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Has anyone also considered that the overpen ribbon is, well, weird and not correct some times? I mean I have had overpens that have done penetration damage, or just now in a game in the Currywurst where 1 citadel and 1 overpen resulted in 16200 damage. So where did that other overpen ribbon go?

The Spees problem is primarily lack of DPM and low gun count. Having a potentially high salvo does not really matter so much if the accuracy is still wonky and if you fail to do significant damage you can and often will be in a lot of trouble since you just can't retaliate fast enough. But apart from the rate of fire and low shell count, there is nothing wrong per se with the guns. When the Spee gets in a midrange position and you get a standard battle where you have the time to fire multiple salvoes it can rack up som nice numbers.

AR is a better option than EM. And the Cleveland can get away with picking IFHE first due to the sheer firepower, durability and the 12 km concealment is workable. But CE should still be a skill to take if you plan to keep the crew on that ship as it does enable you to get closer before firing, and in those ranges the Cleveland is brutal.

Such as the one where I said that the smoke meta is a direct result of massive amounts of BB's and removal or nerfing of smoke counters? Nope, none at all.

Yup the smoke meta for divisions have risen due to fear of beeing blapped by 5+ BB's per side. Calling it World of Cruisers when cruisers are by far the least seen class in tier 9-10 games (apart from CV's) is a bit silly don't you think?

I played the Izumo ages ago (and the Yamato for that matter) but from what I can remember once you get rid of that god awful stockhull she is not halfbad. The guns are nice, punchy, accurate and the pen seems nice. If I had the money I would maybe like to rebuy the Izumo, but I'm grinding to many lines at the moment.

The map itself is just boring and dull. Epicenter as a game mode is not perfect, but it's alright. The problem is that you can't move anywhere without getting shot at by 90% of the enemy team, so you use the only cover you have, which is located at your base... Honestly Ocean is a more agressive and fun map than this piece of crap.

I like the theme. I don't like that a new update in any form of UI for most platforms means moving around all the buttons. And I don't really like the whole emoji buisness.

I actually think the camo looks quite good, call me weird but I do have a thing for angles.

This reminds me of something my Lieutenant used to say: "How can someone work for so long and still accomplish so little?" On topic, World of Warships has hit my additcion spot a bit better than WoT did in the beginning (mainly because I'm better at ships and slower gameplay than tanks). And WoWs is still fairly young compared to WoT, and WoT has taken some big risks and changes throughout its lifetime, some worked, some did not. If I'm honest no online community I have been apart of has ever been overall nice and friendly. Online gaming in general is pretty toxic. Hell even some singleplayer games have toxic or "git gud" flavoured communities (Dark Souls springs immediately to mind). It's a shame really since there is no reason to be toxic 99% of the time.

Got the Vampire in 2 days. Pretty fun mini campaign. And as for the Vampire, well I played one game in it, used PM-LS-BFT and it was a pretty good little gunboat. I was suprised with the torps, you either got the massive useless fan spread or single fire. And 62 sec for 3 torps is a fairly long time (considering the Wickes for example can launch 6 per side with ~60 sec relaod) but the gun power was suprisingly effective. All in all a good little ship but for me it's going to be more of a collectible than a dedicated sealclubber.

Rather not have another Belfast like ship if I'm honest. Just having a different skin Leander preferably avalaible via a campaign, premium shop or best case scenario both will do just fine.

This site offers a bit more statistics: https://wows-numbers.com/player/518961992,judge_von_death/ I tend to use this site more since you gain more info out of it. Not sure you can see your entire career but you can track quite a far bit back.

Well yes but those issues and possible solutions have already been brought up numerous times and yet not even a word has come from WG in order to adress this. We have been asking(yelling) for proper tutorial missions or something in that order to force players to actually learn for over a year now, but utter silence. WG does not listen, they are happy with the clueless potato player since they are the greatest income source, where as the rest of us in the minority are just here for the ride. So with all that, yes trying to fix it on an individual level is not optimal. But for now it's all one can do really. And if WG can't create proper tutorials, atleast I can educate people in private messages after the game. Most of the time the response is positive, other times not.

No clue either. Personally I tend to have some crappy battles (my 13k damage Tirpitz game this evening springs to mind) but for each horrible game there are 3-4 good to great games to balance it out. Normally the main reason why things are going badly is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy in my case. If I get tilted and just focus on my team, bad RNG or personal idiocy I will perform badly. If I take a break or focus on doing my best in the current situation it is still possible to salvage games.

For clarification, this is a mission: You can play any ship as long as it is above tier 4 to complete this. You don't have to select it and you don't have to go into the mission screen and press battle in order to progress. It will update automatically. This is a campaign/task: This one you have to manually select in order to activate it, but when that is done it is the same as with the missions. As long as fulfill the criteria that is described on the task it will update automatically. Hope that cleared it up somewhat.

Any tier 8 CA/CL eats a tier 6 BB without much difficulty unless the cruiser player is a complete potato.

This 100%. People see British BB HE performance and go "hey I never realised I could do that much damage with HE, I better use it aswell", disregarding the fact that British BB HE is [edited]nuclear and is their "thing".

Rebought the Roon after I got my Hindenburg. Played 2 games in it, then sold it again. The Hindenburg just does everything better and is more fun to play.

First try I got 4 stars. But I can only assume it was some sort of bug that made it so we did not get 5 stars. We had around 90 seconds of defense time left, and the only thing alive was the Raptor CV. Just as we were about to kill it the secondary objective failed and seconds after we killed the Raptor and won the mission. Now is there something I have missed, since I assumed the time we had to kill it was the overall defense time, so why did the objective fail with 90 seconds left? Anyone got an explanation for this?

The old Midway and Hakuryu were stronger, with jets as fighters, AA was not as powerful and the planes overall were all insane latewar designs so they were stupidly fast. Even if you saw the strike coming you had no chance to react. So we are still a bit off from the CV dominance of older times.

I feel that the guns perform better overall in the Arizona vs all types of targets thanks to that sigma improvement. Better to always deal some damage than no damage because the guns misbehave. On topic, at tier 6 nothing really sticks out as people already pointed out. Premium account and just playing normal tier 6-7 ships is probably the cheapest option. But premium tier 6, Molotov, De Grasse, Arizona. Tier 7 Shinyhorse. That is pretty much it really.

Just watched some old Midway footage from ~2 years back, it was 1-2-2 that was the broken loadout with Banshee jets as fighters and torpbombers with 2.4k HP and 9800 torpdamage.

You want Concealment expert, not even a contest. For starters it helps you get closer to caps to use radar or disengage easier, but it means that if you get spotted you can insta radar and suprise the DD or cruiser that is spotting you. 10.2 km concealment with full stealthbuild and 11.7 km radar range. That gives you a pretty big bufferzone. This is my Chapayev captain right now. 3 of those points are probably going into Super intendent or BFT, but I don't play the Chappy that often lately so I have not put those points to good use yet.

Well sure it's not hard, but still annoying when you have 4 tier 10 ships and a bunch of premiums/reward ships so those duplicate tier 10 that I never ever use are not welcome in my already cluttered port.