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Buff the Yorck  But yes you should be shooting DDs with AP, not HE, as a German cruiser. Unless you're Yorck, god of DD hunting.
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Velius posted:Finally got the Zao, and it's fun. So far I'm liking the ballistics and torpedo angles a lot. It really seems like the idealized Japanese CA overall, which makes sense. Also am I insane or are Russian high tier destroyers insanely durable? I was hitting with 8" HE for 50-100 damage. Should I be using AP? Do they have citadels? I actually think the torpedos on Zao are a massive let down, both in range and arcs. I would trade them for the Ibuki's in a heartbeat. I've stopped at the Hipper on the German line because I don't like being reliant on seeing someone broadside to take full advantage of my ships strength. If/when I go for another T10 it will be Moskva.
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May 20, 2016 19:55
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Hipper is just no fun. Roon is way better.
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May 20, 2016 19:57
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Hipper turns juuuust slow enough that a battleship or cruiser trying to blap you will hit you with the very last shell on your backside and cit you. It's depressing to see salvos of german AP bounce of everything you shoot because of the velocity/angle of attack, in that ship
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May 20, 2016 21:02
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Does anyone have a Moskva ? How do the ballistics compare to the Zao and Hindenburg ?
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May 20, 2016 21:25
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Just was playing the Moskva on public test. Super high velocity shells. You are reaching 22 km range in 11.5 seconds and firing nine of those 220s every ten seconds. It really is something.
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May 20, 2016 22:28
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Hammerstein posted:Does anyone have a Moskva ? How do the ballistics compare to the Zao and Hindenburg ? I don't have one but the guns seems pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7tNcCTULvw
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May 20, 2016 22:38
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I absolutely loved the Yorck (assuming I would hate it), and i'm not enjoying the Hipper at all. The HE buff will help, but im also hoping the third hull gets a faster rudder too. I know the Roon is supposed to be a huge upgrade but i'm starting to have serious second thoughts on the whole line.
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May 21, 2016 04:15
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Bobatron posted:Advice Hazdoc posted:More advice Just to follow up, you guys changed the Farragut for me. Pulled my win ratio in it up from ~33% to near 50% in my last 20 or 30 matches in it. The Mahan is going much better. Thanks.
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May 21, 2016 04:21
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bless victories in a 2X weekend
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will_colorado posted:bless victories in a 2X weekend Coincidentally enough I was in that game with you
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May 21, 2016 06:53
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This is what you let a Ryujo do when you drive a strike fit Independence Don't drive a strike fit Independence. That's two Fusos and a Kongo in a tier 6 game, and it was absolutely the difference.
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May 21, 2016 09:19
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I've kept a Zuiho for CV seal-clubbing. A Zuiho can only see up to T6 whereas a Ryujo can get T8, thats definately not worth the extra flight squad the Ryujo gets. Also have a Shokaku which I have a good win rate with but I'm still getting used to.
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May 21, 2016 09:36
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When I first got the Phoenix I hated it. It was poorly armed compared to the St Louis and had a nasty habit of exploding. Now that I've learned how to use it properly, and upgraded it to have a decent range, I think it's grown on me. (that guy towards the back is the enemy carrier, who had 6 kills himself) And now I'm in the Omaha and back down to 11km range 
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May 21, 2016 10:23
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My stats taken from wows-numbers.com (Panzerblitz). Table to the far right is the last 21 days, but I didn't really play much recently until I bought the Molotow a couple of days ago. 
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Hammerstein posted:My stats taken from wows-numbers.com (Panzerblitz). Table to the far right is the last 21 days, but I didn't really play much recently until I bought the Molotow a couple of days ago. According to that thing, I need to play my stat padder battleship more. Carriers are my worst ship type (I already typed up a rant on that) and second worse is apparently battleships. I made a nicholas look bad yesterday as I clowned him with just my guns in the kamikaze r. Yes, that is bad and embarrassing.
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I'm kinda bad in BBs compared to other classes. Although I really enjoy playing them. I have bad situational awareness at times, best example is my Yamato. When I hang back I'm often too far away to get good hits on vulnerable ships. When I try to lead and push then the publords never follow me and run scared....and then I usually eat torps or get focused. I guess I should play lower tier BBs more often like the Texas and Arizona Beta.
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May 21, 2016 12:38
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Hammerstein posted:I'm kinda bad in BBs compared to other classes. Although I really enjoy playing them. I did that recently. I was in my nikolai too so it can easily take a beating. I got in a knife fight with a kongo and came out the victor with still half my health and keep pushing on to their next bb. Then I realize the other bb that was with me had turned away and even the two DDs were hiding behind me. So naturally, I got torped and died. Our team naturally lost after some time while gasping for air. The best part was that 3/4th of my team had all decided to go one direction anyway and were getting killed because they wouldn't push. Oh, and of course, there was also an aircraft carrier on both teams and the push I was leading had a nice short line towards their cv who had already been spotted. God was than an annoying game. In tanks, there is a fear of just getting hit. In WoWS artillery hits are ok, but if there is a ship out there with torpedos, run away apparently.
