The_Chiv

need to find that Oprah meme. You get a markov and you get a markov

I would argue Base xp is more about skill as consistently winning and getting over 2k is a bit difficult.

to be fair the PR grind was done out of spite as a big F U to WG. When I was streaming I was making up my own songs which had the same profane variations of my disdain for their practices. I still do this off stream :D

So it is bad at engaging DD's, So its primary prey would be CL's and CA's with 12.3km range guns. I mean in a world where cvs are not in the match an all other dds are dead sure I can see this working maybe 1 salvo and then running away, after the first shot any decent cruiser player will bow tank it and make those 4100 ap shells into 0 ap shells. Now if we can get an Italian 150mm dd with sap OH MAN.

JESUS they gave it RUSSIAN RAIL GUNS. Now correct me if im wrong as I do not know the arming threshold calculations off the top of my head but isnt 25 greater then most dd armor? Would that not mean it would overripen constantly against them unless angled and going through multiple sections

Can I suggest @Excavatus take over Balance and development of this game. At least we know he actually plays it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. Yes I hate Germans so much. Now you took offense to me saying I hope they put this out cause it will be easy xp farming. Im a cruiser guy as the chart shows. I tend to have to find ways to engage every class in the game. DD's tend to be a primary focus for me. So when I say wow that thing is gonna be easy to hit, pretty good chance it is gonna be easy to hit. I can tell you every dd that is annoying as F to try and hit at any range over 10km. I would love for this ship to be awesome but short of some changes to speed and agility this ship is gonna be a pain to play. Which sucks cause I really enjoy gun boat dds. This thing is just too big and unwieldy to be effective.

This may be true, but again, slow, large. and turns like a russian cruiser. It is not a stretch of the imagination to see this thing eat a ton of cruiser and or bb shells. One of the main advantages that most dds have is the ability to do damage then use a defensive tool(speed, smoke, agility) to get away and return to darkness. If you only look at the offensive ability of a ship you are getting only half the story. Defensively this ship is wanting. I hope they release this as is. I will enjoy the easy BXP boost

It is not that hard to be top of the Bxp chart when you are bottom tier. SHOOT DDs no matter what the tier they pay out more bxp and credits per damage then any other class of ship. Cruisers are the second best bxp per damage you can get in game. capping US HE more. I know this is gonna sound like heresy to many bb players but real talk if you are shooting a higher tier bb you are most likely not gonna pen much at range HE however is gonna get you the damage and thus BXP generation. Avoid farming damage farming bbs of a higher tier if there are cruisers and or dds you could be shooting at.

35k is a bit high but the ship is also a monster.

No one can deny it has great guns. But unless you are a bb using your guns every time they are ready to fire tends to be a bad idea. either way we will have to wait and see on this.

Just get the Agir.

Remind me again why we have this meta?

Yeah HE tears this apart way too nicely if the ship firing it is UK which can pen 117mm but he asked for yammy which can do it with HE...ish but with AP going for cheek shots works better against Smolensk.

Wait you may need a bit more help. One second This also works against many bbs and allows most super cruisers to farm citadels off BBS. Aiming and landing shots in the middle is not hard Hitting beneath front or rear guns tends to come with some risk, which is why when you do it tends to pay out better and if you actually look at the Smolensk armor makes perfect sense.

Oh the stories I could tell you. I have seen KOTS clans tk, harass, use racial slurs, stream snipe to tk, and coordinate targeted harassment. I have seen evidence presented to WG support staff. Only for WG to say not our problem. Hell I have seen them do this while staff from WGNA Austin office and nothing happened to the offender. In short WG doesn't give a F.

If you cant get a citadel on a smolensk then that is a you problem.

