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TBH, I feel as though they need some more tools, like speed boost or (improved?) heal, and main battery reload booster added to what they have already. Or hell, they could have been the thing to add (short range) radar to German ships. Make them worth a DD slot by being really good at ambushing, otherwise move them to using cruiser slots in MM since they just seem to sit back more like a cruiser than a DD. Of course none of that will happen (we all know WGs approach to anything German) and this line will be forgotten like the British cruisers. ZF-6 is great, they should have been more in line with it, this is ultimately really disappointing.
They probably need more armor and health too. Maybe they could have reflective smoke that dampens radar or something to counter all the radar cruisers have, you know, like ships IRL had it could be their gimmick that they block radar.
Just giving them a decent heal would make them so much better
@Yhorm The Midgetwell the t8 z got a 50k AP dpm buff or sth like that
ap dpm is better on Z-23 now, but in the other hand she became kinda crappy at setting fires on enemy battleships, from 12% fire chance per shell to 6%
Its more like…
5/10 Idea
0/10 Execution
It is a cruiser killer that can’t kill cruisers, so where should the point come from, as it has no real other abilities. Everything else it can’t do either. SO more a total fail than anything else.
good concept, terrible execution. WOWS in a nutshell
The moment WG tried to sell me tech line ships, i denounced the execution of the release
But why? You don’t have to buy them – you could just wait for the tech-tree release, if you even care about them.
They don’t sell tech tree ships, they sell preaccess mostly. Nothing wrong with that at all, actually.
Flamu said it best in his video on the Felix Schultz , he would not like to see this ship on his team for a match, that’s says it all about this horrible ”DD” split line. This says a lot about WG & their current disconnect with the game they are supposed to be developing . I can only imagine what would happen to this ship if a barely competent captain in a FDR turned up with his rocket planes. This line now is clear evidence that WG no longer even pay lip service to their supertesters & CC’s with regards to evaluating new lines , that or the worse thing is that WG don’t care at all now which if true will only lead the game downhill from here on out .
he did say that if they had some of the tools the Z-F6 has, then they would be a lot better/worth the grind
And here I was, very excited to see the Spahkreuzer, only to be disappointed. Middle finger to WG all day long
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voz.fyi
Every secondary of a german BB is more worth than these new ships.
wonder if they would add the first dd line with the spotter planes, then it would really start to feel more like small heavy cruiser
7km Aa uff
The Enemy CV in chat was so savage and funny when answering to a guy from SLM’s team. Look at chat in 9:23
@bodasactra I know, but Immelmann isn’t that strong especially with things like MVRs, FDRs, Midways, etc.
@bodasactra Also hate for a CV was countered by some savage replies so its savage.
@ANUBHAV SHARMA You don’t get it, its not just the damage, its inability to defend yourself and no ability to return damage. That is exactly what a hack grief does in many other games. Add to that the perma spotting changes the whole nature of the match eliminating some of most fun and engaging aspects. Knowing a majority of the players would rather not see a CV how does one use it and not feel like a shit. Plenty of OP ships piss people off but none have the impact on the game play fun like a CV.
@bodasactra I know that
@bodasactra I just pointed out that the guy was pretty savage. I didn’t say he did anything right, or CVs are underpowered. So chill. Jeez.
The Spahkreuzer was a pretty terrible idea anyway, so hooray for realism I guess
As you indirectly alluded to, now that Random games routinely have 6 BBs per team, there aren’t going to be many Cruisers to go after .
@IRATVS MAXIMVS as a gun and run, and “oh-I-am-here-follow-me-to-my-fleet” kind of ship, it would be pretty decent, and irl those 150s would blast DDs out of existence, with a few salvos.
I assumed they were sub hunters, given the fact that subs are on the horizon, but I haven’t played them, do I wouldn’t know.
@ANUBHAV SHARMA one on one maybe, but it would have to run from anything like a Town class, and a pair J classes would most likely sink it. While displacing less.
@IRATVS MAXIMVS the Spahkreuzers were designed to operate in packs as I heard so a pair of Spahs would handle the J class. The only thing I see beating this class are cruisers which is kinda obvious but in terms of DDs, the Shimakaze if it was put into full scale use, coz irl those Japanese guns were pretty good. Even the Battle class could beat these. And I really think this could have been good at his role if the M class cruisers weren’t a thing, coz the M class has an extra turret, more survivable, same top speed, but can actually fight cruisers and destroyers, and a pair of these would be frightening for any cruiser coz this gun does have a fair rate of fire.
Nice vid Sea Lord. Well said.
Take up a traditional destroyer spot, with all its team utility, for a niche a cruiser hunting specialist ill equipped to fill its already dubious role? You used the perfect word in describing them, weird. Good work, +1 like!
Really seems like WG has it out for KM ships.
Odin is basically a large cruiser in a BB slot, unable to do BB things.
The new KM DDs are small cruisers that can’t do HE dpm, in a DD slot, and unable to do DD things OR cruiser things.
Edit: now some WG employee is gonna be scraping feedback and realize they fucked up letting the Shultz do the AA trap.
WG logic
It feels like they are trying to pull form the CA/CL to add to DD pool by making it act as a CL
They really need to make a special slot for hybrid ships in mm. Though this is the same mm that thinks blow outs are perfectly ok.