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I'm posting this as it was the greatest thing I've seen in awhile but it wasn't me: Look carefully at the bottom corner, the CV appears to be screwed. But no... The Red DD was definitely NOT AFK as he blamed his team for being rammed by a CV somehow. Still I'm completely stumped at how you can get rammed by a CV in a DD.

I love the DB on the Kaga, it should set a new standard across the board! It's Alt Fire spread pattern is OP, guaranteed fire on any ship you've flooded IF you can actually hit it. Kaga is pretty much the only CV beneath IJN T9 and T10 (plus Enterprise if you're a German BB) that has massive Alpha and doesn't need to rely on DoT.

Yes true... It's why I don't play BB much anymore as they are reliant on the smaller ships making it happen. If your 2 or 3 DDs are morons then you've basically lost. I prefer to be in the ships that can actually make something happen. This campy bullcr@p is more of an issue here than in WoT as at least in Tanks most vehicles are fairly fast and can rotate to a different cap fairly quickly but here if a team has committed badly then they're basically not going to recover.

lol, it's not even that bad. Atleast two of the Red team are actually IN a cap. Sometimes an entire team simply won't bother contesting at all...

Meh Gearing... I unlocked it awhile ago and basically haven't bothered. I've only got a 10 point captain, I'm saving my Elite XP to dump into a ship that actually matters (like something for Ranked maybe not a T10 showboat). I play it now and again but it doesn't inspire me. I really can't see a reason to use it over a Fletcher. As others have said Gearing is fatter and takes more damage, plus the torps reload slower. A Fletcher feels like the pinnacle of the USN DD line as there is coherency from the Mahan, to Benson and the Fletcher as the top ship.

I had a think about it and looked at that farazelleth guy's videos. I'm trying out AS Ranger even if it is the Anti Fun Police. Seems to work as atleast you get map control and you will almost always win your aerial battles vs a Hiryu. Plus playing 1/1/1 means you can get sniped by someone who really wants you dead, might cost them a few planes but it's possible. I'll likely go AS for Lex too if I ever get there as you need an ability to defend yourself. Plus x2 DB for both Lex and Ranger are easily stacked for Fire DoT on BBs so your damage won't be too disgraceful.

Hmm Saipan is dammn strong now I can CV a bit, King of all T7 as 2/2/0...

I think I'm going to have to give up grinding Ranger even in 1/1/1 format, it's unplayable vs anyone with a brain as you simply don't have enough map control... You have to play your @$$ off just to keep up with anything else on that tier if they are bad and if the enemy CV is good then forget it!

Folks say the 457mm will NOT lol overmatch everything like the Yam but who knows which will be better until we can actually test for ourselves on PT. Or some of those crazy day 1 Free XP ppl can tell us on Thurs?

Hood is finally being added to the Tech Tree on Thurs. Now the Doubloon discount awaits

Thanks, he speaks a lot of sense...

Can you link me? The only video that comes up on YouTube is PointyHairedJedi...

And another example....

That's why lower tier BB are a problem as most of them are pig slow, 21 knots or there abouts. Fast BB are far far FAR more flexible as you can keep pace with all those silly yolo ships.

I don't mean to offend anyone and I'm not the #1 authority behind BB by any means but this is how I see it: Your average player is simply under skilled and does not understand how BBs work. BBs rely A LOT on forward planning, you are quite often dead way before your ship has actually reached 0 hp. I'm sure the border campers will claim that if they push they die and that's likely true as they have no idea how to read a situation. It's true with all classes but in this case you have to push the boundaries as far as you can without actually being sunk. As in push by all means but have an escape route like an island, someone who will smoke for you, a place to turn and run, a place to stop and bow tank, understanding your ship so the enemy incoming won't overload your healing/DCP. Then there are complaints about how DDs and Cruisers are hard to hit. That's just a case of firing more salvos, have a go, watch where the shells fall and adjust. That is something you have to go away and learn by firing hundreds or even thousands of salvos. Also if you're at 20km+ you are not hitting anything. Even derpy BB like the Germans or some USN ones will reliably hit things at closer ranges like 12km. You can afford to slow down, angle your ship and pump out rounds at the enemy. A BB is the ONLY ship class that can easily take multiple BB AP salvos if properly angled, even lightly armoured BB will take FAR more than any Cruiser or Destroyer. Sail with your cruisers, be at their range to the enemy. They will provide you AA cover, HE spam, and probably spot torps for you. If you're miles behind them when you could have sailed with them in a battle then you're doing it wrong sorry.

Yeah that's true but this guy was right behind his fleet who were already 10km+ away from the enemy. If he had the balls to sail with (not even in front) everyone else then he would enjoy the fruits of better accuracy and we would get a big fat ship that draws more enemy fire.

Almost your entire team failed the Okinawa intelligence test... And they couldn't even win A lel

Balance should lean towards being ok for top players but they should make sure normal folk can use them too. Otherwise if you balance for the average player you might have savagely OP ships...

Extra lols as the enemy team crushed yours despite sending two BB to D...

They'll discover the lols that is attempting to angle vs a BB in a Cruiser can result in massive citadel strikes...

Yeah the stupid Yam was close enough to be shot back by enemy fire... Was still at the rear of the fleet however!! Seriously if WG can nerf SF and bloom then they could easily enforce a range cap on BBs. Maybe 1 or 2km more than any cruiser? Or a blanket 18km or so for higher tiers?

It's because the potato sees 20km range so assumes that's where they should be shooting from and staying at... Got a T10 game in my Tirp last night and surprise a Yam was at the rear sniping when the rest of us were being shelled.

That's the thing, parts of the Nelson are actually quite well armoured. Just can't rely on it stopping everything, much like the Warspite I guess.

I remember that, you were on the opposite team in a Kutuzov. My team just collapsed but I think I managed to get a bit of damage at C cap before blowing up.

I was more amazed at how much armour it actually has. If angled it takes a huge amount of pain. My Bismarck guns were not doing $hit to it...