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They also have better penetration than Yamatos guns (and i think, so do the smaller guns on Kremlin too )

*edited* - how is MM supposed to know that? Or they just keep sailing broadside?

1. I play DDs, just not that often. Btw maybe you should play something else than DDs once in a while - it will teach you a lot. 2. I didnt say, a DD which is kiting/angled will receive no damage. I said, it will receive LESS damage than a DD which is full broadside turning. Before BB AP change, this might not have been the case necessarily. But now, it definetely is. Shooting a DD while in full turn swing will receive many hits from all ships which are about to shoot him. A DD which is already running away will only receive little damage in comparision. 3. Just today i had 1,2 mio potential damage in my Z-39 while being hydroed aswell - majority of the enemy team was shooting HE (! which has less alpha) at me. 4. If you are sitting in smoke you deserve to get punished. End of story. I dont sit in my smoke unless im ABSOLUTELY sure, that i wont get radared and my team doesnt need my spotting, so i can shoot a bit. If i need to use emergency smoke to break LoS, i dont sit in it and wait for better times. 5. Even if the radar duration/range is longer, DDs will still receive less damage - you will see Atleast good DDs that is. Idiots will still die.

Well, the times i played it, having 8,5km Radar its rather meh. Wont be getting better if the concealment will drop to 11~km or so. Im not sure if more idiots are playing those ships, statistically it shouldnt be like that. They only can influence (negatively) the game more by playing a highertier ship (f.e. Salem needs to do more than a Tirpitz to win the game, as the Salem takes another TX spot). Occasionally i thought about using Hydro rather than Radar. Maybe with a German style hydro i might swap it.

Yes i agree with that (removing the whole thing), but if you would let the numbers show DPM, we are faced with the problems that BBs have rather low-ish DPM. That doesnt mean that their guns are worse than Cruiser or even DD guns. Also what about IFHE? Should a Shchors without it have like a really bad value, while one with IFHE would have like who knows how much more? The difference is basicly 0 damage vs normal damage... Basicly the same is true for Akizuki, without IFHE the HE is crap, unless he faces T6 cruisers/DDs ofc.

I dont think they will understand, that chaging the numbers to DPM will make Cruisers have 100 on artillery, while BBs would be behind them Lets say Worcester would be 100 (422k average HE/AP DPM), Yamato would be <50 with 199k average HE/AP DPM. Just shows that there is no meaningful way to show the correct numbers - its wrong either way. Question is, what is more wrong?

I was thinking the same question. Seeing how Salem has also rather bad global stats, i think a buff would have been welcome?

You think Cruisers are sitting at islands because its fun gameplay to sit around (ok some might feel that way)? No, because playing Cruiser is already a risk in itself vs 5 BBs per game, and not every Cruiser is able to gunboat in the open. 1. Spotter plane = requires misplay by the DD. The plane is moving on a fixed route spotting things in its path. If the DD is smart enough, he can just sit outside of the planespotting range. Also plane gets spotted earlier, so usually you have time to react. Also not every ship has a plane. 2. What if one side has no DDs left? That happens quite often actually, or atleast one side has a severe disadvantage in DD numbers, like 3vs1. Then what? You can ask the guy (from a good clan, but he wasnt that good actually), that encountered my Kronshtadt in his Daring. He was going to a Cap where i was moving towards aswell, because Kronshtadt concealment isnt that good, he could spot me in advance. I didnt radar right away, as i was moving behind the island. I cam around the island, when i was spotted, i radared him. You know what he had done? He had already turned around and he was mostly angled against me. I aimed well, got almost 5k on him with my initial salvo, couldnt fire a second one. He left the cap ofc. But did he come back? Hell no. He actually went to the other side of the map. And we only met again at the end of the game, when i killed him. Fact is, he did all the right moves: - He tried to cap despite radar ships present in the game - He took measures to receive less damage and leave the cap in case he gets radared - He didnt get triggered by me and left the flank, helping on the other side. Somewhere i cant relocate so fast in my Cruiser.

I think 7-10 days would be ok initially. But it cant end there. WG said themselves they will keep rebalancing through the next couple of patches. That means, we should get a free respec with every new patch! I think the only option is to go full AA when 0.8.0 hits. The problem being ofc, that it might change down the line... thats why we need a respec with every new patch.

Usually the initial first seconds are the worst if a DD gets suddenly radared. If the DD is not already turned away, he will eat massive damage by doing so. But if there is only one ship shooting the DD, then he can turn away with little damage, and by the time the shells from the others arrive, he is already fully angled and will receive considerably less damage than before the change.

You want one credit so badly

Seriously report that guy to WG... Needs to get [edited]banned.

