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I can imagine a "no overmatch" cruiser skill and I'd be perfectly happy if it existed.

"Bump" into people in a way where you're ready to kite away, sort of circle a lot backwards because the agility allows for that to not be a huge waste of time. I can't explain it well, it took me a lot of getting beaten up to get a hang of these boats. I think you know very well the value of radiolocation and on these boats it's incredibly valuable. When you see friendly shells fly toward the enemy DD and not the Kurfurst, you can decide to open up on somebody, and IJN torpboat guns have good alpha and tend to break a lot of things. If nobody helps, though, it's like a 4k hp Marceau can sink a full hp Shimakaze in a gunfight... But there's no two ways about it, sometimes the victory looks like 9k damage done with one kill secured destroyer. Do you have american DD? Sometime ago I was thinking that man, I'd like Shimakaze so much more if it had another front turret instead of a back one and a bit better gun DPM, I could sacrifice a torpedo launcher for it, 3x5 is sort of excessive anyway... And then I looked at the Gearing and though "I must have this ship". EDIT : also I find IJN torpboat do much better in ranked where your impact is much higher compared to the other torpboat that's "flanking".

The torpboats are probably the opposite of how you like to play? Spot and screen for your team and never die for any reason. Early on IJN torps shouldn't do much, maybe catch a smoking fool every now and then, but they force maneuvers. Late game when people are pushing they delete things, which is why you so much need to live. Like maybe play them when you feel really lazy? :D

Never hesitate to fxp over a ship you hate. I feel like Kagero is sort of like what if Kidd had more torps but gave up everything 'cept stealth that makes it good for those torpedoes.

It's just too expensive for a memebuild. The skills are 3, 4 and 4 points (and 2 if you need ifhe). A cruiser torp memebuild is 1, 2 and 3... Alternatively all surface ship classes have dead or horrible skills at the 4 slot and that's by design because... ?

Yep, basically. You gotta suck it up and play a "don't die" game while looking for opportunities. Also, spot enemy DD, watch them smoke in panic, then you send him a turing test.

NRRRGHHHH STUPID NIPPON ENGINE REVERSE Oh game over. Wait, what... The rare CV compliment is sent.

They'll just think they earned a compliment because they kept Kurfurst spotted for 10 minutes.

KM secondaries didn't change all that much tbh, but the rework brought into attention just how frickin' bad secondary builds have always been. Kurfurst in particular was and is a piece of garbage that has giant flaws that negate all of it's mediocre strengths. What I'm kinda sad about is that I was looking forward to getting Shikishima and goofing around with secondary IFHE build but... Ehh.

Well the trashcan was actually built, so if you think having a high tier soviet ship that isn't imaginary you might want to go for it.

Yeah that was one of those... Eh, can I really just drive here? Why? Okay.

@NikolayKuznetsov Hi, did somebody eat your torps or smth?

You get KM carrier that's best at killing cruiser. AP rockets that have basically no other good target and AP bombs A skill rework that seems to want battleships to snipe and cruisers to have no stealth You get Italian battleships that have SAP that doesn't deal damage to destroyers like you'd expect. Instead they're the best against cruisers because no overpens and no battleship armor to shatter Now in the works a destroyer line that's designed to hunt light cruisers nobody plays anyway, and a premium destroyer that perhaps can actually do it unlike the poor germans What's going on? There's plenty of these 6 battleships, 5 destroyers per side games already. Wouldn't it have made more sense to make a cruiser line that's really good at hitting battleships?

bb pushing/sniping, whatever, what about bb? There's 5-6 per game. They might be in a boring state for some players (like me) but they're still the most appealing class for the playerbase.

Well yeah, and accurate overmatch battleships, sure, but those were in before say the paneu DD. Also Stalingrad and Petropavlovsk conveniently have great armor vs. cruisers and great AP to screw cruisers over with.

The things you have to do in this mode

The adventures of stock Shiratsuy 16 hp is plenty What's going on in that tunnel? Apparently a doublestrike 14 gun hits, 100k damage

What does that accomplish, though? You drive around until enemy shimakaze spots you while all the thunderers are 20km away, smoke up and farm nothing as nobody spots anything anymore?

It's actually weird, I wanted for Italian bb line for so long, and now that it's here it's... Eh, I don't care. SAP? But I play battleship because I want to blap people with AP. Yeah I'm sure SAP is a great consistent ammo choice but... Man, that's so boring. The entire line looks boring. It's not at all like Roma that alternates between frustratingly bad and amazingly funny. Like why not just make RN battlecruiser line that has only HE while you're at it? Who's gonna be excited about that? Blapping DD with a battleship caliber SAP could have been novel at least, even if unbalanced.

6 cruisers and TX to boot? Are you kidding me? Ah, never running out of the dad jokes again. Kidd was a great buy

Well, you get SAP for alpha without overpens, so that should be good high tier.

I took a break from wows, and this is what I get back to More break then

And you, what, want battleships to be Slava/Thunderer clones for the best gameplay experience for all? There's a secondary battery spec in the skill tree. Either that's something that should be reasonable to go for or it shouldn't exist at all.

Well okay then, make a skill that lets the player actually aim and fire the secondary batteries and it's fine?

Them being nerfed is probably by design. I mean, submarines are coming, and you as a player are shooting at some dot or something instead of a ship model, but secondary battery wouldn't care.