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My guess, it is a captured Focked Wulf or something. Might be a Messershit, too.

ROFL. Might fix some of the slow UI. I'm not into the Weeb thing but I do find this kinda funny, really. Now add one of these (in whatever form) in the backgroud and I'll never stop laughing. You can make it look like Jingles, Mr Conway or one of those hentai, whatever.

I had EL on it too... very RARELY useful. Might have been the meta... mostly T9 cruisers, and they DO NOT usually give broadside, but THEY DO spam HE like nuts. Usually I was burned down out of nowhere (cruisers behind island) before I could even use the second heal. I'm not claiming to be any effective in that ship at all. I even liked Monarch (generally called 'meh') a LOT better (not like I'm any good with that either). BTW the dmg before I installed IFHE... it was ~50%, that's why.

I'd say KGV is an overgrown cruiser, which suffers badly from being uptiered. Anything at her tier can pen her from teh bow, while KGV can pen nothing her own tier, and not even some lower tiers. And again, may lower tiers can pen her bow as well. While same and lower tiers offer good 'combustibility', fire chance gets lowered in higher tiers (and als the HP pool gets bigger) so there goes the chances for KGV. At least Monarch can make a stand with some bowtanking, while at least being able to pen something with AP. The dispersion is trollish - but so is dispersion on KGV. Just not that noticable, as 90% you shoot HE (does damage anywhere it lands). Even higher tier cruisers form a problem for KGV, as they are usually faster (can't run from them... and if angled can't kill them either) and their IFHE will pen KGV just about anywhere, usually while having better concealment as well. KGV is just a mehboat, I'm glad I got rid of it. BTW the 40K is an average... got much better after you-know-what. If there's a free respec going on, I'd suggest you try it for a few games. I removed it when reaching Monarch though. Notice almost everything is "better", even though I just "grinded" that one.

The main problem with Hood in WW2 was that she was very much OVERdue for a revision and refit, plus modernisations. Outbreak of the Spanish war and thereafter WW2 prevented this from actually happening. It is said that her condition in 1930 was far better than in 1940... her engines and everything having degraded over time. I'd say Hood as a battleship after last redesign (@#3:03) - having more and better armour than Queen E, and same guns, but better total armament (@4:20). The speed, well Hood is not faster than any of the Germans. Just ahead of her time, maybe. However the BB-spot in WoWS is rightfully taken, IMO.

Usually I spend a few good karma on a good CV player. And yes, I do not have any good karma myself (as I play CV).

They said so, I did the math and even did the calculus. IFHE should do bubkus on the KGV. Yet... But must have been confirmation bias. I dunno. Something is rotten in the state of Britain and I think it is KGV.

Yes a bit big, but remember they changed tha angle of guns and powder load. This could be BEFORE that... and T5 sees (down) T4, but (up) T6 and T7. IMO (Exeter...) getting uptiered is much more common.

I can think of many more operations that would be good. Some of them would even work both ways - like harbour attack/defence. And maybe they could be PvP too, those caps are quite boring really.

I had the same thing. Absolutely hated the ship, such a difference after Queen E. I put IFHE skill on the captain... IMO that made it better, calculation showed it SHOULD NOT HELP AT ALL. Even so... I thought it did... might have been confirmation bias. Seemed to me that a pen gives more fire chance than a shatter, and I got lot less shatters with IFHE on. Shouldn;t... at least the calculations say IFHE shouldn't work. But IMO it helped... Nevertheless, glad I grinded it and got Monarch. QE guns again, at T8 (slightly improved). I wish you much luck with King Grog the Filth. You'll need it.

Hood works mostly because of speed and 'agility'- not really fast to take a turn, but fast to swing the rear. If you sort of 'kite' then you can do weird stuff with Hood. Also, the speed allows for some tricks. Going faster/slower is actually an option - it makes enough difference for reds to miss Hood completely. Agreed. Renown at T5.

Langley... amazing funny.

Well I usually play T6/T7, and I have been getting LOADS of T8 matches...

Get Murmansk...

1. Hood (still the best IMO) 2. Leander (LOLboat) 3. Exeter (all heavy cruisers should be like this) 4. Furious (yes a CV) 5. Texas/Arizona, split because can't decide.

That used to work only once... and after it, they got you anyway. Now it only works once also, but used at the right time, it still works. Plus when it's on colldwon it's still better than others. Use it when they have started the attack - works great except with very skilled players. I still laugh... if they hit me, 90% of torpedoes don't cause flooding, just some partly repairable damage. I did install the faster rudder... and use WS-hax... half the time they miss. Lots more 'average' CV players now than before. I'd say you can laugh harder in the face of CVs than before. But might just be me.

