Elenortirion

not even really "top heavy" but having "slight stabilisation issues in open waters" and then wha we have got in game is her before refit in mention [she have things that were removed in this refit on in-game model, and she is lacking few AA guns that were added in that refit]

can I steal those pics? ^-^

old hatsu was much stealthier than current akatsuki and he seems to be upset about that....

indeed, same here

source?

I don't mind radar 100% revealing your ship I'd like radar/sonar requiring line of sight [ignoring smoke screens and other ships ofc] to reveal you to be precise - I'd like those things to stop goign throught the islands why? simply because if you beach your radarboat in correct places on most maps, you get uncounterable tactic to screw over all DDs in the area.....

for me usually I just burn out of will to play WoWs in the middle of season somewhere between first and second league just like you know one day I'm calculating how much starts a day I need to get that jolly roger flag finally, but on the next day while being just about to launch woWs just getting "meh I don;t feel like WoWs lets play something else" - and sticking to it till the end of season

well I must admitt that trying to handle aki as I do with my more all-rounder DDs [lel old kagero lel] brings me nothing but quick trip back to docks on the other hand playing her as I wanted to play my cruisers seems be working much better [definitelly better than playing cruisers in mention this way ] with that "dumbest thing to do" you mean starting to run away from aki after trying to rush her down, or aki yolorushing cruisers when the game is so late into lategame that there is nothing to loose at this point anyway? for my current experience, the worst thing a cruiser [of any tier] can do when facing aki is to show broadside I have once in an already lost match nbuked down over 75% hp roon, starting the fight with less than 1/3 of my hp - sicne game was lost anyway, and there was no other enemy ships in vincinity I just decided to die honoraburu way and ended up killing roon - both of us were just as much surprised by this output [his first salvo reduced me to scratch of health, and while he was reloading I just spammed ap shells in his beautifull broadside tryign to find the citadel, foudn it twice, rest was just regular pens but then ships that angle properly in short range are posing some difficulties, and I may change some of my assesment of the ship, when most of people will learn to angle against aki, even as a DD in longer ranges [between 10-12km range] it is not as much hurting as in this ranges you get mostly plunging hits anyway, where alot of them boucne of superstructure, and squash into deck already xD [PS. I am yet to find benson that will defeat my aki none of those I had oprotunity to vcombat, survived it regardless of the fact if I have or have not been finished off by his friends a seconds later ]

welp for moar supply of nicey fanarts I nly had to change what I was writing into google xD so the proper intopic veriant of offtopic remark of comso would be: MAKE IT SO! for fans of dem flurriers here's interesting akizuki conversion akizuki and shimakaze playing with their turrets aki got lil tad bit wet during excercises: now tell me - is it sad aki? or is that kinda bit different emotion on her face? off to WoWs I go to rekt some faces EDIT: am I doing it rite? EDIT2: admit it pervs, that you took most of the pic description in lewdy way

why there is so much so nice fanarts on kongo-takao, and I'm runnign out of nice akizuki pics so fast >.< soon I'll have to call few persons with drawing skills to make me more fanart pics of aki xD

personally I think super-akizuki class could be actually T10 of new split line although main support for this is historical precedence: as you all probably know, shimakaze was not really a "class" but single experimental ship meant to test out new engine type, on the basis of that experiment there was alter designed actuall class of ships, commonly labeled as "super-shimakaze" none of planned ships of this class were finished, most of those that were already during construction were to be converted into project V7 type destroyers [super-akizuki, akizuki kai, alotta of names for one ship project ] that would leave us with spare t9 slot and considerign what WG have done with main line t8-t9, similar treatment for split line is not so much out of question the main issue with this one though is that afaik, current in-game akizuki is already avaiblable in her latest "outfit" meaning that said t9 ship "buffs" would be mostly soft stat things....

yeah sometimes it reminds me of those funny moments on Roma: total war when enemy heavy infantry morale was breaking up in the mibble of them charging down your troops xD had already few cruisers behaving just like that against my aki [at first valiantly rushing toward me, because what a DD could possibly do to a cruiser, then after a barrage of those 100mm guns changing their opinion and starting to retreat.....] but then I must say that for the moment being my preliminary assesment stays true - the ship shines most when you are able to coordinate properly with other people in your team

