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Try play RN CL with radar. Ocean is a stupid map and deserves removal from the map pool, because it's an even worse Russian roulette mechanic than detonations.

IFHE on a Scharnhorst? Uhm... Nagato has a complete 25 mm deck, Hood has large sections of 51 mm. The upper belt of Hood is also not 25 mm unlike the Nagato. Lastly, Hood has a 2.7k hp advantage over the Nagato as the T7 BB with most hp. 32 knots of speed is an option. In a push, Hood can do the fank, but even on a retreat, Hood's speed doesn't mean you need to hightail out of there at 32 knots. You can also go 1/4 or 1/2 speed, if you want to retain more presence, as long as you stay angled. Kiting is an option, it is one option Hood is good at, but not the sole thing it can do. and if it comes to absorbing damage, Hood is among the best, with only Sinop and the Germans being anywhere near as tanky, thanks to their armour profiles. The Nagato can try with its hp pool, but has worse armour and cannot restore 60% pen damage like Hood.

And it had a lower citadel than the NC that hardly ever got reached. The point is, the new Monarch, even with an easier to hit citadel, is still harder to hit than ships like NC, because the citadel is like this. If you do not hit that sliver of citadel belt, but above it, you ricochet off the citadel deck and get no citadel. If you'd do that on NC, you'd overmatch the 19 mm cit deck and get a citadel. Lyon has a good bit less hp at 53k vs 60.5k. Scharnhorst too only has 56.3k. So, no. T7 RU BB, 3x3 356 mm guns. Will likely have to fire HE like KGV and even if accurate cannot overmatch. Then go play them. And at mid to close range, Monarch is more accurate than Amagi. Mid range. Even if you cannot play concealment, it's a BB. Now it even more can rely on repair instead of just on concealment to keep it alive.

Going by the trend, it'll be Cossack B (one decent ship) Azuma B Duca degli Abruzzi B Yuudachi B Or some other garbage yet to be released. Maybe Siegfried B or how about just going for Bismarck B? I mean, where's the limit to how much suck can be crammed into this?

It matters if one keeps overmatch in mind. Deck plating vs BBs means Yamato and Musashi cannot overmatch the centre deck of the NC, but they can overmatch it on the Monarch. No other BB can overmatch either. Every BB can overmatch the NC cit deck though and only Yamato and Musashi overmatch the Monarch's. Apart from 2 BBs in the entire game, every other BB will not care about the deck armour, but very much care about citadel deck armour, as shells that do pen and not ricochet on NC can fall onto the citadel and give cits, on Monarch not. On Monarch you need to hit at the waterline citbelt, or you will pen above the cit and ricochet off the 32 mm deck. As for belt armour, belt armour matters as it gives more leeway with angling. NC, if not angled properly is one of the easiest BBs to wreck, due to a poor belt armour in combination with poor citadel protection. Because on the lower tiers the 15 inch/42s get 2.0 (Warspite and QE) and 1.9 sigma (Hood), Monarch gets 1.8. In exchange, lower tiers get absolutely terrible pen for their caliber (which thankfully is not an issue for T6 matches, but can become one in T8 matches), while Monarch has competitive levels. Monarch also has 25s reload. It's not like the old guns are straight upgrades. Monarch basically outdpms these old ships hard. It outdpms the newer ships at its own tier! You still outspot many cruisers. And yes, Roma has similar levels. Always had. But Roma has basically the same armour weaknesses except having better HE resistance, while Monarch has the better repair party. Vs BBs, Monarch properly angled has little to fear. If it gets one, nice. I like the ship. But it doesn't need one. Lyon, DoY, other KGVs, Poltava... For KGV, it may be a bit iffy, but for Monarch, it absolutely is if you angle your ship properly. While being stealthier and having exceptional regeneration and 25s reload? What would be the point of playing NC then?

