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Lel I guess as its not 100% clear what OP was getting at...

Higher tier Cruisers can never be balanced against BBs unless you're talking about something like a Moskva and even then you're not going to last long if the MM gives you 5 enemy T10 BBs lol... The higher tier BBs reach pretty much OP heights as they have a combination of very heavy armour, high speeds, accurate guns and often extra stuff like 11km secondaries, super heal, radar, hydro etc etc The balance is a bit better in the mid tiers but fast battleships and HE spammers are eroding this too.

As much as I like the game, I've played enough of it to know the gameplay is inherently flawed and will likely never be fixed. The way BBs are portrayed is simply too powerful in a straight up battle. Cruisers are marginalised as a support role that has to run and hide or risk getting nuked instantly. DDs have a viable role as if no one is spotting then a game is basically lost. It's weird actually as BBs are both the most powerful class in terms of over all firepower/tankiness but are still at the mercy of DDs which seem to suffer nerf after nerfb but still remain very important. Then you have the CVs that are basically being God on the battlefield if you're good enough to rise those levels, everyone else loses planes like flies then whines about it. I've always thought WG simply shouldn't waste time pretending this game is "pro" or has a competitive scene due to the imbalances, it can survive fine without such things I think.

I don't have a Henry but for anything to be a viable secondary platform the #1 prerequisite is the ability to tank a huge amount of damage which no Cruiser can do... That's pretty much the end of the discussion as far as I'm concerned

My Monarch damage seems fairly consistent, AP most of the time with HE vs angled BBs gets very nice XP gains. However, I've noticed she gets less of those "OMGLOL" tight groupings that other nations BBs sometimes throw at you. As in the ones that land 4 citadels or something stupid. Maybe it's just my RNG?

I lol @ WG's talk of the CV rework. I'm sure they said at the start of this year that no more Prem CVs would be released until such a rework. Then they added right click and released Kaga, Enterprise and a badly realised GZ. Now they said again that CV's will undergo a rework before more Prems and it seems now it's changed to CV rework being an on-going thing... WG really need to look up what they've said in the past before doing their Q&As, otherwise no one will take them seriously

Amagi is one of my all time favourite BBs, only WG's policies stop me buying permanent camo for her. Kii seems to ever so slightly water down everything I've come to like about her. Meh AA isn't an issue as I believe I should be with my fleet anyway and I'm well used to the armour & TDS. I haven't seen many Kii played effectively over the weekend, I've even got some good citadels against one with a Monarch. Although that doesn't necessarily make a ship weak per say. If only there were rentals being given out by WG... Or even if the bottom package had the Gundam camo, that might have tipped me over the edge

From the amount of Prem Ships WG shifts the answer to that appears to be a "Yes". Now where's my CC, maybe I'll buy the top Kii bundle

The torp belt on the Amagi is underrated. If you play BBs properly you're going to be getting closer, not brawl per say but at a range where a higher tier DD can launch on you...

Go full AA, range and DPM. The guns are obscenely fast and a fraction of a second won't make any difference. Plus that's what Adrenaline Rush is for. A full AA Mino gets especially funny vs T8 CVs. Lulz will be yours when GZ is released again and all the clueless CV players buy them up.

Sho is possibly strong because of the slightly higher entry requirement. It's a good DD tho, pretty good all round ability. Only slow reload is really an issue as you are screwed if you miss in a knife fight.

Lel, can you post in clan chat tho? Haven't even said hi to me yet

From what I've seen of them so far they're pointless. As others have said all they'll do is encourage the low skilled to snipe even harder. I've played a lot of higher tier BB this weekend for the stupid Yamamoto campaign and I've been torped a lot as I actually push with the smaller ships whilst the other BBs watch with interest from the border. However I haven't been DW torped although I've seen them. All anti BB torps will do for the guy launching is lower his hit rate as his fishes won't hit the smaller stuff who will spot them for team playing BBs anyway...

