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You do know those ships are all but undersold, right? Smolensk has already 1.2 million games played. By comparison: Kutuzov has 3.6 million, prinz Eugen has 1.3, that's only 100k more. JB has 2.1 million games played. Alsace has 2.3, Lion has 1.5. It's all about artificial scarceness and creating envy and mythos amongs the people who don't have those ships anymore. More than a couple among those will spend thousands of euro's/dollars on gambling with lootboxes to celebrate Jezus and world peace. After the next lootbox sale. Maybe before that she'll get a "Kremlin nerf". Something like 500 meters larger air detection.

So why not just keep them for steel, so "only the people who bought it for steel will be able to play it"...?

Yes it is. I'm in one.

HAHAHAHA Oh boy are you going to regret that. While until a while ago, both EU and NA were in a way equally retarded (EU more as in a "we have all the caps, now we need to throw our ships away", and NA more as in "let's suicide ASAP"), and NA was in a way kinda fun like that, they have found a way to outdo themselves since a few months. It's hard to explain, but you'll see soon enough once you'll reach tier seven and above. Have fun.

Err. I don't know how new you are, but I was being ironic. Maybe you never played carriers, and don't know how the minimap looks like if you do. The white Icon at J8 is his actual carrier (an Enterprise in this case), and the triangle at E7 is his squadron, in this case most likely a rocket squad, who is doing the spotting. edit: you ninja'd your own correction :)

We all know only you know how to do that, o mighty oracle of never ending wisdom.

Oh yea, you have no idea how fast his DD is. He's at D7, one minute in. Must be a new soviet DD doing 200 knots.

Nice guy El2a providing the visuals, but I feel they don't tell the full cancerous story. Game 1 3 and a half minutes in the game. I am Izumo, El2a is shokek. On our flank are 2 other t8 BBs and 3 t8 cruisers. There's only one dd per team (I wonder why) and ours is on the other side. Reds, including 2 tier ten cruisers and 3 BBs, have now found their maximum forward range for the rest of the game. That hinden will not leave that island for the next ten minutes. That Yoshino will never in this game be in my gunrange. We have three caps. Another 5 minutes or so further. We still have three caps. Richie and Georgia have been bowcamping and shooting HE at me there forever. Their only "masterplan" is literally hoping we are all retarded and go sail into them. I hate myself and start shooting HE back. The reds other flank also is in full retreat, even though our DD is dead together with one of the smolensks. Game 2 Again I am izumo (ijn bb regrind), El2a is enterprise. I spawn only with Roon on this flank 5 minutes or so in. GK did do a full turn on A9 as can be seen on El2a's screenshot (A FULL SECONDARY GK, just saying, running from the fight from the moment he got spotted) Since there was only a PR and a seattle I just go forward, while the "friendly" cowards sit behind their island and watch. We have 2 caps and somers is going for the third. Glorious conclusion. Another hard fought game, could have gone either way.... Game 3 Still from the same day (yesterday). I'm solo this time, gearing. Around 9 minutes in. I have torped the Z52 in my cap, who knew I was there since the tried to rpf torp me, but sure, whatever. The only one who tried to put up a fight to cover his DD somewhat is the tirpitz. The rest all cuddled together from the start in the middle of nowhere, letting their dds die and all the caps taken. Another hard fought game. Well played reds, you certainly don't all need 4 weeks ban or 10 million credit loss per game like this.

Cause telling straight and honest answers disqualifies you as PR parrot.

There's been an influx of new Stalingrad players. It's glorious to behold.

I believe you. Had multiple enemies like that with my games with @El2aZeR today. Reds just went to some corner somewhere, spammed some HE, and refusing to do anything even if their impending loss was obvious. They should all be banned for toxic gameplay, but apparently WG doesn't believe such a thing exists.

Just met @Estaca_de_Bares in his shima, in yet another total roflstomp, after which I quit for the night. It's not even vaguely interesting.

Yea I know, I haven't updated it in quite a while tbh.

