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And pings do not cost anything, either in terms of energy or anything else. A submarine commander can easily ping a target (especially a battleship), launch a set of torpedoes, wait for their damage control to expire and start reloading, re-ping the target as many times as he likes, and then launch all the remaining torpedoes вЂ“ which, at that point, are basically unavoidable, ignore torpedo protection, and do citadel damage. Which means that battleships, in a single stroke, have been rendered both boring and irrelevant.ДЄnd even this may not work, for a simple reason that submarines have multiple torpedo launchers. In other words, battleships will be completely fine вЂ“ unless they are either tanking or brawling. As SeaLordMountbatten puts it, вЂњbattleships are almost completely fine, unless you are in a terrible position and not moving, or if you are distractedвЂќ. If there are carriers nearby, it is necessary to keep moving, which again prevents proper tanking and also brawling вЂ“ both of which involve ships using island for cover, and often moving at slow speed or even being stationary while at it. If it is known, islands can be used to block submarineвЂ™s engagement lines вЂ“ but that requires lack of carriers.

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It is possible to avoid torpedoes either way, but it means that pushing becomes impossible, and tanking also becomes impossible as avoiding guided torpedoes necessitates staying at full speed and preferably in open water, unless location of the submarine is already known. Thus in order to make most out of the DCP, a ship targeted by the submarine has to turn away and run while dodging salvoes of torpedoes вЂ“ turning into the submarine is actually preferable, but not if it means getting shot at by the rest of the enemy team, which means that turning away and using DCP to negate tracking is often a better choice. Also, since sonar ping reloads faster than DCP, latter has to be used only when torpedoes had been detected. This means that DCP has to be kept in reserve for countering submarines вЂ“ which in turn means that it is not available for countering the already omnipresent HE spam or destroyer-launched torpedoes which, while unguided, are both more individually powerful and more capable of causing flooding that submarine-launched torpedoes. Double-ping torpedoes also track much harder and have tracking cut off much later. These are basically Sidewinders with nuclear warheads. Torpedoes cannot be avoided without DCP, and when target is double-pinged, they also gain the ability to cause citadel damage and ignore torpedo protection. Homing torpedoes turn submarines into tripwires вЂ“ if you encounter a submarine that is anywhere but astern, and donвЂ™t have a DCP ready, you are dead. Submarines are yet another class that punishes pushing вЂ“ and far more so than either HE cruisers, HE battleships or carriers. Battleships are actually better at hunting submarines than destroyers вЂ“ but they are also vulnerable to being mispositioned due to their size and relative sluggishness. In fact, dev blog has stated that destroyers and cruisers are the main target for submarines. Submarine will simply stay unspotted and spam guided devstrike torpedoes against targets which have no way to counter those torpedoes.Дestroyers, class which is supposed to counter submarines, are not really capable of doing so. Mere presence of a submarine can push a battleship into a bad position, preventing it from setting up crossfires or tanking.ДЄnd even air strike is not all that useful against a good player. This, of course, results in being easy prey for just about anything else. Between sonar ping damage bonus and homing torpedoes, there is no time to take eyes off the submarine in question. Problem, as with the carriers, is its interaction with other classes.Д¬ountering a submarine, even in a German battleship, is a full-time job.

Introduction of submarines is probably the worst thing that has happened to the World of Warships since introduction of carriers.ДЄnd while it is possible for a good player to counter and even destroy submarines one-on-one, thanks to battleshipвЂ™s airstrike ability, that is not the main problem with the class.