Pandafaust

It's not getting much better :P I know it's the weekend, but still. Like I say, the ship itself is great, but she's just cursed for me - just fired up the first match today to give her a fresh attempt, and it's a CV matchup with the "friendly" CV being a 35% WR scrubber, up against with @_L0ki his over 70% WR. Amazingly, we lost, as to all intents and purposes we didn't have a CV (and no real AA cruisers either) so the enemy had effectively map-wide spotting.

She's a beautiful little ship, in my opinion. Looks great, speedy as hell with decent concealment, wonderful torps and a nice firestarter with accurate guns. Basically I find her fundamentally ideal for kiting in, a relaxing way to wind down if you've had some stressy battles. Even though she'll get dropped into a lot of T10 battles she deals with it exceptionally well.

*Best Necromantic impression* Arise, ancient thread, for I'm not going to start a whole new topic for this. *ahem* Well, with that out of the way I just wanted a bit of a vent as I swear my Yueyang is cursed by the ghosts of some long-dead BB captains I pissed off or something. Mentioned it to @MortenTardo when he popped up with one of his clanmates in a game last night, but the ship feels great, has some decent power to it but I'll be damned if I win any matches in it. 7 matches so far, with 6 of them being losses, but averaging 73k damage, over 50% of the team's capping contributions and 50k odd average spotting damage when people bother to put some fire support in, but either I'm getting potato teams or there's something I'm missing.

There's nothing like that sinking feeling of keeping a bundle of ships spotted and hitting the F3 key, just to watch absolutely nothing happen to them.

c) Indiscriminate Fire - Secondary battery guns are always active and will target the nearest ship, whether friend or foe. d) Fake News - replaces the repair party with a consumable which, when activated, reinstates any HP lost to citadel hits in the past 15 seconds. d) Collusion - The Donald is randomly assigned to either the red or green team at the end of the battle. Also comes with a special "perma pink" camo and matching minimap icon.

Didn't realise you were a TV personality, @RedAnark.

I am no longer going to be able to see the ship in game without calling it Bertie.

Cheers @MrFingers, always handy to get a notification like this for us non-facebook users, much appreciated.

Only tried it once, but it seems easy enough, got 11 kills and soloed one of the airbases in the Cleve without ever feeling under any real threat. That said, we actually lost because the rest of the team managed to blindly suicide into torps and completely ignored the airbases, so I couldn't reach and kill the other one in time.

There's also the possibility that the OP is manually disabling their AA and secondaries with "P", so manually selecting a target re-enables them. Can't think of any occasions offhand where you'd want to do that in a Shinyhorse, and you'd think they'd have realised that the reason the guns aren't firing are because they've specifically instructed them not to fire, but some people are a bit special . . .

@nambr9 Bud, you put my paint skills to absolute shame. However, I think I can top you in terms of a cowardly team... Admittedly, it wasn't my finest hour in a DD, but sometimes there's not a great deal you can do. Given that I ended up top scorer on the team with a collosal 434xp, you can probably work out exactly how effective the guys who never left the spawn at C were.

I've not noticed any difference in droprate by changing the type of crate away from TYL and back again, I'd imagine the above is just a bit of confirmation bias. I had 3 in 4 earlier this year whilst purely selecting TYL, that's just how probability works. Don't have the figures with me at the moment, but I think so far this year I've had 14 Supercontainers out of around 220 TYL picks. Haven't had any in the 20 or so Consumbles Containers I grabbed to aid resupply in ranked.

Not a great deal of damage, but I still feel I made more than my fair share of a contribution towards this battle - sadly a loss due to a team-hitting mino, and some teammatess who had the survival instincts of a depressed lemming.

The trick is to hit these "impossible to sink" ships with a sufficient number of shells or torpedoes to reduce their HP pool to zero, at which point they sink. Hope that helps.

I had that same guy technically on my team in a ranked match earlier this evening (in his gearing). He yolo suicided, and when I pointed out he was being a tool he had a bit of a rant about playing his ship however he wanted etc etc. Naturally, he was the lowest xp earner that round.

It's the special "wet fire", you get 8 attempts to apply it from each side of the ship. The shells are a little slow though, and you've got to wait a minute and a half before you get another go with them.

It's always so nice when your teammates appreciate all the hard work you've been putting in for them . . .

