Chaos_Umbra

That is true

Met @El2aZeR in his Enterprise obviously, and it was actually one of the few games in it he ended up on the losing side

Here you go some sweet Viribus:

Well the Viribus Unitis is an Austro-Hungarian ship as is the T2 Pan EU DD in the line I think. That is as close as it will get...

Well the reason I preferred the Raimondo is mostly cause the stealth allows you to ambush broadside cruisers and citadel them with AP and the fact the ship has spaced armour and thus reasonable survivability, and yes the reload is trash as it is on all the ships cause WG balanced the SAP to have DPM in line with HE... only SAP is 90% less consistent and this also means the AP DPM is the worst. Lets just say that the Molatov is 10 times better than the Trento, both have the same bad armour, but Molatov has better stealth, better range, better ballistics, utility consumables like Hydro, has a faster rudder and has reliable HE shells... only thing Trento is better at is turning circle... And I think having a cruiser that gets out spotted by almost all same tier BBs is a bad thing. Totally agree, but the SAP at high tiers can be deadly on DDs especially with the Shell velocity, getting a 15k hit on a DD is not that rare early into a match if you keep your guns ready to support your friendly DD when then find the enemy one, Line needs the Gimmicks removed then all the ships having a reload buff and ruddershift buff, weaken the Fuel smoke and allow them to have Hydro, then maybe give the tier 6-9 a proper armour scheme like Duca D'Aosta and Venezia.

Like how I was disappointed when WG announced the gimmicks for the Italian line, I was devastated I wanted a line that was like my favourite the Duca D'Aosta... well at least I can use that 18 point captain on the tier 1...

The problem is that SAP only starts to function at tier 7-8, so 60% of the line is just trash, you lack cruiser tools and the ability to damage heavily angled targets. Got the tier 10 and that thing is decent, but that is due to the SAP having the best pen angles and it actually having a very good armour scheme with 40mm bow plating and spaced armour, had to run double rudder on it cause the entire line has trash rudder shift which is needed for dodging. T5 has a decent armour scheme and good stealth, just terrible guns, bad ammo and a bad rudder. T6 is the worst ship in the game which has the largest citadel with the weakest armour with the 2nd worst rudder and a concealment that is worse than most T6 BBs. T7-9 are more playable but keep the terrible citadel size and terrible rudder, they do get a bit better in the concealment department over the tier 6 and from tier 8 you can get rid of the woeful rudder by running double rudder shift at the expense of concealment, but getting too close with that citadel will just get you 1 shot. Also at these tiers SAP becomes semi reliable, except when you need it most... Basically WG designed a reasonable T10 then weakened the gimmicks down the line which basically makes the mid to low ships a liability to the team. And their gimmicky SAP is completely broken against DDs, and that is the only sort of team-play the ships are capable of...

So you won't be touching IJN and USN Cruisers either...

The point of karma is to enable you to get more chances to report people for ruining the game, and hopefully they might get a chat ban in the process You can add sinking that sniping, HE spamming German BB into that list sinking them always gets you a report and a lot of abuse in chat, especially when you finish them off with 1 plane dropped torpedo and that is all the damage you did to them all game, but it was your fault that they sunk not the 6 other ships already shooting them or the fact that the rest of their team died cause the player in question was still camping on the A line.

Thanks guys, that was also the most tense game of the evening we totally thought it was lost, well I guess blocking the last 3 points is all you need to turn it around. Good luck with the rest of your Clan Battles.

I just go and play tier 6 instead there are more players there that are not complete Window Lickers than in 90% of tier 10 games...

They have better survive-ability than other cruiser lines with good stealth, decent armour and heal on all tiers. And for once it isn't a line riddled with stupid gimmicks!!!

The reason why Hood was known as the biggest submarine in the RN was cause the design was changed during construction due to what happened at the Battle of Jutland with all those Battle Cruisers Detonating so the Engineers increased Hood's Deck armour, obviously this affected the weight of the ship and thus how high it sat in the water, which is why the aft deck was seen almost completely submerged in any sort of rough seas. And yes you are correct about the crew of the Hood suffering a lot from TB.

It's called being sea worthy something that the game doesn't take into account, and considering the RN had to cover most of the globe having your ships able to handle any storms will be much more important than to let say the Italians that only operated in the Mediterranean Sea.

I think you'll find just about every T6 cruiser would melt in that situation (well except maybe Aoba). How's the armour on it hold up cause just looking at all the armour schemes in Port it seems to be the worst of the lot with that massive citadel with the exposed 70mm citadel deck... SAP anyone?

Well like all the other recent line releases like the Italians, you could just use the tokens to get the camos... and just not get lucky with the ships... as I did...

Shame there is no option to just get the camos for those of us that want to actually play all the new content rather than skipping to tier 8 and missing half the line, though Conway did say on the stream that the Camos will be available in the Armoury at a later date... I just hope that they will not be for doubloons...

Yep the Team working on the 3D models always do an amazing job! Shame that the Gimmicks... I mean Balancing department ruin all their work most of the time...

I'm a cruiser and DD main so I can't be one of those BBs camping in the back, in fact I normally tend to be the only ship doing any tanking most of the time... typically in a cruiser while the BBs hit 's' at the start of the battle. Sure most BBs will camp anyway, but when they see an Asashio on the enemy team it just makes them camp harder which isn't helping in getting the top tier meta to be less static. I'm not saying the ship is bad for the team it's on (unless it is one of those boarder humping idiots that torp from max range and completely ignore the caps all game), I'm just saying the the ship is bad for the game in general as a concept.

it goes both ways if there is one on both teams it just makes the entire game experience static and downright boring, that is what I meant by it being bad for the game...

While it's not a bad ship I do think the fact it is in the game at all is bad for the game, cause other than spotting all it can do is dev-strike BBs which in turn makes them camp more which then forces the cruisers back and then the DDs have no support so they start camping and it just turns the game into a 20km sniping fest.

Seems odd that the Picture WG have given us has a US FCS cause the image in that website clearly doesn't have a US FCS?

It also kept you in CoOp so you learnt the absolute basics of the game, I remember reaching the tier 4 IJN Cruiser before I had access to Random Battles... This would explain the influx of complete [edited] into the game as now you get access buy just playing like 3 CoOp games...

In summary Every new 'feature' added to the game made the entire experience worse... Research Bureau CV Rework was implemented in a half finished state and even now isn't fixed High tier French DDs and All RU BBs were OP on release and ruined the game Italian cruisers were gimmick'd in a way that appeased BB players by giving them basically every stat about them being terrible and a gimmick'd ammo type that only works when people broadside or 1 shooting DDs and it doesn't work in low tiers. The entire Christmas Event and most other events The only good things added this year was the clean up of the UI and putting the gun bloom bug back in... 2019 Worst year for the game so far!

Actually the Haifuri guns are 127mm USN guns, these are the same ones fitted to the Midway as secondaries so unless WG have labelled this wrong these are completely different guns on the Arashi...