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Obviously an Englishman... But nope, haff not noticed that one. Must remember to commit a quick suicide run in my next game and check it out.

Ahhaah! So it is going to be a genuine CL then, this Worchestershirewhatchamacallitsomethingorother... INNDERESDING! Admittedly I have myself long advocated getting CL's their own, separate tech trees, as they are indeed very different from Heavy Cruisers (though I hoped for the IJN CL's). Oh well, it's a start then anyways. Nice to see it happening but yeah, I can see the issues that will bring to their owners.

Hhehehe!Redcap375 We're gonna hafta concede that then... Phew, for a minute there I was wondering why we're even discussing "the Best CL" at tier 10, because I could not figure out any possible alternatives... Unless I was just being ignorant and there was one coming up in the near future...

Ehmm, I may be wrong but... Isn't Minotaur the ONLY Tier 10 CL in the game? Well, presently I mean...

Yeah, you are the only one...

NAAH! I'm not drunk enough for that right now, just wait for a few hours until i get off work...

Oh yeah 4000, sure - But that is still awfully few when divided by 3 though... Aand NOPE still not tempted to watch it, I try to avoid painful experiences on principle. My liver can only take so much.

Blogis? Is that some kind of a vegetabl? Like an improved Turnip or something?

COMBINED OF 400 MATCHES? So basically they were total noobs and potatoes to boot?? Does not seem like worth watching... If I wanted to see something totally humiliating I could always go watch my own Noob games instead... NAH! Too painful...

Well, if you think about it... Their planes also just circle their own ships, but when you attack them or fly over them then you would be smack in their active range right? So in a way, they are just where they are supposed to be and of course, once the enemy sees your planes approaching, they all will immediately launch their planes to counter you. But OFC, they cannot follow you back to your Carrier or anything like that, you will leave them behind as soon as your planes go on their return trip. Well the enemy CV fighters will still be there to give chase tho.

Oh yeah, there's that too. BB and Cruisers planes are purely for self-defence. They cannot actually send them out on combat missions to attack enemy fleet or aircraft (unless within their own AA gun range). So they will not be able to accompany you on your way to attack the enemy fleet, only CV's can do that. Oh yeah and also, the Planes Cruisers or BB's send out are not "real" fighter squadrons of several planes each, they are just single aircraft, so even if it seems a lot. There is just 1 plane each. So they are not really a threat to your squadrons, their job is only to disrupt them, only the enemy CV is something to worry about.

Hhehehe! That question you probably should ask them then. We cannot explain that, but almost every BB and Cruiser in the game at tier 7 has some planes, either for spotting or fighters.

Yupsie, that's the deal here BUT since your airgroups are bigger (6 planes) the actual numbers of planes available to you and the IJN player are just about the same. It's just that your planes are concentrated in bigger but fewer groups whereas IJN has many groups with less airplanes in them. Of course, you also must consider the replacement planes as well, not just the ones in the air at the same time. Also yeah, while Hiryu does have more planes with 72 against your 58, with bigger squadrons and better planes you will still be able to wipe them out from the sky with relative ease in one-on-one squadron fights. The IJN player will have to concentrate both his fighter squadrons, if he intends to match your 1.

Soooo playing USN carrier by any chance are you? Hehehe! That is the deal and main difference between Japanese and US Carriers. You WILL always have less airgroups that your IJN counterparts BUT to compensate, they will be larger, you have 6 planes per group and IJN usually has only 4 so you could still make it work. Unless, of course IJN player has the "Air Supremacy"-captain skill, which will increase their airgroup strength to 5. Of course, to counter, you can also get that same skill and increase yours to 7.

Hhehehe! Sounds awfully familiar. Got a win pretty much the same way recently in the "Land of Fire" map. We went for B & C caps, I managed to cap C and kill their DD there (with some help from our cruisers admittedly), but they carried the other 2 caps quickly destroying 6 of our ships in the process and I was pretty sure they can't lose at that point since they'd only lost 2 ships so far.All hope was lost. BUT To my everlasting amazement instead of playing to defend B and whittle us down 1 by 1 or to outflank us from either side they began YOLOing right through the middle of the map one-by-one from B to C cap with the entire remainder of our team concentrated all around C and protected from their team's supporting fire by the islands separating B and C there (yes, they originally had us pretty much surrounded at C, but inexplicably all their flanking ships also decided to take the time and effort to sail to B cap specifically to join the YOLO-train there). So they got chopped and torp'd to hell. The game ended, when they lost 7 ships that way and our team finally managed to charge out of C cap and hunt down the last 3 survivors (who quite suicidally seemed to be on their way to the YOLO-alley from B to C as well)... We never even managed to cap the bloody B cap the entire game.. I have absolutely no idea, what they thought they were doing.

