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And you don't need 50 games in a ship to learn how to be effective in it. Or you shouldn't do! I finished the Fuso in 28 battles having free EXP the B hull. I got 71% WR and ave 83k damage in it - with your rules I wouldn't have been 'allowed' to use it in the lower ranks. In fact only my Ryujo at 55 games would be qualified at tier 6 would qualify and that took 55 battles because it is terrible in the AS config I used. It is the least suitable tier 6 for me to play.

Sorry, I misread it. btw: my first sentence was a reply to you. The second was a general comment. But I guess you can read it how you want to read.

That is class balance as opposed to individual ship balance. I also kind of hoped RN BBs would come first... but I am happy to have any RN ships - I hope it is Q1 instead of Q2!

I saw Xellerator this morning in his Kagero. He only posts in the German section. He died early and blamed the team. Somehow he decided it was especially my fault as I held a flank with my Iowa and had 2 of our team's 4 kills at that point. He was so certain that it was my fault he stopped for the entire rest of the match so that he could point out how bad I was. Admittedly his nostradamus like predictions about my imminent demise turned out to be wrong and despite being the sole target of a Fubuki, Benson and a collection of cruisers. Even when I died with 4 (of our 8 kills) it was still all down to me. But, he did tell me that one day I would be able to join 'the elite'. I don't consider myself part of the elite - not even sure who is and I certainly don't know what the joining requirements would be - do I need to drop my win rate a couple of percent to get to his?

You worked quite hard to find a thread that hasn't had a reply for 4 months. What was wrong with http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/9009-what-were-your-greatest-gaming-achievements-today/ on page 2 of the forum?

This is what I did - well am doing. The IJN ones at mid tier are superior and can help you get to a decent standard of play which will then help when tackling the inferior USN CVs (mid tiers). I finished the Hiryu perhaps a month ago and I am stopping there. Currently I play it for 1 win per day to try and push the captain up to having a lvl 5 skill (very close to having 4 skills on it). It is already far superior to the Ranger but with Air supremacy it will become an even better troll machine. Then last night I bought the Langley. My original plan was to not buy it until I got the 5th skill on the Hiryu because I don't want to play massive amounts of CV games but I thought it would help with the ARP missions. Turns out it is tier V and above I need so it is no help but I already have it fully unlocked and it is only 22k EXP to get to tier V and the Bogue horror show. Anyway, my plan for the USN CV line is to get through the mid tiers and grind that line all of the way to the top.

50% of all planes in the game? Did it change to that in a recent patch because I never knew that? I've always picked it up dead on 30 in my CV and we are talking in games in my Hiryu vs another (Hiryu has 72 planes) and Hiryu + say Independence so... lots more. EDIT: I know you get flags for it now so it would make sense to have been made harder... I just don't read patch notes carefully enough

Fighter barrage does count. I bought the Langley last night and in my second game I killed 36 planes and half or more were through barrage. I wouldn't have got the achievement without them being counted. And focussed ship AA improves it by 50%

Oh and can I also add that people really should join the forumites in game channel. The most I have seen in there is 4! Load up your game Click on the Orange button in the bottom left (speech bubble with ... in it) Search for channel 'forumites' You will probably find several channels with the same name which is helpful. Pick the one made by Sturmtiger_304 When you double click on it you will be prompted for a password which is play4fun Once you have joined, stay in the channel! Even if you are alone... people will be along shortly When you restart the game the forumites channel will automatically be in your bottom bar but you will need to enter the password each time.

This thread went quiet for a while but I've met a whole host of forumites, particularly in ranked battles. I say hi to most, time permitting. I was going to name them but it will be an incomplete list so I won't bother. I did however see Cor3yBW last night in ranked on the opposite team. I took a few chunks out of his team mate but Cor3y then smashed me with a double citadel as I failed miserably to angle against both him and the other NC. He closed and even though I turned away he manage to hit me with 2 torps from his tirpitz in a death run. I could have handled 1 hit but couldn't get the rudder over enough to miss the other torp. Was a bit embarrassing really. The only upshot was that the rest of his team was hopeless (more hopeless than ours which is saying something) so all of his efforts were in vain and we won!

The mobile link is v low quality - this one is better:

Does his name start with a K?

Im in the middle of a game. Been playing about an hour with no problems. I think this is an issue with you not the server

Team 1 (mine) Team 2 (enemy) Totals per game DD CA BB CV DD CA BB CV DD CA BB CV 4 1 2 0 3 2 2 0 7 3 4 0 2 2 2 1 3 1 2 1 5 3 4 2 3 2 2 0 3 2 2 0 6 4 4 0 3 2 2 0 3 2 2 0 6 4 4 0 3 2 2 0 4 1 2 0 7 3 4 0 4 1 2 0 3 2 2 0 7 3 4 0 3 2 2 0 3 2 2 0 6 4 4 0 2 3 2 0 2 3 2 0 4 6 4 0 1 3 2 1 2 2 2 1 3 5 4 2 3 3 1 0 4 2 1 0 7 5 2 0 2 3 2 0 3 2 2 0 5 5 4 0 4 1 2 0 3 2 2 0 7 3 4 0 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 4 4 4 2 2 3 2 0 3 2 2 0 5 5 4 0 Totals 79 57 54 6 196 40.31% 29.08% 27.55% 3.06% I know it is a small sample size but I've just been through the replays of my 14 games in ranked in season 3 and made a note of the team compositions. As I've said above I did meet more than 2 BBs per team in the last season but we are talking about 3 out of 128 games. I don't get why people keep going on about a BBs being the issue. The queue is consistently longest for BBs and it still sticks it to 2 per team max in the overwhelming majority of cases. In 5 out of those 14 games 50% of the players in the match were destroyers. 50% represented by 1 class. In those 14 games only 3 had 4 or less destroyers i.e. 2 per team or fewer. If you limit the BBs (and they are effectively limited) then you don't get more room for CAs because people don't play them. People play DDs. And in DD heavy fights then the DD I would want is the better DD killer.

