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There is a fix on BB AP Vs DD. It's called Royal Navy's Short Fused AP... So whatever you choose to fire from those huge guns will obliterate the pesky little botes

I thought the price of the ship herself was an insult to customers?

WG troll us all HARD https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/common/georgie-porgie/ KGV: Primary targets: Cruisers Destroyers

Loooool WG. KGV and Nelson class were clearly known for blowing up DDs and not the Bismarck&Scharnhorst. I guess this isn't a simulator In isolation the Nelson here is nice but it's a big step in the wrong direction as far as the meta goes. AP isn't worth bothering with in her unless you're fighting cruisers or you're at close range vs BBs. Why risk RNG and relatively poor shell penetration when you can get reliable fires and damage? In some ways Nelson plays like a huge cruiser, more so than something like a Scharn. Since you're a longer ranged HE spammer who has to hide when you're under fire yourself.

Well WoT got theirs. Starts tomorrow too but tank discounts today.

WG is like watching a TV series that starts off really well but literally loses the plot part way as they've got no coherent plan/storyline

Thought it would be soon as it stopped being a WiP in the port... Enterprise is also available for doubloons too.

You might get Friday too with the XP buffs if you're lucky, although probably not...

I did this awhile ago and spammed Cruiser AP into the sides of BB. Amusingly I got good results in the Prinz Eugen. Some games you can farm 10+ kills a game if there are suitable BBs. I remember Colorado secondaries were especially easy to kill. Awful in terms of effective play however! Shame on WG for such weird farming missions!

Can't help but wonder if WG's insistence on making RN BB capable of super HE spam is good or not. Nelson's fire starting ability really is stunning. Especially as they somehow feel that IFHE for Cruisers need to be taken down a peg... You have to ask the question, what exactly are WG thinking as a bunch of mid/higher tier RN BB are simply going to make Cruisers redundant. More so than they already are as they'll lose their USP of being fire lighters. Maybe WG should have given RN BB a better fire chance but NOT superior penetration. Both feel "strong".

I'm convinced he's lost his mind, although did he ever have it in the first place? He's almost always pink whenever I see him in game these days...

Nelson is an interesting BB. It's certainly unique and that's not just the turret location. The armour on the ship is utterly LOL, the only thing angling does is it stops you getting utterly obliterated. I'd say it's the first BB where HE spam becomes more important than AP. I've found AP is only really viable vs Cruisers and when you are close to softer shelled BBs. Saying that, I've seen HE do multiple fires and 10k damage which is pretty epic... I believe you're meant to be aggressive in it as whilst your armour sucks, you can rotate and maintain flexibility due to the turret lay out. If you are fighting another Nelson I recommend using AP only as less of it can be healed, HE spam will just have LOL red HP to green trolling heals. I enjoy mine anyway...

There is an argument to aim slightly higher like how you would vs German BBs (top of hull area) except vs all of them unless they are very soft shelled. The damage feels more reliable aiming there and RNG might give you waterline hits anyway.

Don't go telling everyone as half the fun is DDs thinking you're going to smoke up then you light them with radar and they simply melt. Well maps are the main issue yeah, Ocean, Tears of the Desert, Mountain Range and probably a few others are a case of "Sheeeeet...." on the loading screen. Don't need to be Elite. Just careful and accepting that you'll have some games where you get deleted just for daring to look at that BB. But really, don't underestimate the torps. Unlike the Edinburgh you get enough to SPAM and you'll rack up some decent strikes. And before anyone says I've only played a few Neptune games, I've played a lot on various PTs. Best way to decide what to grind next.

Take CE for captain, take Concealment module, take RADAR. You are now the ultimate DD hunter. Don't shoot bigger things until the DDs are dead. Do however torp as they're got a 10 KM range and with intelligent use of single launching you can torp wall with the best of them.

