Ubertron_X

I do not use those tracers at all and only use a generic emblem. No additional information for the enemy, no matter how minor the effects may be.

The thing is, due to the heal you play the long game in Prinz Eugen, i.e. damage will stack, even with lower DPM as the Hipper. However I would easily agree to better AP angles on all German CA (Prinz Eugen included) staring from tier 7. At the moment you often have a) a lot of shatters if the target is angled, b) a lot of overpens if the target is not angled, especially on CLs or c) have to rely on anaemic HE.

The problem is not the ships themselves the problem is that those ships still classify as "classical" DD's (which they clearly aren't) as far as matchmaking is concerned. And as with the Russian DD line and the infamous Khaba people (me included) will always be sceptical when you get those in your team while the enemy team has a "real" DD.

Well not regarding citadels, however update 0.8.5 happened: "Update 0.8.5 brings updated mechanics for damage infliction to ships’ bulges, secondary battery and torpedo tube modules, and to the completely destroyed parts of a ship. Now, when a shell penetrates a secondary battery module, a torpedo tube module, or a completely destroyed part of a ship, the dealt damage will be 10% of the maximum shell damage value. 100% of this damage can be restored using the Repair Party consumable. However, shells don't affect AA modules, and these can only be destroyed by explosions of HE shells, as before. Have you ever received a "Penetration" ribbon for hitting an enemy ship's bulge, but the hit caused no damage to the enemy's HP? We are now introducing a new ribbon in order to avoid misleading our players. For penetrating a torpedo bulge without hitting the next layer of armor, a special ribbon will be given to a player—for shells, bombs, and rockets. We've also renamed the torpedo protection armor elements which used to be called "Ship Plating." These are now called "Torpedo Protection."

Well, in contrast to many other players all my DDs are specced for guns, even the IJN ones (at least reload for DPM). What good does it bring to spec for torps when you can't use them because you are blocked by the enemy DDs. My first aim is to overcome the enemy DD and for that I will often use my guns. Of course I will not charge a full health Haragumo or Gearing in my Shima, however I will always try to finish them off if the situation permitts. This approach makes me mostly independend from any back-up and if I do I manage to kill the enemy DD (either with or without help) this usually helps my team the most. And while I understand and not object to other approaches my personal maxime always is: DDs first, capital ships later. And for that you usually need your guns (yes I am aware that you can easily kill an enemy DD with torps but in my opinion not reliably).

Thats how useful the Conquerer is (after a long time just played 2 games yesterday): You may be able to can farm some damage easily, however you will have a harder time carrying...

Well playing T6 cruisers against tier 8's for sure is unfair because those do not have heal. Oh, wait...

Sounds a little like the totally accidental points "sharing" in between some of the (mostly) slavic countries in the Eurovison Song Contest... Also, how do you recognize each other? Using Name_PL like in WoT or writing Siemka PL?

Doesn't it increase the number of recommendations you can hand out each day (7 standard), or was this only for dem Russians? Also at that levels of karma you clearly do not curse and swear enough in chat and/or play the wrong class of ships.

Well, the problem when wording justified criticism the "British" or polite way is time, as it usually takes a lot of time to write an elaborate answer in chat. Time that you might not have at hand, especially if you are still alive and possibly in the middle of a life-or-death situation. Anybody who has served his country in any military branch and/or was part of an at least mildly competitive sports club knows that you usually use short, concise and often deft words to get your point across in a minimum amount of time, which means that as long as the criticism is regarding gameplay I don't mind at all if the tone is rough. Personal attacks on the other hand are a totally different matter, and I anderstand that people do get offended, however years of online gaming have teached me to simply dismiss those as "background noise". And while insults and swear words should generally be avoided always remember that offense is taken, not given.

To answer your question: From a gameplay point of view there is no point in gunboat DDs as they do not play like like "regular" DDs (as you apparently already noticed). From a player perspective they do hold some benefits as they offer a different style of play.

Yall need to learn the art of polite offending! Instead of yelling: You coward! Write: Well old chap, I guess your bravery seems to be failing you hard today. Or instead of stating: N00b! Write: Apologies, but while observing you handeling your ship for some time now I could not help but notice that the level of expertise displayed so far is not at all approriate for this tier and situation.

Reasons against forming a single blob: 1) Enemy cross-fire 2) Coordination requirements 3) Torpedoes 4) Ship speeds / size of the map / reaction times

Very much this. The trick is to notice when you are at a disadvantage early on, deny any decisive battle and to kite away until reinforcments arrive. Even one ship - especially DDs - can stall an entire flank long enough to get local superiority elsewhere OR secure a free cap.

I have an even better solution that not even once relies on ideal teamplay and/or cruisers. All BB stay back for a ranged shoot-out using the passive scouting ability of their DDs (hopefully all stealthy DDs and no lame high visibiliy gunboats) and once one side is significantly weaker than the other you can slowly start to push? Also BBs tend to always single you out in a cruiser, even if you are 3km to 5km behind the main battle line. Been on the receiving end often enough to tell you that the only way oft not getting targeted by a BB in a CA is not to shoot for 20 secs.

Then perhaps the game should aid the players by putting all ships at their desired starting positions, taking into account ship type and average speed? All BB should generally start mid and in advanced positions. All CA should generally start at the flanks. All DDs should either start with the CAs (when spawning on the flank) or slightly behind the BBs (when spawing in middle). I am tired of spawning upfront and in middle in my CAs, where it takes you approx. 5min to get into a non-BB-or-CA-killer-crossfire position.

Because playing one of two tier 8 cruisers in tier 10 game with 5 enemy BB is fun?

Bought my way into Beta and started DD (Gremy), later played BB and now enjoying CA. However I very much like the free range chickens cruisers of IJN, KM and the French over the light cruisers of the Americans or the smokey Brits. DD is all about scouting, capping, area denial, BB is all about controlling the flow of battle and CA is all about surviving while still being moderately effective.

Well to be honest you can play it F2P, but as a long term, more or less hardcore player I can assure you that it is a monthly fee game. I am using premium account since 2011 and never regretted it once. Get premium account and you will get that sweet XP and credits, the rest will follow. P.S.: I rarely spend more than the premium fee (e.g. christmas boxes) and only if I am really interested in something (most of my premium boates I got for free or as presents and there are plenty already).

I actually quite like my MURICA cleveland camo :) Eagles > Sharks, nuff said...

* Looks at WoWs bank account currently showing 715 million credits *

Please show me how I can early access any French DD silver ship with the republic tokens that I am currently able to grind? All I can see is 4 bundles that lead to the ultimate 30k doubloons bundle and a couple of permanent camoflagues that I am not going to use (mostly because I will not keep any of those ships). Unless I am totally mistaken the early access is only possible via luck or by paying for. However I do grant WG that the 4 bundles do indeed contain some free stuff. P.S.: Having a lot of ships I will end up at approx. 700 Tokens, aka first 2 to 3 LoH bundles, depending on when I get Sirocco.

More astonished about the >5 BB, the missing % is off less concern.