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2019 T9 arms race: very fun due to no CVs, all 3 other classes represented. 2020 T10 arms race i the worst game-mode EVER implemented by WG due to presence of CVs, making DDs unplayable and thus extinct (at least in the games i played) while heals and plane recovery turns CV planes into truly infinite immortal Masterrace farming the other 6 "victims" - and for the other surface combatants it becomes at 19+ km HE slingfest. Remove CVs and preferably a certain russian CL and it might actuallty be fun. Please never again or no buffs for CVs.

You get improved plane restoration from reload buffs

The Tier 9 Brindisi is very good. I just got the tier 10 but havn't played it much yet, SAP is strong with this one though.

I've been pointing out since CV rework a year ago, this game has turned into World of Grindships. - Constant directives every patch, must complete to any significant rewards - Daily grinding required for free powercreep items every second patch (legendary commanders, benham and culminating with PR), the other half being early access grinds - alternative to daily grind is pay €€€ for horrible a ship the reduce grind to every second day, nothing guaranteed. Basically, for some reason, WG in 2019 decided they needed to change their monetization strategy and kill the "free" part of the game for anybody but hardcore grinders while dumbing down the gameplay at the same time. So I've closed my wallet apart from 5000 doubs already bought in 2019. No more ships or premium account. I'm playing CBs because i basically have every silver ship and i play ranked because I enjoy it. But f*ck the grinds, it kills my enjoyment. 2020 strategy seems to be make players "grind for free", eg do 100.000 bXP in british tier X CA and get 1 detonation flag as reward. It's so naked full tilt neuropsychology goal-driven BS it's insulting. Best thing i ever did. I found out I dont need any your grindy pixel sh*t, and I feel much happier for it.

Only at the Albermarle myself atm, and The issue with RN CAs is mostly that they doesnt have a role. Name any job and there will always be another tier X that does that job better. And LM Zao is just better at everything the Goliath does. Offtopic: My Akuzuki likes the Albermarle too. It doesnt have that Gadawful SAP and reload like Edinburg

That looks incredibly grindy....

Smoke? friendly CV fighter? Played akizuki in 4v4 clanbrawl and often had the highest damage om the team when we won 13 and lost only 1. It probably helped that we all played hyperaggressive and the CV was tier8.

Get the FCS (range) upgrade first. She's feels very myopic without it. Some like to get AFT too, but i prefer more dakka. Afterward get the hull for better maneuverability and more hp. Torps upgrade is optional but recommended imo.

It's monster that exists to bully any DD, most cruisers and most BBs with a rainbow of fire. You have a Friesland. Think of Akizuki as a slower, clumsier but stealthier Friesland that lacks the safety of hydro. Currently regrinding the line for at least the 5th time, and it's still a blast. Would be happy to div up if I see you in game. Not sure what you have for captain? 14 points is mandatory for IFHE and CE; better yet is 17 or 19 points for quality of life improvements called BFT and AR. Specific questions I have: What is my role in these situations? Start out passive and stay 2-3 km max from a friendly cruiser untill you see CV use other squads than RFs. After that you exist to ignore caps and kill the cruisers and BBs covering them instead. Either Spam HE over islands or smoke up outside radar range to start the BBQ. Greatest vulnerability is eating torps and overextending, both due to sluggish maneuverability and low speed which often means eating massive HE/SAP volleys. Be mindful of positioning and radars at all times, even more than normal and especially in CV games. If fighting DDs, use speedboost and engine mod to mitigate this issue and focus on dodging torps and incoming volleys. When should I use smoke? Offensively or as disengage after you already engaged and hopefully killed a DD. What ships have the best AA to protect me? Nothing has that. Its not about shooting planes down, its about giving the CV a more obvious target to go after and waste his planes.

I think it's true based on wgs deperate powercreeping and general greed over the last year. We just had an entire patch since the PR event without the community going up in flames. The bad publicity is starting to wear off so WG has decided to kill 2 birds with one stone. Clearly not enough players appreciate the developement ressources that have gone into glorious Research Bureau where 250k fXP is available for the bargain price of just 12k (?) RP.

Had an Azuma today in Random. Sat AFK for 10 minutes, then reversed to the boder and kept reversing. Never fired a shot, but guns were turned and engine runnning. Bot or just real life issue I thought? I checked the stats: 750ish battles with 39% WR, last 7 days: Should report that (with replay) to costumer service as a bot, considering the behaviour is beyond terminally stupid player?

Gearings problem is that the Daring can fullfill the same role and does it somewhat better and more flexibly.

I've forgotten how much you healed, but I also remember that getting healing buffs was very RNGesus dependent. Kitakaze was a favorite pick back then, and Black. But there were no CVs then to finish offlow-hp targets. As for Z-52 the one-trick, it sounds good in thery, but I havn't touched mine in ages. The omniprecence of radars and CVs seriously blunts its efficiency, and it's a big target. If there is one thing random teammates are good at, it's camping back and using radar to focus aggressive DDs. I expect being small and nimble is likely more important than offensive capabilities, although I might be wrong and using Z-52 hydro from behind strategic island waifus might be more useful than i expect. Kleber might be interesting if CV will leave you alone and there are other DDs on the team. But I'm going for Rank 1 and in the higher leagues last season it was all CLs and CAs with a few BBs thrown in. And CV every game ofc. If there were a T10 Friesland available, I'd pick it in a heartbeat to deplane the stupid CV and rain fire from range, before moving in to cap.

