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No. What you propose is a buffed Fiji at tier 6. You took a Fiji, nerfed her range but gave her a spotter plane+smoke combo - and this is supposed to be t6 material!? Perth is t6. And not a weak t6 either - arguably one of the best, really. Go ahead and compare how well she matches up to the monstrosity you propose... even the weak point of your t6 Fiji - the range... Perth is only 200m better.

Are you sure you got hit by 4 ships? Because your screenshots don't show that. They show that YOU damaged 4 enemies, nothing about how many enemies inflicted damage upon you.

Answering to each of your paragraphs... 1. I'm playing mostly Kitakaze (t9) + some Ranked (mostly in Zao) and carriers seem as rare as ever. 2. You really don't need to encourage people - if CVs really become more common, they will switch to more AA-oriented builds on their own. 3. Yeah, we noticed. On the flip side, though... EDIT ...either.

Isn't Musashi a ship you can re-purchase easily, though? I mean, she technically works like a silver ship with the exceptions that: 1. There's not preceeding ship so the whole XP to research her needs to be paid from free XP 2. She's super-cheap to purchase (1 credit) In this context I could see someone selling Musashi for the port slot if you're really clogged for some reason. Not that it's likely for someone with enough freeXP for Musashi to be THAT short on port slots...

I wonder if, at the end, you tried striking the enemy Midway - would it be possible to win? Probably not (carriers have a def. fire consumable) but he was going for the cap and already closer so you'd have the time to complete the drop - not to mention that the points gap could be filled by killing a CV but I don't think a cruiser would be enough (though I don't remember the exact numbers off the top of my hat). Anyway, nice match, my condolences...

You won. It doesn't count. It's much easier to score 446k damage and 6 kills and win than to score 317 + 8 (!) kills and still somehow lose

Not launching them like an idiot was more than he could do, then?

A bunch of reasons off the top of my hat: 1. Radar. LOTS of Radar. DDs tend to either take a shallow dip into the cap to bait Radar or they don't even bother - early attempts to cap are punished hard. 2. IJN DD craze. It's a bit like what we saw with RN BBs firing HE - we got some ships that are extremely effective at daka-daka so good players do it to great effect, bed players do it to worse effect (because they forget that torps exist AND someone needs to still spot the enemies if they smoke up) and other bad players see how well it (somteimes) works and start copying the behavior in ships and situations much less suited for the tactic in question 3. Support deficit - DDs don't feel like spotting is worthwhile because it puts them in danger and actual effects depend on the team being able to capitalize on their work 4. Rewards - are handed out for damaging enemies, mostly. If you want to be rewarded, you need to deal damage AND if you deal damage, you get positive feedback from the game in the form of end results. It should be noted that to actually get close to the top the DD usually needs to indeed do some heavy lifting in the damage department, though, so it's not like they get rewarded for nothing (especially considering that the best source of XP for DDs is other DDs, since they can get close and smaller numbers translate to bigger % and - due to that - more XP for the damage)

It doesn't seem so, considering that you made a whole Forum thread to announce that you want to purposefully teamkill people based on your grudge. It tells us many things about you but "not giving a damn" isn't one of them.

He's a legend. You might've seen "Skybuck Flying Seal of Approval" or the Oscar-like golden Skybuck statuette that sometimes get posted by some people in very specific threads and/or as response to very specific kind of posts? They were named after him. Personally I remember him mostly for his vehement position on strike Ranger (not replicable now after some changes but back them it meant a CV with substantial strike potential but extremely easy to shut down and extremely useless for anything other than that strike power due to lack of any fighters whatsoever) being the best way to play Ranked.

Regardless of how serious you are when saying that - the thread isn't about "what's the better DD" but, quite precisely, "who would win" - and GM is an all-purpose DD while Haida is an anti-DD DD. GM might be better but Haida sh*s on her when it comes to DD vs DD fight. GM can turn away and run, hoping to survive or win on the natural advantage of the kiting over the kited. But, obviously, Haida isn't really obligued to play along and go chasing...

Ok, three things: 1. Why necro a thread so old, quoting a post from two and a half years ago? 2. You messed up the quoting completely, you've clicked "quote" and then removed the quote but instead wrote your post inside the quote box... 3. Your problem seems non-existent, your stats ARE currently visible to others. Perhaps there was some delay but your stats aren't hidden currently. Also, this has literally nothing to do with your antivirus, there's no way your antivirus could interfere with other people accessing WG server to see your stats, this process doesn't involve your computer at all.

There, fixed it for you

Oh, no, certainly not everyone. But you - sure.

