Neptune needs more armour

[EMILY_FINEBOTTOM]

I have found the Neptune is made of glaSS even DD's hit my citadel, everyone else knows it too so I get focused first. I thought maybe its me but I focus opposing Neptunes and they blow up so easy not uncommon for me to hit 4 citadels on one shot on the Neptune.

I hit the citadels with my DD's too.

 

Most Brit ships are easy to cripple but the Neptune is a joke.

 

Anyone else have the same experience?

 

[SV_Kompresor]

It's a light cruiser it's not supposed to have armor.....I dare you to play emile bertin

[Gojuadorai]

neptune does not need more armor !

 

(and its one of my favorite ships to play)

[daki]

I have found the Neptune is made of glaSS even DD's hit my citadel, everyone else knows it too so I get focused first. I thought maybe its me but I focus opposing Neptunes and they blow up so easy not uncommon for me to hit 4 citadels on one shot on the Neptune.

I hit the citadels with my DD's too.

 

Most Brit ships are easy to cripple but the Neptune is a joke.

 

Anyone else have the same experience?

 

 

Be careful what you ask for. More armor means less overpens

Thin armor is often an asset and not a liability.

[RUSSIANBlAS]

You need to be awake to play Neptune. I've killed them in an Edinburgh, ambushed and killed with sAP before they could react.

[Duke_of_Asia]

RN Cls don't have armour hence they get the Smoke and Heal(super heal at t8+). I m not saying this to you op but i have seen many RN CL captains not using smoke and going guns blazing out in open seas only to get citadel. the only thing those guys use smoke  is for running away and i watch it like

 

[Jethro_Grey]

Neptune with more armour would be a nightmare to play against, i don't think that something we really need. 

The lack of armour is a balancing factor for the higher tier RN CLs, giving them useful amounts of armour would make them blatantly OP.

 

I can only imagine the horrors that my Minotaur would unleash even without smokescreen on enemy ships, so yeah i'm all for it. ^^

[Duke_of_Asia]

 

Be careful what you ask for. More armor means less overpens

Thin armor is often an asset and not a liability.

its true m8 but the citadel is too high in water even blind shoots enter it. Since all or nothing armour layout is bad asset in this game

[EMILY_FINEBOTTOM]

so far it seems the Neptune is accepted as being glass but people seem ok with it because it has smoke good repairs personally I cant wait to sell it and move on and try Mino

 

[Jethro_Grey]

so far it seems the Neptune is accepted as being glass but people seem ok with it because it has smoke good repairs personally I cant wait to sell it and move on and try Mino

 

 

Mino is as squishy as Neptune, the difference is that it has a better RoF which alone makes it worth.

[procrastinatingStudent]

so far it seems the Neptune is accepted as being glass but people seem ok with it because it has smoke good repairs personally I cant wait to sell it and move on and try Mino

 

 

well im sorry to inform you it's the same if not worse as people like to target the mino (with good reason)

[deadly_if_swallowed]

More armor usually means more weight, usually means less maneuverability (if WG would want a trade-off). And you'd probably need quite a lot of additional armor to reach certain thresholds and thus notice any change with it. I think Neptune is fine as she is right now. Small caliber shells still bounce if angled, and your nemesis calibers, 380-410mm, would pen you either way. 460mm often gets those annoying citadel overpens, especially at close range, driving the Yamato player nuts, including me

 

[RUSSIANBlAS]

I also recommend rolling with radar instead of smoke. Use islands to conceal you, not unreliable smoke.

[Exocet6951]

I also recommend rolling with radar instead of smoke. Use islands to conceal you, not unreliable smoke.

 

That pseudo-unicum guide to the Minotaur was hilarious indeed, with that radar and all.

[RUSSIANBlAS]

 

That pseudo-unicum guide to the Minotaur was hilarious indeed, with that radar and all.

 

 

It actually works too. I'm rolling in my Edinburgh with radar instead of smoke. Plays like an Atlanta with better torps. It teaches you to be sneaky instead of using smoke and getting rekt because of the tiny cloud.

