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Tonight I decided to spend a bit of steel... to use that discount before it will be replaced by the new one. I'm not really ready for T10 (I think) but don't have a reason to not prepare.

Thanks, you clarified a lot for me. Also you made me think: while I honestly doubt that the enemy angle (17°) will have a direct effect, it will influence the distance of the guns from the centre hull (where the angle showed by the mod is calculated) along the axis of the ship relatively of my prospective, hence creating an angle from my bow. Add this angle at my own 15° and at that of my bow plating (due the hull shape) and we are way below the 75° of granted ricochet. Mistery solved.

I will take advantage of the title of the topic (sorry ) to ask opinions about something that I find really strange: how is possible to take citadels with this angle? Those 152mm guns have 10mm of overmatch, while the bow have 16mm plating... without considering the citadel armor underneath. Probably it's a problem of mine about comprehension of the mechanic, but... what I'm missing?

So they are paid for the pleasure to answer our subtle questions?

Tonight I decided to "test the waters" in the new Brawl...

At this point, my next question would be : WG randomized even the pays of the employees?

Shame to me, but when I grinded the line last year I didn't noticed it.

That's true, BUT this is Ultimate Frontier and that T4 was in the first wave... a bit early to die, IMHO.

A T4 bot BB sunked a T8 human BB... don't wanna comment.

Decided not because I wanna "whale" the Veteran Containers, and P. Eugen is there.

I take this opportunity to ask for confirmation, there are no news of ships being pulled away, right? I will buy Stalingrad for steel, then I need to decide if take a T8 for dubs... Not sure of anything, but I'm thinking about a cruiser to use in Random and Ops (possibly also Ranked): Atago, P. Bagration, Bayard or Mainz are the main competitors. Maybe Atago first. Any suggestion?

After more than a year of gambles with CT, finally I have the Gorizia. To be clear, it's nonsensically expensive, but I have very personal reasons to buy it. I decided to test it in Ops, probably not the best environment with its slow reload and lack of torps... still decents results. What really surprised me was the punch of the APs. I knew about SAPs obviously, but the APs... wow, unexpected.

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Chungking https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Rahmat https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Chumphon https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Harbin https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Sejong https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Jinan

I'm not a programmer and have almost no skills in the field, but with what the AI can do currently... why WG don't start to use it to correct all their code? Unless they are to much pridefull to admit their necessities

Can we have a spotting system working on every part of the hull and not only on the conning tower? Situations like this below, where a ship disappears and then reappears, are really frustrating...

While I usually do only line grinding, today I needed a little change and sailed something that I "don't dislike". Sadly, in this match I watched my team being incapable to survive while I was pushing the flank. Seems I need to carry harder... than this.

Back on track, today I had an epic defeat... let's just say that I was forced to act like a BB with my CL. After that, I was curious about the stats of the other players... this seems almost a new (at least to me) way to grief. Never thinked to see a division like this one. First five players were in division, the one with 56% WR was the CV.

It's possible even with T8 tech tree ships, even if not "badly".

Or take a ship where you know to have a decent chance to carry your team. Hmmm... I would love to rent a 155 Mogami division.

I keep questioning myself why the rewards in Ops are so low, confronted with the Coop ones. If I'm not wrong, in Coop an average win is around 400 bXp for 5 minutes, while in Ops is unusual to go past 1200 bXp for 20 minutes. This without taking account of the differences of environment difficulty and the dependency on the team. Someone would say that it's not simply unfair, but actually biased.

Then usually you are lucky with your teams. Tonight in Aegis I had 2 Akizukis (in the same match) staying back and spamming HE from distance (I had to smoke and scout alone for the last 3 DDs... and after I died we were really lucky that one allied bot stopped almost all the torps). There was also a Colorado... half map behind the target. Next match, in Raptor Rescue, a Kansas was shooting HE... at broadside cruisers. In a Random match, I was in my brand new Izumo, closely followed by an allied Kurfurst. Suddenly behind an island I spotted 3 red BBs and the CV, fired at the CV and asked for support and to concentrate fire... you think that anyone helped or shooted? Even the Kurfurst runned away without shooting. The sad thing is that I could turn (behind island cover) and retreat under fire of 5 ships without being killed, also taking half HP from a BB and the CV, meaning that with a bit of help we could have killed the CV. Now I will stop with the examples, but in my experience this is normal... for this reason I say that you are lucky.

Rio de Janeiro, like Agincourt, is a situational ship, albeit for different reasons. In a pure T5 MM that broadside can be really dangerous. However you must remember that against a CV you are the most easy training target that can exist.

Today in bronze Ranked, my team decided to stay back... I mean really back, so much that after the other DD died at match start I was alone around the caps to do the dirty work. Most incredible, I killed both the enemy DDs in gunfights (no torps). Also...

I'm really curious about WG server keeping up with weekends... fearing a lot of problems. Shadow clones.

Today with my Iowa, at the end of the match my aim circle were going everywhere when zooming in. 20230409_200217_PASB018-Iowa-1944_55_Seychelles.wowsreplay