Captain_Newman

Since he's got almost 10% more WR than you, with all the other stats much better too, if he's a bot that must make you something truly special. Y'know, it's not that hard to check how someone you're talking to performs before you go accusing them of being a "total red player". But I guess if you could think that much ahead you might have been able to scrounge up a positive wr.. Now, Smolensk. Personally, I got bored of her so I play her a lot less recently.

This is my 19 pt Sansonetti build (trained for Venezia, but I used him on Gorizia as well - if you want a specific Gorizia captain, you will want to drop TA as she has no torps). Base build: PT - EM - SI - CE. After that, improved expert loader immediately, followed by whichever skills float your boat. The ability to switch to AP on a moment's notice is very valuable. I find RPF very valuable in general, especially so on Italian cruisers due to their anti-DD specialized ammunition.

Smolensk is objectively the strongest of the ones stated. It's easy mode for damage, problem is, once you get those monster damage numbers, you don't really feel all that accomplished because, well, you did it in a Smolensk. So while she is undeniably broken levels of OP, for me (and this is highly subjetive), Smolensk is not as fun as the Thunderer, which actually requires some skillful aiming if you want to be rewarded with big damage numbers. I don't have the Georgia, but I imagine I'd probably like her due to good accuracy and a fast, mobile playstyle. So the question becomes, do you want: - easy mode damage farming smoke/he spammer? - the squishiest t10 BB in the game with extremely hard hitting and accurate guns (that first part can be offset by good positioning and angling)? - a fast moving flanking bb with accurate guns and solid secondaries? Answer's up to you, mate.Keep in mind the Smol might become more easy to citadel thanks to some upcoming changes, but we'll see. It's also possible it'll be placebo nerf like they did with the Kremlin. It's russian, after all

If it's a bad CV player, you can try to dodge - sometimes, I'll see he starts his attack runs quite late, in which case I will turn in to make him overshoot me. Or you could try to actually slow down to throw off his aim, since they usually account for you going full speed. Problem is, this will mitigate some damage at best - and only against a bad CV. Against a good one, you're either moving slowly in your smoke with AA off so he can't see where you are, or you die (which is really just a choice between "die now or die a bit later" if the enemy CV is good). If you're thinking "wait, this sounds terribly designed" right now, well.. yes. Yes it is. Can't even be bothered with the spreadsheet meme anymore

Well, thanks for the carry, @Bear_Necessities - that team really didn't want to win

Yes, a ship that relies on fire spam is such a novel concept it will take a full team of unicums a month of careful analysis to uncover it's secrets... Love this constant strawman you keep pulling btw (erroneous statement about something wrong the much reviled unicums are doing, followed by mocking said players).

Wyoming AG-17 refit (removed main battery, replaced with an insane amount of atlanta guns).

I'll just leave this here http://www.hisutton.com/Surcouf.html

Good job WG, another premium CV, rocket and HE spam/fire focused, is exactly what the game needed. Sigh. It's not even good, but will still be annoying. Classic WG design at work, here.

^^ probably should have went with red colored letters as well

Thank you. I was going to point that out, but I already know how convos with him go.

That doesn't prove anything. You're talking about one battle, there, good players will often top score in a bottom tier ship. I recently top scored in a t10 battle in a stock Hsiengyang (was saving up fxp for the Friesland at the time, hence stock.. wouldn't normally recommend this). It doesn't make the stock Hsiengayang a good ship, it just means one player had the exact right conditions to capitalize on in that battle, and had the means and skill to do it.

I mean, italian BB line will come, now that the cruisers are out it's merely a matter of time. If I were to guess I'd have to say somewhere in the second half of 2020 (RN CA's and EU DD's will come first, we'll see what they do with subs, and I'd expect ita bb's some time after these lines are released). And because they are bb's, it's likely a standard bb captain like you would build for a Roma will work great on these ships - so I'd say she does have trainer value, having a high point captain when the new bb's arrive isn't going to hurt, exactly. Ofc, they might release a special captain with the event and in that case you'll want to grind that one for the t10, but still, another trained up captain doesn't exactly hurt.

