Deckeru_Maiku

Same number of battles as yesterday (= 11) same winrate (54%) and even the same number of battles survived (36%) with only less average damage done. Two losses in the Southern Dragon, as my shoulders weren't broad enough to carry those two teams involved... One loss in the Fletcher, where I effed up.... and a loss in the Crispy Creme, where two kills and 42k damage done weren't enough to compensate for potatoes... Shiratsuyu brought me a loss and a win, with the win feeling really nice... Domination on Two Brothers... I managed to cap D (coming from the north) and sank the enemy DD competing for it. I alsoo managed to stick enough torps into a BB to get it sunk. Next came a Dallas, that didn't think it could be killed being broadside to an IJN DD - but AP proved him wrong. The last was a Bayern, that tried to run away on our flank, then suddenly and totally unexpected - *LOL* - faced a swarm of torpedoes when it came around and island. Four of them meant the Bayern went down and the game was won by points... Result of the battle: 4 sinkers, ~90k damage done, a cap... and a win. One win in the Benson, where the team made up for me being an idiot that got sunk right at the start of the battle. A win in the Yugumo, where I didn't do much better, but at least managed a cap... but the team was way better than the enemy, so BBs and cruisers had a field day and just annihilated the enemy team for a 12 to 2 win or so.. A win in my Dunquerke, where I first accompanied a DD who went capping, stumbled into about half the enemy team, backpaddled out of trouble gaining an Dreadnaught award for handling my heals right. When the cavalry arrived, I was able to push ahead again, just to find a Jervis near the map edge... I guess the poor sod was quite a bit surprised, to see a BB not running away from hm, but going after him with blazing guns... I had a bit help from our CV who kept him spotted... and in the end this DD was my only sinker in the game. Just 43k damage done, but a win.. In my Musashi I managed another win, with no sinkers but 82k damage done and ~2 million tanking before I went down. The game was already won at that time, just a bit of mopping up had to be done... And a nice win in my Izumo (also one of my favourites, with 57 battles, 59% winrate, only 58k average damage though) in which I did 99k damage, one sinker and quite a bit "taking a tactical position and annoy the enemy a lot without them being able to focus you down". So those 99k were spread around among several ships, with only a cruiser being dumb enough to think his broadside would be immune to my shells... This game also ended with a win... Still weekend and still in the >50% winrate range... all is well...

Due to implemented Newbie Protection at low Player Tiers there ain't no seals to be clubbed at low tiers anyway, unless one starts a new account every couple days to stay within that protected region oneself, which then would exclude sealclubbing with an 19 pt captain. tl/dr: there is no sealclubbing in WoWs - only potato mashing... ^^

You've never seen any Japanese pr0n then, right? ^^ What did the day bring for me? Musashi slowly turns into my favourite ship... After 89 battles my winrate in her is 66.29% and even though the average damage is crap compared to what others so in her, I have many battles I enjoy very much. Like today... Domination mode on Tears of the Cruisers.. starting east of C cap I set course through B to A, shooting at every available target presenting itself to me - which, considering the range of the Musashi's guns, means "a lot of targets" - and even manged some hits. As one Missouri per team were the only radar ships in this battle, the DDs had lots of opportunities to prove themselves. And I could do what I do best in the Musashi: present myself as a target to shoot at, spam secondary fire in all directions and punish enemy ships foolish enough to let me get too close to them... this time the enemy Musashi took enough hits to make it start running (not for long though, as it got finished by one of my teammated) while I sowned an enemy cruiser and, shortly before I went down myself, the enemy Missouri... poor sod thought it was a good idea to show broadside to my Musashi at ~10 km... I ended the battle with a win and 151k damage done and two sinkers... As I needed captain exp for the RN DD missions and as my Zao captain still isn't fully retrained, the Southern Dragon saw another battle. It was a bit weird, as it wasn't obvious which side had the upper hand up until about 15 minutes into the fight. I had done a flanking move (eastern side of North map, going north to south) and harassed some enemy cruisers (three of them) at the C cap, but couldn't keep them from taking it. I took one down and damaged another for about 30% of his health before I went down... in the end the battle was won and I had done 52k damage and that sinker... One of the games where I observed the battle after I got sunk to see the outcome "live" And I had: - two battles (losses...) in the Perth - average damage 40 and 3 ships sunk; most of the damage and all sinkers done in the second loss.. - two bettles (one win and one loss) in the Benson, with 34k av. damage and 2 sinkers, both and most of the total damage done in a win - two battles (both wins...) in my Fletcher... with no stats worth mentioning, and the second battle was me misclicking the start battle button... - two battles (both losses) in my Izumo... no sinkers, even though I managed an average 100k damage... - and the final battle of the day, in my Crispy Creme - T7 battle - where I was again able to be nasty to all those poor little T7 ships (including the DD I sunk) for 33k damage and a win... So in the end the total is "quite some fun, some interesting battles and a 54% winrate for the day" so for the start of the weekend it wasn't that bad...

