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Belfast premium cruiser. Like most british ships, it's quite ugly.  
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I'd put money on the first premiums being III: Amphion (1911) VII: Dido VIII: Belfast e: Score, got Belfast right, but then that one was exceedingly obvious I can think of other premiums, ie Adelaide is to Weymouth as Krasny Krym is to Sveitlana, four different Leander class famous enough to warrant the treatment, but they'll be later if at all. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 13:16
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Just a note on the Minotaur, according to this thread, its 6" guns can each fire at 20RPM. Thats twice as fast as Des Moines. They are also AA capable so its likely this thing will be up there with Des Moines in terms of AA. A lot depends on the RN shell characteristics, if they are like Cleveland then the Minotaur will be no use, but if they were like the T6-T8 Russian CA's then there's hope. The other interesting thing is that these ships are all 6" guns and lower, ie Light Cruisers, so its a precedent for perhaps sorting out the Cleveland and maybe even 155mm Mogami into their proper lines/tiers. kaesarsosei fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 13:44
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Just had a game of 12 nassau vs 12 nassau. loving amazing and absolutely worth getting up early for.
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Aug 17, 2016 13:51
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They don't really need the precedent, since they've been talking about the US CL/CA split as in progress, coming, soon, etc for a year now. Also, the Neptune and Minotaur 6" guns are different to the others in muzzle velocity, the ones at 6-8 are notably faster, 4-5 are slightly faster again.
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Aug 17, 2016 13:53
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Ghetto Prince posted:Just had a game of 12 nassau vs 12 nassau. loving amazing and absolutely worth getting up early for. Umikaze drivers, start your engines.
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Aug 17, 2016 13:52
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kaesarsosei posted:Umikaze drivers, start your engines. If there was even 1 dd in the match it would have been a massacre. It turns like a pig and accelerates like a heroin addict. The secondaries are lovely though.
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Aug 17, 2016 14:03
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kaesarsosei posted:Umikaze drivers, start your engines. There will be more battleship drivers who know what they're doing mixed in randomly, might suck a bit. Minotaur should be interesting to see. Those shells might be too little but the reload rate should be a barrel of laughs.
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Aug 17, 2016 14:07
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 Party like it is 1915!
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Aug 17, 2016 14:17
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SkySteak posted:
I can't wait till tomorrow on the real server.
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Aug 17, 2016 14:22
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SkySteak posted:
It's like the margins of the Kaiser's notes.
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Aug 17, 2016 14:24
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hopterque posted:I can't wait till tomorrow on the real server. A real server would already have the Scharnhorst 
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Aug 17, 2016 14:25
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 Such beautiful games like this are already taking place.
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Aug 17, 2016 14:30
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700mb patch down, but still another 1gb patch to go 
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Aug 17, 2016 14:36
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Why the gently caress would you go with RN cruisers first when literally everyone who plays this game wants to drive the Dreadnought?
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Aug 17, 2016 15:36
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...and at work for another ~8 hours then download time.
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Aug 17, 2016 15:38
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Can confirm the Nassau is just as terrible as all the other tier 3 battleships Only 7 Nassau a side, and a Phoenix still picked up high calibre, confederate, and witherer. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 15:43
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ArchangeI posted:Why the gently caress would you go with RN cruisers first when literally everyone who plays this game wants to drive the Dreadnought? They seem to like releasing cruisers and dds first. Not sure why. Might be a documentation thing, but the RN actually has real battleships and probably has spring styles for days. Might be an issue with the ten or just battleships being bigger models that take more lead time.
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Aug 17, 2016 15:55
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NTRabbit posted:Can confirm the Nassau is just as terrible as all the other tier 3 battleships I'll have to take a Kuma out for some fun.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:06
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Hilariously, Nassau seems pretty impervious to Nassau AP at most ranges and angles, everything except nose on really, so there's a lot of impotent slugging going on right now. HE seems to be the order of the day.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:42
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gunna rake up some mad xp in my wakkietakkie
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Aug 17, 2016 16:45
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What's the range on a Nassau? Kiting a ton of Nassau's and lighting them all on fire sounds like a lot of fun. You might even be able to do it in a Saint Louis.
