Nibenay78

Halsey and Montana I said!!! Noone listens to me!

In a game we are kind of all having penthouses.. :P

Clearly he didn't play when it was 5 shimakazes on each team and no hydro or radar...

because Khaba never gets close to start a knife fight? At least that's how I deal with them, by not shooting

Clearly @Beastofwar is a better DD player than me. I just spam more towards the frontal sections if possible because it's a bigger target with the bow+higher superstructure. And I enjoy trying to knock out torpedo tubes and guns during the fight.

I don't see a reason to trust people with hidden accounts making claims about this and that. Which tiers and DDs in particular are you talking about? I'm clearly not a DD player but I'd say they get a lot of crap thrown after them if they bother to engage :D Dang, I thought I was a BBaby - or used to be...

Yes they are, if you enjoy any sort of going alone to crossfire, stealthtorp from the side, sneak anywhere, try a surprise ambush in particular with bigger ships. edit: and especially for @Beastofwar : that INCLUDES rushing forward to secure good CAMPING positions near cap in order to influence cap circle and area near it with radar/hydro/AA and more massive firepower than DDs can do themselves. Because being so up front tends to draw a lot of fire AND CV comes to ignore your cover on top..

If I double click trying to launch both tubes at once, the second one will often jump sideways and the spread go off course. Always been like that, so I hold 2 seconds between each launch to make sure they go where they are supposed to...

You're probably right. I tend to play and lately prefer more gunboats like Daring, Småland, Gearing.. in general tier 10 DDs fire quite rapidly, and I tend to build them as such too. The torps aren't worth it if it's a close fight. If you're going to die, just empty all the tibes.

Guns and Torps. The switch tosses your aim about, the tubes makes some kinda weird swing sometimes. Then you have to go back and aim It's REALLY obvious to me when people launch torps, they clearly can't do it in between salvos, unless you're in a shimakaze. I agree that IF you have possibility/speed/skill/ appropriate DD, people often stress out and either turn to avoid torps so they can't fire as effectively OR they ram a torp. Good stuff. But overall this is reserved for rather slow firing ships. Switching between AP and HE is just a simple click on 1 or 2... it makes no difference.

Halsey and Montana. Often more than 1 full health DD gone.

By the time people have switched back and forth, lots of hitpoints are gone and modules disabled. And the torpedoes should be expected so they are generally easy to avoid.

Still in a close up fight, the HE shells go all over the ship, kinda works wonders

It's not hard to come out positive in tier X. Deal more damage. Like other said, shooting a DD for 50% of his hitpoints (10k dmg) is the same as farming a BB for 50% hitpoints (50k dmg). Shoot the target that eats the highest % of his hitpoint. Not dying asap also helps.

Great thank you. So a player who moves close up near a cap in a BB or CA in order to have the cap at point blank and assist the friendly DDs with massive firepower/radar/hydro/AA (laf)/drawing fire/forcing enemy cruisers back is then doing their job?

So what exactly do you define as campers? I'd really like to know. If a ship/tank rushes into a good frontline defensive position..is that camping? Because it's certainly THIS player who will be most exposed for both artillery and planes (range/dispersion AND flight time for wows) on top of bearing the brunt of the HE spam. What I would call campers (Thunderer and other BBs sniffing glue on the rear map border, 15km behind their friends) will not take the most harrassment.

The best strategy to avoid the retarded artillery was to camp even harder/find even more entrenched camp positions. In a game where your track blows off about 5 seconds after leaving cover, upon which you then die during the next 15 seconds - I wonder where the incentive to rush is. Artillery was also generally slow, completely useless on point blank, had reasonably big aiming circle, slow aiming time, most had non-turreted version so turning outside the small aiming sector created a massive dispersion. and my last point here. Artillery could be counter-artilleried back! it was amazing fun... What are the negatives of the high tier CVs? Slow? Low hitpoints? poor armor (armoured deck which will bounce most BB shells?) It seems to me that you are the person playing camping units such as artillery and CV...

Just adapt you mean...

OP should go to Parris island Country Club

I think the big BBs are quite fun, well at least Hannover has kinda interesting mechanic with the secondaries. I also like that they are in fact limited so it's not ONLY big BBs. The lack of cruisers are ...noticable though.

By the way, played some grand battles yesterday in div with 3 people. Minotaur, Neptune and Smolensk. Not sure the big boys had much fun when there are no radar cruisers around...

I think I had an average of over 200k pr battle at first in Hannover. Its like the other superBBs never had used one before... Angle? what is this word?

I believe WG gave me 11 reports to not make me waste too much time. Depending on which mood I am in, either 5-6 games or 11 games and I will be out of reports. Time to go do something else...

I agree - Daring is great at tier X, having short hydro helps dodging against torps in stressful situation where a newbie might just drive straight, firepower sufficient to pewpew back at other DDs and the short smokes are good because if you fark up a smoke, you don't have to wait 3 minutes for the waste one to regenerate. I'll take the risk to call me average DD player though

I would report you for being in my match in a CV. Then I would report you again for no teamwork upon not spotting the DD But as we well know, reports are irreelvant!