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Great post! Also as I think many has already said, Smokescreens are torpedo magnets (even Jingles gets that right......). Every time I pop my smoke to farm some damage in Kitakaze or Harugumo I pray to the Viking gods there wont be any torps coming for me this day, because then you are almost always screwed. So why invest in something that you never will get use out of? Also with TRB it gives the same worry and problems to the enemy flank that Asashio and Benham presents, you NEVER know when its safe to push or turn around. If you face a enemy Shima for example, you know that when you dodge 3 sets of 5 torps you have about 1 1/2 to 2 min where you are safe to maneuver or turn around before he can launch again. But facing a TRB Yugumo, Asashio or a Benham that "safety" goes right out the window since you will never know when the next torps will be coming, you will never know when his RB will be up or on cool down and That effect on a enemy flank is pretty strong. Always use RPF on torp Boats to Control the engagements with other enemy dds and turn of AA and evade if a CV is trying to go for you and just fall back until he gets bored of you dodging his delayed rockets or slow torps.

Please listen to Flamu when he does his first positive video for a very long time. I think I as many other players love the new UI features seen in his video but just as he says, they should really be seen at all times when they have activated so you can just hover the mouse over them when ever you like to see the changes in the special bonuses. It will not be as good to have to bring up a whole thing covering the entire battle to look at them, that could maybe be an alternative if someone need even more details, but more direct bonuses should be seen in the battle over the reload items. If you don't understand what I'm talking about look at the video from here....

Got over 100s of ships but in this current state of the game and the Meta I would only play a very few overpowered and/or broken ships. Ships like Thunderer, Conqueror, Smolensk, Asashio and Halland. Playing any other would just be pure misery. Never ever play T 5-7 anymore because of 2 CVs per side and nonexistent AA. Pretty sad for the game, but this is what WG wants apparently.

How did WG manage to [edited]up this open and shut Win by not making this convoy mode like something like the movie Greyhound with Wolfpack submarines fighting convoy guarding DDs? Specially since WG is just now fully engaged in cramming said Submarines down our throats in the live game. And there is nowhere to be seen in a mode pretty much dedicated to the class?! It need special kind of incompetence to miss an opportunity like this! Specially with a cool submarine Vs. Destroyer movie fresh in every players memory. Also why do attackers see exactly where the convoy starts and where it wants to go? Can't be much fun to play on the protecting side. A DD just need to smoke up the attacking team and spam torps while the rest of attackers just focus the 4 low HP/easy till kill freight ships?

Also Somers

Brought out the Smolensk to knock of a "super" container. 2 500 000 tanked in a light cruiser....... and of course ..... and of course ......

So im just wondering what range they will give the new Smolensk line? Is this the implementation of long range Smolensk back into the game? And torpedo reload booster? So the T10 Jinan has 4 racks of 5 DW torps on a booster? So every other minute it spews out 40 DW torps......... Okeeeeey. Seems legit. Powerful AA. BB players will also enjoy Russian CVs and soon subs. GG!

Thats a very kind picture of the situation. Usually in games I played it is more like 12-0. What I have seen as a DD Main it usually starts by one team loosing all their DDs in first 2-3 min and after that its just a snowball effect where the entire team just collapses after that. The reasons I see why DDs die so fast is that there are so many things design to kill the class and also cap zones where the game pretty much tells/forces the DDs to push in at start and suicide meanwhile telling the rest of the classes to sit and spam from the 10 line. So if one team decides to send 2 cruisers like Mino, Venezia, Smolensk etc to help their DDs and the enemy team doesn't its almost like a guaranteed win. DDs are one of the most important class in the game and it gets less chance for survival then any other class. When I play Im usually then only DD alive on my team after 7-9 min every game I play. A DD alive in the endgame is almost a guarantee win. Another reason is the game design which makes the skill level at T10 insanely low, this is very clear in the DD class since one mistake in that class usually means going to port. In the rest of the classes you can usually survive even 2-3 big mistakes with he HP, armor and heals. Also the fact that many players can pretty much buy themselves into T10 without ever learning the game.

Musashi I kind of understand since it falls into the OP/banned section being a T10 Yamato in T9 MM. But why they cant have other not so OP ships like Nelson etc for sale for cash or dublons I don't really understand in a sales standpoint. Guessing you will see more "not so OP/banned" ships in Premium store in the future when WG needs more money. But knowing them they will probably hide them behind gambling.

I would say that Mogador, Yugumo, Kitakaze is at least on par or in some cases even stronger then their bigger T10 sisters. Also often less CVs in T9 MM.

Im not gonna pay WG for making a working MM, that should be in the free game, and I have zero confidence they even could make that because then why not implement it? Pay for a CV free MM? Thats another story. But that will never happen because money loss for WeeGee.