To rub some salt into Your wound: I had some really nice games today and managed a 54% winrate... even though the weekend is now with us all week long... ^^ And... if that CV player was at least halfway competent, he's not the typical "Weekend Warrior" we get to see all of the time ;)

Nah, it's all about political correctness... like with some of Marvel's redone characters or like the BBC did for Troy: Fall of a city. Can't wait to see what WG will come up with on June 28th 2019, when it's the 50th anniversary of the Christopher Street Stonewall Riots... ^^ Maybe some brightly coloured or pink camos? Of course those probably won't be available in the Russian Motherland then...

Was playing some other games the last about a week or so, so I had to hurry a bit to do the last week's RB DD missions... some battles turned out good, some bad and some terrible... had a nice 131k damage battle in my Warspite. Managed only one kill though - a DD of course *g* - and so the game was lost... then a really nice 101k damage battle in my Lyon. Again only one kill... might also have been a DD... but this time it ended with a win. and the next day another win in the Lyon, with only 72k and a kill though.. Since this happened after I got enough exp to get the next ship in the french BB line, the Lyon will now be grandfathered with 60 battles done, 52k average damage (low....) and a 51.67% winrate. Also had some nice battles in the Fletcher, Shiratsuyu and Yugumo...nothing to brag about though... but all in all good enough to finish the two RN mission lines I stil had to do... And now Weekend is coming once more... ^^

Nah, I don't have the energy or time to complain about so many different nations... I'm an old man, so I just concentrate on Mother Russia... ^^

It's not sealclubbing when you do it in T7 battles ;P

Long Island Ice Tea can help with frustration in game... ^^ And I'm sure it is supposed to be "Extremely Pigmented Friday" It's not Brussels who started to behave like utter idiots... but of course that is surely just "fake news" *löl*

I usually don't get frustrated... when a number of games doesn't go my way I either stop playing or go down to the low tiers to frustrate some other players using my Vampire, Yubari or some of the really OP ships...

I rather see it as "My reason is WG trying to make Mother Russia's Mighty Navy a thing, to make money by it on the russian market, while even many russian players prefer ships that really did something during their career..." For me, that's russian bias. And if I really was salty, I would just stop playing this game. As it is, I rather feel some satisfaction every time I sink one of those "We Got Mighty Mother Russia's Super Radar" ships... Or Nikolais... Too bad that I'm not allowed to also sink those on my team without suffering consequences though... ^^

It's WGs job to take care of balance - not mine. I would prefer historically accurate ships with mechanics and stats that resemble their real abilities. And to be perfect, it would have to be ships that saw action up until the end of WW2 Won't happen. I can also understand why it won't. Doesn't mean I a) have to like it or b) I couldn't wish for it to be different. Doesn't keep me from playing - and enjoying - the game, but still there's some things making me not play some ships. Russian bias is among these.

Not the pink I mean... ^^ I was talking about those Clans that get shown with a pink clantag in the MM... which makes them Unicorn Clans... ;) And I usually prefer to play < T8 to avoid all the gatered potatoes at T10, but WGs missions force me to play T8 ships to do them, so I have to take out the few T8/9 ships I have more often these days... still manage to keep a decent winrate though... probably because I just play OP ships like Bismarck, Musashi, Izumo... though after a day of potato inflicted losses, I do try to have some fun by taking revenge on lower tiers... usually in so OP ships like Yubari or Katori..... or, when I'm especially nasty, in the Vampire...

