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I don't know why, but that Minnesota is growing on me, eventhough the 200K is ever elusive. Had the battle below, and note that I was in a ship with 76,300 HP, and ended up taking 115,500 damage.... so I by no means play extremely defensive. Though I hate when you retreat to heal up, people run amok with the map-clicking and yelling in chat?

Really dug up an old post to be offended in?

Need to get 900 hits with BB main guns (stupid dockyard mission), and decided to take out the Scharnhorst for some fast firing guns, and hopefully a lot of hits. Got put into a tier IX game and didn't have up hope from the beginning, kind of decided to hook up with a Georgia and follow his yolo.... as the game went on we kind of won.... The Georgia did really good, and the CV was with us all the way. Never really given much for the Scharnhorst, due to the lack of "real guns", but she proved fine.

Took only 21,422 battles

You're a good player to start with.... so that's already counting in your favour. I'm the guy sitting comfortably at 52.5 percent, and 56 in ranked.... and I often find myself outscored by BB's in the rear. BB's with a lower WR than me, I just don't have the skillz to carry them hard enough. Got to think of it, wasn't the XP gain for capping and defending higher a few years ago, I faintly remember there was complaining about the DD's usually ran off with the points back then..

Two words: Hotel Yankee

Definately, cause some seen there are yolo-dying right from the beginning. But how high do you want to set the bar? You need people in the leagues for them to work to begin with.... and if the winrate has to be too high, there won’t be enough players in the next league. So 55% may be too much. Maybe 48-49% in bronze for silver, and 48-49% in silver to proceed to gold? Then you get the better 50% of the players with you every time. Everytime you put a restriction in, it gets progressively harder. Now it just takes longer.

Definately, it was just some of the considerations I have to make. Others are, as a DD, reinforce the other DD on the team, leaving a cap with no DD’s. Kill the DD in the cap we’re going for, and turning attention back to the DD-less cap if required. <— This often comes with a lot of crying and yelling of the team, when they realize the DD’s are teaming up and they’re left with none....... eventhough they have 3 radarships, and the cap they’re going for is not one fought over straight away.

I normally don’t give much for stats in that regard anyway, but since most potatoes have no clue about stats, it still give a general idea. And people knowing how to buff stats, are usually not all bad. And in 70-80 percent of the cases you are still able to foresee the first loss. Question is then, support the strong or reinforce the weak? Hunt down the strong or hope to outdamage him, going after him later?

As long as the other team is more awfull than mine, I'm good:

Silver today:

My greatest achievement? Got on a team with this guy:

I would probably up the Daring. It has tonnes of tools, really good guns and torpedoes that reload relatively quick. Benham is.... in my opinion.... just a torpedo DD like any other.... one trick pony you may, or may not, have a good game in. But I like DD's that can be aggresive towards other DD's (Daring), and at the same time against Cruisers and Battleships (Daring).

Sell it then, you may get lucky and get another in a container you can sell as well.

I think he was making a joke about it being unfair to the bots?

Or just live with the choice you make. Some ships can handle 3 tiers higher just fine, others cannot. Leaned by trying to team a tier VI CV with a tier V DD in hopes we wouldn't get into tier VIII..... didn't work. But the tier V DD worked fine.

Remember to shoot while doing it, it'll attract the attention of the enemy.... and openly state in chat you're in for the short haul.

Get a DD if you want to influence the game. Get a BB, one that deals a lot of damage, if you want to save stars when loosing, and get "carried" to victory.

Try Loyang, if you have it, and screw other DD's with your hydro and low detection.... On another note, I noticed the following: Playing as a DD you get to have a bigger impact at games, and can change the outcome if the team plays normally. Playing as a heavy damage dealer, like the Thunderer or other good firestarters, and staying in the back "supporting", you'll more often than not be the ship that saves a star when loosing. Take the below as an example: The team fought well, especially the Smolensk who wasn't afraid to follow into the fray (unfortunately he meet the Kremlin late in the game). The Thunderer "did his thing", supporting from a distance, execpt in the end though, yet he almost beat me in XP.... So, want to win, work hard in a DD.... want to get "carried", pick a damage dealer and let the team win for you.... if it looses, you still get to move on with your huge damage (DD get screwed over in that regard).

Suggestion to rebalance XP. Looking at the stats for ships, my immediate conclusion is that the reward for damage is too high compared to the reward for capturing points. Could we either reduce the damage XP a bit, or increase the XP for capturing points? Is gets annoying in games as a DD that you run as fast as you can, capping and defending point, only to be out XP'd by the big damage dealers in the background. Especially comsidering they often don't bring their ships in where they use the health pool for something usefull, or help cover DD's at the cap points. It makes DD gaming hard as f... when you try to keep stars in loosing battles, and some BB far off keep raking up damage without putting an effort into winning.

Very lonely if noone qualifies, or don't want to go that far.... Even lonelier if some of the suggestions in this thread about stricter requirements to enter are implemented. I'm looking at the silver league right now, and I think after tier 5, I need 9 wins in a streak to reach level 1, and with my measely 56 percent winrate, that'll mean 16-18 games..... and I already feel exhausted.

Good game there. There's no real value in sailing at max range anyway. Same as I believe there's no real value in using only HE. The insta-delete of cruisers who are not carefull, is not something you can do with HE loaded. Sure, you'll pump up damage numbers by fires, but the difference between outright removing a ship, and trying to burn him down while he has the ability to return fire, is not to be scoffed at. Brought Georgia into Ranked today (don't do that, it's not really good there). Ended up having 2 Thunderers and a Jean Bart trying to burn me up.... eventually they did, but I was able to use all my heals and keep them occupied long enough that the rest of my team could kill their team off, leaving me at the only loss I believe.

Hard to say which one I like most of the day. But for some reason the North Carolina suddently is a hell of a good ship.... maybe I passed it too fast when grinding the line long ago. Oh, and found out you can citadel a Montana through the nose from about 60 degrees. The only problem I seem to have with the North Carolina, is the first 5 minutes when you're closing in, it's really hard to do any damage, once close.... no problem. Same with the Minnesota, it's a beast..... Still waiting for the elusive 200K....

One thing I do agree on, lower tiers are more fun. Even as a BB player, once you get a hang of dealing with destroyers, is it fun. The only annoying part is those stupid CV’s, they’re the “finger of “[edited]you”” in all tiers, they’re the reason when you just get out of a battle and find time to heal up, and see a squadron heading your way..... you just press “leave battle”.... and enter a new one. At least as a battleship or cruiser. Destroyer.... can handle them, as long as there are bigger fish out there.

I’d wish they’d up the xp for contesting caps. Was looking a bit at the xp for destroyers lately, and they’re lacking compared to battleships, eventhough they’re usually the ones working those caps.