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Also love the Fiji, very nice ship. Best british silver cruiser imo.

Problem of Hipper is the matchmaking, the ship itself is ok. Unfortunately you face TX 50% of the time which means you are dead very quickly.

German: Very challenging, only ship really worth it in my opinion is Hindenburg. They have the strong Hydro, very useful for divisons. Königsberg is ok, you can have a lot of fun with it, if you are not uptiered which you are 65% of the time. Nürnberg can be ok as well, Flamu made a video after the buff this week, nice if you like a challenge, it is just too fragile for me. York, ok but nothing special. I have to try it after the recent HE buff. Hipper, semi-ok ship but in a very bad spot due to matchmaking. It just falls apart if any TX just looks at you funny. Roon, also an ok ship but Saint Louis is just better imo, except the hydro. Japanese: Good line. All of the ships are competitive. Zao is one of the best cruisers imo. British: Very special, not suited for soloing, best played in division. Can be very devestating but also extremely squishy. Minotaur is a funny troll ship. I wouldn't touch it until you have at least played one other cruiser line to TX. French: Mediocre until TVI including. Algerie is an ok / good ship. TVIII + TIX are the best cruisers on their Tier imo, for raw damage / fun at least. I haven't reached Henry IV yet. USA: It is an ok line. It has very bad ships, like the TVII and it has nice ones like Baltimore & Des Moines. Cleveland is very special, ideal for divisons, for escort or your friends playing CV. They have a completely different playstile compared to other lines for TIX and TX though. They more close combat than long range artillery. Russian: Tricky one. Best artillery imo but quite squishy. They have very strong radar from TVIII+ I don't play it at all although I leveled it to Moskva. Wouldn't be my first choice. Some people like Chapayev very much.

I agree it is very difficult but something must be done about these one sided team setups with one side getting completely steamrolled. Makes you want to not play solo at all anymore. And then people complain about too many divisions and that being unfair etc. At least balance so that each side has the same number of battles in aggregate roughly, that could help at least a little.

Even evil OP Gremlin can't carry potatoe team to victory.

I thought the last one "Newport" was a bit too hard and this one is a bit too easy. I am actually thinking whether a fighter layout Ryujo would be useful for this mission, strike layout worked ok though.

It is probably an issue of connecting PTS accounts with live accounts why they have to go through this awkward pick-up.yourself mechanism.

Unfortunately shitweather simulator screws most cruisers hard. But also gunboat DDs and CVs. WG ensists it is a fun & engaging gameplay mechanic. Go figure but they also think RPF is what the game needed. Anyway, excuse my rant, best thing you can do is group up with a BB, maybe another cruiser. Then you have a kill group and a pretty good chance. Form groups of 2-3 ships and try to kill the enemy one by one. Works often in random. Its not fun but at least you don't get screwed completely.

Mostly play T IX and TX destroyers, because I enjoy these the most at the moment, French cruisers, part levelling, part fun and occasionally Bismarck, Iowa and a few premium BBs.

The new buffed Iowa, I like! Ok not my best game but still ok.

For PVE I think rewards are ok, you can get flags and 10 point commaner and if this is mode is popular with players they will expand it I expect. Recommend Perth.

Honestly this I am spotted by a plane I can't see was very annoying. If it hurts CVs, maybe they need some adjustment. We are still waiting for the promised big CV rework whilst WG is busy releasing premium carriers.

If they bring a balanced and reasonable CV rework, I will play more CV again. If they introduce a line of BBs with radar DDs are dead anyway. So why not play CV instead and counter BBs.

Ok from my recent experience, in TV ship you are low tier in 65% of games as opposed to 30% in a TVI ship.

She will constantly fight TVII BBs due to WG fun & engaging matchmaking. At 23 knots, good look competing with Gneisenau. So either she has massively OP guns and armor or she will just be useless in 70% of games.

If this goes through most DD players will just stop playing and BBs can camper sniper it out in reverse mode between themselves. Matchmaking looks like this: 3 CVs 847 BBs 2 CA 0 DD.

I don't think they will release BBs with Radar. That would be immensely powerful and harmful to other classes like DDs....Oh wait they already did. I quite enjoyed DDs lately but if they bring a whole line of RN BBs with radar, that is it for me. Bye bye WoWs.

Feeback on raptor: Needs major rebalancing. Not doable with normal potatoes.

Well, I guess the French cruisers are not meant for BB escort role. They are supposed to snipe and burn from max distance because that is fun & engaging for everyone.

It is World of Battleships, read the advertising by WG. BB cry babies are their main audience, every other class can fight for the scraps.

If you want this game to die and deteriorate even faster as it already is due to normal TX game being 50% capital ships, then by all means nerf the cruisers. They are so numerous and cannot be touched by BB babies.

Yes that piece of trash needs definitely nerfed. Btw wait until you meet Kutuzov which melts you from smoke with impunity.

Yeah Killer Whale needs some serious work. Not fit to be released in this form.

Unplanned maintenance at the moment?

Balancing is way off, no way to win this with normal player potatoes. I am just going by what I see in random games as I don't play coop. Fighting TVIII BBs with aim assist with a single TV or TVI battleship in the team. Good luck!