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I like the sounds that DW torps will take out Cruisers too as decent DD knife fighters simply don't need to torp much. Although spamming smoke does result in dead DDs which I think I'll miss with DW fishes. I still can't see why I'd take DW over ordinary torps even the choice. Having a bit of DD experience I'd rather have every advantage towards winning the DD battle so I can be a free spotter. Then it doesn't matter whether your torps are DW or not as the BBs won't have their escorts. I'm saying I can't see it changing the Random Battle meta of dead DD=GG loss and boarder camper time. Maybe it's different at the pro level but then WG need to go and think about how they want to balance the game as I feel it's casual and not as competitive as say CS or DotA. I play ships and tanks as I'm a bit past all that clan business. I'd much rather see good balance in Random Battles instead of being forced into Ranked or even Clan Battles for an enjoyable experience.

Currently USN AS Decks are so unbalanced. As take the Ranger, in AS her planes are like flying Terminators. They crush anything IJN easily and almost never run out of ammo. But obviously your striking power is just bad. I'd still take double HE as you can DoT stack any ship rather than being locked to bombing German BB. They could make that derp drop circle smaller. It's like playing WoT arty with an even longer reload without a huge alpha strike...

You mean unless an Atago torps you with 8+ from stealth?

Chapy was surprisingly good. Use both rudder modules. Take PT,AR whatever at level 3 and IFHE. Stay at range and spam until you're targeted. Stop and hide, wait for the enemy to focus someone else and repeat. Easy high damage games. Off topic tho

Jesus, folk need to chill. WG are not perfect and may yet crash & burn from their choices but a bit of additional server down time really isn't a deal breaker... These things happen!

And that's the problem. Anything that is deadly to BBs will encourage border huggers as they play BBs to feel safe. Maybe if WG massively derped their long range dispersion but then you'd have slower BBs being sitting ducks vs fast cruisers spamming HE as they'd never catch or kill them.

It's going to be about 9500. In line with Scharn. I risk annoying WG but please wait for a discount if you're not desperate to play Hood. 15% off tech tree Prem ships come round fairly often! I've put Jack "Dunkerque" in mine Nelson seems fine. AR instead of EM as the turrets are so awesome.

That's essentially nerfing every BBs torpedo belt but this issue is highlighting how unbalanced this game is as WG think for whatever reason they should add gimmicks instead of tweaking what they already have. I still remember the days where Situational Awareness needed to be a Captain skill you specced, no radar and very little hydro. That was hard core BB mode...

Bismarck one needs the awesome stripes on the superstructure too but bleh it's still way better than the yellow turret one...

Hard T9 games are a "problem" yeah but otherwise Nelson is fine. But nothing T7 should be able to flourish up there or they'd be OP.

On a BB I can live with (unless they release Vanguard one day at T8 with it which I can see happening). But on a DD it's simply dumb. Especially on a Fletcher class which is already arguably the best DD in game anyway. Balance Department needs to stop taking weird substances whilst at work...

It feels exactly like AP bombs yes which is why I stayed away from the Enterprise. I see no point in hamstringing yourself for the sake of nuking one ship class as overall it makes you a less effective ship. Especially vs the ship class with arguably the least influence. That's one of the best things about torps! The cruiser or DD that wanders into the path and gives you a nice bonus.

Meh maybe I need more time in her but simply put Flint is a weaker Belfast... Better AA, smoke and torps do not make up for insane Belfast IFHE performance and superior range. Flint is only to Lord it over the great unwashed. Belfast is just more effective

Needing Secondaries on a CV is into doing it wrong territory. But it would be nice if they had range so you've got a fighting chance at defending yourself yeah. Saipan is an elegant and streamline ship. Unlike Kaga it has zero secondaries but the Strike deck is brutally efficient. If you can manage your Fighters then you'll essentially win any strafe fight unless vs an AS Saipan or AS Ranger in which case you've already won anyway. Plus the double TB are just enough to cause the enemy problems, don't forget all your planes get crazy rearm and flying speed. I learnt how to improve my CV game with a Saipan but Kaga is definitely not for less experienced CV players.

Missouri getting able to use radar is fairly high risk as lots of things at higher tiers can torp wall any BB brave enough to get close. I've been caught out by it... Still it doesn't mean Missouri isn't hugely powerful. They might as well have given it Cruise Missiles if they wanted a modernised BB lol

Farra appears to be some sort of Carrier Super Tutor... However you need a lot of time to watch and absorb his videos. I watched his basic CV tactics one and already I've learnt a hell of a lot. It's opened my eyes with CV play. Especially seeing that you don't actually need Korean levels of APM to play CV, just more thought into the map and what everyone is doing.

I was on Hotspot earlier and spawned near A. I was a Bismarck and I had the balls to drive into A cap rather than the normal chicken go around the outside then be too far away to influence B and C. I told my team to follow and they actually listened... They didn't acknowledge it in chat or anything but they turned and went through A with me and the two DDs and we won handily. Miracles do happen!

Take a look at this one... Needless to say we lost as we got capped, the Algerie and myself could not hold off a Hood and a few supporting DDs. Rest of the team were chasing a Cruiser and a BB into a corner

From the 2 Yam containers, 100 India Yankee flags (meh I farm SO many in BBs) and 1000 doubloons, won't complain at all at the 2nd container as its free money.

Is that what Victor and one of his senior staff think about the suggestion?

They could add more buffs and keep the price the same. IMO Perm camo should completely transform a ship's earnings into a Prem equivalent. Then it would be worth investing in... WG will argue that Perm camo is roughly the price it costs to Free XP skip a ship but I don't think many buy it to speed up their grind. As paying money AND needing to grind a ship anyway is somewhat weird logic when I think about it...

The IJN BB do look awesome with their camo but it's just the principle of giving $ $ to WG for something that is crazy overpriced. Some guy made the same custom camo for the Kongo and it looks utterly awesome, can't find the link however...

I wish I was nearby and not on the other side of the map chasing a Midway. The guy who did it doesn't post on here but he was as surprised as everyone else. I honestly cannot work out how a DD can come about to get rammed by the huge floating island that is a Haku... Plus I imagine the DD failed to torp Haku on the way in too.

4. Bismarck Gnesi Aki Hiryu Never again however after the Aki SF debacle. WG should have offered up a full refund or just a conversion back into doubloons. As I felt Aki was previously a pretty cool unique ship now it's just a low quality DD brawler where other ships can do the same role much better. Would never buy T10 camo as it's stupidly expensive as 5k doubloons is basically half the price of a Scharnhorst which is insane. All the extra XP gain is worthless as you need to pay AGAIN for it's conversion. If the T10 camo offered a huge Free XP bonus or a conversion for ALL XP into Captain XP like WoT it "might" be worth considering.

I've played in Divs and it is OP yes. If you all agree to play different classes & work together. DD, BB and CV would be more OP possibly as no one would be a 1 shot from random RNG. I don't as much of it these days as I can't be done with waiting for people, I dip in and out the game or blast out a few then break. Totally erratic gaming