Karasu_Browarszky

Not in 2 million years.

You saved me 2 mil Free XP, cheers, WG!

Not constant, usually the ones that come from over long ranges seem to do the most damage.

Smolensk, when hit badly, can lose up to something like 75% of its hps in less than a second. Don't ask how I know this....

If you call that a punishment, I'm gonna be a real naughty boy.

Yes, but if that happens is not entirely their fault every time.

Would be interesting if someone less excel challenged would now the answer.... Sorry, that's a terrible suggestion. It would not affect the core issue it would just deplete in game currencies and encourage premium spending.

Well, there would have still been a way to do it, by nerfing the premium ships, offering those who had bought them a full doubloon refund on top of being able to keep the nerfed (rebalanced) ships. Nor sure how digital goods and legal stuff would have worked here, but at least that would have seemed the fairest way to sort it out. It's not like doubloon refunds would actually have costed them that much apart from the transaction cost.

Indeed, the Asashio is week at the start, and gets stronger towards the end, particularly when there are few DD's in the battle. GJ keeping him safe! BTW, about 30 secs after I typed my post here on the forum, my Internet 'Service' Provider's DNS server went on the blink... so I would have been almost as useless in the battle anyway....

Happened to spot planes belonging to @BLUB__BLUB in battle. We were briefly on the same team...... no idea how the battle went, you must ask him when he gets back.

Right now the situation may be even worse than usual, because of the current time gated campaign which requires you pretty much to use tier 9/10 ships, tier 8 being limited to just few tasks. The whole campaign is kind of rigged because of the tier and nation requirements on top of the usual ship class and 'in one victorious battle' kind of requirements. It's clear the problem is with lack of support meaning lack of team play and coordination. In some ways this is understandable because the 'arcade' game mechanics WG uses have made a complete mess of expected and functional ship combat roles. 'HE spammer', 'Capper' and 'Pinata' are not realistic combat roles even in terms of the arcade genre. There's not much MM can do with that because there is no way how it can take into effect the players' ability to do game play together. And this is why also it's been suggested here on the forums you play in full divisions only so you can effectively decide the outcome of the battle thru coordinated division play. And this is also why this suggestion itself is problematic, because IMO it is partly making it difficult to get balanced teams, but that is only anecdotal, can't actually say if that is happening or not. But the lack of coordination, support and completely messed up combat roles are something for which blame goes to WG.

Right, but if you just thinking about what's best for you, and if you feel you can't depend on the team much which is sadly very typical in randoms.... the best you can do is find the ships that work the best for you, meaning which give you the best results with the optimal effort. Otherwise you will get easily frustrated because you aren't getting anything even close out of the game of what you are putting in it.

Play only ships of the Special Nation, a whole new game will open up before you, comrade.

It's aggressive for HE spamming DD's and cruisers that are not battleworthy otherwise, but you'd be surprised how many teams are interested in finding out how many BB's they can fit behind one tiny rock....

Nonetheless, things look good on balance...

IMO this is partly because of poor team tactics and coordination. If your team is kind of putting forward one target at a time for the enemy to shoot at... they are going to oblige. If your team acts as a team, there will be too many targets for the enemy to focus on, at least theoretically. They can still do it, but they need to coordinate their concentrated fire power much better, and of course, your team can do the same which should result in a proper 'engagement'.

Well yes, if they moved the caps behind those back line rocks...

When are those shiny new tier X ships coming to the Premium Shop?

Musashi is tier IX.

I mean what the **** is going on with the servers nowadays? AFAIK computers can't catch human viruses...

Haven't gotten any spikes that high myself, but it seems to fluctuate up and down and occasionally I experience a short freeze-up like less than a second or so.

Cussing helps with pain relief. If you dont' believe me, ask Brian Blessed.

Wrong tactic IMO, the lower tiers are fast to do even without camos or signal flags, very fast with those. It's the tier 6-7 which to me seem the hardest and dullest to grind unless it's a very good ship and most, frankly, aren't that good especially when facing higher tiers in battle.

I must be quite super skilled these days then...