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Allowing the radar dish or other activated modules to be punched out would certainly help kerb the power of ships with a lot of consumables. Besides wasn't the Scharnhorst's radar/range finder knocked out before she was sunk? It would certainly lead to Preventative Maintenance being more important and it really can't be that hard to implement since turrets, torps, engine and rudders can be killed already. It would just need some balancing with regards to how likely they are to knock out and the duration/whether they're gone for good. Thoughts?

Hmmm true,too low a chance and it's pointless. Too likely and the ship is ruined...

I actually wonder if WG introduced Shira to counter this season's smoke heavy meta... But that would be too intelligent of them, right?

I always turn off music for games I play online. Takes away from my concentration

Yes, the existence of Shira means Akat isn't a choice. Nothing beats being able to out Shima the Shima at T7 I see a lot of Mahan but can't say how effective they are. They were great in Season 5 but meta has shifted somewhat in recent times...

Shira is a potential Ranked pick if my BB push fails. Saw some supposed multi Rank 1 Unicum get farmed by a torp wall in his Belfast thinking he was safe in smoke. That guy raged hard

Optimal 203mm HE can do that without IFHE however maybe not every salvo.... Haven't tested it, have barely played IJN cruisers since the changes in fact.

It can also depend on how individual teams are made up. I've found having an anti BB capability near the end of a game (Gnesi) extremely useful. That's the same time I see noob Scharn trying to BE me. Maybe I'm just a die had Tirptiz fan and want to fire those 15" guns all day long? Be interesting to compare how we've all gotten on later. Unless we've all changed to abusing the Belfast

I think the main advantage of Scharn over Gnesi is she kills DDs better as she's got more and faster firing guns. Gnesi's advantage is vs other BB as 15" can give any other BB at T7 the citadel middle finger (well maybe not the Germans). Scharn can do as much damage but needs longer and that one shot power demoralizes people

Only nerfed after the first day. I got Gremy, Nikolai, Eugen, Indie, Kutuzov, Marblehead and Emden. Really felt like I was being spoilt

There would only be power creep if the game is badly designed. If there was a plan of what ships to implement from the start then nothing should need changes over the game's life.

Belfast is only op with willing victims. Remains to see how good she is all the way up the ladder. Also good CV players completely change the course of a Ranked battle but they are rare beasts so no point getting hung up about them.

https://worldofwarships.asia/en/news/history-feature/about-mutsu/ The news article about the Mutsu is interesting, only posted SEA for whatever reason.

Well it's a Japanese ship so they should get to go first. Oh wait NA got the Scharn first

He also says to stroke smaller ships with AP until they're dead, which is the problem; it's a stroke rather than a hard slap so they can soak it up

Ranked xp needs a full over haul I think. It's why it doesn't favour BB as you can tank and draw the entire enemy team's fire but you'll finish near bottom as you've been occupied with staying alive rather than killing. As well as other things. The game mode itself promotes team play but doesn't reward for our other than winning so the potatoes don't see what's good and what isn't.

I already own Texas, Arizona and Missouri. I'd rather they showed IJN BBs some love and gave them a Silver Ship with buffs but then people would whine at P2W and want to accept under powered Hull A ships instead Maybe if the price is right but I have every tech tree USN BB from T6 to T10 and I barely get round to them all as it is.

I'm trying to rank up with BBs and it's fairly difficult, has always been the case as you simply cannot influence the game as much as a ninja capper DD, torp spammer multi tool Cruiser played with a brain. The Shira is a thing of terror for all BBs, you simply cannot risk getting that close until they're all dead or on the other side of the map. Vigilance only takes you so far! RNG will sink you a lot of the time, and your huge size means that getting as close as others want you to is extremely dangerous. Stand slightly further back (only about 12km or so) will get accusations of camping. Tried using Nagato, it's armour is too weak even with the recent buffs and the guns are very slow firing, 32s does not cut it in a fast paced ranked battle. Also the guns are almost too powerful, everything at close ranges seem to overpen to hell. Tried Scharn, whilst she's small and very competent the guns do not cut it. You need time to make Scharn guns work and they do not have the single shot "wow" factor that BBs tend to have. That's fine in Random Battles but sometimes you only get very small windows of opportunity and doing 2500 damage or whatever is only what an IFHE cruiser will do. So I've settled with Gnesi, the guns are derpy as hell but they have sufficient punch. Just ask the Nagas that take bow penetrations and 8k+ from having a shell in the back whilst trying to run. Also it does the job vs cruisers better than Scharn's cannons IF they actually want to behave... Both German sisters have very respectable armour, you can just sit there at an angle at 10km tanking shots whilst your team does their thing. I've noticed what others have said too, you're often the spotter as you are the only thing that can survive for a length of time outside of smoke. I'll see how things get the further up the ladder I get but I still hold a Belfast in reserve to play as my trump card should I be unable to progress (CE and IFHE equipped so ready to rock), but I'll feel like a sell out

Na there is as much rage as in any Ranked season. I laughed at a Belfast player who got torp smoked right at the start. It was really obvious, the guy messed up. Then he tried to go through my stats and claimed he was a twice Rank 1 winner. Who still got torp smoked at the start, boy was he angry and I enjoyed the salt. Always the same old "blah noob team etc" when someone dies first.

Why would anyone take an Akatsuki over a Shira into Ranked?

Lel Jingles discussing gameplay I think SAP is fine, Ranked is an extremely focused game mode. There are many ships that do not fit into the Ranked meta so asking for SAP changes to fit Ranked is no real reason for it as there would be a lot of ships that could be given buffs if Ranked viability was the case. RN cruiser line exists for the Fiji and probably the Minotaur later on to troll Random Battle Potatoes.

Better off with Jack of All Trades if you go on the assumption that most HE spam is going to be IFHE and start less fires but do more damage you can heal.

Yes it may only have 6 derpy guns but I have "a lot" of Tirpitz experience and the ship is essentially a 6 gun Tirpitz in every way a part from a slightly different armour pattern (no bow tanking). But yes the guns are competent at the ranges you fight at in Ranked. Put one through the bow of some Belfast that was about to smoke cheese my team yesterday Key ships this season seems to be: German BBs Belfast and Shira Most games will start off with everyone focusing Belfast and panicking at Shira 16 torp walls then it becomes a bit conventional when the aforementioned ships are dead.

Ah that would explain all those recent silly youtube clips of Russian war films, like that naval one (Admiral I think it is) where some stupid 1900s Cruiser mine detonates a German heavy cruiser type thing. The average CV player is awful (usually BAD on stats), even up to the higher tiers. No idea why more AA buffs are needed

Could argue the meta has changed since Season 4 and Naga is less viable than she used to be, even with the armour buff. Colorado's armour pattern means there are a lot of lightly armoured parts of the ship, so IFHE will sting. I still don't see the trade off with USN All or Nothing armour as 15" Gnesi guns can still get very respectable citadels against the Colorado.