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Excellent DD, propelled me to a Rank 1. Tiny size, fast, Defensive AA, good brawling guns. The torps are functional, extremely weak and slow but they work for area denial.

What gun do you use on the KV1? I found using the 85mm on both the KV1 and KV1 Sport a bit boring so I'm trying out the 57mm with a good chunk of gold. It's more accurate than the more popular choice and you can out DPM other 85 mm KV1. Although low alpha can be an issue sometimes....

One good torp run vs an AS Ranger means he loses pretty much... I don't see it quite as bad as you but I'd agree Kaga is hugely unbalanced. It's amazing vs poor players but can be shut down by those who know what they're doing.

Call me easily influenced but that's exactly why I prefer silence and only the sound fx, don't want silly dramatic music encouraging me to yolo or anything

lel 206k and 6 kills in Ryujo on this weeks PvE. Everyone on my team suicided and I was alone at the end. Just another Warships day...

Well yes, if you put it like that Valve only polish. And yeah theres's hugely expensive CS GO ret@rd items like multi coloured knives that are thousands but they don't make you a better player and have no bearing on gameplay so you can simply not buy one and not get power crept out... I guess Valve's last game was HL2. Which incidentally I found rubbish as I found it unoriginal and had rubbish FPS action on it, although the girl in it was hot If you want to get started on companies not doing original games then you need to hammer Sid Meier the hardest as he hasn't done a days work since Civ 1 was released in 1991 and arguably not even then as it's stolen from a board game

Alt tab on loading and nickname into a website, I prefer wows-numbers.com but any will do. CVs are the only players I check and only when I'm a CV. The massive disparity in ability and the sheer influence a CV has on a game means I like to come informed.

Folk play with in game music? It's the first thing I disable with Ships, Tanks or any other online game. Need to.focus, Ssshhuuusssshhhhhhh....

At least Valve's own titles currently don't have any p2w issues as they only sell cosmetic changes and not Prem stuff like WG. The workshop stuff has never figured much to me but TF2 is Satan. I played QWTF a long time ago and TF2 is just a dumb cartoon knock off with hats Sadly the days of buying a game once then paying for it are dying. It's F2P but P2W or at least progress...

If it's anything like my problem it isn't the drivers. Game drops before even starting and I have to reconnect. Happens in Tanks too so it's either my ISP or WG servers and if others have similar issues it maybe the latter... Good job I roll with an SSD so loading isn't an issue

You mean you don't enjoy those stupid Tanks with WG pro gaming decals? I'm thinking it's a matter of time before we see a BB with similar lols plastered on the side with a £38 price tag

WoT Blitz is on Steam... I trust Gabe far, far more than Victor. Yes, there is a lot of utter Indie garbage on Steam but don't forget they're essentially just the distributor. It's like hating on a shop instead of the manufacturer. Steam will refund you on games you've only just bought but played briefly. WG would never allow that with a Prem vehicle in a million years.

Well I personally think the CV issue is with the players and not the ship class. IJN at least are pretty effective... I haven't seen Notser and iChase fail at CV so can't comment on what they're doing to community perception. AP DB will just confuse a lot of folk.

I've stopped getting SC after I stopped bothering to open the normal containers. Got 45+ now that I don't care to open...

Fail IMO I'm no pro CV but surely your business is sinking DDs over BBs who will just tank your bombs anyway and whittle away your planes. This will only encourage bad CV play as the average kid will be tempted to bomb BBs whilst enemy DDs get through to torp the team.

Looking at a head to head between Mutsu and Warspite I'll have to go with the IJN ship simply because she has better armour. Warspite's 38mm deck is a big deal and a big vulnerability. Sure you've got the heal but if you're the only BB in a 7v7 and you've just had your HP halved then that puts your team in a bit of a situation. Could argue the 16" guns don't perform at longer ranges but they don't need to as you should be focusing cruisers and smaller first anyway. Others can help you vs BBs as they should be saved for last in most situations. I really think Mutsu's armour helps make her an overall competitive package with no real weaknesses at T6 other than only 8 guns and BB dispersion but she's not alone in that respect.

Fuso and Mutsu look about the same on overall deck thickness. Fuso does have a double 38mm layer whereas Mutsu has a single 70mm one. I guess Fuso has less superstructure too even though I always seem to see that big pagoda tower burn

I sniped a Ranger just now in Kaga. I actually feel slightly dirty, I saw he had BAD on stats all round so I gave it a go and it worked a treat

Erm.. I don't think anything is changing this patch except for some sound fixes, Ranked Battles and more Prem Ships

DDs are still the ideal class, maybe more so in this coming season as there will be no radar. Mutsu torps are lol, they reload fast too. I'm fairly sure they're Kami R torps in single launcher configuration.

No, you are basically paying 750k Free XP for a Radar, no float plane and to watch Steven Segal do Kung Fu on the deck of the ship. But it's an iconic ship and I like mine...

I'm really pondering which BB to try and attempt R1 with. I want to get it with a BB as I've already done it in a DD and Cruiser. NM guns are wildly derpy, it's slow but has excellent armour and AA. Arizona great guns and armour but slow and poor AA. Fuso is probably the worst choice. Suspect armour, crept dispersion. But a lot of guns and fairly quick. Everyone will spot you first. Dunkerque is extremely fast, can angle well due to nice turret placement. Even has fair AA due to being able to float plane. Guns don't bite "that" hard however... Bayern has crazy armour, I'd actually fast and has good AA with Manual AA. Guns derp big time and they may let you down. I think Ranked favours damage over tanking, you need to kill stuff fast... Warspite, amazing guns, zombie flesh regeneration heal and OP rudder for WASD hacks. Decent T6 secondaries that fire HE and can fire almost straight forward. Has suspect armour and average to poor AA. It might be my choice however. Finally Mutsu, decent 16" guns, the armour is strong at T6. Pretty quick and the 7km torps out range some DD at the tier. Also a contender for my pick. I actually think BB are a poor class for Ranked. They're generally slow, they pretty much cannot cap, can't rotate very well and if you miss a salvo you can basically cost everyone the match.

T5 is a nice place, it has utter tomatoes to farm and far better players too so you'll get everything in there and shouldn't feel too outclassed. T6 can be rough as some T8 tanks are pretty brutal in power. There is some Russian thing called the Defender and it's armour is basically OP. It pretty much can't be penetrated from the front even with gold ammo. The Chrysler thing doesn't seem to cause as many issues.

I'm fairly sure the jet fighters were insanely OP. They were way faster than anything else even though they flew in game at a speed that would stall real ones.

Nice write-up! Saipan's only real weakness is in Strike deck she sucks at killing DDs. It's almost impossible to hit one who's using rudder...