RUSSIANBlAS

I used to love Mario Kart on the SNES as a kid but I look back on it with utter comtempt now. The cheating AI with rubber banding, infinite power ups and rubbish like speeding up when you hit them with shells enraged me lol

Anyone else think Prem ships should be sold with a free complementary 10 point captain? Xmas boxes gave them away and it's spoilt me

Who really cares about this anymore? Garbage grind event with awful prizes. I'd pay 2k doubloons to have all mention of this event removed In fact between this and the 10 torp hit mission I've wound down my game time as a result. Play for your own enjoyment and maybe ship grinding. Don't waste your time jumping through hoops. You'll enjoy yourself more

That would be far better than the RN one just like the whole Murnmask vs Obama thing... Hood can be viewed in port with tech tree unlocking mods now. Haven't had a chance to check the armour pattern as I would have been late for work if I spent another second on the PC

50% of a normal Fletcher or Benson's torps is all you need to know regarding if Kidd is bad or not. Guns are not your primary weapon at higher tier DD unless you're in a Russian bote.

We'll likely see Hood in the "Coming Soon" preview in port tomorrow, with or without mods to reveal ships... That might give us a better indication of if WG are going to deliver everyone's most awaited line and finally destroy their own game when MM is 80% BB

I'll believe it when the 7 ship or so lineup is revealed... Maybe GamesCom again like German BB last year?

Looking at the stats on face value I can really see no reason to get this. Maybe if it was released awhile ago where the DD nerfs had not been imagined yet... I still play USN DDs at higher tiers, Fletcher & Benson. You simply have to be extremely careful these days with firing your guns and predominately rely on torpedoes. Kidd essentially has 50% less fish than the other two USN DDs that are similar. An example game I played the other day was a T10 game in the Benson, our allied Khaba yoloed within minutes then decided to spend 15+ minutes calling me an idiot despite the fact I was staying alive and actually still affecting the battle. Apparently I was stupid for not firing my guns very often. There were radar cruisers on the table so I was relegated to smoking, spotting and torping as any time I'd dare reveal myself I'd have been lit up by said radar or the large amount of bigger ships waiting for a small sideways triangle icon to delete. A very common thing I do now is bait other DDs into shooting me and I don't return fire. I steer and dodge away whilst my team saturates the enemy DD with various large calibre rounds, it often isn't worth while shooting back at anything unless its low health or there's really no one else around to give them cover fire. An in-experienced Kidd player is going to get an extremely brutal high tier meta shock

I have literally won 4 of those stupid Defensive Fire AA modules in SC. Troll SC, I'd rather have a box of 4 flags that multiple junk modules

Wut?! I got to Rank 1 in the mighty Sims, played about 150 odd games. I equipped Defensive Fire every single game as a precaution. Not once did I shoot down anything in the region of 20 planes a game...

Does Kidd even need God tier AA? Defensive AA in higher tier USN DD is "enough" to scare off most CV attacks, is there any expectation to actually shoot much down?

Na, I can top that. It'll be. "Sink a Hood whilst sailing a Bismarck with the following conditions: MUST be via a detonation. MUST be within the first 5 salvos. MUST take a torpedo bomber hit which knocks out your rudder. MUST be sunk by a RN ship. ONLY one battle to achieve all this" Then you have to buy Hood instead

That harms you as you'll get punished too... There's no point as folk who second line torp often have no idea they're doing anything wrong and will get angry if you accuse them of idiocy.

Atago range is fine. Just give it a 10s reload and a Reload Booster module

Well the Admiral Graff Spee was a very average cruiser. It's barely seen these days as it's essentially a Scharn with 33% less firepower, no armour and decent 8km torps. That's literally exactly what it is other than the fact you can take Defensive AA or Hydro. Hood will still be popular, the 15" guns will still be competitive unless up tiered until T9. I really don't want to face something like an Iowa or FDG in a Hood...

If it's a campaign reward, then possibly WG could justify it being slightly uncompetitive? Doesn't look amazing on paper. A T7 ship that's essentially got worse guns than a Warspite but can do 30knots with the issue of being utterly huge.

Standard is good for farming missions as potatoes never play to cap which gives more opportunity for kills etc Altho the best commonly viable tactic is to mass camp base so everyone gets focus fire...

Lel, that is so mean. But I've done it by accident on occasion...

I almost always let myself sink or burn at TK DoT on principle. I'll take the credits hit to teach someone the lesson!

Doesn't have the full superstructure stripe... I bought it awhile back but I'm never buying Perm camo again. Aki got hacked up, Khaba changed (although somewhat correct), it's a lot of money to pay for changing goal posts...

No! That million point guy was earning his first 1 mil in the game... As in he was utterly brand new in a T8 game.

I saw a Tirp the other day get "Naval Warfare,Weaponry Basics" achievement.... That's someone's FIRST 1 million points of damage in game

Atago needs AA, Hydro AND Radar all together so you don't have to think about what to equip. Although that'll lead to I being O being the repair key I think lol! The outer layer of AA is most important on German BB, although I can see what you're saying as before I never build for Tirp secondaries due to the existence of the Bismarck, Now it's a bit different and I'll have a 17 point German BB captain stuck in the Gnesi not doing much now!

I hear "Tirpitz" is replacing "Power Creep" as a shorter, more succinct description...

I really cannot see the logic behind this. My Bismarck was a full In Your Face secondary brawler and my Tirpitz was a CE stealth ship. Now the latter is redundant as Tirp becomes the monster. Tirp was never weak, as others have said. Derps have dragged her stats into the mud and she's actually pretty strong.