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I don't really like the Lion because in my experience her dispersion is even more trollish than on German BBs. Never had any problems with her survivability tho. Proper DCP management, topkek heal and practical invulnerability to citadels allows her to absorb hilarious levels of punishment.

I play CVs. If the match turns against me I usually can still carry it to a victory because the enemy team is too stupid to counter CVs. If the game turns in my favor I like to leave certain allies without air cover to make the enemy CV kill them, thus prolonging the match and my farming time. Can be great fun to tell overextended teammates that you've intentionally let them die. Likewise it's fun to crush the hopes of anyone who places faith in the rework by telling them I have over twice my CV average damage in testing.

Asashio is one of the slowest DDs around. It cannot even outrun torps without TA. Unless you up your drop hilariously she is guaranteed to die under air attack even from T6 CVs. One of these days you will realize that a total of 15 battles played is completely irrelevant statistically because it doesn't represent a sufficient sample. You don't even do enough damage in your Massachusetts do sink a Moskva.

On the other hand being practically immune to fires and flooding (even better than Hindenburg with legendary module + all skills) is hilarious, too. I think in test 2 fires lasted about 2 seconds on CVs, if not less.

Can't say I can share the same experience. Any mods installed? Any connection or performance issues in other games? If not it could be a problem with rendering time, but since you're getting solid performance I believe that to be doubtful. Try to use the option "Check and Repair" in the WG Game Center under the settings tab. If that doesn't work and the issue persists I'd perform a clean reinstall of the game.

Technically speaking reworked CVs in fact don't fit anymore even if you program the AI to use them because 1. Making the AI only halfway or not at all capable of dodging AA means enemy CVs are just free farming material even for lone ships. 2. Making the AI competent at dodging AA means players will eventually get overwhelmed by infinite reserves without counterplay options UNLESS there is a friendly CV capable of sniping the enemy CV immediately. At least I can't see anything else happening.

Are you implying that there actually are people around willing to carry this guy? I mean, I certainly wouldn't want to start out every match with such a severe handicap.

I cri evrytim.

Is standard issue glorious stalinium shell comrade. Given to every nation as super sekrit gimmick.

Actually it's not. MrConway confirmed as much at the beginning of this year replying to @wilkatis_LV.

Cute, they nerfed Midway DBs by ~4k alpha strike. That means they "only" have about the same damage potential as a T8+ USN HE DB squad in the current iteration. Per wing. And everyone who has been on the receiving end of those knows they HURT. A lot. Step aside, Conqueror. There is a new HE Queen in town.

Nerfing premiums? Comrade, do you want to be sent to gulag? Shut up before the commissar hears you!

So... How is this thread not locked already?

I have no words.

This is funny because 3 years ago BBs were far behind cruisers in battles played because cruisers were the braindead class of the game (higher fire chance, fire dealt more damage, HE always penetrated regardless of armor). Then WG nerfed the out of cruisers and made BBs braindead. And BBs have remained the most braindead, thus most popular class of the game. Another example? CVs used to be reasonably popular (you saw CVs in matches more often than not) back then until WG hit them with the nerfhammer for 2 consecutive years, making sure that only the best of the best can succeed. Thus you can be more than assured that if you nerf BBs to the ground that it'll ultimately affect player numbers regardless of their historical (in-)significance.

Generally speaking AA in the rework works like this in my experience: Long range AA: Shoots completely random puffs in your general direction. Often won't even be on the same altitude. A fireworks show rather than an effective means of defense. Mid range AA: Throws a wall of puffs directly into your path at certain intervals. Can be fairly easily dodged with WASD and some basic timing/prediction skills. Short range AA: Inflicts DoT. Won't do jack if your planes haven't been damaged previously. Long and mid range AA will also stop shooting when short range AA engages. At least that was my experience in both test 1 and 2. I went entire matches without losing a single plane in my Midway while completely demolishing Worcesters and the like. Also note that the Japanese 25mm guns counted as mid range AA in test 2, meaning high tier IJN ships literally don't have short range AA mounts. Basically the role of an AA ship will be dead if WG keeps this up, thus there is no reason to introduce new ones.

Have you not been playing for a while or sth?

First of all Generally speaking yeah, what the others have said. Or in the words of Sun Tzu: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Also get some friends or join an active clan asap. The ability of the average player is abysmal, so solo experiences can be extremely.... lets say tedious unless you relish in such challenges. The game is a lot more fun when playing with others anyway.

This is an old bug that can happen to literally any ship. Encountered it the first time in CBT.

"Skill gap and low player numbers is problem Ivan. We need to fix!" "I know comrade! We no give entry CVs TBs so they cannot learn how to play AND turn off as many new players as possible!" "Ivan you are genius!"

The only valid reason they're giving in my eyes is making MM faster for CV players, but that means they're actually not expecting a lot of new players and have thus failed the goal of the rework, no? You could also argue that progression will be worse as I've already outlined and CV counters quite frankly do not change from tier to tier (bunch up with teammates) so that's a moot point.

Well, one thing to be happy about: Note Yorktown on the preliminary final USN tree.