RUSSIANBlAS

True but one must usually go via the NC to get up there and the play style is similar. The flight trajectories are similar enough so any experience in NC isn't wasted higher up I feel.

My issue is who on earth has gone for day 1 T10?!?

5 stars, first time in Atlanta. I even died on the last stretch and did nothing towards killing GZ. The most meh rewards ever, a handful of gold...

NC guns need a long time to understand. Potentially 100+ games. They have really slow velocity and take a lazy looping trajectory. You'll find they're accurate once you understand them. The way they fly means that any thing that isn't quite on target will miss more as the shells fall so steeply. Amagi and Bismarck for instance have much flatter trajectories so are more reliable for damage to the un initiated. It's too bad the Missouri has just gone, likely forever as that's the ship that makes learning these guns worth it...

I barely play anything under T5 and these days almost exclusively T8+ DDs... Putting a 19 point captain in anything less than a T6 or higher Silver ship simply isn't effective for Elite XP farming and the ship itself often won't be good enough to take advantage of the high level buffs. Prem ships can take captains without respec so complaining that they are seal clubbing is simply invalid.

This looks like the sort of ship I wouldn't mind winning in an Xmas box... I've got way too many BB I never play as it is!! Play DD if you're skilled, carry the potatoes to wins

I appear to have kept everything... Even though I clearly didn't have enough XP to auto upgrade any modules. Maybe everyone else just played too much and broke the counter?

"Chicken" on the front clearly needs a ramming bonus of some sort...

I rather like my glum looking shark with the trident although the damn thing has no opposable thumbs so doesn't have a hope in hell of using it

I'm on Kagero and she's playable. However you really can't be dueling any other DD unless they're low HP or they're another IJN DD... At T8 she's weaker than the rest as you're forced into being somewhat passive. You use your superior concealment to help your team outspot the enemy. All I really want is for WG to change the dammn spotting range of IJN DDs to be in line with the rest of the pack as they're currently spotted earlier than anything else. If I take long enough to grind Shima then WG might buff by the time I get there! But please no Torp Reload Booster as that would be crazy...

The T9 PA is epic. So much torp striking power and nice concealment too. Don't forget the T10 PA DD is a very compact ship. It's significantly smaller than the Gearing. I'm about to get a 19 point PA captain and I've got to decide which ship to keep. Likely to be the T10 one as I've still got a Lo Yang trainer at T8. I prefer Z52 over the Z46. I'm finding front facing guns are better, although German DDs are meh due to pretty poor HE vs other DD. Their AP is stupendous however.

Yes, any French BB that's been won via a container will have all modules given to you and any XP you've earned goes towards the next tier. Thanks WG

Yet again these missions mess up the MM... Hundreds of BB in queue and it doesn't help the high value star missions force you into playing high tier FR BB. Got a month anyway so there's time.

They're very pretty, doesn't affect my FPS at all. But lots of different setups out there...

Just wondering if the ships we'll get when the patch comes in with be stock hulls or fully upgraded? As I haven't played any of the FR BB that much so I'll likely not have enough to upgrade modules immediately.

Yes... Clan buddy keeps winning Speed Boosts and I've won the Double Hydro modules days ago. I don't actually need anymore Hydro annoyingly as I have modules for Lo Yang and Z52 already.

Lel BB RPF Take CE and FP as the two level 4 skills. Forget about the rest.

I got two SC out of 3 daily Containers. Amazingly both were Hydro modules

I'd argue that the standard BB build in the current meta is anything at level 1 (I prefer PM), EM at level 2 unless you've got a German or Italian BB maybe as otherwise you need turret traverse, SI at level 3 because of heal and FP at level 4 because of HE Spam. That's 10 points. CE and AR will take you to 16 points and you will have a decent general purpose BB build. Now with the last 3 points there's stuff like Vigil, BoS, HA and JoAT. I personally prefer Vigil. If you division with CVs then swap CE for AFT maybe. Germans obviously can build for Secondary power...

Angling until you can get closer and hoping your allies can HE spam him down? German BBs are blunt instruments imo, they do one job (brawling) really well and nothing else... I barely play mine anymore as they're so limited.

Well AR is a given on pretty much every build other than CVs. Skill 2, 10, 12, 14 or 16 at the latest. It always makes sense to take AR as soon as it's practical.

Vigil is expensive but fair I think. It's the difference potentially between taking 0 damage and 10k+ sometimes excess of 20k+ WITH epic DoT flooding...

What would you take with the last 3 points instead? I guess you've got stuff like High Alert, BoS, AFT, TAE, DE or JoAT outside of the "essentials". Totally understand your point however but one torpedo hit can change games. "Can" is the significant word as you'll be using something like HA,BoS or JoAT a lot more often yeah...

Imo it's one of those skills you have to use to appreciate. Likewise with Hydro as an anti Torp measure. I did fine without it but as a luxury skill it's worth considering.

One of my clan mates insists on Vigil for DDs in CW because of the team torp spotting benefits...