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Holy... Congratulations indeed! And I just noticed you were that guy who took Arizona for a ride yesterday when someone told you to "learn to play before getting a premium ship" I laughed so hard when I saw Rank 1 next to your name on the scoreboard.

You may just use her as the BB she is, only with bad gun angles. You will probably have to buff her forward angles but kiting away is mostly impossible. Instead of the single fighter/spotter she may get a whole squad that circles the ship (12 seconds launching, longer cooldown?). Maybe the planes can be made more aggressive on auto-defense and as usual you select target by manual AA targetting. Or you get circled by up to 4 individual fighters which makes your BB a viable torpedo spotter.

I even re-purchased Yorck for ranked battles. I just hate the inflexibility of IJN cruisers at this stage - long ships, sluggish movements, huge turning circles. Pepsi is a fine ship as well but has severe disadvantage in terms of concealment and gun range. Yorck has it all.

I played 6 ranked games with Nürnberg, won every one of them. So no, better not explain to me. I will choose Nürnberg over Budyonny anytime.

Yes, definitely. I cannot guarantee that I will not be using a mod for slightly different colours (I got used to blue AP ) but the recent changes are the way to go. Mods in general are becoming more and more obsolete.

Yesterday I met WarburtonLee on the map Ocean. He harrassed our fleet with his Khabarovsk in the beginning, inflicted a huge amount of minor damage to quite a couple of ships, and lured our entire fleet into chasing him and neglecting caps whatsoever. I think we won in the end (not sure, I was tired) but he was definitely the overall MVP just by deploying to the right direction. I scored 6 incapacitations on him with my Hipper though

Exactly. The enemy CV will become a juicy target again and DDs are left in peace for the first half of the match ;)

Even better, but not really matching this topic because no date format involved

Pls chill. Wait and see. No point in getting angry at ahistorical setups at this stage. The tree has been announced but not released yet. Main issue with ahistorical balancing will most certainly be the different ways of warfare in the Atlantic and Pacific.

Bounced

We need to remove Defensive Fire from higher tier CVs ;P

I experienced severe lags and crashes with my Haruna when I got her. Turned out she was not compatible with a mod at that time but I don't recall which one.

Could this be intended so you get your torp spreads the way you want them to be? If you are aiming with your fore launcher through binocular view but firing the aft launcher, the spread may become a complete mess. So I imagine it is intended to manually toggle your launcher by pressing C

You don't think that. They just are ;)

I tried stealth and max range on PT server Invis fire between approx. 25-27 km with NC, Iowa, and Montana - and I even hit a couple of shells after 20-24 seconds of shell travelling. On Live server, I use concealment module but captain perks are mainly AA. I want my USN BBs to be AA fortresses after some disastrous experiences with Yamato against Taihou or Hakuryu.

Close or move to Off-Topic plox?

In response to Brexit the Royal Navy will be removed from EU server. So why bother anyway

Since main turret HP has been buffed some patches ago, she might be okayish by now. Before, I rarely had any match with turrets intact - more often than not you lost both after getting hit by a single HE salvo. However, she will prepare you for Kiev gameplay in which concealment is no longer as important as it was before. You learn how to use Russian DD speed to constantly spam shells at every red ship within range, and when to use HE/AP which will be more significant with Kiev. I do not recommend her as keeper, but I would not entirely skip her either. Like most T6 ships she is a good preview how higher tiers work.

I played a lot of Pepsi from rank 15 to 13/12. She is definitely a viable option as DD hunter. I dislike IJN cruisers a lot due to their sluggish handling. In the end, I re-purchased my Yorck though. I seem to die more often but I have the feeling of accomplishing more tasks with her. Just personal preference, of course. Pepsi is a fine ship for ranked. Unfortunately, I noticed this contest too late and I got stuck with tons of work, so reaching rank 1 is out of question by now.

Always chat with the other team if you have some quiet time or got sunk already, and the enemy team has advantage over yours. You CAN possibly throw them off by forcing them to read your stuff, misinform them (if you do it right), or provoke them to do silly stuff ;) If you do none of the above, it is good sportsmanship to compliment your enemy once in a while.

Strike Lexi eats Tirpitz alive so why are you mad at getting sunk by 1000lbs bombs with only 12k-ish hp? How is it ridiculous that you get sunk by the heaviest bombs in the game, whereas DDs in general can one-shot every ship in the game with just one torp salvo?

Colorado is not a bad ship, by all means. But her speed hinders her from catching up with the rest of the fleet. She will eventually end up sniping from the back, depending on the map and fleet movement. Nagato on the other hand can keep up with cruisers more or less. She is more likely to reach firing positions where she is supposed to be and support the team by cruising nearby or pushing caps. I have reached rank 9 by now, and so far no Colorado stood up to the task. You either need an exceptionally good Colorado player or a very bad enemy team to make her work properly.

I tried her today in 3 matches. I survived none of them (as I rarely do so no surprise here) but I scored a solid k/d ratio of 2.3 and approx. 91k average dmg. Just don't treat her like a light battleship but like a super heavy cruiser instead. AP wrecks cruisers at her Tier but I found HE much more versatile. 10-15 fires per game quickly settled the current Boot Camp mission, and I ALMOST got Witherer...

RU DDs definitely are ultra light cruisers (except T2-3 - those are derp boats). Just without citadels Don't bother about concealment. Since you will be constantly raining fire or stalinium onto enemy ships, you will be permanently spotted anyway