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I’m reminded that if you had the standard ship you would fain access to a mission that rewarded doubloons. Maybe they’ll do that this year also.

IFHE Scharnhorst? With it's 3200 HE damage you should almost never fire HE. Normal pen HE : 1067 Normal Pen AP : 2700 Overpen AP: 760 HE is not worth using in most situations. Superstructure overpens do more damage to angled targets than HE. These small guns will often get full pens in the superstructure.

Nothing overpens a GK!

To invoke Greta. How dare you!!

So they fiddled with Kremlin’s pen values so it’s the only battleship that can citadel a Smolensk. Wargaming trying to stealth nerf the Smolensk me thinks!!

The trick with the Smolensk when you’re in a Thunderer is to through HE at the broadside. Guaranteed citadels . Thunderer is probably a good anti Smolensk ship.

They already gave tier 8 and 9's built in IFHE or 1/4 pen. Edit: I may have misunderstood your first point. I agree that GK is strong already and that if Wargaming buff it They should focus on it’s brawling role. Massachusetts fast heal or a reduced cooldown damage control would help with fires but not make the ship too much stronger.

They really should make these a standard ship with a nice permanent camo and compensation for the ship if you own it. I have two Tirpitz (Tirpii?) two Asashios and two Massachusetts. Not helpful at all.

Great ship. you could make a case for IFHE first but her concealment with CE is a powerful weapon. As others have said, the smoke upgrade is well worth it on this ship At beginning of match follow a destroyer in. When DD is spotted activate smoke and drop down to 1/4. If you lose spotting you can send a plane up or activate hydro. Kill the DD if spotted or melt your nearest battleship. watch for torps and if a battleship charges you stop firing and let him have all of your single launch at 2km! Ensure you have enough distance or islands to enable you to with draw from smoke. When smoke is on cool down you could do a little long range HE spam. I usually reposition I spotted though. The spotter comes into its own when a battleship is trying to sneak up on you. I wouldn’t use it for destroyers. Killing destroyers is more important than killing battleships so focus on those. you have light armour so avoid brawling where possible. Enjoy!

My Massachusetts killed many destroyers in ranked with this setup. German secondaries are nowhere near as scary for destroyers.

The fuse time increase doesn’t help against battleships and causes more overpens against cruisers. The ricochet angles make the AP dead sly against angled cruisers.

I prefer a GK for brawling or a Yamato/ Montana for normal battleship play. Conqueror When i'm feeling evil. I've not been getting on with my Kremlin, feels too big and clumsy.

I keep meaning to try the GK in a tank build but I have so much fun with IFHE secondaries. I did swap out BFT for superintendent though! I've been thinking of swaping IFHE for concealment or fire prevention. when I grinded the legendary there were alof of French and British battleships that melt quite spectaculary to the IFHE secondarys. Russian battleships that are very common now have better armour. My fire spitting secondary republique is better against them(9% vs 5% secondary fire chance) I can't judge whether tank or secondary builds for myself but I certainly agree that most good players play the GK with more of tank build.

Secondary range and dispersion would be my choice as I am a secondary fiend! AFT is no longer a good skill for improving AA, perhaps it should be reworked with greater secondary benefits, perhaps 30% range 30% dispersion. It's worth noting that in the stream they mentioned German battleships. The Montana, and all premiums strong and weak, was left out the USN battleship buff. I feel that could easily happen to the GK.

Secondary builds can work if you work around them my IFHE secondary GK performed very well for me: 57% win rate 200+ battles. Though most of that was before these rapid fire pyromaniacs were in the game.

Thanks for sharing that. They did give a small buff to The 105mm secondaries recently. I wonder what their plan is. I’m not sure if I’d prefer gun accuracy or improvements to secondaries.

They’re going to buff the GK? Where did you hear that? The GK is good but you must close the distance use islands and hydro to your advantage. It is fantastic when you close the range but it is challenging to Do so.

Cyclones stop everyone fighting and slow the game down. Cruisers suffer terribly but they are fantastic in a secondary spec battleship. Thunderstorms are better as ships concealment is changed proportionally.

I just looked at some other videos. Only Notser liked it. Nozoup said he’d rather brawl in an Azuma than this. Aeroon points out that Georgia is faster with bigger guns and the same reload. argh well

The Hood has worse sigma and worse penetration. Odd considering they should if anything be better. As you say the turret traverse is much nicer.

Very hard to justify a Buff on the Hood. Perhaps they could buff the AA to make it as effective as it was. Giving it Warspite’s guns would be great and would make sense. I don’t think Wargaming will buff it though .

Even if the torpedoes didn’t blow up, the Bismarck’s hydro is more useful.

Why didn’t we British preserve any battleships? There are so many Museum ships in America but we just didn’t bother.

Scharnhorst has a 2.0 sigma so it makes sense on the Odin. Of course it is German so will straddle most targets. Siegfried looked balance and fun when Notser tested it 2 months ago. I expect it soon as an freeXP ship.

Try this thread: https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/124976-which-tier-vi-premium-from-completing-directives-are-you-hoping-for/