KGV captain skills from WG sekrit archives

[HellaCopterRescue]

So the T7 RN BB King George the V's armada was released a couple of hours ago: 

 

There is some nice scenic shots, helpful info on strats and penetration angles....but you know what takes the cake? The suggested captain skills.

Thats right ladies and gents....WG suggests that you take IFHE and AR.....but wait there is more. If you stop the vid at 5:25 you will see that there is another Tier 2 skill on WG's KGV captain: 

That right... Rear Gunner..

The trolls can't troll you if you out troll them. WG playing 4D chess 

[Ace_04]

IFHE on 356mm guns??

 

Would it even make a difference?

[Doomlock]

Expert rear gunner is good comrade! It let's rear turret fire faster yes?

[AJTP89]

4 minutes ago, Doomlock said:

Expert rear gunner is good comrade! It let's rear turret fire faster yes?

What if you're going in reverse? Do the front two turrets fire faster?

[mofton]

13 minutes ago, Ace_04 said:

Would it even make a difference?

Puts you up to 115.7 (round to 116mm) of HE pen from 89mm, sufficient to make the difference and citadel pen T6-T9 RN CL plus the T6-T9 FR cruisers (those with belts and not spaced armor anyway), plus Budyonny, Chapayev and Donskoi.

I might be missing a few, but there are a lot of ~100mm armored cruisers in KGV's tier range you could gut.

Personally I'd use AP and HE in a mix.

[Doomlock]

18 minutes ago, AJTP89 said:

What if you're going in reverse? Do the front two turrets fire faster?

Da comrade! It takes account of direction movement.

[HellaCopterRescue]

23 minutes ago, Doomlock said:

Expert rear gunner is good comrade! It let's rear turret fire faster yes?

I hear this strat before too comrade....maybe iz worke...maybe not 

[AJTP89]

2 minutes ago, Doomlock said:

Da comrade! It takes account of direction movement.

Soooooooooo...play the RN BBs like the French cruisers?

 

Spoiler

Sorry, couldn't resist

 

[TwoOfFour]

They also suggested playing it like a Battlecruiser when KGV was the second most heavily armored battleship of the war.....

Wargaming had too much vodka.

[Reymu]

18 minutes ago, mofton said:

Puts you up to 115.7 (round to 116mm) of HE pen from 89mm, sufficient to make the difference and citadel pen T6-T9 RN CL plus the T6-T9 FR cruisers (those with belts and not spaced armor anyway), plus Budyonny, Chapayev and Donskoi.

I might be missing a few, but there are a lot of ~100mm armored cruisers in KGV's tier range you could gut.

Personally I'd use AP and HE in a mix.

Depending on odds of AP causing a citadel, IFHE can seem more appealing since mad fire chance and citadels with HE are pretty devastating.