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I did. Point is that if you played Colorado or something like it, you should know there can be huge difference in performance of stock and elited ship. So bad performance of stock ship can be simply made by this. If I understand it, you played brawler with inferior speed, agility and HP pool. It is simple logic that it will not go well. And there is nothing to do until you elite it. Sorry, but it is something everybody should learn. Second. I realy dont care what you or anybody else think about my stats. Im not saying my feelings, I simply say that if your dmg output is lower than in 5 tiers lower ship, you simply sucks in it. Im not judging, thats simply fact. Its brawler in camping meta, not the best place to be. Might not be suited for you, but there are plenty of ships and noone said you must be fine with every single one. I also wanted to be good CV captain just to found Im probalby the worst CV player ever. So CVs are sold, no shame. Life goes on...

Really? AFAIK FdG can be build into AAA monster. So CV are not such problem (and if it is to you, look for AA build). You have hydro so torps are not that much problem either. Plus if you compare it to T10 cruisers - if you can easily own them, something would be wrong, dont you thing? Another note is that if you position badly, DD will punish you reagardless of what your ship is. CV can own almost every lone ship, you know it better than me. Its as you point out - brawler in snipe meta. Not suited, but it doesnt make her bad ship. So you are judging stock ship without experience with it...good. Might be new to you, but stock ship perfom worse than elited one. With common sence you should know to grind it till you start judging it. P.S: If you do more dmg in your T4 Bb than in T9 one, its clearly not for you. Leave it, for sake of your team.

Yep, Kongo. Its not the strongest T5 BB, but if you want to only consider performance when uptiered its the best one. It has speed and range. That alone makes her capable of doing whatever do your teammates do. Sure, you are weaker in that, but thats point of lowtier. Other ships can be better in same tier fights, but only Kongo can adapt to faster enviroment, bigger maps and long range fights. Plus, like Negativvv said, some people understimate its speed. When ramming, only speed and weight matters... Edit: Speed might look not so important, but without it you can do literary nothing against ships like Scharnhorst or Gneissau. Plus you really really need to stick together with team as lone T5 BB in T7 game is just free XP pinata.....

Hi, I had few months pause and now when I tried few games I noticed how many BBs are shoting HE. Especially UK, but few Tirps and Bismacks as well. So question is - did I just met some unskilled players or is some change in game what made it happen? Normally I wouldn't ask, but I was detonated by frontal HE in my Hipper so it made me curious if its not me who is doing it wrong (I know HE easily pen Hippers bow and can in theory cause detonation, I was just suprised by fact Im being fired by HE).

UK BB with IFHE can citadel cruiser? Wow, this is what I obviously missed...

Wow, and you call someone else arrogant? Negating valid point by stats (which are not related to the point itself) and flaming? Great example why stats obviosly doesnt make you any smarter than others...

Well I thought I wrote it was not meant to be personal, but obviosly not... Anyway, I was reacting to your critism of binary world, not the kind of punishement itself. There is no middle ground, you either pink or not. You either made mistake or not. Nothing between. Unless there is some mind - reading machine, there is no difference between teamkilling and making mistake. Kind of necessary evil.

Your action, your responsibility. Without being personal, dodging friendly torps is so frustrating. And all you need to do to prevent it is to look around - if the line is clear, shot torps, If not dont shat at all. Personaly I cant think of way how to get pink with some patience and awarness.

AFAIK it helps, but not as much as in case of 150 guns. Its just "good" level, not "must have". Only ship which have no reason to use IPHE is Moskva.

Big prize is premium ship. Garbage is pack of 4 flags. SC with module is fine as you can always sell it. Still cant see any problem, your expectation aside.

IIRC you are right, but on the other hand WG dont use term Battle tier anymore. It was little confusing for people to read about changes of Tier 12, it only leads to alot of question "where can I find anyT12 tank?" WG started to use MM spread if Im correct, which basically shows which ships you can face.

We have Season 6 and you are still upset by whining? You should know that Ranked is always great reason to rant about MM, ranked system, P2W, and so on... To OP: Pure luck, nothing more. MM cant take in account clan membership. Some people want to have mirror MM, some skill based MM and so on. I've seen 8 members of same clan in same team once, its just matter of luck they meet in same team.

Better question is what do you expect? Having SC every week, gaining prem ship every month? Looks like lot of people do...if they say there is little chance, it means there is little chance. They are not giving us ships for free. Its not meant as source of credits and flags and so on. Its more like little lotery. If you like flags, go for containers with flags. Otherwise its better to not have high expectations, its bonus, nothing more. All in all you get 600k credits for just doing what you'd do anyway, thats pretty good for me.

Biggest problem is probalby change of enviroment - you face T9 now, which dont give you chance if you make mistake. As others stated, Schor is direct upgrade (except for turn radius) so if you did like Buddy, there is no reason to hate Schors. I find Schors with IPHE being very capable dmg dealer, but you have to stay at range. Your turn radius mean you can hardly dodge BB salvo even at mid range, which leads to disastrous results when making mistake. Imho thats the issue - your ship is simply better, but there is much less room for mistake.

Well he stated few times that it is just his own opinion. Sure, its supported by his great performance, but its still more a advice than rule. Mogami is strange ship - you are not choosing between two gun configurations, but between two playstyles. 155 Mogami is about long range/stealth fire, which is efective, true. 203 typical strike cruiser. While Flamu states he prefers 155 one, it should be noted that he always focus on performance. Which is not wrong, but 203 brings more fun to many players and is completely valid choice. I played it with 203 and enjoyed it much more. 203 Mogami still have great concealement which allows you to disengage. Point is that it is much easier to disengage form 15km combat than 10km combat. Conclusion - try both, find which playstyle suits you better. It doesnt cost you nothing...

