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Maybe WG will give every BB enhanced HE? That's one way of solving the issue. AP to be essentially useless... Personally I think they should look at removing HE for all BBs and re examine sAP on RN BB to fit. Possibly less damaging to game balance than low skill HE spamming?

There's definitely fast BB power creep. Would really hate to grind USN BBs now...

Actually being alone in a slow BB is very simple. When your Cruisers and DD all yolo off at 30+ knots, you can be quickly isolated. Also you've clearly never spawned in a Colorado on the far side of Tears of the Desert away from the rest of the team...

Necro time but the more I play Missouri the better she gets. There's simply no need for a Monty as I'd give up 3 guns in exchange for a slimmer, better concealed, faster and most importantly a radar equipped BB. Once you learn how to push up close enough to radar but far enough away so you can dodge torps you will come to this conclusion too...

I want to play Gnesi as a fast mid ranged BB raider like a Stealth Tirpitz or what the Hood is like now. Whilst I can get Gnesi to work that way, she simply lacks both the guns and dispersion to carry this role off successfully all of the time.

I've played slow BBs T5 and T6 vs things like a Gnesi. It's a pretty powerless feeling being chased down by a faster, better armoured and armed ship... Nothing you can do as even angled their guns will punch through you. I imagine the above applies to Hood too as I farm then cr@p out of lower tier BBs in her.

Tell me about it, I only got to Khaba literally days before they nerfed her insane rudder... At least I own Gremy, Nikolai and Belfast! It's been clear for a long time WG don't play their own game other than for streams and when they let their staff loose occasionally to get farmed by the rest of us. Well all RN BBs need their HE looked at, either nerf the fire chance or take away the in built IFHE but buff sAP a bit in return. I would think plenty would spec IFHE to retain the lol effect as they're potatoes who can't aim

I'm about 60k from Lion so chances are I'll miss out on the sweet OP Conq. Unless WG comes out and says RN BB HE is performing as intended. Which I wouldn't put past them... And yeah, there is at least 1 in every T10 game. Would removing the 16.5" help? Folk would get a nice Free XP refund at least, it might shift the SuperHE spam complaints to Lion though...

Remember if all else fails then Kongo becomes a huge torpedo. You can take out slower T7 BBs e.g Naga and Colo by going bow in and full speed if you realise early enough you're not going to win that fight. Half HP will likely mean they'll be unable to destroy you before you headbutt them

Being able to heal fire and HE is almost irrelevant as if a few of you are firing it then you're simply going to overwhelm any repairs the enemy ship might have.

A bit of necro but this debate has been made irrelevant by RN BBs superpowered HE... WG listened at least as they "fixed" AP DD damage by giving us all a superior option

I finished the first stages yesterday. They're barely harder than logging on... Almost everyone should be a winner.

Problem is that Flamu's arguments are legitimate as he's up for the competitive scene which WG pretends to promote and to be quite honest he's a bit of a try hard (I can be too mind). RN BBs drastically change the BB meta and have made AP almost redundant overnight as people realise that there is simply no point playing for AP super salvos. WG don't seem to know what they want this game to be. Yes, it needs to cater for casuals but they also pretend to cater for the "pro" scene as Clan Battles are coming along with all those tournaments they push. They're in danger of upsetting everyone with their balance and additions. The average player is going to be very unhappy if WG nerf RN BBs as they might have spent money skipping up the line. A lot of these issues could be solved if WG actually tested their own game properly, then they wouldn't have to make post release changes. Although I accept balancing a game can't be that easy. Just wait until they start nerfing and witness the whine...

Apparently Kii with the expensive camo generates a lot of credits... Missouri is the best credit generator of them all, even if you suck you will almost always earn credits. With a Prem Acc and a good game you can hit almost 1 mil. Get whatever you're good at in the normal silver tech tree lines, don't just buy something you won't know how to play!!

The whole line has removed skill from an already easy class... I tried using AP for KGV and Monarch but I've pretty much resigned myself to spamming HE all the time, simply more consistent results so why bother switching shells?

Yes, the armour pattern is very consistent as in if you angle you will block the big shots. Unlike Warspite, Nelson, KGV and even Monarch which seem to have very patchy armour that occasionally let in huge penetrating hits...

And any extra sensible CV will only come for you late game when your AA mounts have been HE spammed to hell so it massively lowers the effectiveness of any AA captain skills...

Yes it sucks to be CV farmed but a good CV will blow through any air defence you have anyway. And you get HP spammed all the dammn time so something like FP is far more useful with something like Vigil or JoAT on top.

Neither, take Adrenaline Rush, Superintendent instead of BFT and Vigilance to finish maybe. AA doesn't seem that useful these days.

Meh, I didn't like her but I essentially started my USN DD play from Sims, Benson then Fletcher. All USN DDs have decent close range guns and the best smoke anyway. It's Benson&Fletcher which add competent long range torps to that mix.

Uh Fletcher and Benson are excellent DDs... Decent all round abilities make them viable in almost everything MM can throw at you. They have no real weaknesses other than poor long range gun arcs but that is why you don't snipe.

Hood feels like a logical progression from the Warspite. I'd say the guns are similar enough that you can use both ships with the same adaptation with aiming. So much has been said about her "poor" AP that I expected something sucky but they're perfectly competent, on paper they've only got marginally more pen than the KGV's 14" but I think their flight arcs lend better penetration. And just like the Warspite she's an AP freak unlike the rest of the line. Nelson can do both however... It's the speed and the tanking ability that makes her awesome, the almost obscene size doesn't matter when you're at 14km or so. Probably one of the most fun ships I've played in awhile. And has lots of character yes, I think it's a combination of all the above and decent soft stats like turret rotation.

Meh, I knew Gearing was not a great ship. I unlocked it through natural Fletcher play. Don't think I buffed with Free XP or even many flags/camo. I played through the M3 Lee fairly recently, the pain especially when you're a WoT noob. I could drop a 16 point captain in my Gearing but why would I waste Elite XP/Doubloons doing that? lol Hey atleast Gearing gave you an SC during the 2nd year anniversary!

That Conq was not amazing, I took a good chunk of his HP by using AP on his broadside... Got 152k with just HE the game after too, RN BBs are well balanced