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T9 used to be a sweet spot where you could make good credits, good cpt xp, and be sure that no one would stomp on you with a much more powerful ship. Now it's just fodder for Eagle tactical squadrons, preferably in a division with an Annapolis and Hannover. French and British BBs are even worse, with both super-BBs overmatching them... As far as "credit sink" options, I think the coal auction was a much more sustainable one. Instead of 50M credits for a supership, you have to spend maybe 250M for a Tier 9-10 freemium, but imho it's just better for the MM and the community.

You should've done that already when you introduced subs, each and every time. Including in Ranked. Or when you forced superships down our throat. Including in Ranked. The last free respec/demount was ages ago, despite the fact that you've been treating the live server, especially Ranked, as a test server for all sorts of moronic nonsense.

Rank doesn't measure skill simply because we all start at 10 or whatever. It measures progess. But WR does measure skill, or at least skill + your willingness to play good ships for the Ranked meta. And I find it easier to "force out a win" in a 5v5 than in a 12v12: fewer variables to account for, easier to make decisions.

If there were 2 CVs per team, it would be like having 4 CVs per team in Randoms, i.e. total lunacy. That's definitely a plus. The main reason I like Ranked is that it doesn't allow divisions, so it's "more random than Randoms": I never feel like I have to babysit 2-3 potatoes who can't look at the minimap, ignore chat, ignore pings, and immediately lose us a flank I don't get a unicum div on my flank that would win the match even if I were afk I don't get a unicum div opposing me, which at best I could stall for a bit The other reason I like it is that some ships are more competitive for Ranked than for Randoms, due to the smaller teams, and so I get more use out of them: Colbert, Napoli, etc.

I don't think CVs are often sunk by subs, but that's because subs are rare. In games when there were both subs and CVs, I've seen subs go for the CV somewhat often, usually with good results. Then again, their team might've been worse off for it.

A very liberal use of the word "hardcounter" there...

CVs aren't too common in Gold. I've played nothing but Colbert and Napoli recently, the former with no concealment and no AA perks, and I can't say CVs have been a serious problem. I'd probably rather have one of them than another Petro/Stalingrad/Montana to angle against.

I think you're two weeks late for April's Fools.

Hp alone isn't the full story, indeed. I suggest a better, if still imperfect measure of plane survivability, is hp / time inside AA, proportional to hp * max speed. For torpedo bombers, using the upgraded planes on tech tree ships, with no modules and no cpt skills, this gives: 378k - Graf Zeppelin 361k - Implacable 339k - Saipan 301k - Lexington 296k - Shokaku 284k - August v. Parseval 279k - Enterprise 277k - Kaga 251k - Hornet 238k - Chkalov 235k - Aquila 220k - Pobeda Units: hp * knots. I haven't double-checked the results, and I'm not going to, but it seems to me the Hornet's TBs, on an individual plane basis, are indeed a bit fragile. EDIT: then again, one would have to factor in the damage reduction during the attack run, which doesn't start at the same distance for all of them, but I'm not even sure where to find that data...

Slava, Ragnar and Smaland sounds a lot more varied than 6 Petros + 2 Kremlins, at least.

Someone dropped a 4.7k game in front of me in the Annapolis. Outstanding positioning on his part, but that thing is insane.

I hope the ones on the left. The idea of having to angle against 6 ships with improved pen angles, plus a Nakhimov, hurts my brain.

How is that "fun", honestly? If it had been 6 Colberts and 2 Schlieffens, sure, I could see that. But Kremlin+Petro sounds very...stationary, attrition warfare-y.

Fires might be a problem, but don't worry: next patch Moskva is going to have a fully-submerged citadel.

Also, I don't care what some elitist says: you need Incoming Fire Alert on the Moskva!

There's a screenshot on Reddit of a Brawl team with: Nakhimov Kramlin Kremlin Petropavlovsk Petropavlovsk Petropavlovsk Petropavlovsk Petropavlovsk Petropavlovsk

My preference goes: Napoli > F. Sherman > Kearsarge

Honestly, the MM should've just put those divs on opposing teams. It's not rocket science. That screenshot tells the story of basically a bullying session

They raised the freeboard on the Petro, but lowered the one on the Moskva. So clearly Moskva.

The question isn't if you had any of them: I'm assuming you don't, or they wouldn't be in the poll. The question is if you have something similar, and if so, if you want premium version of it or would rather go for something completely different: Salem and Tulsa play somewhat like Des Moines F. Sherman, imho, plays a bit like the Druid Kearsarge - Montana Yoshino - Hindenburg, Zao, Conqueror...

Ranked gives much better reward for time spent, imho. Here you need a whopping 41 wins for 10k coal, and you only get that prize at the end. In Ranked you get something nice, steel or dubs, every 3 wins, so you can do that very comfortably.

1st Brawl today I guess putting 1 mega-div vs 1 mega-div (or no div vs no div) is too much to ask. Not that it mattered much here...

My Agincourt was in a bad spot, Akatsuki comes out of nowhere and smokes up the instant I ask him to Basically an impromptu Schlieffen+Vampire 2 div. I thought I blew my cover firing my main battery one second before, but I discovered her smoke firing penalty is an excellent 9.4 km We turned it around and won the game

1st Ranked match in the new Sprint In the bottom image you can see my Colbert running for cover from the enemy Shima: I was on 500 hp when I got him I also sank the enemy Moskva...

Colbert By far the most addictive ship I have right now: she's my most-played ship in Ranked and my most-played non-BB in Randoms. Even if I make a mistake and sink early, a few seconds with that DPM are so satisfying I won't be mad about it I love how she's all about "setting up the fight", in terms of distance, islands (I never play with a smoke DD), isolating a 1v1 and finding a target whose turrets are pointed elsewhere. Very unforgiving, but also very rewarding. She's the the first RB ship I recommend getting. Other favorites are Ibuki, Oland, Blyskawica, Dunkerque & Jean Bart, Marceau, Salem, Napoli and Dead-Eye Shikishima. And Fuso.