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Ofc they could do that aswell. But i think the whole midsection is too much protected against <431mm BB guns, because properly angled they really cant do much. Hitting the Bow/aft is more luck than anything, and it still might overpen, which is still bad. Removing the 30mm plating would make it more vulnerable when being played by good players who can angle, which would be a good way to start imo. Alltho, all BBs which cant fuse on 70mm plating could just use HE instead and citadel it even while angled Yeah, its those nasty Cruisers which make passive gameplay. Probably not those 10 (very) accurate devastating high caliber BBs which can pump out devstrikes even at longer ranges

Thats something i agree with. Ive been playing Radar Mino in CBs, and we did a fungame on thursday where i picked Smolensk. The difference in tanking is HILARIOUS. I wouldnt call for a straight up nerf to Smolensk, but more like a change: Raise Citadel a little bit maybe, remove the 30mm and replace it with 25mm, in turn give it more HP probably close to 40k imo.

And imagine how much HP you will not lose if you take BoS instead of SE Oh no wait, DCP every fire right away, and they are immune till they have their DCP back, so nvm

This. a BB having 100k HP wont feel any difference if it has 3500 HP more or not.

Exactly, thats why, average stats are useless if you are looking at a limited access ship, which is mostly played by the top players, while majority of the other ships are brought back in line simply because everyone can and will play them. Or do you think, the other ships have 50% WR because everyone performs average in it? No, ofc not. Super Unicums still have >70% WR, but you get more players with 40-50% WR in those ships. Im pretty sure that this "guy" is a bot. regardless, I assume that Yamato works better because of the overmatch. And im not sure if you can say there is much of a difference between 25/27k damage, while he even has a better WR in Kremlin. While that Colbert guy is much more of a detriment to his team, with a staggering 7% lower WR compared to his average TX Cruiser WR. You just cant look at different ships, remove the outliers for one which already has a very low battle count and say its OP, because all what is left are Unicums playing it. Unicums can work with every ship. If Colbert would be as strong as Smolensk, Colbert would be 1. in WR (assuming, the accessibility would stay the same).

I guess if everyone would have access to it, it would be in the bottom 3 of WR. https://wows-numbers.com/de/ship/3760109392,Colbert/ Look at the top players there, thats literally Unicum/Super unicums. They get those results in any ship, and most of them will also be playing in divisions too, so WR is skewed either way. 19000 battles played by mostly Unicums, so 53% WR is actually rather bad. Worst Colbert player Colbert is his worst TX Cruiser in basicly every category, WR, damage and only wooster has worse avg kills. Yep, totaly OP...

They dont disclose which ship has what kind of modifier, but Premiums do have it (except the TX premiums). Missouri has the best one. And usually, the higher the better, so T9s are the best for earning credits.

Start attack run too late? Ive had CVs miss me aswell, and it looked like they couldnt drop their load on time Ive also seen people use torps like bombs

After not even 1500 games, ive had >500 games played with Takao and stacked up close to 1 million ship XP there (which for current standards is quite bad actually, because Takao cant even mount a camo and we didnt have crazy flags back then either). 1 Million XP is basicly a TX grind. And again: Grinding Ship XP is much easier than grinding FreeXP.

Couple of problems here: Almost every line has some ships which arent that great in comparision, while others are outstanding. FreeXP is gathered much less than regular XP. If i could skip any ship, i would just play the stronger ships, and not play the weaker once but would progress to TX eventually. Lets take RN CLs as an example. Many people dont like Neptune. So in order to not use freeXP, just play Leander/Fiji because they are outstanding for their tier. And people really need to play ships more to LEARN TO PLAY. We already have people with <10 games playing T9 these days, which is horrible. And we have people with <1k games playing regular techtree ships at TX, which is also horrible. They have no clue how to play, and make the game miserable for everyone. On the other hand, what i think they could do with Ship XP: Sometimes, you get T5-8 ships (these days even more often) from bonus missions. So you basicly dont have the lower tier ships on the line researched. Imo they could allow to use Ship XP on a ships higher in the line to research lower tier ships. <T5 ships dont need much freeXP anyway, so it wouldnt hurt much imo, while having atleast some little benefit from ship XP.

The problem is, Cruisers should be the go-to class, and currently, they are everything but that. They can be extremely strong if played by the best players in the game... but them having such a high skillfloor is really bad for the game imo. The game would profit so much, if Cruisers would be the most played class.

Interestingly, yesterday during clanbattles i received spotting ribbons quite often even when i didnt spot the ship

Well, atleast they say they dont nerf/buff ships based on average stats, but rather based on how different skilled players perform in similar ships, i.e. can bad players get better results compared to other ships? Then it would be too strong. https://wows-numbers.com/de/ship/3655251408,Smolensk/ If you compare Smolensk to Wooster, they are practically even in WR. Even if you look at server average or top 50/25/10/5%. Smolensk tends to get slightly more avg kills, and ofc a bit more average damage (which most likely is fire damage). People farming 300k damage because they milk several BBs for the maximum amount is not a good indicator for being OP. Every other ship would have less damage, but the BB would have been dead way before that.

In b4 they sell Coal on Christmas in some form (like Steel last year). Probably both this year. Seeing, how they really are stocking up on things to spend coal on, id guess most people need more coal

No they wont, because they need ships for XMas boxes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlov-class_cruiser

Spontaneous combustion?

This. And if we have 100 CVs in the queue on T4: Fine, lets do some 3vs3 CV only matches. They will see how it feels like, and maybe stop that clubbing

Basicly everything you can do with it: - FreeXP ships (alltho havent gotten Azuma/Friesland) but i have 1million stocked in case i change my mind. - Unlocking B-hulls and such, but not always, depends on the ship. - Skipping ships for various reasons (bad ship / need a certain ship for CBs). T9 is such a tier, where tons of good premiums are available now, which makes playing Techtree ships a bit lackluster at times. F.,e. skipped FDG because i didnt like it, and skipped Iowa to some degree because ive played so much Missouri i didnt want to Also skipped Seattle last year for an extra SC during wows birthday.

I resent this being a noob action

I had a DD once, who takes the cake: Told him at start, we will support him at B on fault line. So far so good, we had 3 toptier ships literally next to B cap, while some enemy ships were on the other side of the B cap. What did our DD do? sail in B, shooting full broadside to several enemies. Ofc they killed him first becuase he was like 6km away. After he died, he started to flame us

Basicly this + rant a bit at him. And these days, i dont feel like dodging friendly torps anyway, just take them. Maybe teaches them a lesson, if they do it often, they _might_ receive a harsher penalty at some point

Guess it must be down to the CV hull being sunk. As you can see on the minimap, all friendly targets are marked as you couldnt see them (division mates are always fully yellow, even if you dont see them). Didnt knew that, is it intended or a bug? Cant tell..

1480 (overpen) + 4884 (penetration) = 6364. This actually can make sense, as the shell can overpenetrate one section, and detonate in another.

So if people spend money for doubloons to convert ship XP to freeXP, and use that FreeXP to unlock a techtree ship, WG is also not allowed to nerf Techtree ships, because people used money to "buy" it? Smolensk cant be bought directly with money. Unlike Premium ships, which can be.