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It doesn't really matter during combat. At max zoom those crews would just be annoying moving pixels. Although it could be nice watching lifeboats being used during the sinking animation. Maybe they can float around the wreck and be picked by nearby ships as loot for extra XP. This way we could even encourage/reward people who act as fleet escort.

Yup, one of my most painful Detonations ever. Full health Yamato getting detonated by a stray Shimakaze torp (slipped through islands), detonating my aft magazine when I tried to catch it with my belt. In return, my Yamato caused a Detonation on a Tirpitz once. With her secondaries at approx. 6 km

Don't pick on Mikasa She is a cute clumsy lady. Pls treat her with respect.

If you received the "Detonation" award and the respective flags, it was indeed a single blow to your magazine (like the one HMS Hood took ). If not, maybe it was a doube citadel and/or some nasty normal penetrations.

Surely not when cruising the seas. But this is arcade and you are in a direct battle against an enemy fleet. I duly hope no warship was ever sunk by aircraft because AA crews stayed inside due to bad weather. I rather find it remarkable that planes are still up in the air during such a storm anyway.

What's wrong with T6 Nürnberg in Ranked? She is a great DD hunter with good sonar, quick reload, and 6 km torps. If a player knows how to play her, she has quite the potential to dominate the match like every other ship. Given the fragility of DDs and cowardice of way too many BB players, good cruiser play usually is the key to success. Or having a Saipan with 2/2/0.

This. I had fun citadelling Omahas with Russian 130mm DD guns But I know that feeling... I just can't make such ships with casemate guns work, even Murmansk is a cursed ship to me. Things will get better with Cleveland

If you play US DDs at T5 or higher, you can get the Defensive Fire consumable in exchange of speed boost. Nasty little surprise, especially while hiding in smoke. Unfortunately, you lose a turret on your midship section.

I absolutely suck with ships that do not have centerline turrets But it is the same MO nonetheless... Against cruisers, HE is also a viable option, especially against angled ships that you cannot penetrate well, or at longer distances. Against carriers, you may want to start with HE to set his flight deck aflame to prevent him from launching planes. Once the deck is on fire, you can wreck with AP. Right thinking about torp use short range torps are self defense only. Never ever use those as primary armament unless you play Derpzki

Can HMS Campbeltown ram coastal fortresses to oblivion then?

Right click on ship selection icon (in the "carousel" at the bottom), select "sell" ;)

This. Never forget that communication and teamplay are keys to success in ranked, not necessarily your skills as individual. But we have a wide variety of players from different nation through all kinds of ages. Yesterday I had a game with a couple of Polish and Spanish players who did not know any English (or German). Needless to say, the whole team was screwed as everyone deployed individually, accusing and insulting their teammates. This can happen anytime on EU server so we definitely need those checkpoints.

It took a long time to get used to her but now Kiev is my favourite destroyer - well, actually she is my favourite light cruiser, she just doesn't know it. She is well capable of knifefighting other DDs but that is not her strong point. However, when you stay in second line and just rain HE (or AP at targets below 10 km) on enemy ships, you are well able to control the battlefield. I don't even bother buffing her stealth since I am constantly spotted anyway. Just sail her full speed, and shoot at every red symbol on your minimap

I grinded to battleships right away because those were the ships that caused me to play in the first place My overall stats still suffer from those fail days but I was young and impatient; just could not wait to finally get my beloved Nagato. So if you do not have a fetish for a certain ship you are striving to, take your time, try unique maneuvers and tactics, try ammo types etc at a Tier you can compete with. Rushing to the top will do no good.

I used AS Bogue back in the day... Now I use Zuiho for T5 battles as CV. I imagine strike Bogue can only shine against stock or strike Bogues. While I have to be patient against AS Bogues, I delete other Bogue setups early with ease at this Tier thanks to faster aircraft servicing, instantly gaining air supremacy at the beginning of the match.

If your enemy is "good" (i.e. more skilled or in a better position than you), every class is a pain. BBs may even be the more forgiving class of all thanks to repair consumable.

Wish I had been in OP match... BBs are dangerous, no doubt, but you see them coming. Instead, I played World of Destroyers in all my BB games yesterday.

Both are great ships, both have their flaws. Which one I prefer is totally up to my current mood. But Yorck sure looks prettier in my opinion I just think my Pensacola grind felt less painful.

When I got my NC, I tried bowtanking once, and I utterly failed. I tried it once more after some discussion with friends and teammates, and I failed again. Never did it again ever since. That is just not my style. I want to push and hammer those 16 inch shells at point blank (as one may see in my survival stats). And this NC does perfectly. While she does have a very long range, her effective range is at about 12-18 km just like every other BB, Yamato included.

They just don't. Coming from someone who has "only" 3.5k games, half of them with BBs of both trees, IJN to T10, USN to T8 and still grinding. Their designs are different and so are their playstyles. But neither can be considered superior over the other.

A friend turned pink yesterday. Those "friendly torps" (torps are never friendly) were totally his fault, some pink games as penalty, no problem. But then his penalty got prolonged by 1-2 games because one of our DDs decided to hug his BB and kept hugging for about a minute. Just wtf?

Yup, they don't. Still you hear this screeching noise upon taking heavy damage ;)

This [overweight] caused the ship to sit lower in the water than intended, which partially submerged her armored belt. She was built with a pronounced snout bow to improve her buoyancy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Mass%C3%A9na#General_characteristics_and_machinery

Lexington's 1000lbs bombs roflstomp any ship that lacks deck armor (Tirpitz will be your most rewarding prey ). Bomb dispersion looks larger on paper but I still achieve more hits with sloppy USN drops than with perfectly aimed IJN DBs (I think Japanese bombs are mostly duds and just roll off the target's deck). By upgrading and bolstering your AA (23 quad Bofors and 2 twins on B-hull) and the recently introduced Defensive Fire consumable you are immune to enemy planes. And despite this consumable at T8, strike deck is still a viable option. I do not have as much good experience with the Corsair fighters though. Sure, they are well capable of decimating Shokaku's fighters but everyone knows this and will avoid air combat as usual - or just block your fighters to get his bombers through. So why bother in the first place... just burn down his friends. IJN CVs can surely perform well in the right hands but they involve much more micromanagement. I feel comfortable with Zuiho's 4 squads but occastionally screw up hard with Ryujo's 5 squads as I constantly keep forgetting about at least one squad. Not sure if I want to grind Hiryu anymore but she is very close already.

I am rather curious about this implementation, but would not judge too early. Manual gun control at 3 km range sounds pretty strange to me, and reminds me of the swivel guns in AC Black Flag. So I guess we just have to wait and see how WG will handle this. However, it is nice to see they actually care about a premium ship.