What do you think about Izumo?

[Urinietszche]

Shouldn't his deck get atleast something? Dude looks so sad without superstructures and AA. Looks hillarious when it's on fire. I mean it's ok Japanese Navy of that time surerly lacked imagination thinking building Yamato is a good choice but cmon.

[christof]

In my opinion the ugliest ship in the game, currently (yes, I think it's worse than Kearsarge or Zieten). Bajie is a bit better, though still not great.

May not stay being that though, considering the last I've seen of the new USN Hybrid line.

[Nepgear]

Originally posted by googoogaga I built t1 as soviet:

Dude looks so sad without superstructures

Makes it hard for DDs to farm it.

[ReDiR]

Recently grinded it and its very bad. Poor guns layout and the guns just doesn't perform even if they are the main feature of this BB

[ReDiR]

Originally posted by Nepgear:

Originally posted by googoogaga I built t1 as soviet:

Dude looks so sad without superstructures

Makes it hard for DDs to farm it.

Easy to farm since fires can be set just as easily

[Nepgear]

Originally posted by ReDiR:

Originally posted by Nepgear:

Makes it hard for DDs to farm it.

Easy to farm since fires can be set just as easily

Same as any other ship, except they have a lot of 19mm that'll be taking an extra chunk every few seconds.

[York]

you don't need to pen to cause fires so just aim for the section to set it alight

[christof]

Originally posted by ReDiR:

Recently grinded it and its very bad. Poor guns layout and the guns just doesn't perform even if they are the main feature of this BB

Guns work well for me. The reason I still like the ship, even though I hate the looks.

[Dee-Jay]

I'm on record in my ship rage thread trashing the Izumo while I was on the road to Yamato. In the end I changed my mind and realised I was talking nonsense and I just wasn't used to the ship while I was passing judgment.
The Izumo guns are great, have good dispersion, sigma and flight time for the long range stuff. Hard hitting too.

And the ship is as tough as hell, although she has the speed and agility of a continent.

[Netharon]

Izumo has great AP, and can overmatch many ships. The best part about it is the dispersion. It feels like a sniper with tight shell dispersion.

[Jackson]

Yea in my opinion Izumo is very poorly designed. You look at most warships and the deck has stuff there. WG just didn't bother much with Izumo, but she is one of the original ships, and as far as I know hasn't ever been updated. As far as performance, she's ok, but far from the best. Really stupid turret arrangement...

[Urinietszche]

Originally posted by christof:

In my opinion the ugliest ship in the game, currently (yes, I think it's worse than Kearsarge or Zieten

I agree Zieten looks like kind of inbreed ship. But what's so ugly with Kearsarge? Looks like Montana with CV deck slapped above superstructures for me

[Netharon]

Originally posted by googoogaga I built t1 as soviet:

Originally posted by christof:

In my opinion the ugliest ship in the game, currently (yes, I think it's worse than Kearsarge or Zieten

I agree Zieten looks like kind of inbreed ship. But what's so ugly with Kearsarge? Looks like Montana with CV deck slapped above superstructures for me

No. That will be here this week though

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Netharon:

Originally posted by googoogaga I built t1 as soviet:

I agree Zieten looks like kind of inbreed ship. But what's so ugly with Kearsarge? Looks like Montana with CV deck slapped above superstructures for me

No. That will be here this week though

Kinda looks like Montana to me too to be honest, NorCal guns notwithstanding. Without going into a long discussion about it I think it had much more in common with Monty than any other BB. One of the ones coming DOES appear to have Monty's hull though I've not looked into it much... Seems WG just made it up.

[Netharon]

Originally posted by Jackson:

Originally posted by Netharon:

No. That will be here this week though

Kinda looks like Montana to me too to be honest, NorCal guns notwithstanding. Without going into a long discussion about it I think it had much more in common with Monty than any other BB. One of the ones coming DOES appear to have Monty's hull though I've not looked into it much... Seems WG just made it up.

Kinda. Its a blend of North Carolina, Iowa, and Montana. The NC guns, with Montana arrangement, and some Iowa hull characteristics. The Tiny Tim rocket planes feel alot like Saipan's. It's a very blended ship.
Louisiana will be Montana with a flight deck though.

[Dee-Jay]

Originally posted by Netharon:

Originally posted by Jackson:

Kinda looks like Montana to me too to be honest, NorCal guns notwithstanding. Without going into a long discussion about it I think it had much more in common with Monty than any other BB. One of the ones coming DOES appear to have Monty's hull though I've not looked into it much... Seems WG just made it up.

Kinda. Its a blend of North Carolina, Iowa, and Montana. The NC guns, with Montana arrangement, and some Iowa hull characteristics. The Tiny Tim rocket planes feel alot like Saipan's. It's a very blended ship.
Louisiana will be Montana with a flight deck though.

What is it with adding this hybrid US line? It feels like an area of the tech tree that isn't needed to me (at least not as a priority).
The Germans could do with a second cruiser line for instance (however ahistorical they may be).

In other words - add more "normal" ships instead of more stuff that makes it look like Dr Frankenstein had gone into shipbuilding.