Deckeru_Maiku

I don't really see a great difference between gathering pearls or gathering XP to pay for the next tier silver ship... except maybe, that to be able to gather those pearls, one had to be one of those players, that started early in this game.. like.. maybe... during beta or so... which also explains why Kamikaze is quite successful, I think... There's way more "payme..." ships used by potatoes at T8+ But each to their own, I guess...

Ok.. seems I found a solution: removing all those cookies WG puts on my Laptop seems to have done the job...

Kamikaze was available for free... no "pay me" needed to get one... only being here early enough... :P

In a commercial during an NFL game there was a Philly Cheesesteak Sub shown as being offered by some local US fat food chain... would love to see that sub offered here in Germany, too. (Can't enter emoji / smilies anymore it seems... :sadface )

Ojweh.. the might Gremlin will go to T5 ranked... Hope to meet you, when I play my Crispy Creme, the Griller Of Gremlins

Pink is my favourite obsession

Strange day today... Derped in a couple of games and still won... did good in another and lost... still got a 75% winrate, making up for the last two days... Remarkable results (for me...) derped around in my Musashi, losing the connection to the rest of my team and ended up defending a flank on my own... hiding behind an island like a pussy, I only managed to gather 43k damage done... nonetheless sunk two enemy ships (by longest range fire and removing the last couple HP they had) only to get HE spammed to death by a IJN DD... still it gave me a win got super nasty in my Izumo, teaching DDs not to show themselves ahead of it's bow... sunk two DDs with one main gun salvo each (and a bit secondary spam) without doing much else... so only 23k damage, but another win tried to be sneaky in the Edinburgh and got torpedoraped for it... nothing more to say about it... *herpderp* used my Admiral Hppster on Two Brothers Domination to roll up the left flank - coming from the south - and managed three kills and 90k damage - even torping a Big Currywurst - and the team threw away the battle, by ignoring logic and the A cap... one of the two losses of the day.. did good in my Yugumo with 3 sinkers and 119k damage and a cap - which didn't get a solo cap, due to some pussying BBs/Cruiser running into the cap after I almost solo cleared it of a Cleveland, a DD and a BB... 3 kills for me - 1 kill for my three "assistants" and finally the battle in my Crispy Creme, on Strait Domination, starting on the north western part of the map... I went to B and managed to run into an Orion and another BB that went north behind the eastern island formation, but had quite a lot of time to shoot at me while passing the gap. I shot back though, and both were soon aflame. Burned down the Orion and then managed to give one of the two enemy CVs a fun time eating citadel after citadel, before his companion finally managed to torp away my last 300 or so HP Two sinkers and 115k damage done was good for a 6k WoWs S&N Unicorn rating... and I was also rewarded with a win... 212 battles in the Crispy Creme now - 50% winrate... not great but fun... 79 battles in Musashi and a terrible 81k damage average.. still a winrate of 64% - seems not going only for damage but for winning the game helps with that?!? 7 battles in the Edinburgh... 28% winrate... I don't really like this ship. Feels like a total downgrade after Leander and Fiji... turns like a brick... a very slow brick... 19 battles in the Admiral Hppster and 69% winrate with a low 38k damage average. Why does it get wins then? Still must say that "high tier battles" are way less fun than mid tier, due to too many potatoes...

