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Fuck the Zumwalts. Iowa back NOW!

The USn was against that in the 80s, why would tehy do that now?

The Zumzum isn't exacty better, though, that's right.

Having been on the USS New Jersey, it would cost so much to rehab these ships and make them ready for service that it would probably be more cost effective just to buy 20 new arleigh burkes instead

What is this ugly thing, a submarine?

I liked it though :^)

$1 billion ship with weapons that cost $1 million per round to fire (no, seriously).

Even ships fell for the stealth meme.
Where is this world going to?

>The USn was against that in the 80s, why would tehy do that now?
There was some debate over the issue of shore bombardment. WP has it in greater detail.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_naval_gunfire_support_debate

>tfw no early botes

>wave has a nikolai and we totally play with him everyday!

????

...

>wake up
>tfw still no qt hotel gf

maybe its time to kill yourself

Oh, I know.

The Navy wanted to build new hulls with 8" guns for that.

Maybe user, maybe.

ayo, why do i have 82k free exp?

Here you go friend.

referral reward

oh, wow. full steam ahead to the gneisenau.

You played a game in the Sims, so it counts as a game in a ship T6 or above and it's the rewards from the referral.

reminder that spending free xp on botes is retarded and you should only use that free xp for necessary stock modules

i really dont want to play the bayern.

>this Gneisenau AA

holy fuck I was not expecting this

>mfw stock Pepsi turret traverse

How the hell do they only turn slightly faster than the 14 inchers on my New Mex

>firing range: 14.7km
>detectability: 15.3km

Didn't the pepsicola used to be good?

The wording of hydro / radar is so vague.

For hydro, "extends the range of assured ship acquisition (6 km)"

Does that mean any ship within 6 km of me is spotted for sure, or does that mean my ship has some "base assured acquisition range" that is extended by 6 km when I use hydro?

No, if anything it's only gotten better when they changed the turrets.

Yes, and then it got power crept to shit. Now the entire US CA line is ass.

Does anyone have a list of what .wem file plays what?
I was looking to replace Yokosuka with Zipang and it works, but the music is still Yokosuka.

Nagato, Colorado or Gneisenau?

Explain why

>assured ship acquisition
It means ship will be spotted no matter what (inside smoke, behind islands etc.)
Your base assured ship acquisition is around 2km

get the fuck on a bb and not on a ibuki

>come back after 2 months of not playing for takao
>bottom tier more than half the games
>lose the whole day

Nagato because it doesn't have shit range like Colorado and it isn't gay shit like Gneisenau.

Colorado
>leads to based NC
>good accuracy
>guns deal meaningful damage
>actual armor

trashkent

California when?

my dick

How's this game compared to tonks?

Trashcunt

Colorado easily bounces even Iowa shells with an angle just enough to fire all your guns. Decent accuracy. Rudder shift is so damn good. And you get ignored by other BBs most of the time because they'll underestimate you cuz you're a Colorado.

The only painful thing about this ship is the glacial speed of 21 knots and the AP shells of the A Hull are so damn bad. B hull, she's pretty good. And with the C Hull, shreds planes really well.

>not first ip by post

makes me rly think

???

hes saying that the unique poster number didnt change when you posted.

kys tioga

There is no real debate, never was.

Keeping a BB in commission for the theoretical need for shore bombardment is like keeping a plow truck to shovel your driveway while living in Tampa.

It was just the last possible case navy fudds could make for muh battleship.

There's actual balance so you won`t have to grind some fucking shit tank to play a tank you think you'll like while some fucking OP piece of shit bounces all your shells and shoots you for a quarter of your HP.

>what are battleships

free damage farming in most matches

I do lurk in this thread for quite sometimes

>bb looks at you
>die

>he can't survive against BBs

Better balanced between tiers.
While not ideal, a T6 CAN fight and win against T8's. Unlike WoT, where you'd be pretty much useless (with the exception of a small pool of strong tanks).

