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Enjoy the LU m8, Zao is a great cruiser and LU is a straight up buff on her, absolutely fun to play

You miss the range increase at which max dispersion is measured

Well here goes my recipe for extracting filth... Take Mutantovsk, load up killing bots to the max, save the last engine booster (you are bound to get at least one during the fight usually more) when the portal opens use the engine boost to get out, they cant kill you unless they ram you and they will have a hard time catching mutantovsk... Ideally you will have few more consumables in stock, if you do the half detection of heal can be a good addition for extraction purposes and the twilight turn can make sure you can nuke a insolent DD should one appear...

Doesnt work for me either

The token camo? I got the Amalfi one...

Cudos and yet I disagree, you know why? Becouse when you have long range you can choose to engage from long range or from close range, when you dont have long range well then there is only one option, having options always beats not having them in my book

Sure thing

They nerf range I want my coal back as this ship is pointless then, you cant really lob over islands unless you are far away from them, having atlanta level of range and gun caliber at T10 is pointless regardless of dpm, just look at the number of Colberts you see around...

They dont its just such a fuss when your paint gets soot on it... Smol is a strong ship, its a T10 coal cruiser its supposed to be strong, but its also quite fragile, people who think she needs nerfs are entiteled to their opponion, I am also entiteled to have mine that opposes theirs... Haragumo that has 60% of smols DPM doesnt have a citadel and can pen 32mm with IFHE is not a problem but smol is...

Most people today have their perception scewed by the fact they grew up in modern age with DDGs which are an entirely different story...

Yep I know I am taking out the BB when I get back and I am serving some pain to them, even if I dont get much filth I will make sure they get nothing

Smolensk doesn need a nerf, if you stay perfectly positioned you just might survive few salvoes aent your way if not you are an instant Devstrike pinata for moat cas and all bbs, fact that the smoke alone lovers the skill floor of a ship so much is mostly due to the lasiness and incompetence of an average potato BB kevin... They cant/dont want to deal with any cruiser that has HE and a smoke ar the same time, they had more then their share of catering done...

Wait for suckers that did that at the gate, when they arrive with half or less HP remaining kill them and take their filth... Seems the general way its done to me

Smolensk - stallinium shells 1/3 HE pen without IFHE and 5k damage per hit, as a tradeoff +100% turret traverse

And then you get the 3 guys in a pirate div that didnt kill a single bot waiting at the gate for the battered and loaded ships to appear an poof - insta 3k filth with 0 risk or effort @Ocsimano18 OFC you can play a T10 ship without prem camo and prem time and without losing silver, service cost of a T10 ship is somwhere in the range of 200k earning that is not that hard at all

T6 DD with T8 torps at T5?

I got some by buying and I think it will be my last purchase for a while TBH

Aaaand then you think about who you rely upon to protect you in a random match... No, joust no... As things stand now you gain dpm by getting closer with a cv as well staying away is a neccesity due to the lack of protection and not a wanted feature...

Nope not really, if you are mazohist you can go for full sec build or some semi sec variant, if you want to make the most out of her use the range and speed to your advantage...

No its not... A top clan consisting of top players is bound to choose ships by their high skill ceeling and/or specific role capabilities, consumables and combos thereoff they bring in the team setup... Fact they choose them does nothing in gaging the general ship caracteristics and value/usefullness in random/ranked or any other type of play or the ships skill floor that can sometimes be extreme... Ships are not and should not be balanced by top performing players as they are not the only ones using them, if a specific ship tends to really bust the gauge they shoud (and they moslty do, sooner or later) nerf it and vice versa... Best example is Yueyang, it was overall a strong ship fairly popular, some top players (ab)used the high skill ceeling to bust the top and spread "CC promo mayhem" so the WG caved in and nerfed it, now nobody plays it as for most people its usless since they cant perform in it and the rest either moved on or simply has better choices to take out so whay bother... There is skill ceeling based balancing for you...

@OP you cant fix it... The general BB behaviour pattern stems from a combination of objective reasons (HE spam, team mates general behaviour, how xp/creds are awarded) and subjective traits (laziness, general lack of game knowlege, fear of getting sunk) its locked in a vocious circle and there is no way out... WG tried with RU line as a whole and some other BBs both in the past and present (ie german line to some extent then Ohio, Georgia and Massatchussets) encourage more agressive and proactive BB play but in general terms - it didnt catch on... An average BB will not push if he has half a brain cell, since if he pushes he has approx 90% chance of getting abandoned by the team mates that "come with him" as those will either peel away (DDs some cruisers) at the first sign of trouble or plonk from cover/far away (other cruisers and BBs) at the enemies that are spotted while they focus down the poor sucker that tried to show some initaitive... This is not something that is only a BB specific issue either, for instance yesterday I played a match in Stalingrad, pushed with the flank to use radar and after one of our ships was sunk (we sunk and damaged some as well so there is no mistaking) the entire flank apart from a single Georgia that actually came in only at that time (thats 5-6 ships there for you) peels off and leaves me to get focused by 4-5 enemy ships, ask for help with predictable results... Now after I managed to kite off with 2.5k health remaining (thats 2.5k on balancegrad remember) and georgia gets sunk helping me, naturally - I go ape, annonce to the team that I can go on a selfish trip as well, and procede doing that... Aaand OFC some 10min later a brainiac complains to me "you are talkin about selfish"... Like yeah buddy you reap what you have sewn, you have been warned btw... What? You thought that a guy with Stalingrad that has 23km range doesnt know how to be selfish and farm damage from safety? Really? Newsflash - you behave like a and people will be twards you as well... This aint the soccer club in whitch the coach will tell the team "all balls go through CR or you warm the bench for the rest of the season" that kind of discipline is only aplicable in CW and not randoms

Well in all honesty the range is pathetic and you dont really have alternative to getting close... The disproportion of range vs detectability is probabls the worst aspect of RM cruisers...

Look bro, I am not especially good in cvs but I have a basic competence and in vast majority of battels to win the match only thing the team has to do is not yolo, thats it, give me time to demolish them and as added bonus they get to plonk safely at some spotted reds... Only times this doesnt work is if enemy cv is better then me and stacks damage and kills faster then me and belive me there is depressively small number of really good cv players around so chance to meet them is nearly zero...

Vlad and Lenin are good ships but nowhere near what Kremlin and Sinop are in their respective tiers, even Ismael is IMHO stronger tier for tier then vlad and lenin are becouse of the configuration of hull and speed, pjotr is held back by low number of guns and long reload and soyuz gunnery is just average for tier...

Dont be so negative m8, its not like many of us predicted it will be exactly like this, right? Oh wait...