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Nop. It's been increasing for months now. Especially those BBs playing WOT "peekaboo", what you described, or reversing from 20 km is driving me crazy. Why though? No idea. Idiots and cowards probably the best answer. Also, WG not punishing it or incentivising better behaviour of course.

If you even would get a reaction, which I doubt severely, it might be like "yea but this season there were no carriers so a lot of cruisers could easily spec rpf, will not be that easy when carriers will be a part" Which would make that data invalid atm. But you are right of course, the "skill" is a pos.

That was exactly what I thought. It was by the way his first game ever in his lo yang. I follow him with kidd to cap, enemy team, including chappy & new orleans appear, I turn away. Mr genius goes into caps, smokes & sits still there. dedoi Clearly hasn't enough experience to know about radar.

You mean like this genius whom I recently had as teammate in ranked in his lo yang? Quite sure he'd rather like a buff to it...

Good first post, and I agree.

Better functioning as a torp boat than let's say a gnevny, sure, I'll give you that.

How can anything not be flatout better than the hatsu?...

First day of the year and already time for I approve

When BB aims at my DD and I only lose a third of my health.

Well, the saipan's there would appreciate the clear skies, I guess...

Yes. The december in the year of the carrier. I don't even know what year that is anymore tbh.

Combined? With 5 BBs per team, should be in the realm of possibilities, I'd say.

Uhu. And you didn't start with normal carriers, because? Didn't take them out in coop to learn, because? Read somewhere about kaga's ability to devstrike about everything in its tier, maybe?

Also, thanks for playing carrier without knowing how to use it! /s

Da, tovarish. True Balans is making all classes suck but one.

Not exciting but necessary on high tiers with those bloody maps. And even then... Just a zao game on okinawa. Enemy bbs all were more towards border than towards cap - 2 of them even started reversing from the beginning of the game. We had all caps, they still did jack sh*t. Over in 9 or so minutes, 70k or so damage. And I've been having a lot of those in other ships as well, especially high tiers. BBs just stay at their max range, and what are you going to do in a cruiser, rush their spawn? Masterrace has been given ultimate weaponry, and they do nothing with it, except turn every game in a boring snipe- and fapfest. And, of course, run away and cry for mommy once that first HE shell goes towards them. I've been considering taking range mod on hinden & taking spotter on zao just to make sure... :( AFAIK, It will not come back. Which sucks for you, because it is the best cruiser at that tier and makes excellent credits.

no sh1t

Much appreciated also Indeed...

Yea that wording was used. Can't be bothered to search for it. Also not only words but deeds: The limitation to only one BB in the clan battles indicates they know very well how bad it is for (interesting) gameplay to have too many of them, even against extremely powerful cruisers & dds. That won't change anything for randoms though, there the system must be kept to frustrate players into freeXPing to higher tiers, buying premium ships, etc. Also: inb4 there comes a reaction that they have introduced more anti-BB weapons: Deepwater torps are more anti-cruiser than anti-BB. Giving shima option to go reload 20km deepwater (only capable of hitting cv & bb) will replace one useless boat with another. AP bombs only work on certain nations, and might not even be preferred by carriers since virtually useless against DDs. (not sure about that. maybe some cv player can inform me? @El2aZeR?) The anti-BB brit BBs are not only lethal to cruisers (breaking every module) but also break into cruiser domain. (HE dmg/fire competition, stealth) None of these have the slightest impact whatsoever. Bismarck/Derpitz combo have about 160 000 (!!) combined games in the last two weeks. That represents +- 20% of the quantity of tier 8 ships taken that period, while constituting 3% of the available shiptypes in that tier. Minimal BB tweaks could be AA nerf all over the types, nerf of the range and duration of high tier german hydro, "Make citadels great again", etc. Will never happen.

Well, there are cruisers that deal with it very well. Though they have been pulled from shop

No, it means it hasn't been addressed ever. Nor will it be. What he means by #tricky# is that he doesn't like that subject to be brought up altogether.

Well, of course their guns are better. Don't open your guns on them. It is very good you try to spot for your team, but on the list "what is important to spot", enemy ships(dd) in caps should be number 1. I don't know which specific boat you are talking about of course, but I'll limit myself to the midtiers (+-5 - 8). I would not recommend tier 9 & 10 anyway, but that's just me. (well...) The russian DDs you are talking about in general will be very hesitant to go cap, at least deep, because of bad detection (the gnevny can be quite ok, around 6.3 or so with CE) - they will rather want to support a capping dd, like yours. The US DDs will also have worse concealment Minekaze: 5.4, Fubuki 6.1, Akatsuki 6.4, Kagero 5.4 vs Nicolas 6, faragut 6.6, mahan 7.-(?), benson 5.8 So. If you go into a cap, and it is contested, you have options: - CAREFULLY and slowly close the distance to where the enemy dd probably is. Stop closing once he is spotted and enjoy his panic. He'll probably smoke - you launch your torps. Safest way to do that is to close on him in reverse. - Just spam torps in the likely direction of the DD without spotting. Fubuki/Akatsuki have glorious 3*3 10km / +- 1min reload. - Just stay in the cap, blocking enemy capture & play the patience game. In most cases, the enemy dd has worse detection & will be spotted first, at which point (naivity alert) your team should open up on him. It's more a psychology game. The enemy dd might leave after being spotted once, because of fear of torps, etc. Of course, if he gets backup, run. Always be prepared to run away in the worst case. So you should be angled towards the point (maybe an island close by) where you should want to go. You should be angled away anyway, because of risk of incoming torps. Learn enemy torp ranges. Things like nicolas/farragut can't torp you without being detected for sure, russki dds have 4km range :D If you need to smoke to cover your exit, always wait for the enemy dd to shoot you, so he gets punished by the retard 20 seconds spotting penalty. I quite like those games, but I don't or barely play mid tier DDs anyhow, because of absurd high amount of standard battles, more carriers than high tiers (which is always a bet (...) on whose team the (more) retard(ed) one will be), the amount of belfasts there, etc. Mainly the standard thing though, which is, once again, a nice WG gift to BBs. Edit: I might be off on some of those detection ranges, so I hereby invoke the spell of @Teob_VG for his correction powers

Wut? May I know the reason you find that so evident ("so")?

All true, but you're omitting the most obvious one: pure cowardice.