philjd

A few times as a DD, I have been left high and dry by those who used to be behind me, supporting me and preventing the 'rush the DD' tactic - hopefully you realise before it is too late to beat that hasty retreat (had that happen twice yesterday). Tactics - 1) support each other and stay alive but active/effective at the same time. (no point in being in the game if you are alive but not active....and that includes spending most time at a 'pray to rng for a hit' range) 2) know when to "run away!" (Monty Python), I mean 'tactical withdrawal'.

wise words.

My early experience in CV play. 1) Wahay, finally going to play a CV.... 2) why can't I hit things and do as much as others claim to on the forums 3) oh.. the alternative attack... wtf is that.. and htf do I do it 4) ok, you tube and forums... everyone is talking about manual drops.. do they mean the alternative attack? 5)ok... alternative attack.... how the hell do I do that, nothing showing in the game interface and no one seems to say how to do one 6) much googling later - oh... they mean use the 'alt' key when targeting not an 'alternative' attack So yes, a tutorial in game would be very good even if it is a 'skill' that opens up in the higher tiers.

Just because the RL ship had a variety of guns does not guarantee that they will be modeled in game - 'balance tovarisch'. So yes, they are there, but not used in the game.

Got mine recently - spun her out 3 times so far, enjoyed all three times. A nice ship to drive.

Similar to yourself OP I put my Dunkirk Captain into Dunkerque (so 10 points). I'm using PM, EM, SI, AFT With Damcon 1+2 as there is a lot of HE spammed at her. Seems to be working for me so far.

Going to complete this just to get the port slot - I've had Emden since she was first introduced, a X-mass giveaway IIRC, similar to the WoT giveaways, 'turn up and play to get your ship' type of event.

He seems to fit very well in most of the cruisers other than the Minotaur (and the very low tiers). BB line when it comes out will waste his smoke skill DD line should be a good fit when they come in depending on how they are configured So mine will be Edinburgh then Neptune (and probably Mino' until elited).

Silly little query perhaps, but... would it make a difference to players if, when, if etc, a Nelson class BB is released, would the name HMS Nelson be more preferable to HMS Rodney? HMS Rodney - ship that helped kill the Bismarck, named for a renowned Admiral if you study history. HMS Nelson - named after the most famous RN Admiral ever. Name ship of the class. Or - just another pixel ship based on a real one that I will drive regardless of the name?

On the one hand I agree, better to have a real ship than a 'fake', on the other, I prefer the bulldog look of a KGV to the dandyish Vanguard (although if premium I will still probably buy her).

True enough, but given the issues that WG are having getting 14" to work at T8, what sort of stuff do they need to do to make 11" work at T7 as a silver ship - at least with a premium ship, you pays your money and takes your chances.... (but they did tweak it to work regardless, RoF huge buff etc, for others perhaps but not me yet)

The battles are not 'death matches', there are 2 ways of wining, secure the objectives in time or kill the enemy. It is for you and those on your team to secure one of those to win. How you go about winning is where tactics come in. Also do remember that if you are the last ship on your side floating around trying to chase down the last survivor on the other side, you are both actively preventing the other players from using the ships from that battle as they remain locked until one side or the other has won. "tough luck, should have 'git gud'" I hear said for that, but recall that the surviving ships may not be the better players on either side, perhaps just those that hugged the border or hid until nothing else was left to fight. Hence the points win and points target. The battles can already last 15 mins, which is shorter than they were originally (20 mins IIRC, which was too long to lock up ships and usually boring for the remaining players). Edit - cyclones - an attempt at creating a mechanic for changing the battlefield dynamically - inconvenient, sometimes, game changing certainly for a period of time. Learn to work with it, it offers opportunities, not hassle.

Personally I think that the borders should be 'ground', effectively making each map a big lake. Visually bad, perhaps in game terms. Totally unrealistic=yes, but so is the current (and previous) situation. But at least everyone knows how crashing into land works. (or...make it like the shallow water that was in game at the start.....)

In the earlier part of WW2 the Germans didn't have torpedo bombers, so none around for Dunkirk. They did realise the need and did what everyone one does - "what can we use to carry torps" and took it on from there. This is circa Battle of Britain IIRC.

I think that that T10 only must have been a transcription error that has now been corrected - as both stage 4 and 5 now state tiers 3-10 Cruisers.

ok, so you have to have a T10 cruiser for stage 4&5 finals otherwise no Isoroku-samma.

How about enforcing radio silence, scuttle discipline (at night). You can also take advantage of the light, squalls, low cloud, haze, you name it, there are lots of potential ways to make visibility one way at sea, but obviously not all are available at any particular time. (and yes, it is a bit extreme in application, but has RL examples (Coronel and Jutland being the ones that spring to my mind). Paint jobs make a huge difference also - but that is already encompassed by the cammo's.

If this is only about seal clubbing then as an alternative (and perhaps much easier) - why not limit the Captains maximum rank by Tier? eg, Tier 1-5, max Captain Rank is 10, Tiers 6-8, Rank 14, Tiers 9/10, [19] If the captain gets xp that would take them higher then it could either be 'banked' by that captain for being promoted up the tiers, or added into the Elite captain xp pool. If it is not just about seal clubbing, then I would disagree with the premise as individuals on a ship can have a significant impact on how that ship actually performs.

Thomas Jefferson has a great phrase for that, slightly paraphrased - "WG gives you the right to pursue wealth and happiness, but you have to catch them yourself".

Very difficult - those who have more than they needed/wanted shouted very loudly and long and now the rest of us have to .... 'grind'... even more to get them. They used to be limited to Ranked rewards but too many shouted unfair, or WG thought they could spread them out a bit. Now the rest of us just have to be patient, very very patient, very very very very etc etc patient. I've had 3 in total so far, 2 speed boosts and 1 spotter (useful for DD's and my Perth) edit "would have" is the correct way to confer that meaning. 'Would of' is a rough and ready casual way - with my rarely seen grammar nazi head on. (a lot of time spent with non-native english speakers/typers means a relaxed view to 'correctness' as it is better to communicate imperfectly rather than not at all :) ) [and my grammar can suck also]

^This. Out of battle - I do track my own regularly. How else do you know that you are improving (and yes, enjoying the game is why I play, but getting stuff very wrong goes against my grain). Q:- I would guess that quite a few of the people who do look up while in battle have 2 screens? I have to alt-tab.

I guess that the decision to build her there was made by a government committee ;)

Perhaps RN smoke will be 'special' and left untouched, or extended to USN standard to compensate.. but unlikely.

If you physically block them, they will move around you, I've found/seen/heard/ nothing other than that.

We all get those games where actually, the 'feedback' isn't worthy of being typed never mind being read. Just move on from them. Had game yesterday where a dead player was 'renaming me' in all sorts of manners when offering advice to fire my guns in my Hatsuhara at the Farragut I was trading with - never mind that I had just previously fired my guns, unloaded my torps then turned hard away to try and escape the Farra and his friends who turned up to join the party - my turrets couldn't bear around quick enough to track the guy (10 pnt capt, so my '2' is in LS not EM).