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So if Stalingrad is so OP, how come this season is different to the last seasons? I mean, everyone could have just picked Stalingrad before? Stalingrad didnt change, but CVs entered the mix. Its not that Stalingrad is so strong, its because all other ships get raped by CVs even harder. A CV cant possibly kill 6 Stalingrads, because he will eventually lose to many planes when they combine their AA. Henri and Hindenburg could deal with Stalins - thats why we didnt see those Stalingrad metas before. But Henri and Hindenburg cant defend from being attacked + spotted by CV, and then Stalingrad has the range advantage every time. However, Venezia can do exactly that: Hide from CV if necessary. It also has the range to match Stalingrad (with spotter) and it can deal >10k salvos to any target, even when they are angled. It can even go to the flank without getting shat on by CV spotting. CV going for Venezia is a waste of time for him. Stalingrad has atleast counters to deal with it. Venezia literally has none, and neither do CVs. Well, in this season you want ships that can shoot as far as possible, because going closer will get you killed by the CV. Stalingrad has exactly that. Pushing is always harder in Wows than defending, but with CVs, Stalingrads and Venezias, it became twice as hard. CV will spot any pushing without counterplay, Stalingrads longrange improved pen-angle railguns and Venezias super-improved pen-angle SAP will deal with those pushing ships, while being relatively safe in return.

Henri and Hindenburg would counter Stalingrad better, but they lack the smoke from Venezia. And a Venezia just rapes Henri and Hindenburg... Venezia can cap while no other Cruiser can.

You give your team an advantage, they go into full win harder mode... sad but true

Just to throw it out: Thunderer does the same to me. thunderer for me doesnt hit crap in Randoms, but i played it a couple of times last CB season, and it wrecked absolute havoc. Just annihilated them from longrange. Even the hits on the gearing where really awesome as i recall. My Kremlin in randoms also cant hit anything, alltho it didnt really feel that super awesome when i played it in Clanbrawl. Better than in randoms tho.

Yeah, totaly no camping going on Wish i would take screenshots more often from those minimaps

If i look at my own hitrate, Bismarck has the highest out of my T8 BBs (not sure about Vladi, i did "grind" her in CBs, so i have no values, but ofc it is accurate) Followed by - Richelieu - Monarch - NC - Amagi But that in itself doesnt mean much. Bismarcks advantage (btw i played her pre-dispersion buff) is, that she can operate closer than other ships thanks to hydro and having basicly no citadel. Also, you might get more hits by being closer, but they might just be overpens. Infact, if i look at my avg damage, the order is - NC - Amagi - Monarch - Richelieu - Bismarck So basicly opposite to the hitrate, except Amagi switching places with NC, but the difference is only 100. As @BlackYeti pointed out correctly, NC has the slowest shells of them all. Its very hard to hit with them starting at midrange, but if you do, it often hits like a truck. Also, the better the dispersion, the better you have to aim to make it count. But my personal experience so far is, T8 BBs seem to be fairly balanced amongst each other - i got almost same damage on all of em. The silver ones that is, massa is just the king

We had T8 a couple of seasons ago, pretty much the same: If you got to higher leagues, it was kiev only setups Not as pronounced as we have now maybe, but executed correctly it was stronger than the traditional cruiser setup, well, because T8 Cruisers stink against Kievs in such a coordinated environement. Also we had T8 Clanbrawl, with CVs, which was pretty horrible IMO. In a 4x4, the OPness of T8 CVs is even more pronounced, contrary to the 5x5 Brawl on TX, where it felt easier for some reason. And some time ago we also had 3x3, 9x9, 12x12 () Clanbrawls for TX, T7, T5.....

If you would lower the number of players, the chance for that guy losing would increase. If he would play like that in a 1v1 he would lose 100%. But as its a 12v12 in wows, he still gets atleast 30%+ WR. Imagine there would be 11v12 games in wows, you think the 12 players would always win? No, so thats why even AFK players would still not lose all games.

Why should you perform equaly in every ship you play? Ontop of that, tiers matter aswell. The higher you go, the lower your WR will be if you are a below average player. You cant compare T7 WR to T10 WR, and somehow conduct, that your teammates are better/worse regardless of how you play yourself. Your contribution might be good enough with certain ships on certain tiers, to get 50% WR or above, while its not on other tiers/ships. Then why dont put that to the test? Take a >50% WR ship and just do nothing. Or do something that you wont get flagged for being AFK, but dont participate in the battle. See if you keep that 50%.

