World of Warships and Armored Warfare.

[Volron]

The cleveland used to be insane but was nerfed due to stomping too many other ships into dust.

They're planning on eventually moving it up a few tiers and buffing it

That's incorrect.  They are planning to put her back where she belongs, and reinstating her original power.

[tmetal]

Any advice on the russian cruiser line? I just picked up a ten point russian cruiser captain from the weekly op and was wondering if it was worth putting in the effort.  You guys have much more experience in the game and definitely more knowledge about the boats than I do so I figured I'd ask.

[Volron]

I'm only as far as Shchors, so I cannot give too much.  My experience with them thus far: They are glass cannons.  Their HE is feh, as is their AA.  They have horrid torpedo range (4k) too boot, though those torpedoes move fast and have a decent punch.  You won't get longer range torpedoes until you hit T9 with the Donskoi, and even then it's only 8k.  I've heard Moskva is actually pretty nice though, but no torpedoes.

[thrila]

Still no destroyers for the Royal Navy?

I've played for the last couple of days and it was nice to see the Royal Navy is now in the game, however being a destroyer is my in-game preference.

[Volron]

Personally, I'm more interested in the Italian line.   But if I were to make a guess, RN DD's are VERY likely this year.

[Volron]

Well foo.  I was expecting the French BB line to have more accurate secondaries, but I guess that was a no go.

[Volron]

But Gascogne is proving to be quite interesting.  With 7k base secondary range, bumped up to 8.8k with AFT, oh boy.  I decided to make her a secondary build, which pushes her secondary range to 10.1k, just completed Hermes with 439 secondary hits.  Only managed 47k damage with them though.  This should change once her captain has IFHE as well.

[Volron]

Well, Operation Hermes is probably the EASIEST Op I've had to deal with.  I thought KW was easy, but nope.  My Gascogne Captain is almost 19pt too boot.   Sadly, they NEED to optimize the map/op better.  Every now and again, I get a MASSIVE FPS drop towards the end.

[tmetal]

Can't wait for the operation to change next week. I understand why they limited the accepted ships for this one but it sucks for anybody who doesn't have an interest in french BB's or allied cruisers

[Volron]

Considering the mission, and our opposition, I believe this may be a test bed for "Hard Mode".  It wouldn't surprise me if Hard Mode for Newport, Aegis, KW and RR would restrict you to Allied ships; UF and Narai would restrict you to Axis.  In a way, it does make since considering the opposition we face in them.  Two weeks of it being tested isn't a bad idea, but if this isn't the case, then they should lift the restriction next week when another Op would cycle.  We'll see.  However, If I read the notes correctly, Hermes will stay up until the next big patch.

My machine is by no means a potato, far from in fact, but I'm occasionally getting very serious FPS drops every now and again during the Op.  Some runs, not a hitch, other's I have horrid FPS issues.  They need to optimize, badly.

[Karnak]

Can't wait for the operation to change next week. I understand why they limited the accepted ships for this one but it sucks for anybody who doesn't have an interest in french BB's or allied cruisers

My Tier VII ships are:  Hood, Myoko and Nagato.....

Yeah, nope.

[wil3ur]

Yeah, I was disappointed I couldn't play this scenario.  I run entirely Japanese lines.  Tier V CA, Tier VI CV, Tier VII BB and DD.

[Volron]

Well, it is not very difficult to get to T7 in any Allied Cruiser line.  Once you hit T6, you can speed your way to 7 in Op's. 

[Karnak]

Well, I have my fourth Tier VII now, the Lyon.

I am waiting on the US cruiser line split before I continue past Tier VI with US cruisers.  For British cruisers I am stuck on Emerald.  I hate that ship.

[Volron]

Yeah, she can be tricky.  I got Leander through one of the Campaign's, Santa Convoy one if I recall correctly, so I didn't have to grind through Emerald.  I did get her to use in the Op's when they still allowed for T5's though.