Elenortirion

more of BBs than DDs recently I'd say

well, personally, while she was not bad character, at least in anime she wasn't a best fleshed out one as well for sure. I mean - even kongo feels much deeper character than iona, and considering her "must.follow.the.code" attitude for like whole first season thats something on the other hand though alotta of people were fascinated over CC from code geass, or that blue-haired chick from evangellion, when in both cases characters were imo even more shallow than iona, so maybe indeed it may be sorta weird for no one to have iona as his favourite....

I have heard that they play.... INTO YOUR FACE kind of a game

I wouldn't care ^-^

my BB friend was once bored and have calculated himself "ballistic tables" and he claims that is accuracy was much better when he used them after some patch things has been changed [somehow] in a way that he needed to recalculated and at this time he was just too lazy for it I usually go by eye

dunno how others but I'm hiding in my very sneaky kagerou [until wild radarboat appear or something]

hmmm indeed for rankeds it may ba tad bit too much influential even when restricted to hits damaging ship magazine...... welp I've swapped flag for magazin modification 1 on my kagerou yestarday and still no detonation and I was under heavy fire few times.....

call me weirdo but that picture of yamato detonating never cease to amuse me.... so nice kaboom over there [me want in in WoWs, yamato sploding it's ammo magazine should be visible 5 maps away! ]

if you take fubuki's concealment module away, even hatsuharu gets stealthier penetration buff for he shells would be nice recently I have found out the hard way that 127mm guns do not pen that 21mm gearing belt plate xD

isn't that last one yamato?

so I started stashing throught my saved screenshots..... not exacly as required but very close this one is so old that I don't really even remember the match itself, ranked season 2 if memory serves..... another one darn close to the goal [so I'll post it as well ] this on Iactually remember - it was my first match after rebuying furutaka after the change that made her hull c having 3 twin turrets instead of 6 single ones the beggining was bad as the game crashed on loading screen and when I have loaded up after restart the first thing I have seen was enemy BB darn too close at this point. before I had a time to do something about it BB was removed out of equasion by friendly DD - then we chased off one of their DDs who wished the cap out base and then I have set off against ishizuchi and his friends who were pushing right flank [myogi, marblehead and karsruhe] - with help of other teammates who died in the process we have managed to kill of all of them but ishizuchi who chased me out of the base into the islands - I remember I was very proud of my work on dodging his salvos for the most of time in the end though I ended up last person alive, zuiho got few nasty hits on me kaiser moved into very dangerous position and ishizuchi have last hitted me while poorly trying to mock me on how poor my damage to him was [21k in the post battle screen] and that would be all I've found within my stored screenshots, which I find weird as I thought I was screenshotting every case where I've found my performance outstanding and I vaguelly recall more of cases where I had more expies than winning team folks..... probably forgot to tap that screenshot button

meanwhile I'm sitting here wondering what that belfast was firing at that fiji to deal to little to no damage to it xD [potatoes maybe?]

well she has better base concealment than fubuki, what is making up for the difference though is concealment module to which fubuki has access while hatsu - has not. On the other hand I was enjoying very much torpedo reload consumable in hatsuharu I don't say that hatsuharu is best ship evah or anything like that - I was just enjoying her very much, while alot of people constantly whine how bad ship she [and mutsuki] is interesting piece indeed - for once I find a certain discord between the information from leaks and between how optimystic WG seems to be on that rework - I mean they claimed on the very beggining that they are using oportunity to bring up popularity of these ships, meanwhile the leaked stats are in many cases... doubtfull out of things that would aid those destroyer against cruisers.... [and could not be visible in the leaked stats] I totally don't think that they will be buffing armor there is no consumable they could get that would aid a destroyer against the cruiser is AP shell krupp value in leaked stats? I thought it was.... well maybe some hidden AP stat affecting performance? maneuverability - the time to speed up or slow down, speed bled off on turns could technically help dodging cruiser shells survivability of modules while nice thing... I'm not sure how much they would have give there for me to "engage against cruisers alot better" ... what if.... IJN DDs were to receive special AP shells having RN bouncing angles? [and fuse times while at it?] I don't think these things were mentioned in datamined stats at all.... EDIT: I've watched the vid [finally] and he explicitely mentions "surviving the knifefights" just before mention of engaging cruisers..... so maybe it would be indeed something survivability related

and after that we can ask crew of Musashi what they have to say on effectiveness of Anti-aircraft artillery jokes aside I agree that the use of HMS hood as an argument was poor choice of arguments even if it's one of the main things why WG have included magazine detonations in World of Warships and as my opinion goes they should stay, but should have been fixed to roll that chance of detonation only when magazine area has been hit [as it used to in the past] or even going step further - only when magazine area receives the damage

interesting bit of info although I fail to see that "generally japanese ships perform better than usn ones on most tiers" [interesting thing is that apparently from t6 upward IJN Destroyers lands in all "worst ships" if WG see it and still wants to proceed with nerfing them then it would mean we are dealing with developpers hypocrisy at it's best >.> ]

totally not my type interestign character but hey I thought that's not what you meant by "favourite" well I "like" iona as I do "like" 75% of ARP characters still as "Favourite" was in question none of them can compete with akizuki

actually I have found both ships mentioned in that post really enjoyable...... [people are weird]

well I think it is safe to assume that WG have done something weird to detonation mechanics as in last two days I have seen more detonations happening than in previous YEAR xD

so I am not the only one who sees "celebrities" sailing unreeased ships?

actually.... why not? everyhing that has primary armament can get it's magazine detonated, [so everything except CV] actually considering things I think that either WG have recently bugged those detonations out to think whole ship is one floating primary artillery magazine or have stealthchanged it at some point to make BBs more detonable....

I have seen today viceadmiral123 guy and strefs.... in akizuki...

well since I am playing kagerou, not shima and using stock 10km torps, not type F3 my advices on a matter may not be 100% accurace since we all know some major differences between the boats.... introduction of missouri won't change much in my feeling - just another radarboat to keep an eye for showing up, just happen to be a battleship instead of cruisers what I always do on the baginnign of a match is to check enemy team list for radar boats and hydro boats, and when spotted I try to keep my distance to them - if I make a torping run in their proximity I try to not give them any reasons to suspect me being there and using radar [smokescreen this sort of things ] and I am always ready for emergency bailout under fire if they smash that radar button. and ofc when spotted I tag all radarboats for my team to concentrate fire, sometimes [if I can spare time typing] I add in teamchat that it's is radarboat and that I need him gone asap I hope I somewhat helped

[1] as wrong as the only bit of official information gets as for gif - the way how the cleveland position "jump" after said detonation would suggest to me some desyncing being a case at that point of time meaning "we have no idea where the part of game engine responsible for detonations thought the ship is beign hit" and then I agree detonations should not be tirggered by any hit randomly around the ship, it should only have a chance fo detonation when area where amunition is present is being hit [maybe damaged] and then I want kaboom worthy of magazine detonation welp ok I admitt that while I don't no-life like some other people so I am most of the time totally ok with amounts of flags I get from "how long I play ranked till I get bored of it" to last till next rankeds, and then there is always that magazine modification with -70% chance for magazine detonation which is cheap as crap and other stuff on the slot is not more usefull than that when you think about it..... [personally I don't use it for the sole reason of flags being -100% and being there, but I can get a roll with it instead of flag on kagerou for science

except those 'bad" bb players still contributed to a match more than adequatelly "bad" cruiser/dd/cv player......

I'd bet real money for all torps hitting into bow section which got depleted with a first torp hittign it and all hail damage saturation mechanics!