Each first time You get detonated on a day you get 10 JC flags, that make you immune to detonations. So even me, who's playing quite a lot of DDs, can manage to have enough of those flags without any need to get them by other means than that and still only get detonated about every 108 battles (yeah, in all ships... but I use JC flags nearly exclusively on DDs, and still rarely see any detonations at all.. not often enough, that I could remember the last time it happened...) So I still say, it's for normal play and players - CoOp and Randoms - just a minor inconvenience...

That depends on what "a real ship" is supposed to be: quoting wiki " Two incomplete ships were destroyed when their building yard in Nikolaev was captured and the remaining five cruisers were completed only in 1950 " So that makes them ships of the 1950's in my eyes... which should be at what tier? I mean, like, where all those other post-war ships are? Maybe an example of russian cruisers active pre '45 having radar would have been more appropriate? Oh, and "getting destroyed while still in the building yard" doesn't really account for "active time in WWII" - at least not in my book..

Yeah, I also do not know why one would like to play these ships if there's real ships available in the game.. I mean, ships that existed.. or didn't end up as stationary harbour defense forces.... Yes, I am a little bit biased maybe... ^^

Yepp, and proud of it... I use any chance I get to try to stand up against the BaBBy Wave... you have to make them learn the way they chose leads to the dark side when they are still small... ^^ Seriously, I've seen way more competitive battles on the lower tiers during the last couple months than in the high tiers (and I played more T8/T9 ships due to missions in the last time than low tier ships...). There's always people from pink clans around on T5 battles and even though there are potatoes, I'd say real seals are rare...

yeah, I hope that too... just remove this OP radar version... ah.. no... of course they can't, as everybody knows that historically radar was a russian invention and they even had it already on the multitude of dreadnaughts they had before 1900 ^^

Well, it starts with getting experience even when playing only for damage and losing the battle because of it... sooner or later even the last < 40% winrate potato has assembled enough exp/free exp to ladder up to the next (and finally the highest) tier, without the need to change his potatoish playstyle... The good thing though is, that most of these players finally will all assemble at T10, so you will meet a way lower number of them in T4 to T7 battles soon tm

Seems the potato wave has arrived in full force now, and many of them managed to die their way up to the high-tiers now... I expect the 12-0 wins to be a thing for quite a while...

I do. I would understand if it would be turned off for all those attempts to make WoWs an "E-Sport ready game" but for all the normal players, that don't give a flying eff about E-Sports the about one detonation in one hundred battles is just a minor inconvenience... I'd rather get rid of attempts to make WoWs "E-sports compatible", as that lead to other games getting utterly effed up for the normal players in the past...

I don't think many people asked for "this rework"... they asked for "a rework" and had expected WG to stay a wee bit closer to what they were used, maybe with some added stuff from all those threads made by skilled CV players who offered advice on how CVs could have been made valid and still keeping most of the mechanics... This "new" style isn't what players asked for... it's just an attempt to make CVs in WoWs more playable on other devices than PCs... As soon as I saw the first info about what WG planned, I knew that CVs would be changed into something worse than they had been already...

Met a Sonic(whateverthenumberafterhisnamewas) in my only ranked (and only total...) game today. He was in my team in his Kamikaze R, me in the Crispy Creme - yeah, still trying for the second #1 rank with her - and after I asked in chat in which cap our DDs would attempt suicide this time, he only asked "Forumista?" which got him a +1 Karma... He'd deserved it by also playing good, even giving me some really nice smoke when I needed it (and I didn't even had asked for it!), assembling three sinkers and a cap or two, while I was nasty to anything that came into the Crispy's long range without sinking anything, but gathering enough damage to end up in the #2 slot behind him in our win... So... good game, Sonic#???? (as for an unknown reason neither the Emojis nor the #playername feature works for me on this laptop it wouldn't have helped if I had remembered his name anyway... nonetheless he might look into this thread and recognize my name...)

Ah, but you don't need the center circle for that... when the whole enemy team is pussycats, even only capping one of the other circles is enough... Not that it would ever matter anyway. with DDs nowadays suiciding like hedgehogs seeing a campfire, BBs sticking to max gund range and cruisers... well... being the poor sods that get all the attention... ^^

If You win Epeencenter by capping you're playing it wrong anyway... the large circle is only there to lure enemy ships close enough so you can sink them all.... ^^