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Yeah, but still, how accurate are reload times when comparing ships with similar calibre guns? Atago and Zao also have 203mm guns. There is a lot of room there to play with. With 6 guns? In tier X? I highly doubt it, and even if it were, it would be only because it is rewarding good aim. Dodgy aim and/or a bit of RNGesus and you're done. A Bismark on steroids in tier X is fine. Hindenburg is a Hipper on steroids two tiers up. Most ships that share same calibre guns are. More number of guns, more hp, you get the picture.

Not necessarily. Reload times are a bit all over the shop as it is, Des Moines has half the base reload time of Hindenburg for example with same caliber guns (203mm) Baltimore's (Mk15 against DM's Mk16) has 10 sec reload compared to DM's 5,5 Give her cruiser sigma and either a slightly better reload compared to Alaska/Azuma/Kron/Yoshino or improved AP angles and I won't mind the 6 versus 9 guns in the slightest. 6x53.3cm yolo torps and Repair, Hydro, DefAA and Spotter Plane in different slots. And Bob's your uncle.

I've kinda stopped playing that much, 2-3 tier X games a day to get two containers and that's it, so it's nice when everything goes to plan. This morning's two:

With their RoF I'd say that depends on the ships involved and under certain conditions. So far I enjoy a lot more playing Hinden/Moskva/Zao than Kron or Alaska. I don't own Azuma and I will not be buying her (nor Yoshino for that matter) I will get the class-O BC though, because per force it will need to offer a very different playstyle with only 6 guns, even if it ends up in tier IX.

Yeah, sure, so you can kite away from the caps forever like. A tweak here and there to that stupidly huge island, sure, but larger maps are just a recipe for more camping. And border humping is usually the last resort of the desperate or the potato. It might work sometimes but it so kills your speed that you are as good as dead because there is no escape from there if the red team can aim just a bit. And if it can't then I still prefer to kite away. They aren't hitting you either but your engine is at your disposal to reposition yourself.

Who said Shima's torps are useless?

And yet another Port move (from St. Petersburg) after the compensation container yesterday. It is annoying a.f. and surely not that hard to sort, @MrConway?

From your mouth to God's ears. Swimming in assorted flags but I'm definately short in doubloons and premium

You get a super exclusive 4 turret Yamato with a Platinum WG account. Turret traverse is still sh$t so it's not OP, m'kay? Probably I've already said too much...

Yeah, hate it when it happens, and I'm not sure it's only when you move from premium to non-premium account either. I want my St. Petersburg port, and if I could choose to freeze the view against the left, Winter Palace side, the better. @MrConway?

My second ship from a TYL container. First one was Anshan many many moons ago.

1 premium container: Pyotr Vielikiy 8 normal containers: Izmail (tier VI)

I bought one premium container with gold and I got the Pyotr Velikiy also.

I've had 7-8 over the last 6 weeks. 2x1000 doublons, 50 Ouroboros, 50 Hydra (or was it Leviathan?) 100 Sierra Mike, 100 EqualSpeedCharlie and a couple other 100 normal flags I can't remember. Always TYL containers mind.

Can't remember last time I took any of my tier VII premiums for a spin, so containers it will be.

The main issue is not that CVs now can counter DDs. They already did before the rework, and a lot more easily because they had more than 1 squadron to control and spot several caps. The main issue is that you have CVs now in 9 out of 10 matches, and sometimes 2 per team, so the end result is the same. It is a matter of population. It is really no different from radar. 2-3 per team is workable as a DD. But add some event like the US cruiser line split and suddenly you have 4-5 radars per team and no DD can overcome Clevelands to Worcesters with 40-45 sec radars unless it stays way out of the caps, at which time it just becomes boring and turns DDs into shitty gunboats or long range torpboats (if they are lucky enough to have 10km+ torps) The radar boom eventually faded away. We'll have to wait and see how much of the current issue with CVs will go away during the following weeks.

Yamato Moskva Zao Grozovoi Kurfurst (if secondary specced) The rest are mostly meh or a downright nerf. Avoid those that are mounted in Slot 5 (were the Concealment System is) Like Hindenburg's. It may work for some but for me it was an unmitigated disaster. Fires are not your biggest problem, not at the expense of being seen from the moon and less dispersion for the enemy. We've done this a few times, haven't we?

+1

Ah ok, that's the feeling I got, definately meh shooting down tier X planes. Oh well.

Granted, with the absolutely monstruous sample of one game, but has Grozovoi's AA diminished?

I may have found less CVs than others. I may have fought worse CV players than others. But all things being equal, it is easier now as a DD than it was before the rework. Permaspotted now? They could still permaspot you before whilst going after some lone BB the other side of the friggin' map. CV will kill you no matter what? So could he before, and on average a lot faster. Step in the right direction IMO. PS Uber-annoying DD play was during the US cruiser split, having to keep tabs of 5 radars every other game. This is nothing in comparison.

Also and as a rule of thumb, any LM that goes in the same slot as the Concealment Module is a huuuuuuuuge risk. Or a No-No.

GK's is fine, specially if you have a full secondaries build. You are not hitting much from 20km nor doing your team any favours if you stay at that range for long. Can't comment on the Republique one. Others I got: Yamato, Moskva and Zao are very good. Hindenburg's is shyte.

T2-T3 No idea, soooo long ago T4 V-170 T5 Kamikaze. That concealment + torps... T6 Icarus or Gaede, maybe T7 Maas or Jervis T8 Lightning. Guns, torps, concealment, defensive hydro... what's not to like? Cossack and Kidd silver and bronze respectively. T9 Gotta say Black. Dat radar... also Fletcher and surprisingly Udaloi T10 Z-52. Great hydro and fast reloading torps. So except at tier 9 it is mostly german or british, because hydro is a great tool when fighting other DDs.

T1 to T4 I can't remember. Honestly. T5 E. Bertin, probably because I knew what I was doing by the time I got her. Konigsberg before that. T6 Nurnberg. T7 Fiji, hands down. Only non tier X perma camo I've bought. Honorary mention to Indianapolis. T8 Prinz Eugen. Then Kutuzov, because OP. T9 Roon. I enjoyed Seattle also. T10 Hindenburg. Mosvka a very distant second. There is a theme going on here, KM ships almost all the way.