Karkong_the_Impaler

The return on invested sanity is always zero.

a) I am sane. I do not regrind techtrees. b) Just how many games would I have to play to make it worthwhile if I weren't?

But... you don't understand - I CAN FREE EXP THAT 1.5 TIMES OVER FOR THAT AMOUNT!!!!! Seriously.. for 1m you get a T9 ship, entirely, no strings attached, and it comes with a permanent bonus, too. Ok, if seal clubbing is your thing and you found your perfect 6-iron to do so.. but even then - how many games would you even need to break even?

I can free exp that crap 1.5 times over for that amount....

It's just like a human resources manager - they never were about the employees. Same here - we're being managed, with copium, nice words and some light entertainment - And even if they try to help, you blatantly notice where their place in the food chain is. Also, imagine the data points in the same direction, supershits make blowout games more likely because trash players (usually on my team, I might add) increase randomness in high tier games. Well... would you give the slavering mob here that information?

I believe there are bots in these tiers. These need to go in the first place. Then there are seals and their natural predator, the seal clubbers. I don't mind seals if I don't have to club them and I loathe seal clubbers with a passion. Both don't make for enjoyable games. So if you make some kind of T2 to T4 brawl and have some minimum requirements, say, 2500 games at tier 10 it could work - Notice I'm not even asking for an IQ above room temperature because, let's face it, that's not going to happen. Unfortunately the balance in these tiers is even more trash than, say, tier 5 or tier 7 and touching that would be it's own can of worms. So, also not going to happen. Thus these tiers remain the dung heap of seal clubbers with atrocious gameplay where you preferably free exp your way through.

My heart bleeds. Or, I don't know - is that what you say when you feel your heart burst with inner joy? Stalingrad and Petro were a crap design that needed fundamental changes in the game mechanics to get balanced (no more fire prevention for cruisers) and to be honest, they deserved every single tap with the nerfhammer and then some.

Only interested in the multiplayer aspect TBH...

You can use it to farm Reports for sure. Make double sure you curse in chat only with intentional spelling errors or in some native language, because WGs spaghetti code just checks for "swearwords" and compares it against reports received - and you will receive a lot for playing CV. Rightfully so.

How about Otto Kretschmer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kretschmer He could have special submersible scum skills such as reduced detection range or a faster torpedo reload? Or a ping that can't be washed off? If you don't like "Otto den Schweigsamen", you can randomly select one of the more successful submarine commanders, they're all German just like the fighter pilots. Which stems basically from the fact, that they weren't withdrawn from service to train new recruits like more sane countries did at that time.

Marceau? Quite often. I also have the same issue with Colbert, but my experience is that cruisers by now are not even a bad target for fires because of the lack of fire prevention skill. And that balans cruiser and that supercruiser crap made this even more valid. I even skilled a captain for IFHE to try it, but halving fire chance is too big a disadvantage in my opinion. Also, I don't feel the thread lacks relevancy just because it's old.

T10 or worse T9 ships? Legmods?

Nope. Short fuse makes the armed shell explode inside a thin hull (or just behind the hull and not in the citadel, in case with ships with layered armor like french cruisers). Since they increased the arming threshold. Mino gets full pens on DD superstructure, unless it's so thin that even the 0,005s fuse timer doesn't detonate in time. Edgar doesn't, Edgar even needs the DD to angle a bit to even get full pens on the hull (but not too much so it bounces). Look at shiptool.st: https://shiptool.st/selected?s=BC111BC110FC510&c=top&p=ap&rm=12 For comparison, Colbert. Here you use AP only on cheeky Ragnars, Khabarovsks and Elbings who expect to shatter your HE.

Brawl matchmaking is skill based...

You still have short fuse, they just don't arm on DDs and thus overpen unless angled or 50mm belt

Yes.

There are similar threads if you look for them. They offer quite different playstyles, so the answer isn't the same for everyone. In your case I'd take a long hard look at Mecklenburg. Only Shikishima can be flat out discounted, as it always has only been a Yamato sidegrade and is made utterly obsolete by the tier 11 supershit. I still like it better than Yamato, though.

You make it sound like work. I play because I have fun playing and if I don't I (usually - don't ask) stop. Same with stupid regrinds for RB points or collecting bears asses, playing supershits, T7 ranked and whatnot - I just don't if it's not fun. Now to something completely different - is the new call of duty any good?

Minotaur works basically against everything.

It's just a band aid on a gut wound - the elephant in the room is the casual spotting.

If you sit flat broadside in the smoke, you get what you deserve. Sherman with 2/3 firepower on one end can theoretically have an easier time dodging the torps sent into the smoke if the player isn't greedy. But that isn't the Shermans USP, it's the ballistics..

103% TBH the rework removed a lot of influnce from the carriers and thus was a good thing, basically. But someone at WG noticed that having a radar trap burst fire gimmick Edgar "would be too toxic" and thus increased the arming threshold, so I still have hopes that the very same person at some point notices how annoying it is to get constantly upon by a CV without the ability to retaliate.

Miscommunication obviously. Also anyone else need a glass for that fine beverage served to us? Now that you said it, I just realized every day is my birthday!

@_Mad_Thom_ Hah! This time I noticed your name! (No, I wasn't sniping from the back row, I just dodged and bounced the unicum in the sinop until he lost interest and tried to kill the cruisers)