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Well Texas is in top three T5 BBs by stats while NY is rock bottom. Why buff ships that is performing good. Big problem could be torpedo angles which could be really bad. Just look where the front torpedo launcher is. I mean look WG image of the ship. Even a lot of broadside is shown you still can't see the torpedo launchers and the front one is completely blocked from launching forward. She would need to show a lot of broadside to use those torps.

So Colorado A hull get some rudder shift increase? Yes that will definitely make performance of this ship to sky rocket. Maybe she will even get very close to second worst T7 BB.

Still debatable. Yahagi is really lacking in guns for T6. And even his AA is not particularly strong. She would need more than TRB for T6.

I agree. This ships should be T9 instead of Udaloy. That way branch would have some consistency. But they can still do that if they put Kotlin class instead of Udaloy. It shoul have TRB as historically it had possibility to reload torps. But please no smoke. It is historical ship with only 2x2 130mm guns Only one, which is not on that image. Kildin class had missiles. All three on that image are classic DDs

Considering all the difficulty to properly balance (fictional upgraded) Huanghe at T6 I'm not surprised to see Yahagi at T5. Agano class cruisers armament was quite ... lacking. Even at T5, Yahagi doesn't look particularly good. WG would need to overbuff it to fit it at T6. But torps are strong for a T5 as those 4x2 10km launchers are placed in centerline position which mean 8 torps broadside at T5 which is quite good.

Yes, BB AP is the only thing that prevent WoWs to be flooded by DDs. Sure Which is not true. You can insta delete DD with a torp hit. Sometimes two, but still possible.

Excluding ships I'm currently grinding and T10, ships I kept are Japanese Mogami Also considering rebuying Myoko after the buff French La Galissoniere German Z-46 PA Gadjah Mada Chung Mu Soviet Budyonni Chapayev British Fiji Leander US Pensacola New Orleans Helena Cleveland Fletcher

ST. German battleship Prinz Eithel Friedrich, tier VI - Sigma has been increased from 1.9 to 2.0. The change will make the battleship more comfortable, and will compensate for the small number of shells in the volley. Please note that the information in the Development Blog is preliminary.

Mogador at T9? Also T47 and T53 were basically a same design, T53 with only major difference in electronic equipment. Also from 4x2 139mm to 3x2 127mm? If Modagor is a T9 ship than T10 in that line should be Kléber Class (Improved Mogador). I think that Navigatori class should be a premium as they very quite different than the rest having 3x2 120mm guns while all the rest is having a 2x2 120mm, but with same torpedo battery. There is number of others like Freccia, Folgore, Maestrale or Oriani class. While they all have similar armament, there is an increase in displacement which would mean more HP in the game. Navigatori class looks like same or better then Soldati class in all aspects. Putting it before Soldati class somehow doesn't seems appropriate.

Specifically: USS Laffey (Allen M Sumner Class) USS Sterett Generally: Any of Dido Class Cruisers More Brooklyn Class Cruisers Any Bagley or Gridley Class Destroyer

If you consider Kami OP than you should consider GC OP too. Both ship have 58% WR and both were way ahead on the rest of the pack. CG average damage is better then any T6 BB and only three BBs of T7 are better. Its average damage is even better that 6 BBs of T8.

Monster Destroyers? Well Navigatori class was big, kind off, it is comparable by displacement to Tribal or L/M class. Soldati is only other class that could be compared to J/K/N class by displacement but not with armament, rest was smaller. Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro should be bigger if built but still very weak torpedo battery. Capitani Romani on the other hand is a class for itself. It is almost as big as Atlanta. Majority of them are fast tho.

While German Navy possessed less surface ships then Italians, more RN ships were based in the Atlantic and the North Sea, then Mediterranean. Sure Italian were significant threat to British interest in the Mediterranean, and they showed some skill, but by far bigger threat to RN in that theater were German and Italian air forces and submarines. All three RN capital ships lost in Mediterranean were lost due German subs. Excluding the mines, Italian Navy is responsible for sinking 5 RN cruisers, 3 by subs, 1 by motor torpedo boats and 1 by explosive motorboat. Only 5 RN destroyers were sunk in engagements with Italian ships, 1 by sub, 2 by motor torpedo boats, and only 2 in surface actions against larger ships. HMS Mohawk was sunk by torpedo from Navigatore class destroyer Luca Tarigo, which was itself sunk by RN destroyers in the same battle. HMS Bedouin was sunk by the combined action of Italian cruisers Raimondo Montecuccoli and Eugenio di Savoia and an SM.79 torpedo bomber. Number of RN DDs were sunk by Italian mines tho and number of ships were heavily damaged in other actions. I agree that we need Italian fleet in the game and we will get it eventually but don't give them larger impact than they have it during the war.