Oh weeel... I feel your pain. I have 532 Million Credits and still goin' up, would like to spend them on something useful too (yeah, already using prem consumables paid by credits, where reasonable).

That would make sense... Maybe they are planning to finally include Tone with her 8 guns into the tree then as tier 6 or something. It would fit nicely between Aoba and Myoko in that sense. Though I must admit I'd still rather favor a separate IJN CL tree with 155mm Mogami, as top tier rather than a CA split.

Yyeeah, I guess the same would indeed go for me. As an old-timer, I only discovered recently that you could actually legally adapt and use some other playername than your own without fear of imminent prosecution. Too late to change now but do not judge me too harshly, I also learned about e-mail only a few years back when I began working as a "specialist" for a major IT company (strangely, they somehow figgered me to be a highly skilled "technical person")... And besides, I have been voluntarily banished from using Facebook due to repeating overly zealous and jealous wife-type issues. I ADMIT NOTHING!

I hope they'll do something like this for IJN also. Would really like to see Agano and Oyodo in the game too and OFC perhaps a similar thingy for a few RN Heavy Cruisers with maybe the Renown as top Tier 9 or 10 cruiser... Might actually find my first RN ship somewhere in that line.

You evil, evil man! How dare you point out idiocy amongst our ranks. Do you not realize that 90% of mankind HAS ALREADY BEEN INFILTRATED by complete Morons. It is too late to turn back now. So all that is left for us is to conform and settle ourselves to meet the accepted new standard.

WOOT! But my DEAR Colonello! I am shocked. Surely now... I'm pretty sure Marathon is a thing, or was it hide-and-seek?? There oughta be some award for that. Heh! Just remembered a game way back when in the Hot Spot map, standard game. When our team was on the top half of the map, they all Lemminged to the right towards the "C-cap islands" presumably to charge the enemy base. I stayed back to defend ours just in case. Then some miscreant from the enemy team had the gull to actually fire a torpedo salvo at our guys, 1 hit and they all were suddenly seized by a "torpedo-terror", panicked and headed right to the upper A10-corner at top speed and just camped there under siege the whole match. We lost when 5 enemy ships sailed right through the middle of the map straight into our cap, killed me after a valiant, but hopelessly futile resistance and capped our base. No-one even bothered to shoot at them to reset cap. I was the only one killed in our team, the enemy lost 2 to my torps and the game was over in about 5 mins...

Weel, you know... Gunboat again. Hazards of the trade methinks. It could always be possible that someone shoots back and when they do.... Unless, of course you are playing against some of the teams I've had lately. Then it would be quite safe, since no-one bothers to shoot at a DD - Ever... I even had the dubious honor of witnessing a New Mexico in our team, NOT trying to shoot at a Kamikaze, which was clearly visible about 5km right in front of his main guns (they were loaded) and choosing instead to shoot right over the Kami at an enemy BB some 15 km away... Somehow, he seemed surprised and rather upset, when seconds later some 6 torpedoes landed on his side and insta-killed him. Well, since I was nearby a few km away in my Furutaka trying to shoot at the Kami (I did get him eventually, but the bugger was crafty and Furutaka not ideal for DD hunting anyways) it turned out it was apparently all my fault and he reported me for not killing the Kami on time. Sad but true, I am overwhelmed with shame and dishonor. But not to be too harsh though, he WAS in a BB so self-defense is apparently not mandatory and our team did also have 6 other Cruisers besides me, sadly it seemed that I was the only one deluded enough to try and shoot at puny DD's for much less HP damage (yes, I did ask them why in the team chat - This was the explanation I got, along with remarks that i was obviously stupid for not realizing it - So feeling rather dejected and ashamed of my persistent ignorance I refrained from team chatting for the rest of the game). For some reason, we did not win... I don't know why.

Pffth! That's nothiing dude! I got detonated 4 times in 4 consecutive battles last weekend in my Yugumo... It was then I suddenly remembered that I actually happen to have 258 of those rather nifty Juliet Charlie flags stocked up and neatly folded somewhere on the top shelf of my signals cabinet... Problem solved! Of course I also changed the ship to Kagerou just for good measure, forgot to mount the effing signals again and, rather unsurprisingly, got detonated the fifth time... Of course, since Khaba is a gunboat and so you tend to use them more... Therefore, while firing it does not enjoy concealment much and also gets shot at a lot more than some other DD's (I should perhaps remember that Yugumo is not necessarily supposed to be a gunboat more often myself but I do enjoy my Pewpew so), resulting in more ample opportunities to get detonated in the process.

Woah! So late, way past my bedtime. I'm too old... I'll be already napping by then.

Totally agree.. Blixies That is THE only reason I got this game and it is still not here!