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When planes just are not enough: I also had to torpedobeats the fubuki before I could get the secondaries kill

Of course there is a counter to cruiser radar - it is called BB shells.

What is with the random ship names?

Wut?

Ships at higher tiers do more damage. An average of 30k dmg doesn't reflect this if half of your games are tier 5 or below. Certain classes are better for damage i.e. CVs (no AS setup) and BBs out-damage cruisers etc.

From just this very morning: Scenario: A Belfast enters the B cap Neighbors where I am already with my Kiev. I have come from the South so I am sheltered behind the island and in my own smoke about 4.5km away. He smokes and stops... but doesn't hydro or radar. Thoughts: This is my chance! Very silly of him to do that and I should go and punish him for it! All I need to do is clear the island and close a little bit and my 4km torps will mash him! (I even load AP as an extra FU since he will be broadside to me). Sure my chances of survival are pretty low but the Belfast could be a big problem to our team and if I get him it will be GLORIOUS! What actually happened: I leave the smoke (engine boost engaged), but before I even clear the island I am lit up by a Fubuki. I turn the headland in a frantic race towards the Belfast smoke but *BANG* and 2/3 of my HP disappears... crap. Not close enough.... come on... come on... right, hard to port! *BANG* Dead. Not got to launch angle. Uber fail.

I got 3k free EXP from a normal try your luck container this morning. That is pretty sweet for a standard reward.

Yesterday, in order to get the 10 camos on the test server, I remoted into my home PC and played some CV games. Given how laggy the connection is you can't even look around and play a normal ship but the top down CV view works quite adequately with auto drops. It surprised me that with strike Essex I was able to average about 70k damage across about 6-7 games with a depressing number of people eating at least 2 auto dropped torps and the bombs doing some decent damage.

I guess what I mean is... is she Nikolai good? I still regret not buying her (but then look at my Gremy and realise I didn't do too bad!)

So... is she any good?

Following on from yesterday's Yamato double strike (see 2 posts up) I present today's Yamato double strike! Not with secondaries this time but I put 9 shells through the nose of an Izumo at 5km and then rammed the GK ending with a very respectable 224k dmg

Complaints about gameplay and things like this are valid IMHO and separate to complaints about free stuff. I also sit in the camp of people who get disheartened when I see people complaining because the free stuff isn't the right free stuff or the free stuff isn't enough. Or perhaps the event for free stuff isn't fair because the tiers are too high or you don't like class X or they have a job (don't you know). The sense of entitlement I see sometimes is depressing and some people really need to get a sense of perspective - I was taught not to behave like that when I was a toddler.

I kept the Benson... because it is awesome and ranked. So I started a new captain in my Fletcher but I also want to keep that... because Fletcher. I was already feeling sad about starting a 3rd captain for the Gearing but Stephen Seagull is going to make that a bit easier!

Not the best image as I had was already trying to swing my guns around to the rest of the enemy team who had decided that an 'attack the 1-2 line and ignore the flags' strategy was their best hope... But I took it anyway because a double strike from secondaries has to be pretty rare.

No, but you can go back to port, drop out of div and then compliment the 2 people that you were in a division with i.e. flawed and option to abuse. Currently there is no gain so people don't bother, but if there is an incentive to abuse it then people will make the effort.

Some look really nice... others are rather underwhelming. I only have 2 tier 10s and the Yamato one is a bit crap and the Montana... well it looks nice but I barely play the thing! Minotaur, Hindy, Moskva, Montana and strangely Hakuryu all look good to me.

To all the people who think that their karma is at 0 because they are amazing players and the world is just full of haters I will say 1 thing: LOL! Sure it does happen occasionally, but some people must have huge egos to think that is the sole reason for them being at/around 0. Most people with 0 karma are there because they speak up in chat when things don't go well - that is why mine rarely got above 6 for the first 6 months and soon descended to 0 each time. And from the other side, it is also a easy way to pick up a negative report from me - far too many times I hear people dying, and then turning on <whoever> because it couldn't possibly be their own fault... and if they turn on me when I have been trying to help the team then yea, I'll happily report them. From a personal point of view, I never had much problem picking up karma as I do try and co-ordinate in chat, I compliment both in chat and using the compliment options and I am a decent enough player... my problem has always been keeping hold of it. I would actually love to see total number of compliments/reports rather than my current karma score. Currently my karma is at a career high of 23 and that has come from ranked where I have tried to be positive and avoid the blame game (for a change!) Back to the OP - I don't like this idea. As much as I disagree with the notion of false reports bringing good players down (I'll just say 'lol' again as it really does amuse me), the fact remains that it is open to abuse, particularly through artificial inflation by abusing divisions, it is a bad idea. And a further point to the OP: don't be so delicate - people are allowed to disagree and people are allowed to even disagree for stupid reasons.

Saw Shaka_D last night when I was trying to finish my Ognevoi grind (so I could buy the Kiev cheap) and he was on the other team in... I think some kind of cruiser (I was on the wrong end of a 5 hour drive home so my brain wasn't fully functional!). We discussed who might die first and find that reported on the forum... and he did! ...although I only survived about a minute longer as I was trying to contest C and Russian gunboats are not the best ships for such a job. I managed to kill a cruiser (torps) and get a few citadels making respectable damage... but if you are in torp range of 2 cruisers in something that has 4km torps then your life expectancy is never going to be particularly high.

HMS Caroline leaving dock for first time in 32 years http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/pictured-hms-caroline-leaves-belfast-dock-for-first-time-in-32-years-35169838.html

Everyone has the same chance.

First supercontainer... 500 dubloons...

I'm up to 13 crates opened. 12 x 5 flags and 1 x 100,000 credits. It is starting to make me sulk.

...and the one behind it.

He got some kind of chat ban and spat his dummy out - said he wasn't going to post on here any more.

I straight up ignore the weekly missions when they are split across all 4 classes. I much prefer the missions where you 3 consecutive parts to them.