ThePurpleSmurf

There is only one reliable way to find out. Use your Mod power to get WG to make next ranked season 1vs1 at tier 10. So many will bring PR and Stalingrad that we will have a big enough sample size to make a sound conclusion.

These 'buffs' address none of the issues Blys have. Actually it would need so many buffs that it would be a completely different ship. The only strength it had back in the day, the only reason why it was good, was the ability to stealth fire. Since this is gone the Blys became what it always was, a bad ship all around. Slow reload, horrible concealment, really bad maneuverability, abysmal slow turret traverse, low caliber guns that deal no damage, bad firestarter, huge in size and easy to hit, torps are bad. It really had only 2 things going for it, it looks amazing and it could stealth fire - and this was when there wasn't nearly as many powercreeper in the game, the CV rework (Blys has zero ability to defend itself against CVs) was in far future, and so on and on.

Finished #3 yesterday and will complete 24 out of 36 stages for PR, no doubloon boosters bought. But then again, i didn't bother to get PR from the start as all reviews attested this ship to be a pile of garbage. I've played some co-op today with Gorizia (directive 3 'reward') to complete the first stage (500 main battery hits) of the normal missions for the free ships to unlock the other stages that do not require this piece of junk which the Georgia is. Initially i thought 500 hits is not much, easy peazy done in 4-5 games of co-op. Oh boy was i wrong. Super slow gun reload, only 8 guns and a dispersion from hell, plus ships die fast in co-op so not much time to shoot. I think it took me 12 games or so to complete the mission. I could have played in random but i did not want to buy ship modules and slap flags on just to play this trash in randoms. I won't touch this ship anyway until next year snowflake event so whatever.

First container of the day, picked TYL instead of resources by accident

Border humping is often really lame and not how the game is intended to be played. I'd like to see it changed too. IMO it can happen that you run into the border, happens to all of us, but this should be only for a short moment. How i would change it is this: If you hug the border for up to 30 seconds leave it as is. Beyond that simply disable all guns (main battery, secondaries, aa) and torp tubes as well as any form of healing but leave DCP in case of a broken engine or rudder, until the ship left the border and returned to the battlefield. From 90 seconds on forward on the border apply a dot damage similar to a old flooding mechanic. This would damage the ship but is 100% healable.

The most likely option in that it's a server transfer that WG offered last month. I've seen some accounts, and recruited a couple to our clan, that switched from NA to EU and their stats were wiped yet all their ships and resources are on the account. They are more or less like a fully equipped reroll on a new server. The 1 game per ship is also not fishy as we had and still have the snowflake event which require you to play one game per ship to get the goodies. IMO there is nothing suspicious or fishy with this account at all. Of course it could have other reason, it could be a wallet warior or a coop junkie or a bot, but since the server transfer option this seem to be the most likely answer to me.

WG planned and said so much that things will happen or won't happen and then after a while the exact opposite happened. Most long-time players have learnd to not believe a single word of 'promises' like this.

It's kinda tricky but you heal different amount of HP for overpens, pens and citadels. If you see shells incoming and see how many actually hit your ship, you can also see how much HP you can heal back - this gives you a kinda clear indication if there was a citadel hit. It also helps to know the alpha damage of the ships you are fighting, to know what type of hit you got. But this is for the advanced players, the average potato player does not bother to learn numbers like alpha damage, how much you can heal back and so on. On top of that there are bugs with double pens, no damage pens, not rendering shells and other gimmicks. Long story short, there is no reliable way to know if you got citadel'ed.

36/40 members, i guess we have to expand soon. Also clan bonuses updated in first post.

The 'problem' with the Thunderer guns is, that they are the most precise tier 10 BB guns with only 8 shells. They shoot pretty much exactly where you aim at any range. This means you have to have at least a decent aim to hit targets reliably. It's not like other shotgun ships where you just shoot roughly in the direction and the dispersion plus the 12 shells somehow let you score some hits no matter what. If you aim bad with Thunderer you miss, simple as that.

Let me answer your last part with these screenshots of a recent game i had. As you can see, the AP is very potent and with 2.2 milion potential damage is it not that much tanked, but it's decent. My most damage tanked is 3.3 million, average per battle is around 1.5 million. In contrast to Conquerer the AP shells on Thunderer are MUCH, like read M U C H, better because they do not have this shitty short fuse that can not arm and deal no damage. The 457 on the Conq were trash, this is why they were removed. The Thunderer on the other hand is primarily an AP monster and only shoots HE at bow in BBs. With 65% fire chance the HE isn't too shabby either. The reason why the Kremlin is not only strong but many consider it overpowered is the absurd tankiness it has. Deck armor that most DDs and Cruisers can not penetrate. Even BBs have trouble doing so. Then it has, in theory, a citadel when showing broadside but everyone who tried to hit it knows that this pretty much never happens. On top of this it has these extremely strong guns with a pen from another planet and are the by far most accurate up to 15km and even beyond that they are very precise. Not enough of this, but you can equip Kusnetzov on it while has these broken special abilities. First and foremost this free lifesaver that triggers in almost every game and gives the Kremlin a free DCP plus free heal PLUS make it almost immune for shells for 30 seconds because shell fired at the ship will get a 20% dispersion penalty, what makes is a pure lottery to hit the ship at all. The ship, especially with this commander, is beyond ridiculous.

Or as Flamu said it on stream, if the Kremlin would not exist Thunderer would be the best tier 10 BB in the game. And i agree, this ship is really a lot of fun to play and i'm a DD/Cruiser main! @Puffin_Not at all, it has absolutely amazing AP that can devastate even BBs. It's not like the Conquerer that you shoot only HE and call it a day. Thunderer is very squishy though (actually the squishiest BB at tier 10), so you have to position and angle smart.

For the lack of a proper screenshot i use this fitting placeholder. And here is the story behind it: It does not happen too often that i actually have to laugh out loud when playing WoWs, but this was such a moment. I played my Thunderer a few days ago and i was on a flank that was pushed by the enemy team pretty hard, so i had to turn around and kite away for quite a while. Most enemy ships did not chase me or were decimated but one enemy BB really didn't want to let go. He was chasing me for maybe 6-7 minutes and spamming HE at me. I noticed very soon that he was a bad player because at a range of maybe 15km he only hit 1-2 shells every other salvo, which wasn't more than a tickle really. I shot at juicier targets while kiting this guy. At some point i ran out of target and this guy really started to annoy me, so i though screw it, this guy is bad at aiming anyway i turn around now and kill this guy. So i made a full turn, broadsiding to him and he -of course- kept shooting HE. I was moving nose in at him now and he started to panic and made also a 180° turn. Well at least he tried, because i had AP loaded the entire time and as soon as he showed me his side i deleted him with 4 citadels. Instantly he complained in chat about me killing him and threw some insulting remarks my way. Then he said the sentence that made me laugh so hard: 'fck you and your overpowered ship!'. You wonder what so funny was about this? Well, guess what ship he was driving. Yep, a Thunderer. 😂😂😂

FTFY

12. I'd have an open slot in port for Massachussets. Thanks and Merry Christmas

80% done with directive 2, but not by grinding for the PR but i grinded Free XP to get the iPuerto Rico aka Alaska. And what can i say, oh boy was it worth it. I think after only a few games this ship has the potential to become my second favorite ship in the game after Des Moines.

I'm curious, why do you post this after the ranked season ended?

I'm very close to finish the iPuerto Rico grind. iPuerto Rico = improved Puerto Rico = Alaska

Try Your Luck Got another one a few weeks ago from Resources with 25 Dragon Flags

No steel. SCs are for the anniversary.

It's not a laugh, it's a taunt.