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Fubuki is stealthy enough to torp most cruisers and BBs and still quite competitive wth others on the tier. And neither is great at fighting other DDs. That third launcher is not worth the 300 m or so concealment advantage, imo.

Akatsuki is a decent ship. Concealment is mediocre, but the rest is solid. Minekaze is also not that bad. I have the opposite impression. Hatsuharu has slightly better gun reload (on an IJN DD...) but nothing that justifies having only two launchers instead of three (on an IJN DD). Hatsuharu feels pretty lackluster compared to Fubuki.

Asashio exists.

T6 is where it starts becoming mandatory to run CE. T8 is where you have people who run around in T10 matches, who have a fully modded ship, likely most relevant captain skills, adept at using radar, knowledgeable on most important detection ranges, with concealment advantages across the board unless they are Russian. If the T8 person has just any idea how to handle their ship, it's pretty clear how that fight ends. Well, congrats for not being dumb. I think apart from the original comment you are quoting being in regards to the introduction of British BBs, I don't see the point of your comment. T8 ships mostly get the tools to deal with getting by in T10 matches. T6 doesn't get anything against T8. T8 BB armour and DD concealment can hold up vs T10 ships (except in cases where even T10 ships don't hold up to it, like with Yamato). T8 cruisers only lack the heal, to the point some T9s are almost a repeat of the T8 with heal (and an Atago doesn't even lack that). T6 BBs against T8 BBs is just an utter joke, given how the T8 just has to angle and can overmatch the T6 every single salvo. T6 doesn't even get workable secondary builds. T6 DDs I already highlighted above how screwed they get. T6 cruisers, yeah, well... the only real reason they might suffer a bit less is because most of them disintegrate as soon as a BB looks at them funny, so you start to appreciate threats by how often they throw how many shells of RNG at you. Still wouldn't want to be the T6 cruiser against T8 cruiser, because most don't hold up well there either (Aoba vs Mogami? Nürnberg vs Hipper? La Galissoniere vs Charles Martel?).

I think this is not a bug. As to Hatsuharu, it's not a terrible ship, just unexciting. Some claim Shiratsuyu is better, though I prefer Akatsuki. At least Shiratsuyu gets the torpedo reload booster for silly antics. Ultimatively, there is the Akizuki and that's why someone plays that alt-line normally. Hatsuharu isn't good, but it's not garbage either.

Even then the claim would be that it was once planned as an oiler, but was repurposed either during construction or prior to construction. It's no oiler. And in the game, it also is in a carrier version, not an oiler version. By such logic, Kaga is a battleship.

So, with Cossack at T8... will it get a concealment nerf, or will it get Concealment Mod 1 for 5.1 km detectability? That'd be pretty insane for a DD with 4x2 12 cm guns. RIP Kagero.

Provide a contrary source then.

ST. British destroyer Cossack, tier VII. The destroyer is gaining one tier from VII to VIII and her stats are modified accordingly: HP pool increased from 14800 to 15200 She also receives a Smoke generator consumable similar to that of Edinburgh's: Action time: 15 s Smoke screen dispersion time: 106 s Reload time: 240 s (160 s for premium equipment) Charges: 2 (3 for premium equipment) Stats are subject to change during the test. Please note that this is the first time the ship is going to be tested in such configuration. Updated: On tier VIII the ship retains her 4x120 mm main battery turrets and Hydroacoustic Search consumable

Hosho was originally planned as a seaplane tender, but constructed from the start as a carrier.

I honestly did not know that heavy cruisers had an issue killing DDs by just switching to HE and I'm still not convinced it really is a good change. I mean, yes, DDs shouldn't get countered as hard by BB AP, but did DDs need to be more fragile against everything else? Were they now somehow too tanky? If the Akizuki and the German secondaries needed buffs, would it be too hard just upping their specific pen values?

Is Colorado any better in firepower than the Nagato? I know it has better turning radius and has a tankier armour scheme and heal compared to Nagato's speed and highest silver hp. But gun-wise?

Yes.

No, there are genuine people who play over several thousand battles and average around 40% WR. You see them on the boards at times.

Langley was a collier, Hosho was a purpose-built carrier. Neither is a fleet oiler. I want my fragile, niche use, slow af ships in this game, because they were in WWII, they had a role and noone cares that they don't fit into the game as we know it. Just have WG overhaul the game mechanics, then fleet oilers will fit in perfectly and be a great addition for anyone who doesn't mind the absolutely boring gameplay and the tendency to die fast if discovered. I bet they don't have much better things to do anyway and fleet oilers are important!

