First not a go at the test team but a go at how this was rolled out:

My Missouri has been grinding with 8 support crew. Great I thought, way to get crews ready for BB5/6. OK the test team got an idea to remove a crew slot from my BB that was the main reason for buying it, not happy but I will live with it.

But then SDE do a patch without adequate notice and I look at my Montanna and there are now 7 support slots. BUT no extra crew in dock, none in HQ,  my speed has also dropped and I am down a Special Sailor Engineer.

After a panic of 10 mins for "How am I going to prove this?" I unloaded all my crew with the single button and my crew member reappeared.

So if you had a full crewed Missouri, unload to find your lost crew. Would have been FAR better if SDE had sold guns at full cost and unloaded crew as part of the patch.

Overall, I now have a ship that is not what I need, is slower, weaker and of no use for crew levelling.  I will hold fire on if the changes to the guns make up for this,  but I do not hold my breath.

Way to sell gear on my second account to catch up $DE. Had hoped to do a FIRST time move to BB5 with at level crews in all slots, but not now.

hmm, will SN and RM ever get an EBB4 with bb5 guns?

Well done.

I would clone the RM BB4 triples and give slightly more range and make all R slots fit them with 4 or 5 binds. Also change the shell damage to make it on par with the Venito for a full salvo.

RM setup is fine. Why does everybody think range increase is the only way to buff a ship?

Well done.


Thx!  

I tried my Missouri I got from previous events. the lvl 100 original gun and lvl 101 event ship gun has same reload!!!! unless it's because my gunner capped the reload which makes them no difference. otherwise I don't understand what's the point of it! moreover I can put lvl 110 gun on it with one less bind of ammo......