Deckeru_Maiku

I sometimes - when not doing it for missions - take one of the ships in my port I know that cause players a bit of trouble... like.. Kamikaze, Prince Albert, Mikasa... into CoOp, just to see how the human players handle the Bot version of the ship... can be really fun sometimes...

Well, at least You did the world a favor by taking out an abomination...

Well, maybe they give you some thanks for learning of some new spots to visit and new stuff... purely nautical of course... Of course some people might also have the wish of WG not learning too much... like... about stuff you might use while playing WoWs...

Not much positive to write about today... nine battles, barely managed to win five... again some losses and wins due to teams... Worth mentioning: a loss in my Izumo on Tears of the Cruisers Epeencenter... managed to get the First Blood achievement - some poor cruiser sticking out his nose bow from behind an island, then paddling back, oblivious to the fact that shells CAN hit something behind an island if it's just far enough away to make them plummet down from the moon onto the target - and the other some poor sod in an Alsace thinking himself iinvulnerable even when showing full broadside... Too bad that we had a division of Yamato, Alsace and Midway of which one was only giving AA to his division buddys who kept "kemping bush" near the eastern map edge... when the game was already lost they came out of their hiding spot and managed to do enough damage so the ended high enough in the battle results to be sure that "we dun gud!" - CV managed four sinkers against mostly half-wrecked enemies and got the #1 slot, yours truly (me) was #2 and the Ymmie at #3 with the Alsace ending lower due to being an utter potato and unable to hit a barn from the inside... Do I have to mention, that Yammie and CV went without camo and Alsace didn't use a single flag? Nah, everybody would have guesses that anyway by now... a win in my Yubari. T5 battle, Domination on Fault Line, me starting on the Northwestern side... both teams had a Zuiho and a Yubari... we had a Kamikaze R and the enemy a Fujin... and there were some other ships too, of course... didn't exactly bother about which ones... fillers... *cough* I set course to A accompanying the Kamikaze and some french practice target ship - Emile Bertin I think... - and another DD coming from the middle to assist us. The first to die was... the Kamikaze. Well, should have guessed that from the nationality of the player.. .or at least his clan... torped in smoke like a potato... and the next to go was the Emmy, who though showing enemies his broadside would not invite some AP shells penetrating him... so now it was a DD and me against two - zzzzzzztttt-lazor shot - make that one DD and two cruisers and a BB. But the cavalry was on the way already in for of some BB... I had taken some damage and had to pull back a bit out of sight of the Big Nasty Ones With The Big Nasty AP Shells, just to see the enemy Yubari getting annihilated by a combo of Bombdrop and BB AP shells.. When our BB on this flank got downed also it was replaced by a Cruiser, who tried to ambush an advancing enemy BB... too bad his salvo of torps missed completely... but before the BB could punish him, it had a taste of japanese eels... nearly had to ram an island to get a proper launch angle, but had managed it... kaboom went the BB... All the while the enemy Fujin had tried to torp me, but just before I sunk the BB it had been spotted by some planes our CV had sent in our direction.. I clicked the minimap and told the CV in chat to keep that DD spotted... but he went for a BB instead and immediately pulled his planes back. So when the BB went down, instead of going for the DD I decided to Cap A and send the Fujin a message "In case you want to go after our CV, feel free to do so - I won't get in your way..." So full throttle into A to cap it and I got the full attention of all planes the enemy CV had left.. which weren't not many, after he had to fly over me to sink our BB earlier and I already had taken down a few on the way to and from his target.. Now he lost the last ones... and asour CV did his final encore before getting sunk by the Fujin, the enemy CV got spotted and found himself in my gunrange... though not for long... kill number three achieved - only the Fujin was left... but the clock and points were against him. So even though he valiantly stormed into B and tried to cap it, the battle ended with a win for me. Three sinkers, ten killed planes and 44k damage done... good game I'd say... Last battle of the day and it was same old, same old... me in the Crispy Creme, the battle a T7 match... Fault line again, Standard battle... nothing special, 23k damage and three sinkers with only one being impressive, as I saved a BBs life with it, as a DD was trying a yolo run against it, but had to turn first to get the BB in it's launching arc, just to take a full salvo from Crispy's Cremy HE Shells Of Love from low range... For some unknown reason I seem to do better with the Crispy in T7 battles than in the lower tier ones... some people seem to ignore the pling-pling-pling of her shots until they get set on fire... and on fire again... In the end the battle ended with me in the enemy Cap after hunting (!!!) a Pepsicola (!!!) that ineffectively lobbed AP shells at my bow, while itself got plinged by a HE shell once in a while.. when I finally had burned it down, there was only a BB way west of the cap that could have meant trouble, but after some more HE plinging from behind an island - while sitting in cap - some allied ships took it down.. The last enemy ship - another BB - was on the other side of the map, near the western map edge, running for it's life - why? It's not as if getting sunk would make a loss any worse, is it? - so I could single cap to the end... feels good, man..

