Re: World of Warships Admirals Lounge
Best armor in the game, even Yammy has trouble getting citadels. It's more effective using HE against derpitz, even as a BB
http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:PJSB018_Yamato_1944
http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:PGSB002_Tirpiz_1942
Actually according to the game files, Tirpitz have citadel armor ranging between 45-315, but Yamato have 80-415 citadel armor, so surely it won't be impossible to citadel her, but from what I can read on forum pretty much Yamato/Montana (which have the best guns in the game) having trouble citadelling her and the only viable way to citadel her seems to be you on a Tirpitz yourself. Like what is this? Tirpitz having better guns than Montana/Yamato?
@KingArturia: I still kick ass as usual, even after 3 months of not playing this shit game. after 3 match, I feel like WG just fucked this up really hard for IJN player. Here are what I thought:
1. Overall, skills gap lessen between good player and bad player, why? Because guns are now widely inaccurate comparing to CBT, did they specify the nerf/buff regarding this?
Main batteries of BB dispersion rate have been heavily nerfed after OBT from what I can remember, so long range salvo is rather RNG now.
2. USN BB guns are typically less accurate than IJN BB's counterpart. However, this only hold true up to tier VII. From tier VIII onward, USN BB are much better than IJN BB, because of its heavyy armor, AA arsenal, and shit. Accuracy is no longer big gap at this stage.
I'm not sure on this point, I don't find myself having trouble dealing with a North Carolina in my Nagato, maybe he other BB driver is just noob, not sure. North Carolina have been nerfed in terms of AA at the beginning of OBT and was never buffed then. (Actually I think range of AA on BB was nerfed at the beginning of OBT as well, the range for it is stupidly reduced) I normally don't have a problem in my Nagato dealing with North Carolina, but when I see Iowa that's when I have problems. As it stand at the moment I think it is Montana/Yamato > Iowa/Trollpitz > Amagi/North Carolina > Fuso > Nagato > Izumo I think?
3. USN BB secondaries are worthless vs other smaller ships like DD. I'm not saying IJN's counterpart are much better, just a tiny bit better in accuracy and durability. I don't expect any BB to survive if they got caught by a DD. Secondaries are for the show, period.
All secondaries have been nerfed at the beginning of OBT, I think now anything below Tier 7 most secondary range is only about ~3-4km, I'm on my Nagato and if I manage to get the skill upgrade then my range would be 7km for secondaries, however standard range without upgrade is like 5.5km. From what I can see apparently Nagato actually have one of the best secondaries for engaging fights because of the rate of fire and accuracy. Oh also you might think this is bad but in a way that secondaries got nerfed, but main batteries of all (but mainly BB) got buffed within 5km, now if a DD dare to approach you within 5km is pretty much instant kill (even when loaded with AP rounds) because you've near 80%+ chance that every single one of your bullet will hit (because unless they angle very awkwardly, but if they want to torp you they have to reveal their broadside for a short amount of time, for a good accuracy player like you they're dead during that split second because of this absurd accuracy buff)
4. Kriegsmarine, particularly that Tirpitz class are heavily armored, you have to strike at the magazine at short range to even dig a citadel. I suggest using HE at long range rather than AP. Only shoot AP when you're sure you can hit its magazine. I'm pretty sure they will tune this down a bit, once they rack million of profit selling an ship made of 010101010 (not even made of paper) for 100$/pop.
This is the part I don't get, Trollpitz can be well armored, but why does that make it so only another Trollpitz can pen her? I mean I can't see Trollpitz's 380mm better than the Mark VIII 410mm on Montana or 460mm Type 1 on Yamato??? So why does pretty much all ships have difficulty citadelling her? To me it sounds like a bug, because I've hit her with a massive 13k damage with 1 hit once, but it is not a citadel, what is that?
5. AP is less random now, it seems they tuned that out.
AP is still RNG from 15km onward iirc, or at least that's what majority of people feel. You can sometime hit roughly the exact same place, one salvo will result in 3 citadel and 1 will result in none, its weird as fuck.
6. DM still a monster, and Zao is still shit as usual, don't bother with Zao.
I heard Ibuki was a good ship, which is why I wanted to works towards (plus I really liked the Mogami as well so I wanted to work towards that despite the slight nerf she received recently)
7. Atago is pretty decent though (?) better than atlanta it seems in term of being useful for the team. But atlanta rack more $$$$ if you don't mind the loss.
Atago is an amazing that I have enjoyed since OBT, the only thing I have against her is still her god damn awful AA, but she's on IJN side so that much I can expect I guess? But with the new Catapult fighter, IJN CA/CL isn't too bad when it comes to airstrike provided you take the Defensive AA fire instead of Hydroshit Search thingy.
For my playstyle (Good aim)
IJN BB: Kongo is good, ok for Fuso, shit Nagato and the rest is shit, well, may be except the tier 8.
USN BB: shit from tier III through 6, 7 is ok, 8-9-10 is very good
The rest hasn't changed much.
I still love my IJN line despite the nerfs and shit, mainly probably because I put up with it so much already that I don't care anymore as long as they're still decently playable (which they still are). However because there are no more wipes I think I'll work towards the USS BB and CL/CA line as well. I'm not sure whether I want to free exp for a lot of USS BB because of how shit it is from what I heard, anything below North Carolina seems pretty shit.