RUSSIANBlAS

Full secondaries build. However do take the Concealment module over Target Acquisition as otherwise you'll be farmed to hell in T10 battles. I would always take that module on any BB that can equip it as everyone always tries to shoot the first thing they see on screen and you don't want that to be you when there are 3 T10 BBs on the other side...

420 mm and faster reload. Don't bother with a Secondary build and take the one that slightly buffs main gun accuracy. I've got an average damage of 87k and I've kept her after unlocking GK. In fact I prefer Fat Freddy. My favourite higher tier BB even over Missouri and any of the T10 bunch except for maybe the Monty. The guns are perfectly serviceable at medium range, I find they don't derp me very much. I feel a lot of higher tier BB are more accurate than their paper stats suggest. Like how I find Iowa/Missouri guns are insane even if they look meh on stats.

My favourite TK ever was shooting into smoke with a BB then suddenly seeing a TK icon. Turned out that a pair of ships had been hugging in the smoke and RNG blessed one with a slither of HP which his friend took... Unfortunately the game itself always has the last word with Pink'ed! Players. Some guy was filling me with abuse the other day as I ducked into his smoke in my Belfast. I burnt after one of his salvos but didn't sink for the full DoT damage and he got really angry when he turned Pink

Saying "Aids" is homophobic says more about WG's own staff and their views of the world. It's actually a bit worrying and smacks of ignorance...

Problem is at T5 you start to face competent players who have chosen to stay between T5 to T7. Some have thousands of games experience and know their stuff. T5 I feel, is when ships start feeling "complete" as they start losing glaring weaknesses. That's the real issue imo. The good thing is that then standard of play won't get hugely better from here on.

Got over 2000 loads of times but never the magic 2500. Stopped caring really, I'd rather end a game quickly and cut the cr@p out than risk a potato throwing it or wasting time farming.

Yes, he's an ex Navy old boy from what he says so he won't be going hungry or anything I watched a lot of his videos early on in my Ships career, less since the Xmas Convoy thing and also when my own skill increased somewhat He's the sort of gamer WG probably loves, doesn't cause fuss or rage and just enjoys playing casually. Not a try harder unicum or worse; those wannabe ones who have multiple account try hards...

No you're right. As Jingles would have been the last CC to rock the boat, in fact his resignation video is the first one I've ever heard him use the F bomb in. Short term it's bad financially however the amount of more "realistic" military games around is fairly thin on the ground as with his ability I can't see him going into FPS or twitch reaction games We have to take what he says on face value as we've got no right to muse about his personal situation with finances etc

So it will take less cits but massive HE damage like a T7 Colorado vs a Belfast.... Nice one.

Have any of you actually seen the vehicle that's caused offence? It's in a black paintwork with some sort of WG P2W logo slapped on the front. Historical accuracy nerds would go crazy at the sight of it. Not even getting started on it's actual in game characteristics...

Region specific PR departments would be fine if they were competent It's mildly comical as one video that's essentially a p2w whine has caused all this because WG staff fight their fires with incendiaries...

It affects us too, no good putting your head in the sand and saying it's a Tanks thing... You think Ships is perfect when Tanks is a nasty p2w power creep nightmare?

I watched that earlier as I couldn't believe he's quit. I've said on other threads but I didn't have much respect for him as he said nothing at all during the Xmas Convoy campaign but has spoken up now which shows he does stand up for what he thinks is right and wrong. Although that "may" be due to money issues... Still, it's positive!

The community in NA isn't huge either is it? That'll go down well as there isn't a cash cow as big as our one

I've seen the way things have been run over the last year+, quite often the WG community staff appear to do far more damage by speaking than saying nothing. This is strangely consistent which I still can't figure out I imagine the WG staff are given a directive to tow the company line, it's probably worse for them than for us the customers as they need to keep their bosses happy even though they know the decisions are going to enrage us...

Problem is if WG staff had to resign every time they made some sort of community F up then they would get through people faster than one of Stalin's purges Although maybe now it's come to a head and they "might" change things.

Jingles giving up his CC has actually restored respect for him in my eyes. I thought he was a spineless potato who said nothing during the Xmas Convoy whilst the rest of the community spoke. He gets a re-subscribe from me and an apology

Stalin's spyware doesn't do things by halves, instead he goes large

The poor players cannot understand this and instead cry about torps, rng missed and HE as they can't comprehend true power.

BB play is all or nothing. When you push it's likely you'll either succeed or die trying as you're too big, visible and slow to back out. That's something that the average BB player doesn't understand and instead in their minds they think pushing is suicide. So they snipe at long range...

T8 ships=£40 for a Prem please! Same with Tanks... WR is the only statistic that truly rewards team work. The XP system needs a rework as it's somewhat Tanks like but it's shown to be imperfect here. I play less of this game these days. Unless I try my hand at being a decent CV player then I've sort of plateau'ed. I think the real reason is there aren't enough players in the game. Even peak times the EU server pushes out about 25% of the Tanks players at the same time. Can't have an elite pro scene without a lot of players who care... WG seem to be taking so long developing this game that it's resulting in things feeling stale and disjointed.

I detonated someone in a Z23 with my Pepsi yesterday. One salvo into smoke. Saw him before he faded into concealment and the dice roll did the rest. I actually dislike using smoke and feel it's best suited towards giving BBs cover as they're unlikely to be harmed by stray shells. Even using my Kutuzov yesterday I didn't smoke up once, mostly as training for higher tier RU Cruisers but I didn't have big problems staying alive.

I actually disagree with the proposal. I can recall one game on North in my GK where I literally got HE spammed to death from the spawn. Couldn't pull out and no one helped me. WG and their map design need further investment in the higher tiers...

WG have bigger issues at the moment. Namely WoT pro gaming finals and that whole Foch storm. This issue however is typical WG, they want to do things but implement them badly or not at all.

Grind the Hunt the Bismarck campaign. You'll get a free T8 BB (Bismarck)