For the love of everything in a center cap map

Please, please, please charge the center.

You are not doing ANYBODY ANY FAVORS EVER by not rushing the cap. Like, none, none at all. If you're in a BB and you're scared of DDs charging the cap, numero uno, is have a traverse mod on your ship, come in on a far-ish side of the circle (like somewhere on the edge between the two islands between you and the cap when the game starts, and hammer on the rudder to the opposite side maintaining your postion WITHIN THE CAP. Send your cannons opposite of where Load HE if and only if you see a DD in cap that looks like they're going to target you, otherwise fire on CA/CL, and definitely send that salvo you if you know you have time to damage cruisers before you have to deal with a DD. Play to your ship's advantage, target cruisers when you can, and USE YOUR TRAVERSE MODS TO HANDLE TORPS. Load HE as soon as a DD wants to target you, be hard hard hard on the rudder, and don't be afraid to pulll an entire 360 to retarget a DD. They're quick matches, but they're not worth sinking over even if you have to wait for your cannons. Your BB is worth more points than a DD by far.

A trick nobody ever mentions is, keep your cannons pointed at as close to the same traverse speed as the rest of the ship. AKA if you're hammering to starboard and your bow cannons are just coming around to the target on the port side with the stern ones still way out of skew, keep your bow cannons on the same trajectory, so they're not aiming into outer space when your stern cannons are lined up. I personally like to land entire salvos for more cits, and that works the best for me. It also works much better in close range because bow cannons and stern cannons don't get caught up aiming for different points in close range. It's a giant piss-off when you can't fire on a ship beside you because you're still waiting for your guns to come around.

Bottom line though, if you're scared of a DD smoking your BB, stop it. Like, stop running BB altogether and start running cruiser. Charge the f*cking center cap, you're in a ship that can handle an entire set of torps, keep half of your HP, and continue on. TRAVERSE MODS WILL SAVE YOU FROM YOUR DIFFICULTIES, but you never heard that from me... Additionally, load HE and slam them, but there's always 'it takes to long' argument. So, if you're worried about missing, then you can't aim. Period. Go salvo to salvo. RUN CRUISER. Seriously, they have reasonable distance, and lots can torp, learn to aim in CA if you're worried about aiming with BBs.

Please, for the love of everything, stop skirting the center cap. Please, please, please, stop it. I love to play T8, but I get stuck with inexperienced players, and it's not fun at all. Just look up a few guides and stuff, then play. Just don't buy a Tirpitz and lose games if you must have a high tier ship, at least learn how to play it.

You know what the biggest thing that will screw you over every time in high tiers? Put your entire battleship in park. Why does that work in low tiers? People have no idea what they're doing. It's not a first-time shot every time landing a salvo in a BB, and the same applies for cruisers. Why do DDS smoke everything? How hard is it to smoke a BB travelling at 0 kts? There's so many of them in lower tiers, hanging outside 'protecting the cap,' just floating around.

CHARGE THE CAP, CHARGE THE CAP, CHARGE THE CAP. Good players used to do it, now it's just big t10 fights with shit maps. Like seriously WG, why does t10 have to be so limited?