So you basically can just drive your ship into the enemy, let automated armaments do the killing while the player-controlled armaments suck even worse? Is that the way forward? I'm very skeptical about the GK needing ways to be more idiot-proof and having less ways to scale with skill input. If anything, German BBs need better scaling with player skill.

RIP Mainz. Another dream died to WG balancing department... And maybe, just maybe, you should take a look at the Hipper, which is basically just a sad excuse of a T8 cruiser.

Fixed. A T6 CV can kill an NC. T8 DDs don't manage to approach that kind of AA.

20 Enterprise fighter? Nothing. 20 GZ Torp bombers? A Shima that lost its torps.

Wouldn't buff it too much. Played it as an experienced player and it felt not too terrible. Yes, it dies fast, but I feel like the main issue is that people who play the Pensacola are not sure how to make CAs work and when to load AP.

More consistent AP bombers.

Yes, WG employees do play their own game, what are you thinking? Though, when they get attacked, the "CV isn't playing like a normal CV would."

I got my 122k damage on them and a Cleve that got double-citted at the start of the game. I'm content.

More useful than on the map border, because they knew basic angling and with fast heal and automated secondaries, even three potatoes can still soak up a lot of damage and melt ships. Also, not every ship has the armour layout to soak up 2.7 million potential from this.

If they had stopped chasing a T7 BB to the map border, they could've done actually useful things. this way, I took up the attention of three Georgias and a Myoko.

Repair party was not. getting half the nerf back was useful though. Even if the initial nerf was not.

Just ran into triple Georgia div. Those catch up. But nothing manages to kite like a Hood at T7. By the time they killed me, their team was dead and the caps were ours and they were in the bottom left map corner (where I ran out of map to kite, so I died). Also one time I used HE, because no way any T7 BB is going to pen a bow-in angled Georgia with AP reliably.

Compared to t-61, few T6 DDs bring anything to the table...

second graph is titled "accuracy"

It's a Kremlin. It has 1.9 sigma.

Graf Zeppelin B!? like, wtf?

Anshan's decent though. best defense is to not bother and if you get focused, pop smoke. At least makes it a bit harder when they have to hit a moving smoke cloud.

Scharnhorst would win a brawl against a sinop too, so I guess you can stop complaining about Sinop. By that metric all German BBs are top tier, because in a 1v1 brawl, they are unmatched. Brawling Scharnhorsts is not playing Hood to her strengths. Given Scharnhorst is slower than Hood, it isn't even easy to force a brawl onto the Hood as it would be against a Colorado. Ah yes, let's compare with all time stats that don't even factor in Hood's changes. Fun fact, the more you filter for top players, the more the Hood outshines Scharnhorst, almost as if a ship with a citadel needs a brain to be played.

Ability to target two targets is one of those pseudo-buffs that is just an excuse to not look at the ships again for a year. How often is it really useful? Would it bring the ships back to having any sort of decent place in meta? Do you really want to have ships on both sides to feel the buff, even if it means getting crossfired? Most people would double-down on the accuracy, because doubling your hits is doubling the dpm. It's honestly more worthwhile to ditch AFT at any point than to ditch Manual secondaries, as Manual Secondaries beyond T6 is basically the key skill of any secondary build and all else is just extra. Imo, buffs that would be useful: improving repairs. Either increase amount per charge, lower CD, give extra charges. Improving the turret angles on the FdG and the GK. These two are the ones most in need of any help anyway and why after amidships catapults on all previous designs do we get these weird arrangements with catapult plane hangars blocking the gun turrets? Either of them would go a long way in restoring some of their dignity as tanking BBs and both changes would help regardless of whether you spec into secondaries or not.

If you have a Hood then you should know that the gun angles are more than sufficient to fire 8 guns at Scharnhorst without exposing near enough side to threaten getting penned. Scharnhorst's fire chance is so bad, the Hood would match it if it fired HE back... which it doesn't need to, because AP is serviceable. But in a HE slugfest, Hood would win out purely by virtue of having more hp, while matching the dps and fire chance of Scharnhorst.