BradeLern
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I'm going to start out by saying that I drive both a KM BB3 (bissy) and a KM SS3, so I'm going to attempt to be as impartial as I can here. I don't mean any offense to anybody that my views disagree with. Just thought that I should mention that.
BB's, it's not really that hard to avoid an SS. Sure, one might catch you by surprise every once in a while, but just shrug it off and go on to the next battle. Most SS should not be able to one salvo you (besides some IJN subs w/ their nukes), at most, they'll burn through your bulge, but that should give you a chance to run due to the reload time from the torps. And once they fire their torps, you basically have a lock on their position to HH them down to the bottom. you can see where the torps were launched from, even though you can't see the sub itself (similar to fighting blind in a BB, except near misses w/ HH will still force the sub to critical dive, allowing you to run away. A BB is was not meant to fight subs. subs will normally win unless you're a stud with HH/ torp dodging (besides km proxies). you need to run away until it either runs out of air or a DD loaded with PHH takes it out. You can stand and fight it out, but when you try to hump a sub until it runs out of air while you can't see it...well, you made a wrong choice. a sub will win there 99.9% of the time. I'm sure that some BB drivers here will claim that they need their T slots for an extra repair men or AA, but that is your choice. AA i can understand, but when I play, i notice that most BB's fail to mount AA guns, or if they do, don't use them even if they're being lit up by a scout that they could easily shoot down. This is just an example of poor usage of gun space. If you use your T slots for extra repair men, then you're sacrificing a chance to keep from getting hurt to maginally improve your ability to recover from getting hurt. My last point for BB's is do not complain if you don't put little to no bulge on or fail to run when you are getting torped. When I drive my SS and sneak up on a L1 and hit him with all four torps, i don't expect to actually sink him. hurt him, yes, sink him, no. But i've had instances where i've torped L2's, one of the most AW'd ships in the game, and crippled it...while it had full DP. BB's don't deserve to float if they don't want to consider all the threats and be OP in only one aspect while failing at everything else. Other BB's are smart enough to pile on the bulge to protect from torps, but fail to run away when a sub approaches and starts to torp. Yes, i do understand that you have 250 bulge, but if you're going to be dumb enough to sit there and let me hit you, then i will. easy target. If you have that much bulge, it'll protect you from enough salvos to run away. To those who will say that an SS is faster than them, well, those SS are normally the ones with the extremely high lvl crews, (or are running an extremely skeletonized crew), and if you have an SS like that chasing you, they're probably either extremely skilled or very stupid. Most SS will give up the chase if they hit you with a salvo and you run off with little to no damage. why bother with that big invincible BB while there's that pretty little AA ship sitting over there without a care in the world. If they do chase you though, they'll take themselves out of the game and spend all their air supply sinking one BB, which is really insignificant compared to the other 10. Other high tiered BB's will take out 3-4 BB's on a good game. If a sub does this, that means that your team's bb's haven't been playing very smart or that your ASW has been slacking a bit, kinda like those high leveled AA ships that only know how to spam the golden angle :P.
BB's, i understand it's annoying when you're swerving along, block shotting everything in sight when all of a sudden some SS decides to torp you to the bottom, but that's what they're made to do. They hunt capital ships. I understand that it sucks because i've been there, but it's hard to be an SS too. You have a limited air supply, and you basically have one chance to make it across no mans land, sink or avoid any subs in your way, which, if they see you, will light you up and cause the PHH DD's and all other forms of ASW to converge on you like moths to a lantern. and in succeeding in sneaking by all that, you need to get past all the trolling moltkes and other ASW ships that fly everywhere at 50 knots nuking any subs they detect with their level 120 sonarmen with PHH. Don't blame the SS for emptying their tubes on the first thing they see, normally BB's in the front line, so they do damage before they get nuked into oblivion so they can get full xp. As an SS driver, I would personally like to attack ships in this order. CV>FF-CL (due to sonar)>BB1-2>BB3-6>SS. I don't really want to mess with other ss because that just burns off your air and you only really have a 50 50 chance at winning, then you have to avoid ASW afterwards. CV's would be an SS's preferred food due to the fact that they typically can't fight back and you can get a lot of torp damage on them, but they're incredibly hard to get to because they're typically in the far back, so you have to avoid radar, other subs, and keep from running out of air to get to them. FF-Cl i will torp if they get close enough because i want to remain sneaky, but they're tricky to torp because they're so fast. BB1-2 are generally food for everybody, so if they get close...nomnomnom. they normally have little to no bulge. I normally don't deal with BB3-6 because that's where the increase in the amount of bulge really grows. I only attack them when I'm starting to run low on air and need to do damage. Also, the range of torpedoes is extremely short compared to the range of BB's. max range is hard to get into at best, and when you do fire, there's plenty of time for the ship to turn away and avoid the torps, but most people have forgotten how to torp dodge these days. I consider myself lucky when a ship goes close by me so i can actually hit it with all 4 tubes (let's not forget about duds).
All right, that's basically what i've got to say. I know that I have missed big parts of different arguments in the past, but this is just my own unbiased thought towards the BB SS situation. yes, there's pro's and cons to each one, but really, the balance is not all that bad. Games where group of subs goes all F for Fictory and actually ownes are rare. they normally get picked off by ASW and PHH before they cause too much damage. I didn't mean to insult anybody in this post or anything, so if I did, it was completely unintentional, and I'm sorry. If you message me sometime, I'll give you a cookie and say i'm sorry :P.
I didn't intend to imply that the "BB SS situation" in the last paragraph standed for BS situation. caught this right after i posted it. Sorry haha.
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