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Well, I'm not at liberty to actually recommend any particular line of action.

Apparently, early days Danbooru had people posting their own apparently low quality art and so they made a rule against it so now I just have to sit here and wait for my footprint to grow enough for someone from Danbooru to try to upload my new stuff. As a side note, my latest work is getting quite the chilly reaction. Maybe the cover wasn't such a good idea after all. Maybe I'll go back to doing Houseki artwork, that show gets unreasonably high ratings and views on Pixiv.

I do, it's just against the rules to post one's own images.

Ah yes, Danbooru. I'm still upset they haven't featured anything for me yet, but I guess that's what I get for not being Japanese.

Kazatzki, incidentally. Had some interesting things to tell me about the organization in your clan.

Verdius, have you been stalking me? Ah yes, I've also met a clanmate of yours at Uni.

Actually, quick show of hands. Who here actually has a Pixiv account. You won't be able to view the main image without one especially because it's rated r-18.

I'm back you degenerate weebs. I actually made something this Christmas and, as is typical of me, I finished it late. Themed it after the Christmas boxes and the ships I got from it. Here's the link to the full set. Be warned though, very NSFW.

She is slow, but her AA is perfectly fine. It's just that the other tier VII battleships have an excessively powerful AA suite. Her armor is poor, but only compared to German battleships. Her armor is perfectly in line with ships like the Colorado and the KGV. Clevelands are also a minor nightmare for just about every tier VII battleship and her servicing cost is equal to all her contemporaries. Minekazes are slippery little bastards. The fact that you lost however likely implies that you were incredibly close to dead and had no friendly cruisers around after just eating a torpedo salvo from said Minekaze. You would likely have fared just as badly with a Colorado or a Hood. Worse in fact, as the Nagato has substantial torpedo damage reduction. Actually according to your statistics you aren't that far behind on your Nagato. You lag behind the Fuso, but that's understandable because the Fuso is a brutal shotgun at her tier. The Nagato however requires somewhat more precision and her advantages does require a larger amount of familiarity with the ship lines so I could understand why you struggle. Transitioning from 12 guns to 8 guns isn't easy, especially when you're up against monsters like the Scharnhorst and the KGV. That said, let me try to sell you on the Nagato anyways. 410 mm Japanese guns have many tangible benefits over the guns that the Fuso mounts. As a Fuso, you are stuck with shooting broadsides of enemy ships. With the Nagato however, you can shoot at the bows of tier VI and VII battleships and you will cut clean through. Your larger and heavier shells also carry a bigger punch and significantly better accuracy. A Kaiser might be able to citadel you, but you can also citadel a Iowa. The Nagato is a ship that rewards aim and patience which makes her a difficult ship to master, but once mastered she is a formidable ship to be sure. Being able to aim well also means a different thing at tier VII than it does at tier V. Aiming well at tier V involves knowing how to lead a straight-lining ship to sink her. Aiming well at tier VII involves understanding the overmatching rules, knowing how the enemy armor is assembled, knowing where the strong and weak spots are, and knowing where you can cut through enemy armor and where you can't. For example, you'll want to aim for the waterline of another Nagato as that will mean you can land citadel hits but you want to aim at the midline of a Scharnhorst because hitting her citadels is all but impossible and you will do more damage if you try to get more shells into her side. A Fuso, as long as you lead correctly, has shells that will fetch you hits sooner or later. At tier 7 where your enemies will wriggle like eels on land, you need to relearn how to aim. She ship isn't worse, you're just facing stiffer competition and haven't acclimated. The Izumo isn't irredeemable, but she's rather weak. The problems that are present on the Nagato are just as pronounced on the Izumo except you will face significantly more dangerous enemies like Kutozovs, Zaos, Hindenburgs, Henris, and various other high tiered assorted cruisers that will feast on your weaker plates. The nature of Japanese battleships means that you will need to learn to position well to get the most out of them. Don't lose hope though, the Yamato is a good ship and the Amagi is just about the best battleship of her tier. The fact that you want to improve already puts you far above the tomato masses. Stick with the Nagato and practice with her, and I'm sure she'll bring you many great games.

Better reload would likely be in order, and better firing range would be nice. I really think that having a turret rotation of around 25 seconds for a ship like the Cleveland is perfectly fine and I could do with some more range. Beyond that, I would like to see her armor plates bought in line with the other tier VIII cruisers and some more health. Apart from that, she really doesn't need it. Also, her shell arcs are fine. American light cruisers should be more like the Atlanta anyways, the best tier 7 cruiser.

The 'acquired' symbol for hydroacoustics search and radar should be different.

