Yeah I was testing her on the protection viewer and the Russian ap and scharnhorst ap can detonate her at practicly any angle. God I hope the naval protection viewer is broken
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Is this event getting an extension for the time the game is unavailable during the update??
Ech…It’s a nice boat but this grind is too brutal. Only three stages in and already it feels like a floor job at the amazon fulfillment plant. The F-14 grind was brutal but queued at a brisk pace. However this is just a slog. Naval events should be absolute 35K max to account for the glacial queue times.
I find battleships are not the most efficient vessels to use. Personally light and heavy cruisers around 5.7 or 6.0 seem the sweet spot and I knock the star over pretty quickly. Alternatively if your a player of coastal my mate smashes the stars out even faster in those then I do in cruisers.
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With a 1.9 modifier for everything it’s pretty hard to see how this is “glacial”??
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i dont get it either, naval stars are by far the easiest. with the right vehicles its a 17k (ish) ‘‘grind’’
throw your choosing of 4.7 DDs in a lineup (add tier a tier III+ plane/speedboat if necessary) and make it rain
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If you don’t turn on ‘join active battles’ i think the wait times can be pretty rough but it doesn’t take me that much. I wasn’t planning on grinding this event but changed my mind because I want the profile icon more than the ship, and I realised i had done all the challenges but one without even actively having to grind.
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Barham so soft…
May e it will take a few days for people to get use to seeing her but so far she’s been a beast
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the crew melts like ice cream in the summer heat
I’ll keep an eye on it but so far it’s been quite tanky. Have you got the crew protection upgrades yet?
not yet, i’ve only played three fights
Shrapnel protection might help as well as the firefighting etc.
Is there any news on when we will get the more effective HMS Barham with it’s 1930’s refit with the torpedo protection addition (loss of some torps). I am specifically referencing the Anti-Torp Bulge Armour plating?
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We’ve been told that a new top tier ship is coming at some point for us. Good chance it will be a WW2 refit of the QE- Class as they can just modifiy Barham
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So far they have never added the same ship in multiple refits. However Smin confirmed the UK and others are due to receive new rank IV ships in the coming two updates.
For the UK this would likely include another QE class or an R class. However they could also add something less likely such as KGV 1911, KGV 1938 or Nelson/Rodney, however the last two would be a big step up.
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i would love that to be added as the 2 torps i have taken have killed all of the secondarys on each side of the ship which i feel is kinda bs
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adding Scharnhorst was a huge step up, and we’ve been stuck in its meta for almost 3 years
we’re due another jump in capabilities, and as long as its not a single meta definer that rules supreme, i dont even care how far up the list of battleships we’re gonna go
the (very small) steps we’ve been making the past years have been almost negligble as most 7.0s still get their teeth kicked in by Scharnhorsts (more often than not piloted by aced/maxed crews)
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Adding Scharnhorst was frankly moronic, sure Hood had big guns but that was all she had going for her that wasn’t already present. But as it stands I’m not even wholly convinced a KGV 1938 would stand up to Scharnhorst and that’s the ship that historically sunk the Scharnhorst (with others of course). If the British 15 inch can’t then the 14" certainly shouldn’t be able to either afaik.
I just really dislike the jumps as it also means that now ships like the R class, QE class (that’s not a stupid event, shouldn’t have to grind for the UK’s 2nd top tier in 2-3 years), Dunk/Stras/Normandie, Franc Carraciollo, Ersatz Yorck, Mackensen etc are rendered relatively irrelevant when really they’d all be balanced against eachother as current top tiers but instead we end up forging on to the KGV’s Richelieus, Nelsons, Littorio’s, Bismarck, Nagati refit’s etc.
My very, very, very unpopular ‘solution’ to the Scharnhorst problem is that Scharnhorst should be removed, and players who got her should get the Ersatz Yorck and Mackensen for free and then when Scharnhorst is re-added they get her in the exact same condition she was in. Similar to how they removed the CV-90 120 (or something like that) when it was not wholly accurate, Scharnhorst is just too broken.
My other solution, keep Scharnhorst, and put her at 8.3 and Scharnhorst players can enjoy trying to kill eachother whilst everyone else with more-or-less balanced vessels can enjoy the top tier environment. In the least alienating way, I have some slight disdain for Scharnhorst players (please no scharnhorst players take it personally), similarly to how I felt about F-104A players before its nerf. Its just abusing something that everyone knows is utterly broken.
Of course we can expect neither and for some reason we haven’t decompressed naval to 7.7 yet.
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