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Slow, yes, lacking hp, no. Colorado was the first USN BB to get the improved heal which allowed it to compare quite well to the Nagato in terms of how much hp it can bring. Add the better citadel protection and the longer damage control and you have a ship that is more survivable, provided neither ship has the option to retreat.

Just like the automated depth charge launch when you drive a DD into the circle indicating a sub nearby? Current AA is interactive? I mean, sure, every so often I can press o and kill a plane, but the whole process is neither intuitive nor is it effective or remotely interactive. Pressing a single button is not any more micro than ctrl clicking squads was and the results of that action are quite the joke.

What a nerf... lol Monarch was already ok without cit, when you could just brainlessly broadside in a brawl and work them over with your dpm. Now you can't do that, but: 1. you didn't want to do it anyway, cause 20k in pure pens still hurt for a BB with 60k hp 2. dat heal tho Like, it's not conkek heal, but find a T8 BB that is better in the heal department. Massachusetts and Gascogne might heal faster (40s CD), but you still beat all the others with your 60s compared to standard 80s. And NC might heal more, but Monarch heals still an improved amount inbetween NC and normal BB. So, unlike NC, you get your heals more rapidly, unlike Massachusetts, you get heals still fast and per heal you get more. And unlike both, if you don't eat cits, you will always find enough repairable damage, because 75% repairable... boiii (well, unless you just don't eat damage). While I am no longer allowed to bring Monarch into CB, I can tell you, the few times I did, the survivability was kinda silly. It got its normal amount of heals. Now you basically lose 3s of reload, but get a hydro and improved AP pen angles compared to KGV, which I'd consider fair enough a trade.

laughs in LU Hindenburg Is it finally her time to shine? Are we finally relevant to deal with Kremlin deck and Smolensk spam?

The only PvP content subs fit in would be the convoy escort game modes.

Only makes sense if you go extra deep, but hey, radar goes through islands.

Like the whole carrier debacle that got released after testing in an unfinished state and is still a dumpster fire?

Source? Because afaik, hydro will detect subs. radar detects them surfaced, hydro even when diving. Source.

Submarines cannot replace the DD, because DDs just make a better spotter. While concealment is key, it isn't everything, as otherwise, why do people play DDs other than IJN line? While the submarines we get are relatively fast for subs, they are slow compared to DDs, their potential to engage, disengage and relocate is far lower. If a DD gets spotted by sub, they can go disengage or engage, depending on how the odds are, but a sub will neither be able to run off, nor give chase. Additionally, DDs have smoke, more torps and a good few have a veritable gun armament. And if subs somehow manage to creep into competitive meta, hydro DDs exist and at least at T8, the Loyang and Cossack see play already a lot. I do wonder though, will RPF work vs subs...

Mainz at least follows a scheme. Odin/Wotan does not. Sure, I'd have gone with Seydlitz instead of Mainz, but I can live with Mainz. Maybe also because Mainz promises easy balancing, given it'll absolutely outclass Hipper in most situations, but compared to actually competitive cruisers like Cleveland, Bayard, Chapayev or Mogami you trade concealment and consumables for a 27 mm hull and solid HE dpm with free IFHE. Odin meanwhile, given how there is no tangible overmatch benefit between 283 mm and 305 mm, will likely just be the next BB with supercruiser dispersion or something, because what'd be the point of just getting a bit of 32 mm plating instead of 25 (on a ship that barely even has light plating) and slightly better torp armament in exchange for a full tier higher? Secondaries also look like too few to matter, the only thing aside from some dispersion shens they could pull would be giving it hydro AND torps.

Next sentence after that should likely have started with "His projects..." though.

Even if AA isn't focused on dps, the way flak bursts work and avoidng them works, it'll still stay irrelevant.

Wait, you can refund arsenal ships? The only thing I find bad is that you cannot look up the detailed stats and armour profile like with freemiums in the tech tree, before buying. Anyway, enjoy your Yoshino.

Atago has nothing on Yukikaze NANODA. You can play with and appreciate Atago and pretent to be not a weeb, like Flamu tries, but Yukikaze... no. Yukikaze's voice is basically what all the weebhaters likely expect all these voices to be like, the most distinct obnoxious voice, only appreciated by those who are far enough into this whole thing. Though it goes well with the ship, given you really need to haughty confidence of Yukikaze to play this ship.

