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That's the Mahans upgraded torps you're referring to. And those give you nearly ~3km more range, so also well worth taking. Either that or you're referring to the console version. That's a completely different beast altogether.

Target aquisition mod.1 is rubbish. On top of my head i can't think of any case where one would mount it for anything but a troll build. Steering systems 3 is designed for ships that speed around shooting all the time (e.g. Russian DDs, MN CAs, possibly Mogami) On everything else the best option hands down is concealment mod. ESPECIALLY on (non russian) DDs. Think of it this way: If you don't mount it and your opponent does on the same ship that means ~600m in which he spots you for his team while being invisible to yours. That's a lot of leeway for him to play around with, forcing you away from objectives and sabotaging your moves at little danger to himself. It's the same reason the Concealment Expert-skill should be an absolute priority to get. (as well as a camouflage that reduces detection, even if you're strapped for cash, a type 1 is cheap and helps earn more) Lastly get the upgraded torps. It's ~10% more reload but on the other hand you get ~50% more dmg per torp, which last but not least gives you the chance to 1-shot enemy DDs with a single torpedo.

Who needs AA-builds or fighters ? Stock Yamato AA confirmed OP!

No it does not ? I mean sure it displays the extra ~3k hp, which isn't very helpful but for the rest ? How is +11 AA rating the same information as looking at the actual values and notice that it does that by shuffling >200 dps form the pretty useless short range to the much more useful mid range aura ?

Acutally I see no reason to put AFT on a Kutu captain other than forcing it so he can serve on the new one as well, since she really profits form SI and DE (and so will the newcomer), IFHE and CE are a given and even if there were points MAA is much better than AFT for AA nowadays. Then again would it even profit much from AFT ? Even with the Khaba guns the arcs at 18km would be ridiculous (and worst case one can mount range mod)

Dunno about the immidate future but there tends to be a sale in summer as well.

It can't pen BB hull-plating and it can't pen cruiser-plating without speccing IFHE. Neither does it have the massive range. It will prolly become the new worst nightmare for DDs when played in div with a CV or DD for spotting.

Those CLs will be phenomenally squishy though. Getting over-matched by 203mm AP isn't fun at T10. Well at least the Smolensk gets a Smoke to help it, which might actually make this pretty viable.

If there's a CV in the game at the start you look for the Kutuzov/Mino/Neptune/USN cruiser that spawns closest to you and then you make it you waifu/stalking victim. Those ships tend to have a mostly stationary playstyle as well, so generally you should be able to play the Yama to her strenghts while staying withing 3-5km of your new star-crossed lover.

Look, he genuinely didn't know about the changes and that setting the course on the map/main screen is no longer the correct option. No need to accuse him of being lazy in the new system, you're missing the point.

Those ships never had good AA. They probably never will. And calling Musashi, Scharn and Cesare bad because they are weak against CVs is shortsighted and doesn't even tangentially brush reality. Well they bloody CAN'T see out of the smoke as is. That's why they need someone else on their team to spot for them. With the small exception of an enemy firing his guns within his smoke-concealment range but that sh*t works both ways. If the BB is "easily hunted" by a DD then the guy at the helm is not paying attention or plain rubbish. Also your complaint is that the class meant to counter BBs is relatively strong against BBs and you want to remove that weakness ? Brilliant. Granted a top tier CV can shiiii..p on a BB but then again it plain ships on everything. That's more a matter of balancing CVs and AA over-all than BB specific. And again hooray for trying to make BBs strong against everything by giving them every toy in the box. That one is actually at least debatable but would require a major rebalancing at every tier, so not happening anytime this century. Japanese cruisers equipped with great stealth and HE-alpha German cruisers equipped with improved hydro and inbuilt IFHE American heavy cruisers equipped with improved AP-pen angles and (at high tier) radar and super heavy AP American light cruisers... and we can go on. Why ? Either you make floodings irrelevant or CVs with good TBs very dangerous, depending on the cool down of your new gimmick and weather DCP can still repair floodings. In any case you would make team play less important since following up on a DCP forced by flooding or fires with more fires is age-old in this game. And if you are not under so much fire that you're buggered anyways proper DCP management makes this flooding-control-party even more superfluous than it already is. In conclusion:

That is pre 8.0 WG made a whole big song and dance about introducing the new CV gameplay quite a while ago. No idea how you missed that. Last point: If you already asked your question in another, related thread don't open a new one -.- It's answered over there as well.

I kind of prefer Stabilization earlier since it allows for a shorter interval when dropping with the TBs, especially when crossdropping and against straightlining BBs, giving the enemy less time to react and spending less time in AA.

You can't go very wrong in the first 10 by picking Air Supremacy Improved Engines Aircraft Armor Sight Stabilization.

Feel free to prove me wrong on this but i still have a lingering suspicion that the conning tower counts as citadel. I remember once getting a double citadel on a kiting Bismarck by shooting his superstructure from behind. (iirc there were not shells hitting him low on the stern (that would have given me a plausible explanation), since it was a relatively close range in a Missouri, so most-all shells went where i wanted them)

Well, it will remain an eternal mark of shame that i let the Yugu slip past unspotted to "hunt" you. (And thus missed out on farming him) ^^ Then again, hooray for a free cap despite 2x enemy radar and another hooray for balans USN rockets against DDs.

500 battles isn't much. At least i was still completely rubbish at that point. Give the man a chance to learn. Tho getting to T10 that fast is a clear mistake in my book as well.

In order to get the rental ships you have to play 1 battle in a T8 or higher ship (iirc). Otherwise they should be added instantaneously.

I thought the battle won when you managed to sink our poor Colorado. ^^ Wish i still had had a fighter to spare. WP gentlemen (and sorry for giving your div-mates so much opportunity to enjoy themselves) ^^

In which he explained his relative absence from youtube as well.

That is not "hunting" the CV. That is the enemy team instantly collapsing locally with the CV not noticing and getting turned into roadkill, ideally while the rest of the ships encircle and go for the jugular. It is a legit move though, unless the team spends too much resources hunting down the carrier and neglects dealing with the rest of the artillery ships at the same time. And i don't think you will find many "conformists" disagreeing with it as described here. Btw: Conformism means agreeing for the sake of staying in-group or just out of ease. Many ppl arguing here have sufficient personal experience to make the call and "surprisingly" arrive at very similar conclusions.

Everything in space-time trivially has one.

You have no idea how much you just triggered me. *tries to slit wrist with rusty saucepan*

It's more like getting stuck in traffic on the way to the game. Not strictly your fault but your team is still down a player and the coach might give you a warning.

literally lmao ^^