Gneisenau at 7.7 going up against Arkansas or Texas in uptier is totally imbalanced OP nonsense - Either move it to 8.0 or move Texas, Arkansas & Wyoming to 6.3. or preferably both. Discuss. (And btw why is there no 6.5?)
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The funniest part is Bismark’s the best BB in the game with Gneisenau being a good compliment to it in lineups, especially in EC.
thats funny cause iowa and sovetsky slap her around like no tomorrow
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It’s not funny when you’re the one getting slapped in an up tiered Texas 🙄
I spaded all of those including before Texas was brought down in BR. The biggest problem I had was with Alaska at 7.3, since it has no protection and only 12" guns. I was spading it the first week of the update so Gneisenaus were everywhere and there was 0 ability to fight them. At least in my experience there, I felt that Alaska should go down by 0.3 since the earlier dreads were still capable of putting up a fight against its thin belt - but I digress.
I’ve seen people say that Gneisenau would be bad if it went up at all because it would be put closer to 8.7, but that’s a problem with everything within uptier range of that BR, such as Vanguard, Roma, and Bismarck. I think Gneisenau would be totally fine if it went up by 0.3, considering it’s more or less a sidegrade to Bismarck as far as the game is concerned. It has the same guns, same shells, same reload, same belt thickness, and a better turtleback scheme. Therefore, having it at 8.0 and Bismarck at 8.3 for the extra gun turret would be reasonable, in my opinion.
People frequently say “just shoot the elevators” since all Scharnhorst and Bismarck elevators are so short, but that’s complete RNG and an unfair mechanic subject to change at any time. Gneisenau can take a single elevator hit and explode faster than the extinguish timer, or it can take 3 and survive with a competent captain.
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