No, but you won't accuracy cap until after lvl 110... Maybe 105-7 with the extra vets.

Who ever said they won't cap doesn't realize true ablity of sailors...


Guides make life so much easier.

Best classings are

for Main:

Rld Acc Rld or Rld Rld Acc

for AA:

acc rld rld or rld rld rld



Anyway the good news is you rld Capped 22-ish levels ago (If you had 160 vets then as well)

Change your armor to: 0.2 belt and bulge til before losing a knot. That is the basic setup for all USN Ships. There is no need for that much bulge... 40 knots is plenty of speed to dodge and run from subs. (which is about what you'll do if you take that extra weight off)

Rush in and out of range when attacking, Abusing the excellent firing arc of the Iowa allowing you to be almost perpendicular to the enemy with the slim profile of the ship, firing heading into range and fire again heading out of range.

i have a boosted lvl 83 acc acc acc base 12(acc)/11 (rld) gunners on my Colorado and i can do 30 to 50k per battle (with a max score of 100k reached 2 or 3 times)

i think the problem is the rld rld rld issue... no matter if u think they are capped... they are firing at great rld stat but shitty acc... they will not ever cap acc (but they will fire quite good above lvl 100 to 105 for Iowa and 110 to 115 for monty... for Nebby they will fire good enough to "almost block" like US BB does at lvl 120)

US gunners should be classed Acc Acc Acc or maybe Acc Rld Acc... to have a good spread (which in the end is the key to have good damage per battle)

the other thing that may be happening is that u are not used to the ship... this will be happening to you every new bb you got... just a matter of time to you dominate it the way its supposed to...

I'll finish this once and for all.


And I'll tell jotabe to freaking give caps a good revision.

http://www.opennavyfield.com/smf/index.php?topic=465.msg3708#msg3708

Don't give anymore advise on crew and caps before reading this will you?


NOW.

Of course its the old values, they raised it a bit since then, however even assuming a 10% raise, he nearly caps it with only his vets on his lowest gunners, and hit the old cap with only the vets. Now he has full xpert that aren't included here.

OLD CAP

4706*lvl+1000000 (thats the number I think changed.) so 4706*94+1 000 000 = 1 442 364

HIS LOWEST GUNNER

DispAbility * (4V+E) * ctot/cmax =TAbility

(Ctot/Cmax if full = 1. I'm assuming its the case)

2222* (158*4+0*1)*1=TAbility

(assuming 158 vets and full rookie since I have no xpert amount, and can't be arse to calculate exactly how many crew total USN lvl 94 gunners hold then)

1404304= TAbility


You need 18 xpert to hit the old cap on this one.


Your other gunners gives:1486968


Gunner 1 Tability (158 vets) : 1404304+(E*2222)
Gunner 2 TAbility (167 vets): 1486968 + (E*2226)

E=number of expert on each.

You can prolly finish the maths.

I'd need to go bother richardphat for the new values, I think he got them. But I'm 99,9% sure you are hitting that new cap.


So stop talking about the classing as crap, he hits his cap.

Oh I just thought of something else,

with high angle (45 degree) guns, you need to aim slightly more ahead of the ship your firing at to land more shells in their general location, at 45 degrees it takes some time for the shells to land.

you know at times, it's not the sailors that are a problem but the person at the helm.
Under 400 BBs sunk at Iowa stage just doesn't cut it. You can get as much advice
as you want on your gunners it's most likely your gameplay/lack of experience that is
your downfall.

dur? Whats that..

whats wrong with rld rld rld anyways?

duh ... duh-oh ... dur ... der ... derp ...... .... ........ that


RLD-RLD-RLD ... has NO ROOM for ACC in that classing setup ...
always go rld-acc-rld for reload and acc-rld-acc for accuracy ...
you need to balance the growth a little by alternatly classing them

you have uber RELOAD gunners that spam shells all over the place ....since you gave them no ACCURACY stats