Bademeister02

Just completed the second directive while casually playing and using the 200% xp first win boni. Dont think i can complete directive 3 in time to get the gorizia but who cares about that ship anyways! Apart from the obvious shitshow that WGs marketing and communication around the PR-disaster was, i am glad that i got tons of flags, coal, steel, free XP and premium time out of that event. So i got that going for me, which is nice^^ But now its time to decide which coal and freeXP ship to get And for everyone that is actively grinding the PR: Wish you good luck with the grind and that you dont go insane while doing it! And now i am off enjoying my cities nightlife

For me its the other way around. I did fairly well in the NC, but winning in Iowa, Monty or Missouri seems to be to difficult for me But my real cursed ship has to be the Zao. Whatever i do, i just cant win in this ship! Overall stats for that ship arent that bad, but for every game i win i loose two matches. Its srsly frustrating cause i really like that ship and its playstyle-.- Maybe i am just to stupid to play T10

Jup there are surely ways of playing around the strenghts of the friesland and Kita or Jutland seem to be certainly better suited for cap contesting then friesland. But once he gets you in your fletcher you are probably toast. Sure there are ships that are even better in doing this, but i dont think that friesland is that bad... and lets be honest, 500m of concealment difference (fletcher has what max conc.? 5.8km or something?) isnt that big while contesting caps. Dont get me wrong, i dont want to complain. Just wanted to say that Friesland seems to be very strong under the right circumstances. As the report of @Europizza seems to indicate aswell... But there are surely ways of fighting against it. Not every new ship introduction can be brokenly op afterall! Disclaimer: I dont own the ship and can only speak from the receiving end. So take it with a grain of salt^^

Encountered this ship first in my fletcher after a several month long WOWs-break. Damn it was terrifying! Hadnt seen my fletcher melt that quick since a sneaky atlanta ambushed me last year! During the following matches i kept running into Frieslands on several occasions only to get blasted to bits every time in 1vs1. Granted they took a heavy beating too, but winning in a pure gunfight seemed pretty hard^^ So eventually i learned my lesson, accepted that there is yet another superior cap-contester at T9 (especially with that hydro) and abandoned the caps once a frieslands entered the fray while dumping emergency torps. Cant really understand how anyone can say its weaker than any T9 DD (but only from experience playing against it). Anyway it seems like a fun and unusual ship so maybe i will hit the button once i will be back at 1mil free xp! cheers

I was hoping for the mighty Warspite but my luck gave me a Monaghan. Yay i guess^^ One more US-prem that i will probably never play

