philjd

It was Sea of Fortune.. it didn't end with a smile for our team, sadly :)

Mountbatten pink just to sooth something or other? ;)

Bumped into @Miessa3 last night - same team, he was driving his Missouri and did pretty well considering how the rest of us performed, I had a very embarrassing time in my Akizuki (too much aggro in a slow DD with too many red radars in the area).

Have you watched this video.... it's very informative about AI behaviour :)

Have to agree with rvfharrier on this. JD brings 3 bonus skills, all of which are useful on RN cruisers up to T9, but the EM skill is just not needed on Mino'. I am running my JD on my RN BB's where the EM is useful as is the JoaT (although smoke not... :) ). With respect to AA spec - AFT is more useful than MAA for everything other than focus firing on 1 particular squadron - in T10 battles, if there is a CV, it will not be attacking with only 1 squadron until very late in the game and then it tends to require your ability to cntrl click between squadrons, I have found that the mino' tends to need to be very aware of the surface actions and flipping to change AA target is too much for me in practice over and above the ship dodging needed (but that might just be me).

Also, don't forget that these 'campaign' cammo's are not going to be readily available once the seasonal campaign is over (unless they re-run it), so not all players will have completed the campaigns, nor necessarily participated in it (them). IN addition to that yo get players that will return from a break or those players who have not yet played the game but are yet to join. All in all, not everyone (or even close to) will have this 'free' campaign cammo - if it was a permanent campaign I would agree with you. I have gold cammo for a number of ships from T6+ because I expected to keep the ship or to help with the grind at the time or because they look good (I do not include the October Revolution special or the stars and stripes on the Texas in this category).

Bumped into a Richelieu in battle - didn't last long, so perhaps not so far away.

If you mixed these with South American nations - so a 'Rest of the World' type tree, you would get some capital ships and also the possibility of CV's...?

OP, we have a similar number of games. I played the RN cruisers when they were first launched, tiers 1-3 were fine, 4 +5 were a nightmare, no smoke or heal at that time. Leander was where it all started to come together. She still is that point, they are good cruisers and also fun to play, certainly challenging but that is part of the fun too. Yes, more/better armour would make them stronger, but they do not need it, IMHO (I really bitched about them when they were launched and still curse when my Mino goes from 50%^+ to dead in 1 salvo, but that is my error, not the ships. I have come to regard them as my favourite ships to play, T6/7/8/10).

Just wait until Rodney comes out as a T8 premium....

Was a very strange battle - I thought we had it won at one stage, but my team dribbled away and I had enough 'stuff' to deal with without moving too far from that cap zone, guess I should have landed even more torp hits. Oh well, a good fight anyways. Well played :)

Bumped into @Profilus last night - he was driving Gallant, myself, Fujin - exchanged some shots directly, but then he fled from me in a cloud of smoke (*cough cough, exaggerated, cough*) - both had decent battles, 4 kills for him, 3 for me (90k damage). His team won - good performance by both him and also a Konigsburg (or Nurnberg?) to whom I gifted a kraken at the very end

What about skip bombing as the 'gimmick' - so no dive bombers (or no torpedo bombers??) as a choice. Although the aircraft used tended to be twin engined (or more), but not always.

Gimmicks - they would probably need something as I suspect that both Swordfish and Albacores will get murdered in game due to their slow speed.... perhaps something to replicate the fact that the R|N was the only night flying carrier force so reduces AAA and air to air effectiveness (ouch). Edit - Ark Royal would be a logical choice for a mid-tier premium, single ship, very famous (will sell very well) etc etc.

Given that we are getting French BB's, new US cruisers, then perhaps Italian cruisers (?), RN DD's (?), I would suspect that a new CV line would not be high on the priority list, unless they sort out CV issues (but given the time it took to revamp arty in WoT.....). edit typo

How about a buffed Agincourt for T9, with a 'WG special interwar rebuild' ;) (More seriously, I do want Agincourt, but she is more likely to be T4 or 5 at a push) OT - I quite like the concept of Alaska or B-65 or similar as a free xp soak @ T9 - like the Scharnhorst at T7, different play style to both BB's and CA/CL's. (Totally disagree with reward ships at T10, t10 should be for ground out ships only).

I tried the reload module initially in mine, but strangely, ended up in a stationary bow tanking fight with a Zao - couldn't hit the bugger at all at a range of circa 12k, I know, RNG gods hated me that day, switched to the aim mod thereafter. (But I am nowhere near being a good Mo' driver, that situation just really Pi@@ed me off).

Personally, for what it is worth:- Ishizuchi - great fun and a nice ship, but it is too low tier to be a good trainer (a nice additional trainer though) Mutsu - never bothered with Ashitaka - will not bother with due to extremely poor reputation. Kii - good ship to drive, if unreliable at times for both guns and armour, t8. And, Atago is actually also a good IJN BB captain trainer, it needs more or less the same skill set and is a highly rated ship in it's own right. So for me, Kii and/or Atago.

Well 7.5k xp in one battle would be a huge challenge without flags etc, but 75k would need a truly awesome amount of flags for 1 battle...not sure if it is even possible... anyone done the maths?

I must be major drag on that stat - couldn't get her to work for me, but haven't driven her for quite a while, so might dust her off at some stage. (Wyoming wasn't a problem, quite enjoyed her).

Have to admit that I really like the Aki - it's aggressive play style suite me I guess. allocated a dedicated Captain for her and the Harakaze (17 points currently, PM, LS, AR, SE, IFHE and CE) - works a dream. A bit more speed would be nice as would a bit more nippyness, but she works fine as is. (eg. Yesterday took out the enemy 2 DD's in the first 2 minutes, Harekaze and Yueyang (T10 PA), who tried to torp me :D. Had enough health left to get by for the remainder of the match as a wary stalker/gun ship.)

it might be back later this month according to 'rumour'

Bought a pack of 20 containers, from which 3 were SC - Molotov, Graff Spee and Arizona. So more return than i spent - Although I already have the HSF Graff, so a bit of a waste there.... (also received 330 frosty fir (11 packs), 2k doubloons, the remainder were special flags (dragon etc)).

One of the best places to actually test it, as long as it is even semi-viable - which does seem to be the case in this instance :) (I returned mine without driving it)