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Assuming we get the same and assuming only random I'm looking at 10 + 150 + 100 = 260 flags. Nice. Currently 328 battles away from an extra 50 flags but I know I won't be playing anything like enough to close that gap. If it includes my 387 ranked games and 2 co-ops then those extra flags are mine!

I am going to get the Belfast... but I will wait and see with the Perth because I am not a massive cruiser player. It might be nice to have a cruiser option at tier 6 though... At least with the Belfast I can potentially train up a few captains and keep any of the ships I like.

I've tried to use the context to figure this out but what is a free XP paywall?

I haven't played my Saipan for a long time... perhaps 2 months ago when I finally got my USN CV captain to the 5th skill but yesterday I decided to take her out for a spin because she always was trollish and with the 5th skill that is only going to get worse. After a few early losses on our side I asked the team if they could kindly stop dying because I had my shoulder pads on and was ready for some hard carrying... and they pretty much obliged. I'm mainly posting this because I don't think I've ever had this many torp hits...

Breaking the 200k barrier in a Konig

Whilst everyone understand what you are saying Ian, the fact remains that you thought a change was being made that no one said was going to be made. The change that they said they were going to make has been made and is working as they intended it to. EDIT: And to make things work how you want you would have to remove the +/-1 spread on division and make them same tier only. As soon as you allow +/-1 and enforce a total team spread of +/-2 then people can abuse the system to make some of their division top tier (or at least mid depending on the tiers involved)

I already have the Campbeltown but have barely played her. A 12 point captain to stick in my RN cruiser? Yes please!

What a crappost. *wonders off to play his gremy*

I really hope you are right with that

Ugly turrets but generally I like the look of them from tier 6 up - particularly the Minotaur (it has nice looking turrets). But I was just watching another video about the armour viewer and god damn those tier 9/10 citadels are huge. EDIT: The Black Swan looks really cool too!

If you problem is 1) she is slow and 2) she has short range then I have a really simple suggestion: stop sailing in the wake of longer range and faster team mates! You have to go different routes in ships like the Warspite or lower tier USN BBs because otherwise you suffer the OP's problem where you are too far behind the front line. It can be difficult to judge/achieve as you are inevitably closer to the enemy but forward planning and judicious use of terrain to protect your progress can mitigate that to a certain extent. Also, if you find you are going too far towards the map edge then plan a turn and get your guns moving to the other side of your ship the moment you have fired and begin to turn - I see far too many people not start switching their guns until the ships direction forces it for them and it makes me sad.

I take it you are the true CV player always looking out for the team? Your post would be more understandable if you didn't play CVs but as you do you have first hand experience of their capabilities and limitations (even if you are only a bit above average in them). I also find it amusing that as someone who played Ranger in strike setup you still seem to think a CV can cover everyone all of the time. It isn't possible. It isn't possible with any loadout and as strike it really isn't possible. And once you get to tier 8 CV sniping is largely gone since defensive AA makes it a waste of time in most circumstances. Even at tier 7 it is often easy to see it coming a mile off and defend against it so it is often a waste of time there.

I got the Atago when it first came out and was terrible in it. I have been scared to go near it but I now have the Mogami and I'm far better in that so maybe it is time to give her another try...

I had got a 15 pt captain for my Tirpitz before German BBs arrived having played extensively over the past year. She is a well balanced ship and can be helpful in any game. With decent speed, manoeuvrability, armour and turret traverse you can do some serious tanking but leave a fight if you need to and repair up before getting back in there. She might be more at home getting stuck in at short ranges but you can play a bit more passively and look for an opening when necessary. I bought the shiney horse when it came out but decided that I would start a fresh captain with her and this way I will be able to keep the Bismarck with a good captain and carry on up the German BB tree with a second strong captain. So having got a 3 point captain (for 25 dubloons) to put in my grinding German BB (currently the Kaiser). If I have time now I play my Kaiser, move the captain to the Scharnhorst play her and then move the captain up to Tirpitz and play again. 3x daily bonus is helping get me a strong captain quickly. My original 15 pt Tirpitz captain is currently twiddling his thumbs in the Emden (since my depot is full of ARP captains).

Have watched, enjoyed and taken on board all the videos so far... but as someone who is about to finish the Kaiser it would be nice to see something about the Konig

When I saw the game start I liked that we had a Kebab to your Shima but initially things looked terrible for us. I capped A but was left on my own and when I abandoned it (to 2 DDs and at least 3 BBs) we were left with 0 caps to your 3. I was then trying to halt that flank from pushing up through B but in the end I got killed in a gunfight with the fubuki/kagero (I took out the fubuki but still a little embarassing). At the point I died we had capped C but things still looked to be going well for your team so I was genuinely surprised when I came out of my next game to see we had won. Can't fault your effort from the results.

Get a hobby. Play some more games. Whatever - just something that is not actively pursuing WG staff in a bordering on stalker kind of way.

You paint a very sad picture of the kebab and yet it has the 2nd highest tier 10 WR (all classes) and highest ave dmg of tier 10 DDs. If you want to argue about fire chance being fine then I'm ok with that but you don't need to resort to trying to make the kebab out to be a bad ship because it isn't. Fact.

I want to know whether he was in a Hosho trying to club a Konig or something.

Whilst you could have made a semi-valid point mentioning a real problem with the game you decided to use a 'problem' that is just as much an eye-candy feature as people on decks.

What CV and what target?

Really bizarre news article. Totally makes me want to watch this again though. p.s. CAKE!

I will add that it is a bit of a sucky system, but I still expect that most dismissed captains have little to no experience on them. The fact is that a good captain is the single worst thing you can lose in this game. Sell a tier X ship by accident and perhaps destroy the modules? Ow! That would hurt, but you could replace it relatively easily - far easier than you could get a new captain back to 15+ skil points.

Nice little touch. hope we see it for all ships.

Oof. That looks painful. I would have taken a break by now... and perhaps taken out some other ships to recover.