WolffeMeister

I like the new system, I can play how I want and get the rewards I want.

Well, I've read enough posts in this forum to know most people share my general opinion. As a British person, I have been waiting for the British line to come out for over a year now (frankly, I'd of though you'd of got the most powerful navy of the time out sooner) but now they are out, I feel insulted. Rather than get the quite literal pride of this fair isle that is the Royal Navy. If World of Warships is any reflection of the world then the Royal Navy seems to have belonged to a land-locked nation with only the faintest idea of what a navy is and should be. Derogatory eloquence aside for more objective thoughts. The Bad AP Shells only, Seriously? at lower tiers (to which I have so far been relegated to in playing) I am completely ineffective against Battleships (due to their armour) and destroyers (due to overpenetration and lack of module damage), attacking cruisers seems to be of limited use, but going up against mostly UK cruisers it's hard to tell. Lack of firepower, (aside from Black Swan) Tiers 2-4 (which I have played) the ships seem completely outgunned, The ships feel like they have been up tiered by at least 1 rank, half the time it feels like a destroyer firing HE at me is outgunning my cruiser (in general strategy Cruisers are supposed to defend against Destroyers are they not? Narrow Torpedo Spreads - unless I'm at point blank range, good luck hitting a target, even a battleship has a reasonable chance of hitting a ship. High Armour Value, ok this one is harder to balance seeing as this is their actual armour value, but when all enemy ships get full damage from AP shells it kinda feels a little dodgy (especially as established in point no.1 that I have no defences against Battleships Low survivability and repair kits, while it's nice to have the unique ability among cruisers to regen health, it's like trying to heal a severed limb by wrapping it in tissue paper, it's something but nowhere near enough to compensate for the general lack of survivability and the increased damage that is taken from point 4. Generally not fun, I feel disadvantaged going up against nearly every type ship, I was instantly killed at the beginning of a game when I was spotted quickly while in my Tier 4 (Danae or something) and then a Kaiser hit me with a few shells, 180K potential damage, goodbye ship, had to wait for 15 minutes for my division mates to finish the battle. The Good (or at least not bad features) Torpedos, well they have some torpedos of modest range, better than nothing I guess. Manoeuvrability - ok, an actual good point, they feel quite spritely, maintaining speed through a corner and generally accelerating quickly. </The Good> (yeah on 2 points, 1 of which is an acknowledgement more than anything) In general, I feel underwhelmed by a faction that I feel a sense of national pride for and as stated before, somewhat insulted that Wargaming has decided to portray my country as ships having more worth as scrap than as actual warships. I mean looking at the statistics the Tier 8 'Edinburgh' has a similar configuration to the T6 US Cruiser 'Cleaveland' both with 4x3 152mm guns. the Edinburgh has 0.5s faster reload, but seriously, that's not enough. Looking at the designs of the ships and their apparent armament I'd say re-tiering the following ships would save the line from near extinction. (of course rebalancing them) Suggestions -Add HE shells to all ships, moving them in line with cruisers. EMERALD Move to Tier 4, Based on number of guns being comparable to a Tier 4 cruiser (of all nations) and not a tier 5 cruiser (going against 9 gun ships such as Konigsberg (which also has torpedos of similar type) and Kirov, both having a clearly better armaments) LEANDER Move to Tier 5, Armament comparable to Tier 5 cruisers (8 (4x2) 152mm guns compared to 9 (3x3) 152's of German and Russian Tier 5 Cruisers, and 12 (8x1/2x2) (8 gun broadside) of US Tier 5 Cruiser. NEW CLASS, DIDO-Class (you could call it ARGONAUT after one of the ships). Tier 6 Cruiser, Based on Armament of 10 (5x2 152mm guns) being somewhat weaker than the 12 gun Cleveland Class FIJI AND EDINBURGH Merged together (for being ostensibly the same ship). Tier 8, ok I admit, I don't know what you could put here from a cursory look at Wikipedia. Tier 9 and 10 I haven't played enough games to know how top tier works in order to have a good understanding of how the ships would fit in, though the faster reload times would indicate challenging but more balanced gameplay. To summarise, rebalance the ships, they aren't fun, they aren't challenging in a good way (try using a pool noodle as a crutch after breaking both your legs, challenge). The ships just die too quickly, don't have the ability to respond as they are limited to AP only and generally get obliterated by all enemy ships since their armour causes them to receive full AP damage instead of over pens. I can understand dying to a Torpedo salvo since I have some defence normally in the fact that a destroyer has to get quite close for a lethal barrage, but when dying to a single artillery volley, fired from 12km plus by a T4 battleship, I don't appreciate having my national pride stripped away from me while simultaneously regretting spending money on premium time, generally now felt wasted by the half-hearted and frankly awful attempt at adding a cruiser line different to the other ships. If I wanted to use torpedos and die easily I choose to play a Destroyer, not a cruiser that should be part of the main line of battle, not hiding away because generally, it feels like I can be outgunned by a fisherman in a rowboat with his wife wielding a musket. Generally, I am now fearing the eventual release of the British Battleship/Battlecruiser and Destroyer lines as uncompetitive and uninteresting insults to the grand heritage of the Royal Navy, at the time, the strongest Navy in the world. I Applaud your attempt for trying to make them unique, but I think that the charge of the light brigade was more successful than you have been here, which is a shame for a good game. --Edit-- I think the only way these ships would be dangerous is if they all took after the Cambletown and were filled up with explosives before ramming something, but you'd probably die before doing any damage.

