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We could perhaps also introduce an "Emden"-Medal for hitting an enemy for some damage from beyond the ship's actual gun range and without a target lock.

I hope you guys are paying attention: @Fonfalks , @loppantorkel , @Mahaaret , @Felixshoen , @Cyberfounder and others. He is doing this for your benefit (and a bit for us all really).

Yeah, well any tier 8 cruiser will struggle in a tier 10 match for sure so that's not a surprise, as such. I somehow gots myself a Cleveland too despite of never having owned one (I originally free-XP'd directly to Des Moines just to get a tier 10 Cruiser, so perhaps that's how/why it happened now) but I have not played her much. However I can see how she would struggle a bit, when bottom-tier. I do prefer Mogami in such situations, at the least she CAN become a stealth-torpedo.boat of sorts, when needed.

Yupyup, the same here + ALL 3 Dragon flags that boost Commander XP and the +50% too... + A very, very good game, got some 40k+. But yeah, you really REALLY need to have an excellent game to get there tho (got some 204k damage in a tier 10 game in Mogami that time, so it was really just a one-off - I don't usually play that well, hehe). But hey it all counts so no complaints here. Sadly I'm all out of those awesome Dragon flag-thingys by now. Sigh!

Would not mind new maps either. Random mirrored map generation has been suggested, as a quick fix but nothing of the sort has happened either. A pity really. But on the other hand, there are some additional ships and lines I still would like to see ASAP also, so I guess they have to prioritize things for now so we can't have all at once, hopefully eventually tho.

Yeah, though at this point I must admit that due to its inherently unrealistic and ridiculous nature I do hate this "angling"-business all together, but that is another story I guess. Never was much of a fisherman anyways.

EVERYONE KNOWS THE EARTH IS FLAT!! Fake news! But yeah, seriously. I wouldn't actually mind some additional weather (and other) effects either to make it more varied and interesting (I am fickle and get bored very easily). Might also positively shrink my weekly heavy drinks budget. Or else, would it just shrink my selection of eligible excuses? Hmmm...

Yupp, depressing - That sinking feeling right at the start. I also have developed this infuriatingly accurate and distressing psychic ability. It is actually possible to foresee, from the way the team makes their first opening moves whether or not you are likely to succeed or not. The only thing that could possibly change the outcome after that (and this sometimes happens, thank God) is, IF the enemy team is actually even more incompetent that we appear to be. But of course, I'd much rather base my hopes of a victory on something more substantial than that.

I agree... Any or all of these would be a nice addition.

That kinda thing only exists in real games against other players (Randoms and such). BOT CV's don't know about such advanced tactics (weell, to be fair some players don't either but that's another story), they just charge at the closest target and that's it. In any case Co-ops are only good for testing different ship loadout/setups (AA, anti-DD, secondary build and such). You won't really learn how to play against other players there, so go to randoms and you might even find the occasional competent CV player too. Though, in my experience they annoyingly often tend to be on the opposite side...

Yeah, just bow tank the basterd seems like a good option and your guns should be able to kill him right quick. Maybe start reversing a bit, if he stops use radar after you are no longer spotted. He has to turn and show his side to fire those torps, so wait for it and unload a full salvo, when he does. You'll prolly take some torps to the bow but that's not going to kill you so no worries.

Indeed. I would totally find it acceptable or even preferable if they could not do so, while a Hydro (being the extremely close-range thingy) still could. Since right now, aside of range and duration the 2 have no actual functional difference from each other.

Weel, during ww2 typically only the Japanese and some Russian DD's carried torpedo reloads. The others just loaded 1 shot per tube at port before setting off to sea. But of course, those real torps were a tad more difficult to dodge and lots more devastating (1 hit could well sink any ship) than our in-game torps too. So keeping all that in mind perhaps then having infinite reloads is OK, just for the gaming purposes, you know. Carrying reloads had some serious disadvantages too, because guess what happens, if one of those reloads gets hit at some point during the action?