I play ships I like a lot, even if it entails sealclubbing. That's why I have 389 matches in Kamikaze R (note, however, that that's still less than 5% of my total battles), 1441 in Akizuki (before she got stealth nerfed and guns buffed, that took a lot of fun out of her) and, say, 550 in Shimakaze - a ships that, as we all know, is an extremely overpowered sealclubber . You, by comparison, have played well over 7% in De Grasse and about as many in Guilio Cesare. Anyway, back to the topis on silver sealclubbing - GRINDING a silver line generally speaking isn't sealclubbing (although even this might be up to debate and someone could probably make a compelling case to the contrary). The thing is, however, that, well - I personally find it hard to believe that you, for example, might actually be incompetent enough to require whole 89 battles to grind through Omaha... And when someone grinds through Omaha but likes her enough to occasionally go back to her and play a match or two despite being an experienced player - that's unmistakably sealclubbing. It really matters little if it's De Grasse, Omaha or (if you want to point out my sealclubbing) a damned t2 V-25 (would have more battles in her if not for the pressing need to take a shower after every match ). V-25 is as silver as they get and there's nothing exclusive about her - there are very few ships easier to get your hands on (you can have her the same day you register an account without spending a single penny) but I can assure you - my 194 battles in her are decidedly NOT "silver line grinding". So, yes. I certainly do my share of sealclubbing in both middle and even low tiers. Both in ships generally deemed OP like Kamikaze and these more modest (I have, for example, over 200 battles in various Kongo clones, even excluding the silver Kongo herself). But just because I'm doing it or because the ships aren't considered OP by most doesn't mean it somehow ceases to be sealclubbing. It's sealclubbing because I'm an experienced player going to blow off steam in lower tiers NOT because the ship I take is better. There might be some exceptions when someone takes a blatantly UNDERpowered ship like, say, Mikasa... but these are, as said, exceptions.

How is improvement to communication making the game more braindead?

YOU heard it here first. Most people have known this for a long time.

The rest of your post, not to mention the "downvote", seem to contradict your statement Scaling well with skill ship of low or middle tier? Isn't this pretty much the very definition of a perfect sealclubbing ship? That being said, sealclubbing isn't really about the SHIPS you play but rather TIERS you play. Any decent ship up to tier 6 (arguably 7 but that's usually a bit too high for proper sealclubbing) is a sealclubbing ship. Sorry, but what are you smoking? Your most played ships (listing the ones above 100 battles) are: De Grasse, t6 (274 battles) Guilio Cesare, t5 (259 battles) Iowa, t9 (172 battles) OLD Cleveland, t6 (104 battles) North Carolina isn't your most played ship, not even close (she places 18th), unless you count Ranked - but bragging about not sealclubbing in a game mode where the tier is forced upon us is a bit... well... NOT very convincing Sorry, mate. You are a dedicated sealclubber. There are ones more dedicated sure, but it doesn't change the fact that you most definitely qualify. So please, do enjoy the game however you want but at least refrain from complaining about sealclubbers when you're very, VERY clearly part of the problem.

British DD line gets more and more ridiculous...

Silver play so hard BUT low tiers are full of sealclubbers and stat-padders, right? It almost sounds like low tiers are still much, much easier than high tiers if you can go down to stat-pad. I mean, I'm sure there are many dedicated seal-clubbers like you but that's the case because it's much, MUCH easier to play at middle (or low) tiers than on the high ones. Sorry for not crying tears of blood over the fact that someone with 500+ battles in t5-6 premium ships finds it hard to grind their way to t10. I don't judge you for playing the tiers and ships you're comfortable with - I [ersonally play ships I like instead of grinding (only my favourite ships tend to be high-ish tier) - but frankly, I don't see why WG should be making special considerations for people who can't handle high tiers to the point where they have no t10 ships after thousands of battles...

DDs do spotting even if they don't want to, the weaponry they have requires them to move up closer to the enemy than most ships and spotting happens naturally. You might want to move up a tier a bit - at high tiers DDs smoking up in caps are a rare sight. Sitting immobile in cap (while advertising your general position via smoke) in a world full of torps and Radars is a suicide attempt and even potatoes have already learned that.

Problem is, that article is up for half a month and WG just adds to it instead of either publishing everything at the very beginning or putting up a new article for such a big update. WG communication.

Coops are a thing. No, no supercontainers for ya. You still get... 25 of each special signal? Not to mention the accompanying event where you can buy some stuff in Arsenal for anniversary tokens. Although I can understand you - having multiple t10 ships takes dedication that is rewarded. Having no t10 after over 5k battles takes even more dedication to avoid getting any line completed - and this dedication goes unrewarded

You don't receive the SC for having a t10 ship but for playing a battle with her - so there's absolutely no reason for it to be limited to ships you own right now. In fact, it would take some extra effort on WG's part to deny you this SC - and they just don't have a reason to put in such limitation (if anything, they have every reason to let you have the SC as this gives people incentive to freeXP the ends of trees they are close to completing). Well, the birthday event is traditionally (not a very long tradition but still) a celebration of and for long-time players. That's why there are rewards for thousands of battles and multiple tX ships, not to mention patches explicitly awarded for how long you've stuck around. It's normal that newer players get relatively little - or even nothing.

While The_Baptist might be blunt, his advice is actually pretty good. There are two things to do: 1. In the port, go to the ships you want to citadel and check their armor schemes. You can disable the view of certain parts to see where the citadel armor is (the citadel is on the other side of that, as you might expect ) - this should give you some base idea about where to find the citadel. 2. Go to training room, set the ships you want to citadel as immobile bots and do some experimenting with ranges, angles etc (preferably shooting one turret at a time to have a better idea about where your shells actually land each time you get that citadel) All that said, I'm pretty sure that reliably scoring citadels on BBs is hard, even for Moskva. Apart from Yamato, BBs tend to have their citadels located in a submarine a couple hundred meters below the keel*... *slight exaggeration alert