Gatt

Thank you for your genius reply. I meant: what if the MM puts you, good BB player, in a team where CAs dont stick with BBs and CVs? You are screwed, despite being an good player, becouse of the random MM? Great ....

We have already been told by veterans ST that cruisers duty is to escort BB and CV. So stop dreaming about harassing BB with your 155mm armed cruisers. If you dont like it, dont play it. /sarcasm OFF

Same for me.

There should be also a red signal appearing when you are more than 5 Km away from the BB or CV your CA is assigned to escort .... what a fun game it will be.

What about teams which dont want to stick together in groups? CAs which dont stick to BBs and CVs to protect them? This is always a random team game. I cannot oblige a reckless CA to stay with BBs and CVs and I cannot have a krap (I mean sunk after the first air strike) game becouse my CAs rush ahead leaving BBs alone. At least not so often. And I cannot oblige players to play in divisions to survive. And this happens not only at Tier VIII-X, It happens at Tier V-VI as well (the most populated Tiers), where both BBs and CAs have very weak AA (Cleveland apart, of course). Go on with this CV mechanics and players will get tired soon.

If they take away even the good gun range from german cruisers, at Tier V-VI, those ships will be abandoned soon by players.

Thanks. Done. BTW, what are we supposed to do with 2.500 doubloons in a two days test?

Damn, after the download and install of the test client, it dont recognize my e-mail address and password? Help !?!

Long time ago I put a question to WoT developers. I asked: if an excellent group of players perform "outstanding" in a tank, even if the tank per se doesnt have any above average feature, but only becouse they play the tank a lot and know VERY well its weaknesses and strenghts ... what will happen? Their candid reply was: "we'll nerf it, of course". You are right, the stats method can be very dumb.

I guess WG has still few stats on Tier VI-X german cruisers. In a couple of months I bet there will be some changes. As it is now, IMO, there is no reason to choose a german cruiser over a IJN or even a USN one.

Awwwww, nothin for Tier V-X german cruisers .... still glass peashooters. Bhà .......

Eh, WG is doing even more. Tier IV-V CVs are put against post WWI warships, slow and without AA. Powerful CVs, Tier VI-VII CVs are put against targets they never considered worth of a full strike in real life. And again, in WoWS even Tier VI-VII warships have no AA worth of this name. In other words, WG is FORCING players to fight in small maps against limitless air strikes with obsolete, slow, sluggish and defenceless warships. If I choose a post WW1, low-mid Tier battleship, I should not see CV in the map.

Let me know if you need scans of some pages.

The reason is one and one only: urgency. Yes, I can understand the player base pressure on WG, but I have never seen a weird/unbalanced tech tree like the german one. Not even in 3 years of WoT madness.

OK, then we should not see CV up to Tier VI-VII. You should not send CV, armed with multiple squadrons of UFO-TD with laser pointers, against post WWI warships with no AA defence (except the Cleveland). From Midway on CV fought mainly against other CV. Enemy CV were the main targets. In WoWS CV target mainly slow, vulnerable BB without AA defence. From Tier V to VII warships are a joke to sink for an average CV player. Fair, eh?

Yes, yes, you are right. But you know, from someone pointing me to the internet to learn about the Roma, you can expect anything .....

Perhaps he meant Regia Marina not Regia Nave. Anyway, for anyone willing to be educated (rough translation of "istruirvi") about the battleship Roma, the best sources are the beautiful Bagnasco-De Toro's book and the soon to be released Kagero publication (see above).

sorry couldnt resist P.S.: you are confined in small maps, always within CV strike range, against UFO-planes (TB climb and dive vertically, drop on shores and dont even have to do a minimal torpedo run before the drop) with no range limits. I like WoWS historical accurateness.

The launcher just installed a 64MB file (version is stil 0.5.0.3) .....

I agree 100%. But this is an awuful gaming style for a Tier V cruiser. They often stay BEHIND other cruisers and even battleships and when they close to 10-15Km from enemy they die soon. I thought Clevelands were opportunistic players till I saw what Konig players have to do to survive and do a little dmg.

"Quite good and no need of any changes": disconcerting

It will be interesting to see its stats in a few weeks. It would be interesting to know how that ship passed the tests/Supertests/WhateverTest ....

Played mostly the Konig and now just a few battles in the Hipper. Nice guns (trajectory and arcs) and ROF. Both, relatively to enemy CA's, have ridiculous HE dmg, low manuverability (especially the Hipper) and glass cannons, engines, rudders and hulls. Since everybody knows it, you are now the first target in the map. And when I sail with my non-german ships, the german CAs are always my first target. A couple of HE and voilà, detonations and engine or rudder out. In the end, for me they are less fun to play. Firing from 15Km+ for the whole game in a tier V CA is, IMO, not fun. All in all, I'm a bit disappointed.

And the download links?