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IIRC back in the middle ages when freexp ships first came to pass first came Missouri for 750k at T9 and a bit later Nelson for 375k (half of that) at T7, some time later Missouri was replaced by Musashi sporting the same price and later came Kronstadt still maintaining it, now last year we had a rise in free xp ship prices going up to 1 mil for Azuma, Alaska and Frieslanr and at the same time ships appeared in the premium shop for about half the cost of the doubloons needed to convert said amount of free xp from elite xp, also coal ships came to shops somewhere on that period (we are talking T9 here) now if the WG is really intent to put those dds in game for 2 mil xp lets see if they add tgem in the shop and at what price

It has 840 or so m/s shell speed, I have no problem landing her shells at max range even with the range module, its the same shell speed as henrs btw

Garrus is right, my clan is about to go in the struggle for the Thyphoon and most of us are decidedly average players but 12 or so of us are usually playing the CB in alpha team and we kinda learned to work together reasonably effectively. As for excluding - alpha team is meant to be restricted, for breaking new players in you have the bravo

Doing 40% damage with new flood mechanics is nigh impossible

Ricochet is NOT an in game mechanic but a impact kinetics fact, the true phsics of balistics would be far to complex to implement to a game engine in an exact manner and the wows engine actually does a fair enough of a job in that regard... Overmatch as such does not exist BUT agian it is a fair enough of aproximation and simplification for an arcade game purposes of behavoiur of a kinetic projectile when hitting a sloped plate

Nope thats when you hit and get stuck on the wreck so his cruisers rip you to pieces just after you torped the sucker point blank

Not quite sure what you are going at here? I mean plunging fire from a BB can citadel a BB no issues so little surprise it will do it to a CA?

US CAs principal role was close cap support with radar and AA (ok this part is obviously f-ed up) and they still work in that role (we are talking T8+ ofc) IJN torp boats was spotting and area denial via torps and capping when situation allows and they still excel in that role, they are no less off then hybrid DDs are with all the CVs and radar around, long range gunboats ofc are the least affected by those There is as of current ONE line that is as stealthy and has hydro and that is the RN DD line, and those ships have their drawbacks as well Tirpitz works as it always worked (or not), I joined the game just about after the KM BBs were added and they never really worked past T8 and when not top tier, the "get focused to death by fire" theme was ever an issue for any full sec build even at T8 let alone higher, 155 mogami, zao or desmo were and still are more then capable of burning you down, you dont need Smolensk for that feat

Well some old lines have their utility relatively untouched (US Heavy cruisers, IJN torp DDs) but yes the powercreep is a thing esp in BBs and even those ships suffer for it, German DDs never really shone TBH

Not my experience with her though, at least not in Newport where bots seem to have extensive knowledge of the force as they seem to juke shells let alone torps, she couldnt hit a barn from the inside there

And then you would chose Hayate over Haragumo because?

In all honesty does it get any better confirmation then that? I mean the next step from there is the official statement by a WG employee that the price will indeed be 2 mil free xp, its obviously not a "placeholder" as a placeholder would be some nonsensical value like 100 k or 100 mil or something else that is obviously not the real thing, this is either a "probe" (see the reaction) or outright the price they intend to ask for her

Chapa with permacamo and 19pt captain is beyond doubt the most useful T8 ship to keep in port, even if its just for the odd clan or rank T8 season where you make use of that "radar on spoted and delete the DD" routine

Russian DDs are not likely to have Radar anytime soon though as they seem to be more towards "increased survivability" based open water gunboat or gunboat heavy hybrid variety, as for the load of high mid tier and high tier cruisers they are printing - well many of them are so similar it doesnt really make much of a difference which one you will choose, I mean radar in competitive is in general much more useful on a DD then smoke but only T10 DD radar option so far was YY that is in less then favorable spot overall for some time now

Yes she is BUT the statement above was a generalist claim of ALL radar ships, I got killed more then once by getting face full of torps in PR or Stalingrad because for instance a Kleber rushed me and I just didnt have the DPM to bring her down in time, OFC say a Wooster would vaporize her in seconds 1on1 so while all radars are more or less equal not all radar ships are equal in making direct use of it

You take folowing: PM-LS-BFT-AFT-IFHE-DE-AR Then you load up fire flags on the double and find a good spot cca 10km from your targets (enemy BBs) and then let her rip

Not all radar cruisers are actually good at killing the DDs they radar

Do you run the new torp speed module or cap speed skill? Although its probably just bots using the force

Ops such as they are have 0 replay value IMHO, they are only good for the farming

Would be interesting to know if the plans for Borodinos release are at least contemporary, took a look at her ingame stats using the extended tree mode the other day and she doesnt look bad at all, even seems to have the "update compatible" armor sheme, would be nice if WG pushed released her

And you would want to play it for a week because...?

What is the worst in all of this is the following - we asked for reward DDs for some time as they only made CCs and BBs to date, WG obliged BUT: 1. put the Neustrashimy in for steel, i mean lets be honest here - premium slightly jacked up Ognevoi is not steel material esp not at T9, result - she gets removed and re-added for coal as hardly anyone wants to spit up 20k steel for her (big surprise there) its enough to look at Siliwangi and everything is clear 2. put in Friesland for 1 mil Free XP but she doesnt mesh much with the rest of the line as she has no torps, she is a bit more popular as of late (likely people training up the captains for the upcoming line) but in general a very rare sight and has little to 0 competitive potential so she will die out soon 3. Hayate and Smaland will be added at a ridiculous rate that hardly anyone will be ready to pay for them making them a hard pass for 99% of player base, furthermore them being added together will dilute the interest even more and ships will be even rarer for that What will happen is most will go for Marceau that is basically the dumbest possible design and totally removed from any kind of normal DD play and there will be thousands of them, WG will (rightfully) deduce that real DDs are not interesting to big enough of an audience and keep stamping out the ridiculous HE spamming designs dumbing the play down even more, I mean at this point 90% of teams in Randoms are composed of sniping BBs and HE spammers trying to farm damage of the former and your only option to play randoms is basically to join one of those groups as any other kind of play will get you to the back of the score board

This op is brokenly too hard and frustrating to finish (and with finish I mean 5 stars) with a random team, it should be taken out of rotation for random ops and left to be selectable via division only