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Just to comment on that video that shows "how to play them". Their Des Moines was potato and died in 5 sec. Their CV was potato and died in 10 sec. Their Yamato was potato and AFK. Their DD obviously doesn't know how to torp / burn them down. Now put a capable DD/ Des Moines / CV / Yamato captains against them, and see for yourself if they will push that easy. I mean, I agree that they did a good thing, but its wrong video because they played against bots...

My last game in Shchors, t7-9 game: A lot of BBs melted. Ofc I wasn't the only one who killed them, but I had few more of my teammates (Tirpitz for some reason) spamming HE at their BBs, so we melted them. Poor guys had 2-4 fires on them constantly...

Exactly. Best BB bully I've played so far (didn't play Zao), but has poor mobility and armor is made of paper. But while staying at 16 km, you can burn down everything with ease.

Got Manners in my last game with Izumo. Only thing I did different from previous games is that I capped (capped the red objective), so that might be the point. Capping / capping zone previously taken by enemy. edit: or even Assisted cap (was not solo cap)

nope, gave compliments to my team and enemy, didnt get it.

sadly last season I've met him 3 times.every time on my team.

I have 95 battles in it with ~77k avg damage on it, which is somewhat on par with my Amagi / Nagato. Yet, I really dislike the ship... Its a huge hit or miss. Good thing is that you can tank a huge amount of enemy BB shells when you point your nose forward and just sit there... Bad thing is... Thats it... thats the only way you can play it... You cannot play it like Amagi / Nagato, being agressive, deleting few ships, then kiting enemy while you are falling back. It just doesn't work. As soon as you show anything but your nose, you get punished really hard. side/back armor is non existing, everything will deal 10k damage to you. If you stand still bow on, you have a huge target drawn on your ship that says "Send your HE shells and torps here"... And being tier 9, you will meet t9/10 CVs that will litterary eat you alive with nothing you can do about it... And with the recent changes to pens / overpens, shooting cruisers is just not that rewarding, since you will do a hell lot of a overpens for 1k damage... And one more thing, like Iowa wasn't good enough of competition, now the new "LOL YOU CANT CITADEL ME" german battleships have arrived, and doing any real damage to them is... rare to say at least... so, for me, from t5-t9 this is by far the BB i enjoyed the least... from what I see it, his pros and cons are: Pros: Good bow armor that will bounce most of BB shells Good range with the upgrade Good guns that pack quite a punch and are somewhat accurate Cons: well pretty much everything else but... TERRIBLE concealment REALLY weak side / back armor - when kiting something away, you will get penatrated every single time, show any broadside and you lost half of your hp... Poor manevaureability Large ship Guns can go from overpenetrating something to bouncing in a second Bad AA for tier 9 One trick pony - only one way of playing it that is terribly succeptible to torping, HE spam, focus targeting, getting targeted by CVs etc

you can't heal full amount of 2 fires, so... Fires OP.

I don't know what have they done, but playing my Izumo, and trying to shoot cruisers became painful, not rewarding. 30 shells hit, 32 k damage done. 20 shells hit, 18 overpens 2 pens etc. I've posted the picture of shooting at yorck and Iowa in 1 game, where I did more damage to Iowa then to yorck with same amount of shells... Its just annoying. (btw, getting close to Roon is obviously mistake, since he bounced 7/9 of my shells from 4 km)

Got this little bugger, and took him out for a spin. Was not dissapointed

Considering my last few games with Izumo, I'm REALLY REALLY close to starting using HE against cruiser on him aswell...

There is like 1000 things that are historicly inaccurate, but every time when it comes to balance, you can't balance a ship because of historical accuracy. Thats so freaking annoying.

for anything inside 12km, you want to use AP with DM

Try it, you will be surprised (I sure was )Just be careful, that thing has no armor, so tread carefully into your adventures

Don't forget that mos of caps are "somewhat" surrounded by islands, so your manevaeurability is severely cut down when entering the cap. So most of times if you enter the cap at the wrong time, you cannot go back, and you are dead meat. Also, most of DDs have their detection ~ same size of the cap, so they don't want to get insta detected / focused by whole team as soon as they enter the cap. Just my 2 cents (also, because people are potatoes.)

I've imagined that every time you shoot that guns, you get pushed back some 30 meters because of the recoil who needs engines anyway, just load up spare ammo to move around

For that tiers Budyony / Shchors are doing wonders for me when it comes to burning down BBs / everything really

too much damage, torps OP nerf pls. -your average BB player.

there.

I currently have ~200 000 xp on my Fubuki, and a lot of xp on other ships in line. Now I really wonder what will happen, so I have to keep my eyes on every news considering this thing, so I don't "waste" all of that xp on some things I really don't want (leaving all that xp on fubuki just to see its stucked on t6, or wasting it to unlock something if they will give us some kind of compensation etc...) Either way, too bad for Fubuki to get moved from t8 since it was still a quite nice ship at that tier... wonder how will they nerf it for t6...

As someone who owns Fubuki with more then enough xp to unlock Kagero (but never bought it, because of the state high tier IJN DDs are in the game right now), I'm quite "concerned" about how will they make this happen... PLEASE DON'T SCREW THIS ONE UP WG. PLEASE.

gremy still balanced I see also ilhilh, gz on that 200k in Konig

The main problem is, even that "floating AA platform" role is bad. You have to hope for CV to be in game, then you have to hope that he is braindead and is sending planes your way. Every smart CV will just send planes different way when he sees AA fortress. And even if you shoot down some planes, reward for taking out planes compared to reward for killing things is too small.

Lazy shell arcs, quite a bad dispersion at long range, not that reliable firestarter as 2 other you mentioned.A ship that is great brawler and poor sniper placed in a sniping meta.

Once I've learned how to play Budy, I've had a really good games in it. Then came the Shchors, even better Budy and I have a blast in it (just don't make a stupid mistake or you are deleted instantly). Don't have Chapayev yet, but yea, I can understand that it could suffer because of matchmaking putting you into high tiers where everything has more armor etc. But simply, use your range and fire rate to your advantage, to burn things down while trying to stay undetected / not getting hit by anything. here are 2 games in Shchors ~130k damage both http://wowreplays.com/Replay/15846-cro_pwr-Estuary http://wowreplays.com/Replay/15436-cro_pwr-Estuary 1 is pure HE spam, other has torps etc in it, cause of the cyclone ^^