I can tell you right now 14km is very uncomfortable for most cruiser players when facing a bb at tier 8 and above. Fact is at those higher tiers the boats tend to be bigger harder and slower to turn. Combine this with overmatch and most cruisers end up taking 2 or more citadels. The only strategy that works when this happens is run away in concealment wait for the bb to shoot something else fire 1 salvo and wait to see if the bb is turning guns to shoot at you, if not keep shooting. Overmatch is a real problem when it comes to cruisers. It is probably the single biggest thing that keeps them from supporting dds and trying to engage them. To put it simply the risk reward of revealing your self by shooting at a dd or supporting a dd is almost non existent as once you do you get targeted by 2 or more bbs that will just nuke most of your health if not all in 1 or 2 volleys If overmatch came with a damage mitigation baked in cruisers would survive a bit more depending on the amount. I know some one is gonna say that makes no sense logically, neither does concealment.

While I like the idea of cruisers taking less damage I think there is a fundamental flaw in this. So if a cruiser only takes 50% from citadels then would that also make their own AP bad in cruiser v cruiser battles? I love playing cruisers, more specific super cruisers. If you go 50% then a super cruiser is gonna have 4.5k cits or less against a cruiser. That seems a bit wonky. Boats like the DM that can punish bad playing cruisers will be less effective. So no I do not think a universal cruisers take less citadel damage is a good thing. So here are a few ideas All cruisers from t7 and up get a heal. All current cruisers with a heal get 1 more and 10% more healing(UK excluded cause UK OP when it comes to heals) Cruiser heals can heal back 66% of citadel damage Adjust rudder shift and turning circles on all CL,CA, and SC(Russians ships will have to forgoes this and be tested as they are already a nightmare to deal with and very noob friendly) Spotting and reveal adjustment for cruisers. Any time a cruiser is spotted there is a 5second delay for rendering for any bb over 10km away, This would mean that a bb over 10km away would have to wait 5 seconds before locking onto target. bake in 10% dispersion mitigation.

Midway requires a bit of playing around. Do not try to torp or DB it. Rocket it and wait for others to hit HE on it. The massive amount of Conqs and Thunerers right now means its gonna lose a ton of AA. Once that happens your planes are way more survivable. The biggest issue with the Worcester is WG lack of under standing of how AA should work. The 76mm guns should be a rapid fire accurate flak cannon as they had vt fuses. and were proven to be much more effective then 40mm bofors. However WG is not known for proper balance. Once Worchester takes a HE shell or 4 it will lose most of its AA. So Do not attack a full health one, and if you are going to try use Hvar rocket so you can strip the aa and then come in with torps.

As I have all these ships here is how I rate them Hindenburg: Solid performer. Can play the long range fire support role, support crossfire role, and kite role. Its HE may be underwelming, but its improved HE pen and its improved AP damage make this thing a monster. Minotaur: Another solid choice. There are two main issues with this ship. 1 it is beyond fragile and a good salvo can end you. 2 you only have AP and angling can mitigate the hell out of you. It is also a great cruiser for spotting and or dd hunting. Worcester: This ship use to be amazing. Then dd players complained. It was still good though, then the cv rework happened. Now it just meh. If you can find cover to fire from this ship is great. If you are top tier in a cv match it is great. If you are in a full T10 match with a T10 cv however you will find it's aa almost nonexistent. Much like the Minotaur it is supper fragile. It does however have the ability to out dps a Des Moines in a 1v1. Gearing/Shimakaze: I have both of these and to be honest find them very boring. They are good for 2 things spotting and flanking, which thanks to cv's is a bit of a nightmare these days. You can try to push caps with both but this tends to force smokes and running away leaving your team blind in the process.

6 games 6 wins.

AA spec is kind of a myth to be honest to you. The protection you actually get breaks down to maybe 2 to 3 more dead planes per attack on you. This is also with you doing sector enhancement. So in the short term it wont really help you. However in terms of attrition it does add up, as long as the cv keeps throwing planes at your ship over and over again rather then finding other targets with weaker aa to pick on.

Could you imagine if they did. I would spend money in that game.

I was in a game like this yesterday. Was a nasty game too. It was a pitch battle untill the team started asking the tone to spot for dds rather then attack ships once he did this it turned the tide in our teams favor and won. The tone even got 2 gun kills as well. Personally I have no issue against Tone attacking me with bombers. Most die before they can drop. The spotting it provides on the other hand is too strong.