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In a way I agree but then we all know why DOY is historically interesting, I would still have loved it had the DOY been released as it was originally intended

Well not to bad for now, my second best avg damage T7 BB as it stands although the sample of 3 matches means little...

Hmm, pigeons with diarhhea then?

Emm no? If you take say a Richelieu with the RPF and punch a speedbooster you go 35+ kt and know exactly where he is you can traverse those 20km way sooner then he can kill you even more so with gascogne that has fast reloading heal

Well coal more likely

Magnetic rock is a meta of misplay that developed, the "rock lobbing" is something that was intended to be done by US and RN cruisers and to a lesser degree some DDs, thats why they have the gun arcs they have, alas the "intended" part doesnt stop the (mostly german and russian) BBs from herding behind it

No it doesnt, maps are (mostly) fine size wise, the issue is they (again mostly) are bad for cruiser play as they provide little or no FUNCTIONAL cover for them, with functional cover I mean hardcover allowing you to radar and to some extent shoot the enemy without getting spoted from the neighboring caps or even opposite flank in the proces... This relegated the cruiser play to either smoking or roaming/kiting ships and those rarely help their dds much in map control and is bad for overall play

Well I assume this thing is meant to be played at or around its max range or ie 15+ km at which point there should be less issues with overpens, but I shall see, I mean this is obviously intended to be a cruiser hunter same as sharn just with even less of a pushing role and more "roam around and fire when broadside presents" style

One way or the other RPF will be a must

Yep seems we ll have the normal RU BB line and the "alternate playstyle line" will end up as prem line similar to US situation

Oh I have seen the vids from testing before, the question is always is the final product the same and how does it fit the individual playstyle

Well she has much larger caliber (although neither is overmatch capable on other bbs) and pays for that with reload, range and no torps so i guess it remains to be seen if she cuts it or not or ie is the gun caliber enough to offset the latter

Well met a zep yesterday in my riche and i must say its really annoyingly hard to get rid of that pest, you just cant seem to be able to hit the cit on her

A cruiser without a heal is a dead cruiser in T8 better take a Kiev then (as the T8 cw showed us)

True, you know what, I buy her as a present to myself and see for how good/bad she really is... When I get home from work I ll module her up and play few battles and then add some sshots

Ok neither Sinop nor KGV class are BC, neither by speed or playstyle and Poltava likely has far better armor then the KGV class to boot, Hood is something inbetwen really, Sharn is the true competitor here i think and she will get a buff soon as well so the question remains is Poltava worth it or not, is she a "mini slava" or a "mini me" sinop

Well as I said to me the biggest question is what new play content does she give me, my B day was yesterday so I could let my MC out no problem however IDK

I dont even play Sinop unless its T7 (sprint) rank TBH, only RU BB I take out somewhat regurarly (and even that is rare thing in comparison) is Kreml just becouse its so stupidly OP, you sometimes just need the giggles... But when you consider all the accuracy at distance thing and testing results we had seen I am almost tempted to buy her just to see if I can make her work

Buff or no isnt so much the issue, Im sure she is managable or they would have prebuffed her already but the question is - what role does she perform that something else in game/my collection doesnt already...

She is 10kt slower then Gascan though and thats alot, IDK if she will be able to hunt down a CV, depends on how big a map it will be and how many islands on it, it will be interesting to try though, however any BB presents itself with the what if you get the DD problem... It will be total lottery

No they wont, while dogging you are not going in the direction of the cv and you are slowing down, rushing him down in a mode like this 1v1 means litteraly rushing him down or if you delay its game over

Yes but lets be honeat here one ship AA will hardly stop a cv in 1v1... If you predrop to 6 planes a group on E you will likekley lose 3-4 planes on a run max meaning you have 3 full runs with DB alone, gascogne is very fast I even sometimes run down CVs in randoms with it before they can bag me

If you take out cv against one of the baguettes it will be a race of kill before he finds you and angle so he cant broadside you, all the slower BBs will have issues with even catching a cv

Some BBs in T8 go as fast if not faster then many a cruiser and killing them before they are on top of you might be a tall order even for the big E... But as a general rule of thumb you are sadly right

One word - Gascogne 32kt and a speed boost on top of that 28s reload on 15" ers Short cooldown on the heal Can float the fighter plane