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Again this is a bad design. This ships needs to be balanced by having both air strike component and surface strike component. They can't balance ship considering that it could use planes when it has 10% of HP left. If it have strong air component that its gun need to be adjusted for that. You can't give Tone 20sec reload time on guns and say well it have a torpedo planes to compensate for this but it is only practical to use planes if he can stay undetected for longer time. But also you can't give it 10sec reload time because it have a torpedo planes plus on its guns even though it can use them only occasionally.

But what is the point of those ships then. They have to be balanced about having both components, both surface and airborne. If you don't use one of them them ship would underperform. Same if this was too complected to use both at the same time. This ship have to be made playable for everyone or at least a significant portion of the player base. If this ship require uniqum player to use it effectively than it is a bad design.

You are forgetting that if you shoot on somebody than somebody probably can shoot back to you. Which mean by the time you are controlling planes you can't make evasive manoeuvres, dodge torps or plane attacks. You will be in constant rush to switch from ships to planes and back. And for example the Tone will probably have reload of 15sec which mean there is a lot of salves you will not shoot because you are controlling planes. It would be a nightmare to properly manage two game modes and veeeeeeery difficult for average players.

With the way CV rework is going I can't see any way for ships like Ise or Tone to have any strike potential with their planes. This will require for player that use such ships to spend a lot of time flying the attack squadron instead of controlling his ship unless they want to play them as CVs which means that their main armament, guns, will be barely used. If fighters get implemented as consumable than maybe this ships could have both fighter and spotter consumable. IMO that would be nice too, to be able to provide better AA for themselves and ships around with fighters.

From every stage you can get 3 containers, two from directives and one for finishing the stage. Not counting here the additional container that owners of RN T7-T8 can get or containers that could be obtained from the Hall of Fame. That means in one week you can get 12 containers by finishing all four stages and all those directives that can give you containers. Two weeks were left till the next update and that would mean 24 containers, 12 per week.

After collecting all free containers from first two stages and buying 5 premium containers I got a mission for Acasta from free container. There are still 24 containers available from next to stages not counting at least one more I'm waiting from Hall of Fame for first stage. Will see could I have more luck with those.

Finally tonight got a mission for Acasta

Same. I opened all three boxes from today directives and still not a single mission.

Well if Daring keeps improved AP angles you can, kinda, avoid IFHE. Sure it won't be perfect but it could work as Daring AP, in current iteration, is quite strong against other DDs. And it also needs only 19mm of armour to fuse which means no overpens on T8-T10 DDs. At least I would try it because I like having RPF on high tier DDs. But if it doesn't work than sure, I will replace RPF with IFHE

Well everything depend on the final version. If Daring keep heal than my last 3 points will go to SI, if not than BFT. But the rest 16 points will be distributed like this

So what? You know that if Roon was properly angled he would bounce your shells on its belt armour, right? Any ship could do that (while video below is about ST just watch part from 12:00).

9 Planes with Gallant, no BFT, no AFT just November Echo Setteseven Flag for 10% more AA on base rating of 2. Plane pilots probably laughed so much when saw Gallant shooting at them that they accidentally crashed.

As CV rework will happen sooner or later don't see a point to grind either Hakuryu or Midway. Between those three DDs I could recommend YY but German DD line is also a solid one and Z-52 is a good ship. As you have only one choice I would say try PA DD line, YY is currently one of the best DDs in the game.

Those are Paravanes for destroying the see mines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravane_(weapon)

So far 52 in Sims, without any additional AA skill except DAA consumable. But just like @NoirLotus I was more proud on my 4 plane kill with Gallant, again not a single AA skill and with AA Defence rating of 2.

Mahan C hull I guess

5 premium containers and all from first 2 stages - not a single DD mission

I don't have anything about Yuudachi but I have against unreasonable proposals. The only silver ship in game that have up-tiered premium ship is Svetlana and only on the account on much improved AA for T4/T5 standards. Yuudachi don't have any upgrade that would justify pushing her to T8, hell she is even worse in some aspects than Shiratsuyu. You are want to buff this ship and slap additional consumable, on no actual base at all, just to get it on T8 for your own reason, my guess for that 5th Upgrade Slot. Yuudachi should be a T7 premium as any other Shiratsuyu sister. End even if you count currently only one purchasable T8 IJN DD premium DD at T8 it is still one more than T7 has.

I guess you would prefer Yuudachi because of POI reasons and putting her at T8 would enable her to reach that stupid 5.2km concealment and any reasoning against it probably pointless. Well let me give you a better proposal. Kamikaze class Yunagi at T8. No need for TRB, she could same as Kamikaze with 10km torps and that would do. No AA but then again as you said AA don't matter. And why have 5.2km concealment when you can have 4.8km. And it won't powercreep anything because it would be worse than Kagero, right. I mean why not this game every day has less and less sense.

Yuudachi was sunk in 1942, she never received additional AA guns like other surviving IJN DDs. Even stock Shiratsuyu would have more AA guns than Yuudachi. And Yuudachi should be just that, a stock Shirasuyu. By all means she should be T7. There are already 2 IJN T8 premiums, adding a third which is same or worse than the ones we already have is pointless. You are just slapping gimmick on the ship to push it over her tier which is a bad thing to balance something. And 5.2km concealment if ridicules. Cossack had it for a time and was complete nonsense. What would Yuudachi be? IJN DD that powercreep other IJN DDs? No, put it on T7, that is where she belong. If you want T8 IJN DD Yukikaze would be way better and way more deserving to be included in the game. Even Shigure, among all Shiratsuyu class DDs, would be more appropriate premium.

Ayanami could work just fine. There is no way that Yuudachi could be T8 not even with T8 torps. One less gun, less health, no AA and even slower than Kagero. I have nothing against Yuudachi but doon't put her on tier where she don't belong.

No. Asashio is balanced with considering its current configuration. Any changes would need a re-balance of the ship. Asashio is very strong in one thing and mediocre in others. But that was intentionally done, she is designed to counter BBs and that is all. Even tho I think that is stupid but that is what WG has done. You want universal ship play Kagero or Harekaze. Asashio don't need any buffing.

Does this mean a buff to T61 too. Well It kinda need it.

I doubt that Tone will ever have some strike potential with its planes. Depending on how WG implement fighter mechanic, like some sort of consumable, Tone could have same fighter squadron as CV. Maybe even additional spotter plane to that.

You want her at T7? Sorry I thought she will be at T6. Well HE and SAP could be better option then increasing reload time. That way she could compensate for lack of one turret.