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Ah well, I will try the 360 premium days offer. 15% Paypal bonus + 15% discount = approx. 25% total discount. Guess it's an okay deal.

Secondary build for close range can be done with Taiho and Hakuryu. Their guns have a muzzle velocity of 1000 m/s so they can hit fairly reliably. But you need to give up a lot of other assets of course. And if a high-tier DD gets this close to you you know you are screwed anyway. Maybe Graf Zeppelin will hit the servers next year as German premium CV. Since the real ship was planned to have heavy secondary armament, she may be worth boosting it.

I gave up on supercontainers. Got Nachi a few days ago. Coincidence?

See If nothing else, at least it is fun. War is horrible enough, and of course we should keep history in mind and learn from it, and honour those who gave their lives. All the more I like the casual and relaxed interaction with players while burning and sinking enemy ships. This is a game, not war. We play for fun, not for lands nor resources nor glory. Okay, maybe a bit of glory, but in a sportsmanlike manner. May the poi be with you

German HE ftw! Almost got my first double Witherer... too bad we lost.

What do you mean in particular? Iowa is a great ship, and the ship design itself is at least on par with Yamato. She just lacks caliber (to be neglected unless you face Yamato 1v1), and armor thickness (can be compensated for by angling). More importantly, Iowa has a way shorter minimum range as her B turret has a better superfiring angle than Yamato's, paired with faster turret traverse, giving her the edge in any close range engagement.

Thank you very much for the detailed review, and welcome to EU where we were able to get a "free" Katori during the Great Naval Battles event (not sure if this is something to brag about but hey, finally a point for EU)

Remember the promo vid in which Seagal is training in that remote temple high up in the mountains? Well, not there. Signal was strong enough to play WoWS properly. Maybe he was locked up in that freezer again on USS Missouri.

fixed that for you Sorry krazypenguin, that running gag is just too good. Or... is it even a joke? Tell me it is a joke

Her armor really surprised me. She is a fine ship, no doubt. Just not sure whether or not I would rate her over Iowa due to her sluggishness. Her rudder shift really is the one major downpoint I see. I use the reload mod and Steven Seagal to compensate the turret traverse. But I think of trying the dispersion mod some time. Cannot decide yet on which I need more.

The best Kongou <3

1) Actually, he did throw something better at you. It was not a statistic evaluation, it was a direct battle result with summary about what went wrong. There has been great advice in this thread on how to play a battleship's role to its full extent, how to contribute to the team, how to improve play, and how to actually achieve something in battle and eventually win. But you seem to be resistant to any kind of help. 2) None of us uses aimbots, I am certain none of the Forumites even want to. I don't comment on the rest of your post for those points have been dealt with enough on the last 2-3 pages of this thread.

Usually your captain should be in your reserve. This also happens with all duplicate ARP ships we get, which is why I stumbled upon it some days ago. Have you checked that thoroughly? Maybe that captain had a different specialisation that made you miss it?

He is a cook. And his pastries got burnt in the oven. Mighty Mo already knows the drill.

My WR and WTR remained pretty much the same. But average damage went up quite a lot due to the initial T9 requirement for Takao. I played a lot of Yamato lately. It was a great incentive to play her again and I feel like having made good progress, although I still do some stupid mistakes.

Ashigara is so great Enjoy her voice while drinking energy drinks or espressi. Get hyper while getting hyper

I tried a couple of captain builds on my Kongous but at that tier you hardly notice any difference. With Myoko it may be worth trying. Since I don't like Myoko and already have an Atago, I don't use them at all. Played the Kongous quite a bit, but not anymore. They are just collector's items because I do like the anime (and because they are in the game). I cannot confirm being focussed in battle. I stopped using Yokosuka port so I can hardly distinguish between ARP and normal ships. But even with Yokosuka on I did not notice any specific focus on ARP ships. Their colors and effects even distracted me a bit so that I screwd my aim sometimes. One thing you can actually do well, and which should be worth doing with Takao: you can train captains exceptionally quickly as you swap them without penalty. There are 9 ARP ships. So you can get the 50/100/200% first-win-xp-bonus 9 times a day with the very same captain.

Actually it is: one more account = free Texas for me

The cake is a lie! Real life is just for the sorry people who don't have friends on the internet.

Achieved some when hitting the aft part by accident so I think the shells hit the turret or barbette, or when I aimed for the magazine section of the front turrets on a broadsiding Scharnhorst. Don't bother hitting the engine room with AP. You can take it out with HE hits though. In return, I took quite a lot of citadels when I angled too steep into the enemy (bow on) so I could not make use of the thick side armor. The bow is actually pretty vulnerable.

True. Gameplaywise these ships do not offer much difference. In fact, I do not even use them, not even Takao. But I like Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio so I want to own these ships, simple as that. And now I got them all. The only mission left is Kirishima that I only do half-heartedly because I dislike torps. She only means a free port slot to me.

It's a free ship (collect it) with a silly Japanese voiceover (collect it) that was not available on EU server before (collect it) that may or may not be available again (so collect it now)

Completed the mission yesterday evening. Had 20/20/19/20 for a while now and failed to get the last Russian ship. Yesterday evening I got a couple of them though. Now only Kirishima remains. 200 torp hits with Scharnhorst - yay...