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I honestly don't see why CVs shouldn't have ASW planes like BBs... ...and like all cruisers should have... ...and like all DDs should have, in addition to depth charges.

We finally got you, @ColonelPete !

Zao and Des Moines are among my favorite lines to regrind, as they're consistent performers that pretty much keep the same guns and the same build throughout. If I had to pick a line to regrind for you, OP, I'd go with Zao, as you still have the Atago to play Tier 8, at least to retrain the captain(s). Given your low activity, I'd say at most reset a line every 3 months for the 2x bonus. Save the Free XP for the Groningen, using it at most to avoid playing with stock hulls and fire controls. If you can stand to actually regrind the line, which should take fewer than one game each day using a mix of green and blue boosters, you can get yourself a nice RB ship by this time next year, for sure. Still, don't do it if if feels like a chore... Also, you have little experience at Tier 9-10 in general, so unless you plan to become a lot more active in this game, getting a high-tier premium ship might be a waste of time, at best, and a source of frustration, at worst.

Upload the replay and send it to Jingles: it'd be nice to see a nice Yubari comeback...

My 9th ever Solo Warrior Their Seattle was a real pain and hardly anyone shot him, but we got a point lead, which we worked hard to squander. In the end, our Donskoi got sniped by a Pommern (!) and to put us back ahead, with all 3 caps gone, I had to torp a Siegfried. Of course, it took several tries, given the wonderful thing that is hydro... I finally got a good spread on him, but I still had to finish the job with the guns. One more shell and I would've lost this, as I was cocky enough to try to gunboat their Pommern earlier

Tankier than the Yamato hull, as the citadel is lower and doesn't have the same "cheek". The secondaries don't fire particularly fast, but they penetrate 32 mm if you take IFHE, so they still do good damage. The problem was supposed to be their range (10.6 km), which is what a lot of reviews complained about. But honestly, if you can get within 12.5 km you can probably also get within 10.6. So far I like her, but maybe it's just that "honeymoon period" one sometimes get with a new premium ship...

Flooding damage is very difficult to achieve anyway, unless maybe in a CV. You might accidentally flood someone who recently dmgconned, but otherwise you need 2 torpedo waves to both hit about 20 seconds apart. The thing is, if they took the first wave they're probably angling away and the 2nd won't hit, or maybe they got sunk already. It's more likely to cause a flooding, then start shooting HE and get a permafire. Indeed, by far the most reliable way to get damage-over-time is to play HE spammers, especially if they have good range and ballistics (Azuma, Conqueror, Henri IV...) or a smoke (Friesland, F. Sherman...). 95k is a lot, but it should be doable in a couple of good games at Tier 9-10.

New coal acquisition I'm honestly disappointed at how negative many reviews were, when the ship herself seems perfectly fine EDIT: replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQwSMHdVALs

You're being paranoid

They can feel what they want, but stabbing people is still a crime. It's up to the legislative to legiferate on free speech limitations, to the courts to decide whether or not they have been breached, and to the executive to apply the decided penalties. Lunatics are not part of this process, and to claim that limitations to free speech or "the right to be offended" implies it, is to create a strawman.

I never bought this argument. I think we totally need rules and to draw the line, or there would be no difference between "free speech" and "slander", "incitement to commit a crime", "stochastic terrorism", "hate speech", "inducing a panic", "false advertisement", "perjury", "false testimony", "quackery", "impersonating a police officer", etc. And it's a slippery slope fallacy to say that some restrictions will inevitably lead to more, unjust ones ("the moment they do X, more will follow...and then it's too late").

I remember Reagan telling the same joke with Gorbachev...

I do. No one forces people who haven't mastered the controls for Tier 1 patrol boats to play Tier 8 subs, die in 4 minutes and get <200 xp. Seriously, it's very common to have both subs ending up at the bottom of the scoreboard: what are the odds? No one forced people to spam Thunderer and Smolensk games a while ago. I mean...they're good ships (and used to be even better, I understand), but they were played so much by bad enough players that their WRs are mediocre. It was all about "muh fire damage". No one forces Kearsarge players to stay at the back, hitting nothing with those slow shells, and be still full hp at the end of a steamroll loss. No one forces CVs to go hide in a corner when they could safely stay 15 km closer to the action, behind some island, and be twice as productive. No one forces strong players to play ship combos that are stupidly hard to deal with, but are weaker than if they'd gone their separate ways. I had a game the other day where a YY played "smoke-slave" for a Salem: I delayed them until we won the other flank, then they fell apart, but in the meantime they were super annoying, yet the YY ended the game with 600 xp, which is nothing for the unicum he was: it was more like griefing than actually trying to win. Did I say anything in chat? Of course not, but I did roll my eyes quite a bit...

The majority of torpedo damage in general is not healable, if they hit you on the bulge, which is precisely where you should be most protected. That doesn't make much sense imho. I mean...no one voluntarily gives broadside to torps just because there's some damage reduction: you would simply take more hits and possibly die in a Dev Strike...

Still, don't sell a premium ship!

Solo stats so far... I mean...maybe it's psychological: some ships just "click" and then one plays well because he's more confident, who knows. But I reckon the Roma just uptiers well: the weak AA, side armor and firing angles can all be addressed with good positioning, which is made easier by her concealment. Meanwhile, the guns keep her relevant against T10s.

The best light cruiser in the game

Roma has been doing so well for me that I play her rarely: I don't want to jinx it Other than her, I would say Colbert. Also F. Sherman and the whole IJN CA line, for regrinds.

I find that the turrets become way too slow then, when wiggling. If the bow armor were better, I'd play her more nose-in, like the JB, and it wouldn't matter as much, but these cruisers get overmatched by anything

Bourgogne has also better sigma than Alsace (1.8 vs 1.6), better speed boost (+15% instead of +8%) and better secondaries (the small ones go from 100 mm to 127 mm, so they all pen DD hulls and superstructures in general). Imho the République is more like a French Ohio/Preussen: similar gun arrangement, same overmatch, can be built for secondaries. The hp is lower, but still in the 90,000s.

@Khaba_Gandalf in a very volatile win. Everybody was low near the end, but he had capped B and we clinched it on points. One more minute and it could've been a disaster

Is that the right number? That's sixteen 100k DMG games each day for 3 months, which is a lot worse than the base XP one.

That's like 3-4 games a day for 3 months...

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