Terrible matches over the last couple days, with many of them having me adjusting greatly to the level of the team... downwards... So there were deserved and undeserved wins and losses... undeserved loss, like the battle in my Ibuki, in which I managed to sink 3 enemy ships - only one less than all other teammembers together - and gathered 116k damage. Or deserved wins, like the one in my Musashi, in which I gathered 120k damage and three kills - one of them a DD - while assisting in capping and tanking like a king... Deserved losses, like with my Edinburgh today, where I just overestimated the abilities of my teammates and suffered early death as a result of overextending. Or a deserved win, in the Musashi again - nice ship, really nice - with 120k damage done... nothing else... no sinker, no cap... I just managed to push on a flank and, when coming out from behind an island, made a Des Moines paddle backward from behind the island it was sitting at, after it took two citadels from my first two salvos. I managed to be the "target of choice" for two DDs, which managed to score exactly zero torpedo hits against me and neglectable HE/fire damage, while keeping both of them off the cap my team had capped and which I was crossing... Both DDs go hit by me, but sunk by teammates... so even without killing anything, that flanking move was enough to push several enemies off their positions, either trying to evade or sink me... Still, the last days were kinda horrible... fitting for Halloween...

Just a reminder: just because someone is the first one to write "A + B" (or anything like that...) in the chat, this doesn't make him the leader of the team competent a tactician the owner of an at least average IQ ... Just because a "tactic" is stated in chat it doesn't mean it offers any chance of success. On most domination battles the only thing in chat that offers a marginal chance of success is: "Go to where the DDs go, but never eat the yellow snow!"

I'd say: no higher repair cost, as that will only lead to more border humping and island clinging no higher income, as what is given is quite enough imho. If you think it's to low, go play some mid tier battles for the mone Exp only for a win and not for damage, but for "doing your effing job" - so yeah, IF doing damage is "your job" then there should be a reward for it... But all this is moot, as WG will do what they deem best and what we discuss here is of no interest for them....

The poat I quoted was... Had a nice battle in my own personal BaBBymobil - Musashi - today btw. Managed three sinkers - one of them a DD - got a cap assist, around (only) 120k damage done and a win without getting sunk at all... Don't see any problems at all with a lowered AP damage of BB main guns vs. DDs - just hit them often enough and they sink nonetheless...

#1 - as if BaBBies would need any excuse to have a camp fest #2 - as if BaBBies would be able to ever do the smart think... Disclaimer: the term "BaBBies" does not mean "all BB players", as there are obviously quite a few good ones. BaBBies is reserved for a special kind of utterly useless potatoes, that drive around uselessly in BBs and whine on the forum about whatever comes into their small brains.

No radars at T4 and below... which might be one of the reasons why there's so many DDs in the dungeon tiers... I wonder what that poor little OP BaBBy will say when he enters the Dark Hole Of BB eating OP DDs at T5

With a - still - 98.78% winrate in CoOp I know exactly which mission will be easier to do in CoOp than in random. With the bots as enemies there's few surprises. And even when 50% of my own team are such potatoes, that they even manage to get dominated by WGs CoOp bots, I usually can pull off the stunt of a) getting a victory and b) do the mission... So yeah, definately CoOp for some missions... better for my nervous system

I play DDs/Cruisers/BBs about the same amount, so I *think* I often can guess what a certain situation will lead to, from own actions and seeing what others did. So I quite often shoot at "probability spots" without having a target. I bet in some cases the incoming shells came as a real surprise to the - unspotted... or at least unspotted for 30+ seconds - target. So yeah, luck is good... but luck combined with experience is even better... And I'm only a mediocre player and still manage stuff like that (sometimes...)

Usually I don't give a flying eff about what streamers - famous or otherwise - say, but this time I have to say he's right. Of course it's not ALL BB players... but... there is a horrible amount of BBs in the game... enough that there's always (!) five per battle The difference between a good BB player and a bad one is as obvious as those between good/bad CV players. Other than bad CV/DD/Cruiser players, even a really, really, REALLY bad BB player can achieve outrages amounts of damage done, without doing anything substantial to win the battle. And they still get rewarded for being damagefocussed potatoes by getting a sh*tload of exp, too. So of course they think "I dun gud!" although they didn't. So yeah, for once the Youtubus was at least close to the truth. Fun Fact: My Best Game Of Today came in my Musashi... Map was Hotspot - Domination _ and I started on the north half far west. Pushed south to support our DD - one of only two per team - in capping A and managed to sink the enemy DD... lucky shot.. or rather salvo... As the other ships had the situation at A under contral, I set course to B, which was even after nearly 10 minutes in the battle utterly uncontested. Pushed into B, shooting some supportive fire at enemies in C, allowing the eastern part of our team to get a push going. After capping B I pushed further south, managed to nearly sink a Des Moines - damn killstealers - and make some more enemy ships get away from C, which then got capped by the allied ships pushing south. Alas, I didn't survive to see the win - but a win it was. So one sinker and 177k damage done against at least a third - or nearly half - the enemy team.

