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I'm interested in how people are planning to use the containers. For me, I seem to be doing ok for credits and flags (ranked has really pushed the flag count up). This means that the standard choices are kind of useless and I'm probably going to try my luck, pretty much all of the time. I've read that the chances of getting something like a rare premium are insanely small... as you would expect I guess, but my logic I might as well give myself the best chance of getting it. Thoughts?

This. The turret traverse I can handle but the range forces you to get closer and then your inability to prevent damage (angling has too little effect) and/or increase the range (you are slow) means you are quite vulnerable. The people wanting a range increase are probably the same people who think that the Fuso is a back line sniper*. *HINT: it isn't how you should use that ship.

quoted post removed What on earth are you mumbling on about?

Eh? Unconverted XP is not free XP and it never has been. They have said it is free XP and the only ways you can earn it is to 1) earn modest amounts in game 2) convert it or 3) get it in a container. I don't understand your argument that it costs to get a premium ship - in case you had missed it all premium ships cost money* - your options are: Use money --> buy premium ships Use money --> buy dubloons --> buy premium ships Use money --> buy dubloons --> convert XP --> buy premium ship It all is about the same really... just different steps. All they have done is introduce an extra hurdle (often done in games to obscure the true cost) and in the process introduce a variable price because everyone will go into the event with differing amounts of money - quite clever really with people showing off how they spent nothing or £3 and got a tier IX ship but for people without much free XP already they will potentially find the cost to be very high. EDIT: First container opened today was a standard one with 3k free XP in it. Me likey.

You have found out at the same time as everyone else so you are as good/badly off as everyone else. I'm sure most people have spent some free XP recently. Deal with it.

My guess is it will be pretty much a re-skin and a true premium in terms of captain training and credit earning. As for needing the NC - no - anyone who meets the requirements will be able to have it regardless of what ships they currently own. I think that WG will fully expect that most people will not be able to get it without spending dubloons - it is a tier 9 premium after all.

Speculation on pricing: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/5bmil8/some_missouri_math/

Do you never use it? As much as I could probably have survived without using mine, I can always find uses for it getting ships from stock to usable as soon as possible. My recent purchases were 25k for taiho flight deck mod 2, 15k to upgrade the fighters and then 22k on the FCS for Ibuki all of which makes you vaguely competitive - the rest of the upgrades I grind the old fashioned way. I actually just got to the point where I could free XP the B hull but didn't but I'm still down at around 15k remaining. I will check when I get home but I think I have several hundred papa flags I'll stick on some ships and I have an unholy amount of wasted XP I can convert - it is something I generally refuse to do as I already spend too much on this game, but if I am buying dubloons specifically to convert to buy a premium ship then it is the same as just handing cash over in the premium shop.

Tier IX premium... needs free XP. http://worldofwarships.com/en/news/common/insertundersiegereferencehere/ EDIT: I have loads of XP I can convert. I'll save everything I can for now and see if the amount I need to convert is reasonable i.e. if the conversion costs is equal to the £££ I am willing to spend. I half wish I hadn't splashed out ~50k free XP on upgrades to my Ibuki and Taiho recently - but tonight's job is to equip my papa flags!

Think I am on almost 40 unlocked for 2 SC. 1x 500 or 1k dubloons. 1x 250 xray-india flags (one of the crap ones!)

I was going to put Mr Seagull into my Fletcher to train a 3rd USN DD captain (Benson, Fletcher and Gearing)... but now I will wait and see what news comes about regarding Mighty Mo as he should go in that really. Instead, I'll sell my Cleveland and make the 11pt captain from there into my Gearing captain. p.s. when you say port slot you mean reserve slot.

You must be the most unlucky person going. I'm only guessing here but I think I have seen SN ships in at least 4 out of every 5 games and usually multiple of them. They are by far the least populous but if you imagine a 50/50 chance of being on your team you are really suggesting that 1 in 10 games gives you a shot at killing a Russian. I call BS.

It is amazing how much people lose all concept of time with these missions. It doesn't matter if you complete 3 of the nations now and only have 6 Russians - we are only 1 week into a 9 week event! Without much effort I have done 2/5 of total in about 1/9 of the time. Even if you have only killed 5 you are on track to finish within November i.e. 50% of way to the time limit. To everyone complaining about it - stop being so dramatic! Personally, I didn't care that it was 9+ and I'm not worried about killing 20 Russian ships IN 2 MONTHS! and whilst I do take some issue with the differing requirements I actually like that it makes me plan a bit more and I have to work towards some of them. Somehow, in 30 games at tier 8+ I have managed to do 20+ IJN, 8 USN, 8 SN and 20+ KM. How do I manage to kill so few USN? p.s. no idea why Ferry suggests 10 for KM - did that one first!

6 SN kills from 22. Seems fine to me...

That just makes you sound really young...

I've certainly never seen a tier 9 premium and don't expect to - have seen someone suggest a kind of stock version as a tier 8 premium but that sounds like power creep to me...

I've just checked and I have 4/20* already in as many days without putting any focus into targeting ruskies. In fact the only change that I have made since the missions came out has been to abandon lower tier games and focus on just my Kiev, Bismarck and 9+. With so many missions on the go I want to just clear out the easy ones with general play and then I can be more focussed with the more challenging ones. With a requirement of 20 SN kills in 2 months that works out at about 1 every 3 days so I am not going to panic just yet * I'm at 9 IJN, 7 USN, 4 SN and 15 KM

I still have the Cleveland from the memory of it in CBT and for a while it was my dedicated fire starter but then I got the IJN CA line up high enough and various gunboat DDs so now it just sits there. I probably should just sell it and throw the 11pt captain (v close to 12) into something else. Perhaps it can become my Gearing captain (already have captains for Benson and Fletcher) or maybe I have a 3rd USN BB captain (already have NCal/Montana but maybe I have a dedicated Colorado captain in case of tier 7 ranked).

It annoys me that the torpedoes mission doesn't specify ship torps yet definitely means them. 200 ship torp hits will be the last mission I complete I expect. The secondary one is a joke for anyone with Bismarck/Yamato. I essentially did that in 3 games (technically it was 4 but I had over 99% by 3 games!)

This is a gift ship as opposed to a researchable silver ship. I am at ease with there being differences.

Do I care about tier 9 requirements? No. Do I care about the difference between this and other servers? More so. Do I take issue with the similarities to the premium? A little bit. As an Atago owner (although I rarely use it) it is a little annoying - sure you don't get the camo, credit earning or crew training... but I feel it could have ditched the heal and still been a reward people would go for whilst maintaining more differences that buying the ship earns you.

I hope you get that the + bit of t8+ in the topic title means 8 and above. 9 is above 8. To avoid further confusion, 10 is also above 8. EDIT: As a further help Anshan is a destroyer - please stick to discussing cruisers

Took my Ibuki out for its first ever game last night... 113k dmg and top of team with 1x devastating strike, 2x its a flesh wound and 1x double strike... seemed ok to me

I met cro_pwr last night on the enemy team in ranked in his Chapayev. I found him with about 120 health but his def AA still meant I had to use my torp bombers to secure the kill :p But, they still had an easy win. Their team stuck compactly together around an NCal making it really hard to find non DD targets and ours spread out and sat broadside. Of course it was all my fault in the Shokaku.