2kts difference is indeed no big deal, but you said "faster"... An extra turret would be handy though. But I prefer the tankiness of Hood. Hood has more than enough accuracy than Colorado - and can even citadel the Missouri. You do not need Colorado for that - and it is slooowwwww.... 4-9km? Eat lotsa torps. Better stay away a bit. Or you'll have a submarine. That said at least it is viable. Ashitaka runs the risk of getting blapped pretty quickly. Shoot fwd/rwd guns alternate with Hood, kills all the cruisers - 2 per salvo. What more do you need? BTW... at thatReddit post... yes Hood got buffed indeed...

From my experience, Colorado suffers from 'death by torpedo spam' in that operation. Maybe I can i upgrade to Evinrude Outboard 5 zillion HP, but until that comes, not for me. BTW Hood = 32kts... Ashitaka 30kts...

Maybe my suggestion about making operations PvP wasn't such a great idea after all. Ni ote: on Narai I usually go after the CV with Hood. Means I enter the harbour from rear side. There will be NO ESCAPE.

Well duh. EVERYTHING is a free kill to you. But we have the better chances - chance of meeting YOU is very small. I'll explain:

Correct. I find that ROFLSTOMP games, no matter win or lose, are a chore. If you lose you may even score big - if you win, not so much. Might be because I am usually in a BB, and when we win very quickly I just cannot shoot fast enough / keep up, with lemmings, and when we lose they'll all come to me... OK depends a bit on how long I manage to avoid the inevitable. The main 'new'thing I have seen, is when your team has two caps, say A+B and enemy has C instead of defending them by all flocking to B, they all hide behind A... like it's gonna bite them. I've seen them blob up in a corner of the map. But you can even WIN this game... enemy sometimes does the same.

I'm not disputing that. A good CV player can get any ship. If you get rocketed into the ground in Sims, two options: A - you did something wrong; B- CV player hates you. Hood isn't really a better AA platform than Sims. It has just a load more HP. Imagine a Sims with the HP of Hood, and the size... I think that Akizuki was spoonfed by a friend. Or a total blithering numbskull, BTW must have been TWO to get that may. But i usually pull 30-40 planes in Hood. Nothing special. I'm sure if they kept coming I'd get 100. Well... Atago 35.5 kts, Wichita 33.6kts, Chapayev 33.5kts, Kutuzov 33kts, Irian 32.7 kts, Charles Martel/Baltimore/Mogami/Cleveland/Edinburgh 32.5kts, Hipper/Eugen 32kts. Actually only Hipper and Eugen cannot outrun Hood... and they sure accelerate faster. You're not getting away from them. Which is a problem... When they chase you, you can't do much to them - but they'll sure HE-spam the hell out of you. It will take them shorter time to kill you, than it takes you to kill them. Therefore IMO cruisers are much more dangerous than CVs. I did not say it uptiers badly. Just that ships (especially those damn cruisers) are more of a threat than CVs. I'd still do it... granted though the more HE spamming cruisers WG produces the harder it gets, but hey. The uptiering is NOT a problem as such. The problem is that with CVs you CAN get downtiered -1 (T6CV), you CANNOT get same tier, but you CAN get +1. You'll never get -2, as there is no T5 CV. Also... uptiering is far more usual than it used to be. Therefore it MAY SEEM Hood AA is worse than before. Here's the thing mate: against COMPETENT cv-players. An AVERAGE player against competent player... will win if he's in Hood. I know a few competent CV players... Hood is not their favourite dish, not even when they have a T8 CV. No mate. I think you're just not understanding. Main thing I do not agree is that Sims is bad - when compared to Hood. Sims is still a little AA monster. So is Hood, if you know how to use it and aren't unlucky to get a 'master Cv'. Yes they both can get killed (Sims is just a DD..). But Sims will take down more planes than the average BB. Using Hood+Sims we take down more Cvs than they take down us two.

WR in CVs can be good because a good CV can do anything. Finish off that ships that gets away so it can;t come back to do more damage, or heal. Smack that cruiser hiding behind a mountain. Spot that DD and kill it. Some of those things can be done by teamplay, but many cannot.

THIS. Plus you might have forgotten that the winner gets 50% extra. If your team would have won you;d have ~1275xp or something like that. And the top player y than now has 1587 would have got ~1060.

TEAM HODOR.... yeah they spelled it wrong...