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Engines for a BB are differently constructed than for a DD, the power burst demands, etc are different.

Yes Admiral Stupid, Braindead, Twocells But to get away with it in Swedish Admiral Dum, Hjärndöd och Tvåcelling

You can lead a stupid player to knowledge but you can not make them think.

Yes considering the number of ramming flags that are unused it is a good and viable option to use them. If you are in a duel in a Richelieu in bow in pose just switch on the speed boost as soon as your health pool drops a lot say to 40% non recoverable and ram the full health enemy BB, a good trade for the team. I might be tempted to use it a lot to troll.

Amen to that. You can even take her to T4 if you compare with D-T f.e. with suitable ROF but T5 not higher than that, it is a small cruiser ffs.

Well I had the fortune to get the Nikolai in the Santas presents last year with a 10 p Cptn and I moved this to the Moskva when I recieved her in the summer and with EM f.e. as a skill it works better than the Chapayev cpt that I have also used on Nikolai for grinding that captain up to 19, IFHE and CE, SI, DE not the most useful but it is comparable with a 12 p Moskva. Now when the captain have reached 19 and produces EliteXp on Kutuzov and other premiums besides Chapayev, I have turned back to my original cpt , lesser points but not less useful points. So if you have the Moskva then you probably have a decent captain for OR (and Nikolai). GC , I bought the admiral edition with a 10 p cpt but I am using the 3XP missions to grind a second 10 pointer. I expect a Italian line and I want to have 10 pointers ready for a Italian BB line, I think 10 p is the magical number that brings a useful captain but is not horrible to grind. As a collector I need numbers of those, my present goal is that no new line should start any tiers T7 and up with less than 10. Below that I can start from scratch (or rather 3 p). As I keep all ships captain movement is limited. I hope to grind more captains with the eliteXP, I got my 3rd 19p a few days ago and are planning strategically to pinpoint grinding of a few more. But the French BBs seems more urgent to prepare for - so many ships so little time...

You need to have a long narrow hull and weak armour, The first Lexington designs was for 35 kts, I want that odd ship just to have that ship with 7 funnels. We know f.e. that the IJN cruisers with their very long hulls were fast so it would be in the realm of possibilty to reach 37 but they would sacrifice other qualities for it too much.

You forget Austria -Hungary which can fill up to T5-6 in BB/CA/DD lines, Sweden Tre Kronor is a T6 material with its high DPM 10-12 RPM, they have plenty of DDs, even large designs, and also Heavy cruiser projects 8-21 cm and Ansaldo project for a GRaf Spee Killer with 6-28 (3x2, 1 front 2 back, it was too large and expensive and the Swedes built the Tre Kronor class instead. A improved Tromp was also considered. Greece Salamis BB which after all was started and the French Battleship also, Turkey had some ships seized by the English in WW1. So if the fantasy departments are alive at least lower/mid tier ships could be realistic. And why does the line have to go to 10? Yes the others do, but for me (Swede) even a shorter tree would of course be welcomed.

In the Battleships and Battlecruisers of "Hachi-Hachi" Fleet book you have plans for advanced battleships and battlecruiser, the latter could include 13 class variants with 10-18/8-18/6-18 in fact this book which is in japanese but I have it nonetheless, the plans are translated in English as battlecruiser for the 13 class variants.the 6-18 inch variant 37 kts. In the Hiraga archives which a few years ago wre made public on some japanese site there are plenty of variants and scetches but how far were they, well made by a famous architect but if they were discussion material they may be more or less just variants, I know f.e. of a high speed Nagato variant if I recall correctly with 35 kts speed so fantasy with some connection in reality if limited is possible. It was difficult for non-japanese to search, it was more or less to click on various files and see what it was, I printed a few scetches, sadly my old link do not work. But the archive was huge and maybe it has just moved.

Regarding DoY, Noone of you posting has reacted to the experience cost 375000 Price 1 suggesting a FreeXP sink

T5 as a slighly modified WW1 config and mid range could work

Emile with 39 kts is so fast, but in the forums as well as otherwise in society you and others should be wary more how you word yourself, meh -boat is the appropriate definition for T6. But it was the definition of bad egg that triggered the response, in all/most lines there are good and average and worse ships. Bad ships is for me ships (in todays meta compared with its peers) like Emerald, Izumo, Pensacola, Kawachi, T22, premiums like Krazny Krym ships that are more demanding or less performing. One thing is that the speed boost comes into play, and if one has the module from SCs or bought from the campaign in the spring it lasts long and then the slower ships like Algerie and La Gal performs far better. For me the problems with the French ships is that with the abscence of radar on higher tiers and the somewhat floaty arcs is that the cruisers are best suited to long range heavy gun spamming, the T8 and T9s in particular are very good, but I think that it is a rather one-dimensional playstyle, hunting dds in caps at the start is not the forte. I have grinded all cruiser lines to T10 and I am not that enthusiastic over them but bad I would say that no ship is, the other lines are more up and down I think.

