Admiral_noodle

OP I can sympathise. I know what it must feel like. In that match up all that's gonna happen is the enemy carrier is gonna nuke u before you get to do anything, even with the entire team covering you. Something wrong with CVs at the moment in terms of "fun" factor at high tiers. However I wouldn't quit because if I get fed up I go have fun in Omaha ot even Aurora just because they are a joy to play. Um. Mud monkey - me too... So aren't we just contributing to the problem?

I've had plenty domination go to 20 mins. You do need to work out what to do to even the scores of you're losing tho. In a BB that can be annoying, but you should be somewhere you can influence the game. Like not over one side or way at the back!

Maybe that's why I do better in the day? People listen to me and we get things done. Plus I sink more ships... Hmmm

Jellicoe was superb as was hipper. Scheer was... Interesting and Beatty messed up. However I would say the aim of the Germans was to incrementally bite off and destroy portions of the British fleet. Of course they could never do this because of code breaking... OverLl though Jutland was a strategic no change. But "no change" was desired by the British. So played for and got.

Well I try to suggest rather than order. Suggest B and C. Suggest we cap. Suggest we kill pinged cruiser first. I don't get much hate and I get a 50% response. If no one listens to me well that's life. Still helps to try though. Pinging the map is helpful done right though. I will usually obey a sensible map ping. How do you flash ships rather than squares though? As in concentrate fire on target... Can't work out how

Well I've won my last 6 battles. All during the day

Even so the RN had overwhelming numbers. Only the Italians in Europe came close to threatening the RN surface domination in the North Atlantic and med.

@mtm78 - absolutely. And if done sparingly it doesn't come across rude. And leads to less hatred. @hannibalurg - I'm not sure that comment is appropriate.

Brief tactical victory - yes German ships were newer and better generally. Followed by annihilation due to weight of numbers. So the eastern front at sea? As for Jutland. I would say Jellicoe beat Scheer then lost him, but Beatty lost to Hipper. Overall the German fleet took more damage but the British lost more shops and men.

I was in a game today where someone was ponging the minimap in a way everyone understood and followed! And we won! No chat just pinging. It can work!

I don't really understand some of your points. The German navy lost in world war 2 but via the u boat war on commerce. There was never a German vs. Britain set piece naval battle because the Germans simply didn't have enough of a surface fleet to even consider putting a "fleet" to see. If they had that fleet would have done a lot of damage then been annihilated by the Royal Navy, simply due to numbers. And do read about Jutland. It was a strategic if unglamorous British victory. Some British ships blew up due to poor cordite handling and some poor judgement, and an annihilating victory was thrown away by individual captains failing to inform jellicoe where the high seas fleet actually was - but the damage to the German fleet was severe and the result confirmed British domination of the seas - forcing Germany into unrestricted submarine warfare and the USA entering the war... Anyway isn't this in the wrong section?

Seems to me that there are players enjoying success and sucking at all classes. I seem to do ok with cruisers and battleships but I suck with carriers and destroyers. I think that's me though, not the game. Oh and Baltimore is an awesome ship (or was in CBT)

Well my Kongo just got close quarters expert by sailing across the map and sinking a Langley with secondaries. I couldn't find the citadels on that ship so I just sailed to within 1km. Close enough? Point is our push of 3bbs worked so we kept on pushing. Managed 50k danage with main battery and 16k with secondaries

It does seem hard to citadel a St. Louis but I've got the hang of it now. You need to make sure you're angled against his shooting as well. With a Kongo is just open the range against a St. Louis but with US battleships that's not really possible. As for how did the St. Louis do you so much damage... Must have been lucky and penetrating your armour. Were you side on to him? Angling will reduce that damage a lot.

Seriously who is having issues sinking cruisers with BBs. Couple of citadels and they are sunk. Even fire isn't an issue much now (mind you I make sure I max fireproof my BBs) 1 on 1 CA does not counter BB. Sure if you're being focused on by three of them your stuffed, but then something's gone wrong...

They don't suck. But they require the most forward planning of any class, which can be taxing. And if you get it wrong extricating yourself is very hard. And you need help from your team which is sometimes hard to come by when cruisers run off at the enemy then complain about being shot. Today I was moaned at for not capping fast enough in my Arkansas. Really? You wanna help get out and push??

They don't suck. But they require the most forward planning of any class, which can be taxing. And if you get it wrong extricating yourself is very hard. And you need help from your team which is sometimes hard to come by when cruisers run off at the enemy then complain about being shot. Today I was moaned at for not capping fast enough in my Arkansas. Really? You wanna help get out and push??

I don't agree. Doing this would effectively make the maps a lot smaller. I sometimes bump the edge but don't slide along it. But it *does* break immersion. I still like the mine fields idea. Go outside the edge, get a warning, then start taking torp damage. Sliding ships don't seem hard to hit. I just readjust and seem to hit them find. It just looks... Silly.

We really could do with some videos of good BB play.

What?? Over 200 games in CBT and OBT with BBs. AP is*awesome* against cruisers to the point where it's not even funny!! Wait till they are side on, about 4-6km away and smash em good in the citadel. Usually 25-75% HP gone. It's the joy of playing BBs!! For me 70k or more damage in a BB is a good day

This is too historical for this mechanic. However swap it to spaceships and you have yourself a game idea

When I play CAs this is how I play too. At later tiers I will escort a BB for pretty much the whole game doing this. BBs don't need shorter range guns or more speed. Cruisers need to not dash off then find themselves too far from backup. Some BB players do sit back far too much, but don't try to fix that by changing the game! Someone needs to do "BB positioning tactics" video

Where to put your BB depends on a lot of things. In normal games having a slow BB defending your cap can be invaluable late on. BBs shouldn't be charging off alone but not should they be skulking at the back like in these screenshots. Stay with a group and move into medium range - is never bad advice. Or as my division mates are liable to say if I'm too far back "engage the enemy more closely"

You can cross the T but angled at 45 degrees. 45 degrees is also a pain to shoot at and shots bounce off, but you get. To fire all your guns. Also. Fire. Then change aspect while reloading.

I found Kawachi to be awfully inaccurate.