Todger_Fairmile

I suggested that last November on the NA server and was met with deafening silence.

Was playing Co-Op battle and one of the dd's on our side was a bot. It went AFK and did nothing during the battle. [edited]

No, but lack of upgrades MAY have had something to do with it.

Tiers 9 and 10 are credit pits, as (to a much lesser extent) are 7 and 8. If you can't afford to loose credits, stick to 6 and under. It's what I mostly do. Of course I play PVE so that may be the reason for my experience with 7. Lately WG has been giving a repair discount to higher level ships (on some servers, not sure if EU is one). An alternative is to join public test. You get a butt load of credits and gold, and can try out the higher levels without it costing you anything. You could use it to sharpen your skills for the real game. You also get to try out the latest developments in the game and help WG make the game better. Unfortunately they don't include premium ships in the test.

And how did that work out again?

I noticed something like that when watching Jingles video on Mikasa. He was complaining about only getting 'spaling' damage with the 12' guns when he was really over penning on all the cruisers he was firing at. Since then I have only used BB' ap (Mikasa, Wyoming, etc.) on bb's and tier 4 or higher cruisers. He was even over penning on St Louis.

Two things, first Kirov has 180mm not 203mm those are upgrades for Fruit-taco, second I believe Omaha is the victim of power creep. It seems like every time a new ship is added to tier 5 it is better than the ships already there. Then the Fruit-taco got it's major malfunction fixed, so after that Omaha looks weaker.

Not true. When someone is plastered to your side the minimap does not show them. The 2 icons merge and only yours can be seen. I've also got 'don't fire at your allies' when there were no allies near. At either end.

Sorry, I believe you misspoke. Tirpitz has 380mm guns not 308.

Actually, between weather effects, and all the islands in the new (and old) maps I expect more close encounters between warships. That, (along with fighting off destroyers) is why I wanted to keep the secondaries update. Poor visibility in the North Sea is one of the reasons Germans, and British after Iron Duke class BB, kept their 150/152mm secondaries.

I thought those were tea spoons.

I just looked at the test server and they now have the choice for american bb's of Art plot 1 +16% main, +5% sec, -5% disp sec or old +/-20% secondaries. I like that choice. As for the Japanese, they are better off with the old 20% secondaries upgrade. The two ships that would benefit most from Plotting Room Mod 1 will never get it, Ishizuchi (would give 15km main guns) and Warspite. The benefits would be perfect for them. It might even be worth giving up .75km extra range on secondaries on Warspite, to have 18.9km main batteries. They should put the premium ships in the test server so we can check things like that out and decide.

I voted to drop Warspite down to tier 5, because I'm tired of being at the bottom of tier 8 matches, otherwise it's ok as is.

Still another 5 days till they are supposed to be re-released so we'll see.

What they should do is just change the 5%(s) to 20%(s) that would do the job. I liked the mods otherwise.

Nurnberg is a good ship, just not a brawler. You have to adapt to the strengths of the ship. If you want a brawler go Budyonny or Cleveland. BTW the next 2 tiers of German cruiser only have about 80mm of armour, so they aren't much better. In fact none of the remaining German cruisers have thicker armor than either Budyonny or Cleveland (they max out at 110MM at tier 10), so you'll have to learn to shoot from the back row.

The only way you can avoid the upgrades you hate so much is to eliminate carriers from the game. Now, since that's not going to happen, deal with it. No one will force you to upgrade to the later hulls capable of fighting off airplanes, or having more hp. You are free to keep the historical hulls. Of course in many battles you will be spending extra time as an artificial reef, but that is your choice.

Then cheer-up, because it's tier 7.

To me the biggest problem with Yubari is the lousy torpedo angles. They also nurfed her aa a couple of patches ago when they nurfed ijn 25mm aa. It would be interesting to have the pre aa build available to see which works better.

Only took 5 times and wg going back to old way of connecting to paypal for it to work.

I think Gneisenau would be an OK tier 6 or 7 (just not sure if 6 380mm is enough for 7, even though rumored to have been seen testing at 7). And Scharnhorst would make a good 5 or 6 premium ship, depending on where Gneisenau lands, I would expect it to be a tier lower because of the guns. In the end it all gets down to the guns. The class has enough armor for 7, but both the current tier 7 BB's have 8 16" guns, though of an older design.

Perhaps, they plan to make the premium a lower level to reflect her smaller guns.

I don't give a flying F about the tier 9+10 secondaries! I don't play them. What I care about is the nurfing of tier 5-7 which I do play! BB's have a hard enough time once dd's get in close without their last line of defence being castrated. If you want to buff the secondaries on 9+10 go ahead, just don't screw over the lower levels to do it!

What we need is all those 37/40mm, and 76mm aa guns as dd protection. I can't believe their crews would just sit there while an enemy ship is in range. If they can have different zones for aa why not for secondaries.

What about Tenryu? It has 140mm guns, though no secondaries.