....which makes me want to take my Crispy Creme for a CoOp ride tomorrow... HE Rainbows Of Love anyone? *still waiting for a spotting plane consumable for Crispy Creme - you can't have too much range ever..*

Or give her the Aiming Systems Modification 0 - with those torp angles she's nearly a Yubari anyway... ^^ Edit: Yubari clone with 6 x 152mm lazor guns to make DD's lifes "entertaining" sounds fun... hope there will be a way to get it without havin to use real money...

From what I've seen in my T8/9 ships when in T10 battles, the last thing the T10 skippers want is variety... ^^

Yeah, better a black one than a red one... because of the big, bad wolf... On a hot summer night Would you offer your money to the wolf with the black boxes? Will he offer me his mouth? Yes Will he offer me his teeth? Yes Will he offer me his jaws? Yes Will he offer me his hunger? Yes Again, will he offer me his hunger? Yes! And will he starve without me? Yes! And does he love me? Yes Yes On a hot summer night Would you offer your money to the wolf with the black boxes? Yes I bet you say that to all the boys... (slightly changed from the original)

Call me blind, but I only noticed today, that the RN DD line is now playable from the start... well, shows my interest in them I guess... or at least in the early ones... Nonetheless I got me a Medea, stuck one of my 3 pt captains in it and started my way up. I limited myself to only five battles in each of those low tier ships... didn't want to do any sealclubbing now.. *cough* Result: Medea T2 - 3/5 wins (60%), 28k average damage, 1.2 average kills... third battle would have allowed to "tier up" but I played all five... to... Valkyrie T3 - 3/5 wins (60%), 33k av.dam., 1.4 av.kills... again the third battle would have been the charm, but again I played all five... to... Wakeful T4 - 3/5 wins (60%), 38k av.dam., 2.0 av.kills... all five again... can't say when I could have uptiered, as the T5 to T7 were already in my harbour... When reaching T5 before sticking the captain in the next ship I took the freedom to put him in the Campbeltown - 1/1 (100%), 9k damage, 1 sinker - and Gallant - 1/2 (50%), 74k average (!) damage, 4 sinkers total (in the better damage it was two BBs and a CV, nearly solo'd) - to get him "trained" for the next ship... Acasta T5 - 1/3 wins (33%), 12k av.dam, 0.57 av.kills... what a pain... needed those 3 to get her to 10 total battles and grandfather her with a 40% winrate... 27k av.dam and 1.1 av kills over those 10 battles.. Ikarus T6 - 0/1 (0%), 2.8k damage... no kill... got sunk right at the start of the battle... not sure if I will go further with her after the next battle, which would be #10 Also did some games in other ships, quite a few to be honest... 30 in total... with a 56% winrate... (including all of the above of course..) Worth mentioning: a nice game in my Yubari... 47k damage, 2 sinkers (one of them a CV; had two of them in battle...) and 9 planes shot down... and a win a nice game in my Mikasa... 22k damage, no sinkers though, but a win.. a bit of sealclubbing in my Kamikaze, with two sinkers from only 17k damage...and a win... From tomorrow on I can now play just as usual... glad I'm through with those low tier DDs...

Easy solution: Stop playing CoOp - no more bots to shoot at you... ^^

Show me what You can do in a Mikasa or Warspite ^^

You got that wrong.... of course it has to be DaDDies... as in "Hey, BaBBy - who's Your DaDDy?"