from experience when my aki cap was in training I must say that Last Stand is a must have, a situations when this skill is the only thing between your aki sinking, and getting away to live up to next fire exchange just happen waay to often to pass on the skill as for the moment being the only "real gunboat" that have in 1v1 "riped me new one" was khabarovsk and it did so with torpedoes [no room to dodge these when you are in less than 3km from the guy launching them xD] and by now have been shredding to pieces fletchers, and bensons [in direct close range fire exchange such duels were leaving me with noticeable crippled hp though] also I think I've got few udalois by now bah I have even record of shredding to pieces a roon and being just a seconds from doing same to hipper, didn;t make it with hipper though because our team got 1k points 30 seconds to early the only gunboatey ship that is posing a threat to aki I haven't deleted in 1v1 yet is gearing, and thats because I never meet gearings in 1v1 - for some reason when this one is present in a match he is always acompanied by at least two other ships xD for the moment being as I have already had few matches when enemy CV tried to kill me, the only one that actually succeeded was hakuryu, lexis rarely tries, and when they do, they los enought of planes to me to reconsider their target choices and that hakuu that got me was tripple-crossdrp and while turning from the third salvo I've turned back into first one hence sinking - thee is a propability that if I changed direction of turning after dodging second dop I could have got away with it, I shall see when I'll meet competent haku again, as the last one I've met was using all his planes in sligtly scattered autodrops that even a child could dodge...... if multiple enemies are determined to continue pursuit for you then yeah I agree that if left alone aki is pretty much screwed up, although I had a few matches, ones of those where I've got topper of my stats for the moment being, when I have been left along [map strait cap B], disrupted a BB, cruiser and too shimas from cappign for a while[sitting on cap smoke firing on a BB mostly], and then after realising that I was left alone, I did managed to break away, and all enemy ships were too busy finishing up with caps to pursue me at this point I'm leaning toward saying that "universal DD job" is slightly misdefined, although I think that aki fits nicely into gextremegunboat on the scale from I think it was ichase's vid on differences between gunboat and torpedoboat, and I feel like agreeing with flamu [i think he have said it] that akizuki is goign to take tashkent's job I don't use HE often enought to justify demo expert, although AFT is very usefull skill, still working on getting points for CE overally in my experience with aki as long as I play it thoroughtly instead of yolorushing [this last one works only in end-game stages against single cruiser who dare to underestimate your guns, when you do not have anything really too loose anyway ] I seem to get her working nicely, still need to figure out how to get more expies as global average seems interestingly high atm, and I don't get cracked the formula of tactics to achieve it comfortably yet, although I think I've cracked the matter of how earn silver on the ship..... [took slightly longer than I'd like tbh xD]

I liked her after getting used to some CV oddities although I'll never again take a ryujo into rankeds xD maybe something has changed since my last check into WoT, but last time I checked single shell of those "gold ammo" have costed more than I was able to earn as t4 german medium tank and by the way, direct upgrade on t5 from this tank, while still being medium tank had a gun that is capable of oneshotting said t4 at any angle as long as the shell dont bounce.... [btw not sure how the HE munition on WoT worked depending on how it worked, it could be even oneshotting by default] and the infamous KV was capable of oneshotting said tank by a glancing hit throught one of forward track gears..... [imagine a BB being able to erase a cruiser with a hit going throught the tip of the bow on usuall basis - t5 BB doing so to most of t4 cruisers - just because]

considering that royal navy have run widly different doctrine on their aircraft carriers I'd say addition of these would be.... interesting addition

tooltip tells me that if I'll mount the aa mod 2 my aa rating will jump to 73 >.> I'm tempted to swap the mod just for the lulz akizuki don't sneak up on things, akizuki wreck things trying to sneak up on her! but then yea I agree that it's a tought choice between these two....

I'd also like to point out that with exception to shimakaze and aki herself all IJN DDs have no more than 15mm deck armor, so at certain ranges it may be quite easy to score he hits there [for quite a while I was kinda sure I'm somehow penning 19mm hull armor of kagero because of that] aki has there 19mm shimakaze 18mm haven't bothered checking other DDs for this yet but then when it comes to cruisers - I have a feel for my current aki experience that I get better damage on them by spamming AP into citadel area - those pens seems be more reliable than HE to superstructure, and I even had some cases of citadeling high tier CAs [roon to be precise]

for full AA spec I miss only module [using aiming mod instead] and it's already on 61 AA rating xD as for viability in practice - I am able to reliably shoot down planes of hakuryu, is haku choose to try to permaspot me and will leave planes within 3.7km from me, when she chose to drop me instead then I will get some but not enougth to mattter all that much but god take care of the pilots of ryujo task forces if their commander will order them to attack my aki - for these, for the first tiem since like forever I have wiped out whole sqaudron, before they could drop >.>

they aren't making these of aki, eh? btw I'd paste now here a pic of akizuki kai, oasting on how I have just elited her in WoWs, but then to my horror I have realised..... akizuki kai uses exacly same pic as base akizuki [according to kancolle wiki] thats a dissapointent kind of when fubuki in anime got her remodel and was like "eh did I changed or sth?" [and after poi got bigger displacement on remodel *cought cought*]

PINZ ARE YER REWARD!

that was answer to a guy who asked OP if he want RN ships nerfed - that RN does not have anything benefittign from this skill - so how it woudl be nerf to them [so pretty much we agree o nthis point ]

seems like OP lives in the january of current year with his mind

until wild HEAP captain skill cause screw these DDs in particular

it is and a big one I have not seen any in my last few hundred of games... some brainlessly stupid people, yes, but no afkers [aside from one friend of mine yesterday for whom game crashed in the middle of battle, before he managed to get it up, it was all over] and definitelly no bots. [even bot would have more balls than those people >.>] this is funny statement, sure botting player and persistent afket will have abysmall stats, but not all player with abysmall stats is afker/botter some poeple are just that much potato-players [for various reason, beginning from biological reasons within player himself, ending at those poor sould playing the games using their microwave ovens because of not being able to afford a PC as for your original question: yes it is too much to ask to just "ged rid of afkers/ botters" it is just as much to ask as if you asked WG to magically cure all sicknesses of modern word why? because while WG can pump alot of resources in any of these two, the outcome is beyond their power

it is