Miscommunication_dept

I carefully researched every ship I bought I have Leningrad (speed machine!) Molotov. Great guns but not as good as the Budyonny Hood. (Super container) I actually really like it. Great armour when angled. Offence different but ok. Scharnhorst. Good ship when the enemy will brawl with you. Warspite. Great accuracy but soft armour Alabama, much better than Bismarck when uptiered. Great guns and maneuverabilty Ishizuchi. Best HE spamming battleship of tier 4. Big citadel. Graf spee. Very effective AP and very accurate if you come from battleships. and Cossack which I haven’t played yet. All have been good but the most disappointing was actually Scharnhorst. Angled cruisers are immune to your AP and the HE is laughable. No one brawls with you as they all know you have torps.

Flamu said something about using a spotter plane. Works a treat! I wonder if WG need to adjust it so that we don’t see the shells until they leave the smoke. Not even sure if it’s possible.

I only use that reticule during cyclones. If you are in smoke either I saw you slow down and guessed where you’d be or I’m firing between your turrets and you aren’t moving. my map, for whatever reason, doesn’t show last knownposition. How can I enable it?

I used to try and support Dds from 5km behind in my GK. always results in a nice Bbq. Still, even my musashi only occasionally fires over 20km range. Too rng dependant.

The secondary mod like the one that shares a slot with the aiming systems needs to give a bigger buff (such as 40% increase to range and dispersion) as even with a GK the main guns are... the MAIN guns!

I have the GK upgrade, it's one of the better ones. Did you have the range mod before? Complete waste for this ship due to it's dispersion. IMO the range decrease is almost never an issue, the extra reload is a constant buff.

My Yorck just detonated from King George V HE One shell took over 20k and killed me.

I suppose you are right there. Would you expect WG to increase the thickness of this area on battleships? Currently some battleships have only 32mm in this area, it would be strange if heavy cruisers had equal armour. I still believe they have another solution for this problem.

Noone's crying, simply pointing out a balance issue. you cannot punch through the nose citadel if a cruiser is angled properly.

Currently if, as a battleship, you have a heavily angled cruiser in front of you, you can aim for the upper belt and at the same tier you will overmatch and score a penetrating hit. It's a big part of the reason why the Scharnhorst is so terrible against angled targets. If this goes through in the way suggested here it would be a big nerf to battleships. I do wonder if Wargaming nerf battleships like this so they then increase the viability of secondaries without affecting balance. I hope so!

What's the reward for four goal haul? I cant find it in my flags.

If they did that they'd also be no overmatch by BBs. That would make their lives much harder.

Ah, thank you. I haven't been here for a year.

Was everyone supposed to receive one? I didn't.

CE As first tier 4 skill for all ships. Except perhaps Some cruisers that need IFHE more. i still haven’t specced fire prevention on any ship. Even my GK rarely has two or more fires without a repair available.

The long range BBS at tier 8 do far better in a tier 10 match then the Bismarck in my experience. I think that is true across the board when being uptiered though. In my Alabama I would usually stick with high tier cruisers. Seems to work ok.

Tier 8-10 USN BBs are so much stronger than the Germans. Will the German battleships be the next to get buffed? wouldnt it be easier to nerf the French and British bbs?

I've just discovered the joys of HE spam in my Donskoi but i would like IFHE to be a choice between fire chance and penetration. a much bigger reduction in fire chance for guns of 140+mm at least 50%. I would still choose IFHE for the donskoi but for the firestarting spammers like Worchester I can see an argument for upping the fire chance instead. They could even make it a tier 3 skill if the downside is that much. Your choice would be between fire starting or more consistent damage. Getting a little nervous about the amount of potential changes mentioned at one time...

The Image above is incomplete. I expect by trade off they will be nerfing fire chance. I welcome the change as right now as a light cruiser IFHE is even more mandatory than Concealment Expert.

I do feel that German secondaries should be better. They suffer so badly at range that I’d like them a little better in a brawling situation. I received a Varg camo so I had to take my Bismarck out with a 10 point captain. It’s terrible without secondaries, the hood is probably better! The Kurfursts guns don’t set fires as well as Bismarck’s but pen cruisers and high tier dds much better. french secondaries have a much higher fire chance but limited pen. Wargaming are looking into making secondaries more viable.

Yes cruisers are very powerful. I’d love to have Donskoi guns on my Scharnhorst. The accuracy more than makes up for the lack of alpha.

I agree, the German BB line was the first to get a turtle back, it was unique and a selling point of the line. Then came british with the underwater impossible to hit citadel and the french with a well hidden one also. I think they should have citadels similar to the USN BBs. Hitable but not all the time.

Got my Anshan back in a few hours. Not sure what I'll do with it though.

How do you do it?

I have been thinking about the proposed change to 10% max damage from battleships to destroyers. As a destroyer I don't think I ever fear Battleships but with radar and accurate HE DPM; I DO fear cruisers. I've seen a few topics about this but no poll so I thought it might be interesting.