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Let's say, I find the new one more noob-friendly and likely less frustrating for all the wrong reasons... Then again, old North at least had a D cap, so people going there weren't as useless as people are now. And I kind of never thought "Hey, it'd be really cool if one could shoot through this centre island.

Dunno, I found the WoWS and Hokey being for true men in a the pop up message a bit more silly. Guess it's aimed at a male audience?

Muh 20 km torps and weeb reasons, I guess?

I mean, against potatoes, it works. But potato Kamikazes aren't more of an issue than potato Minekaze players. Or potato DDs in general. The issue is when the Kamikaze knows what is doing, you are just wasting smokes being useless, while the Kamikaze can be useful while trying to passively spot you time and time again till you are dead. Because if you cannot get the Kamikaze kill, what exactly did you contribute? Nothing. You didn't harm any other ship (which would give your position away and thus spoil the surprise on Kamikaze hunt and the 6 km torps are of questionable value compared to proper torp boats). You also can hardly teamplay with your ship, as the smokes are crap and while breaking and trying to reestablish contact, you are disrupting any spotting.

Explains 2 out of 5, not the other 3. Even if SEA has a IJN bias with 4 ships, they managed to get Worcester in.

Alaska is no Conqueror though. Yes, the citadel allows you some dumb crap, but let's be real, you aren't going to outbrawl the citadel-less BBs, if they are smart. Even something like an Amagi could easily just angle and lolpen you through the bow, stern or anywhere and deal massive damage in normal pens. And unlike other T9 USN cruisers, you don't have a lot of dpm to throw around. And you can compare Alaska and Kronshtadt also to T9 cruisers, most still holds true. What's a Kronstadt going to do to a Roon that knows how to stay angled? Overpen the superstructure? Similarly, the only ship at T10 that might be T11 is Stalingrad, so singular. Salem is very much a sidegrade from Des Moines, to some a downgrade. I consider Stalingrad OP, but Kronshtadt and alaska, while powerful, are basically the Graf Spees of T9. And few will tell you Graf Spee is OP, though it has massively more hp than any other T6 cruiser, can overmatch T6 cruisers (while the T9s cannot do such to their peers), doesn't have BB dispersion like Kronshtadt and likely is more tanky compared to its peers than Kronshtadt is. If you want proper powercreep in free xp boats, Missouri and Musashi, basically are T9.5. But the T9 cruisers are pretty ok.

So, other servers got better ship priorities in general, because not like they got the ships any sooner? I wouldn't consider an ultimate star saver, nor the ultimate competitive pick. It certainly isn't a ship I'd want on my team more than once or maybe twice, as long as there are enough radar cruisers. That's at least my limited experience. Value increases the more Moskva/Stalingrad/Kurfürst the enemy brings.

You expect a lot from a company that is still selling Giulios and mostly just excluded CVs, because in CB they cannot be mirror-matched. And guess what that would mean. Any clan with a good CV player basically craps on those without a good one or without a CV at all. With Giulio, it is a BB, it gets mirror-matched in Ranked and given it still gets sold, official policy is not that the ship is OP. And purely arguing they must do something because it'd be the sensible thing to do will lead to quick disappointment when WG proves to you that they can and will do whatever they think is proper, regardless of what some or the majority of the community says.

Frankly, as long as BBs can have citadel immunity, I don't give a damn if this ship has citadel immunity at close range. The cruisers that get most affected are the likes of Kronshtadt, Stalingrad, Moskva, which already get to be tanky af, while most others don't have to care much. Dpm machines like Mino, Des Moines and Worcester will just outtrade this ship like they outtrade angled cruisers (not like Worcester or Mino can reliably citadel anything at range anyway), while Zao and Henri can burn the ship down and even Hindenburg can either go for the HE dpm contest or AP into the side. Might not cit-delete, but when you shave off a third of the hp every 9.7 seconds, that's still a lot. I'd agree, unreachable citadels are dumb, but if BBs can have it, then cruisers shouldn't be the complete victims, as it's already the case that cruisers are the class that gets crapped on by all the newest toys of other classes.

Also while they increased the hp of above water modules a bit, it still shouldn't prevent that you can sit perfectly broadside and still not get citpenned. This should still be doable, whereas Kronshtadt basically just blows up in this situation. Also, funnily enough, I'm not even all up in arms about this, because lack of reachable citadel is basically already a standard for BBs and vs cruisers Alaska just gets wrecked by the massive dpm if it doesn't watch out.