The funny thing sometimes is, that if you let those potatoes run freely, after you cleaned the flank & tanked for them. They run into the enemy spawn for no apparent reason, while you/your division goes to the next objective. Most of the time, those potatoes then proceed to just die Remind me of a Massa game some time ago. Literally our entire team lemminged to C on Neighbours. Most enemies went to A. The few on C we killed of, and since there was no reason to lemming into the enemy spawn, i turned towards B and shielded my Broadside with the island, while looking into A. Meanwhile, my glorious teammates start to shout to get back. I started shooting their broadside, then cyclone kicked in and i rushed ahead to kill those ships moving into our spawn. Meanwhile, over half of my team dies in the enemy spawn against a couple of ships really....

Im pretty sure they even reported me for that one

Nah, theyll sell those juicy flags first!

All same clan in the enemy team - 5 guys. Well, thats stacking the odds against you, when you put 5 <45% on one team

I didnt play Alsace till now because i was afraid, it would suck hard because most people say it does. Infact, was quite nice But i guess that was first game luck as always. Next games wont hit a barn from the inside

The obvious advantage for Kremlin is its gun caliber. It can overmatch the midsection of basicly all TX heavy Cruisers, which GK cant do. That being said, my Kremlin certainly doesnt work like others people kremlins. Cant hit a barn from the inside, and often if it hits, its just overpens. Literally my worst TX BB

dont tell me about it

Because they arent russian? But thats what ive been saying aswell: Smolensk is just one amongst many, and due to powercreep, ofc it gets worse down the road. I think it started with RN CLs and their dakka from smoke. But against that, you could angle, and basicly everyone adapted to those, or even more, they just shoot into the smokes. Also they rather have limited range, while HE spamming conqs at 20+km were/are pretty much safe from everything. Also what needs to be considered, is due to Smolensk low HE pen, it can farm even more damage than others. A Conq/Thunderer shooting HE at you dealing 10k+ damage, results in 50% damage you cant heal. A Smolensk getting more than 1 fire on a ship with FP has to shoot areas, where he will deal 0 damage.

Same as DMs tho. I still dont understand when that myth was born, or who did it in the first place. Ofc its easy to hit stationary BBs

Ive sometimes reported my entire team

Yamato was a potato and the Monarch was not?

If there is a CV, then you need it, cause MM cant put any other CV in your place. But with other ships, as long as anyone was in queue for 3 minutes, you can get thrown under the bus, because MM doesnt have to match tiers/classes any longer.

heh, looks like mine too also im still under the impression, in ranked sprint they use skill based MM... thats why i dont play it anymore. The first 2 seasons, i checked team lineups, and 8 out of 10 games all the worst players were on my team, while enemies had mostly the "average" guys. There is no way you can win those, when 4 (back when it was 6v6) of your ships die before you can kill one enemy, because they know angling and doging, and your players show constant broadside becaue "i pley for phun" I mean the 3rd game today (last one i planned on playing anyway) we had 3 ships dead before the 4 minute mark, thats 1 of each BB/DD/CA. In that gamemode, its basicly GG, with the healbuffs, you cant outtrade them anymore, as long as they dont yolo in. But half of the rest of my team still yoloed into the enemies

Also padding his stats with it ofc... 44% in Shima that explains your horrible RNG with those rockets i suppose

It was meant as, if T6 CVs couldnt see T8 MM, then you could do T6 CV + T7 ship faildivs, and you would always get T6-7 MM, since the CV would prevent them from seeing T8 Even now, CVs can be used as an anchor to get better BB. As you say yourself, T9 MM can happen, but you need another faildiv for it in the enemy team. Most of the time, you would see T8 MM at worst, and then T7 ships are still midtier - not lowtier by -2.

Then how about stop doing faildivisions? Then this wouldnt happen. Also you cant blame being constantly in T7-8 MM, when you apparently div up with T7 ships... I guess CVs dont have enough advantages already... what you are propsing is, a T6 CV divisioning up with T7 Ships would almost never see T8 MM, thus guaranteeing the T7 ships in the division to be toptier.