Tyrendian89

it used to be - but never on the Yorck. It's more or less your only semi-decent ammo type considering how crap its AP ballistics are at anything above knife-fighting ranges. And Hipper C hull and onwards have more than adequate HE - not going to equal IJN in that department, but combined with their superb fire rate for 8"ers, it's plenty good enough.

learn your game mechanics first. Benson and up can stealthfire from 9.something km with Concealment Expert, and even without it it's more than possible.

thank you indeed

sonar and radar. not the same thing. And yes we have known for a few days.

Do these count? Nice coincidental timing that both happened on the same day lol

that got axed

For sheer lack of alternatives if nothing else, heck yes we are interested!

which, for Soviet Gunboats, might or might not be the way to go since you tend to be spotted while firing anyway without giving much of a care...

Silly Shots, Scared Citless AND Hunt for Flamu united? Oh boy that's going to be quite the challenge next season! Looking forward to it!

1) deal with it, get better, buy premium 2) The guy was behind an island. You said it yourself. You've got a Shima - maaaaybe it's time to actually learn the spotting mechanics?

one of the best and most devastating ways of division teamplay, but also potentially pretty difficult to pull off right, is smoking up your mates. Works best with a USN DD because they have superior smoke stats. Then, what you do is have the non-DDs (often Battleships, but works wonders with cruisers too!) move into a position that is ideally semi-safe from enemy torpedoes but provides good fields of fire and has plenty of targets in range, the DD drops his smoke could on them - and voila, craptons of free damage for the other guys to farm. Bonus points for having multiple ships chain smokes, absolutely hilarious with Kutuzovs or recently Flints. Hydroacoustic Search or some other form of spotting torps in advance strongly advised. A variation of that, and probably the class than can do pure divisions the best, is having multiple DDs work together at a cap. Designate one of them as the spotter, when you run into enemies that guy ideally stays silent or at least focuses on dodging as best he can, while the other DD(s) smoke up and annihilate the opposition.

bah reality... just let him complain, he's gotten so used to that by now... And yeah Bismarck will be virtually immune to torps while Hydro is up; I almost never get torped in my Tirpitz as is because she maneuvers so well... Not going to be much help to the Currywurst probably though considering how massive that thing is; the torpedoes more or less can't help hitting that... but, let's wait and see what we get upon actual release, since this massive change proves better than anything WG is still very much testing out the German BBs.

I seriously hope not, because as it stands I actually kinda like the tradeoff between the two: Torpedoes versus Hydro and (even) better Secondaries, plus assorted soft stats that I can't remember right now. Looks like a pretty decent way to balance the two to me, which was kinda a worry: How to make Bismarck at least kinda comparable to the Premium?

so, it goes from a skill that was useless in 97% of all cases to being useless in 98% of all cases (the one exception being Ranger/Hiryu facing Saipan)? woooow big deal.

neat not going to be a saving grace for the Currywurst on its own, but neat

all of this could be taken to its own thread, since it's losing more and more relevance to the actual news... just sayin'...

BFT =/= AFT by the way

wrong. That is true for manual secondaries, but not for AA. That will still fire, it just won't get the bonus.

ran into good ol' Raskeria driving a Friedrich der Große earlier. Friendly banter was exchanged (like him saying "please don't burn me" to which my Trashcan and my divisionmate in his Kutuzov just laughed). Battle starts, first spots are made - and look who's beaching riiiight in front of two thirds of our team in a really really open spot. Burninating ensued, he ended up being first casualty - but still came solidly in the top half of his team.

don't worry about it - it's an obvious thing to notice at first glance just doesn't really make a difference in this case, so it's not really needed

which impacts each ship the same, and is not mutually (soft) exclusive with anything else relevant, so it's superfluous in this context

actually, max dispersion is tied to nation/line (they all have one consistent equation each). Sigma is tied to I think gun (as in, may change with upgrades), but may be ship.

I'm also not saying the general contention that she loses turrets a lot is wrong (or right) - I simply don't have any data to make such a claim. I'm saying that picture is pure bs and staged scaremongering, and I do have data to make such a claim (as laid out in my post).

well, if the burns get too much for poor gr0pah we are still on Ships so he can always just jump overboard... oh wait that sounded meaner than intended

that pic is pure, pathetic scaremongering tbh... notice how this is a training room, which means the "opponent" was aiming specifically at the turrets of a stationary target at minimal ranges, and the turets are TURNED AWAY FROM HIM exposing their much much weaker rear armour? Now do that exact scenario with the other two T10 BBs as well, in more realistic circumstances, twenty times to at least give a minimal sample size, and also actually record how many hits it took, and THEN that will have any minimal relevance whatsoever