Procrastes

Well, kudos to Cro and Adler both, for being good sports about all this!

Shiratsuyu: 16Mahan: 21 Sims (BL Mk. 7 mod. 2B): 15Sims (Mk 15 mod. 0): 8 Leningrad: 22 Blyskawica: 28 Myoko: 12Flint: 22Atlanta: 17Shchors: 15 - 3 = 12. One tier above the Budyonny, and yet I still feel that the Schors is the weaker ship.Fiji: 20 Belfast: 28 Nagato: 3 Colorado: 11Gneisenau: 16 + 1 = 17. A nice variation of another great ship.Scharnhorst: 32Hiryu (2/2/2): 17Hiryu (3/1/2) : 20Ranger (1/1/1): 5Ranger (0/1/3): 16Saipan (Torpedo Bombers): 22Saipan (Dive Bombers): 11

If there will be a youtube video added with this dynamic duel, can someone please post a link on this thread?

I can honestly say that the Atago is a good ship! Even I can get decent results when driving her, although I usually get to watch the last part of the battle from a rather fishy perspective.

I say, this seems like a proper way to settle a dispute, in a thread with the expression "one on one" in the title...!

Old gamers never die... ...they just upload themselves on the internet and achieve omniscience....!!! (Until they are accidentally recorded onto a USB stick, left in the back pocket of a pair of denims, and subsequently lost in the interior of a washing machine in a laundrymat at the corner of 49th and 7th. But such is the price of immortality.) Edited: I am 42 born in 1972, by the way. And maths is not my strongest suite.

I see the Prinz Eugen as an alternative for those who hasn't the time to grind the way up to tier VIII in the German cruiser line, but still want to sail out in a Hipper class heavy cruiser. It's a famous cruiser line, made somewhat iconic by the Prinz Eugen. Of course she will sell well!

If I overlooked a post, it was not intentional. Please accept my apologies.

Maybe. But this illustrates another point, in that we are dealing with a hypothetical situation where we are in a one-on-one battle, with no limit in cap or time. There is little reason to take this as a basis for balancing ship classes in the game. The discussion is valuable, though!

You. Are. Kidding. Me. Has that little button been there all the time? You know, there's a thread for this sort of thing, "The Book of Revelations" or watchammacallit. You should probably post this tip there!

If you read my post carefully, you will note that I mentioned the fact that destroyers typically are faster than cruisers. Since this thread specifically deals with a one-on-one situation, I concede that the possibility of herding a retreating enemy into allies, does not exist. The point about map borders still stands, though.

You're absolutely right. I forgot about that for a moment.

You chase it into a map border. Or into some of your benign allies.

I vote no, for the simple reason that I haven't actually ended up in a 'Bastion' game yet. I'd like to try it, at least once!

Then he's probably a close cousin of Antoine's. (Maybe too close?) What's his name? My captain's full name is Antoine Arnaud, and I'm told that goatee runs in the family...

And then you died? Yeah, that situation never gets old...

This is true. Because, team game!

There are actually three ship classes in the game, that can counter stealth firing. Destroyers, obviously. Carriers, again obviously. Although since they are not present in every battle, it's a good thing they aren't the only counter. Cruisers. Most cruisers are quite fast enough to make continuous stealth firing impractical, even for a destroyer, if the cruiser decides to chase it down. While a typical destroyer is still the faster ship, it can't run for ever - sooner rather than later, it will run into either other enemy ships, or the map border. Battleships acting alone can have a hard time with a stealth firing opponent. But a battleship that is acting alone, is probably doing something wrong. This is a team game, after all. If Wargaming removes stealth firing as a viable (but balanced) tactical option, they will be making the game experience poorer for it, in my opinion.

I like the ones with beards especially. The little cow-patch sported by Antoine, my French Dunkerque captain, is vaguely lewd.

Wow. If this means that they are going to eliminate stealth firing from AFT-specced gun ship destroyers, I really don't know what to say. Well, actually I do, but the forum auto-editor would have a flaming fit, so I won't.

They plan to do what, exactly? Are they going to change the firing penalties for existing ships, so that these can't stealth fire anymore?! Please, tell me I got that wrong!

I can relate. When I recruit a new captain, I usually spend a good fifteen minutes clicking the recruit button, aborting the recruit, switching between ships, and then pressing the recruit button again - since this is, as far as I know, the only way to get some kind of choice as to the name and face of the new captain. An option to select names and faces for your captains would be welcome. (I also tend to think up some kind of backstory and character traits for my favourite captains. This has been known to cause a certain amount of pity among my peers.)

Cruiser vs. battleship, one on one, and players with equal skill? The cruiser captain needs to stay lucky. The battleship captain only needs to get lucky once.

What the Perth needs, is a bug fix on the premium spotter plane, so that it stays up for 180 seconds just like the free version. As it is, I have to choose between a spotter plane that stays up for a longer time but takes far longer to reload, or one with a faster reload but significantly shorter time in the air. Note: This may just be a feature, and not a bug. If so, it's a feature that really bugs me.

This morning: Sailed with my Tirpitz in a straight line, too close to a smoke screen, known to contain at least one enemy Benson. Ate at least six torpedoes, and went to a watery and well deserved grave. Not my proudest moment.