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Then MrConway, please tell me, Pommern, Yoshino, Salem, Marceau or wait for an upcoming ship? The coal is burning my pocket and i'm indecisive. Although these ships are totally different from each other, i am asking from "having most fun" point of view. You can ignore their technical aspects as I know what they are, just not sure which one is the most fun. I play all classes btw, and can have fun in any if the ship is FUN. Or, should i wait for an upcoming more fun ship? Thanks.

Hi, You are doing okay. Let;'s define "okay" then; any new player (in your case you registered in 2015 but only played 349 random battles so far) having such stats with so few battles is perfectly "okay', fine. On the other hand, coming here and looking for some answers in order to improve shows that you will be a very good player in short amount of games. If we check your stats, winrate , average damage, destroyed warships and experience are very low. Considering your average player tier is 4, there is nothing to panic about. It is good that you try all classes instead of playing only one or two. This way you will have a better look at the big picture and have better perspective. In order to fix your win rate, you'll need to get to know the ships you are playing very well regardless of their tiers. It can be set around 50% in the long run even if you don't know the ships well but if you do, you will get better WR. Know the armor, gun caliber, firing distance, AP&HE alpha damage, reload time, dispersion, torpedo distance-damage-reload time, concealment, consumables, etc. These are easy to check at port screen. Let's take, Molotov as an example; 50% wr but very low 19K damage output while it could be 50-60K. It indicates that you are lacking angling and proper timing to use it as kiting cruiser and as a result getting citadeled, killed early in the game (unless you wait behind an island most of the game/don't do this). You checked your ship's technical characteristics before you pressed the battle button ( as i wrote in previous para.). You saw Molotov can shoot mid to long distance with spotter plane. It is not very agile meaning it doesn't turn quick, meaning you will get citadeled by enemy ships if you try to turn in front of them. Keep yourself angled, turn when undetected, shoot from long distance and use the spotter plane at will. Do not get close to enemy to use torps as they are very short ranged and are for defensive purposes (unless late game and you know for sure you either won or lost and trying to torp enemy ship by getting that close won't change the outcome). We can keep going more in details with game or ship mechanics or how to play certain ships but long story short, knowing the ship well, will give you better after battle outcome and more you play, better you will get at it. Cheers,

- 48 forumites voted. - 32 of them said "Nikolay Kuznetsov" is the best BB Captain. - 13 said "Günther Lütjens" is the best CV Captain. - 16 said "Jerzy Ṡwirski" is the best DD Captain while 14 said "Philippe Auboyneau" is the best. This one is very close, hence i guess both are very good DD Captains. I have Jerzy Ṡwirski and he is very good in Halland but i don't how Philippe Auboyneau performs. - 11 said "Luigi Sansonetti" is the best Crusier Captain. - Majority of voters think Nikolay Kuznetsov is overpowered. - Majority of voters would like to see new Historical Unique Commanders - 42 out of 48 voters think that Historical Unique Commanders are overpriced at 175,000 coal and should be cheaper.

Exactly. A sale in definition of discount on certain ships that were chosen by WG for this event was expected by the community because that was the norm previously. Hence the frustration or at least this is what i perceived from the forum. Wanna make players happy (because happy customer spends money, not the unhappy one) ? :) Bring back sales on ships, bring back Halloween Events, give players coupons, present better solutions to CVs, keep CVs out of competitive arena until its balance problems are sorted out, keep this Ranked Sprint mode 3vs3 as a separate mode as it was a fun mode and highly praised by many players (from newest ones to most veterans), lower the prices of steel camos, make Research Bureau more attractive, introduce new maps (not remake ones), introduce more historical unique commanders. lower the coal price of current Historical Unique Commanders to a more reasonable price, etc. Below is a link to the thread where you can see 83% of 48 players voted "Yes" for new Unique Historical Commanders. Cheers,

Halland.

Unsurprisingly, it seems like a "fail to play" but blame the team for his failure...

The reason for the confusion and unpleasant feedback with this event is because previous sales which were introduced by WG were sales for ships. This event gives you tokens for sale, not ships. And with these tokens players should try their chances out to get a ship. They may or may not get a ship although they would spend same or more amount of money than they would in previous events. Of course, it is at WG's discretion whether to throw such an even or not at all but if they do throw one like this, is it the player base's fault to be upset with it? The WG answer is above "Well, if you don't like the event, don't spend money on it. You know what you were buying and no one forced you into buying".... People will call this event anything because they are upset. They are upset with the way it was introduced, designed, and with roll chances. They are upset because they realize or see the company of the game that they like to play keeps screwing them up. They either get screwed up by not given the previous SALES which included sales on ships directly or they get screwed with being force to spend more money to try their chances or they are screwed up by ending up without an event if they decide not to spend. Check the forum and you will see how many people are upset with this event except a couple lucky ones with usual WG akissers.

Halloween Events should definitely come back.

If it is classified as a game mechanic, autopilot has been and is by far the worst one.

Nice one. I spent the same amount and all i got was 14 days prem and camos/signals. Worthless stuff in my case.

Asymmetric battle doesn't suck. It is fun. I played a couple of games in lower tier and won against high tier. Maybe one more ship can be added to high tier side after checking the post game data and/or give it more testing in live server as a separate mode.

You have been waiting for this moment, haven't you? "You'll see what i'm gonna do when i put my hands on Enty!!!"

Sure, i know what Ocsimano is trying to say but his sentence "WG designed a game mode where Pommern shines, but what will happen afterwards?" is also valid for other ships that shined in the Sprint. For instance; "WG designed a game mode where Alaska shines, but what will happen afterwards?" "WG designed a game mode where Jutland shines, but what will happen afterwards?" "WG designed a game mode where Kitakaze shines, but what will happen afterwards?" "WG designed a game mode where Musashi shines, but what will happen afterwards?" . . etc. And it also sounds like as if Pommern only shines in Sprint mode but not in other modes which i explained it can also shine in Randoms. The game mode is fun, i agree.

True, but on the other hand, why should same things be explained all over again in a repeating manner every fifteen-twenty or so pages? One day this thread will become as thick as like Encyclopedia Britannica just because of this very reason people don't bother reading previous pages.

There are many captains that ranked out flawlessly with different ships which just shows this game mode was not made to shine Pommern. I have seen many unskilled players not really made Pommern shine. It all depends on the captain, same as in regular ranked season (excluding CVs). I also don't have Pommern yet, but at least from what i have seen, good players really have fun in it in Randoms. They know when to push and use the secondaries and when not to. I guess, it also depends on the taste. One may or may not like the ship's play style and for this reason, I'd give new players the opportunity of playing newly released ships as rentals for a day or two before they decide to buy or not, if i were WG.

No hydro or secondaries needed.

Did you read the previous 142 pages? I don't think so.

The rewards would be pretty much the same except last 100K coal. When this hits the live server i think they will put the ship as a reward at step 20, and remove that 100K coal, which is why i wrote it'd be good if that coal would come with the ship.

double check what?

It is also important to choose a good ship for the meta. If you are using Yugumo, it is not a good pick. There are much better ones that would increase your chances, depending on the skill ofc.

Here, completed Anchorage already It'd be so good if that 100K coal would come with the ship... The camo is hot btw!

Worst or best are very subjective and changes from one person to another. But I would put Kawachi into the “dis sucks” category.

This is true. Right now EU live server random players in general are worse than the bots in coop. The players in PTS are worse than the random players on live server. You got the image. Zero fun.