against Murican 2.8s(ace crew) reloading SAP slingers with anti fragmentation armor wich cant be pened with Japanes HE shells.
So yeah up to 4.0 Japan is enjoable but then only from 6.7-7.0 its playable again.
anything between there is outclassed by the other nations (except a few of ships)
What, like the entire heavy cruiser line that works fine at the brs they are at, you get the same guns as those US destroyers at 4.0, and you have 2 of the most powerful ships in the entire game at top tier, yeah no japan doesn’t suffer at all
yamato and Iowa are the closest 2 on that list, and yamato still has guns and armor on it. British counterpart is the Vanguard class, and Germans just dont have one.
the capital ship counter to a slow, heavily armed, extremely well armored battleship is an aircraft carrier or a very fast, insanely well armed (bc Mk23), decently armored battleship.
it would be implemented as a shell that Iowa can only carry 10 of
Thats one of the more recent additions (Murasame you mean?) but the classic Japanese WW II DDs struggle since they have a hard time dealing with the Anti fragmentation armor and in returned they have no armor and will be turned into swiss cheese from the 40mm AAs.
I didnt say we suffer at top tier, just in the middle field i find it a bit lacking compared to other nations.
A lot of problems could be solved by decompression like always.