Deckeru_Maiku

My further impressions from playing (a bit) with the new line: Yesterday; 1 Battle in Chengan (without anything...) was enough to grandfather the ship and get the first PADD. As the queue was horrible, I didn't go further. Today: after checking the queue, I started with the Longjiang (aka Long Johns). This time I used camo and exp flags, so I needed two battles (1 win / 1 loss) to get to the next tier. With the Shenyang the fun began. PADDs everywhere and very few cruisers/BBs. Of course there were some experienced sealclubbers in other (normal) DDs around which proved to be very effective against the PADDs. Four battles ( 4 w / 0 l ) were enough to get to T4. At T4 the number of PADDs got smaller. There were mostly 5 DDs per team in the game, and in most cases 2 (or max three) per side were PADDs. The games got a bit more "normal" and the PADDs were able to show what they can do (and what not; capping is not their forte..) In numbers: T1 - 1 battle - 1 win / 0 loss - 9900 average damage, 2 kills average T2 - 2 battles - 1 w / 1 l - 18212 avDam - 1.0 avKills T3 - 4 battles - 4 w / 0 l - 35761 avDam - 2.0 avKills T4 - 3 battles - 1 w / 2 l - 25048 avDam - 1.33 avKills I didn't free-xp and all ships were fully upgraded. It seemed, as if quite a few people were playing the PADDs who never ever had played a DD before. Or there was an enormous amount of potatoes around today. Or probably both, potatoes playing DDs for the first time... I guess it will take a while before the possible impact of the PADDs can really be measured. Right now it's just a mass of quite bad played PADDs getting sunk by either sealclubbers in other DDs or their favourite ships. To me it looks as if the PADDs get weaker with each tier.

There's quite a lot of stories people consider as "that's how it happened.." which are utterly made up. Facts about the potato: the spanish conquered the incas in 1532, taking first notice of the potato in 1565 King Philipp of Spain sent a box of potatoes to the sick pope Pius as a present with wishes for his soon recovery in 1567 three barrels containing potatoes, green lemons and oranges were sent from Gran Canaria (spanish) to Antwerp in the books of the Hospital de la Sangr in Sevilla it is noted, that in the year of 1573 potatoes have been bought. They were supposed to be good for the health of sick people (see the recover present to Pope Pius above...) around 1600 the potato had found it's way to many parts of europe, usually because of her nice blossoms at first and mainly in the gardens of wealthy nobles and only later as a food source around late 2015 / early 2016 potatoes arrive in WoWs...

It is... no Enterprise, Klingons, Vulcans and "Jim Beam up, Scotchy"

If You can't manage proper use of cyclone mechanics in any class it's just a case of "git gud" and not a reason to whine on the forum, Mr. TheBrainlessLegend... You're getting close to the StarbuckCrying level of posts lately...

the only thing that kept (and will keep) me from playing all my other DDs to see those harmless torps pass below my ship is the long queue for DDs right now. So I rather take all my low tier cruisers and BBs for a ride instead... will still have lots of lulz seeing all those "I never played a DD but DW torps are OP so I have to try them.."-potatoes in game...

soooo... no carrots, parsnips, celery, beetroot, truffles and onions for the spanish at that time? Poor bastards... and what about rabbits? They live in burrows underground, so they are of the devil, too, right? And how about taking a worm as a fishing lure? You're doing the devil's work when you use a worm to catch a fish? Considering that before the arrival of the potato in europe, the onion was the most used side-dish, the story seems a bit... well, made up.

Sounds like utter ox feces to me, considering people where eating carrots, onions and quite a few other underground parts of vegetables for hundreds of years already... but hey, never let logic get in the way of a fun story... And considering what the thread is all about: I had quite some fun playing my Mikasa, Prince Albert and Orion today. Didn't try any higher tier BBs, because I didn't expect to find many PADDs there.... The PADDs are not a bit more dangerous to BBs/Cruisers than ordinary DDs, at least not on the low tiers where they can be found now... It's quite a lot of fun though, to see them trying to compete for a cap with any ordinary DD.... the amount of PADDs trying to torp other DDs is incredible. Nearly as many, as german cruiser drivers - Nürnberg/Königsberg - shooting HE at everything... It seems obvious now, that it is not mandatory to have a functioning brain to play this game...

Lemme see... hmmm... US BB... nah, sorry... couldn't be bothered a bit if it would go down due to rusting away. Maybe they should just have used it for their atomic bomb tests, like all those other ships, which would have looked good as "museum ships", too...

You see what those guys do in the game... or already did in the game in the past... ...and You really expect them to be able to READ?

Stuff like this is the reason why I prefer to play almost all games in english, not in german... translations from english into german are usually done by some people who don't speak either as their mothertongue and therefor build quite a few stupid mistranslations or utterly stupid errors into their "translations".

Fun fact: I found that quite often a shipd flamed by Flamu was right to my taste... so I often buy ships he doesn't like, because they have a good chance to be my kind of fun ships. Can't say anything about his skill though. Don't remember to have played against him. And as I'm a quite average player, I probably wouldn't live long in battle if I had to play against him...

I must admit, even though the damage I did was not what I wanted it to be, I had lots of fun playing my Mikasa, Tachibana (oh, those guns dakka-dakka-dakka), Smith (have a torpedo... and a couple seconds later have another one.. and don't bother to try to torp me, because you can't...)... even Albany and Emden were taken for a ride... The greates problem was, I ended up on the teams with less potatoes - so all those PADDs got sinkered so fast, that sometimes I wasn't even able to do much damage... but 90% winrate (10 of 11) was fun though. Oh, and I think a good nickname for that T2 PADD would be "Long Johns" 'cause when it gets hot they go down

fixed that for you

& So whenever you think WG can't come up with an uglier camo, they manage to surprise you... (The Sch'norst camo is nice, though...)

So... they went full Trump on You? And then there are people who say Trump has no russian connection...

b... b... but they are EATING frogs in France. So it rather should be "Mangeur de Grenouilles" +1

I'll play whatever gives me the shortest time in the queue (<- love that word... not so many around with ueue in it...) and if that means I have to go out in BBs, I will... like... Orion... Prince Albert.. Warspite...

Nah, that should be: Ocean = BaBBy tears... and BaBBy tears are delicious!

"Straightforward" doesn't automatically mean "good", y'know... Any mechanic in which ships scraping against each other at a certain angle, doing a couple 1000 hp per second damage and causing flooding would in my opinion be a lot more "straightforward" and logical... but hey, WG ad logic, right...

...and the start of the Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation (Holy Roman Empire of German Nation), as all those later "Holy Roman" Emperors - usually coming from what later became Germany - saw themselves as the heirs of Karl der Große.

Cyclone isn't that bad, when You're in a Kamikaze or Minekaze with 5.4 km visibility... And yeah, in a Warspite cyclones are extreme fun.

Because it is the best map in the game. Too bad that it doesn't come up more often and no longer is used for low(er) tiers. You mean BBs, right?

"Le Grande Baguette" - everybody will call it that anyway...

I guess, the problem with Charlemagne would rather be, that he wasn't really french, as there was no France when he reigned. As Carolus Magnus / Karolus Magnus he was the roman emperor. And in Germany we know him as Karl der Große and think of him as german, because his residence and imperial capital was in Aachen. Would have been cool though, if there were a Charlemagne (French BB) and Karl der Große (German BB) in the game, facing off against each other...

So You mean going in close with a BB built to brawl is a stupid idea, as You might not be able to evade a ram, right? So I should better stay as far away from any other BB as possible to not get rammed, right?