Arkansas Beta is a lot better than I remember - still no AA :(

[aether_tech]

Also, I think our Langley was a bot. Because ... well, manual drops all day, and zero movement unless enemy ships came near him/it.

 

Anyway, second game back in my Beta after using an Exemption to re-acquire it. First game wans't much spectacular, 30k damage win because we pretty much annihilated the enemy team on the north side and one dd held them off on the south side. Then, I got into this game....ALMOST had it....but some "questionable" decisions by my teammates caused a huge momentum loss. And an enemy DD got into our CV "nest."

 

 

 

Can't carry hard enough

[J30_Reinhardt]

Did you get the accuracy upgrade?

[Compassghost]

It'd be way too good with AA. It's fine where it is, where it's all up to the driver to handle avoiding aircraft. Not like Wyoming AA is top of the line either.

[aether_tech]

Did you get the accuracy upgrade?

I did. Though, Im tempted to get the faster reload upgrade instead. 

~25 second reload seems really nice to play with.

 

It'd be way too good with AA. It's fine where it is, where it's all up to the driver to handle avoiding aircraft. Not like Wyoming AA is top of the line either.

 

Even one AA gun would be nice.....keep getting ganked by carriers because no AA cruisers to support bb's in tier 3-5 games. Really, REALLY annoying. Multiple squadrons at once is = insta-gib.

[Guest]

The ship can be very nice to play, and can lead to various types of enjoyable games, but I'll admit, even 1 or 2 AA guns would be nice to have, for it is infinitely better than no AA. 

 Even animated Crew firing Pistols at Aircraft would work . 

 

[aether_tech]

The ship can be very nice to play, and can lead to various types of enjoyable games, but I'll admit, even 1 or 2 AA guns would be nice to have, for it is infinitely better than no AA. 

 Even animated Crew firing Pistols at Aircraft would work . 

 

 

Ive played three games today in it.

 

Each time.

 

Carrier gets me. No destroyer torp has hit me. No cruiser torp. Just carriers because no matter how HARD I turn into them or away, they get low tier BB's way to easily. And I'm the sort of player that as soon as I see them within 10 kilomters of me, I'm turning into them, and damn the broadsides.

[motaz87]

it is decent. i have all the tier IV premium bbs, but i must say the imperator is better in almost every way.

[aether_tech]

it is decent. i have all the tier IV premium bbs, but i must say the imperator is better in almost every way.

 

One got me in my last game tonight. I got to close and had a bad angle trying to avoid some konigsberg torps, the Nicolai rotates his guns, points them at me from about 3-4k, lets loose, and I go from 35k to nothing.

 

At least I prevented him from capping the A point, and then watched my team throw it all away.

[Mesrith]

I use the reload mod to eliminate cruisers faster.  The Arkansas has the whole "accuracy by volume" thing going on anyway, especially at the ranges involved at tier 4, but either is probably fine.

 

I hated my Arkansas at first but have really come to love it.  If the Nikolai didn't exist I'd have a lot more games played in the Arkansas, but tier 4 is apparently the land of overpowered battleships and there are a lot of options.

[Smeghammer]

Dragged mine out last night for some shenanigans, it's certainly more accurate than I remember - but I also remember the armor eating shells better.... Or I've just gotten used to the easymode angles of the New Mexico.

[aether_tech]

I must apologize to the Iwaki Alpha division I was just in a game with - you're too squishy

 

[muswp1]

This was a week or so ago...

 

 

For a ship that can barely break 20 knots, I sure was running all over the place.

[TacoSallust]

I had a 7-kill game in her this weekend, still no accuracy or concealment equipment. Just brawling with cruisers, DDs and BBs at close range. I should have taken some screen shots!

[ColonelYumYum]

I've noticed the Arks not as helpless as it used to be. With 6 upgrade slots you can increase your secondaries and your main gun accuracy (I also took the commanders secondaries upgrade too. Got a reach of 5km now. To bad the accuracy still sucks.) What made a difference for me was the stealth upgrade and camo paint. My detection range dropped to 12.3km, with a main gun range of 12.1km, if they can see me I can see and hit them. No more of that crap where I'm being shot at by ships I can't hit back, it's made a world of difference in how much fun I was having. I have found that the steering upgrade is better then the fire fighting upgrade, I don't get hit by TB nearly as much as I used to. The commanders torp acquisition upgrade helps a lot too. Fires are still a problem but at least I have a good chance of killing them before I burn to death. What pisses me off is I have to keep HE loaded, I kill more DDs per game then cruisers but my chance of setting fires with the Ark is 22% so it evens out I guess. I only load AP when I know all the DDs are dead or someplace away from me. No AA still sucks big time and having a scout plane to find those pesky DDs would be nice.