Nothing to be a salty one about ;)

To take the smolensk example: that ship is broken as F, but if you take it in any one on one experiment, it will obviously fail, cause it will needs to do its own spotting and get into close distance to do that. But such an experiment would be useless, a fact that you refuse to accept for some reason, at least when it comes to one particular dd vs one particular cv. I don't know if anyone on the forum ever claimed that is the fact that carriers definitely kill dds or whatever, as being the main problem with dd vs cv interaction, and I don't care. It's not my claim. The problem in that interaction is on multiple dimensions, including but not limited to: spotting the dd, making the dd waste consumables (and being the only class that has literally to waste smt like that), reducing or just straight nullifying the intended roles of a DD (spotting, capping, closing the distance to torps, etc), the fact that is mainly dds and (stealthy) cruisers that are cv targets, etc etc etc ... And somewhere in that list is also the hilariously broken rockets-on-DD damage, or HE bombs for that matter. You take one single thing out of that list, and somewhat relativize it, while blindly ignoring everything else that is blatently broken. So in the end what I'm trying to say is: you should go send an application to WG's balancing and/or PR department?

I haven't made any claims. Just fed up with the claim that your experiment proves anything whatsoever. Why not do Stalingrad one on one versus any cruiser to show how underpowered it is, or Smolensk versus any BB?

Try to ignore him. He's been not only trolling for a while, but straight out antagonizing people, and for certain (...) reasons getting away with it. *edit*

Yea I had that thought as well. We have had nothing but catering to the BBKevins for years whenever they thought something was too hard for them. (weeeh yueyang torps are nasty -> nerfed into oblivion; weeeh I get citadelled when I give broadside -> lower the citadels!; weeeh fires and floodings are a slight annoyance etc etc) In fact, if CVs would hurt BBs fundamentally as hard as they do DDs, they would be removed from the game instantaneously. It's kinda genious of WG to make CVs hurt DDs in the first place, since the typical BBkevin will find it "well deserved". Very 2020 divide et impera there. But since it is DDs, which can hurt BBs AND counter the soon to be introduced submarines, we get a "git gut scrub" from WG. At this point I don't care anymore tbh, and I can't wait for subs, where I have free reign as soon as @El2aZeR kills the only idiot still playing DD.

Indeed. When the antifreeze infused vodka has made your entire brain rot, you'll end up believing your own lies.

There has been apparently a big discussion about this very topic on the CC discord. There has come a reply, which isn't under NDA. Have fun "On the whole, we think that interaction between CVs and DDs is okay. First of all, CV's rework decreased the gap between skilled and unskilled CV players. Inexperienced DD players die quickly in battles even without CVs because they cannot get used to that class's gameplay features. So in the nearest future we are not planning any major changes in direction."

Wow. This is the second vid I saw from this guy, the other some CV vid after I saw his name suddenly pop up a few times by ppl recommending youtubers and the like. As I said to @El2aZeR with regards to the cv vid, also is valid here: what the flying F am I supposed to be impressed with? The audacity of putting this vid on youtube? He doesn't try to make a play once, even when they are losing more and more map control and caps. In fact, his entire masterplan consists of kiting to the map corner hoping for a final enemy throw. He loads AP like what, three times? First time around 12 minutes in. His edits look very nice and all with the superimposed "let me explain my tactics here", but same as in the cv vid it looks like nothing but post facto wishful dreaming and rationalization of extremely poor decision making - see the "I'm gonna let my teammates secure A, while I hold of the three ships north" which just means "I'll let the other ships take real risks, while I just kite to the middle of nowhere hoping the reds are idiotic enough to follow and also give broadside cause else it's a default loss anyway". Not to mention his complaining about his teammate positioning while he is taking position behind his friendly carrier for a good while. Top tier indeed. It's a thunderer vid, sistership of conqueror. This vid explains very well how she got the nickname monqueror. Feel sorry for @Sunleader

sigh I know. It was a joke. Hardiharhar.

lol no, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManBearPig It's half man, half bear, half pig

Wasn't he half-bear too?