Deckeru_Maiku

I've been claiming that for a couple of months already and usually people laughed at that claim. Good to see that I'm not the only one seeing it like this! Todays "Nearly Unicornish Battles by Yours Truly Potato Extravaganza" two battles in the Itchy Suzie - weekend, remember - with Yamamoto as Captain (for training reasons only...) ended in a win and a loss, with an average 52k damage done two battles in the Yubari ended with a win and a loss and an average damage of 49k done... I love this little sealclubber... Normandie - on the way to Lyon - with one win and only 42k damage due to being on the wrong side of the map, but nonetheless pushing Gadjah Maada... feels a bit beastly... three kills with this one, though only 35k damage done and a win... and the newly traditional final battle of the day in the Crispy "Dakka-dakka-dakka" Creme... this one deserves a bit more of a description (see below) 44k damage done, win.. So it was a winrate of 71% again today... I can't understand it... All battles played solo and in Random Battles ( @havaduck ) That Crispy Creme battle was really weird. T5 and T6 ships only. Mmmmkay... Map was Fault Line and standard battle. I started on the western side, trying to support one of our DDs there, with a Duca d'Aosta helping, too... kinda... The enemy pushed hard on that side. First to go was the d'Aosta, which ignored an enemy DD and was punished with a torp hit or two, then sunk by enemy BBs/Cruisers. Next to go was our DD, who seemed to think that sitting in the smoke made him invulnerable to the enemy DD.. torped, too... I was moving around, using islands to break line of sight and shot at everything that I could target... but when the enemy BBs got close enough I took a beating and decided to leg it... So going full speed ahead and wiggling the Crispy's behind like a woman of little moral looking for a customer, I made for the east... with three BBs and a cruiser behind me, happily sending shells in my general direction. A favour, that I returned as good as I could, even with some success... When I reached our camping BBs in our cap I decided that with only 63 hp left (yes, sixty and three...) the battle was done for me. The eastern flank was vacant of enemy ships and two of our BBs were already contesting the enemy cap, so I decided that it was time to go south, trying to stay as invisible as possible... In the end I was even able to send some shells to the last enemy ship (a BB) defending their cap doing a final 300 or so damage as their cap was taken.. Considering that I nearly bit off a lot more than I was ever possible to chew, I consider surviving and doing 44k damage - no kill though - as not too bad...

Citadels against Clevelands? I managed a couple with my Warspite from nearly maximim range (= plunging shells) and iirc even a one-salvo-and-boom-she's-gone hit. Apart from that, there are many ships that are easier to citadel than a Cleveland...

Sorry Ducky, they all were done in Random. I very rarely play Co-Op (not even for them missions, unless they are utterly stupid...) And I don't know what's wrong, but for the last couple days I seem to have the luck of the mentally irish on my side... starting on the 10th of April 'til today I had 75%, 90%, 77%, 75% and today 85% winrates in Random (!!!) with sometimes superunicornish personal ratings on some ships... Don't know what's wrong with the game.. must be a bug or so... As it's weekend again, it was Sealclubbing Time today again. Didn't went to bad... 123K and a win in the Orion (will be interesting to see what the nerfhammer will do to her...) 101k and a win in the Yubari... nowadays my favourite club to club seals 56k and a win in the Arkansas Beta 50k and a win in the Campbeltown 27k and a win in the Smith +6 more unspectacular wins and two losses... Considering that there were usually sealclubbers (like me...) on both sides of the battle, I must admit I'm a bit proud of myself.

I must admit, I don't give a thought or a flying eff how people do that. The important thing is, that they end up at T10 sooner or later, which gets them mostly out of the range where I would meet them. Sometimes I think it would be great, if every player would automatically be assigned his favourite T10 ship right at the start of his career, so that all tiers from 1 to 7 would see less of the potatoes.

There is this special skill many people don't have... it's called "patience". So it might take a couple battles to earn enough exp to get to the next tier in a line, but, astoundingly, it usually gives you plenty of opportunity to learn stuff about the game.. like tactics... ship data and specialties and all the other neet little things one needs to somewhen in the very far future become an unicorn.

But please keep that "troll burning" to the forums... we got enough HE spamming BBs in game already... and many aren't even RN or Itchy Suzie...

Looks like a well deserved win to me... Maybe you should always wait four minutes until acting in battle?