Actually its not. If T9/10 CV decide to kill you, you are done. It doesnt matter how you buffed your AA, its still easy to overcome it. From my experience only way to fight CV is to release fighters and start defensive fire. Not because you want to shot down his planes, but to make his spread wider and dodge bombs/torps. With buffed AA you will shot down few planes, but it doesnt change anything. Much better is to pick skills that make you better at what you want to do - Concealement expert, Demo expert and Superintendant is must, Expert marksman and Priority target are very usefull as well. Rest is more or less about personal taste. In short pick DF and double fighters skill if you are afraid of CV. Making dedicated AA build will cripple you too much. Honestly I played vast majority of my Atago games with Hydro, and never had problems with it.

Not sure if its still actuall issue, but I want to explain some important aspects - dmg doesnt matter that much as you think. It is the core aspect for WoT, true, but not so much for WoWs. These games dont have same basics. The main problem is how classes look like - where HT is little different from MT/TD (HP wise), there is huge difference between DD and BB in WoWs. What does it mean? Amoung of damage must be compared to % loss of HP - 10k salvo is good or bad? Its nothing for BB with 70k HP and repair, but its huge blow to any DD. While XP and credit income reflect it, your stats do not. So there is the question - do Atago and Kutuzov have same tagrets? No, and thats the point. Kutuzov usually burns down BB, Atago hunt DD/CA/CL. Which obviously lead to disparity in stats. Thats it. Tl;dr: Dont focus on DMG output only. There are many aspects, not only DMG. Better look at WR and XP income.

Ranked S6 is comming and it will be T7. T7 is known as kingdom of Gneissenau and Scharnhorst. Last season was all about Bismarck, so it looks like german ships will be superior choice again, especially when we are promised to see Epicenter mode. But german twins lack hydro. They cant push as Birmack can. Also Scharnhorst, best performing T7 BB cannot pen other angled BB. And you cant hope for stupid enemies if you want to hit R1. Nagato still has the best firepower by far. So which one would you expect to be the best performing? My personal bet is AA Gneis. Inability to deal with angled enemy criples Scharnhorst too much in ranked.

Did you brawled a lot in S5? From what I could see as CA skipper not. The brawl took place in the end of match. There is huge difference between Gneis and Bism in ability to push. While Gneis can (and probably will) be punished heavily by both BB fire and torps, Bism can angle and mainly has hydro. With hydro turned on, it can avoid torps, clear cap from smoked DDs and still survive. It was imho its hydro what made him superior, not brawling ability. Gneis/Scharn cannot do this. You can push, but what would you do if smoke apears in front of you? Its not that hard to find weak place of enemy line and break it in random, but you can hardy push without being focused of enemy team. I think thats reasoning for Nagato - its superior in expected mid range fights.

Being newbie with CVs there is one problem im facing almost every game. I play IJN VC (at T5 now) and I understood that I have few planes of higher tier and my USS counterpart has more planes of lower tier. I though there are equal to each other but nope. UUS are superior to my fighters. I can live with that, but point is: even if I strafe them, they survive and usually beat me afterwards. So...is it mean to be? Or am I doing something wrong? And mainly, as Im at T5 now, is this same at higher tiers? Its very annoying to me especially at low tiers where I have very low number of planes...

Well he stated many times that it si just his opinion. Its no more than educated tip..and it should be in mind. I can see his point, while germans are great CC monsters, I doubt ranked battles will be that agresive. Flamu probably expect more mid range firefights, which seems logical - all in all last season was full of Bismarck - the best ship for ofensive playstyle I ever played - yet close combat usually took place at the end when game was already won or lost. It was imho hydro what made it choice number one. We will see soon...

Torpedoes were and still are great area denial tool. So it depends what are you expecting - to be BB hunter as was planed long time ago? Nope, its not true for DD for a while. Scout/recon/caping/area denial? Yes, its still best class to do it all. Sidenote - its not matter of few last patches. WG stated quite a long time ago that they abbadon original concept of paper-rock-scissors game. Or not directly abbadon, but make each class more reliable on its own. As game changed, DD skippers have to accept new role. You dont score tons of torp hits, but you have XP for capping and spoting. Tl;dr: DDs are not torping monsters for a long time, but they have huge impact on game. Competent DD player is still key to succes in most battles.

Oh man, come on. If you remove "stupid" fires, how do you expect cruiser to fight BB? By AP? Every class has its own way to do dmg, HE is one of them.

My captain has same setup. Together with AR I feel very confident in ship. The only issue with T6 RB is about module choice - seconadries are great in close combat but Im afraid it will not be the case. So maybe taking main battery module. Or AA one, Im really afraid of good Saipan captains. Any experience on how efective is manual AA vs Saipan? Melting T6 planes is expectable but afaik Saipan has T9...

Given the fact most people report scoring citadel at long range I'd assume it works. AFAIK turtleback plate is weak, so once you have good angle it can hardly stop BB shell from getting in. But lets be honest here - if you score cit at 16+ km, you cant be sure where exactly did you hit and how exactly did it happen - it can be easily barbette hits as well. So who knows, doesnt matter anyway. Anyway, thanks for clarification. The more information, the better. Kinda pitty that you need to do lot of searching to find out how the game actually works...