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Yeah, Minotaur would make a great fleet support ship. (Oh and don't forget camo for a 8.8km surface detection)

Everyone has dumb moments. (Also premium repair and heal is essential for sailing Warspite, just don't forget to swap the cost to Credits and not Doubloons)

The large sticking up section on the tier 9 and 10 is probably just plating and not part of the the actual citadel hitbox, like the tier 7/8, which is a separate module from the armour. ( ..otherwise RIP) They should get 19mm plate all over from tier 8 too. It's based on tier rather than design, even unarmoured DDs have 19mm from tier 8. (important agasint HE etc)

Typical Fletcher HE output agasint an Iowa with 5% fire reduction equipment. Accuracy Battleship damage per minute (30% pens) Fires per minute Fires with DE Long range sniping 10% 1350 0.27 0.43 Harassing at 8km 30% 4050 0.81 1.29 4-5km offensive smoke 80% 10,800 2.15 3.45

^ No way, buff Warspite until she's a tier 10 crusher! (I only want the citadel hit box reduced to match the citadel armour. Don't shoot the old lady just in front of the turrets for easy citadels, rum storage is too important)

Wat? How dare U insult my late nite mafs Your 100% correct, cheers! (Don't forget AA Guns Modification 2 for ultimate CV trollage)

Guns stats are from Minotaur. > https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/08/21/tier-10-british-cruiser-minotaur-leak/

It would be very interesting to see in game. Maybe Clevelands spiritual successor when it gets bumped a tier or two? I'd buy it for times of high CV popularity Tiger AA (from supertest server) 6km (8.6km max) = 62 dps 5km (7.2km max) = 118 dps Total = 165 Long range = 242 with manual AA. Cleveland AA 5km (7.2km max) = 100 dps 3.5km (5km max) = 75 dps 2km = 51 dps Total = 226 dps Long range = 275 with manual AA.

Cleveland shell arcs aren't bad once you get used to them, it's great for domination games with lots of islands. Here's the shell flight time to 10km, RN CLs should have similar arcs at tier 10. Atlanta = 7.8s Cleveland HE = 6.5s Fiji/Edinburgh = 6.3s (guess) Błyskawica = 6.2s Cleveland AP = 6.2s Minotaur/Neptune = 6.1s (guess) Myoko = 5.5s Nürnberg = 5.4s Hipper = 4.8s Cleveland at tier 8 would be absolutely fine with concealment mod and radar.

Tiger/Blake is similar to Fiji in size and manoeuvrability. Here's a quick comparison for average HE gun damage. (RN CLs data from supertest server and could change) Name Tier Guns Reload (s) Armour pen HE Salvo HE DPM Fires per minute FPM with DE Leander 6 8 7.5 25 3150 11760 2.08 2.77 Cleveland 6 12 8 25 5500 17325 3.9 4.87 Fiji/Belfast 7 12 7.5 25 5250 17640 2.87 3.83 Myoko 7 10 14 34 7425 15911 3.15 3.71 Atlanta 7 14 4.5 21 5400 25200 2.16 3.5 Blake - 4 3 25 1650 13500 2.65 3.37 Minotaur 10 10 4 25 4950 28875 3.92 4.99 Leander has weak guns for tier 6, similar in firepower to a Farragut B-hull, but has good torpedoes and low concealment. Tiger's from a different era and WOWS doesn't have the best game mechanics for it. (Russian laser beams vs RN/US firework launchers etc) 4 guns that struggle to hit ships past 10km and no torpedoes won't be fun. Enjoy Minotaur for what might've been.

Great news! That was the most interesting interview we've have had for ...well ever? Who cares about voice/video quality.

Blake would be interesting but Fiji and Belfast are significantly more powerful at tier 7. You'd need smoke, radar, hydro, defensive AA fire and repair consumables. This is the Tiger we all want!

Most players save that precious radar ping for smoke but it's real power comes in general spotting, especially in open water. A destroyer can't spot a radar cruiser with CE without getting spotted back. Destroyers get sunk very reliably with HE but cruisers can only be sunk quickly by BB RNGeus. At high tier you essentially replace destroyers with radar cruisers if they can spam it.