Got the Jervis Mission yesterday after using all the... whatever they are called... for buying additional containers. Still got four containers from today - didn't want to open them before I finished the Jervis mission.

Yesterday I wrote " So including Monday, I'm at 11 wins in 19 battles... " - today it turned into 16 of 27 I started again with the RB DD missions. So first I took the Gallant - lovely little killer... - and managed three sinkers and 22k damage (two sinkers were DDs...) on Two Brothers Domination, where I had to delay the enemies' advance at D almost alone - due to the other ships on that flank suiciding like potatoes - and in the end helping to secure the C cap, which made us win the battle. I put the same captain on my Icarus next - such a nice little killer - and had lots of fun. Especially the sonar is nice and helps to annoy enemy DDs to no end. Although meeting an enemy Jervis in a cap, him north, me south of the island in it, both using sonar, both being visible to the other, and still managing to feed that Jervis enough eels to sink him when i came around the island... priceless... Got the cap, helped to get another, had more fun and got another sinker and a total of 94k damage done... I really, really like the RN DDs I continued training my RB Cruiser captain on the Belfast (66k damage done, 2 sinkers and a loss...), then tried my Chung Mu (63k damage, a sinker, a win), Yugumo (4k damage *cough* and a loss) and Ibuki (70k damage, loss). As it was frustration time again, out came the Bismarck. Considering the amount of pussying BBs in the battles before, I of course had to sail straight into a cap, secondaries blazing in all direction dodging - more or less - the torpedoes fired at me and sending deadly shells at enemy cruisers and BBs... Okay, of course I didn't survive that... but I got a kill and 59k damage and took enough attention that the team could manage the win. Last battle of the day was Krispy Kreme in a T7 battle on Shards - Domination - with four DDs per team, all of which went to B and C cap (starting north side) which of course meant I had to go to A alone... *cough* I used islands and luck to harass the enemy a bit, but couldn't do more than a meager 8k damage... but as there were four ships going after poor little me, the team had the advantage in numbers at B and C cap, and for once they managed to make a win from it... Not my best day... but more wins than losses... so it's okay for me..

After getting utterly out-potatoed yesterday - losing five out of nine - I managed to do a bit better today by winning three out of five. So including Monday, I'm at 11 wins in 19 battles... Tried to do the RN DD mission first today - 50k damage gathered - and got a win in my Gallant, but with only 45k and three kills. So I tried the Icarus next and was left utterly alone on my flank, with a BB imitating french cruiser (borderhugging) and a Nürnberg, who both managed to shoot at everything, except for the DD I spotted in the cap... I had the full attention of at least half of the enemy six to eight ships on my flank and managed to do only 1k damage before I got sunk. Of course that battle ended as expected with a loss... As I was a bit miffed now, I took my Bismarck for a ride. Again I ended up without much help on a flank, as the Aigle close to me seemed unable to spot and the Mogami unable to.. well, fo anything. But being in my Bismarck did help a bit.. as did the tendency of the enemy Fuso to shoot at me with HE instead of trying to do real damage. In the end I went down with blazing guns, doing 93k damage and sinking two ships, which probably helped the surviving allies to win the battle (as the other team suffered from as much potatoness as ours). Back to the RN DD mission... Icarus again. This time I had a bit more luck with the team and doing ~22 k damage and sinking an enemy helped a bit, too. It was a win and I had that mission done - hooray! Time for the last battle of the day... Crispy Creme... and it was Epeencenter on Pig Race. Only a T6 battle this time - and I usually do better in T7 battles with the Creme - but I tried my best... Didn't work out to bad at the start... getting 66k damage done and two sinkers in the Creme always feels nice... too bad the team managed to vaporize all over the map once more, so in the end it was poor little me against five enemy ships left, including the enemy CV who didn't manage to hurt me, but at least managed to spot me for a Kongo and a Nürnberg that finished me off.. Can't wait to play that nasty little firespitter in the next ranked season

