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Gimped T4 cruiser totally is T10 material if you just give it 40 T7 Yuudachi torps. Who doesn't want to steam around 2 minutes all the time doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING while the torps reload?

Colorado at T7 at least can slap around most other BBs with its guns though that are highly accurate. Kansas at T8 can't. It can derp a Montana broadside at you every 40s with the accuracy of a Massachusetts.

No. The issue with Conqueror AP and British BB AP in general is that for the shell caliber, the pen sucks and most ships are only mediocre in terms of accuracy. Combined with stupid powerful HE, it's easier to ignore the 2 key until you get close. Short fuze mostly just reduces overpens, theoretically if you sling an AP salvo at something broadsiding within mid range, you can expect a decent amount of pens. But at range, apart from missing a lot, citadels are rare on enemy BBs, dodging the AP shell isn't even hard for cruisers given how slow the shell is and you just don't get much out of it. But if you compare Conqueror for example to all other T10 BBs, it has the crappiest pen, joint second-worst accuracy (only Bourgogne is worse, but has higher shell output), shell velocity comparable to USN without being a superheavy high pen shell, normal 30s base reload. This AP shell is trash in every way except the short fuze (can be useful to delete the likes of Smolensk, though HE does it too). But these are recurring themes across the line. The only RN BBs that rely more on AP than HE (or at least can do that without utterly gimping themselves) are: Iron Duke when up against T5s can overmatch them anyway. Uptiered, HE it is. Queen Elizabeth has overmatch and accuracy. Also, worse HE than normal RN BBs with only normal fire chance. Pen is still trash though, but enough for the tier. Warspite has same accuracy and overmatch as QE, but even worse HE, so you get even less reason to spam HE. Pen isn't any better, but really, at T6, if you aren't WV, all big gun BBs have trash pen and just rely on overmatching weak parts. Hood has similar characteristics to Warspite, with better than average accuracy, overmatch, poor HE. Poor pen plagues the AP, but it gets improved pen angles to work. Relies on shooting weak parts really. DoY is iffy. It gets improved pen angles, but that alone doesn't overcome its AP woes really, especially with lower dpm. It has more reason to fire AP than KGV, but it's hard to call the AP even decent. Nelson has overmatch and accuracy. Pen is a joke though. Monarch, like QE has worse fire chance per shell (still best fire setting in tier) compared to other British BBs and the typical lackluster accuracy, but at least with a more modern 381 mm gun it can actually approach competitive levels of pen for T8. Still is the crappiest pen of any T8 15-inch gun besides the Vanguard, however given the limited range of the ship, the short fuze, decent shell velocity and short reload, pen still is sufficient and the ship can do decently well as a mid-range AP spammer. Vanguard, basically Monarch but accurate with 8 guns. Underwhelming pen, short reload. Thunderer combines short reload, insanely high accuracy, cruiser overmatch and good alpha to make the AP shell work. The pen, like with pretty much all ships listed before, is actually questionable... for a 457 mm shell. If you map it against Ohio, Kremlin or Yamato, this shell looks pretty poor. Good thing that it however still is decent when compared to 406 mm shells like Montana's SHS, and it basically thus has enough pen to punch hard. At range against BBs, you might at times rather load HE though. But yeah, as you might see, every ship in the faction with decent AP has one or more crutches to keep the AP performance afloat, be it overmatch, accuracy or just shell output. But as a consequence, every BB without anything special going for it (and access to RN BB HE with great characteristics) has far less reason to use AP. Especially if random player never gets close and just decides to grief enemy BBs from the map border.

People calling Yamato/Musashi/Shikishima citadel "hexagonal" seem to be people who heard that somewhere and just reiterate it without much further thought. Dunno, just seems that way. Because a simple counting exercise should reveal that (if you simplify it and disregard the three-dimensional nature of a citadel), it's an octagon, as it has eight vertices, not six. Fun fact, if you don't do a horizontal cross-section but a vertical one, either along the length of the ship or across the ship, it'd still end up (roughly) octagonal.

