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If people use the Mikail well it can be brutally effective. Sit behind an island and then jump a BB not paying attention by sliding out into a cloud of your own smoke. The pummel said BB who can't even see you and can't get out of range. Oh wait... you just buffed RoF and range? Excellent...

The Langley is indeed rather OP and trollish so you really can't go wrong with it. But, the Hiryu is also trollish and with the advantage of you effectively having 6-6-6 thanks to the large plane capacity. I haven't played the Ranger but I can tell you the Hiryu is far superior. I unlocked the Shokaku ages ago but have stopped with the Hiryu. Currently I have 4 skill points and I'm over half way towards skill 5 for my Hiryu giving me 1 extra fighter and 1 extra DB per squad. At that point most opponents will not have the 5 point skill and I can troll them even more :p p.s. like you I played Ryujo with the fighter setup as I was sick of getting torn apart with the other options but it was incredibly dull. The Hiryu restored my fun in CVs (although I only play for 1 win per day)

I do get your point but having watched it again there is quite a healthy distance between you and the island. I actually remember posting something about this perhaps back in CBT because I got torped when I was perhaps half as close again to an island but you live and you learn. Your best option is not to rely on the scenery but turn as early as you can whilst ctrl+clicking the TBs (which you didn't) in the hope that you can make him a) lose a plane or 2 and b) launch at a sub-optimal angle reducing the number that you have to eat.

1) Firing HE. Eww. 2) IJN BBs have crap AA... and you mention it is not fully upgraded so perhaps even crappier AA. 3) You saw the torp bomber and didn't start turning.

I think you misunderstand what his role as supertester entails.

I certainly saw one in EU server last night:

Ivanovich seems exists to write troll messages in threads about which navy comes next. It is all rather tiresome but he seems to enjoy himself...

mtm78 answered most points very nicely. Your original post is a very small number of valid points hidden in a sea of shite which makes it hard to take you seriously at all.

You can see the 1 torp I got him. Embarrassing considering how close he was. But his turrets cant handle those turns and mine could. Think I got 6 citadels into his belly in the end

You should probably stop just 'saying' anything then.

So, I'm not sure what my best is but I have a screenshot of 4 citadels from 4 shells shooting a Yamato with my Tirpitz: If you look at the shell reload timers you can see that the front 2 turrets are well into their reload. The 4 citadels in showing mid-right screen are all from the back 2 turrets (21 seconds left in the reload). It did not end well for the Yamato

A) Hide stats to make it harder for people using XVM to make an assessment of the level of threat I might pose. Person X doesn't value my opinion B) Keep them unhidden, suffer the consequences. Person X kinds of values my opinion more... however they will check my stats and then perhaps tell my my opinion is invalid if they don't approve of what they see there. Hmmm... what to do?

You need to change your dock to the ARP one and then you will see it.

Spending dubloons on converting EXP to free EXP should be the definition of being a whale in this game. It is hugely expensive.

I'm from the UK... and I am excited about the RN ships arriving but I make no demands on when they come next. Actually, what I would prefer most is a BB line of some description as I have nearly finished the current 2 offerings.

The BBs are >>generally<< quite balanced against each other. Certainly for tiers 6-8 people can argue all day over which is better (even the premiums are well regarded enough at these tiers). Even at 9 they are relatively even. However, at 10 you get a much more consistent view that IJN BB is considered far better as is the tier 5 BB. And at tiers 3-4... well you have to suffer through them. But, balanced against other classes... well that is it's own can of worms.

I use my free EXP strategically to buy modules and get problem ships up to competitive spec as quickly as possible but if I don't need to use it I save it... something else will need it. A lot of people who complain about most ships are complaining about them stock. Admittedly some will always be pretty rubbish, but you can make things easier on yourself by planning ahead - unfortunately some people don't do this. I have never NEVER use free EXP to unlock another ship... although the Bogue has got me thinking about it and the Kahlsruhe is reputed to be a contender:p For examples, I saved around 80k free EXP for the Izumo... which hasn't been as bad as I expected... but perhaps that is because I didn't have to suffer it stock. I could have saved more but I used some to get to the B hull on Iowa, and a bit more on the upgraded planes for the Hiryu. I weighed up what I might need against what I had and spent accordingly. That cleared me out of free EXP but I'm back up to about 30k. My 3 most recent purchases were the Bogue (free EXP fighters and TBs) and the Hatsuhari and Myoko (which I used 0 free EXP on). As for money... I don't horde it. Buying the Iowa whilst keeping the NC absolutely wiped me out. I then had to save hard (read: play my premiums more) to afford the Izumo. But, now I am back to 30 mil even after the 3 purchases mentioned above and it is steadily rising... I can't see me needing much more until I reach the Yamato/Montana. The fact is, I can fix any money issues relatively quickly due to my premiums so it is not something I worry about too much.

Stop derailing topics. Thanks.

The weekly missions reset every Monday.

I thought that until I got my first tier IX ship... and kept the tier 8 predecessor. Then I knew better.

And so it starts It could have easily been random torping of ships but it allows people to see things whether there is substance to it or not.

In WoT you can use cover/angling to evade fire a lot more easily. In WoWs you might be part of a battle line out of cover and permanently spotted. Currently people decide who to target based on god knows what... perceived threat... perceived ease of damage... health of the opponent... whatever. But, if you know the top tier Iowa is a decent player then you might spam him to death instead of ignore him because he is bow on to you. I know that if I ran this mod I would target strategically because I don't want players who know what they are doing targeting me and I can mop up idiots later. And this is me who is far from the best player... but I am definitely above average and definitely more of a threat than a lot of players.

Yea at the minute there is a lot of speculation whether we will get there before anyone can get to 260 but it really IS speculation and a lot of it centres around our progress thus far. And the facts are that early progress should be faster due to the 1 time missions. Even people who looked at the 300k pearls earned on Monday neglected the fact that it was weekly mission refresh day and as such there was a sharp jump in the number of pearls earned. Pearl gathering should slow down a lot in weeks 3+ (even week 2 will be less than week 1) and the only counter to this is new people signing up late. But we have no idea whether the number of people signing up can counter the huge weight of people who are at/very near the maximum number of pearls available already.

Well, it is all I can do. And I figure it will have accurate data now, but either they keep hold of that and will become less and less relevant or when it next refreshes it will get removed. I literally hid it 2 mins before my post.

Snap - stats now hidden. It is a lot easier to focus fire and deal with high threat players in WoWs compared to WoT which has a lot more cover generally. I'm not wanting to paint a big 'shoot me' sign over my head.