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If you think about it its fair. If you play daily you get as much free stuff as you want. You can even have a Tier9 premium just for being an active player, i personally have more signal flags and camos that i can possibly ever spend. We, active players, shouldnt be jelous for a small welcome back gift for players who get from the things above none.

Haku has more strike potential, easier to deal damage, is a lot harder to win the fighter engagements. Midway has more fighter power, but is sometimes extremely difficult to do serious damage due to the T8 TBs and the sometimes completely useless AP bombs. I agree the midway got a lot stronger, but i still like my Hakuryuu much more.

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I bought the Shokaku back last time and set up a 19pt Benson with a 19pt Bismarck just to realize i dont really like any of them and played the whole season with my trusty Atago. Will do the same this time again.

Last year they announced the santa boxes and holiday events something like on the 23rd. I know that because i felt the same and i almost spent my money elsewhere thinking WG just forgot Wows and skips the whole holiday season... not the best marketing strategy if i have to be honest.

Thats actually quite a good deal. Its hard to pay that much money only for bonus xp and credits though.

Even without TRB, can you imagine a 3 man division Kitakami popping out from behind an island? I would be just

Z-52 > Yueyang > Gearing > Grozovoi > Shima > Minotaur > Zao > Khaba

Well at least its not 1v1

I would like to participate. 1) Enterprise 2) Mutsu 3) Doubloons

I think its because a lot of players have a metric a$$ ton of credits, thus playing mostly Tier10 - myself included. I used to play my Kamikaze R, Warspite, Fuso, Atago for fun - nowdays Midway, Mino, Conqueror, sometimes a bit Zao or Z-52... Those are my fun chilling boats now... bad luck for the T8 population.

Nice graph but i honestly thought T5 and T6 are equally bad (because of the protected t3 and t4 ships). I dont think its 100% accurate, the sample size is just too low.

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Belfast, Flint, Fiji, Myoko, Sims, Saipan, Kaga, Blyska, Sharnhorst, Leningrad, Nelson are the bst ships in T7. Prepare your wallet.

I think balance-wise WG is on the right path. I have no problems oneshotting a lonely BB or a flanking DD with my planes nor i have problem with it when i am on the receiving end. I have also no problem when an AA cruiser like an Atlanta, Cleveland or Des Moines protecting allies and i cant touch them. However I find it stupid to give BBs godlike AA (Texas, Duke of york, Hood, Montana, Iowa, new french T9) they should never be able to counter CVs even if they invest all points in AA skills. Same goes with AA destroyers. Alright let some of them have defAA to panic the planes, but the Grozovoi or the Kidd/Fletcher can reach ridiculous AA values, while losing almost nothing in combat effciency. TL DR: I would like to see a general nerf (revoking defAA) on BBs and DDs and buffing some cruisers AA values. (not Minotaur or Kutuzov sort cruisers but rather Zao and Hipper types)

Easy poll, every opinion is welcome, but i would be happy if trained carrier players with both Tier10 carriers vote only. Personally i need some more matches to cast my vote, i am really not impressed with the AP bombs, they are even more random than HE ones, i have no chance to random blop out of the water DDs or for any DOT damage, not to mention it cant strip the AA mounts down. On the other side it feels like the Midway got more strike power then the old stock 2-1-2 (the only useable flight module). I really love my Hakuryuu but i cant ignore the OP US fighter planes. sidenote: thanks WG for the free 200k FreeXP

Because you run out of planes in 1/5 of the matches, but the extra DB is almost always useful spotting, or harassing DDs. I have never used the 2-3-2 in my 200ish Haku games.

Alright after playing the Midway more i have my conclusion: Midway with HE bombs is better. The Hakuryuu still has the faster rearm times and with crazy multitasking its possible to do more damage over time BUT the Midway is almost on par with the TB alpha strike force and it has the amazing fighters which cant be ignored. AP bombs are just too stiuational, you cant always hope that there will be a german BB bow on to your planes...

Oh no finally more than a handful players play CVs in the BB-DD meta?! Its sure will be bad for the game balance!

To be honest the most broken tier is Tier7 with huge powercreep, it has excellent MM to bash T5 seals and we already have had a T7 ranked season se everyone should have a few Tier7 ships. Belfast, Flint, Fiji, Myoko, Sims, Saipan, Kaga, Blyska, Sharnhorst, Leningrad, Nelson... wait a minute, a see a pattern here...

If i am correct it has a lot worse accuracy then a normal Amagi and superbad AP penetration. So the 2 things the IJN line is famous for, the accurate guns and the good AP are nerfed to the ground to fit the ship in T7, what do we have left to pay 50 euro for?

Yes, but it can be a downside as well, harder to crossdrop DDs and sometimes its worth setting fires on multiple ships with the 3 DBs, not just group them up and strike 1 target. Also, longer rearm times suck.