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It is a divisions issue after recent patches. Can't remember which maps but appears to only affect some of them - it was very frustrating during the 1 year event when trying to get manners maketh the man. Lsat time it happened to me was Saturday but luckily I was in my Ognevoi (or Gnevny) and put right next to a team mate in a BB - I think if I had been in a CA I would have been too fat we were that close but we got out of this by the BB not moving until I made my way clear.

Would agree that it really is bad on tears of the desert. Personally, not a huge fan in its current format as it relies too much on teamwork and since there isn't much teamwork in this game it can be frustrating. Also, it requires a thorough understanding the game-mode and since a lot of the user-base is apparently really stupid (or wilfully just doesn't care about working as a team to secure a win) you either get too little support or you think you get it and then realise it evaporated because DD #2 went CV hunting or BBs #3, #4 and #5 are on the 1 line. I do kind of like the idea though but changes need to be made including which maps it is on and if WG could change its approach of cap-zones-can-only-be-circular it could be improved. Also DDs with poor detection are at a huge disadvantage with so many ships close together and it usually ends up with only the stealthy boats able to do much and too many ships sat literally unmoving behind an island. Favourite class for this game mode? CV because a good CV can be hugely influential in this game mode.

Lol, so you seriously think that when a cyclone hits that someone should run to help the CV? But, I guess you do make a good point that the UI should reflect the reality of the cyclone rather than standard settings.

Dammit, I thought you might post about that game and it was horrible, but luckily one of my few bad ones. Mandyxx and Babykim went A and met you but I went to B. I figured that if they ran into you then you wouldn't be able to hang about due to bad concealment meaning our support would target you, and they did get the flag but your numbers there were high and the expected support was 20km away - they probably should have bailed way back whilst they still could. I took B whilst another cruiser on our team went C but I couldn't see what to do next. I decided to take a risk pushing from B to C south of the island rather than north and instantly regretted that when I ran into your team's fletcher with radar equipped Chapyev and other ships and although I escaped with half health it meant they could push on me quickly. I think we were about the first 3 to die. I should load up the replay and screenshot what our team was doing 5 minutes into the game. Anyway, was good to see you topping your team at the end of the game.

AS is still pointless even with some plane kills. I can still kill plenty of planes without AS but I also am able to massively out-damage and support my team better because they simply cannot be everywhere at once. I'm currently on the shokaku and by the time he kills my 10 fighters ( loosing 8-10 of his) I have probably stuck 5-6 torps in something and started a few fires even with DoT. Sometimes he will have enough planes remaining to kill a few returning bombers but they are losses I can take if I'm knocking out even 30k dmg per attack run (although often more). When will people realise that it is only easy-mode in terms of play, but actually the worse mode for getting wins?

Thinks the Nikolai and Tirpitz are crap. Troll confirmed.

Perfect timing as I unlocked the Ognevoi this weekend. cheers!

I played heavily on Saturday, and whilst the BB queues were insane I came out of it with a decent win rate... although the BB queues and team compositions were crazy - plenty of games with 10 BBs, 10 DDs and 2-4 cruisers and 0-2 CVs. On Sunday I didn't get to play much but I won my first 3 games (huzzah)... lost my second 3 games (boo!) and then won my final 3 (woop!) so again relatively good.

The idiocy of a BB related challenge in the current meta is mind-boggling - discounts on the ships is fine but promoting their play is just stupid. I did the challenge on Saturday because I had time but didn't yesterday. Unfortunately, as someone who is a) grinding the Gneisenau and b) training German BB captains with relative urgency I want to play them but the queue is insane and games like that are no fun - with that many BBs you cannot get stuck in and brawling because if you get focussed it is quickly over so you just have to chip away for the first 10 minutes.

Finally hit 60%:

Just met iEarlGrey in his Ranger whilst I was in my Saipan. Whilst a decent player, the Saipan (5 skill captain) is just so much better as to make him not much of a threat. I focused heavily on my dmg, and as top tier in a BB special weekend I was able to easily get high caliber but I managed to frustrate him a little bit. He still came 3rd on his team in a domination game which meant he was no slouch in the damage department but I slowed him down a bit

Yep, 10-30 second wouldn't get a report from me. But you can make it all about you if you like.

Next you will tell us that those connection issues are the reason you have such a poor win rate.

if someone has a client crash and suffers a report every fortnight then tough. im not going to stop reporting people who are afk for crtical periods of the battle just in case. i posted screenshot yesterday because i managed a kraken in a game that lasted 6:39. if someone is afk for 5 mins of that game they probably don't fire a shell.

6:39 game time (i.e. really short!) but I was productive:

If 1 fighter is attacking your decoy DBs and your fighter engages his other then your strike force can get through. Simple maths. And that is worse case scenario. If he sees your DBs first he might chase with first set and move his second set closer. Happens far too often because, and this may surprise you, most players are stupid. Quitting out suggests you are too stupid to outwit these people. Which is fair enough I suppose.

Not picking skills for mine until I know what the CLs will be like. I have no strong desire to play my Campbeltown so he can sit there twiddling his thumbs for a while.

This. Warspite might not have the armour but her guns are far superior to the Bayern. So glad I got to sell her 2 days ago and buy the Genisenau today in the sale.

If you are kiting his fighters to your DDs then you do not know what you are doing. And he has to reload at some point. And you can bait him with 1 set of bombers in 1 direction and whilst your main strike force goes another route. Insta leaving is childish and frankly pathetic.

IJN are the better CVs. For tier 5 please see: EDIT: As Bogue will often play AS and so have simply more fighters you need to learn when to engage his fighters. Ideally, you avoid them and if they are stopping your strike planes getting to a target then either switch target but engage them purely to let your strike planes through - you are not likely to win the fight but it doesn't matter if you can make your strike planes count. You are using manual drop right?

At least you the FdG before the discount started Mandy! Yes, but if you only unlock the newer ship in this week then that is when you plan on taking advantage of the discount, and not unreasonable to expect it to go to tier 10 since it did last time round (http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/special/weekend-doubles-battleships/)

My machine is about 1 year old but my previous one (4 years old?) had no problems either. If it took me 5 mins to get into a game that on average takes say 15 minutes then I wouldn't want to play it. If you are getting in consistently minutes into the game then you handicap yourself and your team and it would just spoil the fun for me. Even when I run the PT client on my 1TB HDD as opposed to my SSDs I still get into the game with 20 seconds left on the countdown.

If someone has a computer that takes 6 minutes to load in then they need to bin it and I already answered the connection bit. EDIT: I don't ask people what the cause is - I just report them for afk/bot. I don't want someone to drop either of those excuses because they are BS.

If someone wants to say their dog was stealing the bandwidth or something after 1 min countdown and 5 mins of game then I call BS. And I report it too. I have seen plenty of games lost because a crucial DD didn't get into the game for 5 mins or our CV just didn't turn up. This isn't 2001 with dial up! Just yesterday we got all 3 caps in epicentre because the two enemy DDs didn't move at the start and ours did. I was in my shokaku and it was a race against the clock to dmg enough since the win was so obvious from the start.

Saw FlirtyZeus this morning on the enemy team. I was in my Blys as bottom tier, can't remember what he was in. I charged a Fubuki in smoke early on and killed him but got radar-ed and killed. Bad Game. Then saw Durin_VI in his Bismarck on the enemy team whilst I was in my Tirpitz. We were both top of our respective teams and both hard carrying... but ours won