JapLance

Best tip ever:

No surprises here. I knew from the start that all the "technical problems" were just an excuse.

1 dollar less than Texas which is tier 5, so yes, cheaper than I expected. It must really be a bad ship (as most reviewers said).

Thanks, changed.

I think the order of release up to now is: -ARP Kongo and ARP Myoko (the first ones) -then ARP Haruna and ARP Hiei -then another mission with ARP Kirishima and ARP Haguro -and right now ARP Hiei (again) and ARP Ashigara.

Since 5.10 was released, battles seem to take much longer to load. Until 5.9 I could enter the battle 20-30 seconds before the end of the countdown, but now I'm starting half of the battles late (not much, but late anyway), and the rest less than 10 seconds before the end of the countdown,

I found Bayern to be very resistant to HE shells of Molotov. Little damage and no fires after like 30 or 40 hits.

I had been detonated 27 times in more than a year. Yesterday I was detonated twice... First an air torpedo detonated my Arkansas Beta, as if no AA wasn't enough punishment. A few games later, a Tirpitz with a single HE shell touched my astern tip (no ammo magazines there, maximum the rudder compartment) and KABOOM... 100% health Hipper detonated. If it's a mechanic that happens once in a blue moon, it's OK. If there are detonations in every battle (you can see the message very often), something's wrong with it. And I start to think it's more of the latter than the former right now.

Yesterday I had a game in my Mutsuki where I spawned South in Straits. The enemy had 3 DDs vs 2 of us (I was alone in my side of the map), so I asked the cruisers in our side (2 Königsbergs) to give me support. As predicted, 2 of their DDs where going for that cap zone. Well, apparently giving support to a DD means "I rush blindly into the cap and die". There was nothing I could do vs an Ognevoi without cruiser support, so I had to leave the area and eventually lose the game.

That's nothing. When I tried at about 1600 it was around 500. EDIT: LOL; right now it was 780...

Bought a Nassau expecting fewer players in the morning, and canceled the battle entry as soon as I saw the queue. Then took my Isokaze first (insta-battle), and Ishizuchi later (still 3 minutes of waiting) for a battle each . I'd really like to play the German BBs this weekend to take advantage of the extra XP for the commanders, but the queue times really put me off. I think I'll use my time to finish the grind in a couple of tier 7s and take profit of the tier 8 ship discounts.

You missed again. After the 1 gold/1 point week, there was a long weekend with 40% discount in captain skill resetting.

If I remember correctly, Minekaze is somewhat more manoeuvrable and faster.

Approximately 2 years.

You got 1 extra port slot for completing stage 2 if you already had ARP Hiei.

Every time a ship capable of 35-40 knots sits in smoke, god kills a kitty.

1st, this happenned last year, and will happen next, and next, and next... 2nd, I've had terrible teams that sabotage my efforts to win a single game this afternoon/evening. And you know what... none of them was a Gamescom account.

Light cruisers. Mogamis were considered light cruisers before they got their guns changed..

Not completely. The limit was stablished in 155mm. Higher is heavy cruiser, lower is light cruiser. Kirovs are heavy cruisers, yet they don't have 8in guns.

From Danae they could start a new branch with the Hawkins class at tier 5, York/Exeter at 6, Counties at 7, and surely there would be designs (real ones or "in secret docs found somewhere close to the Kremlin") for higher tiers.

I don't think that Minotaur cruiser is the same you linked. I see Leander a bit too high at 6, and miss the Southampton/Gloucester (possibly at 7) but I'm quite happy anyway. Now let's wait a couple of years

Warspite last night:

No, they didn't touch it before.

From 0.5.10 patch notes: Now all people that said that it was already fixed can please go to their nearest optician and get his eyes checked.

The error most people do is taking the Battleship route too early, just as they unlock them. It's so much better get some experience with cruisers and destroyers (up to tier 5 or 6, which is relatively fast to do), and after being somewhat veteran and knowing the maps, the mechanics and the ships, going back and start to climb the BB branches.