Capra76

Possibly there's an element of that, but the sales are strong because BB in general are OP, so it's a chicken and egg situation. If CA were stomping on everything they'd be raking in the money from that, possibly even more so given the greater number of lines and countries that used them. I get the feeling that the developers have been "captured" by a section of the RU community, tailored the game towards what they were asking for and are now scared to do anything to offend them.

How about a shrinking map mode? Every 4 minutes the borders move in one line so that at the end of the match you're fighting in a 2 x 2 zone. Just a thought.

Plus of course a lot of the "obsolete junk" remained in service well into the 60's and beyond so there is a fair amount of overlap anyway.

Just tried it with Edinburgh on PT and I've worked it out. It doesn't make sense as a BB skill, it's possible as a DD skill but I think there are better choices, but as a cruiser skill it fits into the build quite nicely and is incredibly powerful mid/late game, especially in the hands of a half-decent captain who uses chat to share the results. Don't like it, DD do not need more nerfs.

Change the mini-map to show you all alone against 20+ ships?

I think more to the point it convinces me that S_O is quite happy to make up excuses for decisions taken when the truth doesn't suit him. Personally I would have no problem with him saying "IJN DD were too popular, the are balanced to keep their numbers under control" (it was the wrong decision IMO but that's a different story), but that of course begs the question: "so can KM BB expect the same treatment", but of course the answer to that might be inconvenient so IJN are meant to be "high skill cap".

You don't find it odd that WG has found a way to encourage even more people to play the most heavily played line in the game? I mean the KM BB are the most played ship on 5/8 tiers, are 3rd and rapidly catching up at T10 have only been pushed off top slot at T3/4 by the new KM DD and WG seem to want more of them. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted at the present and am grinding the KM line anyway, I'm just confused as to why they chose this ship in particular.

I agree with you. My fear is that a few patches down the line WG will see that no-one uses it and either boost the effectiveness of it or cut the skill point cost so that everyone has it, at which point it becomes game-breaking. IMO it's a skill that can't be balanced, it's either useless/too expensive or game-breaking, there's no middle ground.

I don't have a problem with premiums in general, but making sure that everyone has one that's well suited to training for the most heavily played line in the game seems to me to be a somewhat strange decision, surely something from one of the other nations would've made more sense..

True, but those cost real world money and not every player is willing to spend €50 on a in-game model. They're skills are close enough, and with dragon flags etc the re-training time should be pretty minimal.

The problem I have with AGS is it's a great captain trainer/re-trainer for the KM BB line, to make the grind up to the Bismarck that much easier. Because we don't have enough Bismarck in the game yet, right?

The assumption is there for explanation purposes, I'd hoped that was obvious.

It's a bit of a problem if you want to grind up a different line since the XP you get is now lower, also it could be quite difficult getting a game in a T6 ship if everyone's now in a T10. Biggest problem is I don't want to start until I know it's intentional, otherwise I'd see any progress wiped if they do change it.

There seems to be a screw up on the PT server at the moment, I've still got the ships from the previous round and no premium time.

There's a screw up on the PT ATM, I've still got the ships from the previous round and no premium time.

Possibly some kind of role in the Bastion game mode?

I'm fairly sure your maths is completely wrong, you seem to be treating the relative number of ships (6/11 = 54.5%) as being the win chance, which it clearly isn't. Let's look at it another way, lets assume that the larger force always wins, in which case your 5 v 4 sinks 4 ships at the cost of 7 of your own, which is not a good trade, in fact it would make more sense for the smaller force to re-position south. All of which of course ignores the fact that even the fastest battleship is going to be out of the game for a long time whilst it moves north.

Forget the microwave for a moment, what I want to know is what is a kabnet and why it needs waxing?

The stats seem to back this up. If you look at for example Edinburgh (top T8 silver ship on damage caused), she looks fairly o/p compared to say Mogami with about 5,000 higher average damage over the last 2 weeks, but if you look at the damage caused by the top players over the same period they're very similar.

I hope I was a dog in my previous life.

It's part of Aslains mod pack, described as "navigator".

I'm wary of the RN damage stats at the moment, there a relatively new line and the T3-5 misery ships probably keep a lot of the weaker players away from the line, my instinct is that the average higher tier RN players is probably better than the average for some of the CA lines.

Inertia causes your engines to go into reverse? Ok, I learn something new every day. AKA supporting the team's only DD.

I guess it's a matter of balance, you want to encourage players to pay to speed up the grind without driving away those who don't want to pay. There are also probably good MM/gameplay reasons why +2 MM is desirable. Anyway I don't think +2 MM is the real problem, that is the glut of ships at T7/8 which has the effect of ensuring that T5/6 are almost always up-tiered.