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I get about 1700 with a +50% boost on a 3-star win. Not too bad, almost on par with randoms. Problem is, this week I've seen lots of brainless players who don't know which way to go. Aegis week is the best, very farmable with a half-decent team.

When your build is passively cancelled out by a single plane or DD, it's not very versatile build and probably not worth the points. I don't usually play BB but when I do, I assume I'll be permaspotted by one of the above or both. In fact, the only things besides DDs I'd invest points into for stealth would be short-ranged cruisers like Omaha, Cleve or the UK ones which kinda need the extra window in order to get closer, when forced away from their natural habitat, i.e. island chains.

Another ship I won't buy because I can't use doubloons. Oh well, I'll put my money on GOG instead.

Pushed a Dunkirk out of the way of a torp wall... in my Ognevoi.

Which is more fun really depends on your preferences. USA are knife-fighters (though with more flexibility past t6), USSR are mid-range firespammers (plus torboat Ognevoi and some limited stealth torping ability in the higher tiers), Japan are ninja underdogs and the Germans are somewhat like the late USN boats, except bulkier and with hydro instead of Def AA. If you like stealth go with IJN, if you like brainlessly shooting 130mms day in day out go with USSR, and if you like a bit of both, Germany is worth trying out. Though before t6 it's all torpboats with peashooter guns.

Get Anshan, it's a versatile DD that earns double Free EXP. I believe it takes tier 9 permacamo to achieve the same Free EXP farming speed on a non-premium ship, and that's more expensive than the Anshan itself. For resource farming it has to be the best value in the game, unless you don't value Free EXP (which you should, it can get you the most expensive ship in the game for free... eventually.) As for the ship itself, it's good, especially the guns. It's also one of the stealthier things at t6-7 and allows you to stealth torp.

Most DDs can stealth torp, you may need Concealment Expert. Remember to stagger your launches and don't just aim at the grey line. Try to predict what the target might do. Early US and USSR DDs can't do that but they can shoot clean over islands with impunity and are deadly up close, against any enemy. Remember also that with smoke, you can make your teammates invisible while spotting the enemy from stealth - giving your team free shots at the enemy team. I'd say DDs are useful at all stages of a match. No matter how badly damaged you are late in the game, you can always use your stealth. A nearly dead cruiser won't be contributing too much unless it can get the drop on the enemy. A nearly-dead BB is not very useful in general. There's a reason why DDs are considered a high-priority target - if you dont' kill them early and you lose your own DDs, the enemy team will always have a stealthy ninja that can't be hunted down or killed unless he makes a mistake, and who will always have the initiative in any engagement, along with the option to disengage at any time. He'll cap your points, he'll send an endless stream of torps, he'll keep you spotted so his friends can shoot at you from behind islands, and there won't be a thing you can do about it.

EDIT: Seems to have been an ISP problem and is gone for now. For a few days now I've had some really egregious lag that I can't find the source of, and it behaves pretty strangely too. Some games will be completely lag-free from start to finish while others will lag hard from start to finish. Nothing in between. When it lags, it *really* freaking lags. Rubberbanding is constant. I don't know much about networks but I ran pingplotter and there's a specific node that frequently shows packet loss. What can I do?

Anshan is the only one I can afford, and it gets the job done. 2x FXP is the real point of the ship though.

AFAIK normal hydro that any non-KM cruiser gets, up to Z-52, which shares the best hydro in the game with Hindy.

Never. As for my own stats, it's just another number I like to see go up, though the most important number of all to me is in the top right in the port screen.

Er, what's the point of Cyclone? Yes, smoke, but you won't cover all the ships in smoke and those left outside will be the ones targeted by the bombers with full accuracy, unlike on Anthony. Then the shell arcs make hitting the boots near-impossible beyond 2.5km and the RoF is horrible. Biggest problem to 5-starring it is the stupid bots running into mines when trying to dodge torps, especially in the narrow middle section. Can easily lose 2-3 ships due to that ****ery alone.

