Tyrendian89

the Yorck is still a pretty bad ship even after the buff - since, as your rightly say, that only corrected half of the issues that made it nigh-on worthless before. But I still can't see any "anti-German bias" from WG - most of the other ships in the tree are pretty darn strong, even if they require a bit more skill to use well than others. Especially the higher tiers - I'd take any of the Germans over their US counterparts any day of the week (or well any day where there's not lower-tier carrier in the game, as soon as you get equal or higher tier planes the vaunted US AA doesn't shoot down all that many planes either, and the Germans can do the disruption just as well...), and while the IJN ships might be slightly stronger overall due to epic HE, I just like the feel of the Germans better.

that's almost definitely going to make you a lot more money, yes. Especially it will help a lot when you're playing your "normal" ships too.

just on a sidenote, you might want to realize you're talking to one of the better IJN cruiser captains on the entire EU server (as in, almost top 100 Mogami captains, which is pretty much THE prime HE spammer in higher tiers), and something like four times your total number of battles. So he bloody well knows what he's talking about.

which, to be honest, is probably the point, and he's having success via you paying any attention to him at all...

this certainly helps on the way to Fubuki

ignore the animations - the actual damage is still being done since it's a totally automatic and static aura

I've found the installer to be rather wonky when it comes to download and especially install speed... why not just try it?

congrats to the CV captains for being absolute and utter idiots then?

that's been happening for ages, but extremely rarely (I've had it twice in almost 2000 games I think) - not related to the new patch.

I don't have one, but the ones I saw ingame did decently to very well - those shell arcs make it a terror for any DD to face, help lots against other cruisers, and the HE is plenty good enough against BBs to annoy them. And CVs just cry when they see one.

the Yorck had two issues that made it pretty damn bad before the patch: -Turret traverse worse than most Battleships (seriously, when it sat in my port, it had the absolute worst of all my ships, which included Amagi and Iowa...), which more or less eliminated the possibility of maneuvering while fighting, making it very hard to stay alive. This has largely been fixed; it's still pretty meh but far from a dealbreaker. -Very stupid shell arc on AP shells (almost on par with Cleveland Orbitals...), making it damn near impossible to hit, much less citadel, opposing cruisers at long range, which is what the german CA's are supposed to be good at. And then what's your alternative? Crummy german HE. yaaaaaay... not. Yorck's very good at erasing broadsiding enemy cruisers at shorter ranges, but then again, what isn't at T7... So while the recent patch made it's guns usable, they're still pretty bad compared to the competition (Myoko's guns are amazing despite the strange placement, and Pensa's at least got decent HE to complement her decent AP, which Yorck lacks). Survivability wise, it's also not good at all (stock less HP than a T3 StLou? rly?), AA is pretty laughable, and the torps are still the same you get on the KBerg. That's not to say they can't be useful in a pinch - they're amazing in the right situations! But unlike at T5, there's usually not a big chance that a Yorck will get close enough to a BB to use them because it'll just explode before it gets there. Overall, Yorck's now got a few areas that she's decent in, but still nothing where she could outshine her competition, while being (sometimes significantly) worse than them in others. Is she unplayable? No. But for me she's still the worst of the regular T7 CAs (Atlanta takes that particular cake overall, no contest... ).

my experience, long time ago as it was, was that AP did surprisingly good damage, both to cruisers and even battleships. Sure, you're not getting any citadels, ever, but just the normal penetration damage (at least for me) seemed to far exceed the rather crummy HE shells. Maybe just try it out and see what works best for you...

the spotter's hardly all that useful anyway for now; I know I never use it on anything that I could also get a catapult fighter on. Dispersion at those ranges tends to be too bad to land any serious hits anyway...

also, 20 minute timer and one side has more points also displays that message iirc

well, right choice of ammo and decent aim do help, but the main thing is actually being alive to continue dealing damage. As they say, the best offense is a good defense. And the two most important things for that are not running off alone, and proper engagement angles - as in, NEVER BROADSIDE ANYTHING no matter what you are and what they are for more than the minimum amount of time required to turn. And yes, that also counts for a battleship versus cruisers - first off, you're a much bigger target, and second, you'd be surprised at the amount of damage cruiser AP can do to battleships at shorter ranges (I'm talking about reliable 6-7k Cleveland salvoes on NewMexes with the short cooldown Cleve has - that way outstrips your average batteship DPS unless you hit multiple citadels).

watching some of the competent youtubers/streamers out there (like iChase) can help a lot, since they will often try to explain their thought processes when making a decision or comment on other people's replays. We can't give you any specific tips without knowing what you do. I'll just be blunt here, hoping you wont take this the wrong way: You do seem to do something very wrong (your average damage is so low with most ships it's downright impressive again...). If you're comfortable with that, maybe post a couple of your replays so we can help you better?

1) yes that might be kinda useful, but it's far from vital information since once you launched your torps you can't do anything about them... 2) what ghostbuster said, also - Aslain's... 3) no idea what you want here, but probably same answer as above 4) how about you first figure out what you want before telling us? 5) what?

google translate (I assume) fail, I've got no idea what you are trying to say

well, making CVs always be middle tier in a battle (except T10s obviously) would do the trick I suppose, but would also make things incredibly boring... so no better not implement that

similar figures for me, aproaching 2000 games and I can remember one troll division that were just drunk in T2 DDs (not exactly fun for the team but hey, that's drunk gaming for ya...), one solo jerkface, and one duo that I actually fell victim to. Other than that, well at lower tiers there's the occasional "YOU ALMOST TORPED ME SO I TORP YOU"/"you rammed/blocked me so here's some shells as a warning" kiddo, but that's more or less it. So yes, crappy when it happens to you, but not as widespread as the number of forum threads would make you believe sometimes. Better instruments to combat them (or, since we don't know how much WG does behind the scenes with their data access, just the illusion that we can do more about it to make us feel better when it happens) would be nice tho!

thing is, speaking from experience as the Battleship, against an AA specced North Carolina T6 planes tend to not even get close enough to do that with more than 1 torpedo... and even a Torpitz, which has the weakest AA of the three, will eat an Indy squadron that tries a standard aproach...

honestly, give it Mahan torps and it's pretty much fine... one less launcher (I really like the Mahan's torpedo setup!) and a bit less AA, but better RoF and range on the guns plus faster topspeed. Sounds fair to me. WG really should stop "forgetting" premium ships when they change things about a line (good for the Grem, bad for Sims)...

Not all that shabby a first ever Benson game (finally used the Holiday discount to upgrade from Mahan). Lost one turret to the very first (zero dmg) hit from a Mutsuki, got mad at the enemy as a result and ended on around 500hp.

bye

also note, she's German, which in theory means the best AP shells in the game. And that's true for Dresden and Kolberg. But Emden suddenly gets the absolute worst AP shells in the entire game with the one exception of the Tachibana's 76mm. WG logic at its finest...