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The Cossack and Aigle ones were fun.

Nah, it'll be fun to have. A proper Heavy Cruiser at Tier V that doesn't explode when someone breathes on it? Sounds fun. I hope it's not too long a marathon, though...

I didn't enjoy playing the USN CVs, I'm not spending time or game resources on CVs at all at the moment and this won't change it. Quite sad to see a new British line of ships with zero appeal, but that's what we have here.

Tier VIII French destroyer L'Effronté Looks interesting. Le rework pour Le Terrible? I hope so. Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi! Et Tu, Brute? ... Shakespeare, isn't it? In any case, I thought it was an amusing name for the ship.... We're getting impatient, @MrConway. You can't keep us waiting forever, there are plenty of other games hungry for our £££. ;)

BTW - I've answered my own question about a ship class serving in the Navies of all the main servers. Clemson class destroyers... USS Herndon was transferred to the RN as HMS Churchill, and then to the Soviet Navy as Deyatelni. USS Stewart was sunk in shallow water, raised by the IJN and used as Torpedo boat PB 102. All v boring, I know, but if any one can do better....

If it was me, I'd be giving special campaigns to each player when they hit a certain number of games. If they won another 50/100 games after that they could get one of... 2k games = Dreadnought 4k = Electra (RN E Class), Cyclone, Nokaze (improved Minekaze), Wilhelm Heidkamp (Z-22), Herndon / Deyatelnyi (Nicholas) 6k = Ajax (Leander), Maxim Gorky (Kirov/Molotov), Admiral Scheer (Graf Spee) , Kinugasa (Aoba) , Columbia (original T6 Cleveland) 8k = Javelin (RN J Class), Slavny (improved Gnevny) , Georg Thiele (1934 Maass type), Ayanami (original Fubuki), Shaw (Mahan Class). 10k = Valiant (RN Queen Elizabeth Class), Idaho (US New Mexico Class), Yamashiro (IJN Fuso Class) These are largely copy-and-paste ships from existing lines, but with a few tweaks and a perma-camo they'd be of value to collectors and ship geeks (like me).

I got Cossack, Aigle, Gallant, Smith and Varyag in Campaigns and Okt. Revol, Yubari, Cambeltown and Musashi from the Arsenal (so effectively free). Plus several 10pt Captains. I do feel pretty well rewarded for my persistence (if not my level of success). It would. And it wouldn't have to be a fancy ship, either, although I think there might be a fight over which one. Is there a ship which served in the navies of all four servers?

No no no, not fun, really. A floating citadel derping around at Tier VI with two massive guns, entirely dependent on RNG for its damage? They could do the 2x2 15inch designs of Glorious and Courageous, but why bother when they are inferior to Tiger or Renown? I'm all for quirky designs but these are just daft.

I Blücher says "guten tag". And Akagi, Hiryu, Soryu, Zuiho.... The dramatic explosions you get at a ship's death in WoWs are just for drama and for a definite ending - there's no need to have hors-de-combat wrecks floating around the place.

You can't blame them for trying to sell AA cruisers. That's just good business sense. I entirely agree about the 20% across the board change to concealment, though. That was badly judged and needs to be backed out into a per-class change which benefits DDs the most.

I don't. 1/2 to 1/3, easily. In the start and end stages of a game, that level of E-Z damage can be a decisive and game-winning move. Rocket planes had to be made harder to use, otherwise it was just too simple for a CV to gank all the opposition DDs before they got started; and unlike running into a torpedo or being caught napping by radar, there was very little the DD could do about it. Why not? That's how torpedo planes used to work......People used to dodge their torpedoes.

That is accurate, though. US WW2 airdrop torpedoes did 30-35 knots. http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WTUS_WWII.php This is a bit dull, though, and the fact that they can be delivered 200ft from the side of a ship makes them annoying. Hence the damage and flooding nerf, which has succeeded in making them annoying and ineffective. I would prefer it if WG would make them more like a destroyer, being delivered from further away (to enable dodging), but going faster and doing more damage. Reduce the frequency with which attacks can be made (no more than 9 torpedoes in 120-150 seconds) and it would be a bit more engaging. It was no fun for anyone else, though. 5k salvos which can't be negated by proper play like angling and which can wipe out a destroyer in 90 seconds, before the game has even begun. Not fun.

A quick hello to @Linkaex who succesfully defended our cap in a Budyonny during another game in my Emerald Experiment (she's really quite good these days...)

They did tweak short/mid range AA to prevent Atlanta from being exposed like that, and she still performs strongly, but the DFAA consumable isn't what it was, for sure.

Load Dunkerque, go forwards and blap things. It's quite nice being carefree and aggressive in a battleship, especially one as cool looking as that one. If you can persuade people to shoot the enemy cruisers first, rather than obsess over the elderly battleships the opposition wheel out, it's a doddle. I've been playing Emerald today (she's much better than I remember. Or maybe I'm better than I was. Or both?). But there's a depressing number of Tier IV, V and VI games ending with two CVs alive on each team. The problem is that the CVs stay right at the back and are almost invulnerable to damage from their opposite numbers, so when it gets to the end of the match they have enough damage output to nip the remaining ships to death - DDs can't get to them, BBs can't see them - and then a sort of stalemate evolves, which no-one knows how to break. So the blob is still alive and well...

Because Huang He is a ship you have to play, rather than just toddling along using the Smoke/Spotter mechanic. It's also Pan-Asian, which isn't of interest to many. If they'd called her Arethusa it would probably sell more. Glad to see an Atlanta doing well, @Chaos_Umbra. 270 shell hits is a nice figure....

Not many people own it? Leander has better torpedoes and more guns, but her guns aren't as good Huang He's. HH's guns will citadel every cruiser at her Tier and most of the ones at Tier VII, too (Stalinium shells, comrade), and she's a great firestarter, which is not something Leander can say.

HH has better smoke, better AA, HE shells. Much more useful for working with, and for fighting, destroyers and in any game with a CV.

Atlanta has benefitted from the new CV meta, as DDs are less likely to charge off by themselves and more likely to want to work with a cruiser around caps. Atlanta is perfect for that role (but so is Huang He, which is cheaper and at a more friendly Tier).

Nautical Metaphor: Sorry, but that's just Unwarranted speculation.

Krakens? 10. Last one was fairly recent and one of my favourite moments, because it was a Double Strike Kraken. So there. I'm actually more proud of the "Aiming? Too Much Effort" medal, though.

Shouldn't that be 亚特兰大 ?

Things come and go out of the Arsenal, Tech Tree and Premium shop. They don't have all of them on sale at any one time.

Do the Swordfish have Radar? The real ones did. :)

I just decided that I am lousy at the Light Cruiser hiding behind islands playstyle and that I was going to play it like Krasny Krym. So generally I attack Battleships and Destroyers, and try and avoid cruisers unless they are already engaged. The temptation with Atlanta is to try and get all the guns on target but you've always got something to fire with whichever way you're pointing. Other people probably get better results with the island hiding style but that doesn't work for me.