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So I finish my thankfully short grind on the Ernst Gaede. TL;DR its a ship that doesnt know what to do with itself. You would think close range knife fighting with other DDs over caps with its hydro advantage, but its guns are slow firing, low damaging and slow turning. The 8km detection penalty means that after you have finished off the enemy DD that BB over there will still be spotting you. It is big and on the slower side for DDs. Also its range without AFT is poor. Its shell arcs are also quite bad, USN are the only ones worse off. It takes really big hits from AP and HE alike. I didnt think DDs could be more fragile. Making it bad at shooting from long range like RU DDs. Its smoke is terrible with a 61s duration (Tier 6 IJN and RU smoke 81s, USN 118s) making smoke shooting nonviable. Its torpedoes are nice but are on a poor platform. It can just barely torpedo from stealth. Maybe CE would make it a usuable torpedo boat. Its pros of hydro and good torpedoes I feel are outweighed by the cons of the ship. Looking ahead to the Leberecht Maass it seems to be more of the same. With the bonus of an extra puny gun, marginally faster ship and better torpedoes. Might perform better thanks to the better range on the torpedoes.

But still why does the tier 6 for example need a 8km firing penalty? With the 150s or the 128s without AFT you have 10.8km range with AFT the 128s have 12.9km range. Using CE and a camo brings your detection to ~6.8km. So even in the best case the 8km penalty will leave you spotted at 14.8km which is 1.9km further than the maximum possible firing range of the ship. And if you dont have a high level captain or are using the 150s you will be detected 5km further than you can shoot. The severity of this penalty actively discourages using your guns, because even if you sink an enemy DD challenging you for a cap that BB 15km away that has barely moved from spawn will still be spotting you. And then there is the smoke which even at tier 10 is shorter than the tier 2 smoke available to the IJN and RU DDs. This offers very few opportunities to use your guns due to its pathetic duration. Unlike even IJN DDs guns, the guns on KM DDs seem to be designed solely around self-defense.

As in forced equal tiered division compared to the +/-1 tier divisions we currently have?

You have to re-equip them manually.

I remember reading in one of the RU Q&As that due to technical reasons the anti-detonation signal isn't -100% but -99.99999% or something. This was quite a while ago so I may be misremembering or it might have changed.

Actually the Smith USN tier 2 premium DD has 3 single torpedo tubes that reload in 11s. Which is faster than a fair number of 203s. But for the most part it is nonsense he's talking.

Depending on the rest of the stats it might make a decent tier 4 or 5 premium ship.

If all servers get the same missions and bundles no would be complaining about how other servers have it better. Complaining about WGs new bundle policy would probably be a valid complaint shared by everyone and unrelated to the current issue.

The firing penalty nerf, along with the smoke nerf seem like they will kill this line in terms of competitiveness with DDs of other nations. Hydro while a strong consumable (no idea why it is in its own slot, seems like its WGs new favourite way of power creep), from my experiences on the Lo Yang it wont be as great as it may seem on paper (maybe even less so since the Lo Yang is rare many dont know about its hydro). I will play them, but on paper these ships seem to have very little going for them in comparison to their weaknesses.

Lesson of the day: If its a DD and performs well expect it to be nerfed.

Give me a hour and I will make a post about playing the Akizuki since I have since this sort of question pop up a few times recently and expect it will again.

You mean he can be pleasant at times? I dont see why we, the player base, should have to try and explain or rationalise WGEUs actions, especially when they have given us harder/less rewarding missions again when compared to other servers. I will give them the benefit of doubt that they wanted to announce it in a different way and wait until the mission goes live on the 23rd before I make anymore complaints. But WGEU continue to disappoint.

Well late war USN torpedoes, Mk 16 and Mk 17, ran on navol, which is concentrated hydrogen-peroxide and would leave less of a wake compared to the Type 93s.

But I made more credits with them.

He is probably think of the fact CVs loose a greater percentage of their hp (0.4% vs 0.3% I think) because they cannot be detonated.

You chose the loadout in the modules screen in port. Selecting a different flight deck will give you a different loadout.

So bring back repair costs based on damage received?

If I remember correctly you complained quite a bit about the Shimakaze. Maybe you should have learned to deal with it. Or is there some difference between your complaints and the ones others make?

BBabies are team players, when its the team supporting them.

I got 100k credits from one today

Might be a RU server thing. But there is no harm in asking.

There is no time limit for the current campaigns.

Yes. And if the captain is in retraining a Gearing will have 21400.

Here is the list from reddit. Thanks to iku.

Probably complaining about the number of DDs.