It's not exactly special at her tier but 12.7km when built for it isn't bad, far from it. Iowa's rudder shift has never bothered me since I usually take the rudder mod since I usually run skills to hinder the effect of fires anyway and Iowa's concealment is excellent. Let me be clear here, I agree with three of these things at most. Won't stop me from playing it but I'm not going to act like it's great when it's not. I love the ship, I love playing the ship but in the current meta it's definitely not a good ship. The second lowest tech tree HP pool, no longer the fastest T9 battleship (second fastest tech tree, when adding premiums it's not even close), AA is basically useless, it's penetration is just not impressive anymore, it's damage is pretty good but that only works if you can hit and penetrate and Iowa's dispersion can be incredibly unreliable at times even with the dispersion mod, and it's armor eats ridiculous amounts of HE damage trading off for alright at best AP protection that can be quite inconsistent.

Iowa really has nothing going for it in the current meta. Now Iowa is surrounded by straight up better ships on all sides so changing the Iowa's turning circle to what it historically was 730 or 750m if I remember correctly would be an easy and sensible move. Iowa didn't initially get it's real turning circle because WG thought it would be too strong. And comparing DDs having infinite torps to an incorrect turning radius is a non-comparison.

The game cannot work like that.Īnd a fire can make a ship non-combat worthy.Ī fire on deck is VERY unlikely to do anything significant to a ship unless they were making mistakes like at Jutland or what the Japanese did with their long lance torpedoes during the early years of the war. And? DD had one or two sets of torpedos on board.

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