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1 Cruiser goes for the enemy transports, preferably one with Hydro, a BB will lend him a salvo on the fortification. 1 Cruiser goes CV, preferably one with Hydro and some basic skill, as you have to fight a DD and low tier Cruiser. 1 Gneise, Scharn or DD to torp Missouri, preferably BBs as the DD cant draw fire later on and wrecks will clog up the main area for torping The rest should fill up the BB spots and bring heavy cruisers, escorting the transports without getting in their path, as this can actually slow them down and make them fall behind the main ship's automated repair circle. Before entering the main area with the escorting group, split up and approach from both sides of the big island. The transports will do the same and there is always a DD spawning behind the island, kill him first. When you enter the last and main zone, draw fire from the AI by pushing in, so the AI will less likely focus on transports. If everyone survives, you get additional XP so dont ram the Missouri or Colorado (last ship). Kill the DDs and Cruisers with torps first, kill all enemies faster than the unloading of the troops takes time, as this also gives more XP. The secondary objective of guaranteeing a specific amount of landed troops will still be completed. If you are interested in playing it, there are always the same suspects asking for people in the Operations channel. Pick a BB and paddle slowly ahead of the transports, you will get the hang of it, as enemies always spawn in the same area and do the same. Most teams created there are way less worse than auto-searching for allies, so keep an eye on what the others are doing, you can later do it yourself with ease.

13/16 and 2 duplicates, yet I already used them once, so it is more like 12/16 and 6 duplicates.

tl;dr: This is actually a pretty big grey zone for WG but the tendencies are "no, not forbidden". Because they either have to admit that streamers are sharing tactical ingame information with the enemy and/or stream snipers abusing third party websites to gain inaccessible information, both forbidden by the either the ingame rules or terms of service.

lelwut I may not be that much of a good or experienced CV player but I rarely have to care about the MM, be it T6 or T10. Pretty sure most T8 BBs suffer way more when getting uptiered. Yes, the AA gets stronger, personal influence gets reduced due to bigger amounts of HP, but you are still more than able doing something.

Had a game with 3 Shokakus and me in Kaga a few days ago. As Kaga is already the topic, at late night hours I started to repeatedly encounter a guy with 1k games in Kaga and 44% WR. All he did was focusing the enemy CV and then go afk. This happened multiple times, the first time I met him another player in the enemy team wrote he did this for the past 3 games already. Same happened last weekend when I encountered TopTier in GZ, he explained it in chat after the match as "testing something new". How viable is the constant attack on the enemy CV? For me it just seems like a pure gamble on your team, because it still takes a while of game time.

The whole thing is not only bad with the why, also with the how. There is rarely any information about codes that WG hands out directly or via CCs and in the latest example, the only official statement was a forum post on page 3 of an ongoing discussion that the code did not work as intended. Nothing pinned, nothing on the homepage. Sometimes they hide free stuff like a junior recruitment container, some recruitment points or regular event container in the respective news and this actually makes some sense because at least someone has to read the article. But yes, also to me the rest of WGs behaviour makes the impression of giving out as little as possible, limited by numbers, time and function. Not that I complain about free stuff, it is just annoying how WG handles it across all their games.

Oh you mean the Object 268 Version 5? It is actually in the game files and they introduced a T8 premium russian TD with a fully traversable turret, called the T-103. You probably know, what WG always does, before introducing a new line or nation.

279 is in the game as campaign reward, people are rigging like crazy with late night platoons and the tank is borderline insane. On even ground 330mm HEAT has a 50/50 chance to pen frontal. APCR will bounce, due to angles. If you are shooting a 279 from a lower position, you cant pen. Oh, it also has 340mm HEAT and very good dpm. Selling missions for it is big business, in the last campaign I was playing with MVPS, did not speak a single word of polish but they just said "pick 279 push davai". We made 2nd place. Yes. The complete chinese medium line is really bad, especially since they buffed/changed all other lines, except the japanese. The chinese medium special trait was heavy guns on medium tanks, guess who became obsolete with the introduction of the Object 430 U and the change for available 122mm guns on russian mediums. Tiger 2 is actually not that bad, the problem is, every other T8 heavy is better, powercrept to death. Pilot and Mod (even got buffed) are still bad T8 mediums, again with the same problem. WG introduced tanks like the Defender and Progetto that absolutely dominate T8 randoms and competitive.

Because most people that played both games you mentioned, can surely agree that the balance, quality of games and annoying, broken vehicles/classes are worse in WoT than WoWs. Sure, a CV has more impact on a game than triple arty, hulldown gold spamming Chieftains and 279s, while superior rubber armor wheeled tanks are wheezing around you, but the subjective "fun" surely suffers more. Games are often decided very fast and the 15:2 or 15:3 snowballing clean up (because the average player is just so horrendously bad) probably does not fit in your wish for more strategic games, when games are decided by the mercy of the MM, putting less of said players in your team than the enemy one. Going by stats, this comes from a 50k battle Super-Unicum.