I really don't know what is more worrying... that all your 151 random battles were done in BBs (with only 3 being not done at T8 with horrible stats) or that even in Co-Op you manage to only achieve an 86% winrate. 86%. In Co-Op. I can only hope, that whenever I meet you in game, you will be on the enemy team...

You mean like getting disconnected during battle due to a program glitch and then having to reboot the PC, restart the game, to come back into the battle and see you not only got sunk but also got penalized for WGs buggy coding?

ta-dumm-tsss...

Tempting... usually I complain about all the sealclubbers in their sealclubber ships making my sealclubbing live hard... But using ctrl-v to put some "I won't see that 8k camo..." wouldn't be that hard. So, how big are the chances people get miffed by it? Anything that makes them fight worse or more eager to sink me is always welcome.... "All is fair in Love and War" as they say...

A while ago, when I was still choosing the "test you luck" container option - which is supposed to have a slightly higher chance for SCs afaik - I managed to gather exactly 100 normal containers before a SC came up. On most days I only get two chances for containers, on the weekends sometimes three, so it was about 40 to 50 days playing regularly without an SC. In that SC that came up, I got a Crispy Creme... which took a while to make me love it... Since then I just choose "Flags and whatlikes" and have not got a SC for quite a while... can't say I'm bothered by it, as SCs aren't half as super as one might expect...

A mod showing citadels? What use would that have for all the potatoes shooting HE exclusively?

Wouldn't it be frustrating to dish out real money worth 8k dubloons for that space camo, just to have nasty people like me using the option not to show them (for me) in battle?

Alright, I'm after that Normandie camo right now - as probably most players are - and up to today it was easy-peasy... A battle in the Kamikaze usually got me the 5 torp hits needed. One or two battles in T5 BBs - like Normandie ^^ - was good for the win and 40k damage while surviving... and Leander, Perth and Crispy "Dakka-dakka-dakka" Creme did the 300 thingies... Today was a wee bit on the weird side, though... Started with a battle in the Kamikaze... win... only 1 torp hit. On a DD... which got sunk by that torp. And I got annihilated after that... For the remainder of the day I tried several T5/6 DDs... one loss in the Fushun... five more wins and five sunk ships (total) but at the end of the day there were - ta-dumm-tsss - four (!) torpedo hits done (in 7 (seven !!!) battles... And in my BBs It wasn't that much better, too. First battle was in the Normandie. I survived. And it was a win. And I did - ta-dumm-tsss - 39,453 pts of damage... The last enemy BB was sunk about 5 seconds before I was around that island between us... For the next battle I wanted to take the Nelson for a ride... but misclicked and ended up with the Dork... (Duke of York...) which gave me another win, but the damage done - only 34k - didn't count, due to me getting sunk. At least the third BB battle gave me a win, and the 600 damage needed... well, 35k... nothing to brag with, but at least my Nelson lived and ended the game with an assisted cap. My "Crispy Creme" game of the day was cut short by my playing a wee bit too risky. 'twas time to make dinner anyway, though, and the team managed to win without me.... So... greatest gaming achievement today? 10 out of 11 battles won today... and all I got was that lousy "BBs for Normandie Mission done" That would have been an utterly impressive result... if not for the little "Co-op Battle" visible in the screenshot And of course the Orion is the better sealclubber... why else would she be nerfed with the next update

At least in space nobody can hear you cry...

CoOp team sizes are great... I would even like to see random teams getting reduced to maybe just 10 or even only 8 ships... less ships = more tactics needed

Perth - With smoke, torps, spotter plane & hydro it can be really nice sometimes... Leander - still my favourite cruiser, though it always needs some spotting help, compared to Perth Graf Spee - can be quite nasty, but needs a quite unique playstyle Cleveland - I still use her with AA specialisation. Nice, sometimes, but far away from being a favourite of mine Aoba - Better than Furry Taco, worse than Myoko... still a good "trainer" for later IJN cruisers Nürnberg - utterly underrated. A bit squishy, but it packs a punch when used at the proper range. Gallifrey - nah, no, not really... Budyonny - omg... this ship is the perfect proof of "no russian bias". As it was weekend again, I didn't play higher than T6 today (well.. I usually don't anyway) and even a bit at T3. I managed a 87k damage / 2 kills win in my Normandie. And clubbed two babyseals in my Kamikaze for 95k damage and a win. But my "best" game was a loss in my Yubari, with two sinkers and ~80k damage or so, against an enemy team with 4 sealclubbers in it (Orion, Murmansk, Yubari, Kamikaze R). I didn't manage to sink either of them, but at least managed to do damage against each of them (with two getting sunk by someone else then) and when I was the last ship of my team again, I even managed to kite the Mumu and Orion some more without getting sunk... sole survivor, #1 spot on the losing team, with enough exp to be #3 on the winning side... Aprt from that, it was a lot "on/off" today... some battles at Unicorn level and some really potatoish ones.

