Darth_Glorious

The whole upper belt of Montana has only 38 mm armour...

Bad news : you can only use tier 4-6 French and British DDs in this mission : That's mean the operation being restricted for Gallant, Anthony and Cyclone

Conqueror with 457 mm guns had too much strengths that some needs to go : The downsides are :

Who needs overmatch the bow when you can lolpen the whole deck ? British 457 mm Conqueror AP can't overmatch 32 mm bow, but it doesn't give a crap about Yamato and GK deck armour due to 60/67,5 ricochet angle and cruiser like accuracy. Yamato cannot does the same becaus it has only 45 ricochet angle so any shell hits the deck will be autobounced before the penetration check can take place.

This accuracy is the reason why they disabled the 457 mm guns :

457 mm guns needed fixes, those guns were retardly OP. See how the shell is grouping at 27 km + : 2 Conquerors shot each other :

Conqueror gun is much better gun than Yamato one. it can punish Yamatoes and GKs with ease. The AP shells have about 500 mm pen at 20 km so it make short work of angled Yamato due to superior ricochet angle. Its retarded accuracy (about the same level of Zao or Montana with -50% dispersion module) permits it lob multiple shell on the deck which deal heavy dmg to German high tier BBs with ease. GK doesn't fear Yamato, but GK will fear Conqueror and will be its XP pinata if they left Conqueror gun in this current state.

Yamato old heal still is inferior than Conqueror current one. You could only heal up to 21% hp per charge, compared to ~50% hp per charge for Conqueror.

Use Steven Stegal on it if you have him. Stay bow on all the time if you can because the ship has very low HP and very vulnerable due to slow turning rate.

The ship is an HE bait with small superstructure. Most of the time, you get 1 fire and fire damage dealt to you is minimal due to 38 mm deck which shattens even IFHE 150 mm and normal 203 mm HE shells. Moerover, you don't need to use dmg control party frequently like other ships. You can survive the battle even without super intendent and premium Dmg control party. With submerged citadel, the ship can be the most tanky at tier 5, very resistant to both AP and HE shells. its only weakness is versus torpedo attack. The AP shell work fine vs broadside targets. For others, just spam HE. AA is meh, can shoot down some planes but don't rely on them.

Even NC with floating shells has only an angle of fall of about 15 degrees...Other BBs have much smaller angle.

the shell can easily arm when they hit the deck of DD due to overmatch mechanism, there is no autobounce and at that angle, even 13, 16 mm deck armour can become 100mm effective armour to trigger the detonator

Blame the overmatch mechanism

The minefield is only shown on the minimap and you cannot clear the mines with guns

Got 5 stars after 3rd try with the Labyrith operation. Myogy bots in this map can muti-citadel you very easily so don't underestimate them Bots in this map will focus on the ship with least % of health, so if you are low HP, you need to stay out of their sight or their effective range. "Outrun the CV" objective is very easy to obtain, just need 1 fast ship to tick the zone before the Ranger reaches there. But it can be very hard if there are too many cowards in the team. The mission is not too hard, but if you want 5 stars, your team needs to make some sacrifice when needed. I got 5 star thank to a Bayern who sacrificed himself to block torpedo attacks from a Minekaze who managed to reach the convoy

Planes are easy to shot down. The hardest part of the mission is to hit those mini superfast strikecrafts while trying to avoid the mines which are extremely hard to detect without a sonar equipped ship.. RAF planes cover only near the northern island (England). In the other part of the map, you have to rely on your team AA to fight back planes. Torpedo boats attack in waves of 5. Their spawing rate accelerates in the later part of the mission.

They did with Jap and Soviet DDs....Remember Astrakhabad as Tashkent ? Bellerophon, has strong AA at tier 3 Bellerophon, Orion and Iron Duke have submerged citadel

They just want to test the same ship with different guns and tiers

Don't know if the torpedo boats can kite the players to the minefield =

Luffwaffe has 2 sets of planes with 10k planes : 1st set : (Dive Bombers waves) 2 x 6 fighters Me-109E (survivability 50, DPS 4,5, Speed 111 kt) 6 x 4 dive bombers Ju-87B (survivability 49, DPS 2, Bomd HE 3700 dmg, Speed 100/120 kt) 1 x 3 torpedo bombers He-111 P (survivability 68,75, DPS 2 , Torp 10500 dmg and 40 kt, Speed 95/120 kt) 2nd set : (Torpedo Bombers waves) 1 x 4 heavy fighters Me-110C (survivability 62,5, DPS 4, Speed 140 kt) 2 x 4 dive bombers Ju-87B 6 x 3 torpedo bombers He-111 P So if your AA DPS > 69, you can 1-shot any Luffwaffe plane... For example a Fubuki with AFT + BFT and AA module (67 DPS for 25 mm AA) can shot down 1 planes per second

I don't think that they are helpful vs plane

Unlike Nikolai, this one has submerged citadel and the 19 mm bow can be overmatched by 283 mm guns

In this game, AA is useless vs those boats....

French cruiser Cyclone is destroyed in this battle by torpedo boats, so i think that one of the objectives wil be protecting her.