The 3rd step of directives, the one where you gotta grind 3 million/nation, requires 7 completed missions. Help me out here a bit, i might be wrong, maybe i'm too stupid to understand, but in order to do 7 of those missions you need either premium ships of the nations without tech trees (Blyska, Perth etc) or some of the french DDs (if you got lucky with the containers, you may have one). So, if i got this right, one must pay or get lucky in order to progress with a brutal grind. This isn;t pay2win or pay2progress, it's pay2pain
I reiterate, i may have misunderstood, so please don't torp me to kingdom come if i'm wrong