>Be retard DD and let BB sees you

lurking does not increase the unique poster number

>he doesn't know how to manage his concealment
>he doesn't know when and where to engage
>he can't dodge

i live in tampa, it was frosty friday night desu.

>baBBies don't know anything about positioning
>baBBies don't just delete you whenever they have nothing better to do
>baBBies can't shoot
Are you playing coop?

Cruisers are the patrician class.

They require thought and sophistication,

Except Zao

more like cuck class

Does deleting cruisers happen to fucking everyone but me?
I can't count how many times I delivered full broadside of freedom to some broadsiding cruiser at ~9km, aiming at the waterline, and dealt astonishing 7k dmg

Zao a best

>implying cucking isn't a top tier fetish

Well instead of grinding some fucking shit tank you have to grind some fucking shit ships to get at the ones you like.

boog pls

Remove NTR.

I blame the BB epidemic on Hollywood. No famous movies about cruisers or destroyers, just battleships. So people get this game to play those because they know it.

RNG is a cruel mistress.

the only famous hollywood movie i can think of with a battleship is Under Siege. And that was on a ship that isn't in the game.

But that is only true for certain t9 ships, and even they can acually compete.

>T3 BBs
>Karsruhe
>low level bongs
>Pensacola
>(arguably) Yorck and Hipper
>Tashkent
>Mutsuki

I can't imagine why people would be more interested in the biggest and most famous ships outside of movie reasons

I came here because of KanColle.
Even there the only interesting characters are all battleships and carriers. Many cruisers but few likeable ones.
But fuck playing carriers in this game.

I blame anime

>not liking the DDs
???

Pepsi and Tashkent aren't as bad as people want to believe.

>tfw this game got me into kancolle
>managed to collect all the BBs I like in both
feels good man

Generaly good ships are in good lines and bad ships don't generate even close to the suffering that bad tanks do
The game doesnt really tell you they aren't the death-machines that they were IRL so people pick them thinking they are the best option.

>OMG why do people like the biggest, most awesome (in the original sense of the work) gunships ever created?
>why don't people like the mass-produced SUPPORT, ESCORT ships?

>nassau
>shit

woah

I like many DDs, but none of them are in this game.

Go eat more of your own sailors, Shocucku.

Tribal class when?

They are bad and people only play them to get to higher tiers. The fact that some players can do good with pretty much anyhting doesn't change it.

>T3 BBs except OP Boat of Aryan Domanance Nassau
Happy now?

>tash yorck hipper

wew lad

Bayern isn't that bad.

Thinking I could have a few, fun, quick matches was my greatest mistake.

I like Yorck and Hipper but most people complain about them and I'm not enough of a self-entitled smug shit to proclaim anything I like a good ship.
Tashkent is trash, it just doesn't perform at tier 8 and everybody knows that.

>66666

Nice quints

>50k xp to get Izumo
>can't be arsed grinding to buy it at reduced prices

How do I handle the Gneisenau in a t9 game? I know the dispersion means I can't hit shit at long range but it seems closing is suicide, especially when the rest of the team isn't.

>T3 BBs
>Karsruhe
>low level bongs
Which is just the same or worse in WoT

>Pensacola
>(arguably) Yorck and Hipper
While they're all not great, they are not completely useless.
They're just cruisers ;^)

>Tashkent
>Mutsuki
Trashcan is not great, but can do its job.
Mutsuki is pretty shit, becasue the baBBies whined too hard and all torpedobotes are now shit ;^)

Yeah, it's not hard to get 100k damage games.

Except Fletcher which happens to be a great torpedobote AND a great gunbote at the same time.

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>cruisers' service cost is the same as battleships'
nice communism

How the fuck did you land 11 (ELEVEN) torpedo hits in a Trashkent? Where are these retards when I play my Fubuki?
I swear, people in high tiers used some kind sixth sense to dodge torps. Getting more than 2 torpedo hits in a game is almost a miracle.

Botes is never a mistake desu.