Karasu_Browarszky

Maybe WoWS NA is uhm... in need of a little encouragement?.....

Heard of good old fashioned Russian ingenuity? Surely the best ships in the world need to have the very bestest flags too?

Er.. did I understand the bulletin wrong or are they now nerfing premium ships even?

In my next battle I took out my Shima. It went noticeably better.

I realized the biggest problem for me is I start tensing my shoulders when I play this mode... and end up with a splitting head ache as a result.

Surviving long, especially on a DD, is the trick to doing good as it gives you more time to score points, xp, credits, damage and usually will allow you to aid your team to winning the battle. Survival gets easier the longer the battle goes on as others have already pointed out. For someone with 'average skills' like myself, the deadliest phase of the battle is when you initially plan to challenge any cap. It is embarrassing but possible that you lose against a sole DD if that DD is better/higher tier/better suited for capping/knife fighting or the player is just plain outright more skilled. What makes it harder is that sometimes there are 2-3 DD's on that cap which you will prolly realize till it is too late. Additionally, he/they may bring friends to back them up. At this point you will quickly realize that unlike their team, your team is not going to give the same level of support (prolly only snide remarks 10 klicks further back). And finally, if there is just one CV in the game, you can be sure it will focus on that same cap and your DD.

I disagree - Yoshino is :)

Personally, one of the few cosmetic things I'd be prepared to pay is a clan flag on our ships. Another one I'd be willing to pay for is proper, historically accurate camos. The Yamato is supposed to be Kure grey....

Well.. if radar worked somewhat realistically.. having a radar on all high tier ships wouldn't be such a problem. Of course, ultimately that means we would really need proper size maps not like what we got now that were obviously sketched on napkins swiped from Lesta Studio canteen....

Me neither, so far at least. But it is something that you can theoretically buy that gives you an advantage.

Signal *cough* flags? Yes, I'd like the option to 'premiumize' my favorite tech tree ships. How the price etc. would be worked out, would be a factor.

Damn.. I'm still specced the old way...

There are quite a lot of differences between different DD's. Not just individual ships but also nations. Mostly US DD's are gunboats but some of them also have decent torpedoes. You would need to figure out if you are more of brawling knife fighter type of gunboat player, DD hunter, or a stealthy scout that shoots out wave after wave of torpedoes that are so easy to detect most of your targets find it laughably easy to dodge them.

Well, parts of it would be as good as Squadron 633 as they reused some of the footage.

I see... someone's been revealing my tactical secrets then...

As for the directives, it's good that some of them can be completed in regular game modes that helps not turning this mode into a complete grindfest. One thing I like about the map is that it is somewhat dynamic. I spotted one of the buildings exploding and collapsing into the water. As for game play.. I don't mind quick failures, I really dislike slow failures if you know what I mean. Thankfully sometimes you do survive. I had a battle today where there two of us against one remaining enemy (or two). The fire circle had gotten really really tight and both of us actually ended outside of when turning around so it got really dicey. But in the end, we won!

I quite liked the bathtub will little boats and ducks.

Ah.. okay.

Not sure if the ship itself is 'meh'.. run into one in battle more of a 'pita' than 'meh' if you ask me, could be the player too, of course not just the ship. Still, not going to go to those sort of extremes, the payout seems worse than what's been the case in past events. (Not too happy about the Victory campaign either...)

Not all of it but planning to. Amazing how they built so much of it on set, one side which was then reversed IIRC. The superstructure is CGI.

They could just upgrade the special effects (even if that is needed). But.. we all know why they make remakes, don't we?

Well.. I got bored fast. Mostly I guess because I can't really play the same way as in other modes.. sound weird, right? But also because I feel I got shafted with them premium containers...

I have to say WG has hit a new low with the premium containers. (Emphasis added) Take a wild guess what I got from one container I bought to test them?