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Actually they don't. The RN have even more extreme bounce angles, they will start to ricochet at about 70 degree's and be a complete auto bounce at 80.

Need to find a way to add this maximum meme mode ship to the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Incomparable

Correct, it was announced today. Along with the French speed boost now gives 15% and they buffed the T6 Spaghetti boat.

Well let's be honest, which of these were made? Because that one is the natural successor

That too. I really don't think these Baguettes will be very good personally in comparison to the existing cruisers and will take a battering.

The Takao isn't a premium, it's just a weeb Atago that actually doesn't receive any bonus from the camo painted on its ship. The example you're looking for is the Prinz Potato Eugen.

Non assumption. It appeared from Sub_Octavian today. Friant: loading time increased from 7 seconds to 12 seconds Duguay-Trouin: loading time increased from 10 seconds to 12 seconds Emile Bertin: loading time increased from 7.5 seconds to 12 seconds La Galissonniere: loading time increased from 7.5 seconds to 10 seconds

The T3 was a bit of an obvious nerf and to some extent the 4. I'm not sure on the 5 but I don't think the 6 needed it, and the nerfs were a little heavy handed. At least they are giving me some French targets for me for when I get to utilize maximum skill with the RN BB's!

I always hated the Kirov.

I know, but in the case of your tree the logical successor would obviously be the Vanguard and it's what i'd stick there personally.

I heard the Survival Expert, secondary gun build is excellent

Until you find out they heavily nerfed the RoF on the Tiers 1 to 6. Excellent French buffs. The penetration to the La Grand Baguette seem substantial at least, so it might be able to actually hurt things.

Would make more sense to stick the Vanguard after the KGV in that lineup due to it being the natural successor (inb4 we know it will be a premium )

The way I view it (I have only tried it a couple of times using radar) but the problem is if you go in aggressive on a cap unless the enemy team is of minimal number and a couple of DD's with maybe 1 cruiser or BB supporting and you have far more support you'll be ok, however if it's far more even or against you in terms of number and types of ships you will get primaried and punished for pulling the same kind of aggressive maneuver. So you'll fall into more of a support ship, and if you like to play aggressively you may not enjoy this style.

Well they essentially made it so they were dropping HE shells that couldn't set fires (well once you get to the Fiji and above).

I play pretty aggressively as well, I do like to get in close and engage DD's and mow them down. I've rocked up into 3 DD's which 2 of them had put their torps out already and I dodged the one that did fire them at me but I had hydro so sadface for him, and I literally bowled them all over as it was like going into a nursery and windmilling your arms at children.

I figured it would be. Amusing video, though I wonder how many games he went through while trying to put that footage together where he just got annihilated before he could be any use.

Hydro makes vigilance kind of irreverent, where SE can allow you to heal back up to almost half HP if you're using the healing flag where you would already be dead, it's saved me/kept me fighting in matches far longer than the use of vigilance would be. And the Minotaur doesn't need to knife fight, you can mow down DD's in droves in close quarters, and if you're going in close you'll have hydro running. As I said, i'd rather take torpedo armament expertise over vigilance in the Minotaur. But these kind of skills are not core, it's down to preference, so if you feel your play style needs vigilance in this ship then keep using it. As long as you have SI and CE, most the majority of skills can be argued down to preference well bar a couple.

Just let the chap experiment. I'm pretty sure if he can't make it work/becomes unfun he'll revert to using smoke. If he does well and has fun using radar, then props to him.

While I did say SI and CE are core skills that's what everyone will say, but personally SE is also core. While i've had a few people laugh because they think i'm grabbing it because they think it prevents me from being killed in 1 salvo. Main reason is because if you survive and you say drop down to say 2k hp either in 1 salvo or consistent combat and you then drop your turbo heal which brings you up to 20k+ that extra 3.5k hp has literally become effectively another 20k. The amount of times where i've fallen into the zone for what ever reason and then turbo healed my self back up to almost half HP makes the skill invaluable and enables a massive amount of persistence, hence why I personally believe on the Edinburgh and above it's a core skill

Personally, I don't think Vigilance is worth it on the Minotaur, since you have hydro but also because it's pretty agile. If I say dropped my manual AA i'd probably get the Torpedo Expertise over vigilance personally, but it depends what you value. You can drop the AA I can see that as you could get another 3 and 1 point for it and that's all useful. I sit on the fine line of dropping it my self but I prefer to have that AA just a bit stronger for the games you do get CV's or in the case of spotting planes/fighters from other ships you can dispose of them rapidly. The Minotaur is one of those ships where the build can be a bit loose as long as you have super intendent and Concealment expert. So the rest of the build is a bit more preference. I really don't think a radar Minotaur is really worth it, it's far too fragile and the citadels too large, and the vast majority of Edinburgh's, Neptune's and Minotaur's i've seen using radar tended to have one thing in common. They exploded really quickly after they activated it. But feel free to experiment I just don't think it's worth it.

RN CL's from T8 onwards are the only Cruisers where Suvivability Expert is actually useful. And highly recommend it. My current build. http://shipcomrade.com/captcalc/0100000001000010010001000000010119 However for a Radar build you'll want PT far more than a smoke build. Though I would only recommend using a Radar build if you have other players in a division that can provide smoke for you or at least a division.

Pretty much what was said above. On the IFHE argument. With the 180mm's you gain the ability to pen 32mm's which you can't without so that will assist with some deck's. The Moskva on the other hand can already pen that armour so I wouldn't bother with IFHE on the Moskva.

Don't forget they are different players as well. Flamu while he doesn't slam things that aren't op he'll call it ok but will play that ship down. You have to remember he is a player that will look for ships that can survive and compete in the Meta. If they can't they tend to get slammed unless very fun. iChase tries to recommend ships even with servere disadantages and i've seen him gloss over some large issues or important parts. However I personally think he's a bit useless.

Lack of HMS Worcester as a premium. 10/10 disappoinment.