...potatoes anyway, so they would have not been of any use anywhere else on the map either. I like going over that flank in my Bismarck to see if anything turns up there. Easy to get through the channel to the cap of not or even park in front of the channel to let the secondaries do their work in the cap. WG could have done better things than to put up useless roadsigns - maybe a good redo of Ice Islands with real moving icebergs?

Probably because WG has a history of implementing things that don't turn out to work as planned? Like... AP bombs, that were brought in to work against BBs and now eliminate cruisers mostly...

My opinion is: there's enough players that bought their way up in the game already - no need for any more... on the other side, you might end up in the enemy team as an easy target... so do whatever you want...

no need... would be a waste, as I usually end up at 0 karma each day anyway

Had a nice battle today with the divisioned @Freyr_90 and @nambr9 (I think... or was it @gm3ntor? - doesn't matter.. a fellow UNICS clanny) which was - of course - won by the windowlickers. Had fun, got a win, gave Karma... nothing more to be said.

Had quite a lucky day today... played five battles and won four. Survived a couple... first battle was in Belfast. Got over the Fiji recently and now I'm retraining the captain for the Edinburgh. The battle went okay-ish, even though I only managed 36k damage. But two sinkers helped a bit... too bad the team was too good, so it was a bit of a faceroller win... in my Ibuki I managed only one sinker - torped a Bismarck - but 76k damage in a loss. This time I was with the potato team, and running from three enemy cruisers and two BBs after the first few minutes of the battle had passed. As there was no support - or at least, no alive teammates on my side of the map - I only could fight a retreating battle, while all my teammates decided to throw away their lives... I decided to go for my Chung Mu then. For once I didn't eff it up. It helped that there weren't many radars in the battle, so annoying enemy BBs with DWTs and firing from smoke was an option... in the end I had done a cap or two, three sinkers (two of them BBs and one of these a straight-sailing T10 BB (really??? Knowing there's a DD near - as I got spotted earlier - and still going straight ahead right into my torpedo spread??????)) and 108k damage done... and a win. As that went so well, I tried my Yugumo next. Got the better team again and had a field day in it. Starting south on Trap - Domination - I went north, then west into A and managed to sink the first enemy DD there. Next came a Mogami, that thought itself immune to torpedoes... After capping A, I set course to B, but sent a torpedo spread at a puff of smoke north of A... the DD in the smoke was nice enough to eat one of the eels... Kill #3 achieved. And while I wasn't able to cap B - teammates were faster - I got another kill on the way there. After that the rest of our team - six or seven ships - hunted the surviving enemy DD and BB, which didn't take that long... 92k damage, four kills, 5383 WoWs S&N Unicornrating... nice game And the traditionally last battle of the day in the - utterly useless and UP - Crispy Creme. Right at the start I whined about it not being a T7 battle - 'twas only T6 - and that being a bad omen. A friendly teammate told me, that I shouldn't bother, as I was supposed to be torped by the two (!) enemy CVs. In the end I not only had suvived the battle, but also had done two sinkers and 36k damage and shot down 4 planes that had tried to feed me some eels and weren't successful. Crispy Creme is dodgy! Not a superb game, but another one where the team I was one dominated too much to have any of us getting any great numbers. So I even landed on the #3 spot by exp of the winning team.