Taliesn

CVs have all but dissapeared from ranked, which is good. 3 games played this morning, 3 stars into rank 3. Very, very few rentals, which is also good. It had no place in ranked other than to increase the already average playerbase and make lower ranks a fücking lottery. The way XP is calculated, high survivability, high damage farming ships will always keep the star in a defeat. Playing a DD means you are unlikely to retain the star because if you've done the required 120-140k damage you have probably won the match anyway. Next ranked will be either T10 again or T8, because CVs.

@22cm in a ranked match this morning, same team. Let's say he wasn't nice.But we won, so all is forgotten.

Yes, it is hard to damage with her as she is purely a DD hunter, and you probably need a couple of runs against a Shima unless he's a potato. But kill him you will, unless he abandons the cap, in which case, job done anyway. Not that I would mind a small buff to her guns or torps but I enjoy her a lot more than Shima, whose torps hit like a truck, IF they hit at all. Dunno mate, maybe it's that I like DDs with hydro and it's a ship that works fine for me. Doing ranked with her and I can't complain, although you can forget about keeping your star in a loss because, well, damage is all that matters.

You could probably make a case against just about every bl00dy ship in game if you were watching top players sailing around in them though. What average players can do with them should matter more, and I don't think Colbert will be loved by your average joe. He'll end up with 500 hits for 15k damage and sunk the moment any BB looks at him funny. Smolensk has smoke but a couple of hits inside that smoke and, well... Very different proposition to Belfast (or GC) that have no real weakness within class/tier.

I can't see what's wrong with her tbh. Yes, torps are a bit on the anemic side damage wise but 10,5 is usually enough and reload is excellent. Guns are fine and you shouldn't lose a fight with a Shima if you play your cards right. There is no other tier X DD I feel more comfortable hunting than Shima. Rpf, locate, close, smoke+hydro.

Whatever happened about the IFHE rework?

The ship/class you feel more comfortable with really so you can help your team the most. It doesn't matter if the best ship for ranked is this one or that one if you don't know how to make her work yet. In the absence of CVs, DDs will be the most important ships out there, so if you are not very good with them I'd avoid using them. So looking at your numbers, I'd say Colorado.

Stupid idea overall. In the case of DDs, criminal.

@Fonfalks in ranked yesterday, he was in a Mino IIRC, I was in my Conqueror, forced to load AP because it was a 6 cruiser per side match. We lost, I kept the star.

Because no russian/soviet BB was ever sunk by CV aircraft, obviously. HTH

I don't think I've ever pm'd anyobody post battle, that's probably one step too far. I have raged my share in chat, but with time I've kinda softened up in that respect too. Not one to care much about how other people enjoy this game anymore. Bottom line is, play enough battles and probability will ensure that you will find them on the enemy team as much as in yours, and you will get to shoot and sink that nice old grandpa who just loves to sail her paper thin cruiser full broadside or that DD that smokes in the middle of a cap in front of a Worcester a Des Moines and a Gearing.

She will not replace Shima for the main reason that everybody and their dog have Shima. A shorter reload is huge, moreso considering LM Shima is a very questionable option to begin with, so it's actually a bigger gap when comparing it to Shima's useful torps without the crippling LM. And then you have the longer range as well. 0.2 more detection range means more often than not nothing. Not even enough time for the Shima to turn back before she's spotted as well, not enough room to keep spotting Somers without being detected, and we know who wins in a gunfight.

Yeah, I have Ovechkin on Grozo, the extra 3k hp is very handy. Kuzny for BBs is excellent. A lot harder to disengage than with a Grozo so having a ready to use get out card when brawling or if you f_ck up is a great option. Damcon before 2 fires or torps coming your way?, no probs comrade.

The will to Victory skill is huge IMO. Wait until your BB has 8-9,000k health and essentially it is a get out card for an automatic mini-repair, damage con and speshiul dispersion.

Incredibly stupid idea really. Had a game this morning, one DD per team, myself on my Z52, the only DD on the enemy team was a rental Grozovoi. Think about that. The poor thing didn't even enter a single cap all game, in fact I thought he was afk since he didn't even got spotted until late in the game.

Played 3 battles this morning, all 3 defeats. I didn't lose a single star, and God I really, really should have in the two Hindy battles at least. Got sunk 5 minutes in with 50k odd damage in one and somehow I ended top of my team. Go figure. At rank 10 atm, not many CVs out there so far.

Rentals you say? Well played WG

Yeah, nah. If I'm being honest, I think she is still fine. Maybe improve her AA a bit or give her back the 1 second reload but that's about it.

I was hoping for Von Moltke or simply Moltke myself. It was even the name of a WW1 battlecruiser class, FFS.

Even with good accuracy, 4 out of 4 citadels against a bow on ship is the definition of best case scenario. You are as likely if not more of not getting a single one, but I rather go with a more balanced approach. Secondaries on all cruisers are meh. We will see, but in any case this ship will die by the quality of her guns unless they cram her with gimmicks (please no!)

Not really sure how many of those cruisers you will be deleting with 4 guns firing every 15-18 seconds before they are right at your nose. I am of course working under the assumption that if he's coming at you bow in he at least knows what he's doing. Of course, under the best of circumstances, any ship can nuke every other ship in the same tier. She would have had 6x53.3cm torps, that's 1 less than Roon per side (3 instead of 4) that's the very definition of a very situational weapon. No cruiser in game is a good brawler anyway. Hindenburg? Its 51k hp melt away very fast in spite of the turtleback. Others rely on island hugging or middle to long range sniping to avoid showing their broadside. If the O-class is given 60k odd hp and moves like the rest of the supercruisers she will be a medium range ship with maybe the option to close in. That is not a bad thing.

Yeah, well, ship for ship and tier for tier in both cruiser and BB lines they are usually the best armored of the lot, so at least comparatively to other countries' ships that still holds true. That they are not even better protected is just a matter of pure balance.

Now we know where the guy who wrote the wiki took his info from, that's almost word for word what the wiki says The unprotected bit is misleading at best. Most of these designs were certainly protected to defend against 203mm armed cruisers. And nothing more but that's just as well.

A sigma/dispersion somewhere in between the most accurate cruisers and Alaska/Azuma... would be fine. Armor looks (according to wiki...) to be slightly thinner than Alaska's, so good but definately not special. Not sure if turtleback would be a thing with this design. Torps would be similar to Roon's I guess, except 3 per side instead of 4. 4 guns firing every 15-18 seconds is hardly crapping on a large amount of cruisers unless of course the cruiser is making a mistake, and that should be punishable in every ship. Not sure about the turtleback in this case, so can't comment. Now honestly, in which cruisers do you really go roaming around showing all or most of your side in order to shoot with all your guns? That's a recipe for disaster in any cruiser, turtleback or not. O Class BC doesn't need to have the shorter fuse AND angles AND the sigma. But even if it did, it would still be way below Stalingrad in hp, lack of radar, number of guns... and of course so it should.

The KM BC would only be firing 4 guns more often than not though, so still 50% less than a similarly angled Stalingrad. And the problem with Stalingrad is not only the guns, is it? It is also the health pool (biggest of all cruisers), and the sigma (again, best of all ships) the armour, and the radar...