I have Moskva and Minotaur. I play Minotaur "daredevil" style with radar instead of smoke. RN smoke puffs are small and everyone has radar at T10 anyway so it's not even that good. With a radar module you have 56 seconds of radar at 9.45km whereas your detection is 8.9km with camo. It's a massive step up from the Neptune which has slower turrets and something like a 10.1km detection. But yes it's literally a floating citadel and most BB shells will chop you in half or even worse. It's an out and out anti DD device. Also with full AA upgrades the AA rating is crazy as it's umbrella is something like 8.6km, anything that loiters above you is going to fall out of the sky pretty fast. Moskva however fits the BB heavy camper meta perfectly, she doesn't fear big open maps and can even resist BB shells when heavily angled. But its the super fast shells that make Moskva great, you can pretty much hit anything at any range with a bit of practice, 100k+ games should be routine in her. Burn BBs, AP Cruisers, AA that will punch planes out the sky if a CV dares. Use her as a long range sniper but push up when needed. Out of the two I have I'd take Moskva but Mino is fun, just not always that effective all the time.

Ships are very expensive, especially T8 ones. Don't jump before you're 100% sure and even then if it's no rush and the ship isn't clearly OP (then it might not be sold again) wait for a sale which do come round fairly often.

I would never buy AMD again, I've had loads of them throughout the years. Last one I bought was an R9 290 and it crashed when running low demand stuff, it was something to do with the voltage clock and I had to force a voltage to stop it. AMD never fixed it via drivers. Had problems with their cards over the years, usually weak fans and heat issues. I have a 1070 now, Nvidia always now

WG ARE addressing the BB population... By making other classes so unappealing that people stop playing them and all the players remaining are BB players so everything is fine

The HE meta is actually quite funny as you get HE spammed by other nation's BBs too which makes no sense... Like being spammed by USN BB with HE at 3km whilst in a Cruiser when the guy could basically nuke you in one click

Well yes, WG really need to accelerate their plans to re-jig the maps. Make them smaller, give them more islands, hell design new ones... Top tier games are hell unless you're a BB or a DD who actually knows what he's doing because of the long range sniper fests.

The reason why SE wins for me is you can no longer influence a game once the HP counter hits 0. Yes you can not break concealment and dodge more but RNG is going to rake your little Destroyer sooner or later, SE is the difference between a BB nuking you and you getting away on red HP for another chance. Meh I'm not seasoned with Aki, I've actually played more of the re-born one than the original SF one and my conclusions are not to bother. I only played her last week because of the Anniversary Achievement. It's all those times you click GO! and the MM throws you in T10 games with Khabas, Minotaurs, radar Russians etc and you'd wish you had taken out your own top tier ship...

Na USN BBs have suffered even more from powercreep. 21 knots up to T7? No chance in this day and age of fast BBs...

Yeah my issue with buying Kii is that it's an Amagi with a weak torp belt and marginally worse armour. Even if I did buy Kii, I don't feel she's worth keeping over an Amagi unlike say the Missouri and Alabama both of which out perform their Silver ships. As someone in my clan chat pointed out, Kii probably needs a unique AA captain to get the best from her. Not saying WG should be making clearly OP Prem ships but the price of T8 ships is eye watering for essentially the same gaming experience. Even now I try and force myself to play more Alabama as I've barely used her despite the cost...

Sniping German BBs... So common. I can't even be bothered to talk to them. Was on Mountain Range or whatever it's called. I went C in Neptune and won it, most of the enemy were at A but since I run radar I needed islands. Thing is C and B were almost entirely clear but there was a GK following me and his excuse was "There is a DM near you", which there was in the far north of the map.... We won and said German BB did nothing all game as by the time he got anywhere near effective range the game had ended.

I'd imagine a 360 degree BB turret would have been a feat of engineering, although Ish is a paper design anyway. I thought this thread was going to be about that middle turret that has awful firing arcs so you end up giving broadside to use it...

IMO Survival Expert before Superintendent. Especially as Aki is a slow fat pig of a DD that is going to be taking damage. Yes it has a lot of HP anyway but she's T8 so gets good gains from SE plus in the current meta pretty much everyone knows to focus down DDs so every drop of HP will help you live. Add that to the fact Aki is a gunboat and will be shooting a lot more than most other DDs bar the Russians so you're going to be seen by the enemy quite a bit. My best advice would be just to grind RN Cruisers if you want a close range gunfest (maybe even German DDs?) or RU DDs if you want something longer range. Aki can work but there's more effective ships in the MM range she is thrown into so why bother? Unless you're out to make it work in the Aki specifically.