BrusilovX

The last day or so this has been happening to me - infinite battle load. As soon as I don't join the game at the start I use task manager to kill the game and then just start it again. This usually works fine but once I've also had to kill the game centre. I've also found at times the game does not respond to commands but this is usually fixed by pressing ESC and then selecting to 'return to batte'. I had put this down to me being in a B&B with a shared wi-fi system. A clan mate also reported this happening as well so maybe it's not the wi-fi.

As others have already posted - your torps your problem. There is no reason to fire torps from the second line. If you do fire them then if they hit your team mates it's your fault not theirs not matter how they are maneouvering. The only time it would be OK is if your team mate is on very low HP and the enemy ship is about to sink them and is between you and them. Even in that situation if any torps that miss the enemy and take out your team mate then it's your fault and not theirs. Collisions will happen and it's usually the larger ship that takes the minor penalty for it. Smaller ships may be trying to get out of the line of fire either from guns or torps and may not be paying attention to other ships around them (or even islands). I've been in a DD sitting in smoke and had a BB push me out of the smoke broadside to the enemy. I can't believe the OP used their first post in the forum to post this thread.

I did play a Shima when I first started to play CW. It is possible to try and flank and spot in one and using 12km torps it was almost possible to torp out of radar range - although with that range changing I'm not sure that would be still the case. When I was playing my Des Moines I ended up putting RPF on it because of the number of times that the enemy were flanking us and we had no indication that was happening (we used to have a 'holding' flank and a 'pushing' flank).

+1 I'm not sure why WG are pushing various things (changes to ships, introduction of CVs into CB) while the work to 'balance/rework' CVs is far from done. Having a CV in a CB will be an absolute nightmare due to how much the CV can spot and keep spotted the enemy ships.

A lot depends on how many ships you have and how well you can do in them - as others have stated adding some of the flags (Ouroboros for the 777% onto free XP, Hydra for 250% and Leviathan for 200% ) will help as well.

Yes, while the talk is of the GC there are other premiums out there that would also be in the running for similar treatment. Once the precedent is set there must be other ships out there - Kamikaze, Belfast, Kutozov, Missouri, Musashi etc etc. Yes, I know the last two were bought with FXP but s powerful 'premium' is still that.

The Scharnhorst is in-game as a BB but it's more of a battle cruiser. If you wanted to get into BBs but like CAs more then the Scharnhorst may be the way to go.

I still use a Razer DeathAdde Elite - personally, I don't like too many buttons on the mouse. I guess it's just what you're used to. Edited: I also stick with wired mice as I've had problems with wireless ones (Logitech) over the years with the mouse and keyboard getting out of sync.

My thoughts exactly. Does this mean you (OP) don't take as much care with your torps when there are BoTs on your team? Play with BoTs as if you're playing with other players (except the BoTs will always push ahead aggressively).

Yes, and it appears as if some players haven't been able to log in for a few days. There was mention about being put on a set of dodgy servers.

I'd be more interested when it's (servers) are going to be fixed properly - they seem to be held together with chewing gum and spit at the moment.

The other thing to keep in mind about the late changes is "has there been enough time and games to see if the final version of the ship is indeed balanced and plays how WG wants it to"? I somehow doubt that is the case.

I just got in - there are 10,536 players on-line (apparently). Edited: I had been in-game about 1h 30m ago as well.

One thing to keep in mind that you may get the DoY in a container at some stage - yes you can always sell it again but if there is a premium ship you really want you may be reducing the chances to get that ship. I bought the Krasny Krym at some stage and sold it. Guess what I got in a Xmas Crate? Yes, the Krasny Krym.....

I'd suggest that you remove the replay - it's considered 'naming and shaming' in this instance. I did that a while ago and got a warning from a moderator.

At the start of a battle I have on a few occasions in a DD set off my smoke by mistake - usually when I've been typing something and hit some key combination that means I'm no longer in chat but issuing commands...... It does happen. I agree that at least now we know other players are triggering consumables - probably by mistake also but previously (unlike smoke) this wasn't visible to other players. I think it has been mentioned several times before but it would be nice if the keys for consumables were able to be configured - so radar can always be a single character (for instance).

When this has happened to me I've managed to close down the game using Task Manager to kill the app and then been able to restart the game and get back in. It's almost as if there is some sort of 'memory leak' at times with the game.

It would not be the first time that WG have created a mission that is contrary to what that type of ship is supposed to do in battle.

Yes, I've unlocked the Edinburgh via the mission chain that DFens_666 has mentioned. I've only ground to the Fiji at the moment though (I lost interest around the grinds of the Emerald and Leander). Edited: I have read in several threads that the Fiji is a 'keeper' - not that I've held onto many silver ships so far.

I managed to get the first part done thanks to the USA DDs Sims, Benson and Kidd. The last battle was in the Kidd when the enemy CV lost 38 planes - I did thank them in-game for that though. I dread to think how hard this mission would be if it was only open to GB DDs - the addition of the Commonwealth (Haida) and USA DDs helps a lot. However, getting a CV or two in the battle is pot luck at the moment.

Exactly - at least the Shima is trying to cap

I have to agree with this statement which is probably why it's going to be uptiered at some stage by WG (like they are going to do with the GC).

As T0By has already posted - I'd expect so as this is what has happened in the past - the most recent time was for the GB DDs.

Ah, OK the 'penny has finally dropped'. Thanks for explaining.

I logged out of the game and went back in after a while and I can now mount 2 flags on the Hermes..... Edited: I had expected to see the camo appear like the one for the Kiev - which was unlocked previously: The image that hgdn_dk has posted appears as if there is a set number of camos (151) to be used.