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Basically what I use on Bisko, FdG and GK, but instead of BFT I use BoS. I consider BoS more useful, as it saves more hp up front. SI works if you run through four heals regularly. And I still get more main battery damage than secondary damage. Secondaries are always secondary to me. They are an asset, but certainly not a reason to throw my ship away for and the main battery is not this garbage that it is unworkable. On the other hand, while absolutely not recommended for top performance, I do use sec module and Manual Secondaries on Yamato (instead of FP), where it basically is just for very close in defence. As said, not peak performance, but interesting when people enter 8.8 km.

With all due respect, no, you don't. I get by without concealment expert on secondary builds for pretty much most of my career. Is it a worse build than stealth/tank build? Likely. But that is the general nature of secondary builds with their automated armaments of secondary importance. It's like complaining that building into AA pays off worse than building into tanking. Just use islands or whatever to deal with your horrendous concealment.

And noone asks the Welsh or Bretons whether they want to be part of the UK or France respectively, nor whether they are happy about it. The tone of that last sentence seems quite in line with later portrayals of the monarchy after its dissolution, not with how people would view it that lived in it for the entirety of their lives, their ancestors being part of it since medieval times and who likely had bigger issues on a day-to-day basis to worry about than rating the happiness with the current leadership. Very complex indeed. And sometimes filled with landmines. Based on an AA rating of 8. At least at T4, it would have still acceptable values in most other regards and wouldn't face T6s.

For a very basic build, you need 8 points in secondary-related skills and even then one could discuss that need. Because frankly, among secondary-related skills, there are only 5 skills that do anything for your secondaries and those are: Manual Secondaries: Doubles the accuracy, must-take for a secondary build. AFT: Buffs range. Useful, but can be cut if necessary. 9+ km secondaries still can be useful. IFHE: Give your small caliber guns enough pen to pen BBs. Only really worth the points from T8+ at best and even then. BFT: ~11% more secondary dpm. I consider 30k damage on secondaries already a decent job, 60k would be exceptional. Is 3-6k damage a game worth 3 points? I don't think so. Unlike all prior listed skills, this skill is also not adding any additional capabilities, it thus isn't even necessary to allow secondaries to do their basic job. AR: Buffs secondaries among other things. I take it anyway for the other things. So, sure, you can go all in. The return is likely not worth it. But it also isn't required. Personally, I run secondary builds on PEF, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Bismarck and for Gneisenau captain, you get by with 8 skill points in Manual Secondaries and AFT (31 mm base pen is enough at T7) and Bismarck captain only added IFHE. Survivability-wise, I don't find it too troublesome. Not really, because as you pointed out with Massachusetts, additional accuracy still is what people pick. Who wouldn't want their German secondary guns that have less lazy arcs to have Massachusetts accuracy?

Have you ever heard about low-impact playstyle? Getting 100k damage at T10 by burning BB isn't OP, and not exactly hard to achieve in Zao, Hindenburg or Henri.

Just that T-61 is a strong T6 DD, this is a pretty underwhelming T5 BB. Really a pity.

Given next week I can't play due to work-related reasons, decided to just rank out tonight. Enterpads can be an uphill struggle, but I do prefer playing my Implacable over it. Now, done with this for now. A bit more coal towards Thunderer.

Good luck with that.

Don't get me wrong, I like my Yoshino, I don't regret any coal I spent on it, I consider it a decent enough ship, but the only aspect where Yoshino outshines all other T10 cruisers is the ability to deal team damage...

First time ever I saw someone call Yoshino OP.

CVs that know how to properly use planes don't stay that long, but when they do, that presence will be felt. Having more AA than some T5 IJN DD isn't exactly hard, but means little in the face of a competent CV. So, yeah, the level of CV play one encounters in randoms typically is pretty terrible and it'swhat keeps certain ships from suffering as much as one would expect. Edit: Tested it, Ark Royal vs T-61. 3 planes lost. Basically out of a squad of 9, when I fly three attacks, it shoots down 1 plane. A very acceptable cost on an Ark Royal for getting a ship killed.

Playing Implacable got me thinking, just from a "fun" experience, I would guess getting deleted in 2-3 strikes by AP bombers likely is overall better than getting focused by some Brit CV that just alternates between torps and bombers, slowly flooding and torching your ship for damage. At least with AP bombs I can go back to port and play something else. The other is just a constant annoyance.

I mean, tbf, Ashitaka likely was chosen because it creates the least confusion. Amagi exists as tech tree T8 and lead ship of the class. Akagi is best known as a carrier and has potential to be introduced at some point to the game. Even if with rework one might wonder, back in the day when Ashitaka was introduced, prem CVs were still considered. And an Akagi model exists already, so using it is not too unreasonable. Atago exists as a premium already. Takao exists as ARP Takao, but even aside from that, one has to consider the potential for Takao (the CA) to at some point be introduced as a regular ship.

RN BB citadel raise + repair party buff. Yes, you can no longer broadside like a scrub (which was dumb to do anyway, given how even taking 20k in normal pens erased a third of your hp pool) but unlike KGV, Monarch doesn't struggle with getting regularly overmatched and citpenned through the bow and the repair party of the Monarch is basically the best T8 BB repair in the game. Properly angled, the Monarch can be very hard to kill, thanks to the repair party, the concealment and even though the citadel no longer is untouchable, the all-or-nothing armour scheme means that you'd need to pen (angled) 381 mm plate to get to it most of the time, which is the best protection among the BBs with citadel vulnerability at T8. Citadel deck also is 32 mm, so you really need to get the shot at the waterline, because too high, you will ricochet off the citadel deck.

I respectfully disagree, Monarch's a very decent BB, especially post-buff.

In any same-tier meta, I'd take Warspite, uptiered, WV.

Well, the issue is, short of testing and seeing how much damage taken is repairable, not much will indicate whether it is special or not, as nothing in port reflects how much damage is repairable. Only how much you potentially can heal back, provided the pool of damage repairable is large enough. Basically, the best way to test is to put the ship into training room, hit some normal pens and record how much damage can be healed back, then citpen it with some Ryuujou or such and record how much can be healed back from that.

Also, Yukikaze kinda has more potent torpedos than the Le Terrible, but isn't available currently. It might return in third stage of collab next year though.

Hydro. Like on any cruiser that has a choice.

Btw, does anyone who has this ship know, is the repair party still the one from testing that allows restoring 33% of citadel damage, but only 40% of non-cit damage?

Don't show broadside though.

Umikaze 80 mm secondaries, just like Mikasa 80 mm secondaries are just 76 mm secondaries designated 8 cm guns.

Whatever they are, they don't do anything was the point.

AA guns being modelled but not working isn't uncommon ingame. Ishizuchi has that. HSF Graf Spee has that (in this case, the model has 2 more mounts than the base Graf Spee, so this keeps them equal in performance).