Daring would be my favorite DD pick due to infinite smokes. Or Smolensk/Minotaur. Allow me to elaborate since i argued in favour of shima: - stealth will be very valuable if there are no CV in the game. - Daring will be popular, and if backed by a Smolensk, Shima can be a strong counter to Daring by permaspotting it. - Since one of the buffs is a heal, alphastrike will be important. Shima torpedo wall is a good alpha strike counter to any smoked up ships.

Grozovoi or Shima from your list. In general: Things that deal well with Hakuruy AP bombs and can deal with HE spammers such as Smolensk. The first rules out things like DesMo, Salem and Stalingrad clones, eg. most CAs which are generally the counter to the latter. That leaves fighting fire with fire, eg. CLs like radar minotaur, worchester and smolensk which are immune to all but the best CV players. That is what DDs have to deal with in ranked, and also what makes TX ranked so damned obnoxious to deal with. CVs, Smoked up HE spamming CLs, radar minos and the odd radar CAs. Grozovoi has speed, heal, servicable aa and good guns so you can harass from range. Shima has the best stealth...and also torpedo wall of skill to counter skillensks camping in their smoke. F3 in particular is brutal, but likely not useful in Ranked.

Did you play Shchors? Ok, forget you have radar and play it like a Shchors eg: max range HE spam untill you know where enemy Bbs are and can position so they cant hit your broadside. If a chance presets itself later, you can ambush dds (if you are spotted without shooting, radar will show you what it is --> most often DD) Also what Garrusbrutus says.

No probs if you arn't allowed to share, but one fairly simple measure is the frequency of such games (and if it is increasing over time). You could also look at games where one team never takes a single cap and still have plenty of ships (6+?) left at the end.

Most DDs will begin the dodge before the first drop, you're lucky to get a drop from behind and swing through 90 degrees before he already outmaneuivered the first drop. And if RN og USN, the dd can simply outrun the torps. If DD manevuverability is restricted by islands or teammates that could be a different story though. Did try once it with Haku, but RFs were just so much better. Maybe I should try it again. I guess RN or maybe IJN would be best at it since USN TB cannot deal with evasion maneuvers without screwing aim to hell.

There must be the odd DDKevins around who smokes up in front of radar cruisers and chews on TB squads. But against an evading DD? (not counting Harugumo) Cant speak to Kaga or the other premiums, as i only have Saipan and the silver CVs

Update, now at Albermarle. All RN CAs are sh*t at carrying games from tier 5-8. They handle like a pig in quicksand, and the stupid shape of the citadel with a "bump" means any BB with overmatch WILL citadel it at the damndes angles. Apart from that the heal is very strong and the ships shine in drawn out 1v1 fights or if allowed to farm behind strategic islands. Torps also nice and yeild a surprising amount of random bonus hits. Still, they're inferior to the RN CLs at all tiers i played. Devonshire: played only with stock range - worst tier 6 in the game. Was uptierede alot in CV games, so that might be why. Surrey: Below average like all tier 7 CAs. Having spotter plane and FCS upgrade helped a lot with at least being able to shoot back. Albermarle: Plays like a slow, fat unwieldy 203 mm mogami with a heal and even bigger citadel. I really dont see why you shouldn't take the Mogami instead as that one seems like the superior pick. 5 games, all losses due to folding teams, many of them 100k damage games.

The hilariousness of the rework is in practice, this is what most CV captains are forced to do

RN DBs arent half bad vs DDs either. Which nation would you use for crosstorping?

Even assuming you hit the DD as much as 1 out of 4 drops, which is highly questionable (my experience from the DD side), it seems awfully inefficient compared to RF and DB. Which CVs would you use for crosstorping? IJN? (DDs can outrun the RN and USN torps)

Uhm, we dont have RTS CVs anymore? Why would you use TBs on DDs when RFs and DBs are available? Don't mean this personally, but it's usually the mark of a potato CV since the only time torps hit is when the DD is too ditracted or elects to let them hit. Example: Just had a hatsuhary game where enemy ryujo spent 3 entire TB squads failing to hit me, untill i finally elected to eat a torp on the [edited]rather than getting hit with a Zara SAP salvo. Could have dodged it, but SAP usually hurts more. On topic: I run RF mod in that slot on IJN and RN CVs since I tend to enter attack mode a bit too early. 2nd most viable seems Secondary battery modification for those CVs that have secondaries.

Do you know that feeling, when a present is put in front of you, yet you arn't allowed to open it? This happned with 2/3 containers today. Port UI got "improved" yet again this patch? Restart fixes the problem and buttons are back to normal.