RUSSIANBlAS

Yeah I've got way too many Russian ones, enough spare to start another line (please no RU CV or BB lel ) Even German captains I have enough of, need a few more RN ones. If only WG let us melt down captains into Elite XP

All BBs need a few games or more to get used to. If you're having problems play Nagato only for a few hours, look at the shells when you fire them and adjust accordingly. Eventually you'll learn to get a long with them, or not

Khaba harvested the 5th mission for me easily...

It is because potatoes in high tier BB think 50k damage a game is fine, when it certainly is not...

Last week was a Leander captain, this week its a Gneisenau one! I'd much rather have had the RN one but i PHAILED last week

Seriously, it'll make no difference if there is a T10 bar or not. It's over for any sort of high tier exclusivity. It's a low skilled camp fest where triple/quad caps happen probably 75% of all games and people simply sail into a distant camping spot then wait for points to tick down. The only thing that still exists for high level skillful play are CVs to an extent as the skill disparity is so wide that even potatoes know not to take top tier CVs into battle as they get utterly facerolled... I imagine WG made a huge amount of money with the 5k Perm camo.

That will do nothing... Have you not played top tier and looked at all the potatoes with their Perm Camos playing badly?

First game. This thing is absolutely insane, I thought Nikolai and Gremy were bad but this thing feels like a step above both... The speed, the guns, the armour (parts of it have 50mm WTF RU Bias), everything about it. Even if the rudder gets nerfed it'll be 3 seconds up to 4.4 seconds which would not be much of an issue. The sheer DPM you can unleash is something out of this world and I don't even have AR captain skill picked yet

WG's "poor" choices means I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. I'm currently on Shokaku and I don't plan on spending a penny to grind up any higher as there's been repeated LOL changes to ships and classes. Why invest in camos and free XP when things are snatched away with little logic?

Yeah it doesn't look like that big a deal with the nerf but we'll see. Udaloi is a thing of beauty, it is so much better than Trashkan to play

Basically what General said lol I've literally just lifted myself out of the TRASHkan however so need a bit of Khaba bedding in time...

New Khaba has an 11 second (WTF) stock rudder. So it basically means you need to either take the concealment mod or that super rudder shift mod... Trashkan is still bad even with the buffs, I'm suffering it but only a few more games till I can abuse the Khaba until the new patch. It "is" capable of good games but the turrets on it suck basically so you either have to drive in straight lines or dodge and not track anything. It's a bit better with the turret rotation mod but still not ideal...

Abuse it and make it known that you are, it "might" make WG re-consider and come out with a logical solution. Such as a tutorial on how to CV for noobs?

Thankyou OP, I need a source of Clear Sky flags... AS Indie here I come

I'm trying to level the Pepsi stock. It's utterly terrible as the turrets are BB slow and your rudder isn't amazing either. Plus everyone knows Pepsi melts under fire so you get focused. They one of my #1 BB farming targets...

Actually there's an augment for using HE if someone isn't giving you angles or at long range where you'll be lucky to land anywhere on a ship. Plus you tell your team who you've set on fire and Cruisers will ignite them again and you can all win as one happy family.

Sims is epic. It's weird how the sum of it's parts is more than what you'd expect. Always use the 9km torps. It's usually used to slap out smoke campers. Flamu's Sims Ranked video gave me the last piece of the Sims puzzle. You over lap the two torp spreads. That way if you've got your guess right then they're far less likely to dodge the wall.

After using both Alabama and NC I have to say Alabama is a better ship simply because of it's agility and smaller size. The accuracy is essentially the same, I couldn't find any difference. They will perform the same in competent hands and NC guns won't automatically make you a Unicom if you were an Alabama potato before. Likewise, Alabama's agility probably won't save you from blowing up if you've messed up but it's nice if you're in the zone. They essentially perform very similar in most situations. That 50% torp belt isn't all that either. When dodging you'll often end up taking fishes on the bow or stern which isn't protected anyway and you can still get detonated on the belt like any other BB. If the citadel was still high then it would still be a debate. Now it isn't much of a debate anymore unless you want to save money then you'll get 80%+ of the experience with a fully upgraded NC. That's the most succinct review of the Alabama you'll find

I hope you're not retraining the captain still...

I'm about 20k xp from Khaba. A week of abuse in it before it's cut down a bit... I will likely never buy Permanent Camo again. Learnt my lesson from other ships Maybe Khaba will be fine with the changes. Although I prefer the way Udaloi plays to the Trashkan as you can never get close in Trash as she's a huge pig of a DD.

I await the Shira nerf as it's one of the last viable IJN torp boats and WG don't want BBs punctured by 16 torps they cannot dodge.

Dunker CE yes, otherwise everyone focus fires you. I take the aiming mod. Dunker AA is trash, unless you've got like a 19 point captain and have specced a full AA build but even then it's not going to be great.

Unless you're a true gunboat e.g NOT IJN or USN you simply have to maintain strict fire discipline. Even in something like the Fletcher you need to hold fire or risk everything red coloured shooting at you. Unless you're specifically killing something at close range and have a way out. No more harassment of bigger ships...

RussianBias...

AR is a great skill on any BB, sometimes as the first 2nd level pick if you feel the turrets are ok or take it later on. Nothing like pushing a 30s reload down to 25s in a clutch situation... I don't roll with BoS, FP or any other survivability buff other than Superindent which you don't appear to like. I often get through all 5 charges of a ship with SI and Prem Heal. Always worth it. Others take Vigilance too but I see it as a luxury skill.