Great, now I feel depressed.

So were fleet oilers. Playable fleet oilers when?

It flies into the next zone before detonating, because of how small DDs are. Unless you buffer like half the ship, in which case, DDs will have a very fun time with half their ship being no-hp black holes that just soak up incoming shells from all classes, including other BBs and cruisers.

Sadly, this mechanic really only affects DDs in any meaningful way. Most other ship classes posess enough armour and hp to not really care, if they ever even get overpenned in multiple sections. And if you add a buffer with armour, congrats, you now eat an overpen and a pen, because you are back to having enough armour to arm the AP shell. Your AP shell by overpenetrating one section and penetrating a second will now do almost half the full damage, instead of like 20% from overpenetrating two sections.

Currently, you'd need IFHE for 105s to damage DDs (these are on Bismarck/Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Friedrich der Große). With the armour nerf, IFHE won't be needed. Typically, none of these ships would pick IFHE though, because it's too little gain for the investment (compared to IFHE on Kurfürst/Gneisenau, where 128 mm guns can pen 32 mm plating of BBs with it). So, given no Bismarck is likely to run IFHE, currently 105s are scary to look at, but no great threat. With the changes, they'll become absolute DD killers, because they make up the majority of Bismarck's secondaries and fire much faster than the 15 cvm guns.

No. In the past, it was the case that you needed Standard enabled and you'd get standard lines and special VA, if your captain had those. This prompted suggestions to get National Voiceovers to be fixed so it also worked with special captains. Thus came "National Voiceover+". If you have a normal German captain now, it gives you normal German lines. If you have Hipper or Thea, you get their lines if they are on this ship. If you wanted to have Nelson on every ship, you pick the option "Azur Lane - Nelson" and you get Nelson forever. Before National Voiceover+, you basically had to manually switch around if you wanted National Voiceover for your normal ships, but special lines for special captains. You also get all the ARP voices there, even if you have no ARP captains. Pretty much the cheap way to get anime voices.

Pretty much. On the other side of the extreme would be something like my typical Harekaze games, as I have 60% WR, but only 38k damage average. Had games where I got that much damage, but it was 3 DD kills. Last night I had a game where I had about 20k damage, but 3 solocaps and a cap assist. High damage typically comes either if someone's dumb enough to eat the torps, or if I try farm some BB for a minute or two with fires and then AP in the superstructure. Obviously though, it's always a question of "how important is it that this BB dies or is forced away" vs "what else could I do in this time that might have greater impact".

Worth adding that apart from non-IHE Akizuki, the 100 mm secondaries on the Kii (if secondary specced, but rare) and the 105 mm German secondaries (where secondary spec is quite common) can absolutely shred DDs now.

I picked the Akizuki for comparison, because it's the T8 that is silver and likely best known for its absurd anti-DD capabilities if it doesn't eat a torp. Personally, I prefer Harekaze (not just because I don't own an Akizuki), because it doesn't eat torps as often and with 5.4 km concealment and 3/4 of the gun power of an Akizuki, you do frequently become the DD assassin when put against lower tier DDs. It might also not register as a gun threat to some folks, because it is rarely on sale, it's Japanese and there's far more content on Akizuki's absurd gunnery than about the odd Harekaze. and a good few people pick the A or C hull. But against T6 and T7 DDs, Harekaze pretty much eats them alive. But I didn't want to go straight to comparing it with premiums, because then there also is Kidd and Loyang, who are already dominating T8 ranked Dd gameplay and with lower tiers and likely fewer radars, they are much more potent. Asashio is more a BB issue than a DD issue. Most Asashio's are retarded af, as is the ship design. Asashio van spot DDs, but that's mostly it. Against lower tiers, it has a chance of gunning them down, but it's the #1 priority for the entire enemy team to kill and it cannot torp DDs. Anti-DD it straight up is a worse Kagero and noone called the Kagero a strong anti-DD ship. It's not like the other options that have worse detection ranges (but still edging out T6-7), but upon stumbling on them, you practically are dead before you get out of detection range again because of how fast they work you over. Heck, DDs can just smoke up and sit in the smoke and not care.

I'd recommend just trying to improve. Move onwards to the next tier when you make comfortable credit gains on your current tier. Just watch some of those youtubers or read about stuff on the boards and you'll see, you'll make credit gains.