Oh ok thanks . <| sep |> Spent a ton of money on pride merchandise clothes , accessories , pride flag , rainbow bedspread . I ' m straight , but my kid isnt . <| sep |> To be fair , it does look like there is another Tony Stewart in his belly . <| sep |> I was looking for about 255 shipped . <| sep |> also if your older I think it would be pretty sad not to take the bill . <| sep |> I ' ve been lurking in this sub for a while and I don ' t know how to put my in game name as part of the flair yet , but it ' s Koshadows on NA server . I recently just got my T 9 F . der Grosse and I ' ve had my iowa for a while after getting to it ' s C hull and I honestly have to admit it is far more fun in T 8 than T 9 so far as a rather aggressive player seeing as my survival rate is pretty abysmal at around 30 %. I play to push and T 8 is far more suitable for that than T 9 . As you have put , the BBs in high tier have the best armor and in terms of being able to take a shell , the most durable . However ! Firepower increased proportionally as the Tier goes up with a considerable reduction in maneuverability . This means when I go in , I ' m freaking IN THERE and making that nice Uturn so I can get out is all but impossible in the much more brawling FDG German ship . I think it also happens to suck more when you ' re trying to push into a point and get absolutely devastated by torpedoes . DD plays a huge part in area denial and it is a case where at T 9 I can see the torpedoes with hydro at 4 . 2 km but still eat said torps because I turn so damn slow . The Iowa on the other hand , that thing just fails at tanking . It tanks beautifully when bow on towards the enemy but the Iowa HAS to turn around when it ' s pushed by an enemy BB . Because if you can ' t pen a bow on German BB and they get to your side , you can kiss your ass goodbye . The side armor might as well as not exist for all the good it does protecting the above water citadel . It has a wonderful main battery , but if you push in an Iowa you better pray hard as you can that there exists no battleships on the enemy that can get a shot off on your broadside . Though to be honest , pushing as Iowa still runs into being torped to oblivion since your turning circle is almost as bad as the FDG and you get no hydro . As far as support that battleships want to have , personally I think as a BB we just need teammates in destroyers scouting . If i know what direction torpedoes are going to come in , I can at least point my bow towards the enemy BB and be ready to turn towards the soup that ' s coming my way . It ' s incredibly hard and useless for my team if I push into a point towards the enemy without knowing where their DDs are . To say BBs needing support is egocentric seems weird , since both DDs and CAs have either a bit more mobility to decide if they can go in OR be able to turn the hell around and gtfo the area easier than a BB can . After the grind to T 9 in both lines , I can say that the best BB captains I ' ve observed knows WHEN to push , not just always pushing . The most important thing a pushing BB needs is information on the enemy , because when you hit high tiers the surprise torpedo sex will turn the pushing BBs into sniping BBs .