ColonelPete

they are not the same and I prefer the cruisers to be balanced than rely on a questionable gimmick

Please consider removing the Airstrike consumable from Dutch cruiser and reserve it for a CV rework. You can give Dutch cruisers something else, like shorter reload or more range.

And still there is a skill filter in ranked. MM waiting time is a numbers game. It is known how skill is distributed among the playerbase. Certain levels of skill just lack the numbers.

When you can damage a ship, you can sink it. There is no difference between critical and non-critical damage in this game. And when your BB gets sunk by a single cruiser, you are doing it wrong. Next time you play a CL or CA, look for an isolated full health BB and try to take it on alone. People get sunk by numbers, that is why they complain about getting HE spammed. That is EXACTLY what you are proposing. And that is EXACTLY the reason these players get told to pay attention to their positioning. When you get focussed by 4+ ships, what do you expect to happen? And positioning does matter. You were complaining getting sunk by SIX!! ships when parking next to an island. The only way that could be prevented is when you are invulnerable to enemy fire. Pay attention about what you are complaining. let it burn, you repair it later, there is no luck involved that must be the reason Shima is feared for her guns, because HE and fires are too strong, that must also be the reason that all CL do more damage than BB we were talking about fires, reality is a bit different than the game, unless you want all causes for fire to be implemented in the game and all these ships would have sunk anyway when the Iowa turret blew up the 80s, it took the whole crew 90 minutes to extinguish the fire in one turret, without fire control the ship would have probably blown up as the walls of the magazine below the turret started to glow Parking your ship gets you hit more. It is your responsibilty to take advantage of the cover that is on the map. A lot of that cover is close to caps, no need to stay at range. Just learn how to position yourself. And funny that you complain about lack of cover, forcing you to stay back, while other BB player demand the Ocean map more often for a more dynamic game play...

So you want a ship class being unable to damage another ship class?

Then you know that skill based MM will not solve that problem and just increase the waiting time.

So schlimm kann das MM wohl nicht sein, sonst hätter er nicht über 8000 Gefechte.

Does not help when they get shot to pieces. It only helps them to not get shot at in the first place. in this game you cannot get sunk solely by fire either thank you for noticing that this game is a simplification of reality and that AP shells do not cause fires in the game, do you want to change that? Bretagnes ammunition was burning, thank you for confirming that, history has shown that flooding magazines does not always happen in time do you think Bismarck would have stayed afloat if she were not finished off? HMS Indefatigable exploded 3 minutes AFTER being hit by shells, if there was nothing burning, there would not have been an explosion BB can tank HE shells just fine, as I explained. Try the same with a CA or better a CL or a DD. Good luck And yes, when you park near an island, HE will get you quickly. Lesson: do not park your ship in this game, when you do not want to get sunk. And still, a ship like Vladivostok can tank Akizuki shells quite a long time bow on, thanks to her plating. And it is a bit funny that you expect ships to be invulnerable, when they park bow on to the enemy. Would you like to play a game like that? Many players in this game do not know what their ships can do. They often even miss what is happening on their screen. That is normal with this playerbase and no contradiction.

So funktioniert die deutsche Sprache. Wenn Du einen anderen Bezug herstellen willst, muss Du Deinen Satz anders formulieren. Ich beschreibe nur was Du machst.

There are enough options in the game. I personally do not even use Fire Prevention, because I do not need it. Many who complain about fire do not even use all options to mitigate the damage. there are enough options, most do not use them all when you push in from the start and get sunk, you are doing it wrong Ocean is a campfest, because nobody wants to do a mistake, because on Ocean mistakes send you to port

In the game fires do not cause detonations. That makes fires even less dangerous in the game.

AP damage was the biggest source of damage to BB in the game in the past. I doubt that changed much.

You were talking about numbers of matches. That is an absolute term. They could. WG would need to implement more BB and DD lines before bringing a new cruiser line. I am quite confident that would lower the cruisers numbers further.

HE and fire is not really a problem. And when you cannot find the word "fireproof", then I cannot help you. Battleships burn longer, therefore most get their fires under control, explode as the result of fire or get torped to get sunk quicker. Bretagne exploded after fires reached her ammunition Bismarck was aflame from stern to bow and finished off by demolition charges/torpedos HMS Indefatigable exploded after fires reached her ammunition

BB are popular because they are big and better known. The problem is that people play them, who do know how. Their only solution for staying alive is camping in the back. Then take a look at the guy I was answering to.

The difference is not so big, depending on the distance. BB do not have the job as spotters, but they are great at area control, because of their firepower. Fire damage is not unlimited. It is limited by the HP of the ship. And no, Battleships were never fireproof.

The numbers are already slightly increasing and their will go up significantly with the Dutch Cruisers.

The commander rework was 21.

That depends on the player. There are many that have their highest winrating in BB.

I wonder how some people manage over 60% WR then, solo. positioning reduces focus fire no class is better in tanking HE than BB long range ships have a hard time hitting stuff, unless you are stationary that is what BB are for and still BB are best at that brawling is not necessary, but BB are still good at it

As if BB players would stop camping in matches without CV...

It is not uncommon to test ships in random. I do it all the time. But most people do not need hundreds of battles for it....

the duration is now 10 months despite the addition of battleships with more than 430mm guns, we had one of the highest ratio of cruisers of the last three years in March 2020 battle numbers fluctuate strongly as ranked, clan and special temporary events are not counted and the player numbers are very dependent on season (Christmas Event) in absolute numbers, we had roughly the same amount of cruiser matches last week as in the middle of February 2020 and the absolute numbers of cruiser matches are increasing for 10 weeks in a row now

I posted the list in this thread.

These events were one after another. That is not short term. And your hypothesis is not supported by the lack of new BB with large caliber. If they were the deciding factor, we would have a stable cruiser population. And cruiser populations would never grow, which they did and which they will do again in the future.