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I use them for keeping the enemy spotted when I am flying a new wing out, but if you drop them in the path you know enemy CV is bound to fly through to get to your fleet they can stack some decent downed planes as well as many cvs just stumble right into them...

Feel ya, got one yesterday when I took out your waifu to farm spotting ribbons so I had to hard carry got the solo warrior in the process...

Ohio is quite tough for an american BB IMHO, OFC not beeing russian it doesnt have stalinium armor...

Ofc not u know T4 cvs dont have those

Since I dont have a permacamo for the shimy you actually gave me a good idea...

My advice is thus... Build a captain for 130mm cruiser and another for 152mm cruiser PT-EM/LS-BFT/DE-AFT/CE for the 130mm PT-EM/LS(or AR)-DE/SE(or SI)-IHFE/CE for the 152mm If you want to use the captain on Smolensk you migt consider PT-LS-DE/BFT/SI/SE-AFT option for the 130mm although Krispy tends to be annoying AF with that lack of concealment...

Well base of my rig is more then a decade old IIRC. it has been updated with time OFC but most games I play dont tax the i7 920 with 18GB of DDR3 all that much, nvidia Geforce 960GTX with 4gig does the gfx part and the 250GB Kingston SSD for the storage paired with an old 2gb hitachi HDD for movies and junk, and although the performance is not top nowadays its a build that has been proven stable by the test of time...

Oh I had them before as well but here and there it was no biggie, happens after all, but this crash streak today... I updated the nvidia driver just in case, had one game crash free so far but it aint saying nothing...

Ok its most definitely the game no doubt whatsoever... Pretty much every battle there is a crash sending me either to the desktop clean (shutting game process down) or just freezing so i have to shut it via task manager or log out, its completely unplayable i got killed in 3 consecutive battles with few k damage done because of this crap... And yes all other apps work fine and I stress tested the PC and it checks out fine... Well at least it got me to clean the dust filters out...

Well Amalfi is my 3rd T8 cruiser when sorted by av damage (after Wichita and Atago, and right above the Bayard) so doing damage she can, however the amount of work going in that is considerably more then with most other cruisers, you have to shoot all the time as you dont have DOT (unless you hit someone with a torp or a sec) this also pretty much makes double rudders a must on her and the poor range she has compared to most other T8 CAs is not a winning factor there... Also the SAP is so unpredictable and inconsistent, the only thing you can shoot with a predictable result are DDS and an occasional lightly armored cruiser, on BBs its total RNG fiesta, I know armor schemes and thicknesses of most BBs in game by heart and hence know which are invulnerable and which are not and to what extent, however one salvo does 10k another 1k, one BB that should be hit hard is barley scratched (consistently, I dont mean one salvo) and another is decimated, and its not or rather it should not be saturation issue since many of them are either full HP or very close... This SAP thing is a nice idea but it seems it needs work, a lot of work, which was to be expected really after they nerfhammered it right before the release of ships...

Oh they considered them all right, together with many other surface fleet elements, especially Stalin did like that thought, its just that it was abandoned, and rightly so... 1. They got an early advantage in missile technology developing orbital carriers in fifties and that pretty much means unlimited ICBM range 2. They managed to produce smaller and more deliverable thermonuclear weapons of significant power early on mostly due to using different designs then NATO 3. Their huge landmass and satellite states centered around them made distant overseas strategic presence less urgent and interesting to them 4. Last the introduction of SLBM pretty much nailed the coffin shut for the future of RU CVs

Alas this is not true, CV or no CV in the particular match the standard potato behaves exactly the same...

I doubt it, if you want to hunt the smol in CW or rank I would still take Henry, wait untill you have a good angle or are close enough and punch the MBRB also you are faster then her, something hindi is not

I dont even bother with IFHE on small, max fire build, open a beer and start the BBQ

And why exactly would you need to burn hindi down again? Btw did you notice which slot it goes in?

They are exacly the same as any other in tier permacamo bonus wise, as for looks well its free (more or less) and I for one dont mind the waterworld design

You underestimate the ineptitude of an average BB driver nowadays, they are perfectly capable of sitting still or crawling around until they pick up 3 or 4 permafires and then burn to death, i burned several kurfursts of late, maybe not @ 19km do the dot but close enough, some even in CW

Ehhh IDK, german will likely survive a turn in the open, not so sure about the russian (bar kreml perhaps) in that situation... On the other side i did slap several cits to a Tirp yesterday using balansgrad

Pha I would expect at least 29

How dare you bellitle the Tomsk Tractor Factory CV project departement comrade? Dont you know the great father of nation comrade Stalin himself gave the order for such plans to be drawn on napkins? GULAG

You can build a german BB two ways IMHO Tank - PM-AR-SI-FP-BOS as core then you can choose if you want to invest more in survival with JoAT and HA or just take one of those and use CE for easyer disingaging Semi sec - PM-EM-BFT-FP-AFT-MCSAA and last point EL or PT, this way you get SOME mileage from the secs without getting fully gimped, you can also swap BFT for SI but numver of times you will survive to use all heals while getting in sec ranges wont be really big... If you go full sec (no FP) and I am out in a HE cruiser and see you, well you get the picture...

Fact that the HE spamming cruisers with smoke are immediately considered OP while say italian ones (or brit) that cannot start fires are not kind of tells the story now doesnt it... BB playerbase doesnt know how to spec for managing fires, doesnt know how to manage DCP and doesnt care to learn that, all they want to do is sit bow on 20km away and plonk at the other ships preferably doing a devstrike or two each match on enemy cruisers and without getting any seriuos damage done to them in return, all the rest of the team is there only to spot the targets for them and make sure DD torps (god forbid) dont endanger them in their chosen positions... Newsflash for the crowd - cruiser and dd mains are not interested in the job, ok? Oh and another one - you will burn just as well if you are hit by a henry, or a yoshino, or zao, or hindi or, well you get the point, now the only difference here is - you dont get to do a free roll for a devstrike (or several) each time they engage you in the open as they can hide in smoke for a while unlike you do with all the non smoke cruisers, well actually you can still do a roll by shooting in the smoke, its just that the dice isnt skewed in your favor this time... As I play all classes I agree - well played Smol can be unpleasent to deal with, so can a well played Henry, or Zao, shells on smol are DD shells the only place they can pen a BB on is the superstructure and it will get saturated (you know the same reason why italian cruisers have their work cut out for them more often then not) so muh they just pummel every BB in sight to death is pure bs, the end

Its becouse the WG way of balancing (something which in itself is not an illogical thing) is to offset a ships strenght in one departement with a weakness in another one... For instance a cruser with powerfoull torps will have its main guns gimped by long reload, ship with good guns will have weak armor or bad handling etc... When it comes to german BB line they rather it up, germans have strong secondaries and good armor (something french for instance dont hence they are spared of this) so they gimped the main battery as to be the weak link... Now the problem is that in current high tier meta (we can now discuss the reasons for it as in HE spammyness etc but its beside the point really) your chance of acctually using them to a significant extent and living to tell the story (long enough to stack damage for top of the board) is rather slim... In short high tier meta (esp in randoms) is mid to long range and there the german BB has only the gimped main guns to make use of...

Well its free, since I dont have a Kreml perma camo i will try to harvest one for it... I also already got the T8 one for vlad

Actually he is right, bot blob up and dont break the blob whatever you do to them 4-5 T10 ships can really ruin your coop fun with a cv as the AA goes over the top, you have less problems in breaking up a blop of humans, also you cant wait for the AA to be withered down by your team in coop as they will kill the bots off...