 

Of course if you get Tears or that stupid map with the big islands between A and B then you're likely screwed...

[Exocet6951]

 

 

It actually works too. I'm rolling in my Edinburgh with radar instead of smoke. Plays like an Atlanta with better torps. It teaches you to be sneaky instead of using smoke and getting rekt because of the tiny cloud.

 

Of course if you get Tears or that stupid map with the big islands between A and B then you're likely screwed...

 

I'll have to try it if I one day get the courage to grind a whole new captain. No matter what, I'm keeping the Fiji 

[RUSSIANBlAS]

 

I'll have to try it if I one day get the courage to grind a whole new captain. No matter what, I'm keeping the Fiji 

 

 Only need a 10 point one to rock so it doesn't take too long.

 

Oh I'm in no rush due to WG's policy on nerfs, changes and events means I only ever grind the daily bonus. I'm still feeling the 85k xp sting from Udaloi spilt...

[Unknown_Lifeform]

 

Be careful what you ask for. More armor means less overpens

Thin armor is often an asset and not a liability.

 

This doesn't apply to the Neptune. For the tier 5 and lower french cruisers most definitely - AP just straight up overpens you and it actually makes sense to sail around broadside on to encourage overpens (but beware getting citadeled by HE! :o) The Neptune is so fragile because it is a giant floating citadel, not just because it doesn't have armour.

 

I'm struggling with the Neptune myself having only just having unlocked her, but the extreme fragility is an intentional and part of her balance. Its a high skill floor ship but can really shine in the right hands and circumstances.

[Exocet6951]

 

 Only need a 10 point one to rock so it doesn't take too long.

 

Oh I'm in no rush due to WG's policy on nerfs, changes and events means I only ever grind the daily bonus. I'm still feeling the 85k xp sting from Udaloi spilt...

 

I know right?

It's the only time in any WG product where I had to grind a ship from stock twice.

 

Full Udaloi fun Udaloi

Stock Udaloi with no captain not fun Udaloi

[cro_pwr]

 

That pseudo-unicum guide to the Minotaur was hilarious indeed, with that radar and all.

 

Its all fun and everything, untill you die to an Edinburgh because he radared you   (I was literary watching around the map what the heck could have radared me )

[Kais_S012]

It's a light cruiser it's not supposed to have armor.....I dare you to play emile bertin

 

a cruiser's 'heavy' or 'light' status comes from the size of its guns not how much armour it has. (as an example the Mogami class is classed as both a light and a heavy cruiser due to its 15.5cm guns at production and its 20.3cm installed during the 1937 refit of the class)

 

overall looking at the stats, the Neptune seems to be doing fine. aside from personal preferences the line up from Tier VI onwards is pretty potent

 

[SV_Kompresor]

 

a cruiser's 'heavy' or 'light' status comes from the size of its guns not how much armour it has. (as an example the Mogami class is classed as both a light and a heavy cruiser due to its 15.5cm guns at production and its 20.3cm installed during the 1937 refit of the class)

 

overall looking at the stats, the Neptune seems to be doing fine. aside from personal preferences the line up from Tier VI onwards is pretty potent

 

 

Yes, but in most cases  heavy cruisers have more armor....at least in wows

[Trainspite]

It's a light cruiser it's not supposed to have armor.....I dare you to play emile bertin

 

A light cruiser is determined only by it's guns. Armour doesn't come into it. The Russian CLs have a proper armour model, yet WG did not give the same to the RN CLs.

 

Bow/Stern armour, raised citadel etc. etc.

[SV_Kompresor]

 

A light cruiser is determined only by it's guns. Armour doesn't come into it. The Russian CLs have a proper armour model, yet WG did not give the same to the RN CLs.

 

Bow/Stern armour, raised citadel etc. etc.

 

I have yet to see a CL with a distinctly better armor than a same tier CA in wows

[sparviero142]

yes pls give to neptune more armour so i can easly do penetration damage and not just Overpen