Benham, yes. Friesland I got for fxp.

Oooh, a troll thread. Very edgy. I approve. Carry on

He has a Massa and Tirpitz already, premium BB wise. I think the only prem t8 bb's worth considering performance wise left in this tier are Lenin and Alabama. The rest can be fun but aren't known for consistency.

That depends - what do you want her for? Friends call her the overpen simulator. I dropped her this christmas, had a great battle in it, but only one, so not exactly the best sample size there. She's well known for her guns being trolly - when they're not trolling the enemy, they're trolling you. Performance wise, I'd much sooner recommend the Lenin in this tier - much more consistent, she's a lot of fun for me with her maneuverability and hard hitting forward-mounted guns. Just don't try to kite away with the Lenin, she can't tank with her behind. If you want the Roma for collector / historical value, then you don't really need our recommendations, she's kind of a no brainer in this regard. She's also quite the looker (if you don't put the beercan on it, but tastes may vary). I don't think she has any competitive value. For randoms, maybe.. if you're willing to put up with the guns trolling you sometimes, and are able to utilize her stealth to get on people's flanks..

When will people realize that random doesn't work by equal distribution.. a 10% chance doesn't mean you get 1 out of 10, not necessarily. Give a 10% chance to 100 people, some will get nothing, others 1, some will get greater results... Look, I'm not particularly fond of the lootbox business model. It's smart, don't get me wrong - it's a fantastic way of getting money out of the community, but fostering these gambling habits when a bunch of your player base are kids isn't something I'd call on the up and up. However, they're here, and when you buy them, you need to be aware that rng is just that - rng. That means it's entirely possible you'll buy 20 megas and get 0 ships. Or you might get 1. Or you migt get extremely lucky and get 8. If you're ok with taking a financial risk to try and get some ship drops, fine, give it a shot. If you're not ok with the possibility of buying 20 boxes and getting nothing you wanted, then don't. buy. them. Knowing percentages you can't really check isn't going to help with any of this.

Shhh this is all a test for a new premium they're working on, the USS Eldridge, with the cloaking device consumable.

Personally, I like that coop battles are short, but that's because I don't see them as actual gameplay, but as a quick way to farm something - snowflake, directive, etc... Not really sure why would anyone use it for anything other than that, it's not like it's actually interesting to play. Bots sail forward, bots die. 5 min later we do it again. Yawn. I am a bit confused about ranting about the game mode being short, and then ranting about not doing any damage in the same sentence. If you dev struck anything regardless of range, angle and armor, well, the battles would be even shorter, no? Embrace those shatters, ricoches and pens for no damage, they make the fun last longer Economy wise, making these actually profitable, coupled with the short duration of the battles, would mean a lot of people would go farm their credits and xp in coop up through tiers, and only "emerge" in pvp with their coop-grinded t10's. Though it's hard to imagine teams getting even worse...

Can we not resurrect a year old super biased poll that doesn't give you an option to say "don't do anything with radar"? Besides, I've never heard an actually good dd player complain about it.

You're still ignoring the fact that this is roughly your average on both ships - meaning you don't deal more damage in an Azuma; your damage stats on both ships are nearly identical (and way too low, for starters maybe try to practice your range kiting and dodging with the Azuma, it's simpler gameplay than Alaska requires so probably a good place to start). The server averages about 72k on her, which I still consider low, but at least try to reach that.. feel free to post replays for more in-depth suggestions on how to get those figures up, if interested.

Checking his coop battles would likely answer all your questions.

WG doesn't think Lutjens is useless. Don't forget that Kuznetsov is also priced the same. It's already overpriced, don't give them the idea that they could charge even more coal for these commanders.

It tells you which ships have more or less counters, and which ships counter more or less other types of ships. So it comes as no surprise that the Enterprise took #1 place. Yes, you will get mirror MM sometimes, but that's the minority of games, most of the times you will fight other ship types and classes.