Radetzky is a no-go. Same as Tegetthoff. Prinz eugen was originally to be named Tegetthoff, to symbolise the Austrian naval tradition as part of the naval tradition of the Reich, but it was changed to Prinz Eugen, who also served the Habsburgs and was a name of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, as the Tegetthoff, just like Radetzky earned most of their fame bashing Italians, an important ally of Germany by the time. And compared to Radetzky, Tegetthoff likely is still tame, given Radetzky was responsible for absolutely squashing Italian unification efforts of 1848 and uprisings before that. Like, the sole way I'd think you could stick it to the Italians further would be to name the ship Haynau, because at that point it's blatantly obvious you are just trying to insult.

Has nice voice acting though and is likely one of the tamest ones to hand out for free to everyone. Imagine if it was free Yukikaze nanoda.

Usually, you'd avoid naming after living non-royalty. Mackensen is more an exception than the rule. Especially the Nazi regime would go for people that were further in the past and thus showed continuity in German tradition. Thus, names I'd consider for the ship would be things like Seeckt, Bülow or Manteuffel (after Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, not the WWII-era descendant). It'd be a Kriegsmarine ship. It's a development of the Scharnhorst-class, so no doubt about it having a name appropriate for Kriegsmarine ships of the 30s and 40s. Most of which would not be of importance by the time this ship would have been constructed, had Germany actually been able and willing to. Ciliax by then served in as many navies as most of the German naval staff and people like Raeder were more prominent. Overall though, you'd still stay away from living people, given that it'd require some immense accomplishments and I doubt Hitler would ever want a to go this far in establishing a personality cult around other people.

This. I already dislike Odin because it's such a silly name (even if it was used once). Why not name it after some German generals or admirals or something like the others?

Eh. Most have decent benefit, unless they are absolutely unsuited for the class or type of ship. And regarding concealment, I'd argue that concealment mod isn't the sole slot where one module dominates its competition. Same could be said about Main Armaments Mod. Like, the alternatives are basically only in use for very special ships, usually ships like Perth or Lazo that get a ton out of spotter plane. But similarly, cases like Mogami or Yoshino exist, where people swear by double rudder build (personally, I rather go for Concealment). Tripling your flak bursts would be a huge deal if avoiding flak wasn't an exercise where 3 buffs are no harder than 1. They'll typically always spawn in front of you. Don't change course, one buff wrecks your squadron already. Change course, you avoid all of them. Assuming you get situations where flak spawns right ontop of your planes, three buffs are also hardly more lethal than one, as buffs spawn next to each other, not ontop, so a plane isn't just caught in three explosions, but usually just one. Choice for slot 3 usually is AA mod, secondary mod or aiming systems mod and for a DD, aiming systems mod can help a lot with torpedu tube traverse, making them a good bit less sluggish at times.

Glorious AA BB, after AA was again moved over more towards flak buffs. Also, in general, no, flak buff upgrade is blergh most of the time. Would take it at most on cruisers that don't need the accuracy, but even on DDs, torp tube traverse is better. The reason to me is the following: Does the enemy avoid flak buffs? Yes. => Well, 2 more don't make it really any harder. No. => Base amount of bursts that spawn in his way will wipe them already. No change in AA ever changed that logic. And the only thing I get from last patch is, why use defAA? Enemy flies into the buff, they likely already die, defAA just makes it absolute oneshot overkill. They avoid flak buffs, well, 50% is a joke.

This month, yes. Mostly before and after CB, while waiting. Maybe I'll update the game at some point and derp around, but for the most part, I'm done with getting every week one or more ST announcements/patch notes/livestreams where WG f**ks up another part of the game. Cyclones in CB is kind of like what did it for me now.

Flag design may look eh, but good luck making a Pan-European flag yourself. What symbols are on it? The current design is like the most non-controversial you could make by making it a circle that surrounds Europe on a map that even leaves open if countries like Turkey are just on it because they go in there or because they are just inside the circle like North Africa. And where in an Axis vs Allies design would you put Sweden and Spain? Among the minors of Europe, both are among the most likely to contribute anything to a common line or to premiums.

I just don't care too much about certain people. And while I would associate a certain someone with CV secs (and mocked them for it before when brawling their CV ingame), people speccing whatever BB for secondaries is nowhere as unusual as that I associate it with certain people.

Well, last I looked at it, they were mid-range. And I'd start the game to check the implications for post-0.8.7 Texas, but that'd require me to actually install an update for a game I rather not play.

If you look at ships ingame, it should be at least 88 mm. I don't know any ships with AA guns inbetween 76 mm and 88 mm, but 76 mm constitute mid-range on ships like Des Moines, Worcester, Minotaur and Ohio, while 88 is the long range of ships like Kaiser and stock König and Roma has 90 mm long-range.