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Ricoshets are not important here, look at the average dispersion ellipse you will see that if shells come down at a steeper angle you have less chance of "grazing" the target while shells fall in the water around it, even few degrees can have a significant statistical impact...

You should take into account that US BBs T8 and upwards have SHS and quite steep trajectories at the longer ranges and hence have a proportionally higher chance not to hit any part of ship while falling down around the target compared to some others that will at least get overpens by hitting the stack or some other part of supersteucture, if the target is just too small for the dispersion on that distance you will have this alot

Makes no sence to me either, if you know someone is good and you go for him you will lose more time killing him then if you kill a potato, several potatos actually, now I know potatos are inherently less usefoul but 4 potatos focusing you becouse they have 4 ships advantage will often whiter you down regardless due to shear volume of fire, not to mention you will likely have to extend to go after that one guy... Only way this makes sence as a tactic is if you are in a triple div and you all focus the better players one by one but even with that I still dont see this app as esp usefull, you will see if someone is a potato or decent the moment you engage in battle and as a div you will likely stay close and work together anyway... But ok to each their own I guess

Well they said its during the "11" patch (christmas patch) so you can assume mid december to mid january

Saipan is stupidly easy to play esp if you are top tier, farming damage with a 19pt built for midway makes you want to shower afterwards...

Well lets put it like this... You get in a match and see in this app you got dumped on by the MM (again) and team is full of there is you and maybe one or two guys that know crap... There is next to no chance you win as enemy has 2 triple unicum divs... Now what do you do with this info? You cant quit to port or go afk as you will get restricted to coop if you do this often, and there is like at least one in three chance you will end up in the spesul team so you will have to do it often... Makes no sence to yolo to death either becouse doing this you are just losing money, xp and medals you could have farmed... The only thing that makes sence is to play best game you can and hope for the positive outcome in the end, right? So what does this app contribute again?

In all honesty i dont really care about PR that much, the grad is still the ultimate T10 CC and I have her already, everything else is nice to have for my port but if i dont get PR I will hardly lose sleep over it...

Well its hard for a BB to deal with this DD style CL, depends if the Smol player is good enough to dodge the shells or not, if he is you can only shoot until you wear him down, probably using HE shells as AP likely wont do much at range unless you are extremely lucky, and if the guy is a botato then just nuke him, one thing though though DO NOT RUSH SMOKE WHILE SPOTTED or you will burn to death before you reach him

IDK man i am not even in the same universe as you in CV stuff but the shima that tried that this afternoon while I was finishing the Midway LU grind died in 3 TiTs runs or ie 1 minute in or so...

@OP Jean Bart and Ohio

Well I will get what I get i guess, seems T8 and 9 will be the hot topic this year, with CW and Ranked seems I will get myself one of the steel ships as a present... As for PR we shall see how that looks like...

Well I got mine spending some 20-25€ as I couldnt fully grind it but I played all the way through the Savage battles...

Well OP does damage? 10% of nominal damage as the matter of fact, and that is probably to big a number for realism really... I mean a hole with 50cm diameter in a hull two hundred meters long probably wont be much of an issue unless its beneath the water line... Now 0 damage pens are a beast of their own...

WG marketing dep is the only place that has the answer and they wont tell it to you in advance...

Well I have 19km range on Smol, 90% of time I am with my DDs at the cap and when the enemy DD gets spoted I rip them apart then fire at everything in range I can set fire to and its usually within 15-16km I will have the spotted stuff so as I said about range - I dont think the range nerf would make much of a difference unless shortened to lolanta levels as range option just provides more relaxed way of playing her and she would be just as nasty if you could only mount reload module for instance, and Atlanta level of range in T10 cruiser would be just ridiculous

The "Seal megabundle" you get all the legends - Missu, Musashi, Benny, Kutuzu, Big-E, Belf, Kami, Gremy, Impregnator and Albert so you can follow the seal as he progresses through the tiers teaching him all the secrets of the manly love, and all that for just 3 easy payments of 399,99€?