@havaduck I know what Your problem is: You have to play the evening shift, which is when most potatoes are around... look at me, playing in the early/late afternoon: 14 battles solo random today... winrate 78.57 % ^^ Among these were pearls like a 135k damage, six sinkers loss (!!!) in my Kamikaze. Which was made up for by a win with one sinker and 6 k damage, in which I got sunk 3 minutes in the battle... And yes, I had some other battles again where the team did win - or lose - for me, but also some really nice ones like... a 72k damage, two sinkers win in my Southern Dragon, which I survived with 1000 hp left a 150k damage, one sinker win in my Nelson... DDs don't really like to be shot at with high-caliber HE at 15+ km I guess... just look how they run... ^^ an average 97k zero sinkers win in my Musashi... turn nose towards enemy, full speed ahead, hope for the team to follow... go down guns blazing and pray that the team uses the disruption you caused on the enemy to their and your advantage... for once they did... a 40k zero sinkers win in my Shiratsuyu, in which I only capped and spotted and annoyed enemy BBs by getting visible by shooting at them and then dodging theitr shells or smoking up and soon starting it all again... oh, how these BBs can run.... ^^ and the utmost final win of the day in the last battle... and of course in the Crispy Creme... a T7 battle once again. And boy was that a battle.... The map was Fault Line, Standard battle, with me starting on the north-west side, following another cruiser and two DDs going south. Soon the first enemy Cruiser was spotted and the glorious rainbow of HE fire went in it's general direction... It was a bit bad that one of our DDs was a bit potatoish, as he soon went down to a torp. So the battle on the flank turned into my personal retreat, as there was too much gunpower up against me and too few allies (and I had already taken a bit out of a BB salvo... ouchie...) Long story made short: five minutes left to play... my team consisted of me and a damaged DD.. the enemy had a nearly dead Emile Bertin (that had already tried to sink me, but failed, and had taken quite a bit HE/fire damage in return), a DD (that was setting course to our cap) and a quite fresh Nagato. Oh, and we were behind about a few points.. about 100 or so... So playing defensively was no option. Our DD went after the enemy DD, while I tried to get the finishing shots on the Emmy B. and failed, as he managed to pull out of sight, but still was able to spot my Crispy Creme (nearly visible from orbit... even when not shooting). I caught a glimpse of the Nagato and managed to lob some shells at it, setting it aflame... our DD finished off the enemy DD and set course to the enemy cap. The clock was ticking.. The Nagato had set it's course toward me, but as our DD closed in on the enemy cap, he was able to spot the Nagato for me. And again I was able to lob some shells at it... We had to sink it... or the near dead Emmy B, which was nowhere to be seen... until it suddenly appeared at the enemy's cap, with about 100 hp left... While the Nagato came around the island between it and me our DD sunk the enemy cruiser... and suddenly we were a few points ahead... the win was close, at least if I managed not to get sunk... a salvo of torps I sent at the Nagato failed to reach it, but it made it turn away from me - big mistake - while I turned my bow in its direction. A salvo of the Nagato's AP shells came at me... and missed... the dakka-dakka-dakka of my guns increased and the Nagato started to burn, repaired, and burned again.. and the clock ticked... And before the Nagato was able to send a second salvo my way the time ran out... Game Won.. 40 points (or so...) ahead... Glorious Battle - Glorious Win! On the result screen I noticed - hadn't before - that the Nagato had already sunk four ships before I came after me... Boy, had I been lucky...

I can only pray for the OPs fear to come true... A flood of fresh DD players coming in, because they think they are now invulnerable... Oh, the fun I will have hunting them down in my BBs, main guns loaded with HE and the knowledge where they lurk from all the DD games I played... ^^ Oh, did I mention already the good old saying "Don't feed the troll or he will leave his feces at your door.."?

Well, WG has given the reason... Izumo needs to be able to blast away from maximum range as all good BBs are supposed to do... ^^ Never had any problems with range in Izumo myself... it's way more fun to wreck a Musashi/Yamato by shoving a couple shells in their broadsides from ~10 km or so... oh those poor sods thinking they are invulnarable, just to get citadelled to no end... ^^

It makes playing a BB easier, sure.. but it makes winning harder for the team, as they can count on at least 2 or often 3 of those BBs on their side being utter potatoes, that do nothing to the effect of winning the game... Alas, it's the same with DDs... when it's 5 vs 5 DDs the chance for getting outpotatoed rises enormously... So I do strongly agree with limiting the number of DDs in a game. Especially, as I usually do better when playing DD in a battle with only 3 of them per side compared to having 5 nasties going after my backside... but for the same reason, the number of BBs should also be limited. The only class that should always be in the battle are cruisers, as they are - in my eyes - the probably most important class WHEN THEY DO THEIR JOB. Although I would love to see a fairer MM as radar is concerned... having a battle with 0 vs 3 radars is no problem when in a BB - I even love to try to pick out those enemy radar cruisers first if I get the chance - but it gets really annoying in a DD when you know the enemy knifefighters have guns to support them, while there's only blind stonethrowers on your side...

