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Alternativ als 4er Skill die manuelle AA. Sie hat relativ große Flak Knarren und ist bei CVs äußerst beliebt. Manuelle AA behebt dieses Problem größtenteils da man deutlich unattraktiver wird. Zumal die Secondaries eh nur einen relativ kleinen Winkel (mehr nach hinten) abdecken. Ist aber Geschmacksache

Not that I particularly care about SoDaks but I wouldn't hold my breath for the introduction of second lines. With the pace we have I somehow doubt any of us is going to see the second lines. Maybe our children though...

Very likely. But that would be just progression (dreadnoughts are all slow by modern standards). WG will try to give them a characteristic that is present in all ships of the line apart from the progression piece. And to be honest I am not familiar enough with Italian ships to come up with an idea here. Was there anything Italian designers were especially keen on? For example Tirpitz, the German head of the ship building program stated "a ship's first and foremost task is to stay afloat". Therefore the German ships put emphasis on armour layout, double bottom, torpedo armour,compartmentization, damage control, etc. at the cost of less firepower. This philosophy sticked around even long after Tirpitz was fired - even during WW2. This design philosophy produced mixed results I'd say (it saved some ships during the Jutland Battle but you could argue if it was ideal in Bismarck's case). However it was what was special about these designs. So it makes sense that WG chose survivability as the line's flavour. So I guess the question would be if there was a special characteristic that was common to Italian designs apart from technology progression? For British BBs I guess it I the heavy armour w/o turtleback and damage control like War-spite. For France I guess it is the forward facing guns and speed (minus the dreadnoughts of course). Maybe Piritskenyer has some more insight into French ship building ?

Haha just read it "helped to balance the game". In this case they'd rather be shot ;-) Joking aside - nice gesture but a clone with less development work might have been ok as well. However - have fun guys. Hope it's not OP though (Flint?).

I was always wondering why WG doesn't understand step-by-step adjustments ... They can only do All stronk or BIG BIG nerf hammer. These changes look like another round of testing. Hopefully.

Stalingrad? Die ist doch schon im Spiel ;-) mit kleineren Kanonen

I don't have a problem with WG making presents to STs considering they don't get paid. What I don't like though is the latest tendency to restrict premium ships to regions, groups, reward actions, etc. It just creates a multi class community which is not the right way. However in Alabama's case I don't really care.

In reality you are right but WG likes to give each line a flavour that is common to all ships even if certain things change going tier upwards like speed, etc. For US it's AA, IJN it is (relative) long range fire accuracy and for the Germans it's survivability. Especially GER and US "traits" make sense as they reflect somehow the national focus / philosophy for BB building. IJN ... Well, but ok. I think we all agree that speed, gun caliber, etc changed throughout the development of the BB. With regards to Italy - no clue what Italy's design philosophy was. I am only aware of extensive rebuilds in the interwar period. I guess you would be the person to ask here...? ;-)

Would like to see RN Battlecruisers first. "Flavour": fast, relatively big guns, little armour, new consumable for higher rate of fire at the cost of increased detonation risk As for the BBs - look at Warspite and you have it. Soviet BBs - insane rail guns with crazy range, v0 and accuracy (hope not game breaking!!!!) at the cost of a little armour. Plus Radar from T8 up probably minus the plane. French BBs - bad dispersion, bad armour and decent mobility would be my guess

Ok gotcha. Hope you're right - the colours looked cartoonish to me but I am not overly familiar with US Camo patterns. I would probably buy her in case she is implemented in a decent kind of accurate way. Not so much if she'd be more on the cartoonish side. On a side note as you mentioned it - is the Kami R camo historical or made up?

Is it historical?

First world problem

DUDE!!! You are already complaining on the other thread! Why opening another...?

I do agree that WG went way overboard with AA. They made up all these fantasy hulls on T4-6 to give these ship monster AA. I would actually cut down BB AA on all lines except maybe the US. Second option could be removing hydro if the high tier ships continue to over perform (T8+ is it?).

Met JeeWeeJ in his Mogami this morning. It was a rather average game in total. I managed to land some AP salvos with my Roon on a brand new Missouri although it wasn't a stellar game. In my defense the ships look tiny today after last night's cocktails :-)

Hmmm Finde die Idee gar nicht mal schlecht. Problem ist nur: hab zweimal reingeschaut und es gab nur Müll oder ich hatte das Schiff schon. Denke nicht, dass ich nochmal schaue. Idee verbrannt.

Seen a weird Icon for her on one of these threads. Does anyone know if she will be another cartoon cr*p ship or any kind of annoying event? Or plain regular premium?

Moin Take, Wie immer - schöner Artikel :-) Ich fände Tosa auch sehr schön nur in einem Punkt muss ich widersprechen. Das Fantasy-Refit der Amagi finde ich grausig! Versucht seit Wochen eine Mod zu bauen, die das "richtige" Schiff anzeigt. Daher wäre ich ziemlich enttäuscht, wenn WG nach der eleganten Amagi auch noch die TOSA verunstaltet! Künstlerische Freiheit in allen Ehren aber warum immer donein hässlicher Quatsch. Einzig die Myogi und die Yorck finde ich gelungen als "Modernisierung". Aber eine TOSA wäre schon ein schönes Prem! +1

Abgesehen davon, dass ich gerade überhaupt nicht zum Zocken komme finde ich folgende Titel derzeit interessant: - WOWS - Wargame Serie (EE, ALB, RD) - Stormeagles Jutland - Heroes & Generals (mal angefangen und ist ganz ok) Generell mag ich ganz gern, wenn ein Spiel ein kleines bisschen Tiefgang hat - was sich dann leider wieder mit der zeitlichen Komponente beißt :-)

Majestic was for the pre-dreadnought type what dreadnought was for the modern battleship. A prototype of the type an both shaped the ships of all nations following them. Even neither of them achieved anything (Dreadnought missed the biggest BB clash of all time at Jutland and Majestic was torpedoed and sunk by a sub in the Mediterranean) significant when the moment of truth came they deserve some recognition in the game imp.

Super Beitrag Take! Die Sache mit den festen Röhren hatten wir glaube ich in einem der Fan Made DD Trees wenn ich mich recht erinnere? Auf jeden Fall ist deine Version hier GENAU richtig :-) So hätten wir sie gern als Krone auf der "leichten" Abzweigung!

;-) What I was saying is that the game - while it has its flaws and a lot of wasted potential - is still a fun one. And considering it does not have a competitor my prediction was it does have a future, answering the OP's question. And an unpopular RN CL line or DD split aren't going to change that. The game is good at numbers and statistics but is lacking a soul somehow.

750,000 Free XP is insane imo. Will pass this one (just skipped Shors so I guess I only have 200k at the moment anyway and don't feel any desire to convert for an Iowa (even if I am sure WG made her OP as f*ck). However I am sure I will see plenty of these next week in the game...

OMG I stopped reading after the first couple of words. Another ranting thread. Is this game perfect? No. Could this game be a lot better? Of course. Is it fun nevertheless? Yes - that's why you guys and myself are here. Does it have s future? Yes it does. Hope WG limits the major f*ck ups to a reasonable amount but in general yes.

I like the design of the Java class CLs! Hope we see some Dutchies sometime soon :-)