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Isn't that just the era/tier rather than the ships themselves? Shinonome looks terribly OP with 8km torpedoes at tier 6. Can't wait

HMAS Sydney (Famous Weymouth class cruiser that sank SMS Emden) HMAS Vampire (Famous V Class destroyer) HMNZS Achilles (The class is flexible enough to have multiple premiums, no NZ ship is more famous than Achilles) HMCS Ontario would make a better premium candidate than Uganda/HMCS Quebec (imo)

About 80% Dragon Flags, 80% Equal Speed Charlie London and 100% Zulu Hotels, Perth earns quite a bit of XP too. Dragon Flags are great, I've already got five 15+ point RN CL captains... Leander (16) Fiji (15) Edinburgh (17) Neptune (16) and Minotaur (15)

My Commonwealth captain hit 15 points today (no premium time)

Italy have the most important bases covered. Famous dreadnoughts and fast treaty battleships.

Unless you've paid for Perth or Belfast

Lot's of people playing T9-10 for that cartoon mission? Increased Bastion rotation for more data?

1. Give her a 27mm bow/stern to tank 15" AP, like Balti and DM. 2. Buff HE. The weapon systems are rubbish with the lowest risk/reward in the game.

You could balance Yamato for tier 2 in this game.

I citadelled a New York in Perth the other day

Who knows... Leander has 76mm on 25mm plating for 101mm total (or 4" armour) Seems OK? WG have used 89mm on 25mm plating (114) for Fiji, which is incorrect. General CL armour belts. Southampton = 4.5" (Doesn't extend to magazines) Edinburgh = 4.5" (Extends to magazines. Balancedfast was thickened after the rework?) Leander = 4" (Doesn't extend to magazines) Fiji = 3.5" (Extends to magazines) Dido = 3" (Doesn't extend to magazines) *Doesn't extend to magazines = good in WOWS (no citadel hit box to citadel just lovely overpens)

Tier 5-8 RN CLs have a 180 second spotter plane too, you just won't use them over smoke. Leander has a Fairey Swordfish, Warspite and Perth have a Supermarine Walrus. You can see why they got the times mixed up. Perth got the premium T6 BB spotter (probably after they removed Propulsion Modification 2 from the equipment slot)

Someone copy/pasted the stats from Warspite by mistake and no one has noticed. It'll get patched eventually.

120mm HE pens 19mm bow at any angle. 12mm is actually better agasint AP for more overpens (inc RN CL SAP) but they're more vulnerable to 102mm HE secondaries that can only pen 17mm.

Leander has the same guns as Fiji and Edinburgh, they're sweet. Did you play one on the test server?

Here's my recommended Perth build. 1. Basic Firing Training (1) 2. Expert Marksman (3) 3. Vigilance (6) 4. Demolition Expert (10) 5. Concealment Expert (15) 6. Torpedo Armament Expertise (17) 7. Basics of Survivabilty (18) 1st row: BoS first if you don't run premium repair. 2nd row: Expert Marksman first. Torpedo Armament Expertise means you can use 2 torpedo reloads in a smoke but I think faster turning guns is more important when brawling/kiting. 3rd row: Superintendent is a trap. You need ~18 minutes to use all 4 premium smokes. 3 is worth ~14 minutes of game time, which is usually more than enough. 3 planes will never run out and 2 Hydro is usually enough. Only take it if your super passive. Vigilance is a bit meh but it's fine. 4th row. Demolition Expert: HE is your primary ammo choice and fire stacking is the best way to do damage. AFT: Increasing the range your 4" guns to over 7km for secondaries or AA is great. Perth has very decent secondary arcs, esp when kiting away in smoke. Survivability Expert: Leander can get up to 4013 HP off SE! Unfortunately Perth only nets 2400 but it's still useful for a small cruiser. 5th row: There's only choice ....or is there? I'd love to try a full secondary build, shame we can't use a RN captain.

Fiji isn't the equivalent of Belfast, Edinburgh is. Fiji is much smaller.

V-25, V-170, Z-1 and Z-22 for me. Hopefully we'll get a German port too.

Premium teacup pekingese is being tested at tier 6.

10km torpedoes. Mr Oely001 is getting better average stats in Caledon than T7-8 cruisers.

Prinz 'POE' 'TA' 'TOES' Got it

...Because it doesn't get König MM.

I've seen a few with over 4000 base XP, maybe they didn't sign up? Anyway, congrats to everyone. (Flying the Restless Fire flag on a ship with no HE is delightful)

Congrats to all the RN CL winners.

I love the way Fiji melts broadside BB noobs at 10km.