Ocsimano18

Bourgogne is the best pick, except if you only play DDs (pick Ragnar) or CVs (pick FdR).

Kearsarge is the most unique.

On the internet? It’s hard to see if you were joiking or serious.

Is it forbidden to change your opinion?

Missions give you worse ships than the ones you can get here. I mean, why optimize your ship choice to be able to grind less fun ships, instead of picking the most fun ship?

Salem is good, if you have tons of ships. I wouldn’t pick a similar ship to what I have, if I were in the OP’s shoes. Torps are a deterrent, but you’re right that they are not used in every matches, and the German BCs might ge a better choice.

I don’t think so. Marceau has no smoke, but has a very high speed. You can dodge much more than in other DDs. The AA is neither strong, nor weak, but you can dodge plane attacks most of the time. It’s like a mini cruiser. Also the AP is good at closer ranges, you can surprise broadsiding cruisers.

Marceau is a very good DD hunter, just do not overextend. Kearsarge has high skill floor, might not be the safest pick for you.

Pommern has torps. It allows you to experience the Tirpitz playstyle for coal.

Marceau is a French DD, high speed, highest DPM, but floaty shells. The torpedos are slow, but good for yoloing BBs. The high speed cruising makes it super fun to play. Kearsarge is a bit hard to play, not like the usual BBs, as you cannot tank when getting close. The guns needs to get used to them but can hit hard. I’d recommend the ship if you want a unique playstyle.

Kearsarge let’s you try the hybrid BB ganeplay in a solid platform. Marceau is super fun and strong. Salem is redundant if you have the Des Moines. Moskva is boring and a bit meh, especially without the legendary module. Marco Polo is ok-ish, but not strong enough. Yoshino is kind of fun, but has not much effect on the win/lose outcome. Pommern is fun in brawling situations, but that’s hard to get in random gameplay.

Had my daily Zieten battle. Citadelled a Stalingrad, she started to run away in sheer panic. I take away the rest of her HP with secondary and main battery combo. Also melted the high DPM super heal Salem with my secondaries.Ho-ho-whoo-hoo.

I’ve encountered the Sevastopol two times. It finished in the middle of the score board, in this two matches. Doesn’t seem to. be OP so far.

MB? What does that mean?

Does it still worth getting Napoli with Schlieffen around? First, you get a better secondary experience with the Schlieffen, and second, Schlieffens outcompete you and occupy close range combar areas, so you’ll have even less chance to use your secondaries. Yout thoughts?

I also like the flexibility in playstyle. With the reload or smoke option and the possibility to put any commander on the ship, you can have at least two different playstyles with the same ship, and both of them are interesting/fun.

Tirpitz’s secondaries have been neutered. Zieten’s are better than what Tirpitz ever had. She’s a slot machine, but with 22 sec reload. I hated it first, but got used to it. From a couple of salvos you will get a few citadels. They are completely random, but you have a lot of tries, and it works.

A bit late to the party, I’m grinding Alsace and Mogador and they are a joy to play.

I wanted to write why did you only get 2k base for such a stellar performance. Then I see that it was a loss. OMG…

This is not ok. 60 mega crates costs 56250 doubloons. From that budget you can buy the following ships with the three 25%, and the 20%, 15% and 10% coupons given out. 1. Cossack 9900 with 10% = 8910 2. Atago 11000 with 15% = 9350 3. Mainz 11300 with 20% = 9040 4. Congress 11300 with 25% = 8475 5. Borodino 12800 with 25% = 9600 6. Chkalov 12300 with 25% = 9225 Total = 54600 And then you have a bunch of good ships, instead of a random mess.

Streamer Krado opens 60 more mega Satan boxes: Only one ship above T8: The Indomitable.

I have freeXP-ed the stock modules to get better rudder and range, and replaced the main gun dispersion module with the secondary one. The dispersion module did not have much effect, as it’s the sigma which makes the slot machine. The ship started to behave, I nearly had two krackens, but we won on points while I was shooting the last ship. Also, I was able to push into three ships (Colorado, Zietem, Amalfi) and killed all three, with some team support. Secondaries are great again.

Counting value like that is misleading. You can get Lazo for free, and you can get Weimar and Ise with a 25% discount. Also, you can get 360 days of premium time for 12000 doubloons, so 180 days worth 6000. Also there is the personal value. Will you play these ships that much, or will you rather play your T9s and T10s, while grinding new lines? Port queens do not worth the money. Also, if you already had like 400+ days of premium time, then 180 additional days is kind of useless.

Because they are both in the secondary niche, one is a battle cruisers, the other is a heavy cruiser. That's close enough for me to compare. Also see my original post. Not being in a BB slot is just one argument, but there are many others.

There is a reason we call them like that. People buy them to get good ships but they only get crap. It encourages whaling/gambling, i.e. wasting your money. It’s a ripoff based on information advantage. Average buyers cannot judge randomness, they expect much more than that they are getting, most of the time.