Miragetank90

16km, so around the ballpark of several other tier 10 cruisers, most of which don't have smoke and are easier to full pen and cit compared to smol. Listen. Just git gud.

Gloryhammer

No. Useless for this ship. Do not pick it unless you want to gimp your firechance without any meaningful benefit on the plus side.

I played 3 FDR games last night, 2 of those were lost within 4 mins, and in one of those the team was completely zeroed in 5. in the last game I met @Aetius85 who had a nice game in Ohio

Fiji ''buff'' is an historical accuracy consideration as reported by some. But let's be real, nothing really changes. Nothing overmatches 38mm, and for HE shells - what would pen before still pens with 51mm, what would shatter before still shatters. Exception for one or two ships, like Nurnberg with 38mm HE pen. Also, it's only this tiny section mostly covered by other elements: AP bombs may arm a little easier now though at this point, if it didn't already. Idk how well Fiji handles getting hit by them.

Merry Christmas <3

Did you message me in-game? My internet has been shitting itself so I keep disconnecting. All I see is a chatbox with no name and no message.

I used the coupon, so 24,750 for me IIRC In randoms I find other CVs to be better, but it's still worth it in the competitive setting, even though personally I think MvR is number 1 atm(we'll see after the nerf). From a personal standpoint it's also worth something to me as a collector, lover of big ships and aesthetic, so no I wouldn't swap it. Also, I love the Skypirates as planes, they're beautiful <3

This. Here's my 2 cents about FDR: - The rockets are absolute garbage, such that using them is almost always a complete waste of time. Useless against players with a brain and even then, time and effort are expended for chip damage. - The torps are good, imo the best weapon FDR has. Even then, if the enemy is manoeuvring without fear of getting blapped by your teamates damage from them is not difficult avoid or to mitigate. - The bombs are decent. Against BBs you can rack up the damage. Inconsistent against CAs unless stationary, all but useless against DDs as they're so easy to dodge. - Planes are tanky, but slow, cumbersome, and turn like pigs. Eating flak at some point is a given. DefAA is particularly annoying for FDR because of the way the consumable works - massively buffing flak damage. - Fighters are particularly annoying for FDR and counter them harder than they counter other CVs, which can more effectively employ techniques to ignore/circumvent fighters altogether. - Plane regen times are atrocious. - 25 sec downtime between attacks is cumbersome. In randoms, imo, Midway and practically every other CV is more flexible, easier to carry in and more comfortable to use. FDR is strong, but its planes are a double-edged sword and the ship is overly geared towards farming damage on specific targets which is not necessarily the damage needed for the win. Meanwhile, because of its design in terms of weapons, plane speed, downtime etc it is less efficient at doing everything else. As I mentioned in another thread, FDR gets all the attention because it's a steel ship, and for the big damage number games floating around - yet the latter is something that any CV can realistically achieve given enough time, plus friendlies and foes which are dumb enough to enable one to potato-farm. Other CVs are no worse than FDR. In the random setting they're arguably better. So @OP, you should ask for them to be nerfed as well

It's the same with FDR rockets, for instance. A little terrain throws it off entirely and it snaps forward a great distance. The issue was brought before WG before, but It's apparently working as intended and so won't be changed.

Yes. Paired with the low speed and meh turning you will almost always eat some, depending on how much there is of course. Honestly, I find Midway to be a better CV in randoms, and just about everything else for that matter. But FDR gets a lot of attention because of tanky planes and occasional very big endgame numbers from potato-farming.

Hitbox is actually the same on FDR planes as all others, as confirmed by WG. It's in the CV thread somewhere, we wondered the same way back.

Good.

idk if I'm on board with the secondary changes or not, but as it is right now it's more than just a meme on the relevant ships provided you know how to use them.

It's the alternate camo, unlocked via the last german collection no? nvm, I see the colours are slightly different - where the whites should be on the alternate are grey and vice versa

Regardless of how well or bad you played, they couldn't win with a 5 man clan drop-in(With CV and a DD) same tier game, and on top of that proceeded to flame you in PMs after. Truly pathetic.

Kansas was very mediocre but they were OK to me on the whole. Esp. Minnesota, that one was my favourite. I don't like Vermont as much as that ship, or I should say I had more fun in it. Vermont hull is trash. No complaints if they want to buff it ofc but I've already ground them out *shrug* Nerfing Hosho and Langley is good also and long overdue.

Manowar

It's a nice game, but the tomb sections are sadly wasted and repetitive, even more so because they just reuse the same assets over and over for them, so that was disappointing for me.

You can only cit Cruisers with AP rockets within their respective tier spreads. Attack them from the sides and don't aim too high. Around/slightly above the waterline yields the best results.

I'm getting FDR. I have everything else except Somers.

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