The only problem I have with the enormous mass of BBs in the game, is that 90% of them are commanded by utter i... *cough*... handicapped persons, who don't have the foggiest idea of tactics, strategy, the job they would have to do and probably anything else that has to do with WoWs. On the other hand, that also is sometimes very fortunate, as it allows heavy sealclubbing with a Kamikaze even in T7 battles, as incompetent BB captains even on that tier manage to sail straight ahead for minutes.

Well, You've got still a bit to go 'til You get it... Hope to see You then (or on the way...) in my Kamikaze... BBs are always so Om-nom-nom... Especially the british ones. They taste a bit of peppermint sauce...

As usual no pics from me, just some whining, a bag of salt and the link to my Wows Stats&Numbers Though the day felt kinda meh-ish I ended up with 57% winrate... yeah, okay for me.. But the way it went was a bit nasty.. first battle with my newly grinded Admiral Yamamoto today. In the Mikasa... facing 5 T3 BBs. Didn't do great, got sunk but the team won it for me. as there was still a lot battle left when I got sunk, I immediately started another one in my Yubari. And of course no CVs in the battle, but a Yubari on the enemy team, too. I did marginally better than him, though, ending with 72k damage and 4 sinkers and capping the enemy's cap (although the game ended with my fourth kill of the battle) second battle with my newly grinded Admiral Yamamoto in the Itchy Suzy. 54k damage done and a sinker... okay... and even a win Yamamoto changed into the Mutsu then. Not good... I did play as bad as the rest of the team and got sunk early in that loss so it was... ...time to go to my trusty Kamikaze R for some sealclubbing. Too bad there was a Kimakze sealclubber on the enemy team, too. While my team melted around me, I managed to do 100k damage and sink four ships, including the enemy Kamikaze - gaining me the Sealclubber Award - but as the other 11 players just managed three kills in total, the game was finally lost when all surviving enemies hunted me, the last survivor of my team and got me in the end... So another try with Mutsu and Yamamoto... a bit better than the first, but again it ended with me sunk and a loss. So, time for the last battle of the day... and that means Crispy Creme again... T5 battle this time.. too bad, T7 in the Crispy Creme is lots more fun. Nonetheless I did not too bad. 106k damage done, mostly against a couple of BBs on the flank which, after a couple of minutes, was all mine to hold. Dodging shells from three BBs and going dakka-dakka-dakka all the time didn't allow me to see how my "team" died all over the rest of the map. And all the damage I did wasn't really that helpfull, as I only managed to sink one BB (with another one taken down to <30% HP by me getting torped by our CV). So in the end the game was a loss, with me being again the last ship of my "team" alive and getting finally sunk. The exp result would have given me the #3 spot on the winning team. Although if I had been on the winning side, the exp would have been higher Soo... some nice battles.. some not so nice ones... and it's plain to see for me that on the weekends it's low tier - sealclubbing - all day long for me.

Ah, come on... the guns are quite okay-ish... the real problem is the AA. I can't really understand why people see the Kamikaze as an upgrade of the Minekaze, when she only manages to shoot down one (1 !!!) lousy aircraft in 425 battles. The Minekaze got 36 in 578 battles... a multitude... So, please buff Kamikaze AA

I did something that will probably count as a historical feat. I achieved a "First Blood"... in my Mikasa. In a battle with only three (3 !!!) ships per side. My Mikasa and two DDs versus a cruiser and two DDs. One of those DDs - a V-25 - really tried to charge my Mikasa. Of course I also got a "Close quarters expert"

Fun fact btw.: in todays Crispy Creme battle - recently I always take the Crispy Creme for the last battle of the day - I ended up at T7 once more. And the only ship I managed to sink was - *drumroll*- a Kamikaze R - tadum-tssss....