Yeah, 6 is way too much already. Or maybe parity with DD's? 5 DD = 5 Radars seems like fair enough.

Sssooo... Did he manage to cap?

Hulloh @AmiralPotato , to make a long answer short. All of them are worth it lad, you just have to put them in a right ship. For example, the Smoke is good for any DD or Cruiser with smoke. I used it for my German DD's to extend their smoke duration (which in my opinion is annoyingly short) and I also used the Engine to boost in my TRB equipped DD's (which are slow and have no smoke to escape, if detected), just in case I need to run away for longer. Hydro I have used in CL's which I have set up to be DD hunters. Def AA for CA's equipped for AA instead and so on. DCP is in Bismarck, because it gets brawling close-range and personal and so needs the extended immunity period, Spotting Aircraft mods for IJN or any other long-range sniper BB's. Radar for DM. So it kinda depends on what you are planning to do with a particular ship, how you set it up (cap skills, consumables and upgrades) to determine which one would give you the most benefit and why. You can use them either to improve a particularly annoying weakness or to boos an already strong feature of a ship even more.

Who doesn't? Hope they will change / remove it at some point. Always was an optimist that way.

Heretic!

Just the regular very basic stock sight for now, but I was planning to give the dynamic sight a try this weekend. We'll see how that goes. I have tried the fancier ones too, but found them too distracting.

Yupp, knew that in advance so I never took the thing. No surprises there, but sad tho. I too would have preferred for it be something actually useful.

Weel, must be a bit of bad luck there too. I am currently playing Mogami (tier8 Cruiser), trying to get my gameplay in her up to par, you know and I tend to get a fairly balanced game spread most of the time. Yeah, there are the tier 10 games about 1/3 of the time but for the rest is is either top tier of "just" tier 9 games, which are not too bad. And in any case it should be easier in a DD. I used to main on DD's before deciding to move on to Cruisers and it is far easier to play a DD in a tier 10 match than it is a Cruiser (especially a bottom-tier one), I can tell you (because you still have the stealth and ability to torp from stealth). Sometiimes I get a few days, when it is all tier 10 matches, but it all balances out later on, I guess that is what "random" really means. Of course, might also have something to do with the fact that there may not be too many DD available at the time (because of huge radar influx due to US CL line) and that's why MM will just grab any DD within range to balance it out. I'm guessing you end up in tier 10 games so often because folks are now getting up to Worchester in US CL line and testing it out in mass, so there's overpopulation of that ship causing lots more pressure towards higher tier matches than usual. My advise is, if it get s real bad - Just be smart abouttit, don't just obstinately stick to the same boat all the time but switch to playing something else - A Cruiser perhaps for a while, there's no lack of those for the time being and you'll easily get more balanced tier distribution.

Kidding right?Printz Eugen OF COURSE!!

I tend to get awful dizzy high up so I'm guessing I'll have to go become sharkbait then. Sigh!

Should have seen this coming since they introduced the oil eh?

Ehheh?Well that sure takes the cake, I must admit. I was just last weekend in a game where we had 2 radars and the enemy 5 on the "2 Brothers Map" and with my luck 4 of those were in the A cap with me as the only DD that side of the map (both teams had 2 DD's and our team's significant other went to D and died there almost instantly). Unsurprisingly, I did not manage to cap A despite of half a dozen tries and since the sk. "support" did not see fit to actually shoot at any of the radar ships (1 torp'd one, but the other 3 finished the game with nearly full HP), I finally called it quits and went over to D to delay the enemy there (enemy radar ship on that flankhad been sunk), since we were getting overrun. I was the only one in our team, who survived the game (did not win BTW) and even that only because their effin' radars finally ran out of charges. Didn't have any CV's tho. Lucky for me. Other that that game, I've been rather spared from the radar calamity at this time simply because of the basic expedient that I have rather cleverly (which is unusual for me) refrained from playing any DD's for the time being. Just until the radar frenzy cools down a bit, so meanwhile I play Cruiser and am a lot less bothered by them.