Hey people, two weeks ago i finally decided to get my PC going again and reinstall WOWs. I quit playing it due to technical issues and RL-stuff in February 2019 and hadnt touched it since then. Download, installation etc didnt took long and once i started the game i was greeted with a free 14 day trial for the Tirpitz (yay thx WG) and a personal mission to get a free Bismarck for something like "play a game and get 1000XP". Nice start isnt it? Wanted a Bismarck for quite some time so i was reasonably happy with my reentry into WOWs. Until i played the first matches Keep in mind i am not a bad player (according to my stats)and that i can usually adapt to changes inside this game. But it seems that hightier gameplay became some kind of struggle during my absence! I will probably adapt with time but until now i am not having much fun doing it^^ In my first matches with ma newly acquired german BBs i tried doing my ususal BB thing and slowly (!) pushed a flank to support my DDs (yes i am the missouri player that liked to use his radar for instance) from a range where my main battery might actually hit something. Everything went well until i got into 10km range of the cap circle and magic smokescreens bloomed everywhere while a firestorm descended upon me."What is this?" i asked myself while frantically trying to dodge the usual torps and air attacks until i realized it was a pair of smolensk feasting on me. It did take approx. 30 secs until i had to bail with a full turn to flee into island cover but only to get blapped across the map by a Kremlin that hadnt even moved outside their spawn. Well nice start lets be more cautios next game. Tried hanging back a bit more back, only to see my DDs getting slaughtered, Cruisers either sitting in smoke or getting blapped while the BBs hugged the spawn or the sidelines. And a lonely T8 german BB trying to utilise island cover to get somewhat close to our objective. But of course only to get focussed to death by several aggressive smokescreens and islands^^ So i left my BBs behind and tried to have some fun in my DDs. It was Fletchertime! Battle starts, only one radar and a single cv so lets see where the planes and the radar are. DM is on the other side of the map and planes were harassing another poor soul so lets try to get the cap. Capping starts but its of course contested. Well i got Cruiser support behind me and i am in a fletcher right? Pushed a bit forward to see whats inside the cap and found a Friesland waiting. Nice surprise and a quick death for me. I did manage to shave half of his health but i never really had a chance. Oh well so much about the good old USN "gunboat" DDs. Tried Shima for some time but got hunted down by a Jutlands and some nice CV rockets so i said well [edited]it and got the cruisers out. Ouch. Not a good decision. Zao? Try dodging Kremlin, Monty and Yama AP from across the map, while Conq, Smolensk will burn you alive. Ok just stop shooting and get undetected. But look a DB squad of that midway is coming for me^^ Wait that smokescreen over there with a smolensk inside looks like it has no protection from its teammates, lets try rushing it with AP. Wait what? No citadels on the broadside and this thing has torps too ? You see, i had quite some struggles within my first matches. Getting back into the game with my usual approach that worked in 2018 and early 2019 wasnt working anymore. I am currently doing better, but only because i do play even more cautiously. Gunfights in my Fletcher? Nahh better torp the cap from distance. Close quarter cap-support in my cruisers? Nah better stay back and either longrange HE/torp spam or hugging the islands as if it was your gf and spam everything that moves. Pushing a flank in my BB? Yes if you are part of the lemming train. Otherwise you better not...Playing aggressively was hard before i left, but its even harder now. As if WG does not want me to play that way. After playing approx. 50 (dont know the exact numbers) battles since my return to WOWs i am a bit lost here. What is WG trying to do with the game? How on earth do they think the introduction of ships like Smolensk, Friesland, Colbert or the Soviet BBs would benefit the game? Didnt they refrain from giving Mino HE because it was deemed to be to annoying and OP? And now they introduce exactly that into the game (atleast i can citadel mino^^)? Is more HE-spam and general dakka really better for the game? Well after seeing a Wladiwostok beeing focused by my whole team (and not sinking to it) it seems that some new ships can keep up with the recent changes to the game, but the old ones are definitively left behind. After beeing away from the game for 8 months i feel that the powercreep is real and WG seems to only enforce it further with the recent additions. Seeing the planned Italian cruisers with their special shells only adds to this thought imho (but lets wait and see...they are non soviet silverships afterall). I am really grateful about the gifts WG gave me for coming back but i really dont know if i will be playing much after finishing the recent directives and grabbing that free t6 (thanks for that aswell). It feels like every change WG did during my absence, pushed into the direction of "get more range between you and you opponent otherwise you are dead". And this doesnt work for me. There you have it. My "short" impression of coming back into the game. I know there will be guys saying "noob just l2p" and "Smolensk/Friesland arent op, just smokefire them" but my point stands nonetheles. The powercreep during my 8 months of absence is real and its sad to see your old trusty ships beeing outperformed and inadequate to the new meta changes. And it seems WG doesnt care at all about this. Now hit me ^^ Bademeister02

this vid is hilarious and sad at the same time^^ but oh well what use in complaining. Time to earn some coal probably.

Thank you for this totally necessary and true summary of my post^^ Thats exactly what i was trying to say!

The least played premiums huh? Well in the T2-4 bracket are a lot of ships i dont really play or have actually never played! Smith, Campeltown and Vampire etc. come to my mind... If i want to play low tier i will hop in my trusty Yubari or the Arkansas Beta... Both awesome ships in their own way. In the T5-9 bracket my least played prems are the ARP-Kongo and Myoko clones, the Marblehead, Okhotnik, Texas and the Aigle. Damn the Aigle. I just dont understand this ship^^

