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Higher tiers are a privilege not a right... I'd even want WG to refund all those T10 Perm camos so people can't yolo play top tier.

I take every opportunity to laugh at Boris. Next time he asks me to Division carry him I might throw the game

IJN DD are not completely trash... Although they are heavily power creeped by all the DD Gunboats out there. I'm up to the Kagero and you can have some excellent moments. My current favourite DD is the RU T10 Grozo. 6km detection is competitive, your AA is scary for a DD, the guns are accurate out to long range and the torps do not disgrace either. Learning how to DD is more important than picking a line. Although start with USN, work your way to a Fletcher then think about other lines. As the Gearing isn't an advancement on the play style and USN stuff from T7 to T9 are the universal DD in that they can do all DD roles competently.

It can be argued that Harekaze is 3 ships in one. Although the A Hull is a poor Kagero with stock torps and the C Hull is a very nerfed USN style DD... The only way to fly is the B Aki hybrid Hull.

Biggest issue for me with the German DD line is their HE completely sucks. 1500 damage is awful and other DDs can outgun you. The AP however performs arguably even better than RU AP vs broadside targets. I've grinded up to z52 and I'm not sure I like the line all that much other than the fast torp reloads.

The game I had after was even worse for under preforming. But yeah, good to see you

New Orleans SUCKED at T8... New Cleveland looks possibly no better. I'm not one to go on about MM much but that's the main issue for me. A NO simply cannot compete in hard T10 games, not the RoF or DPM for anyone to care about. Let's see what happens anyway...

You simply can't spare 4 points for CE. ManSecs, FP and AFT means you're at capacity. Which would you give up? Maybe Manual Secondaries but that accuracy edge is needed for DDs and stuff you simply need to set on fire. Not FP as there's too much HE spam out there. Besides the way German BBs work, when you commit to a brawl you either win or die. CE is useless to you then. I still take CE for my mid range Tirpitz build but that stealth BB build has been power crept out now. As for T10 games? Just need to wait for the right moment I guess. Don't be first and see how the battle pans out.

Whilst there are some who can handle a Kaga vs most opposition, there's certain MM which will utterly crush you when you take out a Kaga. Like a heavy T5 game for instance as you simply have no AA to bait the Saipan near. Or heavy T9 games where there's so much AA on the table that you have very few targets you can even go near. I've heard Saipan's can be beaten by going after their bombers as that will atleast blunt his strike ability but meh....

As final skill I quite often take Vigil. Not early on however, usually more useful skills to take...

I've got USN, RN and RU T10 Cruisers. I believe that covers all bases pretty much as I see little reason to grind Henri, Hinden or Zao. If I had to go again I'd probably pick Hinden as the guns/armour seem the most solid... Beware however, New Orleans is complete trash as a Cruiser. The MM will throw you constant T10 games and the AP guns simply do not pen higher tier Cruisers very effectively and the HE spam is poor as the guns reload so slowly. Balti however is very nice due to heal, superior AP performance and decent reload speeds.

I put my 19 point captain that I earned whilst grinding up the entire RU Cruiser line back into a Budy. Moskva needs a different captain so I've got the 19 point one in Kutuzov and Budy to farm Elite XP... I'd also recommend learning ships instead of using Free XP. Buying modules yes but otherwise you could probably use the experience.

Swap CE for FP and take Manual Secondaries too. AFT and Manual Secondaries are pretty strong when paired and you really need FP to prevent being burned down by all the focus fire...

Ah... Nice. Yeah we were competing for that last kill on that RU DD

Seems ok... It's the tactical flexibility you get from all forward facing guns.

A similar thing happened to me when playing FTL, gf rang and had a really hard day at work. I was playing and listening but suddenly I died and shouted out "F**K! MY SPACESHIP JUST BLEW UP!!" Oh boy... Still with her however so it wasn't that bad

Yeah in game AA is literally a bubble which can feel kind of stupid. Like a DD can fire it's main guns at things but they're also contributing to the AA bubble quite often...

Yes yes , I get what your view is on BB accuracy and I even agree but BBs are too damn popular and it'll only get worse if you make them too good. In Randoms the recent selection of BBs perform fine. Any fast BB can just be angled and the 30knots+ speed used to advance or run. You usually survive long enough to do some decent damage. Besides Richelieu has a turtleback.

Seems ok from PT and what I've used on the Live Server. Nothing amazing but then again I find German BBs acceptable. Just play stuff like Missouri, Monty, Amagi and Warspite if you want accurate BBs

Fires are a funny way to pink people. I don't put out teammate started fires on principle as I might need the DCP for other things. 14 games is quite a bit to suffer lol

Ogni isn't poor as such but she's a freak in the RU DD line. A 12 point captain with CE and Torp Acceleration makes her quite an interesting torp boat. It's just that Ogni pales in comparison to others around her tier.

Ogne is a totally different animal to Udaloi. In short she's cr@p as you have very low firepower. Nice torps on the T8 ship but it doesn't prepare you for the play style later on. Only real Udaloi weakness is your best concealment of 7.2km is fairly horrible.

They were bordering on OK for Enterprise as the CV has a low bomber reserve and the drop circle is huge even with manual drops. Lex for instance has a smaller drop circle and full fat T8 planes. Just wait until GZ gets released

I'd argue RU DDs are not pure gunboats. Kiev, Udaloi and Grozo all have 8km+ torps which can be combined with guns to decent effect. Stay at longer ranges 10km+ and sprinkle shells on things. Or team up with a good concealment DD to kill enemy DD they spot. I find with Udaloi that AP vs anything broadside even at longer ranges works well. Try stacking AP into a broadside BBs superstructure with their guns turned and see the numbers rise. I'm only about 20k XP from Grozo finally and I'm really looking forward to a heavy DD with 10km torps, 6km concealment and excellent guns. On a side note, Khaba rudder and Torp nerfs have made her boring for me. As now you arguably pay too high a price for armour and that extra turret.

Maybe WG should have kept AP bombs as an Enterprise exclusive. Then the unwashed masses wouldn't be able to troll German BB. They should be normalised I guess so they do decent damage to all BBs instead of 1 shotting Germans and mediocre vs the rest.