Vs T10, Bismarck still has the best T8 armour, which, tbf, holds up better than half the T10s under fire. Unlike T8 cruisers, T8 BBs already get the last defensive upgrades, namely the switch from 25 mm light plating to 32 mm light plating (while cruisers only get their last plating upgrade at T10 and also get repair party at T9). Yes, Bismarck is the lowest threat, but it still is a threat. Catch an enemy cruiser broadside, your shells still hurt. A lot. Heck, against most T10 cruisers, Bismarck barely even makes a difference in overmatch compared to stuff like Montana, Conqueror and Kurfürst. Only Des Moines and Hindenburg sport partial 27 mm plating, rest is either too thick to even get overmatched by the T10s named or 25 mm, like Zao extremities, Worcester sides, Henri everywhere, Moskva upper bow, Mino is a joke. Certainly, Bismarck cannot go all in on T10, to the degree it can do when up vs T6, but it still is the sturdiest T8 BB with guns that can hurt and secondaries that aren't amazing, but can be annoying. Bismarck still can be a threat and can take up key positions to get effective map control, like any other BB. It's harder to kill nature likely makes it even better at it then an Amagi or Richelieu which have to be extra careful, as when a Worcester starts spamming them, they lose much more hp before getting out and they have less than Bismarck to begin with.

And how do you avoid getting permaspotted and blapped by some BB? With no radar, the Kamikaze can just stay 5.8 km or so away from you and be perfectly fine keeping you spotted, all the while launching torps. You push up, Kamikaze retreats as it is faster. You fall back, it follows, until you retreat past your BBs/cruisers, at which point, what screening? And no DD is agile enough to forever dodge BB shells without taking damage. I'd take Emile Bertin over Omaha, because 39 knots of speed. Put a speed signal on and DDs can hardly outrun you. Ships like Acasta cannot even outrun your base speed when they put the signal on.

I mean, Acasta cannot outspot nor outrun a Kamikaze. It can just eventually die to the Kamikaze's div mate in Giulio.

Alright, I didn't think I'd ever have to tell someone, but how about you play more BBs? Then you know, yes, you might fire out to like 20 km, but hitting anything out there is difficult and you basically are being a useless burden. And that for a class like BBs, which basically specialise in raw damage output, sustain and as a consequence in area control, which you cannot do from 20 km away. Meanwhile DDs are low visibility ships, which are more geared towards scouting, harrassment and ambushes with guns or torps and the main gun range is not what causes issues. And given you are such a smart cookie about different playstyles, please tell me which DDs don't have scouting as part of their jobs. Which DD with what proper playstyle does not go in front to scout for cruisers and BBs?

Noone knows. Eventually.

The issue with that is, you lose time and ideally, cruisers and BBs react to DDs, not the other way round. So, basically, you can end up with people who also wait to see, or who outright abandon the flank, because they consider the DD to not be up to the task. After all, if you as a DD commit early, it is way easier to stop and turn around if you see noone's following. A Bb committing to where no DD is yet is way harder to turn around when you realise the Dd really has no intention of going there.

There's an Oshiro Project collab in the works, so castle girls. Don't ask me why... Also, where's my AL Hipper flag?

I can already see, after the sharks vs eagles event, this will be the next thing to divide the clan. "Wait, is that a Purrfürst flag you are flying? Not flying doggo flag? Shame on you! Get outta here!"

With 800 something games, that player has maybe 1-2 lines in the higher tiers and none with radar. I got my first non-premium radar ship well beyond the 1k if not even 2k mark. And unless you have a radar ship, the game itself doesn't tell you ingame what kind of duration, number of consumables, etc radar has. For all intents and purposes, the game doesn't even tell you that radar exists. So, for these people to learn, they either have to go search the wiki (if they know that such exists) or go on the boards... which they did. So, I'd hold back with such criticism.

You don't need to bother with this content if you don't want to. It's opt-in, not opt-out. Ovechkin has good bonuses, but is basically just a captain skin the CV camo can be missed out on without any real issues and Kitty Purrfürst flag is a bloody flag that very very very likely, just like all the other flags, doesn't give anything in bonuses. It's there so we now can show whether we are a cat person (Purrfürst flag) or a dog person (Year of the Dog flag), I guess. Or can we expect another post like this for the Halloween event? Not that I care much about the "realism" (having every HSF commander with Akeno and Thea duplicates and every aL commander twice, with Nelson and Cleve thrice, one Dasha and one Ovechkin are a joke in comparison), especially given the game itself is inherently unrealistic.

How so? Unlike the first GZ that was sold, the ship didn't get ninja-nerfed into the ground and never really was good to begin with. Unlike current GZ, it isn't really broken. Might be more like the Huang He award.