The first +300k game in my Hindenburg, that I actually won!

This again. Quite frankly, American carriers are better than they have ever been since the Midway and Essex nerf. The fighter loadout is a terrible idea and serves only to cripple American carriers. The removal of AS from the American CVs is just about the best thing that could be done for every carrier in the game. The fact that they get ripped to pieces by IJN squads is also false. A frontal strafe against a USN squad by an IJN one will result in 2-3 plane losses whereas a frontal strafe from a USN squad on an IJN squad will result in a complete wipe. American squads also have more ammunition and therefore better stamina in carrier air duels. Objectively false. IJN torpedoes do 8567 damage per pop whereas American torpedoes do 9867. The only advantage the IJN torpedoes have is a speed advantage of 1 knot. ONE. F*CKING. KNOT. Again, false. It might be true for the Independence, but let's take a look at the carriers with Air Supremacy. Langley 20 planes VS Hosho 13 planes Bogue 20 planes VS Zuiho 18 planes Ranger 22 planes VS Hiryuu 28 planes Lexington 22 planes VS Shokaku 28 planes Essex 34 planes VS Taiho 32 planes Midway 40 planes VS Hakuryuu 37 planes So 4/7 American carriers (or the MAJORITY for the mathematically challenged) fields more planes than their Japanese counterparts. Come on, fact check a little. It's not hard. And their fighter load-outs, with an exception of possibly the Taiho and Hakuryuu, are simply worse than the strike deck. Having a fighter deck IS NOT a point in favor of a carrier. And better torpedo bombers, as previously established. They also have better fighters on a squad by squad basis that is nearly guaranteed to wipe a strike even with a near-miss strafe that would net an IJN carrier maybe 1-3 plane kills per squad. That sounds like a terrible idea. AS decks should just be purged from the game and confiscated from the Saipan too now that I think about it. No they're not. Some points are subjective, but most are objectively false. WHAT?

I like the old Islands of Ice map actually, far better than the one we have now. It still has the idiot channel at the north of the map though.

Shoukaku is still the go to. She's a silver carrier and is therefore more accessible, she's still the best balanced with a generous strike air wing, and she is still the best for dropping destroyers. I would take the Enterprise personally, but that's for entirely irrelevant reasons to the actual suitability of the ship.

I don't know about you, but I rather like being able to farm the fries and tomatoes. If I get put in a team that is too weak and I lose, then I simply am too weak of a player to have carried them. With that attitude, I find the game far more tolerable.

I got a Sims, a Hood so far and half a year of premium. Pretty good haul. I'll report back in when I'm ready to waste more money.

There are a lot of tier X ships in the game with an upgrade that is clearly better than anything else they have access to (i.e. carriers, the Z-52, etc) and many players hold onto tier I-IX ships that they like with modules that they sold. These things over here. They're annoying. We should have an option to make these things invisible.

Usually yes. Midway used to run 2/1/2, which was why I hate playing the Hakuryu so much. Not that this patch has solved this issue of course.

