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They shouldn't be kept out, if the economy would punish bad play way way harder. Economy being as it is, I'd say keep those few ships away from them. And once again, there are no official guidelines that one has to do well to get them. Just play ranked and/or clanbattles... What is the bloody problem with rewarding players who do some kind of effort?

Well that seems to be your main premisse. You find having ships excluded in one form or the other unhealthy for the game. In so far as I sympathize with that view, it is on number x-thousand on my list of unhealthy things for this game. Way higher would be the availability of powerful ships in general without any incentive whatsoever to do well in them, so that trumps the first one for me.

Because once every few years WG has a decent idea. And once again, there are multiple ways to get the required steel. If people refuse to bother, that's called entitlement, and why should I care about that?

Err. Yamato is a random example. Can be any tier ten BB. Or any tier ten cruiser - wooster yolo'ing into a cap. Or dd, smoking in front of a radar. I didn't say yamato is the most powerful tX bb. It is a very powerful tier ten bb nevertheless, which any monkey can reach by pressing battle button enough, just like any normal ship in the game. My point is more they shouldn't get access to other powerful ships, cause there is enough options. Well, indeed it will "fix" nothing, cause things being as they are now, those players won't have access to the restricted ships. And I am very happy keeping that status quo. It's more me that has difficulty comprehending your point. Why would bad players being a liability in any ship whatsoever, be a reason to grant them (or everyone) access to the restricted ships? (Disregarding the fact that you can earn steel by joining a clan and play cbs, or if you don't want that, go through the "ranked" seasons)

Ah. Well, I have a simple rule to make WG's PR department a bit clearer to me, it goes: if WG says something, assume they mean the opposite.

Err, I don't think anyone is denying the vast amount of powercreep in this game.

This. If I remember correctly, I remember Flambass saying he didn't buy Stalingrad, and he was happy he could buy Bourgogne then, probably with coupon. There must be a few others like him, though not a lot.

Except for multiple websites, there are some tools that show all the stats of both teams in an external app or site. There's one with aslains mod (www.aslain.com) I used to use https://github.com/wows-stats/wows-stats/blob/master/README.md myself [Edited]

I was speaking about powerful ships in general, beginning with every tier ten. You see every nitwit reversing towards the horizon in his yamato these days, and it takes ages to remove them. They'd do the same in their stalingrad. Yesterday I had a 30 something WR midway - easily one of the most powerful ships ingame atm, on my team, vs a Pnavy midway-wooster-grozovoi. That was fast fun. Quite sure everyone has those experiences. That's why I'm not a fan at all to make an even greater number of powerful ships available to unwilling to learn anything at all plebs, especially with the economy being totally unpunishing.

So is braindead players getting very powerful ships. I'm not really sure what you are trying to say here, but if you're talking about those two shooting at each other from max range, the Azuma's shell will keep most/a lot of their speed, while the Kutuzov shells lose a lot of their speed with range, which is (only) one reason not to play that ship from max range to begin with.

Can I have the premium account that gives the "no shima's on friendly team" option? I'd pay good money for that.

Yo hablo un poco tambien. "Hasta la vista, baby"

Why? It's so well explained in the game tutorial...

It is exactly what I said, except for the shiny pictures

I can not help but wonder if, by bringing out all these premium tier 9s and 10s, wg is implicitly giving up on tier 8.

rip

First sensible statement you made, thanks. Immediately implementing the implications of the answer. Bye and have fun.

Cause YOU started this nonsensical thread about DD vs BB. WTF?? Is this real life?

Well, it was you who gave the example, sorry if I went on to use your own reasoning And once again, the game isn't 1 vs 1, as enough ppl already stated. Also, you have 5119 games in a BB, 1828 in a DD. You have 1 (= one) tier ten DD, but ALL the tier ten BBs. So besides asking what the hell the point of this thread is, I'd also ask how ffs you would be qualified to discuss it.

So I checked your profile to see if you have any premiums, and I saw you have the hood. You know you can respec your captains with a premium right? And also, no offense, but you seem to have other problems than worrying about your ability to pen with HE or the firechance of IFHE. I'd recommend posting more replays, people here will be happy to provide commentaries.

Please remove that skill, there are way better skills to take for that amount of captain points.

The t9 probably isn't that bad. I just found the dispersion too trollish, and more importantly, there is absolutely nothing available for freexp that I am interested in, so why keep it. @El2aZeR is going through the Lion atm, so let's ask him :) But I think the Conqueror is good yes. In a high tier meta that is stale and passive as it is, the stealth gives good options, and the HE can let you deal with all the bowcamping [edited]. (for some reason everyone agrees the Monq HE is braindead (which it is), but I don't hear that many ppl saying that about the reverse bowcamping meta, as if that is the high point of genius play...) The dispersion is somewhat wonky sometimes, but the AP is very reliable against both DDs and cruisers. Against BBs as well, though I still have to remember myself to aim somewhat higher.

I played lion like 5 times and then freexpd beyond that too :P As I said, between B & C you could still have supported that DD. I don't understand the logic of "rest of team is going A, not B, so I ll go C". I would also never suggest to follow them to A, especially from your spawn. Being closer to B once again could have given crosses with your team at A. You knew there was a carrier, so "surprises" would be limited. Even if you had been able to devstrike a cruiser, it wouldn't be worth it. It was still only you & a lyon, and you didn't know which and how many reds were up there (as it turned out, too much) Yes that is hindsight, but going between B/C was also recommended just because the possibility of that flank falling. Always expect the worst from your teammates. Even if that DD was good, he can't do everything. That belfast being AFK of course isn't hindsight.

1. I have freexpd beyond the monarch, so I don't know the ship. (well, I know it enough to freexp it) 2. You took your top tier bb to the 9/10 line on trap. Would not recommend, unless you are more speedy ,OR know that their won't be too much resistance and commit to your push. You fell back halfway (cause too many reds) and had to waste some time, and by that time were quite isolated. The very biggest problem with that kind of wide flanking is you'll attract other idiots in your team. 3. You should have kept between B & C. You can still shoot at targets at C, while keeping more central (which means, being able to reposition faster, being closer to others for CV protection (even if it was only ryujo, he seemed to know what he was doing). There is always high likelyhood some other bb goes wide on that map, so you'll even have decent crossfires. 4. Given your DD there was an idiot, and belfast afk for quite a while + no carrier presence to spot for red DD, that flank was lost anyway.

And that is why you have 673 yamato games, and 0 (=zero) in shima.