I want to take a moment to appreciate Roon's AL camo

[Lavian]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3248993731

Old AL crosswave Roon screenshot for comparison:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2249275411

Like, I have a lot of gripes with a lot of the AL camo in WoWs, even if I take them anyway. Azuma's is far too bright. Baltimore's is also too bright. Enterprise's looks pretty much completely unrelated to her. Hipper's side crosses are kind of garish. Dunkerque is for some reason white and gold rather than grey and bronze (and has crosses plastered all along her sides that aren't there in her character design). Agir's looks incredibly striking, but not particularly closely related to her character design, though it has clear influences. Prinz Heinrich looks great, but her WoWs counterpart isn't the same ship class as she is in AL (and her actual ship class exists in WoWs), so she's in a weird spot. So on and so fourth. (Littorio, New Jersey, Formidable, Montpelier, Nelson, and Sovetskaya Rossiya are all very good though.)

Roon, however. Is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ perfect. Like, spot-on. No notes. It's fantastic and I love it.

Too bad it only comes from the random bundles, but if you already have the other camo (or just want the other camo), those give 100% refunds, while the only misses are really the Siren perma-camo.

[ReDiR]

My top 5 of AL camos:
1) AL Azuma
2) AL Agir
3) AL Hornet
4) AL Shimakaze
5) Roon

Basically seems that new camos looks better, so art team is improving

[Jaynoble55]

Roon camo is great, too bad its on the Roon.

[Ace42]

Originally posted by Jaynoble55:

Roon camo is great, too bad its on the Roon.

I really like Roon, TBH. I'm a couple of matches off getting Cereberus unlocked, at which point I think I'll be using Roon to farm at least a portion of the remaining half of this weeks cruiser mission in potential damage.

[奶小的姑娘]

How do you get the camos, did you whale the lootboxes?

[Ace42]

Originally posted by 奶小的姑娘:

How do you get the camos, did you whale the lootboxes?

Last year's AL event had camo packs in the premium store as well as boxes.
This year they're in a sequential random bundle in the armory.

[Lavian]

Aside from the sequential bundle, Baltimore, Fusou, and Chapayev camo are currently premium battle pass rewards.

[Hiei]

Originally posted by 奶小的姑娘:

How do you get the camos, did you whale the lootboxes?

They've also been playing forever, try not to jump to conclusions all the time.

[Jaynoble55]

Originally posted by Ace42:

Originally posted by Jaynoble55:

Roon camo is great, too bad its on the Roon.

I really like Roon, TBH. I'm a couple of matches off getting Cereberus unlocked, at which point I think I'll be using Roon to farm at least a portion of the remaining half of this weeks cruiser mission in potential damage.

I could never get it to work but thats probably a skill issue on my end.

[Hiei]

Originally posted by Jaynoble55:

Originally posted by Ace42:

I really like Roon, TBH. I'm a couple of matches off getting Cereberus unlocked, at which point I think I'll be using Roon to farm at least a portion of the remaining half of this weeks cruiser mission in potential damage.

I could never get it to work but thats probably a skill issue on my end.

Roon is a bit of an odd duck it's good at kiting and I've seen it be a solid AA build, it sort of plays not like the rest of the ships in that line.
It's not very good at pushing which is why some people don't take hydro on it, because a lot of other ships it could push into will out dpm it.

[Jaynoble55]

Originally posted by Hiei:

Originally posted by Jaynoble55:

I could never get it to work but thats probably a skill issue on my end.

Roon is a bit of an odd duck it's good at kiting and I've seen it be a solid AA build, it sort of plays not like the rest of the ships in that line.
It's not very good at pushing which is why some people don't take hydro on it, because a lot of other ships it could push into will out dpm it.

Yeah, it certainly is a odd duck. And yea, its probably a me issue.

[Ace42]

Originally posted by Jaynoble55:

I could never get it to work but thats probably a skill issue on my end.

Open water booty tank at long range (whilst not near friendly teammates so that the enemy can't traverse against all of your simultaneously).
Use spotter plane where necessary to reduce amount of interest in you at extreme range.
Position so nothing gets an angle on you and spam HE - pay attention to 457mm+ in particular, but most stuff will bounce or miss at long range, let alone successfully find your cit. Can just use rear turrets exclusively if you're tanking a blob of BBs who all want to take potshots; or can work in traverse / reload griefing some enemies if you want to unmask your front turret too but worry it might get punished.

As soon as enemy threats start getting removed so that you can safely push empty parts of the map, you move up to find broadsides and start using AP to just mug stuff hard where possible.

As you get more confident at booty tanking and reading the map, you can start getting closer (trading more safety for more battle impact) to support DDs early whilst still having the option to go dark and kite away if you draw too much attention.

Just baiting the enemy into wasting time shooting at you, and providing some vision from open water as the enemy bloom their guns trying to shoot at you generates a lot of tertiary value for team that isn't always immediately obvious.

Aside from that, just gotta pay attention to the overmatching threats, and keep reading the map to see when it's safe to position aggressively vs when you need to farm more passively.