Hipper is a big ship and without competitive concealment (IJN, US) or p2w consumables (Kutuzov, Atago) to help you stay alive for those solo missions or DD support. Your a BB support ship. Getting both AA and hydro in 5.11 will be a welcome boost. Now if only it had a consumable that gave you good BB players. Tiny New Orleans is my fav tier 8. If only it had rapid firing 6" guns, torpedoes and smoke...

#make capping great again

Minotaur is the first cruiser with DP main guns, you can push them out to 8.6km! Here's supertester stats for the ultimate AA build if you really hate CVs. (no defensive fire though) Range with AFT and AA mod 2 With BFT and AA Mod 3 With manual AA 8.6km 163 325 7.2km 433 433 2.9km 84 84 Shell arcs should be slightly better than Cleveland AP, so about 6 - 6.2 seconds to 10km (similar flight time to Blys) Reload can be go down to 3.5 seconds with Main Battery Modification 3 for mental DPM and fire probability (the equivalent of 3 Blys shooting you) Minotaur also has a 2.5km buffer for stealth shooting and a 1.2km buffer for stealth torping (It's like a Mahan on steroids if you want to be a torp spammer) Can't wait

RIP Royal Navy light cruisers, we never got to see how OP they must've been.

Warspite always had tier 7-8 MM. She only sucks when your entire team consists of high speed, long range snipers (KM and RU) with utterly useless DDs.

100% Captain trainer or re trainers. (except Blys) I've got several high ranking RN captains waiting for CLs. KM officers have already been assigned.

Congrats on getting the prettiest ship in the game guys! Use that amazing IJN HE for splash damage and fires. Nassau is a little OP for tier 3 (I've almost got a 15 point captain in mine...) but Mikasa has a few tricks up her sleeve. Thanks to HMS_Worcester for a fantastic competition, it's just a shame that not many check sub forums often. (well, not to the winners )

Hurray, one of the ugliest destroyer leaders ever built! Personally I would've put Leningrad as the tech tree tier 7 and Kiev as a tier 8 premium. Anyway. Torpedoes. Ship Torpedo Range (km) Speed (Knots) Surface detection (km) Damage Number Reload Ship Concealment (km) Launch distance (km) Time to Target (s) Time in water (s) Reaction time (s) Vigilance (s) Leningrad 533mm 53-39 Mod.2 8 60 1.2 15100 8 92 6.8 7.2 46.2 51.3 7.7 9.6 Błyskawica Mk X 8 57 1.2 14400 6 70 6.8 7.2 48.6 54.0 8.1 10.1 Hatsuharu Type 8 (TA) 8 64 1.5 16267 6 76 5.8 6.2 37.3 48.1 9.0 11.3 Mahan Mk15 mod.0 9.2 55 1.1 11600 12 87 6.9 7.3 51.0 64.3 7.7 9.6 Sims Bliss Leavitt Mk7 mod.2B 9.2 49 1 8500 2 72 6.6 7 54.9 72.2 7.8 9.8 She's got amazing torpedoes for tier 7 if you run CE. Guns Name Guns Reload (s) Hit rate (%) Armour pen HE Salvo HE DPM Fire chance (%) Fires per Minute FPM with DE Kiev 6 4.5 0.42 22 1600 13440 8 2.21 3.04 Leningrad 5 4.5 0.42 22 1600 11200 8 1.85 2.54 Błyskawica 7 5.9 0.4 20 2550 12102 8 1.89 2.60 Leningrad isn't far off no far off the top 2 HE snipers. Gremy style AP 'drive bys' agasint unsuspecting cruisers is very real. Kiev can't really do that and Blys doesn't have the pen or reload. 13.9km is more than enough with AFT and she can stealth fire from 12.7km with CE. 27 seconds turret traverse is fine, you can track and dodge with EM. Giving Leningrad a high HP and low detection seems a recipe for OPness. Will she replace Błyskawica as the p2w tier 7 DD? No I don't think so, although it's very close!

Use HE and if that fails, ramming speed!

It's a bit late but here's a replay of a Mikasa detonating another Mikasa http://wowreplays.com/Replay/15052 (MLG super skill shot at 13:40)

She almost looks like a Benson with those 5" guns!

Thanks! WG have put RN torps right in the middle.