Yesterday evening an era came to an end. I wanted to play some quick matches with my freshly acquiered Montana and so i opened the launcher in eager anticipation. But my weary eyes were surprised to see yet another patch in the downlad queue. Nothing special i thought and waited patiently, while my trusty old potato pc was busy dealing with the new incoming data. Only 30 minutes later the old man was finally done with all the downloading/installing and i was ready to do battle again! Or so i thought. But to my surprise a little white pop up window appeared everytime i wanted to start the game. It were the magical words, which i had often encountered during the last years. Haunting words, which would destroy dreams of playing nice and updated games. It was the dreaded: "Incompatible System" message, that once again separeted me from a game i once loved. I was staring at the screen, blankly. Trying to comprehend the message and the dimension behind it. Then my view slowly crawled downwards, the eyes searching for the culprit to this horrendous message. And there he was. His fans screaming as loud as possible while trying to cool the antiquated hardware components. It was time. For too long i had negated the obvious hints. The poor thing and its 32bit system were finally at the point of no return. I always said to myself: Dude you are a grown up, 30y old man. You will not invest money into this pc thing anymore. Playing the odd 10 games of WOWS a week isnt justifying the expense. But somehow i would miss it. Ranting at randoms, cursing WG for stupid decisions and in between sometimes enjoy the fun of blapping oblivious players. I am sorry my old friend but i think the time has come to go separate ways. So there it is. One era has ended. But a new one will begin. The era of 64bit...oh what a bright new world! Sidenote 1: Totally unnecessay thread^^ Sidenote 2: But its offtopic so what Sidenote 3: Condolences are appreciated! Sidenote 4: No i cant update the OS. The hardware is just to shitty Sidenote 5: Yay i can finally start playing all these steam games that i bought and didnt check for 32 bit compatibiliy (Looking at you subnautica!)

Nimmst du ernsthaft an, dass sich Unmengen von DD-Spielern mit Absicht in deine Torps werfen nur um dich zu ärgern und sich damit selbst aus dem Spiel zu entfernen? Wie egozentrisch kann ein Weltbild eigentlich sein^^ Oder doch eher Troll much?

Well thats it. Sold my Lexington and the low tier CVs i had researched for Free XP and Credits. This new CV gameplay is just not my cup of tea! I was fairly decent in Carriers pre-patch but i didnt play them often because it was kinda stressful (with all the pressure to be better then the opposing CV). Just before the patch went live i researched and bought the lexington. So i went into this 0.8.0 with a stock carrier and stock planes. And my god it was awful. I forced myself into 7 battles during the original patch and its hotfixes and there was just no chance to get something done with all this AA around. Beeing constantly uptiered and matched against Minotaurs and such didnt help either. Flying around hunting the lonely DD that was stupid enough to leave the AA umbrella or simply scout enemy ships while staying out of AA range were the only things i could do. Much fun, so wow. So i went and researched some of the better planes with free xp. Only to maybe last a bit longer but getting shot down once they are returning to my ship^^ Much fun, so wow! So i rebought the langley. Maybe i was just to stupid to play the hightier battles and needed to start again at T4. Did one battle, managed to deal a whopping 8000 damage while indeed my planes stayed alive. But...much fun, so wow!! So i thought: - i am to stupid to get my stock planes on T8 to work - T4 is actually more boring than a debate in the european parliament and i cant be arsed to waste my free time doing this In conclusion there was no other way but to sell the CVs and (maybe) come back later to relearn once (if) all this AA and general mechanics crap is balanced. I am sad i had to withdraw, because i liked the change in playstyle to the normal WOWs once in a while. But this is just too much pain. Good luck balancing this, maybe i will try again later. In the meantime i will wait for the next T9 free XP ship

Had a roflstomp victory with @Humorpalanta in his Seattle with my Buffalo yesterday on one of the epicenter maps (cant remember the name anymore^^). Nice radar push into the center (these poor enemy shimas) that caused a 15-2 victory for our team! Thx for the nice game

Well then there is srsly no reason to take Def AA anymore. No clue why they decided to get rid of the panik aura, as that could have been a little help for DDs being murdered by repeated rocketplane waves. But maybe they will reintroduce this later (i still have hope left^^) once they realise that DDs might need a bit of help against the new CVs. We will see. Thanks for the answers guys and have a nice day

Thanks guys. It seems sailing your DD will be a somehwat huge challenge in 0.8.0^^ I think i will do it a small number of games and try to stay alive, but i am not really optimistic about this Maybe its time to hop into my Buffalo again and reinitiate the DM grind. Or just play CV for the first weeks and ruin other peoples battles! One the matter of Def. AA on DD: Old Def AA atleast created this panik aura that would make the drop zones/spreads bigger and help you evade damage. Is this still a thing in 0.8.0 and does it apply to rockets too?

