Hedgehog1963

RN BB line due about six months from now.

We were told this would be gone by the end of the week last week. My advice is keep schtum.

Akula 971 just now. He in a Cleveland, me in a Fiji. he won.

Screenshot plz.

DDs behind islands waiting in ambush etc, etc. Please continue telling me how crap the radar is. It has saved me twice in the five battles I've played.

I acquired Missouri because she's really nice to have. Main selling point is: Cool looking fairly rare ship.

I think it should have smoke as well.

Well you're not grinding the one ship are you? The battles you'll play will yield regular XP on the ships you're playing in. If you're working your way up tech trees that 1500 battles will unlock a lot (a lot) of ships

You'll have more of a sense of achievement when you do that than I have. That's actually a bigger loss to me than the money I spent.

I spent a little over 28k Gold converting 1million XP that had been tied to elite ships into free XP. This was a couple of weeks ago when we had a 35/1 ratio event. Reasoning was that I wanted to have plenty of XP to unlock all the modules on the remaining RN CL tree (so I'd never have to play any of them stock) and I'd heard the Missuouri was going to be 800k free XP. I had to buy the 14,500 package to get enough gold, as I only had about 12k gold at the time left over from some supreme bundles ships I'd bought recently (Leningrad, Belfast, Perth etc - I like a flag). So £45 or so. £60 if you factor in the cost of all the dubloons. To put that in perspective I earn more than that for a day in the office, so that's how I really see the cost. I just had a look at a couple of my premium ships I've played a lot. Right now Gremyashchy still has 620 XP tied to her.

I live Warspite for this.

And the captain is b etter than the one you have already when she originally arrived.

Germans would easily win. The French navy has been good for nothing at all since the 18th century during the ARW.

Best when division-ed up with an Iowa because... Missouri loves company! I'll get my coat.

Close in fights with DD vs DD. Rapid fire, jinking, changing speed, torpedoes... one mistake is sudden doom and an eternity with Davey Jones.

I knew this was happening and was sat on a load of XP tied to elited ships. 500,000 on the Gremyaschiy for example. They had a special on conversion where you got 35 XP converted for 1 gold instead of 25 the other week on EU and I'd got wind of this. My one battle before I came to work today First time ever in a Tier IX BB.

Not really good for capping early in game because very easily seen and I have concealment expert on my 17 point commander. I follow friendly DDs to caps and help/support them. Only if it looks safe to cap I'll go in or if I intentionally want to bait a weaker DD in (e.g. Benson lol). When a lone and poorly supported enemy DD pops up then the Tashkent has some advantages. If you drive right at your enemy you can present the narrowest target while the two superfiring double turrets can bring fire from four of those really good low arc guns. Means you can rain a lot of damage as you close in and you're already bow-on for when he tries to torpedo you. Sometimes they'll smoke up but with Sierra Mike flag and your engine boost you can hit a handy 48.1 kts which gets you right on top of them really quick. A fair few times I've crossed a cap circle at a smoked up enemy DD, dodged his torps and killed him in his own smoke, which then helps me. Staying alive can yield good damage late in games. Smoking up and letting go with the main guns with AP at a cruiser side on to you is very entertaining. Torps aren't bad either. I have my Tashkent elited and it as been very entertaining. With all the silver gone from my account having had to spend millyuns on the upgrades for my Missouri, I can't afford to buy Udaloi, so i'm still regularly playing Tashkent. I may never sell it. If you can division with an IJN DD, following him around a couple of km back, you can set traps for Bensons.

In my experience the "smoke and parking next to an island for when the smoke is not there" thing works well enough to stop those naughty BBs one shotting you. The torpedoes are a great leveler.

They're not what people are Kraken them up to be... I'll get me coat.

So I had to give her a go before I go to work to pay for the thing. What a great ship! Favourite moment: Nailing a Minotaur Second fav: Third favourite moment was using my radar to spot the Benson waiting in ambush behind an island. Someone else fragged him and saved my arse.

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Still no login...

Right now it is patching.