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Oh yes ... wasting a smoke on CV planes and then what ? Sitting duck out of any action waiting for radar or torps to hit your location ? Any competent CV player will simply poop a fighter near you and rocket you to death or reduce you to low HP ... sticking to other ships while having the lowest effective range reduces your effect on the game, so the CV did not even have to attack you and he did what he needed - reducing your impact ...

How exactly is Z-39 better than Z-23 ? by being on tier lower ? oh please ....

Let's say it is weaker than Z-23 which is a tech tree ship ... so no point in a premium like that, also for training captains it's not good as it has 150mm guns ... T-61 ? sure that's a great ship ... Z-39 is at best average by German tech tree standards ...

I was planning to before rework .. it looked interesting, intensive and fun (minus some UI bugs). After rework I don't want to .... As for how to counteract it, I watch enough twitch to see it in action ... there is no counterplay other than dodge and AA on a very few ships ...

Z-39 IS weak ...

There's always an "unless/but" somewhere ... however it was better in the old CV world overall than it is now ... at least from my PoV ... I did not dread CV games back then ... now I do ...

YES ... because my own CV could actually help me with fighters ... I my only problem were bombs as they were kinda random, but I'd still take that over rocket planes ...

then having the old CVs back would actually be an improvement :)

Mino actually has very good torpedoes for the concealment and ship size ...

ah finally, some good news ... now I hope they will at least fix the current crap to some degree ....

Hmm ... that's interesting ... I actually like the Mainz from what I have seen ... if they buff the reload ... OMG WANT !!!

last time I checked, all the ships can cap. I do it frequently in a Khabarovsk with no concealment (hell I have played games where I caped all 3 caps for the team while the stealthy DDs died) ... so I don't see an issue there. It takes some effort to create the opportunity compared to a stealthy DD, but still the option is there.

So pushing into multiple DDs with NO support ends badly (as expected) and you make that a reason to not push in a BB in general ? You are quit jumping the gun here ... Do you think me doing the same in a Khabarovsk would end any other way ? Or any other DD for that matter ? About the only ship being able to kill the DDs (must likely sinking after the fact) would be a Worcester type ship .... You simple went head on into a wall ...

Have you seen the last international KOTS match ? no DD team vs team with 2 DDS ... the no DD team won ...

Maybe you should read the one I was quoting ? There's no more than that one sentence from you .... so ?

It's not you at higher tiers, it's your support that helps you ... mostly radar cruisers and competent DD players ...

Actually range nerf would be fine. Simply remove the GFCS Mod 2 from the ship and problem solved. Then Smolensk will have to trade range for stealth or IFHE while ATM it can have all 3 without issues. The ship will have about 5km of free range it can work with while being easier approachable by either DD or Radar. Or increase the drag on the shells so they lose speed faster (like Harugumo and the othe IJN 100mm guns). Either of those will work ...

Can I have 10km torps back on my Khaba then ? I mean then I could have an option more to use ...

Yep, I agree ... I have no problems taking on DMs and Worcesters in my Khaba (I don't always win but they pay dearly). Zao and Moskva I can avoid due to their reload time. Smolensk however I just run ... 180 turn in front of a Smolensk costs me easily 50% of my total HP (with heals counted in). No other cruiser can do that (except maybe Stalingrad with AP).

And here you are wrong ... as a DD player you have to know all those things about any ship you can encounter in your MM spread. Knowing just the DDs will get you nowhere ... There's no such thing as "safely going in" (you can interpret that any way you like) in this game ... you always take a calculated risk (or just risk in the case of many players) with a chance that your calculation was wrong ... Thus the BBs camp. No calculations needed, just shoot at the reds and keep your distance.

well ... more forum posts than battles ... says something ...

rings of saturn - epicenter modification ... moving storms ... that's just two I can remember without thinking about it ...

that just shows that they are not stupid ... you do the work, bring the filth to them and they just take it from your wreck ... easy

if you remove the choices/options, people tend to stick together ... so no, not an improvement, rather a lack of options ...

T8 torps is a relative measure ... for T8 the russian torps are underpowered ... or rather they are below average ...