RUSSIANBlAS

Time vs money, I've built more than enough as a poor @$$ kid. Had enough accidents that my friends called me the "Smoker" OCUK did fine with my PC. Got an i5 2500k to 4.2 ghz with ultra stability, water cooler.

Clan stacks are far more likely late at night at higher tiers. I suggest going to bed earlier

I used to build my own but then I started getting comfortably paid and pre built stuff came down in price a bit so I thought why not...

Warspite guns have lead everyone to believe RN will have epic guns sadly... The RL life of the 15" gun and her changing ammunition is long enough to give fairly big variations in game power. I'd imagine WG don't want to give every RN BB with these guns exactly the same performance...

Beaching is punishment enough, most half decent teams will light you up and you won't survive it as good players will signal your plight to their team and the even better ones will wait until you've crashed then fire a perfect salvo... No need to punish further with flooding.

Thing I won't mind seeing is a fully rebuilt Hood in game. Leave this version as a Hull A to please all the ship nerds but have a "what if" unshackled by needing to stick with history.

My PC from OCUK is literally about 5 years old. i5 2500k OCed by them to something like 4.2 ghz and water cooled. It bottle necks slightly in some games but I've still enjoyed everything in 2560 res in recent times.

IJN stuff doesn't rely on guns nearly as much as Blys does. I guess it is balance as a Blys with RoF too high would be op...

Yes there are some extremely frustrating moments where you actually can't go forward or backwards after hitting an island. However beaching is a mistake and should probably be punished to some extent...

Meh FR Cruisers. I only plan to play to get the port slot this weekend, even though I literally have enough free slots for an entire ship line already Who knows, I may enjoy and keep a few...

Or they could give us the option of full daylight and night time with a few different dynamic lighting settings so we can tailor exactly what we find as asthetic lol

There is logic in the option of a free grind. As long as it not impossible like the stupid Kami R event at the moment. A lot will buy it regardless but if it's given away in a hard but not impossible grind then it'll calm some of the salt than a mighty naval icon isn't actually that good a ship...

Lol, as in pitch black with no lights except for the moon at 3am? E.g WG telling you to go to bed

Does that smashed up Bismarck camp means the corresponding Hood one is going to look even worse for wear?!?

Keep it as it is, drop it to T6 and have it available for free in a campaign?

Salt at a big name ship being merely "ok", I really want RN BBs too but I'm willing to accept something that isn't a rofflestomp...

The salt into Hood being average at best has started I guess and probably won't ever stop until she gets 2.1 Sigma, better rudder and acceleration. Probably will need Warspite heal and DCP to really pacify everyone. It's a huge, relatively lightly armoured Battlecruiser that blew up prior to a much needed refit. Yes, it's a hugely famous ship but it's always looked like more of a name than anything else.

Warspite is not a brawler. Don't be fooled by the "good" secondaries. You do your work at 10km out to her max range, she's accurate up to there unlike a lot of BB. Learn the guns and keep your distance then the damage flows.

Warspite is a thing of beauty and power. The rudder and the gun accuracy lifts her above anything else in or around the tier.

Khaba really has no issues regarding her armour. Almost to the point that huge AP pens are deserved as a DD with sections of 50mm side armour that does 40knots+ is insane. The disparity between Khaba and the rest of the DD pack is so wide that the Khaba should be treated as a unique ship class.

I pretty much so that anyway. USN guns are for slaying close range DDs. RPF helps massively for tracking smoke campers. The issue is the current meta at higher tiers means it's often better to run away from DDs instead of shooting back because of the concealment penalty. It's almost worth deliberately baiting enemy DDs to shoot you whilst you slip back into stealth so they're the ones who get focused by the bigger ships.

As far as Hood goes in terms of viability in game she looks big, fat and is lacking in firepower as compensation. If you removed any historic sentiment then a Gnesi looks a way better ship in game than Hood. Sure Gnesi guns are manned by sailors who've had too much schnapps but it's not an issue under 12km. Just as fast, better armoured, guns just as punchy (likely easier to use as German 15" shells have great velocity, better AA even without rockets and Defensive Fire. Despite all that I'll be playing Hood when she's released

I'd personally love a difficult to play line as I find the German BB line down right boring now. Got a Bismarck/Scharn captain to 17 points and the Tirp one to 17 which is no longer needed due to the rise of Tirpmarck. Although if RN BB are too hard to use I can see the whine here being unbearable

6.5s stock is slow for a DD. Blys feels utterly power crept by Russians, considering you can face the reborn Kiev and Udaloi in battles... Thankfully still strong at T7.

I heard they nerfed the Khaba...