@El2aZeR: Some questions from a DD player here. I see your Screenshots and Vids of murdering DDs on PTS and its making me quite sad^^ Your examples are extraordinary but i have to ask if your victims on the PTS are actual players or mainly bots (like in the last screenshots)? Furthermore you are an extremely good CV player and the results you are able to achieve might no be achievable for your average potato CV captain. Like murdering every ship on the map easily is possible for guys like you with the new rework, but will not be the norm...(or will it be^^?). Cause i think running into you with my DD under the current version of CV-gameplay would be a quick death for me aswell... You know, so i can keep some of my hopes about continuing to play my DDs? Lastly there are DDs with Def AA (like the Fletcher i am grinding). Did these DDs have better chances to survive your repeated attack runs? Or can i take Speedboost from now on? And the times of torp reload booster on the shira instead of smoke might be over aswell, i reckon? Thanks for the answers from a guy thats grinding 3 DD lines

"French battleship Dunkerque, tier VI: Main Battery reload time reduced from 28 to 26 seconds" Muhaha! Thank you WG, now there is even more reason to play my beloved baguette! As an additonal buff i suggest you put some extra armour on the bow so i can tank them pesky 38cm shells. Then there will finally be nothing i am afraid of anymore. Well except carriers

Hey guys, as mentioned in the title, i think i need some advice for playing my Zao. In comparison to the stats of my other jap Cruisers the Zao falls extremely short in terms of winrate while being ok in the fields of damage and survivability (atleast in my opinion). See stats for further judgement https://eu.warships.today/player/500508705/Bademeister02 I tend to play my Zao rather aggressively while trying to support capping DDs in the start of the match from somewhat close range. Usually that gets me focussed pretty hard and more then once blown to pieces^^ But i dont want to be the long range HE-spammer that farms BBs for the whole match duration... On the other hand, my low winrate suggests, that this aggressive approach isnt helping my team at all and is probably responsible for the low winrate i have So i am facing a dilemma here and i am not sure how to tackle this. Be the long range HE-spammer that farms damage und maybe be more useful to the team resulting in better winrate? Or keep the aggressive approach and hope it will even out? Or maybe something in the middle^^ I would be thankful for some advice of pro Zao captains Keep in mind that i am a solo-player most of the time! That doesnt mean that i dont like my clan. You have to love the window-lickers^^ Will post captain and ship setups once i am home from work! Cheers

Why wouldnt it? If i understand you correctly you essentially say that skill is useless as long as there is RNG in this game. Granted RNG plays a damm big role in this game but there are a lot of other things in this game that requiere skill and not luck. Things like correct positioning, ammo choice, angling and of course the actual shooting/aiming! In the last battles i have played, it did matter where i took my aim... when to aim at the waterline, the bow, superstructure etc. These are all things where you need a certain amount of skill and not just pure luck and could therefore very well decide the outcome of a 1v1 situation. Of course RNJesus can decide to screw you big time and let all your shells miss the enemy, or give you overpenetrations etc.. Thats the nature of this game and thats why i dont think 1v1 should be a competitive mode like OP asked for. But for fun inbetween boring standard randoms? The most thrilling situations in this (otherwise rather slow) game are knife fights between two DDs or a full on BB brawl. Atleast for me. And the option to do fights like this more often without the fear of getting focus fired by 3 T10 CLs with Dakka from hell gets me excited. Quick brutal cq fights... i would love it Like i said earlier you have to do some adjustments to make this mode exciting. As in (for instance) - way smaller maps (just take the normal ones and restrict the players to the middle or something) - only identical ships! Identical classes isnt enough if you think about Shima vs Gearing^^ - short timeframe - of course make it optional I know that this will probably never come live but i like the idea. Cant help it^^

As an optional game mode for slugging it out against an other captain? why not? But cant you do this already with the training room? I am not really using this feature but it should be possible right? As for your idea: I could totally see myself enjoying an occasional 1v1 from time to time without the constant fear of getting crossfired or friendlytorped. Of course the ships should be equal to lay emphasis on the playerskill and because random match ups like Iowa vs Fletcher wouldnt make sense. A smaller map and a tighter timeframe would be helpful too.... Yes you have the big impact of RNG so it shouldnt be competitive but as an addition to the normal game queue? Would be cool in my book. Yeah WOWs is a teamgame and therefore the focus should be on matches with more than 2 people. But for the sake of variety i would welcome this. But of course it should be totally optional! Just my 2 cents^^

