Sams_Baneblade

Tier 4 sounds too high to me.. :/ So here is what we could get: (considering the late gun config, 4X152mm, which is best) A) Tier 2: if its torp tubes were submerged and then not taken into account, it would be an Albany-like, but signifiantly faster (28 knots). B) Tier 3: if its torp tubes were above water and then taken into account, it would looks like a lot to a slower Tenryu. Firepower could compensate the lower speed and poorer torp salvo strength. I think I've read the torp tubes were above water, so A is probably excluded. Alternate take: C) Tier 2, with the base armament (2X152mm), plus secondaries (8X102mm) and torps. It would definetely be the most interresting to me, as a cross between a cruiser and a DD. Pros: Fast, with cruiser hp, able to bring its secondaries and torps quickly at range. Deadful brawler. Cons: Poor base firepower and no DD camo/consumables. Suck at range.

If WG planned to implement more of those, here is some other examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museum_ships USS Texas HMS Caroline (although it has a bad gun layout for WoWS) USS Olympia And also some destroyers like the HMS Cavalier, HMCS Haida (canadian) and USS Laffey

It was still awfully painful without a super captain.. :/ Combined to its low speed...But with better range, the rest of the ship seems acceptable, slowliness being less crippling and overall being a bit inferior due to its ability to receive better captains, but otherwise, quite decent.. Am i wrong?

Indeed, it is atrociously expensive compared to tanks (850-900 gold at Tier 3, 1500 at Tier 5) but also compared to higher Tier ships (Ishizuchi at 2500 and Murmansk at 3000). It is really exaggerated IMO. :/ (The range of Albany will be buffed in 0.5.3, up to 8.4km. It seems it won't be rubbish any more )

Edited the review to fit with supertester's feedbacks. :/

Nice pic ^^ But i'd be careful, with WG premiums... Wait for proper reviews of people who actually tested it, just in case it had some hidden atrocious flaws.

I made a shorter resume of those ideas and added this to the "questions to the WoWS devs" on The Amrored Patrol blog. I hope it will be picked and answered.

Agree. As I WoT player, if I want to sealclub, I now play at Tier 4 instead of T2-3. 12 tanks out of 15 are driven by brand new players in their shiny tank, with no idea of how to play because they fought against other newbies in a huge mess until there. Then my high alpha gun says Hi. Being totally isolated at previous Tiers disserves them when being mixed with hardened veterans and Tier 6 . :/

I am afraid about it too. I hope WoWS devs are smarter than WoT ones, because they killed low Tiers on WoT. They hate it. Newbie protection (I'm ok with this) + drastical map number reduction made people play less at low Tiers. I have the impression to be low dog more often because the MM struggles to compose full teams. Play Tier 2, get Tier 3 battle. Play Tier 3 and get a Tier 5. And I don't want to talk about the retarded maps we have to play on. -_- I really hope there will still be enough people playing and also teams won't be 60% Umikaze/St Louis.

But.. If you have to mark a ship to make your guns shoot at a target and you can only mark one ennemy at a time.. If you are between two ennemies, your secondaries will only shoot at the one you designed and not at the one sailing on the other side.. It doesn't sound that cool. If yes, I'd rather this skill to give a bonus IF the ennemy is marked, but others guns that can't aim at it keep shooting at any other ennemy they meet. (Mikasa owner)

I don't care if they touch AA. But I care as long as it improves some ships and nerfs some others without compensations in others stats. (especially touching premiums people paid for) Yubari: it was crap, nerfed again. Murmansk: will also lose AFT + nerf of all its AA guns Also, doesn't the Warspite's AA also lose in efficiency/ obsolete compared to some other BBs? Pom-Pom: 112 dmgs at 2.5km => 78.4102mm: 24 at 5km => 37.8Oerlikon: 55 at 2.1km => 39.6 at 2km Only the Sims benefits of those changes. But I doubt it will make it worth it. 127mm: 12 dmgs at 5km => 30

Just a question.. Do the Warspite is stil able to repair any kind of damage or was it stealth-nerfed? On the wiki, it is not question of citadel anymore and in battle, repair looks less efficient to me... I hope the wiki and I are wrong.

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Oh, thank you. I knew this website, but didn't knew how to display Hull stats. I's kinda strange Smith and Taco both have 76mm but different increases. PS: in-game, the Tacobabana's concealement is now 5.2km. Did it got buffed? EDIT: just found out it was because of that premium camo given for new year. I hope it will stay forever. ^^

Troll time. ^^ But weird thing, I ran mah Tacobanana in PVE to see if when I was spotted. 5.2km base+2.28km shootin = 7.48km theory. But it seems I was spotted at 9km. So what's the heck?

With AFT, it makes a little bit more. I also read somewhere else the increase corresponds to 3% of the gun caliber, in km. It makes 3.9km for 127mm guns DDs and 2.28 for 76mm (which corresponds to the shown value).

Indeed, I also saw that table where it was explained that most DDs except russians had roughly the same detection increase, but I also heard this increase depended on the gun caliber. So, because most DDs used almost the same gun caliber (except russians because bigger guns), I thought the Smith and Tacobanana would have a lower increse due to their smaller caliber. (And I took into account the "GK" value on the 7th picture of the link, which seemed to be the only detectability increase to correspond to firing the guns). But I can be totally wrong. Test should be led in PvE with the Tacobabana so we'd be fixed.. :/ Thanks for your precious help, creamgravy and xCaptainObviousx. I edited the post. EDIT: crap, "GK" is a coefficient.. So I'm probably wrong in my numbers.

You made it good and short. ;) I'll make it long

What can fight against a St Louis? I suppose its best chance would be to spam the St Louis with HE at max range, to set it on fire (10% chance per shell) and weaken it, while avoiding to be shot in return. However, this won't apply to mid-late game, as the ennemy will close the distance (=>torp use).

Right now, I'm crapping in my pants because I don't want to see the game deserted and my money wasted.....

This kind topics really make me afraid each time I see one.. Even if they are often exagerated.. I really don't want to see one day this game deserted by players like WoWP.. I know WoWP was a fail since the beginning and this one is very good, but we know how WG shows its love and respect to EU community.... Moreover, I spent quite an amount cash in beta (despite I didn't played that much, to be ready to buy good stuff), but due to the new EULA, the non-unified premium currency affair and the new politic of "stuff only in the premium shop", I have a ton of doubloons blocked on WoWS. (so if WG fails hard and closes one day the server, I'll lose everything. Not even gold transfer between games") If the game doesn't close but is just deserted like WoWP, it will be awful to find a good battle with just 600 players connected... And it will still be a waste of money and time. I really hope the game will survive and grow, and that WG will do the necessary.

I highly recommend people to boycott WG and their bundles.. (there was a nice thread about it) And to share the idea in their signature. (And for more active people, to share ot in the in-game chat so even non-forumites are aware of WG business?) Because event if 100 threads about it exist, nothing will change as long as they grab cash. If we want things to change, we have to move on.

I really begin to hate this company... And I come from far, as I was a WoT fanboy. GG WG.

...WHY did I thought it was smart to buy a doubloons package in CBT, as it seems any new premium is in a bundle and I can't buy them... Wargaming. *Sigh* About the ship itself: How does it behaves? Does the secondaries are good? And the rudder seems very responsive.. And armor?

I'd spend most of my games on it. Maybe even 80% if I can play with the people I want. Being a 12k battles WoT player trying to keep a high winrate, I don't enjoy that much anymore playing with random people and seeing my team butchered before it's my turn. :/