Originally Posted By: NHHEMI
Dare I say it...Could it be true...Might I actually like...Gasp...The Amagi???
I don't want to get sucked into the same trap I did when I 1st got Nagato. That seemed like a really good ship at 1st too and then it's true colors came out and it is mediocre at best (for me anyway). I do not like it and struggle mightly with it's guns that are supposedly so accurate and powerful (NOT!).
I admit I had my reservations going into Amagi and even said here that I wasn't overly impressed after the 1st game. Now, I have only played 4 games in it but it does seem to be a big improvement over Nagato. The guns while not great damage dealers are fairly accurate and I will give it credit where due; it seems to be very tough when angled.
I just had a match with it where I went head on into the enemy Amagi and 2 Colorado's by myself with no support purposely to test it out. All 3 of them were 100% health as was I. I admit I was very surprised by the results. I took about 50K in damage from them while dealing out over 100K in damage total to the 3 of them. I basically was circling and brawling in amongst the 3 of them (note 135 secondary hits). Main guns and secondary guns blazing away and all of us on fire. It was a real slugfest. I didn't kill any of them but damaged them all enough that our CV and other BB's cleaned them up as they fled like cowards.
Before I got into that little dust up I nuked 2 CL's that showed their broadside. Both were already hurt but I hit them full on and citadeled both. Easily the damage would have been higher they just didn't have the HP left for it to come from. Taking them out on the way into the cap to fight the 3 enemy BB's let me concentrate on them and not worry about CL HE spam so being able to one shot them was key.
So it is only one game out of 4 and I don't want to get too far ahead but it looks dare I say promising???...
So, let's revisit the above comments. As it turns out Amagi reminds me a lot of Nagato and I am not a big fan. Just as with Nagato at 1st I did well with Amagi but have struggled since. The occasional good game like I will post below but generally average or below average and bottom half finishes on the team.
It isn't the speed because it is fast. It maneuvers okay for a T8 BB so that isn't it. AA and secondary's are adequate and no complaints so again not it. For an IJN BB it actually is pretty darn tough and can take a lot of punishment so the armor isn't it either. That just leaves the main guns and boy is THAT it! They suck! Not a fan at all.
Everyone told me when I said I thought IJN BB were worst in game to wait for Nagato; the guns are like rifles and hit like freight trains. Nope, sorry, not the case for me. Extremely inaccurate (overall - some games they behave) PLUS just as I have seen from the T4 IJN BB Myogi on (exception Fuso which doesn't have the issue - as much) even when you do hit the damage is extremely inconsistent and usually disappointing. The same has carried over to Amagi.
I have seen people call the Amagi guns "god like" they are so good. Man, that must be some low standard religion! They are more accurate than Nagato and they do deliver more damage on a regular basis but they still flat out suck. Can't say it enough = suck suck suck! How 8 (Nagato) or 10 (Amagi) 410MM guns can be so bad dealing damage on a constant basis baffles me? It isn't my aim as that is fine. It is HORRIBLE dispersion (even though both are rated decent) and just HORRIBLE damage. Flat broadside enemy BB's at 5km and full broadside salvo yields 3K HP in damage???
So the grind to Yamato at T10 will NOT be fun like it was in the USN BB line getting to the T10 Montana. I had no plans to play Izumo at T9 and was going to free XP past it anyway. So really I just need to suck it up and get the XP needed with Amagi to research Izumo and then I can free XP the rest to Yamato. I just don't enjoy playing the ship at all really so this will take a while. Once Amagi is researched and fully upgraded it takes 573,000 XP to get through Izumo and research Yamato!!!! OUCH!
Occasionally I have a decent game in it like below but these are far and few between whereas they are more the norm (or slightly above) for me in USN and KM at this level.
Dare I say it...Could it be true...Might I actually like...Gasp...The Amagi???
I don't want to get sucked into the same trap I did when I 1st got Nagato. That seemed like a really good ship at 1st too and then it's true colors came out and it is mediocre at best (for me anyway). I do not like it and struggle mightly with it's guns that are supposedly so accurate and powerful (NOT!).
I admit I had my reservations going into Amagi and even said here that I wasn't overly impressed after the 1st game. Now, I have only played 4 games in it but it does seem to be a big improvement over Nagato. The guns while not great damage dealers are fairly accurate and I will give it credit where due; it seems to be very tough when angled.
I just had a match with it where I went head on into the enemy Amagi and 2 Colorado's by myself with no support purposely to test it out. All 3 of them were 100% health as was I. I admit I was very surprised by the results. I took about 50K in damage from them while dealing out over 100K in damage total to the 3 of them. I basically was circling and brawling in amongst the 3 of them (note 135 secondary hits). Main guns and secondary guns blazing away and all of us on fire. It was a real slugfest. I didn't kill any of them but damaged them all enough that our CV and other BB's cleaned them up as they fled like cowards.
Before I got into that little dust up I nuked 2 CL's that showed their broadside. Both were already hurt but I hit them full on and citadeled both. Easily the damage would have been higher they just didn't have the HP left for it to come from. Taking them out on the way into the cap to fight the 3 enemy BB's let me concentrate on them and not worry about CL HE spam so being able to one shot them was key.
So it is only one game out of 4 and I don't want to get too far ahead but it looks dare I say promising???...
So, let's revisit the above comments. As it turns out Amagi reminds me a lot of Nagato and I am not a big fan. Just as with Nagato at 1st I did well with Amagi but have struggled since. The occasional good game like I will post below but generally average or below average and bottom half finishes on the team.
It isn't the speed because it is fast. It maneuvers okay for a T8 BB so that isn't it. AA and secondary's are adequate and no complaints so again not it. For an IJN BB it actually is pretty darn tough and can take a lot of punishment so the armor isn't it either. That just leaves the main guns and boy is THAT it! They suck! Not a fan at all.
Everyone told me when I said I thought IJN BB were worst in game to wait for Nagato; the guns are like rifles and hit like freight trains. Nope, sorry, not the case for me. Extremely inaccurate (overall - some games they behave) PLUS just as I have seen from the T4 IJN BB Myogi on (exception Fuso which doesn't have the issue - as much) even when you do hit the damage is extremely inconsistent and usually disappointing. The same has carried over to Amagi.
I have seen people call the Amagi guns "god like" they are so good. Man, that must be some low standard religion! They are more accurate than Nagato and they do deliver more damage on a regular basis but they still flat out suck. Can't say it enough = suck suck suck! How 8 (Nagato) or 10 (Amagi) 410MM guns can be so bad dealing damage on a constant basis baffles me? It isn't my aim as that is fine. It is HORRIBLE dispersion (even though both are rated decent) and just HORRIBLE damage. Flat broadside enemy BB's at 5km and full broadside salvo yields 3K HP in damage???
So the grind to Yamato at T10 will NOT be fun like it was in the USN BB line getting to the T10 Montana. I had no plans to play Izumo at T9 and was going to free XP past it anyway. So really I just need to suck it up and get the XP needed with Amagi to research Izumo and then I can free XP the rest to Yamato. I just don't enjoy playing the ship at all really so this will take a while. Once Amagi is researched and fully upgraded it takes 573,000 XP to get through Izumo and research Yamato!!!! OUCH!
Occasionally I have a decent game in it like below but these are far and few between whereas they are more the norm (or slightly above) for me in USN and KM at this level.
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