DrMechano

Nope got nothing, no free Warspite...no credits...nowt. Apparently it just gives the same captain Jingles mission as the portal according to MrConway.

Just had a game where a Yugumo KNEW where the enemy Benham was and REFUSED to actually go and try to find him despite saying he had RPF. Three ships on his flank, THREE SHIPS WITH GUNS READY SHOULD HE SPOT THE DD. Nope he proceeds to clearly REFUSE to try and get the Benham, letting it run rampant and torp all three of us while he hung back. Sweet Jesus christ is it any wonder I get chat banned when you get players like that? The thing is, looking at his profile, he wasn't a bad player...he just sucked in the Yugumo. Look, I get it, the Yugumo is a torp boat that doesn't want to go up against something like the Benham...but he had support that was more than eager to try to sink the enemy DD since it meant we'd have clear flank to push in on the enemy.

Seems to be a lot of that happening recently like the twitch rewards being massively delayed for example. Hopefully we'll get an update about this soon.

Nope Japanese sadly IIRC.

Activated the second code, probably won't get anything, time to log in and see Edit: Second code did nothing, applied before logging in to the game and did not receive anything.

Mind you I've also had the inverse where I've just fired out a shot in my Musashi and gone "eh...terrible aim on my part, none of those are going to hit..." and then one stray shell proceeds to just peg a part of a cruiser and suddenly I've citadelled them. RNG giveth and RNG taketh away.

Being chat banned there is one thing I have definitely missed and that's telling people well done, had a Fletcher who supported my push in a Musashi sailing fairly close by (after we'd, as a pair, deleted the enemy DD on the flank since I forgot I had HE loaded from a previous round but it worked out), who, when he popped up as enemies tried to close the distance, would cause them to suddenly panic that I had effectively been shielding a DD from LoS due to me just being a bigger target. Most hilarious moment was when a De Grosse was closing in for the ram at half health, DD pops his engine boost, speeds ahead of me and drops torps on him at near point blank range, seeing the sudden "oh crap" as his turrets start to rotate slowly away from me towards the DD whose coming in at him from the other side. Or that he'd lay torps in advance forcing enemy ships to turn broadside to my guns or be hit by his torp salvo. dude played exceedingly well and basically used me as mobile cover which I thought was ballsy of him.

Yeah the ashitaka gets 10 guns which can overmatch tier 7 BB bows AND it's a lot more accurate, DoY, Hood and Nelson have better HE and Scharnhorst has a better RoF and armour layout. Basically it's a nothing ship that doesn't offer anything unique apart from the fact it's a russian BB without the Russian gimmick.

concealment is 12.2KM that's with a camo and concealment expert I'm assuming looking at NoZoups video so it's pretty good but apparently it basically gets standard BB dispersion and is about as accurate as the new mexico but without the 3 additional guns for the shotgun effect.

Yeah looking at reviews it's basically a Russian KGV without the standard Russian dispersion model...so basically kinda pointless...

As mentioned US and Royal Navy CVS use HE bombs. The only exception to this is the Enterprise which carriers AP bombs (and I think the Kaga is the exception for the Japanese in that it uses HE bombs). You want to use AP bombs on German and I think Japanese BBs along with most cruisers. You'll want to vary your drop height based on what ship you're going after. You want to drop high for most BBs So they act like a shell plunging straight down through the deck, with cruisers you want to aim at about the mid-dive. I'm not expert on this but I did personally ask our resident carrier expert (El2aZer) for advice on AP bombs a while back.

Never played the chinese in AW since I was a Brit through and through with the Challenger 2 'Megatron' version which had the major advantage of basically being immune to AGTMs from the front which back when ATGM spam was ridiculous in PvE was a huge advantage, I almost never played PvP once they changed it to be more like WoT with obvious and nonsensical weakspots (like the hatches suddenly going from 10% damage to 50% damage) on MBTs, after a while I just lost interest in it.

Light tanks themselves basically got outclassed by the French wheeled vehicles, they're faster, equally as good at spotting and require hits to several wheels at once in order to track them AND come with an autoloader. They have next to no armour but then so do Light tanks. The WZ-131 and 132 are considered middle of the road light tanks, not great, not terrible (unlike the german higher tier light tanks which are just considered bad). So yeah the Chinese medium line, the only thing going for it is that it has marginally higher DPM at tier 10 over the Object 430U BUT the 430U also has basically heavy tank armour. Compare this: https://tanks.gg/tank/obj-430u/model To this: https://tanks.gg/tank/121/model Notice the hull armour is around 200ish for the 121 and almost 250mm for the 430U. Plus it gets spaced side armour like the IS-7 meaning it can eat HEAT shells.

