Loading...Z-31 is the new tier 7 alternative tech tree German DD.
These DDs are supposed to have really good guns and some say they’re even supposed to take on cruisers.
Main features:
– High HP
– Better then usual mid section armor
– High HP pen
– Better AP
– bad concealment
– slow firing guns
– slow turning turrets
– slow rld torps
– super slow torps
– garbo AA
– too few guns
– no gimmicks
All in all, you have way too many penalties for very few good features.
HOWEVER that doesn’t mean we can’t make them work.
Here’s the 1st 2 games I played in this ship.
Yes I’m having lunch during the 2nd match because I was starving.
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kansas outrunning torps man…i can’t even xd
Guys…..this is written on wiki.wargaming:
Pros:
Torpedos have reasonable speed.
I can’t even…
@ANUBHAV SHARMA Tests? What tests?
@Sebastien Alexander oh yeah. They just sat on their big fat asses making changes to their liking KEKW
Anyone going to mention how the tier 8 gets supposedly 12 km torps. Just got to play this like that low tier Italian destroyer and flood a lane with torps. Then again, why does the tier 10 get worse torps? Less range and damage for 15 more knots speed.
@Thats no Moon it doesn’t get worser torps, it gets different torps. Also you would hit more with Z-52 torps so it’s kinda better. Which is why it’s a good hybrid. Julius torps are the area denial weapon than an actual effective tool to take down ships. Just like the first Iteration of Paolo Emilio
Ladies and gentleman WG presents… the German tugboat
Don’t insult tugboats like that, they have a purpose
EDIT: This should be read as tugboats are useful and comparing the new german dd’s to them is an insult to the tugboats. Don’t know what was so hard to follow about that…
@Thomas Keane to be fired upon
Ja. A tugboat with guns and torps.
No they ain’t. No one messes with tugboats. They push around battleships, aircraft carriers, and any other ship that gets in their way. Tugboats are the bullies of the sea. If they don’t like where you are, they’ll push you to a place they’re more content with.
@Ralph Best comment ever.
A glorified fishing boat.
Give them the benefit of the doubt – it’s at least an armed merchant convoy ship, maybe even coast guard.
There are Tier 1 ships that have better HE DPM….
@Obsydian Shade BBBRRRRUUUUUHHHHHHH
@levender novacsek It’s sad, but true.
every time you shoot or launch torps you need to smash your keyboard and yell nein nien nein nein for extra damage
Z-31 is a meme ship
WG : “You asked for a ship that is not OP. There it is. Happy now ?”
@TrangleC Nope, it’s just a reality of gaming. Ships can exist in 3 states: underpowered, balanced, overpowered. WG can release a ship in any of those 3 states because it’s hard (read ”impossible) to release them balanced all the time. The problem is what comes after: players. Players will gravitate towards overpowered ships. This means regardless of how many underpowered or balanced ships you release, players will play overpowered ships. Because of this player behavior, it is impossible to release content that is not overpowered otherwise its value is equal to 0.
And I’ll make it clear: this is a PLAYER issue, not a WG issue. It’s player SPECIFICALLY wanting overpowered ships. And WG can’t do shit about it.
@dzello You are telling me they can only release overpowered stuff in the comments to this video?
@TrangleC Im telling you it doesnt matter what they release. In the end, only overpowered stuff is relevant.
@dzello But that doesn’t clash with what I said in my first comment, so why did you start your reply with “Nope”?
What is relevant or isn’t relevant for the Meta has nothing to do with what I said about them doing this weird cyclic alternation, between OP Russian stuff and weak German stuff in their games.
“How do I play this thing?”
You don’t.
Yeah the dpm and lack of anything useful on it means this is definitely a free port slot
You play Z39 instead
classic example of how WG balances their game, they do not nerf an insanely OP ship, they release some UP ships and then claim over the whole game things are balanced.
Yeah the big difference between “mean” and “median” value. You’d think the spreadsheet would show that though…lol
@Matt F I highly doubt that WG is capable of making a proper spreadsheet and I doubt even more that they would be able to properly read one even if it was made for them.
@Carde wEllL there is tHaT 😀
I am definitely curious to see this almighty spreadsheet that they keep referring to.
WG: Designed to fight light cruiser
Shoots the broadside light cruiser: overpens……
Nice meme
Typical german shells, overpen, shatter or bounce
“Designed to fight light cruisers” yet the entire line is consistently outgunned by them in every way. Holy shit i laughed so hard i had to wipe tears.
reload is so slow you will get one salvo then die at tier 8-10 against light cruiser machine guns.
The AP damage is good compared to Tier 5 Emerald.
Yup. Compared to a RN cruiser two tiers lower. Compared to Fiji? Lmfao. Yes, I’m aware Fiji’s max AP damage is only 3100 compared to Z-31’s 3700. Fiji also has fucking 12 rifles and can spam shells like they’re on sale for the holidays. The real kicker is that Fiji’s torpedoes are better in every way except range. Z-31 has an entire 1.98km of extra range on its fish. Almost the entire line is absolute dog shit. About the only halfway decent one is Maass.
In the next update they should add german Barges with 4x 8.8 cm Flak’s.
Interesting Idea. Maybe this would be the next axis DD project, where the GER DD’s would get low calibre guns ( 88-105 mm) but have dakka guns like the IJN Harugumo DD line. Much better than the THICC GERMAN DD GUNBOATS which are useless as Hitler’s hopes for the Maus tank.
Maybe German DD split that is a TB. Like the Flottentorpedo boats.
@MoA-Reload… Ah yes, the Death Star. Actually, the Death Star was the version with the 4×4 20mm Flakvierlings, and the 37mm..
Proof that some countries still hold a grudge…
Feels like the CV had Flambass stream on… He was just constantly going for him
As a fan of the way Flam says “smoke” and “sugar” this episode was a true delight for me 😛
If you’re looking for a new Nickname I would suggest: “Ministry of Silly Boats”
I see you are a man of culture
If wargames really wanted this ship to work out, it needs a heal. Even that would barely push it into usable.
WG: “These DD’s are cruiser hunters.”
Us: “They don’t even do that right!”
WG: “Doesn’t matter. Thats what they’re there for. Onto the next ship pre-release!”
Us: “WTF?!”
The C in Wargaming stands for competence.
wAiT wHeRe Is ThE c!!!111!! – some genius in the commentsection, probably