15k for the price of 5k, 90k for the price of 30k, you name it.

To be fair, playing T4 and T6 carriers is an absolute mess. Not even by the carriers themselves, the general gameplay and especially the matchup makes learning difficult. In my (limited) personal experience this leads you in a wrong direction of gameplay and contribution. On T4 you rarely encounter games with less than two CVs per side and you rarely encounter any meaningful AA resistance. Comparable settings on T6, but now you run into the addiotional uptiered double CV games too. T8 may be more difficult itself, but at least the MM gives you a fair share of different tiered games and rarely creates the hickups from lower tiers with multiple CVs. It is you versus the other carrier, a hard way to learn but much more comfortable and easier getting in to, than that carnival on lower tiers. All of this may just be personal interpretation, but I thought the same about T6 like you, until I tried to regularly play it.

I had a lot of okay games in Kaga, but only a few good ones. This is one of them.

18 boxes in no Genova so far. I dont have a problem with this, as I wanted to get all the bundles anyways, but if I look at the poll results it just feels like you either get her in the first or last try.

As this already is the Kaga thread, what captain skills/modules do you use on her? Generic CV-Stuff or a more specialized build?

Update me on my WH40K knowledge, but are there even ships? I mean water-like surface crossing vehicles, not the spacecrafts. Makes sense to me with WoT going for a collab, including a special tank, while WoWs had weeb stuff, related to Azur Lane, etc.

Had some very strange spikes in Ping, despite no background tatsks running. Only happens in WoWs as well. It happens rarely, but it happens.

Got a SC with 50 Red Dragon signals.

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No active recruits, got some flags from the free container after sharing 3 invites. I just dont know anyone who might be interested in this game or somebody I hate enough to recommend it.

wat As a rather new player myself and only missing the GZ, I can clearly recommend the Kaga. My experience in higher tiers differs a lot from that in T4 and not only according to the better/more experienced players is the Kaga more forgiving, also for me as someone that is still trying to learn how to dodge Flak, approach ships correctly or struggles to torp moving and dodging targets, the big hangar, fast restoration time and good camo TBs offer some room for mistakes. The only downside I personally experienced, especially in comparison to T4, was the drastically reduced use of Attack Planes, even on DDs. According to the values, the targets she encounters and Toptier (CV-Youtuber), the rockets are just weak and lack penetration, so the gameplay is not really the same as with other CVs or on other tiers and mostly focuses around her TBs and fires with the DBs. I had a really bad streak of defeats with Kaga, but also some enjoyable games. If you want a beginners CV, pick her, because even if the game goes bad and you do bad, WG speshul balans economy still rewards you. Other CVs like Saipan is- and seems to be really difficult to play, about GZ I dont have a lot of information. Enterprise is not for sale and probably wont be in a while.

To be fair, I got bamboozled as well and thought "Hey, 22 Containers for 1100 tokens or 24k gold". Took me a moment to realize.

Question time! So I got the Kaga, she is all nice and such, but in the few games I had so far, especially longer, up-tiered battles or against specific ships I was struggling with plane losses. This sure might sound ridiculous to some because "Kaga", but thats just how it is for me. I already asked in the Newcomers Section but that forum section seems a bit rusty when it comes to reworked CVs on how to improve or actually "do" Flak dodging or avoid sector reinforcement. Is anyone willing/able to provide some current replays with a little bit of explanation, especially with said actions? The ones on WoWs-Replays dont really provide any insight on the players thought and often tend to be just exceptionally good games. I mean something has to be wrong in my playstyle, when the enemy is giving his thanks for the AA-Expert or I just have this feeling of missing potential in general. My captain is still missing SE and CE, but I dont think my planes get shred much less with it.

So far I have never used any free experience and I also have no intention in doing so, the only exception might be the Nelson because I can use her in the Narai OP and dont have a BB on that tier. Otherwise I dont really see a reason in spending these Free-XP, as I play stock ships in Co-Op until they are fully equiped or grind captains in missions/via Elite Commander XP from other ships. My port is rather small and there is little to no need for a large amount of well trained captains. Since I started actively playing again, I managed to aquire around 315k Free-XP with some Premium Time from missions, operations and rewards. It mostly comes down to a small amount of saved up Event/Special-Camos from WG-Bonuscodes I came across in WoT, as I dont have a lot of flags. Who knows, maybe I will catch the collector's fever one day.

I have no ship of T8 from the mentioned classes, yet still recieved a Thunderer, Zao and Gearing after logging in today. Pretty sure there was either a combat mission or they just gave them out for free. Just checked the main page, you get all 3 of them after playing a random battle in T8 or higher with any type of ship.