Spellfire40

​Saipans planes are fast it dictates if and when it will fight. and even if you catch them with the Ammo and the strafe out of Jail Card as a icing for the cake there is very Little you can do agist her if the Saipan Player is even remotely competent...if you just Point and click ...yes then ist balanced but saipan is not bound to the T4/5 rules so its not balanced ,,,,,

​You see users use stats as a conter if the Argument is soild and transported in a polite way? Most of the time peple look up stats if the post itself Points that the poster is Smoking some bad stuff or has a very personal reality that isnt in tune with what most perceive?

​Not saying Shira isnt a decent ship it just dont work in a 3 man div since if you work together you ignore 90% of the map and all the enemy has to to is Play a retreating battle lowering your damageoutput to near 0. Shira shines agist atacking enemys it sucks in chases it allso sucks if ist outnumbered and teh enemy pushes since it still have IJN Torp detection and anything seriously pushing can run it down. 1: 1 in caps you nhave a steath Advantage but if your torps mis.....you get chased to the end of the world wasting your Torps at Shooting at the bows of cruisers and DD.IJN cant do ist role hunting BBs becasue if you do you Need to flank and shira sucks at that thanks to ist Speed . I had my Moments in her: but Overall it can be frustrating at times....to really shine in her you Need the enemy to really suck.

Perth Needs 14 to 16 Points thogh to work well plus higher tir ranked Players can hit ships in smoke..

3 shiras working together means most of teh caps are unprotected no BB cares about a shira since said shira have to get past the own DDs 1st and if they do Point your rear to them and lagh your BEEEP off as tehy cant to crap to you. Torpedo boats dont stack well especally slow ones....

Dont get I Chases Point ,,,,max 6 Hits per strike? if a US CV Strikes you someoen not fokusing the TBs? Agist any Target that has AA you lose 1 or 2 TBs before they drop......

Who cares about stats they only stats i find remotely interesting is when someone raise hell in Forum but havent played said class it all. Let me see a sek......I have 56,71 win rate so im a average Player right but i Have a 40%WR in FdG so i suck at BBs? mmmm strange i have a 67% WR in Colerado one of the gernerally seen Worst BBs in the game perhaps ist the Level? Izumo 53 Iowa 60%mm Perhaps i cant Play Germans? Bismark 61% Tirpitz 55% Gneisenau 54% ...... Long storry short seeing a stat in Isolation tells you nothing nor does it strenghen your Argument. For example Flamu swears at Players in a losing game not trying to get some more damage done since they pay their repair anyway...well not everyone enjoys geting slaughtered and throwing free exp at the enemy.....everyone his Kind of Play just dont come complaining in the Forum about CV and lack of AA and have no CV and 90% of your games are in a Imperator

​You got to be fair, You dont have to Play a ship to know the Impact if your knowleged enogh about gamemechanics and the games History. Example 12 TBs on Kaga with faster Torps? You played an IJN CV in OBT? you know the Impact that has even without having fighter and Kaga not even lacks that? Saipan not losing fighters on strafeout? Well really not OP considering you have a Speed adavantae in Saipans fighters vs any other oponent to begin with (carefull sarcasm here). Belfast stealth module? well totally balanced with Radar equals steath and smoke on top.....The Point were i dont agro (and i voiced that) is that just because ist a big Name it Needs to be OP: "This is unacceptable. You can do what you want(WG) to regular US CVN and you have so far, but the BIG E deserves to be the best US carrier in the game and here's why:" ​No sorry we DO not Need another OP CV and certainly not becasue its a iconic one of all posible reasons...we Need a balanced one that works in the enviroment it is in not a "I payed and it was unsinkable in WW2" one, ​That aside whats really wrong is that tehy cashing in on CVs while only throwing in obscure hints about the rework. They promised no prem CV before it....they allready broken that promise with Kaga. What WoWS Needs are not more prem CVs even if id like to get my Hands on them. It Needs a stable CV PLAYER​ popolation and nothing i have seen this year has done anything but to even kill off more Players starting the class and driving them to Play something else.....

