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Don’t park bow in like I see so many doing. It it just leads to you being burned to death as IFHE pens you everywhere!

Thank you. any idea of the chances of winning?

Up to rank 2 already in my Massa. This is my first time doing ranked. I’m surprised how fast paced the games are. Great for a secondary ship. Do you earn more credits in ranked? I seem to be.

Are there a lot of CVs in ranked at the moment? If so, my Tirpitz will stay in port and I'll take the Massa.

At least it seems unique. Could be interesting but tier 5 is a horrible tier to play.

Sigma 1.8 on wowsft.

Main battery reload booster.

Battleship plating at tier 4 and 5 is 19mm. Yubaris guns have 24mm of pen.

I wonder if Wargaming needs to think about matchmaking for gun boat destroyers and cap contesters. In a single DD game, Even in a Kleber I need to apologise to my team when the enemy has a Daring. Gunboat DDs don’t seem to have a large effect of the game until later on.

IFHE not helpful at tier 4.

It's unique and therefore quite fun but not very competitive

I hadn’t thought of that as my GK has a 16km detection. We definitely should not have stealth firing secondaries! I agree also that targeting the upper belt would be beneficial for IFHE GErmans and the superstructure for everything else.

I expect Khaba stats look ok as most Khaba captains don’t take the risk of capping early.

There is no broadside. everything bounces!

Khaba has a heal. See in one element it is better than the Kleber. Khaba is weak now, can.t contend caps and now can;t even be the best open water gunboat. I'd take Grozovoi over either.

I agree with others that range is the biggest factor in secondary viability. 11km is close range at tier 10. The only ships who close to that distance with a GK are those planning to torp. Wargaming could increase secondary range across the board. Perhaps 7km for all T8 battleships as aminimum and somewhere close to 10km base for the GK. The dispersion shold be bad enough to stop it being OP against cruisers and destroyers.

True. Would it be frowned upon if i used my Kutuzov?

Musashi is overpowered and was very cheap for coal. I don’t think we’ll see her again.

I might just join for a change. Massachusetts Prince Eugen Kidd Cossack Kii So many good T8s to try.

I had a lot of fun grinding the Amagi. the Izumo is also very strong now.

It is fun in my IFHE GK when my secondaries melt enemy battleships. Is it effective? The consensus is no but in the right situation they can be. Germans have the best pen as they have 1/4 pen on all T8+ secondaries. All can pen 32mm plating with IFHE. The french are fire starters really until tier 10 they can’t even pen superstructure of T8 battleships. The USA ships have improved dispersion so can be very effective even without manual secondaries. Further the secondary module is less costly as they cannot fit the aiming module anyway. with manual secondaries they can really hurt destroyers quite quickly but would possibly be less effective against battleships as under 7 km they’ll hit nothing but the hull and shatter.

Budyonny is probably the best tier 6 cruiser. Best at long range HE spam but has very good AP and good torps for brawling. I remember Flamu had a video where he brawled with two battleships and won. Kirov doesn’t need IFHE as it’s guns pen most playing to tier 7. The rest of the line does require IFHE until Moskva. Schors was my highlight of the range kiting away with those accurate guns. I just completed regrinding this line and had a lot of fun.

Georgia is a great ship. Speed boost is very useful and the guns are accurate unlike the Massachusetts. I don’t have the thunderer yet but it’s hard to ignore that it’s the same price as Georgia with even better guns and great manoeuvrability. I expect you’d be happy with either

I suggest that only because different types of damage cause very different effects to the flow of the game. Fire doesn't worry me in a battleship really, torpedos giving citadel damage do! I think I still play DDs and cruisers more than battleships Btw.

The game makes an XP judgement based on the percentage of damage done to enemy ship rather than the hit points taken. Does it draw a distinction between say fire damage and citadel damage into the XP calculation? It feels like it should.