Hontaro

Yes I'm aware, it's just that it doesn't say so in the tooltip :p Total waiting time turned out to be 17 minutes

Can you forsake AA on the Hindenburg for higher range/accuracy in to be able to stealth fire or is it not worth?

I think you can still use manual target, but when you get the perk, AA will be deactivated until you manual target, but in exchange, manual target will be stronger.

I'm currently sitting at the Nürnberg and got a few questions regarding T6 and upwards, because of the nature of these questions, it would be great if you could answer them on an individual tier basis. Which shells should I use? What's the range where I can reliably citadel fellow same tier cruisers? How are the firing angles? At which range is it plunging fire? How hard is it to citadel those ships?

Sorry, I might have worded it badly. What I meant with the last question was: How easy/hard is it to citadel German T6-10 Cruisers when they are angled/showing broadside? about HE vs well-angled ships: Does this apply to ships 12km away as well (since angling doesn't affect plunging fire afaik)? Anyways thanks for the replay, I'll watch it tomorrow since it's pretty late now.

You said that you should use the 4/2/2 loadout on the Hakuryu. is the 2/3/3 loadout still viable (i.e. have its own merits) though or is it completely inferior to the Fighter loadout/not viable due to opposing Midways/Hakuryus at all? How would you go against clustered groups (assuming there are only clustered groups around, no solo ships)? Would you wait for them to split up or sacrifice some of your planes to bait AA barrage/attack?

A couple of friends (more than just 2) started playing WoWS and I want to play with all of them. Is there something like a free match mode? I roughly remember something like that, but I can't find it ingame so I don't know if it still exists or if it ever existed and I'm hallucinating.