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WG nerfed the container drops as all the R1 pros were abusing them "apparently"... Now no one plays it as they've got better things to do like farm brain dead BB potatoes in Random Battles.

OP seems a bit detached... Not a team game clearly And he's pasted in that German BB bias thing before. Rapid fire Tirpitz fun

Annoyingly Missouri cannot take advantage of the Directional Control Float thing (double fighter). Otherwise other skills would be EM for all USN BBs as their turret rotations suck without it, SI as the extra repair is always helpful, AFT to take advantage of the awesome USN AA. A lot of folk including myself roll with CE, USN BB have troll concealment. Something the size of the Iowa having a concealment of 12.2km is frankly someone's idea of a joke. Waiting until just before you're revealed to open up leads to "interesting" results on Cruisers and Broadside BBs who have no idea what is about to happen to them. As for the rest of the skills BFT and AR are the luxury choices. Some torpedo haters take Vigil but I don't feel it is really needed. I own seven USN BB, 3 of them Prem and they share 3 captains. Annoying for training, silly me for keeping so many Silver ships

Great logic WG. Rather than maybe add a few tutorials or inform players how to manual drop you instead propose to move the cliff face learning from T4 to T6 by which time a lot of CV potatoes may have bad habits they'll never shake off. Looks like WG want to kill off the CV rather than fix them if this change is the case...

Interestingly there is a thread that complains the Ogniething is UP and weak... http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/76118-new-sn-dds-something-realy-wrong-here/ Can something be both OP and UP at the same time?

I know OP is all for historical accuracy and all that but I don't see this as valid. Yeah some of the new RU DD are awesome at the whole long range sniping business. BBs simply can't do a thing against them as you're not hitting a tiny ship at 14km that is dodging unless you are lucky or cheating. Besides it takes quite awhile to do 40k damage to a BB even with the flamethrower RU DD shells. What is the rest of your team doing about it in the mean time? In fact I like the new RU DDs so much that I find even the Trashkan utterly awesome

Perm camo coming tomorrow for it

I like Fat Freddy very much, I'm always having enjoyable games in her. Although I am very close to Grosse Kurrywurst now so will probably sell her It does seem to take big cits, and that armour analysis from Darth explains it... Guess GK is going to be that much better, no point keeping T9s (unless its Money Missouri lol) as the MM is virtually the same. Might as well go into battle as the top dog.

Was a nice little bonus. Especially that if you stayed on after 2 am GMT you could get the same bonus again on whatever you were awake enough to play with

Seriously the Belfast whine is invalid, it needs good spotters or it is useless. Sims is the real P2W ship

AR is still pretty impressive on quick reloading stuff... I'm fairly sure my Sims reloads at 3.3s at full HP and goes down to almost 2.5s. That is a significant hike in DPM in a clutch knife fight and it would be appropriate here too.

NC doesn't need Artillery Plotting Room, it is inaccurate as hell at longer ranges. Better to save it until you are almost revealed from concealment. Almost everyone takes AA upgrades so the umbrella reaches to 7.2km. IMO NC underperforms because too many potatoes snipe in it and the shells themselves fly slow compared to other BB. Needs some getting used to. Bismarck armour rules over the other two at close range due to the turtleback layout, that's the sloped shell over the top of the citadel. However Bismarck can take massive long range damage from AP sniping.

I just really hate being farmed by CVs. Manual AA means they don't usually try more than once... German BBs are built to take advantage of it as they've got so many high calibre AA guns but I can see how other builds are entirely viable and better the majority of the time.

Vital on a CV. If you've missed with the initial drop then max torp range is irrelevant anyway.

Drop what for it? I play my Tirp as a mid range stealth ship. Direction Centre, AR, SI, CE and Manual AA, then Vigil and finally probably EM when I make 19 points. I only dive into torp range when its BB vs BB.

Tirp with Manual AA is certainly not sub average AA...

I imagine it'l be T8. WG tends to alternate between T7 and T8 for the top ranked tier. Unless they do something crazy next season like T5, T6 or T9

AR is a go to skill on almost any BB after you've got EM. I don't even take EM for higher tier German BBs as their turrets rotate fast enough. When you're low hp a 30 second reload falls to around 25 or even less. Things like Bismarck/Tirp fall to about 20 and Scharn to somewhere near 15 seconds. Well worth taking.

Off topic but I'll be quick. Aki is getting a massive range buff apparently to make up for no stealth fire.

Trashkan gets better the more you play her. I don't actually think I've been sunk in her yet. As I stay at arms length, firing and dodging constantly. Problem is when you get closer you're easier to hit and if you haven't taken smoke you have no easy way out. Can casually get BB levels of damage farmed this way. Only issue it's sometimes hard to force the game when you're just splashing HE rain from 14km.

Well it's debatable, NC has an immunity zone whereas Amagi doesn't. Yet an NC seems to take more damage when caught with pants down. Partly concealment can be seen as a layer of armour. Maybe it's different now but Amagi's didn't really used to take CE and would take incoming fire earlier. I used to prefer Amagi during the grind but that was pre sigma buff NC. NC AA makes 'sufficient' AA on other BBs look plain bad though!

DDs are so squishy that you'll likely run out of HP before anything gets knocked out rather than temporarily disabled. In over 150 Sims Ranked games I lost a total of 1 turret and one torpedo tube cluster.

It depends how much being R1 means to you. The meta is different from the average Random Battle. Took me over 400 games last season but did it in 300, would have be less if I settled on the Sims quicker probably. After the elite unicum reach R1 after the first few weeks I find the standard doesn't get much worse. Majority of players are no hopers for whatever reason. Half the battle is staying positive and trying to learn from your own mistakes. I can probably give some Sims advice, could put it here or you could msg me. Won't be exhaustive but will help. The R6 R5 wall is quite an obstacle at first. I got stuck there in Season 4 and yo yoed at least half a dozen times last season. This time it was smooth...

I use the 70% detonation reduction in my DDs now and I barely ever get 1 shot blown up. I think since that module came in it's only happened to me once, in my Gremy of all ships!