It is indeed a good idea - and could also assist with those frustrating times in (usually) a BB where you park up in a cap, and then just soak up wave after wave of disruptive "cap resetting" shells until eventually someone stealthier finds the time to also edge in with you to actually cap it. There's always that sensation when you get to the final stats screen and see your contribution to that effort as consisting of "2/120 cap points" where you feel that the person responsible for designing the xp formula is actually Douglas Reynholm from the IT crowd.

Hah, same here - I saw the first post about having had a ranked match "tonight" and got confused as I knew it wasn't live yesterday evening when I was online. Then saw the date and figured there was a bit of necromancy going on . . .

For quite a long time I thought my Atago was cursed - I'd have generally decent damage/caps/xp stats etc in it, and it felt like a really comfortable and powerful ship to play, but my WR in it was just abysmal. Luckily, it's picked up a bit now, so it's back above 50% and I'm sure I could improve that if I wanted to. On the opposite side of the coin though, I'm fairly certain my New Orleans is blessed. I can't really stand the ship (wasn't keen on the Pepsi either), and my contribution to damage and caps is laughable (other than being a shell-sponge and occasional dd-repellent). Despite all that though, my WR in it seems to be staying resolutely around 65%. Still doesn't make me want to stay in it for a moment longer than I have to though.

I felt a bit despairing after just a couple of games last night trying to get my daily win in the Fushun. First match I wombled over to a cap and contested it for a while against a standard dd/cruiser assault for a while but kept seeing friendly cruisers and a friendly dd broadside suiciding into torps which were spotted a mile off. By the time I died (10 mins in or so), I'd realised that our CV (ranger) was just idling around and hadn't launched any planes, so decided to alt-tab for a quick stats check on it. 27% Winrate, pretty special - but not as special as his trips in the Kolberg, which were a quite stunning 17% WR over 50 or so battles . Not even sure how you get that low in a cruiser, you literally get a higher WR than that by not loading in. Next match, another CV battle but the opposition has the Saipan to our Ranger, so I know that unless the Saipan's captained by my precious CV teammate we're going to struggle. Turns out that he wasn't in it, so despite our CV actually being very competent (chucked him a compliment for it) he couldn't contend with the Saipan, and I couldn't get near a cap to contest it due to the spotting. I eventually died whilst delaying an enemy dd and a few bbs at our initial cap . Still, the game went down to the wire, but unfortunately the Ranger eventually got deplaned, and the Saipan then mopped the rest of the team up and they won on points/time. As I already had the stats site up, checked it and turns out he's some god emperor of CVs, with a 90% WR over 800 battles in his well-balanced ship. At that stage, I decided Mr. Matchmaker wasn't going to be on my side, so logged off for the night. Hopefully next time I'm on, karma will balance out and I'll be on the other team. Also, a couple of random Supercontainers wouldn't go amiss . . .

A quick calculation gives his total cumulative damage caused over all battle at 82,844 and never having got a kill. Given those stats, I propose that rather than secondary specced, he has in fact specced his Yugumo for ramming, and in one battle achieved his dream of smashing into an FdG which had already used/chose not to use his DCP. Naturally, it survived.

I was in a battle a couple of days back (tier 8-10 iirc, can check the screenie when nack home). The friendly CV (well, maybe friendly isn't the right word, but the one who was on my team at least) managed to achieve a grand total of 1xp. He wasn't even afk, it was just he possessed a lacuna of effectiveness . I'm trying to work out how exactly you get just the 1xp, fairly certain he was never in range of anything to fire a secondary so . . . Briefly glimpsing a ship with a plane?

Saw @MortenTardo just now on one of the icy maps in his Shira, he got focussed down towards the start so he spent the rest of the match with 800hp. Unfortunately for us, the CV was too busy trying to snipe his oppo to drop a bomb or two on him whilst flying over him on the way to the aforementioned snipe attempt. My team somehow managed to throw the game despite having grabbed the caps and got into a fairly unassailable position to start. I can't quite get the hang of the Lyon, it spits out a hell of a lot of shells but I never seem to get great damage out of it.

Completed the missions, and got two of the BBs (Bretagne and Lyon, from the 4th and penultimate boxes respectively). Someone annoyingly, I got an unwieldy amount of duplicate collectables from the 25 available mission crates, (ended with 5 unfound collectables and 12 duplicate keys) so I'm hoping there's another crate or two in missions out there to complete it. If not, I guess I'll have to wait for some event to roll around again.