Hi Casio Once you've set up your microphone and other settings on teamspeak (I'd recommend setting your capture profile to 'Voice Activation Detection'). Then under menu 'Connections' click connect enter the server address 'ts.i-m3.info'. and then you are connected to our server. in terms of 'joining the clan' if you come on the server and play games and/or talk with us, then your pretty much part of it, we don't have any applications or anything, just a group of friends who enjoy playing games. We won't turn anyone away who wants to play games. Wolffe

I-M3 is a small and relatively new community that formed September last year after breaking away from a larger group, with our the emphasis being on having fun with friends rather than on community politics. So why not take a look at joining? Why Should I Join? Emphasis on fun, not politics, we wanted to get away from that. No joining procedure, just jump onto our teamspeak and feel free to come and go Friendly English-speaking but international community with members across Europe (mainly UK and SWE) and even one in the US Large amount of games, we don't just play a single game, many of us also play games such as War thunder, Arma, Battlefield, CSGO, contagion and really to many to write down. Server Information TS3: ts.i-m3.info Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/i-m3 Feel free to jump on, at the moment the main player for WoWS is myself 'WolffeMeister' in-game and 'Wolffe' on the teamspeak. I'm normally around mid-afternoon to mid-evening on weekdays and most of the day (afternoon onwards) on weekends. Feel free to message me if you do jump on. But feel free to play games with other people. Things to note We would ask that you be 18+ Please speak English as that is the one language we can all speak, we don't want to exclude people. Yes there are alot of server admins, that's just something that we started with to prevent 1 person taking over, we aren't giving them out at the moment so please don't ask for to be made one. ^^ Please don't annoy server admins, if you have a problem contact Wolffe, if someone treats you badly or bans you please contact me so I can sort it out. If Wolffe is unavailable Granis, Pricey or Beardus, will be able to help. We are looking for fun, not grief, if you cause problems on the server then you will be removed. You might not get on with everyone, but please try to act reasonably. Many of us are playing games to unwind and relax, we don't want more problems to deal with. We all enjoy a tasteless joke from time to time, but please consider who you are talking to and if it will offend them. We don't want people who spread racist (or other) ideology. Have a sense of humour, we all like to make jokes and have a bit of banter. We don't have time to babysit people who can't take a joke.