Dunkek! Easily my favourite BB (even though its not my most played one) because its a f*****g oversized cruiser with railguns. Its often said you either love it or you hate it. And i absolutly adore it^^ Recently i got myself the big sister of Dunkirk and it seems my love for heavy french baguettes with front facing guns now includes T8 too

@Karnsteinchen : Wie spielts sich denn nun eigentlich in dem Nachtgefecht? Kann ich mir die Leuchtraketen als statische Zonen vorstellen in denen dann eine erhöhte Sichtbarkeit gilt? Und rings herum sieht man dann so gut wie garnichts mehr?Wenn du da mal einen ersten Eindruck abgeben könntest (oder auch gerne jemand anderes) wäre ich sehr dankbar. Ich warte schon seit WOWs-Betazeiten auf Nachtgefechte und bin dementsprechend gehypt! Da interessiert es mich dann auch herzlich wenig, dass es eine Klassen- und Stufenbeschränkung geben wird und dieses Szenario offensichtlich ein schlichter Technologietest ist. Wer dieses Spiel schon ein bisschen länger spielt, der sollte doch zumindest mal einen T8 Kreuzer der 4 genannten Nationen (zumal die Cleve ja grade erst auf T8 geschoben wurde) haben oder? Und wenn dieser Test erfolgreich sein sollte, gibts das bestimmt auch irgendwann in Randoms wo ihr den Modus dann auch gerne mit der klassischen deutschen Random-Divi (Bismarck,Tirpitz,Bismarck) spielen könnt^^

Wait what? Zao is getting 12km torps? What a time to be alive Just imagine...BB sitting bow on and doing BB things. Now instead of slowly burning him down from range like you used to do in the Zao, you can close in to aprox. 10,5 km, do a full 180 (actually a bit more) and send him 20 torps without him noticing whats going on^^ Oh you see that firing smoke screen over there? You wont be sitting long in there chaps! Cap is contested and no radar/spotting available? Dont worry, torp-zao equipped with RPF will flood the respective area with torps! Its gonna be hilarious!! I cant wait to see the "Zao best torp boat" memes and full torp-builds for a T10 cruiser! Forget about Shima or Gearing, the new torp-king is coming On a serious note: This change would make absolutely sense in my opinion. I never really understood, why you had to give up the 10km torp range while upgrading from the Ibuki to the Zao. The better ship should atleast keep the same torps if not getting better ones. Am i right? And with the recent introduction of the new epic modules, WG seems to encourage Zao-players to get closer in their ships (trading range for rudder shift and accuracy) and drop the lang range HE-spamming method. The torp-change would fit perfectly into this new "closer" playstyle. This might motivate me to play wows a bit more regularly again (This and the new Buffalo/Cleveland that i am both enjoying quite a bit. I am weird i know!). But lets wait whether this will actually be realised. Giving the Zao these strong new tools, might lead WG to nerf her in other aspects... The 12km torps might be a bit too strong, because of the versatility they would offer. Maybe adding the 10km ones from the Ibuki would be just enough (You would have a small stealth torp window but not this yolo 2,5km stealth torp range that might be a bit op^^). But lets wait and see... Interesting and exciting idea nevertheless! cheers

well apart from the stupid generic name (why not take something like Karl von Müller for example?), the buffs this captain grants are quite underwhelming. To further push the defensive and tanky flair of german ships they could give him better fire prevention and/or SE stats.. but nooo give this dude a dumb name (please if it has to be generic without historical context just name him Peter Schulz or something) and buffs to skills that arent used by many players meeh

Nachdem meine Motivation für WOWs derzeit irgendwo im Keller verschwunden ist, bin ich mal bei Steam shoppen gegangen und hab mir mal die Klassiker Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (mit allen Erweiterung) sowie Far Cry 3 für zusammen 15€ gegönnt. Wenn man mal bedenkt was man für das Geld bei WOWs bekommt (bzw. nicht bekommt), kriegt man schon Tränen in die Augen^^ Far Cry hab ich noch nich angefangen und sitze derzeit an der Dark Crusade Erweiterung von Warhammer...Alter Falter, die Kampagne hab ich auf Normal angefangen und die KI hat mich eiskalt fertig gemachtHab jetzt auf einfach neu gestartet und da läufts gut...Das erste Mal, dass ich den Schwierigkeitsgrad bei nem Spiel runterdrehen musste. Peinlich, peinlich Greetz vom Bademeister