BBs suck

[roughrider1988]

So I got the Texas with the 3 ship discount pack including the Graf Spee and Anshan. I've played 68 battles with it and I am not impressed with it at all. My last game I scored 38 hits for a whopping 26k damage with AP. Full broadsides at nice lined up cruisers at 11k and completely miss...splash on both sides of the ship. Nothing but ricochet and over pens. Seriously, averaging less than 1k damage per hit with BB AP? I watch the videos and see everyone else score 5 or 6 hits per shot. I fired 128 shells that battle and landed 25%. If I really am that bad at shooting say so now so I can put this game down before I lose my sanity.

[Netharon]

Originally posted by roughrider1988:

So I got the Texas with the 3 ship discount pack including the Graf Spee and Anshan. I've played 68 battles with it and I am not impressed with it at all. My last game I scored 38 hits for a whopping 26k damage with AP. Full broadsides at nice lined up cruisers at 11k and completely miss...splash on both sides of the ship. Nothing but ricochet and over pens. Seriously, averaging less than 1k damage per hit with BB AP? I watch the videos and see everyone else score 5 or 6 hits per shot. I fired 128 shells that battle and landed 25%. If I really am that bad at shooting say so now so I can put this game down before I lose my sanity.

I hate to tell you this, but the global average damage for Texas is 40.5K. This means you play the Texas well below average. You just have to keep playing it and learning more about it to do better in it (like most ships). We all go through that.

[roughrider1988]

Originally posted by Netharon:

Originally posted by roughrider1988:

So I got the Texas with the 3 ship discount pack including the Graf Spee and Anshan. I've played 68 battles with it and I am not impressed with it at all. My last game I scored 38 hits for a whopping 26k damage with AP. Full broadsides at nice lined up cruisers at 11k and completely miss...splash on both sides of the ship. Nothing but ricochet and over pens. Seriously, averaging less than 1k damage per hit with BB AP? I watch the videos and see everyone else score 5 or 6 hits per shot. I fired 128 shells that battle and landed 25%. If I really am that bad at shooting say so now so I can put this game down before I lose my sanity.

I hate to tell you this, but the global average damage for Texas is 40.5K. This means you play the Texas well below average. You just have to keep playing it and learning more about it to do better in it (like most ships). We all go through that.

Ugh. Thank you.

[Reaper King]

Early American BBs aren't about high accuracy. There about throwing so many shells at the enemy that you can't miss. So how do you play with one of these bbs ? Simple pretend as if you had perfect accurcay. Aim where you want the shells to go and then pray to uncle sam for some good RNG. The texas specialty is AA that what makes that ship worht it. The Texas you play in game is the 1940s verison of the texas. All the other ships at tier five are interwar designs. What this means on the texas is you get access to late war american Aa. That includes a large amount of the excellent 40 mil bofors. What makes the texas so beloved is its incredible aa fire which can force back even teir six planes with ease.

[Reaper King]

Also I just rented the Texas off of steam for three days. I just played some games in it. I'll say this its accuracy for a teir 5 bb is ok if not good. You missing shots is not the ships fault entirely.

[Maj.Tryhard]

Originally posted by roughrider1988:

Originally posted by Netharon:

I hate to tell you this, but the global average damage for Texas is 40.5K. This means you play the Texas well below average. You just have to keep playing it and learning more about it to do better in it (like most ships). We all go through that.

Ugh. Thank you.

"Ugh. Thank you."

Lol My thoughts exactly, every time I check my stats.

Good advice here already. I'd just add that Texas is definitely a decent ship, the cannons just aren't very accurate at longer ranges. My biggest issue was proper positioning, which is tricky with her slow speed. Keep at it. I'd give better tips, but I'm terrible with BB's in general.

[roughrider1988]

Thank you all for the replies.

[mystikmind2005]

Did you take the gun upgrade that improves dispersion?

[Lavian]

Originally posted by mystikmind2005:

Did you take the gun upgrade that improves dispersion?

As far as I know, USN BBs don't get that mid-tier upgrade. They get a range improvement in that slot. They get an improved dispersion upgrade in the last slot at high tier instead of the range improvement that is usually found in the last slot.

[murvihill6303]

Dispersion is a double edged sword. You may not get as many hits when you aim perfectly but you get more hits when your aim is a little off. This from someone with 6 French BB's.

[roughrider1988]

I will have to check my skills, I'm at 9 points right now and grinding toward that 10th point.

[Maj.Tryhard]

Originally posted by roughrider1988:

I will have to check my skills, I'm at 9 points right now and grinding toward that 10th point.

They're talking about upgrades, not commander skills. You can find upgrades in the same place as modules and consumables.

[Firewalk]

Yeah mid-tier US BBs in general are all about shotgunning your opponents. IF they hit, they hit like Mike Tyson... again IF they do.

From tier VIII onwards (North Carolina) they become snipers.

- RA -

[roughrider1988]

Originally posted by Firewalk:

Yeah mid-tier US BBs in general are all about shotgunning your opponents. IF they hit, they hit like Mike Tyson... again IF they do.

From tier VIII onwards (North Carolina) they become snipers.

- RA -

Long way to go till then.

[roughrider1988]

Originally posted by Maj.Tryhard:

Originally posted by roughrider1988:

I will have to check my skills, I'm at 9 points right now and grinding toward that 10th point.

They're talking about upgrades, not commander skills. You can find upgrades in the same place as modules and consumables.

I'll take a look at those