​As is Midways but you know what it meant for the Pazific war? Without Malta there would have been a real posibility that Axis could have closed Suez that in Turn Would meant that the RN would have 0 influence un the Meds were tehy did a good Job neutralizing one of the biger navys.Wich in Turn the Italian Navy could have started neutralizing Gibralta and if that would have happened you would have a full blown Navy not just a few comerce raiders on GBs convoy routes..if thats no Impact on the war ......

​You might reread you history books without CVs Malta very well yould have been neuralized Leving the Afrika corp in good suplyes. Without CVEs convoys would have taken much heavyer loses too vs Subs......

​It dont Need to be UP honestly i was hoping for the return of the 2/1/1 Setup thogh gamemechanics might have envolved too much for that at this Point....

​Well if they have any sence (wich i at time sceptical about after Kaga or Hoods "buff") they will buff it or redesighn it. Lets just hope they pull another Saipan crap were ignoring gamemechanics that aplay for any of ist oponents is a Thing....if its competetiv thats good if the only choise at ist Tir it isnt......

​Honestly? Nobody cares even if it would have won the war singlehandly. here its in a PvP game and it should be a balanced CV for its tir. Not the worst and certainly not the best CV there is....

​The Point is why would you have a secondary build Missouri captain in the 1st place? prems are not about using sepezalized captains but using an existing captain to boost him (yea there is the totaly bad example of Belfast but you know what i mean...)

​AA build can lessen the Impact of a full strike since despite what most think Iowa can lose most of ist HP to a same or higher tir CV then again you wont allways face CVs and even if they usally look for less AA Targets 1st...The real Problem with secondary build isnt that ist useless...its that the Turning Circle and armor Profile dont really work that well at Close range vs anything but DDs...plus the optimal distance is 12km and higher to fade befween salvos...

​Wen du meinst Saipan entscheidet ob und wan er stattfindet zb in der Long range Aura eines befreuneten schiffes oder er strafed halt einfach das kann zwar auch mal nach hinten los gegen aber waehrend die jaeger dan chicken spielen kann er sentsprechend seien TBs rummoven und wen er die konzentration für den drop bracht sie eifach wegschicken ohne das Hiryu an sie rankommt....

​Saipan 178 kn Jaeger Hiryu 162 kn Jaeger.... Wer entscheidet wan er einen Luftkampf anfaengt?

​War sie nicht weil du nur einen voteil hast wen du die saipan Jaeger erwischt. welche aber fixer sind......Eine halbwegs faehige Saipan hat dich auch vorher gegestafed der aus den look strafen hat dan den ganzen nur noch die krone aufgesetzt....

​This thogh i dont know how that stacks to higher fresh captains since ifhe is only a boon up to 6 after that ce and aft might be more of a choise....im not saying she gets to US Level AA but she has ist Points and French AP is not bad either if used in the right situations also she has a fighter were the techtree one does not wich is helpfull for spoting in the right situations.

Not that hard since it's universal with german BBs depending on angle above armor belt or into the angled superstructure. You won't get cits but relyable pens.

Wrong...for killing merchants it had 10.5 cm or a boarding party..... Point is it was Armored enogh that it could withstand DD and CL fire...the main bane for a comerce raider isnt geting destroyed outright it was being damaged enogh for a larger force to catch up. Scheer and Hipper did good in its role at the start of the war....

Dont underestimate what you can do the germans are pretty hard close up but I did wrecked a Gneisenau (same armor profile as Scharnhorst ) in an Arizona. Comes down to know we're to Aim. At 10 km minus even a Hood can hit things.

Slightly higher RoF?

Well as a DD you have to get past the enemy DDs before you have fun and there is the expectations that you cap and defend the cap most of the times in situations were your own team haven't even found their W key yet.... NOzoop had a rather fun vid about it....

Thats your choise. Personally I have all T6 CL/CA still in port thogh only play Clevland regular. With the MM you certainly don't play that level for geting silver( at least not in a Cruiser) and thanks to free captain exp T10 ships make better captain exp boster. For a T6 she still feels ok and is a option if you in need of a fresh crewtrainer. My point of view is that of a colector thogh but she feels nice enogh to not just end as a port decoration.