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And that is just a tip of the iceberg m8, pretty much all war is ugly and nasty buisness and more often then not civilians got to feel the wrong end of the stick more then the military or god forbid polititians that cooked up the mess in the first place... And there lies the caveat of historical revisionism (yes that includes the justification of mass murder on the civilan population for "strategic" reasons) and where it ends...

Actually you can, AFAIK Imperal Germany did their fair of war crimes in WW 1 on civilian population in Belgium for instance, not to mention use of chemical weapons... That said others used them as well ofc

I learned some time ago its best to just accept you need to use some mods to get stuff that should be basic functionality in game this old, cuts down on frustration...

TBH if there is so much crud around you cant see the recticle maybe its best not to drop that target, that said it is annoying that you cant choise crosshair color...

Well it is nothing really clever, its basically this - play a BB in a way not caring about damage whatsoever and hence no real hope of consistently save stars, the opposite of the classic BB Ranked play approach really... I nearly always go to a center-ish position and apply pressure to the enemy team, nearly always visible, crap at a lot and more often then not either angled against or unable to get the clear shot to flanks because of islands enemy parked behind, occasionally enemy DDs can make your life hard ad well, because of comaratively poor damage its underwhealming xp-wise unless you get to pop a DD or get a potshot at some potato, however doing this early in the match (ofc sometimes its just impossible to do couse of map layout or bad luck in ships mm) horribly disrupts enemy positioning and takes away map control from them, more often then not the rest of the team that went wide picks up on it and shreds one or two ships that exposed flanks to them and then its snowballing time, aditionally from the center you can go quickly to either side later in the match if needbe... First half of my games or so this season I played "classic BB" damagefarm mostly with Monarch and a bit with Vanguard I had good end xp due to damage and saved stars but was not satisfied with actual match outcome influence and WR droped below 60% so I swiched to more heavily armored and resilient ships in this case Vlad (I am regrinding her in the process) and Roma and I win just as much if not more then before, now the question is how far up can I maintain it... I also dont spam battles but only play when I feel 'inspired"

Mhm and this is the moment where gun firing angles, turret traverse and rudder shift specs come into the play as well as those gigantic ships with humongues guns that somehow stay invisible for up to below 12km in some cases and have max disperson half the size of your hull length at that distance...

I have turned this ranked season into a bit of an experiment from my side, currently at R6 and about 63% WR so far, I will elaborate on the results I got when its finished one way or another, ofc not all matchess are relevant as I did have some excursions out of the imagined parameters but vast majority is...

Well giving broadside is sometimes a must, if you have a symetrical gun layout you cant have half of your guns out of action the whole match that is just stupid

Smol 70 mm belt will arm any AP the issue is not arming it its the fact the damn thing us so thin the shell flies out the other side before exploding

You had the Cleveland unlocked before you reset, even if you never played her after line split you would have had her unlocked at that time and hence she is awailable to buy... I have the same on RU line when I reset the CL line Tallin and Riga are not reset

Only real drawback IMHO on mid tier french DDs is slow shell speed making long range sheeling not a fun thing, on the other hand they do have sufftient range without taking AFT so you can slap RPF and IFHE on them making them good for chasing down other DDs as well as wrecking cruisers as the say Guepard has 28mm HE pen and it will crack most cruisers plate easily...

Russian 130 and french 139 can cit CLs yes, some CAs as well (bar the submerged citadel or turtleback is in play) but reliably not so much as at low tiers

Exactly if the survivability needs a nerf they should reduce the HP and not make extra pen laws...

So if I say play a game about US Civil War and want my Confederate troops to have proper historical flags and markings I must be racist? Wow that is some serious compartmentalization right there, ok m8 you can keep believing what ever makes you feel comfortable I think there is no point in more of this on a ships forum though, there is a reason why philosophical discussions are best done en face, with a glass of alcohol in hand...

Yes I can see that... Not that my own country is any different either, we still live in 1945 and some go back as far as 1054

IMHO there are two things I will say here and be done with it... 1. Banning a symbol from your past because you cannot bare to face what it meant just gives the ideas it represented power they should not have in present 2. Not facing mistakes from your history means failure to acknowledge them and learn from them, if we fail to learn from history we are doomed to repeat it Now here I do not equal a swastika or sickle and hammer or whatever to anything else, the point is the principle and not deciding who did more or less evil in large scale, evil is evil no matter the scale

Would sweeten the deal yes Ah well maybe we get some AL Khabarusovsk or something...

Khaba needs only two changes: 1 - firing range extended to match the other DDs (that includes being able to mount the range module) 2 - rudder shift time reduced to at least CL levels if not DD ones... Heal and AP arming cancel each other to a degree and you sacrifice smoke for heal and dont have any other special consumable anyhow

This, I dont think those crates can drop one anymore

Fascinating how hammer and sickle usually gets exempt, as well as it would seem the Italian flag for instance...

Ofc its a political thing, certain symbols of past regimes are banned in certain countries, if those countries are part of the marketing strategy content will be modified (either locally or globaly) to conform with the said laws not to alienate possible customers or create legal issues, hence you get "politically correct" versions thereof in the game...

Because delicate feelings of politically correct "left wing liberals" cant stand to be reminded of bad things their nations did (or had done to them) in the past under a certain symbol...

RIGHT those god awful potatoes they put in my team...

Suggestion to WG All current owners of Belfast get to sell her for twice the doubloon price AND they get special coupons for 50% discount on the replacement ships... That 43 thingy, you put that in T7 make radar and smoke interchange, she can keep the RN heal on separate slot as well as hydro... Belfast we have in game - you buff by adding heal that interchanges with smoke generator and tweaking reload, range and rest that needs to be tweaked and put her in T9 for COAL/FREE XP All should be happy