Chaos_Umbra

It's also quite nice that it will also be in the Armoury as there are no premium ships in there that I want or don't already have so it will give me something to spend the Doubloons I earned over New Year and use the Discount voucher

They have over 10km secondaries at tier 8 up so no issue Komrade!!!

It's not like they don't already have them modelled as they were on the GZ pre CV REWORK...

Its actually another RU T8 Premium cruiser, there are 2 new ones amongst the new RU ships.

They were advertised as tanky cruisers... looks at new RU cruisers and then remembers getting citadel'd from every angle imaginable in the Albemarle... The Surrey was good and the Drake is okay, they are decent in terms of HE damage etc, but nothing really setting them apart from other cruisers which either have more utility much better handling, better tankability (i.e. not just a heal slapped on but actual armour you can use to avoid the citadel in the first place) or decent AP. Not bad and not a Box O Gimmicks, just think some of the hull plating needed to be better to make them 'Tanky' Cruisers... why not slap a load of 50mm plating all over them like the 'non tanky' RU CAs?

No worries komrade it isn't Soviet thus it can't be broken... Look at the Italian and RN CAs compared to new Bias cruisers.

Fine maybe and extreme example but most CAs at tier 10 have similar HE DPM to Venizia's SAP DPM and then you have the fires and module damage on top plus they won't ricochet, then the AP DPM is the worst out right and only used when you know you will get multiple citadels...

Well it's kinda obvious that you will feel underwhelmed when a Des Moines gets 3 salvos for 1 of yours and the HE damage he can do in the same reload cycle with HE is basically the same as your SAP except it also sets fires and destroys modules and won't ricochet, and if the target is broadside and the Des Moines can use it's AP it is head and shoulders above what the SAP can dish out in the same time. Only thing it tops in is 1 salvo hits on DDs which IMO is a bit broken but the only thing keeping these ships competitive, if they weren't able to blap DDs then they have nothing going for them basically...

Like HE rockets couldn't already do 15k damage in one attack on a Cruiser already...

In other words if they are okay they well receive the nerf hammer as not Russian... though I think cruisers might be come endangered when these arrive...

Finally got them all to work only took 8 hours...

Got another to work... still 3 more for it to stop calling invalid...

Tried again and 2 more started working then the same stupid invalid format and invalid messages popped up again... 1-5 worked rest no dice will have to try again in a few hours and maybe another will suddenly start working...

Must be WG punishing me for spending too much money on the game as only non active accounts get free rewards...

Dunno only a third of them worked for me before the site kept saying invalid format or just invalid...

First 3 worked then they all came up invalid format???

That was kinda an ideal MM with it being top tier, no CVs and Epicentre, plus a lot of ships giving broadside. Well will have to wait for other CCs to leave their most recent reviews, but I do agree with Flamu that the HP pool is far too low.

For what it's worth this is my current 19 Point Minotaur Captain Build: Went for RL to replace old AA skills and went for more 2 point skills.

Drake is a much better ship cause you don't have that stupid stepped citadel and you get spaced armour too, dunno what your talking about it being worse in the armour department, sure it has worse stealth and rudder shift but it at least is not guaranteed to be citadel'd when angled... unfortunately the Goliath has the same stepped citadel and lots of other negatives the Drake doesn't have, a typical case of the T9 being better than the T10...

The Irony being that it was meant to be the tanky Cruiser Line... Looks at the new Russian Cruisers... yeah so much more tanky...

That's why you play it like a flanking ship kinda like the Scharnhorst and punish broadsides.

I would pick Kronstadt but as that was removed over a year ago, I would say go for Alaska as it is more versatile and hence gonna have more influence in wining games, though you could wait and see if either of the German Supercruisers ever gets released...

You mean lower the HP pool down to what the Viribus Unitis has...

Basically play it like you would a Neptune without a smokescreen, in otherwords you don't want any BB AP to even hit you cause you will get citadel'd. Mind you the ship was technically buffed last patch cause now it is possible to bounce 380mm BB AP so that is at least something...

Well I didn't mention them cause the follow the Tech tree gimmicks of no armour, broken HE and can't hit the broadside of a barn from within said barn... I never said the Monarch is a bad ship, I just said that I skipped it due to not wanting to play something WG pulled out of their arses last minute cause the KGV was down tiered, in fact I just said I couldn't comment on it's performance, though considering how ineffective the rest of the line is at winning game (great at farming fully repairable fire damage for more Base Xp...). And about the overmatch issue, as you just said no tier 8 BB overmatches any other tier 8 BB, so all down tier-ing the KGV did was make it so that instead of only Yamato and Musashi overmatching the bow, now most BBs all the way down to tier 6 overmatch it instead... much improvement...