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I think you made several - understandable - mistakes. You sold a ship you where confident with (Yugumo) for credits in order to obtain the ship you wanted. Fair enough. However even while selling said ship you had neither enough credits nor free XP/elite XP left to a) fully fit it and b) endure the learning curve, module unlock and captain retrain phases. I strongly recommend to only procure a new ship if you can fully fit it and have credits left to endure the inevitable XP / module grind. T10 has its own rules and you *will* have to pay your dues (and not only the metaphorical ones) before you will be able to not lose money, time and nerves. So take your time and play T6/T7 to grind some money and free XP to fully fit the ship before you use it again (if you can wait use discount on equipment specials to do it and only pay half). If you do have premium account and get at least decent battle results at that tiers credits should come in plenty. I have premium account running since I ever started WoWs and never ever have I run into credits trouble (however I do posses quite some premium ships). Also I recommed that you try to save some free XP for a 'free of charge' premium (Nelson = 375k) instead of rushing through the tiers.

After Negativvv gave me a broad hint I did take a look and indeed you seem like a decent clan and I seem like a decent player, so why not give it a try! Ingame application sent.

What do you farm? Sweet tears of crying seals? I think I could be ok with that...

Yes I noticed. But last week was last week and this week is this week. And just for comparison the results of the last two normal weekly missions: 1,100,000 credits 45 flags 75 premium consumables 1 propulsion modification 2 30 premium camo Also edit: I am not a greedy guy, but as far as I am concerned this week has no weekly missions.

So as a solo player I can 'farm' 1 (!) Sierra Mike flag each day and there isn't even a ranked season to look forward to? I am deeply impressed. As the oil will be to no avail for many players at least compensate it with credits as it was done with the extra tokens for the "2 years of WoWs" collection. Edit: And before anyone telling me to join a clan: I am a misanthrope, I am not a competitive player, I don't need a clan's benefits with all but one shiplines fully researched (except carriers), all T10 bought and 300 million credits on reserve. Choose any two.

Just to get everyone on the same page here is my understanding of 'killstealing': 1) Killing a low HP enemy with your next viable salvo / next reload thus taking him out of the battle at the earliest possible opportunity = no killstealing and usually very beneficial for the team 2) Holding your fire / limit your own DPM in order to just secure the kill, regardless of better targets or other events and thus possibly also prolonging that enemies life = killstealing and probably bad for the team Dead enemies can't deal damage, cap and/or do other possibly harmful things (vanish and heal up, lay smoke etc) so if I can finish off an enemy I will always try to do so as one of my prime directives. However I do understand that Yamamoto could possibly lead to more players holding fire for kills, which in the long run might really hurt their teams. Just imagine a lone 'Kraken' Yamato that, after holding fire for kills has 25k damage so far, but 3+ enemy ships are still active and will chase him down and kill him nonetheless.

Yes it is. A short and simple: "Guys (and girls), we know that a lot of people will think that this is a bad idea, but we would like to try it as our first stepping stone nonetheless." by WG would have gone a very long way.

Because this should have been the headline for the article and repeated at least 3 times in the respective descriptive text then? WG not communicating intentions is the prime reason for the community to grab torches and pitchforks at an increased rate.

Dont't worry, next round will be like: No BB, max. 1 DD.

You may want to elaborate...

Hi gents, Just a quick one: Please add in-game descriptions to the legendary / unique commanders so people actually know what they are doing respectively which skills they are improving without having to do an extended search via google or the wiki. At the moment we just have 2 (with the 3rd comming up) so most of the players that have them will be able to keep in mind what they do but things could probably become quite messy if there are 10+ of them. Thanks.

Pro tip: Wait for the Russians and get a couple of games under your belt before you progress to tier ten.

Z-52: 100 November Foxtrot Grozovoi: 25 Wyvern Flags Khabarovsk: Surveilance Radar Mod 1 Minotaur: 1000 doubloons Moskva: 100 India Yankee Hindenburg: Spotting Aircraft Mod 1 Großer Kurfürst: 1000 doubloons Des Moines: 50 La Fheile Padraig camo Montana: 50 Gamescon camo Shimakaze: Engine Boost Modification 1 Zao: 1000 doubloons Yamato: 50k free XP Gearing: Spotting Aircraft Mod 1 Some nice camo, flags and doubloons but at least one too many spotting mods (had none before). Nonetheless quite happy with the result as this was approx. twice the number of containers that I have receive before (regular ones from dailies, not counting Yamamoto campaign or other specials).

And why would you need such extended ranges? While it is possible to snipe from 23km+ and get the occasional devastating strike any BB needs to close to ~15km or below for consistent damage anyway.

Is there anybody else who is using IFA on his cruisers a lot and is also super annoyed that spotting messages now commonly overwrite the incomming fire alert message? WG please fix the priorities of the displayed messages...

Though PT might be the better skill because it is more versatile, however I find it more comfortable to know when an enemy is actually shooting.

No. It doesn't work like that. It is not 100% black OR 100% white, it's all about various shades of grey. I neither want WoWs to be a full simulator nor a full arcade shooter and therefore I don't have to choose in between absolut realism and high fantasy. You want balance first and to include realism where it does not hurt balance, which is absolutely fine. I do want a good share of realism first and balance around that as much as possible (note that I am not against "bending" realism where it breaks the game). And we are both right according to our respective point of view. However it is still a themed ship game after all. If I wanted balance first I could play any of the incredibly more balanced but 'interchangeable' MOBA's like LoL, DotA, Smite and all other fantasy themed games. And that radar is beating bad weather on open sea for just the ship that has the radar equipped is imho neither overly unrealistic nor extremely game breaking and that was the entire point of my original post. Radar beating solid land mass however is an entirely different matter...

All who think radar is too powerful in a cyclone should have a read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_North_Cape "The loss of Scharnhorst demonstrated the vital importance of radar in modern naval warfare. While the German battleship should have been able to outgun all of her opponents save the battleship Duke of York, the early loss of radar-assisted fire control combined with the problem of inclement weather left her at a significant disadvantage. Scharnhorst was straddled by 31 of the 52 radar-fire-controlled salvos fired by Duke of York.[12] In the aftermath of the battle, the Kriegsmarine commander, Großadmiral Karl Dönitz remarked, "Surface ships are no longer able to fight without effective radar equipment." [13] Nice example of fighting in bad weather (snowstorm in that case) with and without radar.

The thing that annoys me most is IJN DD's that: a) despite having the best concealment do not even attempt to cap (as explained above there are situations where it may be legit not to cap, however imho these situations are not the norm) b) despite having excellent guns simply do not use them (more often then not I have seen full health IJN DD's trying to torp 2k HP enemy DD's, or trying to torp already crippled CA or BB instead of just killing them off with one or two salvos) c) despite having the best concealment and excellent guns, which if used properly gives them a very good chance of holding their own, are afraid of going "alone", joining a DD lemming train instead (which usually leaves one flank devoid of cappers and a spotter) WG gieve proper tutorials plz!

Are you sure that, lets say a CA gets insta killed, both DD and BB get awarded 50% of the damage done? Spotting XP and credits in a DD do look so minor when compared to WoT when playing a light scout tank. Edit: I do not doubt that there is a system in place, however my impression is that a 50% solo kill is worth more than a 50% spot kill.

The idea of properly sharing spotting rewards would too... It's properly implemented in WoT, why is it less properly implemented in WoWs?

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Time to put that deep torps to use!!!

Get the "reload for turret speed module" if you don't already have it to further emphasize the Izumo's main strength, it's guns (26.4 secs).