I may have misunderstood but the way I do it is, I have my 21 point legendary captains on one echa great silvership that i play a lot then I move them around on all the other premiums I have of that nation but his training for the silvership always remains. Like this: Cunningham: Trained for Conqueror (silvership), and also used on Thunderer (OP on these 2), Nelson, Belfast, Cossack etc etc. Yamamoto: Trained for Kitakaze (silvership) and also used on Atago .... IJN Dragon captain Trained for Shimakaze, also used on Kamikaze R and Asashio (IJN Torp build) US Guy (?): Trained for Woostah, also used on Mass, Georgia, Somers...

Define "Fun"? With all the BS/OP/Broken crap WG introduces every other week, Russian CVs, Submarines, Kitakamis, more long range firespam and Dutch Airstrikes that goes thru islands I would say if you wanna have fun playing a BB in the future there is only one, Conqueror! Amazing Zombie heals that negates everything mentioned above and stupid Alpha/fire chans to spam 300 K damage games from 20+ km. You know ..... Play WGs Meta!

Just do like I did, be enormous lucky while playing your first game ever in ITA cruisers...... I havent really gotten a game like that since but I do well in Venezia. I play it similar to Henri or Hinden, stay on the flank and just hammer the enemy team with high alpha ZAP instead of fires. If a BB is stupid enough to show broadside you can chunk him real bad. At start I usually push 6-7 km behind the DDs towards the cap and when the enemy DD gets spotted you devastate them in one or two salvos. Im usually a DD main and there is nothing i fear more then a enemy Venezia. Decent fast reloading torps that you just spew out every minute and if you get to focused you put on your cloaking device and disappear. Free XPed T10 ITA BB Colombo as well after this and its like Potato says, you never get a overpen on a cruiser or BB! Here is PQs video that inspired me to Free XP to Venezia, think he is better to explain the playstyle.

This is correct.

NO! Unless someone in your family served on her or some other historical reason. Its a pretty crap ship to be honest and im one of those guys that got her way back in the day and even got a Missourigame featured on Jingles once. Dont look at her economical bonuses which isnt really viable anymore. I had the old bonus and I haven't even played her much. She sucks. Follow Flamus advice and rather put all flags on a overperforming ship like Petro or something like that or you will be disappointed. This new Missouri thing is just the latest of WGs BS moneygrab. If you want you can have my old Missouri, I never play her.

Haven't played it but going by videos of players that have and going by my own experience of the lower tiers they are underpowered and gimmicky. Seen one good damage video but even a broken clock ....and all that. Its a gimmick and nothing that threatens the Russian masterclass. Got to T7 for free in the pre-release but have no intention to grind the line. Its just going to get crap on by the other T10 like Henri, Hinden etc etc.

This! Im no game designer but since so many players are using many mods and some actually gets implemented into the game even tho it takes a long time, would it be hard for WG to just copy-paste the information from Modstation and Aslains into the Vanilla game and just make it checkbox options under the settings meny? Its not like they have to recreate the wheel here, just take the work someone else already done and copy it into their game? In my mind this is just a freebee with a good response from the community in these times.

I would also say Pommern due to the combination of armor, secondary's, hydro and torps. Hard to loose with that. Even won against suiciding DDs where i killed them with my torps while dodging theirs.

I wonder if its a total coincidence that the new Russian CVs are the only CVs in the game that is pretty much immune to the few great AA Ships in the game (Halland, Östergötland, Friesland .... Petropavlovsk) with their long drops? It must be ..... right...? I actually start to contemplate to become a Sub main if I ever return to this game again.... just to be untouched by the Cluuuusterfook that is the surface situation. Just sit there on the bottom playing a theme song while launching homing torps and getting citadels on every BB on the surface. Sometimes just being a douche and ping BBs to force them to waste a damage con (that was a great idea WG.....). Wonder if they will take away the limited DCPs on Russian BBs now?

I vote for LU Shima all the way. Have been DD main since 2015 and have both Somers and Gearing, never found any good success in either. Shima is Old School, its the constant threat, rest are just posers.

The Christmas gambling crates unfortunately tells us its better business for WeeeGe to entice gambling addicts into buying crates with almost zero drop chance then selling them for real money. They have a entire fleet of ships to entice addicts with instead of actually just sell them in Premium shop for a set amount of cash/doubloons. Ships like Benham, Belfast, Missouri, Musashi, JB, Smolensk etc etc. Some sane players will do as you say, maybe buy the first one and then give up but the silent majority that waste half their paycheck to get a Makarov way compensate for that.

Zao just went ......