Tyrendian89

holy cow the guns on the Grand Old Lady are all kinds of amazing... the accuracy is just plain legendary... feels like it makes most cruisers jealous, especially the Soviet ones that don't hit sheet for me

no data to back that up, but my experience tells me drastically otherwise - Yamato for example accelerates incredibly slowly (it feels like), which makes sense given her massive displacement

heck yes it's OP, I was really heartbroken that we can't earn normal flags in the bathtub!

...except they are cheaper, some massively so. The T8s get around 30% discount on repairs, the T7s somewhere between 20% and 40% (Blyska), and lower than that it doesn't matter because the repair costs are minuscule anyway. Get your facts straight, then complain. /thread.

mh for me that is a strong point in favour of Vigilance actually - I don't bother with it on my Yamato for example because if it's me that's spotting the torps I'm probably gonna get hit because Yamato does. not. turn. Warspite meanwhile is quite the nimble dancer as far as battleships go (also seems to slow and speed up pretty quickly or is that just me?)

too bad you can't earn normal flags in the Bathtub... note the damage taken! POKEBOAT OP CONFIRMED!

btw, anyone notice what is visible in the artwork for the new bordersurf fix? Oh Great A'Tuin we salute thee!

amazing mode, well done WG! The only not-perfect thing about it is how quickly it loads - which means the 1 minute warmup that is very much needed in a normal match pretty much goes to waste here

Kopf is uberrated! Vorwarts Marsch! Hail Mary! nowait

yeah that I don't like either... don't really see a reason why it should be that way either, would be plenty powerful enough without that additional "feature" eliminating a further chance for crafty DDs to counteract it by staying in the right spots (i.e. near cover) when possible.

it's really not a difficult thing to do, but if you really need the help Aslain's modpack is where you get it.

except if there's a half decent captain in the DD, which will usually spot any radar carrying ship as soon as he's in radar range at the latest (which is the worst case for a fully stealth specced USN cruiser) and be able to maneuver accordingly - not least just gtfo-ing out of radar range as soon as it's popped. The exception being said cruiser hiding from your entire fleet (only works if no planes around) behind an island, but that's the kind of crafty play that even the DD mafia might have a slight chance to appreciate and see rewarded. Again, rewarded only if the DD is too stupid to dodge.

yeah... Bogatyr is definitely the wrong ship to practice citadels with. I would say I'm pretty good at the game, and I completely gave up on her AP after a few tries because I realized just how bad it is. Omaha on the other hand is one of the better ships to learn that - lightly armoured oponents, solid rate of fire and solid AP ammo.

which makes just about absolutely no difference (-7% of your 15% fire chance is one percent fire chance that you lose. big deal.) and is probably the single worst skill in the entire tree.

well yes average damage does go up with tiers obviously, since ships have more HP to begin with, and BBs and CVs tend to lead the field in terms of average damage. But there's one thing that also helps with doing damage: actually being alive to shoot things. Which is what you seem to be quite bad at. So you might want to look at your maneuvering more than anything else, both in terms of angling and general positioning.

you probably drifted out of it (happens all the time when trying to stop a full-speed Kutuzov, that's something one really has to learn with her), which is why they could shoot you - and smoke doesn't render at short ranges, which is why you couldnt see it

wasn't necessarily meant as a primary counter DD tool (as I said it's not supposed to help with the actual killing), but it does help a ton with hunting them. As in, both knowing where to hunt for the enemy (which also helps the rest of the fleet a ton with knowing where torps are likely to come from and maneuvering accordingly) and how safe that particular hunting spot would be (is there an Atlanta/Khabarovsk waiting for me behind that rock?).

random thought that just popped into my head when reading this: What if (and it's no more than that!) there was some kind of "Radar Ping" ability (whoever would get it, maybe one of the gunboat DD lines) that took the Russian version to the extreme, as in 5 sec duration but accordingly shorter cooldown (minute or two, and probably at least five charges or something)? Wouldn't help much with killing anything straight up except when pre aimed at a smoke cloud with the occupant on very low health, but would be a very valuable scouting tool...

yeah you go right ahead and keep doing that, getting crap results, while the BBs that actually know what they're doing get the rewards for it...

thing is, do these DBs get the 1000lbs bombs? can't remember if anything was said already about that. If they don't, that fighter Saipain might be good at killing planes, but worthless at doing any kind of damage at all to ships - that's waaaay worse than even Fighter Ranger (which could at least space out its DBs to burn the enemy, which Saipan can't), and with very low reserves as well. If she does get 1000lbs bombs that will hurt decently, but still lacks the fire potential of Fighter Ranger - so meh.

Svietlana can into Kraken apparently... Still don't like her much, but that particular battle (top tier obviously) was pretty decent...

heck, if we get commentary of the same quality he delivers here on the forums I'd watch him, and Skybuck too

you'd be surprised how many DDs are too stupid to realize that... they might just see that there's a cruiser there and go somewhere else

seconded

for me that was caused by the Smoke Boundaries mod, if you're running that you might want to uninstall it.