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Aug 17, 2016 17:11
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ArchangeI posted:Why the gently caress would you go with RN cruisers first when literally everyone who plays this game wants to drive the Dreadnought? To keep the cruiser number high in games otherwise it would become world of battleships.
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Aug 17, 2016 17:13
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22 Eargesplitten posted:What's the range on a Nassau? Kiting a ton of Nassau's and lighting them all on fire sounds like a lot of fun. You might even be able to do it in a Saint Louis. 10.1 upgraded, a narrow 300m for the St. Louis to operate in.
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Aug 17, 2016 17:14
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NTRabbit posted:10.1 upgraded, a narrow 300m for the St. Louis to operate in. Might be able to get a bit more by getting ahead of them, but it's probably a job for the bogatyr.
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Aug 17, 2016 17:33
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NTRabbit posted:Hilariously, Nassau seems pretty impervious to Nassau AP at most ranges and angles, everything except nose on really, so there's a lot of impotent slugging going on right now. HE seems to be the order of the day. So like the scharn in that nose one is as bad as being broadside while nose tipped to one side bounces everything? That'll be amusing to watch people learn.
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Aug 17, 2016 18:12
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JuffoWup posted:So like the scharn in that nose one is as bad as being broadside while nose tipped to one side bounces everything? That'll be amusing to watch people learn. Pretty much. It's got a pretty flat arc too, so there's no plunging fire, still haven't managed a citadel on anything yet.
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Aug 17, 2016 18:38
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How close does Scharnhorst have to be to pen broadside battleships?
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Aug 17, 2016 18:45
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xthetenth posted:Might be able to get a bit more by getting ahead of them, but it's probably a job for the bogatyr. I'm completely okay with that. Lots of fire damage, even without DE. I'm still 2 or 3 points from AFT, though. Is there anything else at T3 that can hit 13km? I know T4 BBs and presumably other stuff can hit farther than that, but I think if I'm out at 12 or more nobody at T3 can touch that. I love the Saint Louis and Bogatyr for anti-DD. A 6-8 gun volley just wrecks a DD in closer. I got 3 DDs in my Saint Louis a few days ago because our Langley got spotted and they wanted to torpedo it so hard that they weren't dodging.
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Aug 17, 2016 19:02
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xthetenth posted:They seem to like releasing cruisers and dds first. Not sure why. Might be a documentation thing, but the RN actually has real battleships and probably has spring styles for days. Might be an issue with the ten or just battleships being bigger models that take more lead time.
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Aug 17, 2016 19:50
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Vengarr posted:How close does Scharnhorst have to be to pen broadside battleships? Shoot their superstructures.
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Aug 17, 2016 19:53
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:Shoot their superstructures. Won't that overpen at close range?
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Aug 17, 2016 21:01
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I'm really struggling to citadel cruisers with the Scharnhorst due to that flat trajectory. I'm almost wondering if I should be slinging HE instead with all the overpens or aim better or something. I'm pretty good with cruiser AP but haven't really gotten the hang of beating up cruisers with battleship AP. I'm usually aiming for the waterline under smokestacks per usual, but especially with the Scharnhorst I'm doing very little with that approach. Any suggestions?
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Aug 17, 2016 21:22
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They're definitely a lot further along than I thought they'd be So the tier 9 is the peak of the 4 triples gameplay, and then the 10 steps off on its own with 5 doubles in the very fancy post war turrets. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 22:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtbKSXoueks
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Aug 17, 2016 22:49
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NTRabbit posted:So the tier 9 is the peak of the 4 triples gameplay, and then the 10 steps off on its own with 5 doubles in the very fancy post war turrets. Looking forwards to the Worcester(shire).
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Aug 17, 2016 23:15
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Calling all wehraboos, wargaming knows you are out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1WO3M1Ed24
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Aug 17, 2016 23:24
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xthetenth posted:Looking forwards to the Worcester(shire). Should be a saucy boat
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JuffoWup posted:Calling all wehraboos, wargaming knows you are out there: Huh weird, they forgot the torpedo hit that collapsed the stern on the rudders, the poor AA that didn't shoot down a single swordfish and the inadequate underwater protection that let the PoW hole her underwater. What a strange set of coincidences.
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