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I worry about the penetration of those 12 inch guns, especially against T6/7 ships.

I count at least 8 ships that would be within spotting range of a Kiev and at least 4 that would spot any DD, and that of course ignores the fact that the ships have engines and rudders and can quickly turn around and sink any DD stupid enough to do what you did. Can I also repeat my earlier question, do you think the "base flag" gives any extra points to your team above the other 2 caps?

If we keep him busy here maybe he won't pollute the rest of the forum.

Why? They're playing the game as well, why aren't they relevant? If there were 50,000 Lo Yang in the game do you think the OP would be happy with me excluding them? TBF I've left out the RU DD on the grounds that they're closer to cruisers and the Lo Yang on the grounds that I'm lazy and couldn't be bothered to look it up, those add about 22,000 to the T8-10 total, if you took out the 58,000 Tirpitz as well then you get a small lead for the DD, but how anyone can claim that "everything is swamped with DD" when there's up to 60% more BB in T8-10 games is beyond me.

Do you think that the "base cap" offers more XP in a 4 cap game?

Then why did you load the game in the first place?

Tier BB DD 8 114,150 48,568 9 29,102 26,551 10 23,228 19,020 Total 166,480 94,139

Detection range on a Kiev? That would be a dumb move in a IJN DD, in one with a 9km spotting range it's retarded. Also you appear to have been the furthest West DD, by suiciding through the middle rather than trying to cap D you gifted an uncontested cap to a single DD when your team outnumbered their cruisers 3:1. Had you gone to D there's a reasonable chance you would've killed the enemy DD and capped leaving your team at parity in terms of ships and caps rather than 2 ships and 2 caps down, which is pretty much game over.. I'd say you pretty much cost the team the game all by yourself.

Went pink last week, first game up a friendly CA decides to ram me then starts shooting at me, why? "You shot my ship". "I shot your ship? When?" Oh, okay, not your ship but a half health enemy ship that you wanted to kill and therefore "your ship". Anyway, net result was 7 games co-op for 4,500 friendly damage (out of about 500,000 from that day) from one stray torpedo in a <3km fight against multiple cruisers, bit harsh IMO.

Yamato 13,802 Shimakaze 11,114 Montana 9,426 Zao 8,390 Gearing 7,906 Iowa 18,551 Kagero 13,549 Fletcher 13,002 Roon 10,915 Izumo 10,551 Tirpitz 59,000 North Carolina 32,981 Fubuki 28,073 Amagi 22,169 Admiral Hipper 22,153 Benson, 7th most played ship, 20,495 Figures from WT for 1 week on EU server.

Don't you think capping is important or do you think pro IJN DD captains sail off to the edge of the map and spam torps from 20km

Before the nerf Shima had one of the worst survival rates of any T10 ship, how does that equal "no risk"?

I'm pretty sure Jingles has several different accounts and has played way more than 240 games.

Hansz did hint at this in another thread, and thinking about it the current PT session does seem a lot longer than some of the previous ones.

But Hanz did say "unless the PT throws up something unexpected"

Are they going to add them onto the PT server in the next day or so then?

I've seen this suggested several times but I have a hard time believing it, AFAIK everything is held by the National Maritime Museam, is publicly available and large parts of it can even be accessed online http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#!csearch;vesselFacetLetter=K;authority=vessel-323494;vesselReference=vessel-323494;start=0;primaryName=plan

Better players all on the PT server?

Fair enough, I'm looking forward to having a go in the Zao this time around. I wonder if it's connected to the 10 games won "prize", maybe the price comes down automatically after I reach that milestone.

The problem I see with CV is this: MM balances the game by overall ship tier but not type, so that in theory Montana + Benson should be as strong as NC + Gearing; adding a T9 CV into that mix totally changes the balance because the Montana will be pretty much immune to the CV thanks to its AA power whilst a lot of the Gearing's power gets eliminated by the spotting ability of the CV.

Probably a daft question but Ibuki is asking for 777,777 XP to unlock it, which seems odd to me. I thought it might be connected to the number of wins but the figure has stayed constant, is there a particular requirement that needs to be met to unlock the T9 ships.

My guess is the T5 Konig. First clue is 250,000 damage should be 3-4 decent games, which implies a mid-tier ship. Slower than the Kongo, less range, smaller HP pool, weak HE, very strong AP DPM but 12 inch guns could limit the utility.

Hmm, worse than I thought, but a lot of that power is concentrated in the DD so not as big as it might be.