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She would have been OP if she had usual jap torps. This is not a ship to spam torps from safe distance at unaware enemies, in this one you have to get danger close. That's a part of the fun for me.

I liked my Aoba, I didn't keep her but she was a good ship, low silhouette, few but powerful guns, fairly good AA, an overall good balance. Gunnery is easier in Aoba than in Cleveland. Overall, a ship I miss a bit when trying to sort out the turret mess of the Myoko and one which I always respect when I'm confronted to.

Yeah, a division mate of mine also had one on the opposite side during a random... Guess who won the battle... I'm a bit confused here... So we have a T 10 ranked at T 4, given to some players for unknown reasons, appearing in random lower tier battles to arbitrarily give the victory to the lucky side... Whiskey tango foxtrot? What's the logic of that?

I expected flatter shell arcs but this wasn't changed, so aiming is still a bit difficult. However I spent some time with the Mahan and the improvements are sensible, she could ninjia torp and the B hull with a somewhat improved AA still retains mount #53 (in the US Navy, mount #53 is the third 5 inch mount). I'm faring good so far with the Mahan in her current state and I'm looking forward for the upgrade.

I've had to battle once in the new beta test with the Izyaslav and indeed her speed has been set to 35 knots. She now can survive a little longer. Kiev is worth the grind, altough her 10 torps have a bit of a wide spread and must be launched from really, really close to be effective.

All Jap BBs skippers are experiencing very bad shell performance lately (last case, last night I could not yet sink an Omaha after 7 good 16" rounds... whiskey tango foxtrot?!?!?!) so yes, shell performance IS a factor in the game, I'd even say the favourite one for ninjia nerfs.

It's curious to see how opinions may differ even while we are all forced to adopt the same playstyle. I had tons of fun with the Ognevoy in the test week (and seldom lost a turret, but I had the module for that) while I found the Izyaslav borderline unplayable because of her low speed and big size.

40 € plus some .99 cents. The ship do cost 15 € but it comes with supplementary Yankee and Zulu signal flags to properly spell Polish words, a port slot in Gdynia and 30 days premium Polish lessons.

There's no reason to believe the camo will go after the event. The Atago still has her (silly) camo to this day. Heck, the camo is the coolest thing about her, it reminds some of the crazy WWI schemes, but I just can't drop 30 bucks in a Minekaze gunboat.

Now that you make me think about it... First battle ever in the Konigs... Score two hits on a Myoko... The Myoko sees me... 1 shell hits me... BOOM This doesn't make for a good first impression, even knowing that those ships had paper armor.

Back on topic, I purchased the Karlsruhe because I has enough XP and credits to spend, and because I was curious about her. Kept asking myself: "Is it possible that she's a POS to the extent the others say?" Boys, how right you are! The VERY FIRST shot to hit her crits her engine. I manage to dispatch a cripple then I'm sunk by a Kolberg. If I hadn't been warned by you, I would have sold her immediately. On the plus side, the damage against unarmored targets is fair, and she's a beautiful ship. I may keep playing the occasional coop battle just to snatch the daily 1,5x but I'm never venturing into a Random with that tramp.

Troll Please don't waste time answering to that BS.

Hear, hear! The first battles with the Gnevny have been mere frustration. Now that she's got the B hull and FC module she's a different ship, but still I find it a strange and totally un-DD-ly playstyle. Have not been able to go for a true torpedo run so far. Anyway, I like accurate long range firing and I'm having fun most of times. Advice: the turret rotation module and the according captain skill are paramount. BTW, what's that silly torpedo upgrade? More than 3000 exp and a stack of cash for a 1 kt (yes, one knot) speed buff?

I love the Karlsruhe. It's a very juicy target for the guns of my Murmansk. I love her big, fat, unprotected side which just seems to call for my gunfire. Love her slow V° guns which let me have tea time before I may consider an evasive action. Seriously, the experience I had so far in gunning them down with ease, and your comments here, really deterred me from going farther than Kolberg until that thing is fixed. Too bad as in RL she was a fine ship indeed.

I couldn't stand it no more. I sold that trash bin called Izslav or Ivan or lol and free-exp the Gnevny halfway through the grind. First time I've done this since the days when I was feasting on torps in the South Carolina. The Iszlaszx isn't a truly horrible ship, her torps are quite fine for instance, but 2 victories out of 9 battles was too much to keep on suffering.

Had a game when a Kolberg managed to evade something like 20 torps fired from 2 km, pounding the crap out of me in the meantime. Nah, it's not that great ship. More enjoyable than Izslav or Ivan or I dunno lol (the tier IV garbage truck) but still not a ship I was happy to have in my fleet.

I concur. Very, very poor manueverability, very poor concealement, it's a CL without the benefit of armor. She's the worst of the line so far but I'm not utterly disgusted with her, just having a hard time in adapting to her un-DD playstyle.

I add my wish to see the Spica being offered either as regular T II - III ship or as premium. Low detectability and the best 100 mm guns around, can't wait for her.

Getting out of the first three tiers has been tough. Every battle was filled with German uberkreuzers who tore me to pieces every time I dared to open fire. Now I'm at T IV and I feel like I'm in a CL but without armor. That thing turns like a garbage truck and only Tachibana is slower. I do admit that it's great for killing other destroyers, tough.

Yet when in Fuso I feel really powerless against a decently skipped NM. My shells just keep dishing 1k, 3k , 1k, 2k, 1k, 1k damage each new salvo. Meanwhile, each of his salvoes, even if striking me from extreme angles, deals no less than 5k damage, not to talk about what happens if he manages to ambush me and fire a volley on my side. I don't know, I like both but I just feel safer and in control when skipping the NM and I never really suffered for the lack of speed. It's like the battlecruisers vs. battleships issue, most of the times I just use my Fuso extra speed to run rather than to fight.

This evening I managed to one-shot a Special K. With Kongo, AP rounds, around 15 km. - Giggle -

I guess that from some point onward each new nation tree will forcibly have to be some sort of repeat of the previous schemes, as the developers don't have 10k factors to work with. A limited rebalance will be possible but nothing completely changing the game. Soon we'll have Russian DDs with monster artillery but poor torps and AA; that would leave room for British DDs with slightly inferior artillery and marginally better torps.

Hatsuharu is made of timber taken from the wreck of the Mary Rose, you sneeze at it and it disintegrates. She needs a serious durability buff.​​

From the receiving end I can tell she's worrisome. She fires shells with a monstruous V° and it's very hard to avoid her salvos. The fragility is subjective, I can't recall to have critted one so far and I surely didn't manage to sink one. I have the impression that she's fully able to compete with my Murmansk, if not slightly superior, but perhaps it's just because every time I meet one she's skipped by skilled players

Shells overpenetrating might well be the same thing that I called dud shells - striking but dealing only 1k damage. We all agree that her AP shells need some kind of buff. Her armor is below standard, at 305 mm it could be penetrated by any 356 mm gun, let alone the 406s. That is in line with the real ship but at T VII it's just not enough, I feel like fighting in underwear on a medieval battlefield. One of Hiraga's projects like the Kongo replacement should have been a better fit for the tier, but Nagato is an icon of the IJN and couldn't be skipped.