as getting pink for team damage has been in since at least beta? (unless WG took it out for a bit during my away time?)

With respect, speak for yourself, I haven't even turned pink yet :) (I have hit the odd person with a shell or very rare torp', but not enough to turn pink etc).

Not the only one - I haven't even started that campaign yet, for me, he will just be a standard captain with the occasional bonus from first blood, (too few krakens to make that part a worthwhile objective).

Hi @eliastion (missed you in the player list at the time, sorry). certainly was a strange battle, you guys captured the flags, your CV played very well denying invisibility to our DD's, certainly swings and roundabouts over how it would end up. We weren't aggressive enough early enough, with you , the Pepsi and the CV lasting long enough to retain the points advantage at the end, with only the CV as last man standing. Always good when it gets close to the wire at the end :) cheers Phil

When the RN cruisers were launched there was a real sh@tstorm over the use of SAP only - but this was mainly down to people being used to a particular playstyle ie cruisers use HE to burn down BB's. Actually, the SAP works just fine, better against broadside targets than angled/bow on, but nothing unreasonable with that. The Belfast having AP/HE is the anomaly. Part of the mentioned storm was over the fact that people trained up their captains on the Belfast just to have to respec them to use them on the main line. (Part of the storm was also over how crap T4-T5 were at launch, really really bad). So no, SAP works fine, IMO.

I don't think the maps are large enough to have a respawn point.

Your comments prompt me to run with a radar Mino' for a bit.. but I haven't finished making a brave pill large enough yet :)

If you have consistently good players and they perform worse in the Conqueror than in their other T10 BB's, then is the ship better or worse than the others. If they achieved a higher result with Conq' than the others, then that would suggest that it was a better ship. Although some ships are better suited to a player than others, so some of any variance will be down to differing optimum play styles (ship vis a vis player). It then comes down to the scale of the data being looked at, if they are comparing 5 Conq battles to 300 Montana, then that is not a true comparison, 50 v's 100, hmm, ok'ish. But without a more granular view of the underlying data, we cannot really make a judgement over the stats posted other than 'oh, ok'.

What is truly surprising about this thread is that no one is actually talking about the stats included in the OP - which do not show the Conqueror as the roffle stomping 'mother of all broken BB's' that she is made out to be. I suspect that the real issue is that actually we hate to get burned down, bad enough when done by a DD or CA, but add BB's into that list just seems.... wrong. Personally, I haven't clocked up much time in the RN BB's yet, but it feels intrinsically wrong to use HE shells as the main ammunition in a BB - which, if you guys have the same reaction, just adds additional fuel to this bonfire (pun intended).

What did the Russians use for their decks to get that reddy brown colour? (which I quite like).

I suspect that the main issue here is the reload time on DD torps - if it's 2mins+ then 'wasting' your torps on a target that some one else kills or forces a turn away is frustrating to say the least. A good vent is a good therapy :)

Broke 2 personal records yesterday:- Highest ever damage - Minotaur, 221k Highest base xp, 4.2k (same battle as above).

OP - just RNG trolling you, stuff happens when random events occur in a game. I run the flags on T7 up and just take it as it comes if I get a detonation in my lower tiers (was detonated in my Nurnberg over the weekend, but first time in a while for me).

On all my ships (other than CV's) but as a second 2 point skill after EM (BB's) and LS (DD's).

I always go for the flags containers - and they have reduced the number of flags from 5 to 4 and also type 5 cammo to 2.. Not sure about changes to other container types.

and...the Belfast shoots HE and AP....

You could always go back to the physical construction of the turret & gun cradles - barrel elevation constrains range more than the FC systems in place, which "only" affects accuracy....?

That would be nice on the cruisers :)

Is it safe to assume that they get a choice of AP/HE and not just SAP like the cruisers... ?

For a moment I was.. "woh, I was there for that", but it was an ognevoi that bum-rushed an amagi at the B cap of 'North' map ~ he died to a Kutusov

Showing my age - but that was a catch phrase of a former radio 1 DJ who is now in the leagues of 'unmentionables'....

[and to all the others who responded directly also] I agree - if everyone who is testing the ship say that it is OP before it is launched then they [WG] should change it. Perhaps not all the testers said as such. Personally, I trust flamu's opinion on the ship, but he is one of the many who has driven it, both before and post launch.

:D I am not disagreeing, but it's nice to get credits and captain skills you can use elsewhere or even parachute in an already trained captain, which you couldn't do with Blysca/Lo Yang.

I don't have the Blysca, but have the Leningrad - the problem with the Blysca is that it is a stand alone ship, no other Polish ships to train your captain with or for (yet), which would be quite a significant advantage for the Leningrad if it came down to a T7 choice. The Lo Yang has the Anshan to match up with (but that is not universally available), whereas both Harekaze and Leningrad have full trees to match up with.

It's amazing which words you forget once you have been out of school for so long and eyes miss certain words, brain fails to understand them, the problems with getting on a bit ;)