Best bit about the Kongo is if you're losing a brawl vs a superior BB you can just ram them and get even. Bow in with 20k HP usually makes you impossible for one BB in your MM range to nail

I really like the additions yes, the extra lighting on gunfire, hits and fires. Along with the extra splashes & smoke. It can actually make aiming at ships heavily on fire a bit more interesting. Plus the BOOM of when a ship finally dies is great too.

WG's business practices are very modern to the point of being cynical... E.g the "customer is always right" mentality from days past is gone, it's how to market a game to new players and to release shiny new stuff with a secondary thought towards game balance. I really don't think they care if the dedicated player loses interest or complains about BB over saturation, CVs still being broken or DDs taking epic AP damage from ships they're supposed to be the counter against. Of the 20k+ players who log on every night how many do you think post and read stuff on here? Ok add Reddit too. Probably be lucky to have anywhere near 25% if that. Likewise with the 100k+ players nightly on WoT, how many really care about their issues such as T8 MM, gold ammo or arty? Plenty more who play a few games a night casually but will still spend £40 on a Tirpitz likely exist out there and they don't complain as much, they get their one Devastating Strike a night and are probably happy... There's almost no point keeping a dedicated core of players happy as even if you do that, they'll lose interest eventually anyway and move onto something else someday. By which point WG have already made their money and can move on to other projects too. At least they're not EA style with yearly Battlefield/Star Wars/FIFA/other sports franchise yearly milking sessions... Or that CoD series, although WG is trying to steal their thunder with Yamamoto kill streak captain skills!

3.5 mil the other day in a Lion but that's a dirty PT BB so doesn't count yet lol. I also tanked 143k and didn't sink. DDs and BBs can get some massive figures. Especially a small DD with a good rudder willing to ride the RNG buckaroo, or a high tier bow tanking BB vs a team of idiots throwing AP at her.

I sort of don't get WG's insistence on changing the smoke meta. When I was trying to get up there in Ranked for the first time, someone said always try your luck and spam smoke with torps. I will guarantee you'll have a decent if not slightly shocking success rate with hitting ships hiding in it. No need for Kitakami, something like an Atago or Hatsuharu can already punish smoke campers very hard. So I think player skill sorts out the bad smoke campers from those able to use it properly. I personally like laying it for my team but I often don't sit in it.

Same old issues! Folk see 20km range and assume that's the range the ship should be useful at

Look at the Mutsu. That thing has downgraded 16" guns that work fine and I can only assume Nelson's ones will be superior being a tier higher. At the ranges a BB should be effective at, e.g sub 15km I don't think Nelson will have any issues. I love the Gnesi, so much that I bought the Perm camo for it. That and the FdG a lot of folk don't like but I think every German BB from Bayern onward is effective. Gnesi has the huge advantage of speed and relatively good armour, that lends flexibility to engage what you actually want then flee if you can't handle it. Beneath T8, only a handful of BB have this ability as most just sit there being spammed to death if they make a tactical mistake. I almost look at the Gnesi like a superpowered Kongo in it's play style.

No sadly, the BB potato horde will love the game more than ever with the addition of zombie flesh regeneration BBs that fire short fuse AP (or Super HE rounds for the especially low skilled). Likely to be WG's reason so the way for them is paved. Golden age of World of BATTLESHIPS, with your host HMS Nelson from tomorrow morning on wards...

I don't feel the Kongo is too accurate but she's still my T5 BB pick. Fast, has acceptable armour and the gun calibre is actually pretty decent. She is long and doesn't steer too well so both plane and ship torps can be an issue but the speed is the key to success. If the MM doesn't F you with hordes of Scharns/16" bully boys (and Nelson from tomorrow) then you can do perfectly well in T6 games. I won't be the only one here who is still waiting for WG to release their late war Kongo with decent AA like the Texas...

Most of us who are established no. But I'm a WoT noob and I could sorely use Garage slots there whilst on their forum they whine that WG give them too many!!!