MadBadDave

Donskoi - Inaccurate and hard at starting fires.

Here we are 8.08 and the CV rework is still a rock of crap, just played a game, last 5 mins 3 vs 1 (lexi, and 2 cruisers vs Graf Zep), lexi went awol, zep sank 1 and had the game not ended as zeps torps were in the water he'd have got the other cruiser, leaving everybody's fave end to the game, 2 cv's hiding at opposite ends of the map. Yep Zep won the game, btw the cv's got 4 kills, and the Russian Cruiser Donskoi, which isn't op in the slightest and naff at lighting fires got 3 kills. I don't know why they just don't rename the game Russkies and Carriers. Has anyone done a poll following every rework (I know it would be a lot), but surely WG must realise how much non cv drivers hate cv's because they are STILL so OP, imagine another 3 vs 1 scenario where no cv's were in game; i.e an element of risk for everyone, Graff just hid and was untouchable, makes for a really good warship game WG

chap in accurate and weak radar

K’stadt weak and low HP ?.

I did think MM had been sorted, and it is a bit better, my first all T8 battle was special, and a rarity, just played 3 games, 1 In Amagi and 2 in Bismarck, of which 2 were wins and one a very close 2v2 loss, which could've gone either way, sadly despite doing well personally in all 3, all 3 battles were T10, I will add that the game play was very good in all 3, the weekenders must've been in bed, no DD's rushing to dive off a cliff, No Cv's, lots of wasd, but sadly the undoubted HE spamming from Conk and Hindy etc was present. Bottom line; Match making still not right, despite WG's bold claims of being resolved/balanced, 3 T10 battles in a T8 is not balanced.

Exeter is brilliant, but suffers from MM, you'll face Fiji's who can't fire HE but do have smoke. Dreadnought, worst ship I've had, fortunately got it free, given the amount of CV's within it's Tier, and the ship's horrendous AA; NONE, avoid unless you're a collector. Had lots, some free, some very cheap on steam and one 1/2 price (never paid full price); at moment 5; Hood, Indy, Warspite, Shiny Horse, Sims Gonna buy back, stupidly got rid of; Tirp B (got free), and Cossack (also free). Gonna Buy when next sale on ; Alabama.

Once again. No a Russian ship is not OP, rofl, I repeat review the stats for this new ship in six months, along with Kremlin, Vlad, Murmansk, Kaba, and every Russian ship currently available and about to be released, I assume the MosKva is a little weak ship with Poor aim and armour 😏.

A lot know my opinion on this, and not just premiums. For a navy to be absent since 1853 and yet have some of the most powerful in game, it’s kinda laughs in the face of WG’s “we’re all about history”, I have no doubt there will be the usual mass of stats, but give it 6 months, Russian bbs are new, as is the fire breathing cruiser that a lot have moaned about, I’ve no doubt the world famous Russian subs and cv’s will be similarly specced. Spout stats after Christmas and we’ll see OP

So, to recap a balanced game that included cv’s was scrapped in favour of a world of war planes style play, when all WG had to do was increase sqn sizes to what they are now and allow the gamers to decide the plane load out, instead here we are again another bodged patch, can anyone at WG tell me if this latest AA tweek will be the last one. And yet you want to release Subs and no doubt more OP Russian ships and high tier paper premiums ..

Stay at around 12-15km, angle and kite as much as possible, a lot say don’t run secondaries I do, at 7.6km you’re not going to out brawl a Bismarck (mines 11.3km), but you’ll surprise red BB’s like I did the Monarch who soon ran behind an island 😏, and they make DD’s think twice about getting too close, the secondaries on Amagi are great and have the added bonus of being able to fire forward more than Bismarck’s. I love my Bismarck but given a choice it would have to be the Amagi, because of those mains, which can citadel everything, the HE ain’t bad either and they return consistent damage and not 1160 all the time.

Agreed, T8 mm has improved, 7 and 8’s imho are the most fun.

And all levels.

I Prefer 6-8. Less paper ships. All T9 &10’s do is dakka HE and torps, also seem to be the most map/situational unaware of all Tiers. Quite often a T8 will finish above T9 and 10’s when uptiered.

Didn't they rename it revenge ?, same class as the much requested Royal Sovereign, btw the class was Royal Sovereign, aka Revenge class. This could be a T7 Prem for Both the RN and Russians, who were loaned it from 1944-1949 and they called it Arkhangelesk, dual captains ?. A lot would also like to see Rodney, complete with Torps ;-). WG could give us many "historic" ships either, as free xp, tech tree or to purchase, but instead give us high tier paper premiums.