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May 21, 2016 12:46
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Eh, 2 posts, I know but kind of worth mentioning this in a second post. So iChase did a review of the indy as well. And he has some interesting news that we sort of noticed with flamu's video. There is a possibility that the armor scheme is bugged on the review versions of the indy people are playing. That is, as iChase notes, a blys for example can citadel an indy with HE shells. Now, as a heavy cruiser, that shouldn't be happening. So either wargaming says working as intended and you play it like a molotov or wargaming says oops and things greatly change in playstyle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncvrcytAVPw
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May 21, 2016 15:15
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I'm still having such trouble outfitting my Fubuki and the Fubuki captain. I have no idea which skills to choose and which modules to mount outside of the concealment, rudder, and propulsion mods. Any suggestions?
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May 21, 2016 15:27
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New in game contest this weekend. Highest damage in a single match in either the Kirov or the Koenigsberg. I'm finding it way harder to get super high numbers in the Koenigsberg due to low fire chance and in the Kirov because of the low fire rate than when I was using the Omaha last weekend (HE for lyfe). Best I could do so far is 119,000 and 90,000 for the two ships.
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May 21, 2016 15:45
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Minenfeld! posted:I'm still having such trouble outfitting my Fubuki and the Fubuki captain. I have no idea which skills to choose and which modules to mount outside of the concealment, rudder, and propulsion mods. Any suggestions? It may be unpopular, but with the T7+ IJN DDs I went with a gunship build instead of full concealment. Now obviously torpedoes are still your bread and butter, but by adding BFT, Expert Marksman, Survivability Expert to your captain after the usual DD skills (SA, Last Stand, Torpedo Expertise) and Main Battery Mod 1 and Gun Fire Control Mod 1 to your ship, you can finish off wounded enemies and even surprise US DDs at longer ranges. Makes you less one-dimensional. The Japanese DD guns may fire slowly, but they are pretty accurate, have a nice flat trajectory, and the HE hits surprisingly hard. It's not always easy to get pubbies to shoot at enemy DDs, but if you can knock a few thousand HP off a Benson then withdraw they may start to see blood in the water and actually try.
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May 21, 2016 16:18
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does everyone already have their commemorative flag yet? Because if not, you might want to get in on it quickly. +5% to xp, credits, and commander xp As a reference, the alpha flag gave only xp and commander xp.
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May 21, 2016 17:34
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JuffoWup posted:does everyone already have their commemorative flag yet? Because if not, you might want to get in on it quickly. What commemorative flag?
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May 21, 2016 17:45
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The reward for the monthly mission. It's worth getting for sure.
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May 21, 2016 17:58
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First salvo out of a Molotov and I quad citadel a Koingsberg. I think I'm going to like this ship.
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May 21, 2016 18:42
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hopterque posted:What commemorative flag? I think it's NA server only
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So I just got out of the Karlshruhe and into the Konigsberg, and I'm pretty sure my first game in the latter had me doing more damage than any game I've had in the former. Do the rest of the German cruisers play like the Konigsberg with it's stupid strong AP? I think I'm really feeling the line now that I'm past the 'array of single guns' design. (I do not like ships of that design philosophy)
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So tired of loving retarded CV drivers who fly their squadrons right over one of their own side's DDs. Yes, let's attract any enemy fighters into that area, there's a good idea. Just got out of a dual CV game where one of our CVs flew a fighter squadron right over me and, when two enemy fighter squadrons moved towards him, just left. I got spotted and they just squatted over me, with him making no attempt to interdict.
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Rorac posted:So I just got out of the Karlshruhe and into the Konigsberg, and I'm pretty sure my first game in the latter had me doing more damage than any game I've had in the former. Do the rest of the German cruisers play like the Konigsberg with it's stupid strong AP? I think I'm really feeling the line now that I'm past the 'array of single guns' design. (I do not like ships of that design philosophy) Yes.
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May 21, 2016 20:41
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All except the Yorck, which uses older AP shells which have pretty terrible arcs over about 10km. HE is pretty great on it, though.
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Sometimes I really hate the Amagi. I had a Konigsberg 12km away with its broadside to me. I fired right into it, got 3-4 hits, and not one citadel. I think maybe 2500 damage total. The Molotov, however, is a thing of beauty. I think my record is 4 citadels in a single salvo. It eats poorly armored cruisers alive.
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MoraleHazard posted:Ah, ok. Makes sense. Though why are there no clans yet? Because we seriously need something as clever as PANSY: Heer as Volk. I laughed for 20 minutes the first time I saw that. Wait. Stop. You don't think an LGBT clan named SEAMN: Eat my hot load is clever?
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demonR6 posted:Wait. Stop. You don't think an LGBT clan named SEAMN: Eat my hot load is clever? -1 for not thinking of including the word 'poop deck' somewhere.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:-1 for not thinking of including the word 'poop deck' somewhere. You sir never visited the recruiting thread and saw the flyer before WG shut that down.
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JuffoWup posted:does everyone already have their commemorative flag yet? Because if not, you might want to get in on it quickly.  I uh, chose poorly I think  Now I have to accomplish the herculean task of killing 10 enemy ships, which is a lot harder than it sounds when you're turbo trash
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Insert name here posted:I saw this post and decided to finally jump back in cause gently caress it, might as well get this flag. Decided to have my very first go in many months is my Pensacola Do you have a destroyer? Even (especially) a low-tier one?
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wdarkk posted:Do you have a destroyer? Even (especially) a low-tier one?
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CitizenKain posted:First salvo out of a Molotov and I quad citadel a Koingsberg. I think I'm going to like this ship. It can be hard to get citadels in the Molotov because the arcs are so flat you have to retrain where you aim vertically.
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