I have no clue who Ovechkin is, except a Russian hockey player, because I could guess as much from announcements. Frankly, I don't care much. I guess this is how other people felt about HSF content, though I won't complain about hockey.

My, oh my... Oh my... Bismarck useless? I don't know what BBs you have, but I really doubt you can call the ship useless. For good players, other T8s might be more desireable, but the ship itself really has no issues. It's a very solid ship. Most T8 BBs are. The secondaries are indeed not the best, but the hull is kind of better than Massachusetts. Bismarck isn't vulnerable to fires any more than other T8 BBs. All T8 BBs have the same fire resistance, only influenced by equipping Damage Control Mod 1 and Fire Prevention skill. So, it might be you don't spec other ships for secondaries and take Fire Prevention instead? Or it's just bad luck. For HE spam, Bismarck takes far less damage than any other T8 BB (except Tirpitz, for obvious reasons), as while the superstructure can be penetrated by HE, that is still less area to be farmed than on, say, Amagi, Richelieu or Monarch where pretty much the entire ship is vulnerable to HE penetrations. And superstructure at some point runs out of hp too, whereupon the damage to your ship decreases. Bismarck's guns do fire faster. Just not Scharnhorst level faster, because they also aren't Scharnhorst level small (Scharnhorst guns really can be downright terrible when you have to deal with angled BBs or cruisers Bismarck pretty much handles like other BB guns). The accuracy is not great, but much of that is due to the unusual high velocity and you basically are not worse off than Richelieu or Gascogne... which get longer reload on as many guns. Or Roma... If you really want to keep secondaries, I'd recommend taking no BFT and take SI or BoS instead, for it reduces the impact fires have on your gameplay, as does Damage Control Mod 2 if you aren't using it already (and that nice lil signal flag to cut down fire duration). Bismarck overall is a close support ship. Angled, it tanks quite well and you can try to use 8 guns inbetween enemy salvos or when shooting at smaller ships that cannot reasonable punish your broadside. Secondaries are, as said, not great, but I use them to make up for the lack of damage when angled to maybe set fires on enemies (though against lower tier DDs and CLs, they can be absolutely lethal). Given Bismarck takes so little direct HE damage and has a hydro, so it is hard to torp, I know no better T8 ship to support a cap with up close. And I say support. So, with others, like DDs and cruisers. Bismarck can solo maybe 1-2 enemies in a cap, if they are massively weaker, but torp armed ships only if their torps are easy to avoid (e.g. Chapayev, Atlanta, Scharnhorst) or if hydro is up. Frankly, Bismarck is passable vs BBs. It's decent against everything except CVs. You just must not think that you can kill any BB fast. It's a brawler, but no Tirpitz, so you just stay angled, derp them with your guns to the best of your abilities and hope for fires. Obvious Tirpitz and Massachusetts can be annoying, as can other secondary and torp brawlers, but against ships like Amagi or NC, it's your best approach. Bow-in, you can tank most AP, but secondary fires don't care about armour. I had games where I earned an Arsonist because T10s thought it wise to just try keep bouncing off my bow from 8 km away, while getting set ablaze in several locations. Obviously, if you go broadside for a dpm contest, even the likes of Amagi will just handily wreck you. Kii might end you if you don't manage to citadel you in the broadside. Bismarck is a fun ship, my most played battleship and my second most-played ship overall and while I play other ships more these days, I do go back to Bismarck every now and then and find it a respectable performer that can hold its own in randoms and ranked. Tier for tier it is far more competitive than anything that comes after it anyway. I'd actually call that into question. While Massachusetts is certainly formidable with IFHE and its fast repair party CD, it overall is easier to damage and those 4 skill points that don't go into IFHE on Bismarck can be quite useful. From getting CE or FP to getting SI or BoS, it all helps make Bismarck a bit more rounded and tanky ship. 1v1, Massachusetts secondaries are better, but they only can pen the superstructure, the closer the ships get the more the trajectory will flatten out to the point they just ineffectively spam the belt with extra accuracy and if Bismarck gets the side, it can citpen Massachusetts with ease, the return is very unlikely. Tirpitz, if the torp tubes survive, obviously is even more likely going to win this.

I mean, the good players will just wreck the enemy team, the potatoes will sort themselves out by speed boosting into situations where every HE spammer will focus them and deplete the bad hp pool for T10. Or they'll AP spam some bow on Yamato that can take out 20k from normal pens per salvo.

How is the armour better? Good enough to survive HE spam or not get overmatched by Yamato that doesn't give a crap about those 32 mm BBs?