Ocsimano18

My PEF has 80 AA, just waiting for 8.0.

I did 58K damage in my first PEF match today, which is quite good considering my average. I'm used to the Scharnhorst guns (which was a deception at first), so I just aimed at the lowest point of the superstructure. I also specced her to AA (about 80 points) to prepare for 8.0. After the bad reviews, she is not a disappointment.

My most awful grind was the Myogi but I had no freexp back then as it was my first tier IV ship. I also got bored with the Nagato grind and quit the game for three months because of it. Learning from these bad experiences I completly freeXP-ed the Izumo and went directly to the Yami. I did not regret it. I also hated the New York grind but only used XP flags and camos to ease the boredom (I enjoy Texas on the other hand). So I only skipped the Izumo (not even bought it).

A nice random win and a lackluster coop to finish the Prinz marathon. Ships used for the money grind: *Musashi *Jean-Bart *Tirpitz *Warspite and Cossack *Texas (was surprisingly enjoyable) *October Revolution (quite fun ship) Also bought two sets of Revolutionary camos (+30% credits) at the Arsenal for lots of coal (and used up my birthday and some other credit bonus camo and flag supply). Can start grinding steel and tier 6 ships/camos with the Prinz...

Started with the Aoba, as it was working well in the 5 vs 5 setup. I got to rank 5 straight without defeats. At rank 5, I accumulated 5 defeats in a row (I scored top in my losing team in 2 or 3 matches, but I had zero stars to keep), so I switched back to the good old carrier play. I experimented with 3 fighters Ryujo, but it was not working really well, so I went with the 1 fighter setup. Captain was 11 point, moved from Zuiho of the last tier-V season. Seen a lot of opponents with low win rates, so I ranked out quickly:

I'd wait to see the uncover of this "coming soon" ship before committing.

In the last few days I was reported by a player who was AFK during half of the match. When he got into play, he started by clicking the map saying that I was in wrong position with my DD. I was doing a solo cap while he was AFK and I was sailing a japanase torp boat so I could not sail into the second cap against two enemy DDs, while our other two DDs got soon killed/suicided. In another game I was reported because I stayed back with my Yamato, instead of rushing into a collapsing flank. I was 3rd on our team in XP. Finally I was in a tier 10 match with my Tirpitz. I got focused early on while an Asashio was also after me. I pulled back to heal up then moved to the other flank to slow down the enemy push. I met a supertester in a Neustrashimi, I did 6000K damage to him, he smoked up, then I pulled back because the enemy was pushing hard on that flank, while he was shooting HE from the smoke. We had about 950 points and 3 caps out of the four. I decided to stay back to not get killed while we win by points. The rest of the team started to pull back too late and got killed. So my tier 8 Tirpitz was blamed for the loss in the tier 10 match. I think a lot of player use the karma system to blame someone else for the loss. This is completly wrong. I only use negative karma for toxic chat, and I give all my positive Karma points every day.

Got commander Yami for the Yami.

I encountered a technical issue two times in PVP matches (no issue in PVE). Launching planes worked at the beginning, but after a while I was only able to switch between the 3 types of attack planes, but the second button press did not launch the planes, it somehow got stuck. Apart from that, I was not able to AP bomb the Des Moines with the Haku, its AA shredded my planes, but a Worcester was close by. Also, I was able to take out bot DDs with two plane launches (i.e. multiple attack runs with each run) on tier X. So DDs won't be spotted, they will be killed in the new meta. Regarding the complexity of handling the CV and the planes at the same time, this was the remark of my 13 year old nephew: "The old (i.e. multitasking) version was more complicated, but easier to handle. Sometimes it is easier when it is harder".

Reached 1 million XP with the Großer Tirpitz:

I did the last Ranked Sprint mainly with my Zuiho, but this time I failed miserably with the Ryujo. With the 3 fighter setup I was not able to carry (too few players, I think), and with the 1 fighter setup I lost the air control. I gave up and changed to Aoba... to rank out in 25 games total: With the Aoba, I started with a 5 point captain, and went up to 7 points: PT, PM, Extra fighter as 1 point skills, EM and AR as 2 point skills. I lost 2 (all) battles to carriers, as I had the acoustic search consumable.

The last step...

So the in game sales started today.

Santa's got a new toy for Dasha:

Steal Monsters = Pay to grind?