DFens_666

I think you answered your own question already 2 examples: How likely is it to get radared at B cap on Mountain range? Probably not that likely unless its a Russian Cruiser. How likely is it to get radared at C cap on Hotspot? Well, basicly can count on that one if there are Radar Cruisers in the game. If you go for caps with a lot of cover, expect to get radared. Often, those caps do offer cover for you aswell, so you should be able to sit it out. Or bait the radar.

Potentially just unlucky (and maybe a bit lucky with the Mahan? ). Ive had those aswell... Fuso/Nagato/GK and maybe more. Once i go beyond 20 games it starts to normalize most of the time. I guess the hardest task is to understand if the problem is you, or if you were just unlucky. Many people like to blame their teams every game, which often doesnt make sense.

I just made a boom boom on my chair Ontopic: I used to like Hindenburg, but nowadays it feels kinda meh. If i see Zaos/Henris in the game which do certain things better than the Hindi... Also i didnt hate the Roon, but Hindi is more fun because you can push many BBs and they cant do much about it. but even that got worse now that we have 430+mm guns all over the place... But you can still bend over Montanas f.e.

Puh, probably doesnt have anything to do at all, that it profits from having a division around it Your 2man div stats your 3man div stats And what @GarrusBrutus said anyway... If we go by that, ill declare Shchors as most OP ship in the game

Thats actually why i prefer Radar Mino these days. Even the biggest noobs just blindfire into your smoke getting lucky citadels left and right. And with Mino reload, its kinda easy to see even if you are moving (not to mention BB dispersion if unaimed...). With radar Mino i dont have to worry about that, only not to get blapped by BBs, which is fairly easy once you get rid of the DDs.

Ofc i know it will bounce the shells, thats why i think the best outcome would be a trade where both are dead. If they both face each other bow on at 8,9km going fullspeed, than they will eventually meet one another. Probably the best thing Smolensk could do would stop right away, but that makes it also more vulnerable towards the torps. Basicly thats also the problem if you try it in a 1v1, as you know its a mino spotting you. In a game, you might not be 100% sure that a Mino is spotting you (but a DD) so you might be more inclined towards turning away (or stopping/smoking). Radar Mino lives by the surprise moment more than any other ship, if you take it away from him, it loses a great advantage. US Cruisers are the worst enemy of a RN CL, because of improved Heavy AP shells Lets agree to disagree here

Feels exacly the opposite for me. I think, equally skilled players might kill each other at best. Mino has 50% more HP and the Zombie heal, which gives it even more HP.

I agree, thats a valid point. But we can see both sides using frequently arguements to fit their narrative. Personaly, i dont care about noobs getting farmed by a good Smolensk - you can farm them in any ship. But Smolensk might even take longer than others to get it killed. It just needs to be unlucky with fires. So the result will even inflate the damage output of that ship. Can Smolensk farm more damage than other ships? Yes, and to some degree because what i wrote above (if you let BBs cycle through their heals, you get more damage) Does Smolensk win more games than other ships? Hell no, it simply doesnt have the tools to decide matches. Cant spot DDs, doesnt have the Alpha damage. Is Smolensk annoying to play against? Hell yes, but as i said before, so are many other ships. Or do you like getting farmed by a Harugumo in smoke... or by a Conqueror sitting at 20km... or ... Nah, Smolensk cant use all turrets against Improved RN AP angles RN AP only ricochets at 15 degrees. I didnt even need radar all the time, but it can help. I think, i would be more hesitent rushing a Smolensk with Smoke Mino. You outspot it by more than 1km. If the Smolensk turns, he is dead. So he can only sit bow on, and lets face it, most people turn (hey, even one of your Clans Shimas turned against my Radar mino not long ago ) Basicly you cant lose against a Smolensk. If he is rushing you, then you might only trade evenly if both get their torps off. If he turns, Mino wins. If he is running, you can spot him. If he smokes, you can radar him.

I disagree with that one very much

Its always ok to use noobs as an example how something is OP. But otherwise, all enemy players are always Super Unicum who do the perfect thing all the time - every time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Atleast for me, i havent had any problems against Smolenk so far. Whether playing BB or Cruiser. Even playing GK, which is a massive floating brick i never got into trouble. He started running tho after i citadelled him And Radar Mino snacks Smolensk for lunch. I think ive killed one every game so far when i played Radar Mino Ofc ive seen noobs get farmed by smolensks... even a smolensk without anyone spotting basicly killed a Yamato, Donskoi and forgot what the 3rd was Then again, the 3 stooges on my team probably had Glue instead of Braincells. So either way, for me personal it doesnt feel OP when playing it, or playing against it. Try hitting a Super Unicum Henri, it bends you over and sticks something where the sun doesnt shine

Even if they manage to not get deleted, i expect its a bad experience for most players, as they will get focused till they are dead. Needs atleast someone spotting for him tho

378k games is not really a lot tho. Maybe those noobs realized its not what they have hoped for Only WG could show us, if Stalingrad is performing much better for bad players.

If you wanna go for a T8 BB, id suggest Lenin. Maybe somewhat useful as you dont have Vladi (yet?). Massa is in there too right? Seeing, that you played a lot of Bismarck, maybe you are interested in another secondary BB.

I mean its really obvious that the game is doing it: If you dont aim "properly" f.e. you account for a ship beaching, the game makes you shoot the island. In essence this means, if you dont take enough lead, the game will adjust your lead to make you hit (?) Or atleast make your shells land closer to the target. Obvious we have horizontal aim help aswell, 2 ways to prove this: If target is moving infront of an island, and we shoot the superstructure we actually would shoot the island And 2nd, there seems to be a bug with ships that are not moving. If you aim waterline, shells will 99% fall too short. Funny thing is, this works even against Bots

Do we really wanna see 40% WR Coop players?

Super Noobycum?

WG doesnt care (understand?) how important spotting is Majority of playerbase doesnt understand it either... Sounds like a futile exercise You could promise those DD players free money, they wouldnt change their playstyle 99% of Shima players are just ret

Maybe they care if you club new players out of the game But you might be right, we are talking about WG here...

Hey, that was my first game in Hosho, i resent calling that sealclubbing but TBH, at this point its the only way to make WG realize what a shitshow they created. We should all club the crap out of the players down there to make them change it. Its their own fault, they ignore comments because allmighty spreadsheet is above everything. So give them their precious data

Got myself the Boise Was basicly down to Boise/Atlanta/Kidd/(Asashio/Lenin). Basicly eliminated Asashio because i dont like a ship which almost only can focus on BBs, and Lenin because have enough T8 BBs and i dont see a reason to get Lenin when i have Vladi anyway. Kidd might have been nice aswell, but im still more of a cruiser player. And Boise seemed more interesting than Atlanta

Looks the same over here, and thats what it always was imo. First click yes, then it opens up the window for retraining.

Comes after you put the commander on the ship. Imo was always like that, i dont see a difference.

Yeah, T4 CVs not OP

Did some extensive T8 grinding today, what did we learn from that? - Richelieu is crap, every salvo is overpens and Shatter/Bounces only - Enemies dont shoot a Kiev even when its at <10 and rushing you - Benson streak broke at 13 - CM seems stronger than the other T8 Cruiser.