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Knowing where you are and doing something about it are two different things as your cv shoud drop the fighters over you so you can cap unless you yolo... Hint: If you see that cv didnt drop a fighter cover for you unprompted ask for it and wait, also dont go in cap while he is still doing the inital sweep as the initial spotting of enemy deployment is more important for the battle outcome then babysitting any ship even a dd and it takes up first minute or two of the match and is usually done with RF so he wont have fast planes to overtake enemy RF in getting to you and stop them from raping you...

Any purchases if any kind!

Well maybe because an average naval artillery piece of BB caliber has maximum range of like 40 km and say a TBF Avenger has a range of 1600 km? AA could be better but then again how to actually make it better without killing off the CV population completely seems to evade the game devs....

Smolensk outside of smoke... It has some 4s reload (with BFT and without reload module as I drive it) it also has shells that do not penetrate 32mm even with IFHE so only way to damage a head (or butt) on BB is fires and superstructure damage (ok on some BBs you have flat butt area that allows some AP damage to be done there) and that takes time since BB can DCP and it can HEAL as well... Smolensk has 144 000 of HE DPM on UNSATURATED areas, now since you can only pen the supersturcture with those shells the chance you will kill a in tier BB in less time then he can fire two salvos at you is quite slim not to say nill and the 30mm deck will only go so far in protecting you at brawling distances... As for butt on Jean Bart - OFC a secondary battery wont be enough to take it out, the accuracy and DPM of sec guns are not enough for that, and they are not supposed to be either, anyone expecting a T10 cruiser to die by a BB sec guns before it can kill the said bb with main guns and finds that ok really needs their logic circuit examined... The most f people are not the god damn BB crybabies (they cry about anything that effs up their bow on sniper bonanza anyways) its the other cruisers that DO get penned by the IFHE shells pretty much everywhere and will melt in 20s, you know the amount of time it takes to fire one or two salvos from most CAs in Smols MM spread and one or even two CA salvos most likely wont kill the Smol unless its full broadside, heck it wont even damage it much as most of it will likely bounce from the 30 mil deck, but CAs getting bu by CLs is not really anything new in high tiers it started with the US line esp Wooster and keeps on going strong with the Smol and Clebert as well as with CL/DD hybrids such as RU line and FR line and OFC the IJN gunboat line, its also not T10 only as it was clearly shown in the last T8 CW season where most cruisers were fodder for the DDs... Smol in smoke is another story altogether, while you are dependent on 3rd party spotting for any real damage dealing (unless Bb is stupid enough to blindfire in the smoke allowing you to gun detect him in it in which case its misplay and he should get whats coming to him) you will wreck anything in range if you are far enough and have a reliable spot but its not really that different from haragumo that has about 90-100k HE DPM that DOES pen 32mm and yet hardly anyone calls out for it to be removed...

Yeah I have a phone... I also have a Smolensk and several T10 BBs soo yes I know how it is to be shot at in one as well as to shoot one...

Rudder for Aoba and Buddy and Engine mod for Dallas, all BBs DOT reduction

And you dont have guns?

Agreed if they want a T4 CV match so much let them wait same as with any other class - if there are 2 many on que wait or change ship...

IDK m8 I find Amalfi quite fun but it might be "novelty factor"

IMHO you are 2 liberal m8 - 1 cv max regardless of tier, end

Does dumping bombs on Flambass from Impacable count?

You can rush a smol in smoke, a T10 BB wont die from a single rack of torps even if all hit unsaturated and miss the belt which is really not likely as in those distances you will blow her away with a single salvo possibly two salvoes... Actually smol sitting in smoke inside rushing range is IMO a soon to be dead smol, her strength is dumping at range and starting fire after fire and yes as a flank support she is nasty as

It depends on the ship... In general I like a DD to have rudder shift below 4s a CL or a kite CA below 9s and CC or a BB below 15s if possible as it makes life easyer BUT its not imperative if i deem a ship will profit more from fire reduction or better acceleration i will take those... When deciding if i need to mac rudder or not turret turning speed and gun reload as well as usefoulness of angling between shots has the deciding role

Kaga is not OP for a single reason and thats inabillity to citpen and deal 100% bomb damage due to the HE bombs, otherwise she would be worse then E in every aspect, you can basically do whatever you want and you wont run out of planes on her and her torps are strong as The reason this is important is this - with AP bombs you can delete cruisers, now OFC you can kill a cruiser with rockets or torps or HE bombs BUT I could show you a match I played today with Midway showing an issue, Salem parked behind an island that needs to get removed, little farther is a blob so I couldnt circle around to strike with torps from the free side and I had to wither it down with HE bombs and TiTs, had I have been in Haku or E or even shokak she would have died in one or two drops this way it took me much longer and it slowed down the process of capping and it dragged on even more since she healed in the meanwhile... Now GZ has AP bombs yes BUT they are simply sub paar IMHO, yes the drop area is round and theoretically its unimportant how you drop them, except IRL its really not as the bombs tend to miss alot if not dumped very very late which makes you bounce and overpen more then with normal AP bombers, I know some people like her and sware by her but thats my view and since I see her only very rarely compared to orher cvs I guess many other people share my view...

Smol and Kutzu for that matter are an issue when somone is spotting for them, if they are 1on1 any BB should deal with them easily yes you will lose health but you will kill it and unless you eat a crapload of torps you should be able to heal decent portion of that back as a BB since she shouldnt be able to do cit damage to a BB, OFC in reallity its rearly 1on1 but then again going down that path where does it end...

Kaga

What if? You dont think a T10 BB will kill a Smolensk 1on1?

Nope thats the Perestroika the RU T10 prem cv

There is no way a Smol kills a T10 BB 1on1 in a minute unless a BB misplays horribly, not even a T8 BB should die that fast actually...

@OP CB are on, use DC ir what you want to coordinate with your team there, bugger the random chat

OFC you can ping and annoy your CV untill he goes and sinks the enemy CVs and then procede as usual...

Same thing just with a FatFred instead while I was convinced I took out Tirpitz, It was the "Damn, well - RAMMING SPEED" moment...

Huh? AFIAK you have to play one T8+ battle and you get all of them doesnt matter which class it was I got them with Midway so no class connection whatsoever?

No rumors BUT there are 3 ships we saw tested that spring to mind as candidates... Siegfried - T9 german supercruiser Poltava T7(?) - russian BB Indefatigable - T8 RN CV Now since the official statement low and mid tier premiums are not planned for freexp in near future and since they are usually odd tiers I would tip on Siegfried with Poltava beeing likely a Christmas campaign prize...

Well Conq will hardly suffer from that TBH