Someone ordered a Carry-DFens? 1. Was kinda tough again. First GK game was a loss (again) because enemy BBs sat at strategic positions, Cruisers kited away, while our 2x BBs suicided and so did our Cruisers. Help against DDs? Nope... In that GK game, Iowa pushed alone vs a Zao and died... we told him several times to stop it, then he insulted us. I went from C to B, and ofc encountered almost 2 full HP BBs. But i blapped them both 2. Was a rare fun game in seattle. We pushed hard into A, and we managed before the enemy T8 div made it in. Then i kept HE farming from there, thought the Roon would rush me, but he didnt, then he rammed me 3. Also kinda close. We won on D, but 2 of our team just suicided. 2 more went down the middle aswell. I went into the middle aswell, kept the Icarus busy, Forlorn and Cippa turned around and cleaned up the pushing enemies. 4. THAT was really close. I was getting HE spammed from across the map the entire game by the Lion and Hindenburg (and probably others i dunno...) Our Kitakaze sat 10 mins at an island, pounding the crap out of said island. He didnt understand that his shells were bugged, and didnt deal any damage It was me+ DM+3 DDs in the end vs Conq and Lion (both almost full HP) + Hindenburg (~20k) and DM (30k). Managed to kill the Hindenburg and severely hurt the DM, so they died. I wanted to ram the Lion but he realized it, stopped and reversed, while the Conq came around and killed me with HE. Then our DM raped the Conq with AP (luckily he listened to us), and got torped by our Shima!! He had to push out from the island to dodge the torps, straight into the Lion. Lion budged the shot, but it didnt matter anymore, as even a kill would have left us with points advantage.

Quite obvious 8k games with low WR is better than 500 games with low WR

We’ve finished some additional work on improving visual and technical aspects of the Cross Realm matchmaking. Soon there will be another Cross Realm testing of Clan Battles season. Permanent camouflages for the Błyskawica DD and the Implacable CV have been added in the game. -3% detectability range by sea; -4% dispersion of shells fired by the enemy attacking your ship; -10% cost of the ship’s post-battle service; +50% XP per battle. The London port has taken on a winter look. The Saint Petersburg port will be decorated and a «February 23» patch has been added for the Defender of the Fatherland Day. The location and height of the islands on the Shards map have been changed: - The islands near the central cap are now more equivalent for both teams. Their location will allow cruisers and destroyers to effectively hold the cap after capturing one of the flanks by teammates. - Caps on the flanks got more Islands for cover and became easier to capture from the map center. - Groups of islands that were placed away from the caps, have been removed. There are two large islands in the North-Eastern and South-Western parts of the map, behind which an aircraft carrier can comfortably stay, and several medium-sized Islands on the way to the caps. These islands will help defend the direction and will be useful to ships, which cover the allies who are capturing control points. https://medium.com/@devblogwows/other-changes-53ce5fca82f0?fbclid=IwAR25ADL_TcnR6wV2NDBMyQMmfXK1SFuLCPPtG-gp5ZRwp7YBjbTPg3139HY

Lets have an example here which makes more sense than WGs theory: Cossack 66 sec torpedo reload Bismarck DCP 15sec + 80 CD premium consumable. 1. First Salvo torps hit cause flood, Bismack uses DCP. 2. When 2nd salvo of torps hit the Bismarck, its DCP is still 95-66 = 29 secs on CD. 3. Before the change, Bismarck loses 29*0,667 = 19,343% of its max HP After the change, with one flooding Bismarck would only lose 29*0,5 = 14,5% of its max HP. But with 2 Floodings, Bismarck will lose 29*0,5*2 = 29% of its max HP - thats 10% more than before

Sounds like an ancient egyptian ship

@wilkatis_LV already did the math on the dispersion given by WG, and it seems they have better dispersion than IJN BBs.

Surveillance Radar has been added in 3 slot for Soviet battleships tier VIII - X. It has the following characteristics: - Targets that can be detected: battleships, aircraft carriers; - Range - 15 km; - Number of charges - 2 (Surveillance Radar I) and 3 (Surveillance Radar II); - Reload time - 270 (Surveillance Radar I) and 180 seconds (Surveillance Radar II); - Duration: 40 seconds at tier VIII, 50 at IX and 60 at X. The radar will help Soviet battleships to detect heavy enemy ships: battleships and aircraft carriers behind Islands, in smoke or in a cyclone.

Thats why i dont like the balancing around ship height. It doesnt make for good balancing... CE gets nerfed and this thing gets super concealment to begin with while others (cruisers...) get shafted like crap

Spending 1,22 million FreeXP on CVs. And 38 million credits + ill buy T9 too, so ill be broke till the patch hits

From first looks what i think: T4 concealment like dafuq? That will be 9,2km with CE + Camo T6 powercreeps the NM hard... - same dispersion elipse while better sigma (1,5 vs1,7) - MUCH faster - better reload - Better HE (for what its worth...) - A tad more HP - Same rudder shift but worse turning circle. - 1km worse concealment.

Lately i know with 85% chance that my team is winning

I though best in every catergory will win the leningrad. So 6 leningrads for best player in Gnevny, Kirov, Minsk, Okto, Aurora and Leningrad And an additional 18 for the best in T5-10 BB/CA/DD

Yes, thats the opportunity of a life time. Better order enough food/water right now to get through 72h of straight farming WoWs. And maybe start playing on the toilet to not waste good time