Great, now you'll know _NOT_ to waste resources buying this ship.

Happy New Year to you as well, and no problem - I usually try to review new premiums when they come out of embargo, but since I'm only recording on weekends, it can be relegated to the following week.

Yeah, I hope they'll fix it. We've certainly been asking. Personally, I think quite a few "minor" navies are quite a source of pride for their respective countries, so it's a matter of respect to show the flag (even if it's the national flag and not the naval jack), which is also why I'm usually trying to pronounce things correctly.

That would be awesome. I hope they don't monetize the flags 😂

There were flags of Poland and Sweden on Pan Europe ships. Pan Asian ships had flags of ROC, PRC, ROK, Thai, and Indonesia. Even Atlantico flew Brazilian flag before. I wonder why WG changed it

Happy New Year to you as well!

Thanks! It's a bit of a shame, I was hoping given how famous the ships' namesake was, that she'd be a bit better, but maybe she'll be buffed down the road.

Noted, I'll put it on the list :) Happy New Year to you as well!

Glad to hear that :) Happy New Year!

The only thing I can think of is that they were already having "hypothetical Worcester designs" from T8-10, so they chose a Fiji for T7 instead of yet another USN CL?

Or De Ruyter, they've swapped names around so many times that I had to make a diagram when I was reviewing the tech tree. I have only played Zieten for the initial review, and wasn't really impressed. I'm planning to do a re-test from T8 to 10, under the aspect of increased air threats, so there'll be Zieten content again. Generally, if you're not really, really short on blueprints, I personally tend to save up free XP for legendary modules and the occasional captain training boost, but I've skipped some ships in the past (Izumo was the latest).

@@FunandGameswithTerry ok thank you very much for the information and I’ll try to wait until your review on them comes out

@@FunandGameswithTerryalso happy new year even though it might already be where you live lol

Definitely skip the Zieten now that Sanzang is running around plus everything at t8 smashes you

I'll be going through all the legendary commanders, will try to get another one in week after next

@@FunandGameswithTerry Looking forward to it. Keep up the great content. 👊

Thanks, to you too!

Thanks, to you too

Thanks, you too! Excited for this year

SAP on destroyers and light cruisers, AP on everything else

The difference between AP and SAP generally is that SAP does more damage, but has lower penetration than AP (i.e. can't punch through armour as much). If you look at the alpha damage on Italian battleships, however, you'll find that AP and SAP are actually pretty close, damage-wise, so there's usually not a good reason to use SAP for raw damage output (since you're more likely to bounce shells). With one exception - SAP can't (or, to be more exact, most of the time doesn't) overpenetrate. The AP actually has _too much_ pen when you're shooting at very lightly armoured targets - destroyers, Pan-Asian or British light cruisers etc. This will result in the AP shells going straight through without detonating, and you're only doing 25% of the possible damage. SAP shells usually don't do that, so despite destroyers having very thin armour, they take full damage from SAP shells (where AP shells would only do 25%). This means that a CC can one-shot a destroyer with a well-aimed salvo. On Warships PC, they quickly realised that this was broken, and have removed the mechanic, but here, for some reason, they've left it in. So, rule of thumb - SAP only where AP would overpenetrate (watch your damage numbers, if it's less than 500, that's an overpen), against DDs, some light cruisers, maybe aircraft carriers, but against everything else, use AP. You're wasting a lot of damage potential otherwise, since SAP will struggle to get through thicker armour, and you don't gain much, since it does very little extra damage.

@@FunandGameswithTerry thank you 🙏

Probably, but I generally don't pay attention, so I don't have to remember the embargo dates for that info ;)

Yep, that one.

Thanks, to you too

Thanks, to you too

Yeah, I can see some buff happening there down the road, but it's of course not guaranteed.

@@FunandGameswithTerry 6.5s base reload and 6% fire chance, with 40/50 hits to activate skill. If WG doesn't want to buff the skill they must give to this ship torpedoes.

I wasn't expecting a DzP (it's a monster, indeed), but for a cruiser, this is really a bit one-sided. The CI forces you to play aggressively, so you can charge up, but it's just sorely lacking in firepower. Against BBs, you're entirely RNG-dependent. It's basically a DzP without planes, or an Allende without torps. The AP isn't bad, but having a cruiser that just doesn't have any answer to BBs is a hard sell for me. You can have decent games - 75k is ok for a T8 - but it generally just feels a bit "helpless", if you know what I mean. Compare her to an Ochakov. Similar ship, 8 guns, but a 6% fire chance & a 5.6s base reload, plus a set of torps - and that was only an "ok" ship for me.

@@FunandGameswithTerry to be fair, comparing this ship to the DZP is not really, a fair assessment. And as for the comparison with the Ochakov, I do agree, and I actually like that ship a lot

It's always sad to see them go

ashamed but covid ruined many other things that just her for peru.@@FunandGameswithTerry

With the CI, the damage from the guns is probably about the same as what you could do with a DzP. Thing is, DzP has airstrikes, and the tech tree cruiser has torps... I wouldn't be surprised if she got a small buff down the road.

Thanks, to you too! (and yeah, I was, unfortunately, not overly impressed...)