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I have none of these. But I often have 9 losses in 14 games too, no matter what ship I take. Well if you got it for free, can't complain. Slow turret rotation is always an issue on USSR cruisers (I have Buddyonny). As BB-main I am quite used to it because most BBs have that too. Most cruisers as well (tried Dallas?). In Dallas, this is annoying, you run upto a cap, then a wild Something appears, you have to turn away bc it has torps, and while it is shooting you (of course it is) your damn turrets still have to turn so you cannot even shoot back. Grrrr. But to make you feel better, here are my stats on the Bretagne...

There aren't that much more, but since everybody else and their momma is camping, all they have to shoot is your giant floating pinata. And your camping teammates will not help, else they are next.... TBH I do get pulverised by HE-spammers in whatever I drive, not just the KGV. Sometimes it is nice to be put out of misery by a good old oldfashioned blap of AP, really. After Queen E, the KGV feels like a banana boat shooting bananas. <--- that's me second from left.

You haven't seen me go full potato yet, have you...

The main problem in your story is, when a BB is focussed by 4 cruisers, he is toast before he can get away. I manage to do it, in the Hood. It is very fast. I can also wiggle a bit, and the turrets keep up with the wiggling, too. In other BBs - you just get BBQed. And you can´t shoot all four of them (4x 30 secs is 2 minutes...). Even if you live those 2 minutes, you'd have to kill them in one shot. And they can evade better than you. As for the cruiser that gets focused by 3 BBs, yes he probably is toast too. But if he lives, he is a LOT quicker. He can outrun them. Usually he'll also outspot them (so he was more stupid to start with, too). He can also manoeuvre quite a bit more. And he has ~30 seconds before those BBs reload. He can spam HE, set one on fire, then the next. While running away and wiggling. Note that most BBs cannot bow-tank HE... certainly not IFHE. Cruisers will have no problem setting the BB pinata on fire. Since fire-damage is HP related, a fire on a BB does much more damage than on a cruiser. Set one, set two, three. BB uses DCP. Then set a few more... he will not be able to use his second heal. I know, I have King Troll the Filth.

Yep. I'll have to get used (adapt playstyle) to the bananaboat or start grinding the coconuts.

If (as I expect) T5 ranked is going to be a big potato-fest, well, imagine smoke and lots of dakka & spam coming out of it.

Maybe I'm just having terrible bad luck with that KGV. Most people think it is OP. I think it is a bananaboat, too squishy - and it shoots bananas as well.

Looks like many interesting choices. I wonder what my DD-main-divmate will take. We might do an Omaha-Emerald or 2x Podvoizky division just for trollz though.

Not my impression, but I do not have any of the other ships. Hood easily shoots down more than KGV, or any other BB I have. Better than Fiji and almost as good as Dallas. But no matter, as long as CV players do not think like you (and they can't see HE damage or not...), they will attack Hood very last of all... Best range for Hood is 10-15k indeed. Wouldn't go closer if you can't run anywhere after that, unless you think you can one-shot the victim (broadside cruiser or 25% health BB) or have help.

Yeah, if it gets fixed that HE shoots it all, as Riselotte says. If you have not been hit it is impressive, less so after a few HE canonnades. Still better than a lot of others so a smart CV seeks other targets. Even smarter CVs launch from further away... but then usually amaze themselves about the turning (rudder shift time expansion, mandatory!!). I have had games where 2 CVs could not torp me, and lost a whole lot of planes. In the end they got me though. Took them 5 (combined!) runs. Then again they weren't that good. Didn't manage to cross-torp even once. And I managed to shoot them both down to 10% (my Akatsuki buddy finished them off). Hood is an oversized T7 cruiser. It doesn't disappoint when you treat it like that.

It's not boring at all. When you have 'nothing to do' it is easy to re-locate. Worst that can happen is you get chased by cruisers (as you are a big Pinata...). Yesterday I had 3 chasing me, was fun. Went to the edge of the map and made them all useless. Meanwhile managed to blap their CV. No big score but we did win.

This is what I do, but now I generally turn BEFORE/WHEN I get detected. This way I draw them out. Usually does eat a large chuck of health. Anyone that fires at me is detected though so the team gets something to shoot at. I hope they will shoot. No matter if they do or not I'll get out and heal. But, in the past I went WITH the cruisers and AFTER the DDs. And indeed, then they split, and I died in a hail of fire. Now I just assume they'll split. AFter I split and heal I sail through the lines, keep moving, shoot from distance. Only when the enemy ships have been worn down a bit do I go forward again. HE spam indeed is a problem. I am adding to it though because they put me up with a King George V with half-wit AP. And total paper armour. Well what else can I do, basically it is a fat-fat-fat cruiser.

You are right. I must have been dreaming of a middle turret... which QE doesn't have either (Iron Duke has, though) LMAO. Nah, too much New York/IronDuke fantasies there, I think.

You are right. However the map design is related to the rotation. The designs are too similar, and there's too few of them. Leading to: 1. Too few maps --> boooring! 2. This one is same as previous... MEGAboooooring! Well, there's Halloween, then there's Valentine and I'm sure we can think of some other 'relevant' festivities... Maybe we should make a thread and just put the designs there. Fix 'em up in 3DSmax and see what happens...

Which one did you get? Smith?

