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I'm not trying to be a smartypants here, but I genuinely don't understand what that means? Did you decide not to give them ASW for balance reasons, or for historical reasons? Because if it's balance reasons, do you honestly feel that Leone needed to be balanced?

So one would think. But it won't be done, at least unless and until enough people make a stink about this for enough time. Which is why I am never letting this go.

I think this may be the clue to WG's astonishing and inexplicable persistence in nerfing Okhotnik and Leone: "If we add ASW to them, we will probably have to model the depth charges on them, and the process takes time. "

That's what I mean by quibbling about the meaning of "directly nerfing". I'm sorry that I can't phrase myself more politely, but what you just wrote is pure sophistry. (also, use of the term "historical setup" for a blueprint level ship that was never laid down is rather absurd)

All Soviet tech tree DDs, and all other premium DDs have depth charges. As a customer, all I can say is "get cracking". WG has changed AA mounts, and in my understanding depth charge models on ships before. I sincerely hope that these assets are modelled by the time subs permanently hit randoms (who are we kidding, that moment has already passed).

They are the only T5+ DDs, and in general the only non-plane carrying ships in the game afaik that do not have any ASW at all. For WG's own mysterious reasons, they decided not to give these two ships depth charges, or depth charge planes.

Except for Okhotnik and Leone. @Prophecy82 (in before quibbling about the meaning of "directly nerfing")

It's a question of speed. If you have a good division, and you play well (not assured - we all derp and eat the random torp now and again), you are in a competition against time. Can you roll up your flank more quickly than your team collapses in the centre/other flank? Some games are just unwinnable. If your team gives up all map control, even unicums will melt in a crossfire.

Don’t listen to snusnu, he division abused the heck out of me, Poli and our division the other day, guilty as charged

Everyone knows the admins don’t t play this game on even one account, nevermind all of them.

I think your garbage scows are safe bro.

Whenever I play T8 I land in T10 matches. T9-10 are disproportionately popular.

whut? I do agree otherwise though. WG's approach to cruisers seems to be even more gimmick driven than the other lines. Cruisers just potentially pay for it more, as they don't have the concealment to hide, or the survivability to actually take a lot of hits.

That doesn't really mean anything though. Brawls meta is significantly different than randoms, basically any cruiser with torpedoes and decent-ish armor is good there. Not so much in randoms.

What exactly do you base that statement on?

Maybe you should have a look, for example, at Bear's submarine stats. If you run into someone like him playing a submarine, God help you.

I always giggle a bit when I kill enemy DDs with Haida torps.

Mine too. The Fw190A4 is likewise glorious. Incidentally, 4.0/4.3 is my favourite BR for the germans :P.

You monster

E4 is the first really good bf109. But just wait until you get to the f4, that thing is pure sex

I find brawls to be tactically limited and kind of boring; also asymmetric team setups are not much fun. Randoms are not bad when played in a div. Also, I suck at brawls :(.

Well in general buying a ship that you can get for coal (at the prices WG charges at T9-10) seems a bit ludicrous to me.

Thx for the insights. I don't mind slow shells, I've played a lot on the US BB line and learned to live with them. Deffo getting the ship in a week or two once I have the coal. Mind you, I do think she might be nerfed at some point, from the looks of her :/.

How do you like the Keararse anyway? I'm seriously considering going for that ship, but have basically no experience with CVs. Are the rocketplanes hard to use vs slow targets if you're not an experienced carrier jockey?

Makes sense, the Kearsarge "superstructure" looks like it has its own postcode.