Karasu_Browarszky

That could still be random, although rather freakishly so I guess...

Hmm.. I dont exactly follow, but yes the same words and concepts can have entirely opposite meanings for different people, as you demonstrated yourself with the meaning that communism and socialism have in your country, and what they signal to people elsewhere.

It doesn't seem logical. But, then again, the whole name change issue doesn't make any sort of sense either.

You mean you get the feeling there is something else behind this?

You are right, but most people alive today associate the above with communism and/or socialism, and for them there is no distinction between the two.

Thunderer really shouldn't be wasting its potential firing HE. Having said that, I understand the temptation because dings and overpens have become so commonplace. But as you said, it is not effective use of BB main guns and places your team at jeopardy risking defeat.

I can sympathize with your points 3 and 4. While some defend the HE fire, in combination of bad team coordination on your side it becomes a game killer. DD's seem harder to kill than cruisers, at least when it comes to someone else's DD's and your own cruisers...

You linked to a page promoting the Swastika in plain sight!!!! As a curious side note... I have distant cousins who were communists... one sat on the Politburo and now resides at the Kremlin Necropolis, the other was a long time leader of the Communist Party USA.

For what it's worth, you quated WG policy. When we signed on we agreed to follow WG policy, but I for one did not sign on to bow down to some nebulous concept of shifting rules. It is almost as if whether we agree with them or not is a moot point anyway as WG seems to apply their own rules 'selectively'. I could claim that under 4.12. of WG's own rules references to historical Soviet apparatus deeply offend me and provoke a strong negative reaction. My understanding of history, in reality, is inclusive not exclusive. I can actually display a Nazi eagle on my wall along with a bust of Stalin on my book case, because it is history, not current affairs or trending politics. I suspect WG may be operating under a different agenda.

Wouldn't it get interesting if someone were to successfully lobby the German government to ban Soviet and Communist symbols and throw a nice Glossary of banned names and words into the bargain?

Yes, the 'Greatest Generation' made that sacrifice so we would be able to live in a free world, not in a totalitarian police state. Exactly as you said, so we will have the right to make our choices within terms of law. So we aren't in a work camp, or a death camp... or a Gulag. If WG starts to apply a set of rules that disqualify commonly accepted words without a legal basis, we have the right to expect that the exact same set of rules will be applied consistently across the board without undue preference given to words arising from a certain nihilistically pathological ideological system.

Axis is an English word. It is a little difficult to understand how a word used by the Allied themselves is suddenly supposedly in all seriousness to be understood as referencing a Nazi organization. B O L L O C K S is what I say.

OP wants to throw it at ships from air, apparently.

Remember protection...

Well, on the other hand, when I play CV's all my squadrons are already on a suicide mission....

BTW I never come across of any Kamikaze planes taking off from carriers, only from ground bases. So it would not involve CV's.

While historic, it was also incredibly wasteful and inefficient...

It certainly allowed me to press the other button too, but I have now no idea which mission is active in-game, as I have not logged in (nor do I have any intention of doing so till after Oct 28).

There would have to be a legal basis for it for WG to be able to point the finger at anyone else. There isn't, though. The toughest laws would be in Germany and certain other countries most involved in the Nazi era and the crimes they committed. Certain representations are banned under certain conditions. Nowhere to my knowledge would such a ban include terms such as 'Axis' or 'Kriegsmarine'. Certainly not the Kriegsmarine which, to my knowledge, is a navy with possibly the cleanest war time record when it comes to unlawful or criminal practices.

Yes, it would be an improvement. I wish they would make all the missions selectable even to the degree you could pick them the same way as the campaign missions. The regular daily repeatable missions I wouldn't touch though, because it is a little too easy to forget turning them on, and obviously all the missions should be easily available through the game client.

True, but the same goes for any period. I just realised, the world can no longer spin around it's.... OMG.... wu'r doomed!

I know only one map which has an island next to which this camo will be effective in camouflaging the ship to any degree.

I can only assume it is now the easy button that gets ignored...

Riiiight.. what was I thinking.

In hindsight, you may want to rephrase your earlier statement. I suggest complete denial, guaranteed to work without fail.