Yes the T-34-2 is STILL outclassed by not only other tier 8 mediums but every single one of the premium options. The T-34-3 is better with the 122mm and the Type 59 outclasses it with the 100mm gun. Both have much better armour layout IIRC.

Been chat banned for 3 days as well...now I know it could be a number of things, mainly playing the fubuki when two ships decided to yolo in and proceed to get hit by my torps blaming me for firing it forward because I, honestly, didn't think a DD would be yoloing in against a battleship or it could be the Kita game where I was loudly and honestly just frustrated that an enemy CV had my number and would just not.leave.me.alone not matter how hard I tried. Even if I sat in smoke, retreated to friendlies dude was just out to get me so I vented in teamchat about it, not anyone in particular but the air was very blue. Eh either way I guess I'll just suck it up and wait the three days. Is there any way I can know specifically which game I was chat banned for or do I just have to guess and shrug it off?

https://en.wot-life.com/eu/player/DrMechano/ Boom, there you go.

Yeah I get the feeling this is not going to be something you can casually complete. The PEF grind last year was freaking horrendous, even to the point that WG admitted it was a mistake. Not only that but the ship wasn't seen as worth it since it wasn't that good in the long run. I mean I don't see PEFs that often these days, I know I sold mine (yes, yes selling a premium ship but I HATED it with a passion and would not play it).

I will point out that WoT is probably an easier game to play, you don't, as often, have to take things like shell velocity into account unless you're leading a speeding target, WoT is about hunkering down in a position and dukeing it out in corridor maps with heavy tanks throwing gold rounds at each other (apart from the IS-7 which if you get into a hulldown position, is literally immune to 90% of rounds being flung at it, even gold ammo) or spamming HE shells at each other. WoWs is all about knowing the other ships speed AND your shell velocity due to the constant movement unless it's a bow tanking BB plus you've got to take into account the angle of travel which, even to this day, I kind of suck at firing at. Admittedly the new Norgenons sight does alleviate a lot giving where to aim based on how fast the ship would be going BUT that means you also have to know, roughly, how fast as ship should be going.

Aye WoT is MUCH worse. Gold Ammo being the key thing here with the entire game designed around "oh, what's that, you can't pen a tank two tiers higher than you because we still insist on +2/-2 Matchmaking, well you better have a premium account and premium tanks to fund firing it..." A bottom tier tank vs a high tier tank stands much, much less of a chance. This is why big derp tanks like the KV-2 are popular because it doesn't matter if it's top tier or bottom tier, it's still going to hammer home damage (something that I think Wargaming have realized hence the VERY unpopular HE changes, it means less people move up the tech trees). in WoWs you don't have special magical ammo that increases your pen, if you're a tier 6 vs a tier 8 you can atleast unload a barrage of 12 HE shells at them which will cause fires or if you catch them broadside, hammer them with AP. Admittedly WoWs has its own major problems, the implementation and failure of the CV rework being the key one that achieved none of the goals and in fact turned an ok CV into a ridiculous OP CV in the Enterprise.

Ah thank you, linked mine got the achievement but no loot so was wondering wtf was going on.

Yeah either improved AP angles or improved bow armor, raise the bow to 30mm. If it was my idea I'd give it 32mm since this thing is a big chunk of a cruiser with a high sitting citadel and make it basically a mini-BB a but like the Moskva with its 50mm plating but that's just me. I'd turn the RN heavy cruiser line into basically small battleships at the higher tiers...however I can imagine this would be VERY unpopular.

I certainly wouldn't mind improved AP angles but yeah they're looking to be in the same sort of place as the Hindenburg, pretty much straight down the middle, no frills heavy cruisers.

I will point out that the Queen Liz actually lost the main thing that made her special over the Warspite thanks to the CV rework. Prior to the Rework the QE had truly monstrous AA that could fend off even tier 8 CVs with a dedicated AA build. In exchange her turrets turned MUCH slower than the Warspite and taught players things like pre-turning the turrets. Her accuracy is actually amazingly good and the 380mm guns at tier 6 mean she overmatches the 25mm of bow that tier 6 and 7 bbs have meaning she can be devastating if the lands a good salvo. However the rework came along and her AA means basically nothing making her just a worse Warspite...

IFHE tends to get picked for the 'bigger guns' cruisers that both the Goliath and the Henri can pen over 50mm of plating with IFHE, meaning a lot of things like ruskie (moskva/Stalingrad) deck armour, the Deck armour of the Kurrywurst however noted that the might Russian BBs are STILL IFHE immune with their 60mm of deck armour. Personally I'd say give them the HE quarter pen that the british BBs get (because I'm evil :D)