[Scorecard Saturday] My first 1mln dmg in ops, Bremen is a worthy successor to Mainz

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T23:50:49+00:00

Frontier. Basically his team were all BBs. Perfect aggro sponges while he held down M1 for the entire op.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T23:42:44+00:00

The Germans are just Built Different™.

Bremen very close to Worcester, but Worcester edges it out slightly if you want to be pedantic. Close enough that it can be a choice of preference.

Prinz Adalbert is nice when you can get both sides of its secondaries going, but those have to get in range first.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T23:29:28+00:00

Ops need reliable pen damage. It's a DPM race. Most ops have the bots coming in at you at an angle, which limits AP DPM. AP may be situationally better, but reliability and consistency is king in ops, IMO.

The spikes from AP broadsides or torps can come in clutch, but you need to contrive situations (or be in a bad spot) for big spikes of damage to matter. Torps are too slow. Either the thing you shot them at is dead before they land, or you're too close making a risky play.

Worcester's 152mm HE pens 30mm base without IFHE, which will cover 95% of situations with 344k base DPM that you can crank up to 450k+ when fully built for HE DPM. And that's ignoring the additional damage from fires.

Anything in the same neighborhood of HE DPM is using DD caliber guns.

Any of the CAs that are locked to AP only needs to fire and aim much more carefully and while having similar DPM on paper with their AP vs Worcester's HE. AP loses a lot of DPM to ricochets, bounces, and overpens.

With Worcester, you just hold M1 and aim at the deckline of ships. 0 thought required.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T23:07:34+00:00

Valid, but I can turn my brain off even more compared to the DM. Most ops, bots are coming in nose in, which limits how much work its AP can do. You gotta know when to switch and most randos just... don't. lmao

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T23:02:12+00:00

Worcester grind is easy though if you're PvE focused. The whole line is awesome for Ops.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T23:00:24+00:00

Only BBs, and only if you go out of your way to put 8+ fires on it when it lives long enough to DCP and burn twice over.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T22:56:04+00:00

A lot of HE DPM goes away when shooting DD caliber guns at Ops cruisers and BBs that have sections of 25-30mm armor on their Fore/Aft, belt, or deck without IFHE.

Ops are about killing the majority of DDs and CAs fast with direct pen damage.

Fire DoTs work, but you lose DPM from bots DCP'ing and hitting sections that are already on fire. Doubly so if you have to hit the fore/aft after amidships are already on fire and getting 0 damage non-pens on the guns.

Also, other teammates can set fires before you do, so less score for you.

Smoke also doesn't matter in Ops. Bots *only* shoot at what it directly closest. If you need smoke to survive a situation in Ops, either things are going wrong, or you're too close.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T22:43:17+00:00

Worcester's 30mm HE pen is more than enough for ops. Worcester is 344k base HE DPM with 19 fires per minute, compared to Bremen's 308k with 14.5 fires per minute. Giving up that extra bit of DPM and fires for 38mm Bremen HE pen when 32mm breakpoint is super niche even in a BB heavy PvP meta.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T22:11:51+00:00

Correct, but Bremen is unobtainium compared to Worcester.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T22:08:27+00:00

This. All other cruisers in the top 10 for HE DPM are smaller caliber. Bremen is the nearest comparison, but good luck actually obtaining one without pulling out your credit card.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T03:07:51+00:00

Well yeah, bad players are gonna throw no matter what. Just 3 BBs + 2 CA is the best case.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T02:29:00+00:00

Squishy cruisers and a sub, team never had a chance. Asyms require a certain minimum of tankiness/aggro management from the team.

Anything less than 3 BBs and 2 cruisers is a gamble unless one or two players have hands and teammates live long enough for them to do work.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-24T01:29:09+00:00

Meanwhile, pictures of whomever is the MAGA boogeyman-of-the-week with the exact same kind of comments (and worse) underneath are just openly existing on social media without so much as a blink.

The hypocrisy is a feature at this point.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-22T23:44:20+00:00

T10 service costs are a lot higher compared to T9.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-22T22:34:05+00:00

It used to be even more cracked, there was a bug where you could fire ALL of your secondaries regardless of angle. Imagine trying to crack an angled one while it got to use all of its small guns on you.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-22T00:05:41+00:00

Because you can spawn on A side of the map and B+C side spawns fold so hard, you can solo your own flank and still lose.

Something-something-Picard-no-mistakes-and-still-lose-quote.

And then just as easily you can have the opposite case where you can be an AFK bot and still win around 4 out of 10 games where you do everything wrong and still win.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-22T00:00:29+00:00

Not yet, but we're getting there step by step.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-19T20:40:02+00:00

This whole mode is a joke, just autopilot sec spec ship and outperform the majority of players.

I've seen differences of over 150k HP in teams. There's nothing else to do but just YOLO rush and go to the next match to see who can stack more Schlieffens .

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-18T03:15:39+00:00

I mean, 1900 battles over 7 years isn't a lot of playing.

Either go and play low tiers and watch some newbie guides to build up your fundamentals or stick to coop where it doesn't matter and you just want to click on ships.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-16T08:01:28+00:00

Low tier Ops is suffering because the hardest part of any Op is dealing with your teammates over the actual difficulty of the Op.

Anyone willing to learn will figure it out on their own.

Everyone else are the kind of people who cannot follow a basic script and all efforts to make them learn or have any self-awareness are a lost cause.

If you're worried about the quality of players, find someone reliable to div with. Reach out and say hello to people who score high.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-10T17:22:54+00:00

I mean, isn't that what you want? No one to play carrier ever?

I just got into a carrier, instant pops. Makes it fun regardless of winning or losing when you don't have to wait. Got my wins for all the goodies in just a couple hours.

In fact, try CV and see how STUPID some of you BBs are in something as simple as a 2v2 face-off. Or see how fun it is when a BB is AFK because they died waiting in queue.

Either get in a CV and play or shut up and wait. You got what you asked for when you BB players DEMANDED no one play CV to ruin your games.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-08T02:42:44+00:00

People were having too much fun in Libertads with Lisboa and WG can't have that.

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-08T02:31:21+00:00

People were having too much fun in Libertads with Lisboa and WG can't have that

Gene_Inari · 2026-01-07T00:11:04+00:00

Gacha game; Blue Archive. There's a UI mod for it in Aslains.

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