In general, not being uptiered would make IFHE more interesting, not less, because IFHE at T6 only loses value if you consistently beat up T5s or are up against T8s, former you don't need IFHE for and latter are laughing at your shells even with IFHE. What makes IFHE questionable is the meta though regarding ship types. BBs are the only ships at T6 that would need IFHE to be penned. Cruisers can be penned without IFHE and if it is CV meta, BBs might be rare.

2.0 sigma, 30s reload and T7 with an improved repair party. It ain't great, but at least the guns are nothing to complain about. Meanwhile 40s reload 1.7 sigma is a recipe for utter frustration. Sure, it may be lulz when you devstrike at times, but realistically, you most of the time crawl into position, to then miss your inaccurate slow af shells and then wait 40s to reload while watching the enemy focus you down.

Fuso can overmatch Iron Duke's bow and stern even. Most T5 BBs overmatch each other, given the tier has 19 mm minimal hull plating. Only stuff like Pyotr Veliky with mostly reinforced plating have much less to worry.

Harekaze.

Must have premium ships? Indomitable. It should teach you a lesson for thinking that anything here is "must have" and that you rely on others for opinions to this degree.

Good CV players lose interest when a DD persistently hides in ways that makes it clear that they are currently not contributing much to the team. If a DD goes wide to not get murdered, likely some other players already have more influence on the match and it's better if they die first. The DD can be wasted once they decide to try participate in the match again. It's not just about "easy" damage. It's about decisive damage. And flying around searching a DD that isn't doing much because they are hiding is not worth it, even over just farming damage on a BB.

You disengage by going back to port.

Still get overmatched through bow and stern.

*Laughs in Pensacola, New Orleans and Yorck*

Drake's design. Taken from stream.

At least Mainz looks realy nice. Personally I find the rest about as unexciting as their WG counterparts.

Yeah. Thank f**k people are just too dumb to announce it correctly.

Alsace and Pommern needed sigma nerfs to get 12 15-inch guns at T9. Thus Florida gets 12 15-inch guns at T7. Does it get like no armour and 1.2 sigma or how is this supposed to be balanced?

I cannot wait what absolutely brilliant concept these BBs get.

Less accurate (like Scharnhorst, not a supercruiser), 3s longer base reload (compounding with reload mod being not an option).

CAs. Better armour, better AP, better radar, less punished when uptiered.

Only has some of the best armour from T5 to T7 and acceptable from T8 to T10. Zao's armour is mediocre, main survivability woe is low hp pool.

I feel you. I'm also running out of ships to use my captains on, because let's be real, I don't keep the entire IJN tech tree around and premiums can share captains. As an upside though, you can switch the voiceover in general so everyone is Fubuki/Marine, even when playing other captains. I did that for the past two days, to get the most out of their lines and not feel restrained in what I play. But yeah, if I wouldn't have had two ships to put them on, not sure if I'd have bought them.

Ah yes, because it's unreasonable to question why even when you buff a class, because it is underperforming in this specific interaction, you need to nerf it at the same time. Because clearly, DD AA was the main issue. And that gives you what authority? You are acting as if I'd not play either or both classes, as if your DDs could get close to your CV performance or as if this would indicate less bias. None of that is the case. The fact you continue finding the nerf necessary is hilarious.

The new visibility settings don't make it really much harder to target a DD. Already before, you'd either pop a fighter ontop or you predict the path, as you flew a turn to set up an attack run, as only very few CVs were able to set up attack runs within the aerial spotting distance. Meanwhile, trying to use your AA ever is now a potentially massive liability. The difference between the two of us is that one of us actually can actually admit that their toy is broken, the other prefers to keep it that way. Go cry me a river.

Ah yes, after admitting CVs completely eradicated DDs in CB and that DDs are too hampered by CVs, let's follow that up with a grave nerf to the functionality of the bit of AA DDs have. WG at its finest.