@Redcap375Well you put some good points there m8 but you didnt put up any suggestions how to fix this... I will put some things for consideration to sit here though... Option 1 - say all the HE spammy CLs and DDs have their pen cut so they cannot pen BB or even CA plate, you still start fires and they make for a nasty BB experience, they still burn, I kitted smol for max range and fire, works fine without pen... Option 2 - you cut fire chance but leave them able to pen stuff, they can still spam ships to death due to ROF, just look at minotaur and Haragumo for reference... Option 3 - decrease ROF but leave the individual shells as they are, you will lower the theoretical DPM BUT in most cases you are limited in the burning ability only by less and less chance you have to actually set the 3rd or 4th fire as 1 or 2 are easy to set and most move on after they set 2 fires in reality you just wade throuh the targets just as you do now and let the potatos burn, beeing 20% slower wont change much... Option 4 - lower or cap the max range, in case of smolensk and similar cruisers only thing you will achieve is to make them cumbersome to play and lower popularity, you only need to look at Atlanta or Flint, in compent hands they are killers, but often wery tiresome to handle and hence rare, besides having that kind of range in T10 would make it extremely unapealing as it would mean very hard work and as 15-16km is the range on which you can play it just the same as with 19km it wouldnt change a thing if you limit say the range module as with khaba, a competent player will still hose down stuff like crazy... Option 5 - make the deck overmatchable by most AP shells will make this ship nigh usless as it neither has arcs for island lobbing (meaning it has to stay a fair bit away from cover and will be hit alot and gence die) or enough smoke time for it to base survival upon it, only thing you will achieve is make it usless for solo play (not enough survivability outside smoke) and for div play (with dds or other smoke cruiser) it wont change squat as they will be smoked up all the time and burn everything... Combine several of the nerfs and you will reign it down yes but in the process you get a ship none will choose to play as it will be to weak/cumbersome... The remove it from the shop option? Ok, fair enough but where does it stop? Kutuzov and Belfast were pulled, say Smol is pulled as well, there are still scores of them around already bought, and beside that where are we with other T10 HE spammers such as Colbert, Wooster, Haragumo, Khaba, Kleber? I can easly hit BBs with Wooster at 18km no problem at all, not to mention that desmo can play this game as well with her 5.5s reload and even more powerfoul ammo... So what do we do? Remove and nerf all cruisers capable of setting fire to BBs? Zao, Moskva or even Hindi do the same job just as well and I wont even start with Henri and her MBRB... So what is the suggestion to fix this? Make the BBs impervious masterace that can only be harmed by DD torps and other BBs?

I got more then usual (two or even three IDQR) in the last month or so, since I regurarly pick Resource crate I must say they are more common then they were during the rest od the year...

In a BB?

I am pretty much fed up with this mode and doubt I will have patience to grind this more as random teammates are just usless, like 90% od time they die and cotribute maybe 30-50 filth in total...

Well true for any CL HE spammer, took out my Atlanta and Wooster out for a spin yesterday to dust them off and did exatctly the same as with smal, with quite decent results I might add...

MM has nothing to do with this, even if it would balance potatos to each side (whichever stat it would use to actually determine this) you would still have them influence the matchess exactly the same... For instance yesterday did a clan div - 3 of us in bottom tier cruisers (Amalfi, Chapa and Martel) with one BB against 8 enemies at the flank... 10min later with 7 kills between us, high caliber and a confederate we sailed to the enemy base... Even with the potatos in our team beeing in equal numbers it wouldnt stop that from happening as long as the total number of them in the battle is big enough to generate a weak spot in the line...

Well on all honesty in an average T10 battle - 5-6 slots are usually taken by bbs, dds captains usually avoid smols like the plague and the few cruisers are usually too far out and zig zagging too much for a smol to bother with trying to hit them unless they are pusing in or the best target, ergo bb will be the he spam jackpot winner...

Oh? You might ask Flambass about that m8

Oh it still works... Made a yolo rush just for discussions sake...