JapLance

Well, then definitely it's not working,at least for me. I've decided that I have enough Myokos... so screw Nachi. No more cursing when your forced tier 8 game has no Russian ships... No more cursing when despite having a decent game you lose credits. In summary, no more high tier games. GG Wargaming.

First it was Situational Awareness. They moved it from level3 skill to level1. As it seems that the standard potato player found spending 1 point in a captain skill too expensive they removed it from the skill tree and made it available by default to all ships. Now they think of this. It's pretty obvious that the standard WoWs player has no clue on how to play the game (something anyone can confirm in every single battle in any tier, no matter how high).They know it and they're trying to remove difficulties to get more people playing. In a year or two this game will be simpler than MS Minesweeper Basic level.

I was so happy yesterday when I sunk a Kutuzov... until I realised I was in an Aoba and not in a tier 8 ship .

OOoh, I got possibly the first decent normal container since the start of this system: 3000 free XP I had more excitement for this than any of the 3 supercontainers I've had up to now, which were all 250 shitty flags.

At Saturday I was in the middle of the last two missions remaining for me to do: 10/20 Russian ships and 100/200 Torpedo hits. Since then I've killed 2 Russians, and had 61 valid torpedo hits.... I'm pretty sure I'll finish the torpedo mission for a new slot in my port. Not so sure about ARP Nachi.

I had a similar experience. The first days reached 15, started using tier 8s and teams were a disaster after the other. If it wasn't an irrevocable rank I would have gone back to rank 23 (or whatever is the lowest). When I finally made it to 14 I was so worn out that I left Ranked battles aside. That was the first week. With 4 or 5 days to go, I decided to give it a last try... and moved to 10 almost without effort. Sometimes teams were just as terrible as before, but not so often, or sometimes it was the enemy team which was bad, not only mine.

Yesterday had a Domination game in which our team only had a Mutsuki, and the enemy team had a Kiev and a Mahan... Mutsuki was sunk by minute 3 of the match, because they all went to the same cap zone (it was Estuary map, so not many options). It was all a disaster after that for me: our cruisers left the area as if the Devil was behind them, and my Nagato was roasted by the Kiev in smoke (triple fires... repair... triple fires again). But in the other zones our team delivered, and they ended up winning the game... A completely wasted +200%. There is something very wrong with Destroyer allocation in MM.

Two sessions without getting any Russian kills. They are so scarce and so much chased (I experienced that in my only Kiev game) when they appear that it's almost impossible to get a kill. Last night I had a game where two cruisers and a destroyer chased down a guy in a Chapaev to one of the corners of the map ignoring the rest of the battle. With my North Carolina I've citadeled a few Russian cruisers, just to watch any random guy getting the last Health points for the kill. It's quite disturbing. Stuck at 10.

When were Udaloi and Khabarosk re-rated as cruisers?

By the way, I just read the description of the ship in the shop: This could lead to many misunderstandings and complaints. IT'S NOT A BRITISH CRUISER AND WON'T TRAIN BRITISH CAPTAINS.

While Soviet ships are fragile cruisers and destroyers, most of the German ships you see these days are battleships, more durable and harder to sink. Germans has been the 3rd nation I've finished with, but for a while was even under the soviet score. I'm currently stuck with 10/20 Russian ships.

Not buying a ship which is useless for any kind of retraining. Blyskawica was first and last.

The problem is that early in the season is also full of terribad players that want their ton of flags no matter what. So at the start it's terrible, at the end it's terrible... Its a 45-days long season.

At the moment of getting ARP Takao my tally is: IJN 20/20 USN 20/20 VMF 10/20 KM 19/20 Not sure if I will get ARP Nachi. I'd like to have the complete collection of ARP ships, but I don't really enjoy tier 8 and higher much. And I don't like playing the game just for hunting and killing certain ships ignoring the rest. Plenty of time left though. Maybe little by little...

Tier 6 seems a bit too low for a cruiser with similar guns to Scharnhorst, armoured like a Hipper and only moderately slower. I bet they will eventually move it to tier 7, just like they did with Blyskawica.

Free XP is Free XP, no matter in what way you got it. May have been through battles, ship XP conversion, daily missions, containers... I'm personally expectant to see in which way does WG start a new shitstorm .

Yesterday I citadeled an AFK Caledon twice... from the front... with HE...of a Kolberg (105mm)..at maximum range. Enough said. On another mater, this weekend I used 13k free XP to bypass Emerald. The FIRST ship in this game that I decided it was not worth the effort, something I didn't do with the Karlsruhe and Furutaka before they were both heavily buffed. The tier 2 to 5 of this line are RUBBISH. Pure scrap metal pixels that need to be recycled. Guns with AP only are bad, armour is non-existant, the repair is useless when every cruiser salvo takes 20% of your health and every BB shot is a citadel hit, and the smoke in the tier 5 forces you to stop BEFORE you drop the smoke...the perfect target.

You are WRONG.

A naval game takes a lot of thinking, and shouldn't be for the casual gamer. But then it would be 500 players in peak time. Even in the accelerated world of WoWs, you can't react with speed to a battleship appearing suddenly 6 Km from you on your broadside or a Destroyer going full speed head on to torp you. Turning a ship takes a lot of time and before you realise you're dead. A lot of guys here think this is still World of Tanks, were with speed, a bit of dodging and some angling you can get out of many dangerous situations. And it's not. It's very different. So you have to expect a lot of people not having a clue about this game. Even with thousands of battles under their belt.

And in what sense does the appearance of ARP Takao make Atago not good anymore? Would it be different if WG had sold 10x the number of Atagos?

I finally got fed up with Emerald and free-XPed the last 13k for Leander. That ship is just hopeless at current tier 5, with all the tier 6-7 battles and the BB invasion.

Finally, after like 60 battles in Ibuki, I had a great game that was a victory as well. I had a couple of games with more damage, but usually teams melt and lost the game. Not this time.

My tally is already at 19 Japanese, but only 3 Ruskies and 2 Germans...

By the time the movie was shot, maybe the Missouri was still in active duty?

Does anybody bother with these missions? For 15 flags? Now that I think about it, wasn't it the Russians up till the 10th? I just used up 13k free XP to bypass Emerald and bought Leander just one hour ago... Damn it.