Yea, as the above say don't skip either of the 2 tier 6 BBs as they are both fantastic. Enjoy your time with them. And, you will need your free EXP to get the tier VII ships into better shape. The Colorado particularly is a NIGHTMARE stock. Colorado needs B hull at least and probably propulsion to knock it into vaguely usable shape. If you stick the FCS on there then you can grind out the C hull at your leisure. The Nagato is a lot more usable stock but it doesn't hurt to get some of the upgrades as soon as you buy a ship.

Why wouldn't you have the Juliet Charlie flag on a DD which is THE class most likely to get detonated. I don't mind the detonation mechanic as it happens so infrequently for most classes. However, I am surprised at tha a 5 inch HE shell could ever EVER detonate a Yamato.

Nope. The reset already happened at the end of CBT. From here on out there will be no resets.

As someone who reached rank 1 in the last season and has a few battles under their belt in season 3 whilst exclusively playing BBs I can tell you that BBs are in no way the predominant class in ranked. Sure I have been in a couple of games with 4 BBs per side but DDs are THE most played class in ranked. They just have to be. I wonder if there are any statistics to support that? In another thread someone says they don't believe there are games with 1 CA per side but I have seen them and I have seen plenty with 3 CAs in the game (2 on 1 team, 1 on the other). The fact is that if you play enough ranked games you will see all sorts of weird matchings but people tend only to make screenshots of the abnormal games. The problem is that 3 DDs per team is the 'norm' and it can go up even higher.

Well, you technically don't mean the front since they do need screening for DDs. They should be in amongst other ships. And yes long range shooting is for first contact or if you have killed something closer and had to switch to a distant target. No BB should be kept at 18-20km range. If they do that then they are not going to do enough damage and will not influence the outcome of the game enough.

This is pretty much sums it up. I'm still sticking to my BB as I'm pretty ropey in other classes... but, if I was going to play another ship it would be a DD and specifically a DD that can kill other DDs better i.e. the Benson. The only thing stopping me is the fact that I haven't played a single game in a US DD since the wipe. Oh and being pretty crap in destroyers.

New highest damage and new highest number of citadels in a BB Looking at the teams... 2 CVs, 1 BB and 1 DD... 8 cruisers and me top tier - I thought this game had potential when I loaded in. My only concern was whether I would spend half of the game shooting the Iowa... which I would have been happy to do or whether I would get to tuck into the cruiser banquet. But, as it happens their Fubuki went West and their Iowa... kind of went West but in a sit-at-the-back-watching-everyone-die kind of way. I had picked East First salvo = triple citadel instakill on the full health Roon. 2nd salvo only got 1 citadel on a Yorck. I'm not even sure where the rest came from - certainly 2 on Atago, 1 on hiryu, 1 on myoko, 2 on first pepsi, 1 on second... but that only gets to 11. It was a turkey shoot from start to finish. The Ranger had just been spotted when we capped - I expect there would have been more citadels given another 2 salvos.

The Iowa has horrible armour if it shows its sides and most things could pen it. It is more of a surprise if you hit it side on and fail to get a citadel!

CV? Least popular class in ranked. There are so few people playing them in ranked fullstop that if you are not trying in peak periods you are screwed particularly as mirrored MM means you HAVE to wait for an opponent... and indeed an opponent of the same tier. No other class has such restrictions.

I'm in the UK and play between 6pm-9pm on the nights where I can. Any later than that and everything goes to pot - I expect some of that is the player quality but plenty of it is to do with how tired I am.

I am rank 14. Started there... remain there. One thing to note with teamplay though - you need to work to get it. You cannot expect people to just work together and interpret what they see on the mini-map. I try to encourage dialogue and working together. I type to my team mates in the final few seconds of countdown and opening minute. This will be mainly sorting what flag(s) we go for but I also include things like if they have extra DDs, if there are CVs then good ones will go for DDs rather than CV sniping, why you should attack flag X over Y etc. Once the game starts you are usually too busy so it is the radio commands and the odd gj... or if necessary trying to pull everyone back into line if they start heading off to the 2 line. In most cases I start the conversation and if I don't it doesn't happen. Just silence. Occasionally someone going 'plan?' but not much else. And then if no one says anything people do there own thing and perhaps ask for cohesion when it is kind of too late. I find that quite a lot of people will happily work to an objective but very few will do any kind of organisation.