No, Hindi don't need improved AP. There is a reason why US cruisers get improved AP in first place and that is lack of torpedos. On the other side Hindi has quite strong torps for close quarters. So there is no need for improved AP. Also Hindi AP is already strong. Why not wait first to find what WG had in mind with making CA and CL differences more pronounced. And then find appropriate role for Hindi and then buff it accordingly.

I doesn't apply if you buy Boise/Nueve de Julio now. That was only available when ship was released. Those who bought them then have until 31.12.2018 to finish the mission so there is not much time left.

You shouldn't have this problem if you have bought Nueve de Julio instead

The only way I could think to make it less mandatory for CLs is to increase HE pen value for 152mm, for example to 1/5 so you can at least pen 30mm. But then again considering sentence above "CL generally won't penetrate BB plating and won't penetrate plating of higher tier cruisers", if IFHE will enable to pen armour of both BB and higher tier cruisers it would basically still be a mandatory skill for CL to be effective. Only question is what and how much will you need to trade off.

Well I'm interested to see what they have in mind with this CA and CL differences. CA will penetrate any plating on their battle tier CL generally won't penetrate BB plating and won't penetrate plating of higher tier cruisers IFHE is less mandatory, more trade off. While I am more more distinguishing roles between CAs and CLs but I hope they won't s**** one on the attempt to improve other. Considering that WG usually don't have middle approach but rather to good or to bad I mus say that I'm little concerned who this will end.

Today I got my first ever premium ships from SC and it is Arizona. Considering that today is also my birthday this is nice present from WG. Or it is maybe just a compensation for a horrible horrible weekend in randoms.

Yea, I got 1st, 2nd and 3rd Anniversary Messages to, and 30% coupon for 3 years of playing WoWs, one month late.

If radar is a problem WG could simple balance the radar, put all DD radars on 15sec duration, increase reload time. Chung Mu and YY could still increase this with upgrade to 18sec which is still quite short. If it is still too strong then remove radar. If it is smoke problem, then WG could evaluate PA smoke and make change that will bring all those over-performing ships like GM, Chung Mu and YY closer to other silver DDs. If torps are problem WG could tweak them either by slightly increase detection range or, even better reduce damage they deal so you have more consistent torps but you have to land more of them for kill. They could do even combination of all above, they could do all of them and still end up with a good ship. I don't mind Torpedo reload nerf, even tho I think that they could do it different/better way. But I do mind such big nerf to guns. WG could go make it a good torpedo board with decent guns, decent torpedo boat with good guns, mediocre torpedo boat with great guns but instead they go with mediocre torpedo boat with mediocre guns. 4sec reload is not bad but now when you compare YY with Daring or Gearing you have to ask why would you choose YY over them. Even with YY LU, BFT and Gun Module on Slot 6, nerfed YY can't outgun Daring, not to mention that Daring has improved AP, more Health and Heal on top of that. And torps that could be used against other DD. So what would YY bring now. Why would you use radar if you can't finish the fight as now only DD with which you can effectively fight are low health ones and Shima (but now with much increased odds that fight could end bad for YY instead). Funny thing is that if WG is doing this because YY performance in CWs, by globally nerfing is damage output, they are making it usable only in CWs. At least until they allow CVs in CWs. And if they think that Chung Mu or GM performances are not a problem then why they are thinking that YY is a problem. And if they have plans to nerf Chung Mu and GM too, then why don't do that in package by reevaluating PA DDs role and balance them accordingly but please do not balance them over the consumables but balance consumable over nerfing ships.

One of the problems is that in the straight fight against other DDs, YY can only rely on its guns and now Khaba, Haragumo, Gearing and Daring out-DPM it, Grozo and Z-52 have same reload but also more health and Grozo also have Heal, and only Shima has slower reload but now will have better HE. And all of them could use their torps against YY while YY can't. Gun nerf if plain stupid. But there is a solution. Everybody stop playing YY and once it become obvious to WG, in year or two, that it is unpopular they will buff if. Or that works only for Soviet DDs?

I love mine too but that doesn't change the fact that it is better than silver ships. In Sprint 1 I had more kills with guns than with torps. I doubt I could do the same in Minekaze or Mutsucky

Probably.