Yeah, weekend finally caught up with me... 10 battles today, only 50% winrate... still better than some other weekends I remember though... ^^ And the battles themselves weren't anything to brag about, not even the wins except for... ...the battle in my Nelson (Mission to damage/destroy 20 ship components... who would take any other ship than this gorgeous HE slinger for that...) Somehow I ended up with a DD and a cruiser on the right flank and saw the rest of the team either going left or idling around our cap - standard battle - where we faced at least half the enemy team coming at us... somehow we got through, but not without losses... our DD went down and on the other flank it also looked dire, as the enemy had managed to get a good push going against the odds. The Cruiser and I set course for the enemy cap and managed to arrive there, just to be met by two BBs and a DD securing it. A short while later there was only me versus a BB (Dunquerke) and the DD... and while I concentrated on taking down that Baguette, my secondaries were supposed to take care of the DD... The Dunkerque went down, but the DD had survived and managed to sink me with some well placed torps... Then he set course to go after my teams surviving three BBs sitting in our cap (two of those at nearly full HP - go figure...) but he ran out of time in the end and only manage to sink one of them (a full HP Fuso which had literally done NOTHING during the battle). So he got some +Karma from me for the effort but we got the win an I had two sinkers and 83k damage done on my statsheet. Can get only better during the week, I hope...

I know just too well how it feels sometimes... I have the tendency not to stay in a battle after I get sunk and not to play a ship more often each day than it takes to get the first win. So I usually play a lot of different ships each day. And right now, with RN DD missions calling for high numbers of everything and me still trying to do the US cruiser mission chain that means I'm playing about each of my T8/9 ships at least once per day (or more, 'til the first win). As that "after X battles as lowtier You get a battle as high tier" only seems to work WHEN YOU KEEP PLAYING THE SAME SHIP (!!!!!) I am used to have five to six battles on T8 being the lowtier. Doesn't matter much to me, when I'm in a DD. It can work out when I'm in a T8 BB - Bismarck can do the job... - but it usually is a struggle in a T8 cruiser... The better it feels, when you really make it to the #1 slot in a T8 Cruiser in a T10 battle... ^^

Well, it's their own website, so they didn't have to sign to follow any rules... so of course WG can go naming/shaming as much as they want... ^^

Can't think of anything more enjoyable than having a division of [SCRUB)s or [UNICS] on the enemy team... negates the need to see who might be the most opportune and skilled targets on the enemy team... ^^

The what??????? What game have you been playing? Can't have been WoWs... Or do You consider lobbing shells at each other from maximum range, like so many BaBBies did since the beta, a "brawl"? I don't...

The problem that shows up most often though is, that as a T8 you end up in a team full of T10 potatoes and then have to try to carry the battle... which, if it works, can be fun... nothing better than ending up in the #1 slot of the winning team in a T10 battle with a T8 cruiser, way ahead of any of the mighty T10 BBs... *löl*

hmm... lets see... Me: 12k battles... 3325 in BB (27.7 %), 4109 in Cruisers (34.24 %), 4068 in DDs (33.9 %), 495 in CV (4.125 %, long ago) = DD main You: 3k battles... 1607 inn BB (53.33 %), 962 in Cruisers (32.06 %), 405 in DDs (13.5 %), 35 in CV (1.16 %) = utterly objective "all classes player and definately not a BB main at all" Fun fact: not only do I have more battles total in BBs and Cruisers than You, but also a 3% better winrate in both classes... As I'm not a DD main, I won't mention the 6% better winrate I got in that class, as it would be no indication about knowing facts about how a class plays... Everybody knows that even without having played a class ever one can have detailed knowledge of it anyway. And as you mentioned me negrepping you: yes, I do in this thread, each time you post utter ox-feces, which you do astoundingly often. And yes, it is some kind of revenge, as You did start negrepping me in about every thread in which I posted anything slightly negative about BaBBies... a term which does not automatically mean all BB players. Only a certain, utterly mentally challenged part of the BB community falls into that category. @all other_posters in_this_thread It's not advised to feed trolls. When fed, they feel the need to drop some feces on the forum. We don't really need a second Starbuckcrying, do we?

Easy to solve: give them BB only battles... then they can perfect their favourite playstyle too... or just do BB things...

Often enough it's a great help to have some brainless guys on the oposite team... but of course people only remember the times, when they couldn't make up for the potatoes on their own team... Nonetheless, the different skill levels of players are one of the main problems in the game... I also agree with most of what @Reaper_JackGBR wrote above, even though some of it doesn't concern me the same as it does him. The worst thing that I could imagine would be the game getting so effed up, that I only log on to play some low tier battles in my most favourite sealclubbing ships.