Campbel gets US smoke, so I'll be happy to deploy a 30% bigger screen and reload it 10% faster.

Just going up to t5/t6 may give some false impressions though. Pensacola is a whole different beast from Cleveland, Yorck isn't the spammy parer-citadel monstrosity that KB/NB are.

Wish we'd get to keep the DDs, why go to all the trouble to design them and make them functional, and then miss the opportunity to please players with free premiums? Looking forward to the commander. I can only put him on the Campbel for now but hopefully we'll get a full line this year. Hope he gets a different voice that doesn't sound... off... like the standard one. Oh yeah, press F to pay respects to Shiratsuyu.

I would say skip to t6, especially if you don't have a 10-point captain with CE. The first few can work, but are awkward as hell without CE. Actually so is EG and LM but at least those can sort of work as gunboats, unlike all the previous peashooters. V-170 is fun to play if you like torps, but it has the issue of being in a tier with a lot of CVs and small maps, while having terrible guns, no AA, and one of the worst smokes in the game. It's like all the weaknesses of US DDs without the things that make up for it. You can stealth torp, that's their flavor, but that doesn't work when you're being permaspotted by planes. That's an issue in higher tiers too, along with slowish maneuvering, but at least those have decent guns. The bad smoke and lack of AA is why I dropped this line, you're too vulnerable to aircraft, and not just bombers but anything that keeps you and your torps spotted.

It's getting buffed pretty bigly in 0.6.8. - 115s torp reload down to 92s on Hull B.

It is, on the other hand, within torpedo range. Surely you can see the problem when it comes to BBs that get some of the best HE in the game. Only consolation is the lack of aircraft. At least, I'm sure as hell going to assume you can't have radar + aircraft. Then again, they'll probably do a prem that has both.

if there's a downturn, you can probably put that down to the lack of new content this year. Operations are nice for some, but I suspect a gimmick to most. The Bismarck campaign was a filler update, 0.6.3. had practically nothing that stood out. The biggest thing this year has been French CLs, not really a country or shiptype that excites that many people.

I'm honestly surprised they're nerfing Shira so hard and leaving Aka, a very capable DD, untouched. I don't think Shira deserves it at all, not having smoke is going to get you killed time and again. Shira is slow, torp-dependent and has little AA, so without smoke a CV can counter you just by leaving a squadron over your ship. You can't torp, hide or run. At that point you'll be wishing you had Aka instead. And if you choose smoke instead of TRB... again, why not play Aka instead? Just what are they thinking?

Really? That's just silly. Unless it's hardcoded or something, there's no good reason not to allow people to do the doubloon conversion thing even if the ship has the same discount ingame.

That's not mutually exclusive with what I'm asking though. You can have both ingame and online store discounts at the same time. That's what I'm saying, give people options or some like me will be unable or unwilling to spend. And if it's a question of incentivizing people to spend on the online store, they can throw in some extras like signals or camos or what have you. I wouldn't complain if I missed out on those, as long as I got the ship at the same price ingame.

Yeah, I was afraid this would happen. The discount I want, but can't pay with doubloons (I was going to add some to my existing balance and buy it ingame). Makes it even worse that this is happening during the French weekend event when Dunk would normally get a doubloon discount. So, no money from me, WG. I'll also buy fewer doubloons in future, for obvious reasons. Either let us spend doubloons in the website or have the same discounts ingame as on the website. This just devalues doubloons and limits the customer's options.

As I feared, it's only on the webstore and not for doubloons. If that's how it's going to be, I won't be buying a damn thing in this sale.

So we're getting daily discounts starting in 2 days... cool, but what I'd like to know is, when a daily deal begins will it last until the end of the sale or just 24h until the next one begins? Personally I'm hoping for Dunq 50% for doubloons. Not 50% off some overpriced bundle. It would also be good to have more ships available for doubloons, I'd shell out for Perth for example, if WG just let me buy it with doubloons.