Shiny is a gr8 ship, make sure you run a Detonation flag, as mine blew up twice thanks to T6 DB's carrying tallboys, on both occasions I was a 3/4 HP. Built for secondaries your range is 8km, My Bismarck is 11.3km, but tbh I prefer Shiny's, they seem to do more damage/start more fires. I also have Gneisenau, shiny's sister ship, IMHO it's a far better ship, the guns fire slower but they hit a lot harder, AA is also better. Get within 8km of either and you'll be in a world of hurt; 2nds, torps and mains (bigger Gne, Faster Shiny). Battleship or battlecruiser ??, it doesn't matter, who needs a Yorck when you can have a Scharnhorst or Gneisenau e.g I had a game earlier and watched a friendly Fuso go up against a T8 Hipper, the Fuso did't last long, when my Gneisenau arrived on the scene, neither did the Hipper. I would wait though, as Shiny is bound to come down in price, when they have their next sale.

The Gneisenau is better than Scharnhorst AA wise, but only just, unlike Shiny which has been detonated by T6 DB's carrying Tall boys twice, GNE hasn't, and while some think it's waist I run the anti Detonation flag, as both times shiny blew up it still had 3/4 of it's HP, since fitting the flag I obviously haven't had one Detonation. AA, all too frequent detonations, T6 DB's getting thru Bismarck's AA, and then dropping bombs that do more damage than getting citadelled by another BB, should indicate how broken AA and the rework still is. Think the Gne's bad, the Hood had awesome AA, pre cv rework, with it's unique anti air rocket system, now it's worse than Gne's, and for an organisation that harps on about Historic content; Gne and Shiny did not have torps, Hood did, and yet in game the German's have them Hood doesn't.

Let them carry on, Brit BB’s mainly do it, But more are doing it these days, run flags, fire prevention and don’t be too quick to press R, an Alaska spammed HE at my Amagi yesterday my response I citadelled him and pressed heal. If you control fires properly and stick to AP you’ll do far more damage and most of that fire damage can be healed back. All my BB’s have manual secondaries so spammers get it back

I see yet another Premium Ship in development, The Poltava, a T8 Russian BB, hands up who expects this paper ship from a non existent naval present nation, in the second world war, which I believe is the "primary" period the game is supposed to cover to be OP, no doubt it'll have radar, smoke, concrete armour, and be pin point accurate. Instead why not have the Royal Sovereign, with the ability of using it with an RN or Russian Commander, or any of the "REAL" non Russian ships, that actually contributed to the war effort, WG harp on about Historical accuracy, when are we going to see any ?, us brits only fired He in BB's and Ap in cruisers, the japs had slow ships, and relied on Torps, the German's couldn't shoot straight and had inferior dispersion, and the yanks sat behind islands lobbing HE. Come on WG "PLAY THE GAME". do you want historical accuracy or not, YOU COULD give us any number of REAL premiums, that can't fire straight, dakka, spam He, and fire 50 torps every 10 seconds instead !.

Because it’s s German BB 😏. Mine has an AA rating of 81 in theory T6 planes shouldn’t get close but they do, my Bismarck which should have superior AA is 77, and again T6’s have no trouble dropping tall boys on to it, Being citadelled by a Yam does less damage. My Hood has unique AA and was good pre CV rework, that too is s Joke, can’t see WG addressing it with Subs on the horizon and another 6 months of updates to get that remotely usable.

Ok you win so the Kremlin, Smolensk, and kaba are all real ships like the entire Russian range, and they are not op in the slightest despite coming from a nation with a glorious and vast naval tradition 😏. Btw - the Russian BB range is new lets recheck in 6 months ;-).

Seen Wg's latest dev blog; Historical intent ?, yes it's a game, but most of us play because of the historic element, hands up who gets peeved at another papership appearing ?.

Show BB chart's then ;-)

I think it would take a member of the WG team, to say otherwise, but I think most of us would agree that Russian Ships are OP, whilst others that actually did anything, like the german's get ships that could'nt hit a barn door. Russian Ships are very accurate and some start fires in smoke "too" easily, while brit cruisers are denied that and then there's the armour. Despite Russia's losses in World War 2, there Naval forces did zero, and it's a puny little island nation, that it now "taunts", that stopped the Nazi's from defeating them. There is a very, very good warship documentary on at the moment, last week it featured World War 2, Iowa, Bismarck etc, this week's was the jutland era and the Dreadnought and Iron Duke etc, in the programme they mentioned the progress and technological advances, next week it's carriers. The Battle of Tsushima, Russia's last naval battle against Japan was mentioned, in the battle Russia got his rear end kicked, big time , and if you google Famous Russian Naval Battles you'd have to go back to 1853 to find any. My Point; WG is Belorussian, so why are Russian Ships OP, given the above.

OP Russian MTB’s you cynic, 😏. I’m waiting for the Russian sub range, obviously blatantly OP with built in homing rail gun, that fires projectiles at Mach 6, torps with nuclear power source that never miss there target, and a hanger for 15 fulcrums and hinds, oh it’ll also have underwater smoke and 100km sonar. re op zero anything Russian was any good naval wise in world war 2, and the last time the Russian’s used any of its naval assets and it shone against anything that fired back ?????????.

When your captain is high enough and you’ve already taken concealment, RPF is very desirable.