Heeeyyyy didn't recognise you for a fellow-forumite! I remember that one, the Zoidberg-fellow was going 'all my friends are dead' LOL. Grats on the win. IFHE does work though, did the math, looked at the data, SHOULDN'T WORK, but had to try anyway. I have gone longtime without it, the effect is there for sure though. The fire is at least as much, I think somewhere it is not exactly as they say. Pen is really good. AP is better but only if the other guy shows side, or if you can overmatch (on some cruisers). The King George has smaller caliber than the Queen Elizabeth and Hood... Actually the KGV AP doesn't really do much against other BBS, unless < 10km and flat broadside (and they can overmatch my nose easy if they are T7 or higher...). WG say that KGV is sort of a 'battlecruiser', well, it certainly feels it. You were on the other end of the map, but the only BB that was 'in reach and not behind an FFing mountain'. So, tried to roast you. I doubt if the AP would have given me 22k on you (probably just would have tickled a bit). Only got 4 shots off, too. But a fire almost every shot. But that's better than what I got before IFHE on a Colorado. I did the math, but somehow it doesn't quite add up as they say. A Colorado will blap me everytime though, no matter what angle. I still miss my Queen E.

I just had a game, I potatoed around in the Icarus, we had 2 CVs per side - each side had one AFK, and both were potatoes. Never mind, I suck at DDs so I potatoed on (had to try the missions anyway, so...) and ended up in B-cap. Managed to shoot a competing DD to smithereens and capped. All the time I was swarmed with planes, then I found out the one working enemy CV was right behind the island that was border of the cap... So, I got bombarded and he kept missing... and I managed to sneak around the island and get the drop on him.... Meanwhile almost all my teammates were dead... all his were too... they had all buggered off to A-C... So that was me vs that CV... I had just a slither of health remaining...managed to get the drop on him... launched the whole lot of torps. How he survived I have no idea, got hit by his secondaries and died LMAO. And how I have missed, I haven't got an idea either. Yeah, I really really really suck at DDs.... Game before that (also in Icarus), we had a team they almost all potatoed to death, I was near their base, what do I see... our CV capping the enemy base LMAO. Man funnyyyyyyy

I'm sure that other Gneisenau thought indeed it was... It's lethal if you allow it to get close enough. From <7km it will kill anything. That's why I keep it at > 10km distance (or try to) and only dive in when it needs one more shot... (death or glory). Good game though.

Seems to me you're doing fine.... the thing with Hood is, it is not inaccurate. It is just as good as the Queen Elizabeth. But, Hood has a few barrels less, so the punch is a bit less... The accuracy is good (at least I think so). Take your time to aim... and yes sometimes RNGesus just craps on you, but usually not. Do not be afraid of BBs in Hood, you are A LOT quicker, and if you took the rudder speed upgrade you can YOLO them. Swoop past them and just leave them in the dust - keep looking back and swing that rear end, they'll never hit you. It really can swing that rear end. In a one-on-one, I even dare to go broadside with it - 10km is enough time to swing out and make their salvo miss. Just make sure your own is a good hit, and then you can just wear them down. Due to the less guns you must sort of 'dive in' to deal real damage. But you CAN, and you can escape too. I play Hood like a big fat cruiser, unfortunately I'm not that good at avoiding islands. When it works it's brilliant though. Sometimes you need teammates to throw chasing cruisers off. And just spec for the max anti-fire. She can take a lot. And the heal helps, too. Quite often I'm 'last man standing'. But if you get caught by more than 3 cruisers... you need to focus on ONE and create escape route, because they can burn you down good.

Mucked around with King Troll tha Filth, and tried to compare AP and IFHE performance. This time I got a few good ones on some cruisers (AP). Man they never learn not to broadside, eh. But I also put a lot of IFHE in BBs, sesm to me it burns BETTER instead of less. 8xAP = 10154, 1270 per shell. 36xIFHE = 47965, 1332 per shell. PLUS the fire damage. Hmmmm... I used the AP on some broadside, short range cruisers. The IFHE I shot at angled BBs that were further away. Got a better hit (pen?)rate too on the IFHE...

I still think it is much worse than Queen Jezebel, especially at tier 7. Man the QE you can shoot AP all day with it. This thing though, it is vulnerable as hell, has bad angles for the gun, AP doesn't do much and HE... well... not satisfying. I'd rather kill something with a good stick than feed it poison and watch it die, that's how I am. So I put IFHE on it and now at least it deals pens. They said it wouldn;t matter, I calculated --> indeed SHOULDN'T matter. But it does so now we have an IFHE BB... it is King Troll tha Filth.

Well, even a well-angled BB is not imperviable to HE spam and fires... If they all run it usually takes 4 minutes to burn a BB down to the waterline. That is, if their HE-spammers don't run as well. And usually I am not the highest tier. King Troll tha Filth (tier 7) is the max so far. I almost think I could make them myself... I have 3DSmax and lots of other stuff. I can also do the UV-mapping. We did make race-tracks for various games, mine were always kinda bonkers (I made a Cadillac Ranch racetrack...LOL). I'd have the ice float around though, they can do it with ships so a few bergs would not be a problem. If they'd have a tutorial I'd have a go, and I think many others too.

That indeed, so you'd have to protect them well. It can be done, as shown in Operations. DUh, when I am in a BB I usually try to make it go like a raceboat (try hard with a New York, but hey). The most disappointing thing is usually when they all shout Ï need help"and then when you go help them, they either turn around and flee or all die due to being mega potatoes. But I do not see the fun in sitting bow-in at the rear spamming whatever. Might score better if I do though. Usually I end up halfway the team. Generally I manage at least 50K+ damage per game (if the game doesn't potato into the abyss too quickly), if it's a good game for me > 100k or more. Doesn't matter much but at least I have fun doing it.

I think that would be sweeeeeeeeettt and I'm a BB main. However I hate camping, its a battleship, not a pillbox. I'd also welcome submarines. Let me have go at the maps and you'll see no more camping Bbs for sure. I'd change more stuff too. You'd not get bases, but have something like 'submarine pen' or 'harbour'. And you'd not get caps but islands with factories and such.

Seems a lot more interesting to me. I'd rather have something like this (made it bigger, and ff-ed around with it).