IamTroublemaker

That was my first thought as well, but there was no "devastating strike" or "detonation". They only had 3 ships alive, that St Louis (between A and B) and those 2 others (low tier ships as well, cannot remember which ones correctly) were at the bottom right corner of the map (a bit behind C) on New Dawn. I was really shocked when I got killed suddenly.

I know. I guess I'll do it tomorrow. Hopefully that will happen to me again. I am not crazy!

That is why I never opened a thread about it (cant be bothered to enable replays although I keep saying to myself that I will do it, soon™), but seeing some people experience something similar made me think I was not crazy afterall Oh well, gonna call Mythbusters... The funny thing is that I was in division with ShockPirat and he said he did not see it either as he alt tabbed a few seconds before

1) Just no. For example, I do not join the battle before 18/19th minute quite a lot. The game is badly optimized and I simply have to wait longer for it to load. Why would I be punished for that? 2) Define active? I think that might be a bit hard to implement. Also if someone got disconnected and is not able to return to battle, why would he have to wait for the previous battle to finish before starting a new one?

Same here. The game is much more fun in past few weeks/months will all the missions/events

I had something similar happen to me a few days ago. I was in Murmansk, having a great game, 5 kills, going for St Louis for the 6th kill. I had ~20k hp, he had 6k. I fired 2 salvos, he fired 2 salvos and suddenly I was dead. There were no torps or anything. I was going with my bow towards him and he had his broadside turned towards me. He (or anyone else) did not get a devastating strike, there was no detonation. I was simply sunk...by something..

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/22738-frequently-asked-questions-please-read-this-before-making-a-new-topic/ Is this so damn hard to see? The ships they are adding are PREMIUMS. Also they already exist in the damn client, they are just reskinned. They did not have to model them. How hard is it to figure that out??

If they give it out in season 3 I swear I won't play WoWs anymore. I skipped season 1 because I didn't really need all the flags. Later on was really disappointed seeing Kitakami was rank 1 reward. Which is why I played season 2, got to rank 1, NO SHIP AT ALL which is the reason I am not playing season 3, and if they give out a ship for it I will be really pissed off.

It did not receive a big nerf anyway, I highly doubt 4k hp more or less means much of a difference for any Zao captain, unless they like to get really close to their targets. Maybe it was nerfed just so the overall performance would decrease slightly, not to be on par with DM and Hindenburg. I've read that DM was bad compared to other T10 CAs, don't know about the Hindenburg (too few samples I guess, but I've heard good stuff about it), so yeah, maybe they just wanted to nerf Zao slightly, see how it works and then try to bring DM on that level of performance (just some optimistic thinking by me).

Well, every ship uses islands for cover from time to time Then you have not encountered even a slightly smart BB captain yet. I quite like to see a DD rushing me, in any ship. Presents a nice challenge that can be rewarding for one of the two

But you cannot really compare yourself (individual who might be one of the best DM captains out there for example) to the average player who plays that ship. Also, Zao seems more of a BB killer than CA killer for me, unlike DM who seems like real CA killer. So you cannot really compare it like that. It would be like saying: my Benson kills Fubuki 1v1 so Benson needs a nerf. I do not know about Zao since I did not play with it, but I did play against it and it wasn't easy, when playing in a BB to deal with the ship. I cannot really say "yes that ship needed a nerf" and I do not understand why was in nerfed in a way it was nerfed, but, there has to be a reason for it and I highly doubt it was because some bad players were whining about it on forum.

I kinda agree with the smoke part, but not with the "only hide behind islands and rush BBs and torp, then die" part.

And you really think WG cares about some 50 battle noob that comes on forum and whines how torps are OP? They nerf ships because of NUMBERS and Kiev was clearly overpreforming compared to other DDs of its tier. It was not those who whined about it (even though I have seen 0 BB whines about Kiev) that got it nerfed but players that were playing with Kiev really well. As for the Zao nerf, if BBs are so overpowered and one shot cruisers with every salvo, 24/7, do you really think a 4k hp nerf would make such a difference? EDIT: I believe cruisers are supposed to have less avg damage than BBs on same tier and Zao had more avg damage than Montana. If you think CAs are supposed to have the same damage as BBs, then DDs should have the same as well, just like CVs, but it is not like that. Also, everyone who has the Zao says it is still an amazing ship. I cannot wait to unlock mine (really close to it )

Bad ideas. What you've suggested is almost always the last thing I do with DDs. For example when I'm on really low HP. Otherwise, I use guns and stealth torp whenever I can. I do not pop smoke until I know: 1) I will be able to deal a lot of damage with guns, 2) I am getting focused and there is no other way for me to escape.

Ever since I have premium I started noticing it often happens that the opponent team has up to 5 tier 10 ships while my team has none. That never happened when was playing without premium. We still won most of those matches. I think it is because I had premium! Coincidence? I think not.

Ahh those games where it feels like you are playing against 2 teams Damn. I never got a death threat so far

I understand what you mean. It does happen from time to time to me as well. It is annoying, but I can hardly imagine WG would do something about it as, from my experience it doesn't happen all the time. Also, imagine how annoying it can be to deal 1-2k damage after perfectly hitting a cruiser on its broadside? That happens as well (quite a lot lately for me).

Same happens to BBs (on high tiers). Show broadside, dont try to avoid incoming shells and you lost a big chunk of your HP. Been there done that. But yeah, cruisers are punished way more for their mistakes.

If you got hit from 20km that is your fault, same goes for torps. The only cruiser I have problems avoiding shells with, considering the range I play on (mostly 14km+) are German ones (Hipper) as they have longer rudder shift time. Which is why I always stay at certain distance and just like when you think someone fired torps at you, change course every now and then (not so hard with cruisers).

Superinteded is probably the best one as you get an additional heal + AA ability/Hydroacoustic charge, but vigilance might be a good choice as well imo. It depends which tiers/ships are you playing/plan to play

Are you talking out of experience or just of what you've read on the forums? There isn't just 1 role. I played and play my Ibuki this way: go with the team, protect everybody around me from CVs, try to spot torps and shoot everything that moves (especially BBs since setting them on fire is relatively easy) and I am really satisfied with the results as I am mostly top (top 5) in my team that way. You cannot really say every CA should be played the same and I really do not want to write how I play all of my CAs so far.

Nobody is denying that they do more damage and have the ability to survive more, but every ship has its role and you really cannot compare CA vs BB with BB vs BB and say that all the CAs from T5 and above are crap because of that.

I'm not fully sure I understand that comparison. Those ships are named are ships that do not have too many troubles when engaging any ship (at least from my experience). Of course a CA is probably gonna lose a gunfight against a BB. By that logic Yamato doesn't have any chance vs Shimakaze either. So why is Yamato so strong then? BBs also focus each other as well. BBs have to watch out for DDs as they can torp the crap out of them and cause flooding easily (if the BB was on fire previously and repaired for example).

Cleveland, Aoba, Myoko, Hipper, Mogami, Atago, Ibuki are just a few that I have played with and found them as good and as fun as BBs (don't have better damage in them than with BBs, but then again you cannot really engage them like with a BB). BBs have the most "natural" enemies. You got DDs and CVs that are real counters and on top of that you get CAs with their fires. I play both classes equally and find myself much more "paranoid" when playing BBs.

Same here, but I wouldn't mind RN branch coming first, just so I do not have to see all those "WHERE IS RN WG OMG UK BEST" threads anymore.