It is hardly a bad egg just feeling average and somewhat boring, even managed a witherer in her, which overall the French cruisers are good for

Tinfoil on OP. However from time to time the mechanisms behind the reward systems may undergo changes and various ships get changes but WG tends to publish these in updateinfos etc. So advice you to always read patch notes etc.

I use the India Delta flag a lot on some BBs/CAs on higher tiers, thing is that you can combat multiple fires better with Indian delta if the problems in a battle are that for you or flooding. You get a little extra margin there if your DCP is on cooldown also. Sometimes you need lots of repairs thought many games you have little use for it, as I have around 1000 of the flag I am pretty generous, and if you play a lot of BBs you tend to get the reward quite often and they are frequent in conatiners and nissions.

I would have believed more in a 3x4-16 inch variant, 2 quads in front and 1 back to be honest.

Reasonable guess, I hope they come with someting interesting soon. I am at T9 on RN BBs..... Do not remember exactly how long between the leaking of german DDs to release, if we talking about rushing them before christmas I hope they not, but with a good event this might be a good substitute. The PA DDs does not bother me at all but I am a little surprised they have not been released yet.

The function is the same if you bought the 3XP wins in cinnection with a shipbundle, then it adds upp to several thousand percent (during summer sales f.e.) where you could buy many ships with such bonuses (I did, as you got the 3XP bonuses even on duplicate ships that you had before).

To OP: You use your repair party instead of DCP also. Think of it on other BBs, How many times have you used 5 DCPs? It is pretty rare. Also pretty rare that you use all Repair partys and DCPs, as often you either crush the enemy towards the endgame if you are still alive or the other way around , you are so outnumbered that you have not time to use them all. Learn the mix between DCP and repair party that is necessary for a successful BB and high tier cruiser career. Naturally you use both premium DCP and repair party, it is often the lower cooldown you are after rather than numbers.

It is a difference between carry a game after a game has been fought, often you have a few outstanding players that have performed well, most likely they will be among those who are constantly high performing. But if we watch a line up before a game even quite average players can carry a game performance wise , you have RNG with you you manage to torp a DD or so at the start. I have as an average player performed very well even at highest tiers, but it is less likely that I beforehand do it than for a better player than me. However if I play at lower tiers in my favourite sealclubber boats Chikuma and Bogatyr it is far higher chance for me to carry a game than the other players. At T10 it is roughly the same chance that I play exceptionally well as useless. Most games tends to be in the middle. naturally you can tip the scale, let us say that you kill a DD and cap a zone early on, that can be the tip that gets the match but you fail to do much else and end somewhere in the middle. Sometimes those with many kills mop up etc. But in general the better you are the higher the chance to carry, but most players can carry games sometimes, however far fewer than the best ones in solo play which for me is the important thing. As I do not play divisions other than a handful of games I measure myself only against soloperformance.

worse concealment and worse DPM are needed for Pensa

One thing is that you will probably play more and more on higher tiers and that is when you start feeling you are stuck, you start the higher tiers with stock ships and less good captains that will make you stuck, you get probably better in low/mid tier but that only compensates your high tier play I have had around 55 % for ages. But it is that effect for me at least. So do not get fooled by staying at the same level, look at different ships instead.

yes some of the low tier ships are awful stock but only after a few games you will have more

Lyon 27 kts ridicolous, max 24 should have been allowed, not a good hull form, even if upgraded and modernized it is somtehing truly out in the blue, look at good designs as Nagato, slower after refit. Hyuga, Fuso etc. If Lyon was first completed as designed or near design and ready in say 1922 she would have had a tough time being rebuilt , now she is more modernized than any other BB in history by the looks of it, QE and Warspite seems to have been painted only as a comparison. To smack on all these sec turrets on that hullform, 107000 Hp without removing centre turret, Insane!

I am realistic Småland/Halland can be used at T10, Ansaldo design for a Graf Spee killer of 16000 T or so w 6-11 inch and heavy cruisers w 8-21 cm guns, like I said WG themselves have spoken of a Swedish DD tree in the future, I refer to them.