It is not a fallacy, I made no abuse of logic to make my statement. It might just be my opinion, but I have had extensive experience with all of the tier IX battleships. Now argument from anecdotes is a fallacy, but I still stand by it. Tier X ships are a vast improvement over their tier IX counterparts in the majority of cases and nowhere is this more pronounced than in the battleships. Now the Musashi can either be better, worse, or about the same as the Missouri in performance. If she is better or about equal, to the Missouri, then for what conceivable reason would War Gaming have for releasing the Musashi apart from to fleece more money out of their player base and further unbalance the game? If the Musashi is worse than the Missouri, then what reason could they have for releasing her? Well, seeing as how you bought up fallacies I would like to point out that this is a case for special pleading. Now admittedly I have no evidence to draw this conjecture, but I think that the removal of the Missouri is due to the fact that the player base at large agree about how toxic having a battleship with a radar suite is. I would present the removal of this consumable from the British battleships as my evidence on the matter. We have no reason to believe that radar is being considered and we DO have a reason that radar will not be appearing in any future battleship as I have the (potentially foolish) belief that War Gaming doesn't actually want to sabotage their game. Hydroacoustics is subpar on a Japanese battleship especially now sluggish the Yamato is. Defensive fire on a battleship is stupid but possible, though hardly appealing on a ship with an AA suite that basically doesn't exist. Once more, we have no reason to believe that the Musashi is getting anything much less radar considering that radar has been barred from all Japanese ships to date. I'm against it because it's a waste of resources. I, and I would assume many others, would like a credit grinding ship in a class that they actually enjoy. There is already a tier IX battleship with broken game mechanics for players who want a tier IX battleship, why would we need another one? To increase the products a market with an available product whilst ignoring the other player markets? In which world will two mostly identical products for one market generate more revenue than to appealing products in two separate markets. The niche for a tier IX battleship is already satisfied. We have no need for another. Not unless we have a reason to think that she would be an appealing product. I will be willing to wait, though I will not withhold my judgement. If WG comes up with something that actually makes the Musashi anything more than another tier IX battleship. I find it infinitely easier to revise my judgement once WG offers a reason for me to believe that the Musashi was anything close to a smart use of their limited resources instead of withholding my judgement in the hope that they might be, especially considering how often my first judgement on WG's decisions have remained the exact same despite promises that I would love it once it was implemented. Which means that WG is using their resources to create a ship that serves a niche (i.e. historical buffs and those who plays IJN battleships specifically) instead of once which will have a far broader appeal (i.e. people who want a credit grinding cruiser/destroyer, people who want a premium tier IX ship for their preferred class, people who have the Missouri and would like tier IX ships in another class, cruisers and destroyers with historical and technological relevance for history buffs, people who play exclusively Japanese/American/British/Russian/German/French cruisers/destroyers and want a premium in that class all of which you neglected to consider. Don't throw glass stones in houses and the such) despite similar market niches and similar market return. Now I don't actually know how big the market is for a tier IX premium credit grinder from a different class, but I wager that it will be larger than the niche market suggested for the Musashi. As such, expending resources on the Musahi was a stupid decision. Which would have been a good point had that not been obviously hyperbolic. It's like if I said that "no one wants to sodomize themselves with a rusted iron crowbar" or perhaps "no one will spend 1500 euroes on one tier X premium" . Someone will, inevitably, want to but WG will spend their time far better by appealing to a market so niche they might as well not exist.

For reference, converting 750k FXP for the Missouri will cost you 30k doubloons or 98.69 euros.

5000 doubloons like that of all premium tier X camos or 18.86 euros from the premium store right now.

Allow me to correct myself. No one who isn't sick and wrong wants another premium tier 9 battleship. Disagreeing with me isn't considered a mental illness yet, but it shall be after "the device" is complete. Quite easily actually. Anyone who has enough free XP to buy themselves a free XP ship is either insanely invested in the game or have very loose purse strings. It takes an insane amount of money to convert all of the free XP off of a ship. With the money it takes to convert the free XP for a tier IX premium battleship, it would be possible to buy premium camouflage for a minor fleet of tier X ships most of which will significantly outperform any tier IX, even a tier IX premium. Combined this with the fact that the tier IX battleships contribute to the pool of some of the worst tier to tier ships in the game, I conclude that there would be no interest in another tier IV battleship especially one without the broken radar mechanics of the Missouri as WG has demonstrated a tendency, of late, of building more balanced and in many occasions weaker premium ships (Duke of York and Ashitaka) and phasing out ships that aren't balanced (Belfast). This means that we have a ship that will in all likelihood basically consume the entirely of a player's stock of free XP, be mediocre, and would be able to fund a far larger variety of ships at tier X. I see no reason anyone would prefer the Musashi over the Missouri. Players who have the Missouri have no gameplay reason to get the Musashi, players who don't have the Missouri would in all likelihood prefer her over the Musashi, and players who want a credit grinding ship of a different class will just get pissed off.

If they wanted to make a strong tier 9 battleship with the Musashi with some variation from the Yamato, several things could be done. Significantly better turret rotation at the cost of 3-5 seconds of reload, more accuracy at the cost of a lot penetration (Yamato's penetration is pretty good anyways), or a better focus on HE shells a la British battleships (a bit silly for them to have superior HE to the Japanese anyways). Regardless though, I don't think anyone actually wants another tier IX premium battleship. The Yamato was only considered strong in the age where she was the only alternative to the Montana and she had the overmatch ability, but with the advent of the France she will lost just about every advantage except in a close range bowfight with another non-Kurfurst with a series of ships that could, for the most part, easily outrun or outconceal her.

Enterprise. I do like the Shokaku, but the Enterprise with a 19 point captain is basically impervious to air attacks and I recall high tiered ranked CVs being very snipe happy. Alabama. Probably the last battleship I grinded that I enjoyed since the Amagi was the North Carolina. I assume that I shall have similar success with the Alabama. Lo Yang. Hydroacoustics is indispensable at the top ranks especially because I can't be bothered to play chicken all game with other unicum CV players. Atago. I'll start with her, but I'm convinced that this ship is cursed. And Prinz Eugen because quite frankly, I just can't give a damn.