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Skybuck driving a car ...... stop giving me Nightmare-Fuel ......... This ship should "suit" you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_monitor_Novgorod My sleep is saved and I can dare to get closer than 5 km to a road.

Nope, no IFA skill. I simply dont have the skillpoints for that (dont have it on any of my ships) ....... even CE is a far far out dream. Well SA is now kinda free, so if I am spotted I already know everyone wants to shoot at the xp/cred-pinata ...... and in a Pensa you are spotted ALWAYS. Fletcher fought a good battle, I gave him along with you (forumite mafia^^) a compliment. ..... The Colorado on our side not so much. We werent able to get him into the fight. Then the guy wanted to do the stupid battlesheep thing and hug blue line on the island chain .... and promply got several torps shoved up his [edited], as everyone expected that had a look on the minimap. With that nearly full hp top tier BB down without any reason (aside from, you know, ... "battlesheep"), we only could fight a delaying action against the push on your side ..... and it was tense. ^^ Hope to have you on the "green team" next time. ^^

Still doesnt change my mind, that in my opinion the Bayern is the worst battleship tier for tier in the entire game; and its all up to those shitty 21 cm guns borrowed from Yorck, but with half the rate of fire .....

Again, not uninstalling. WG is taking one dump after the other on cruiser players, but I wanted to get hits for that, again unbearable shitty, ARP cruiser. Constantly MM like this: and the amount of god damn citadels right through my bow. Why angle? Just go broadside and hope for RNG screwing the battleship over. Better chances, much tactic, much skills comrade. Lay of the Vodka in the future WG-employes, will ya? I literally had games with 4 AP shell hits, 2 bounces from a cruiser and ofc 2 citadels right through the bow. But HE OP, always nerf HE™, you know? OFC cruiser showing broadside -> citadel. Cruiser showing stern -> citadel. Cruiser showing bow -> double citadel for trying to bring skill intro the equation. Cruiser pressing battle -> citadel. Thats how its works. Still managed that with the current MM, but as I said: NO influence whatsoever on the game if everybody just casually and randomly can crapall over your cruiser for doing nothing wrong, at all - and subhuman trash the MM dumps on my side. (any yes those 6 games, even the one from the screen below, were so bad it made me ragequit) Most of the games I could tell were lost by minute 1 when I see the oxygen thieves "deploy". I honestly should just start to team kill. Game is lost anyway and being pink for 5 games is no big deal ... Best game of today despite determinate and valiant efforts from the cowards on my side to achieve yet another loss: Because capping in a Pensacola, why not, since its known for its camo-rating .... Makes as much sense as WGs cruiser-balancing. Btw: Pensacolas AA works, enemy CV just has to be dead so you can drive under his planes still circling without getting attacked. Great "counter", totally makes up for the double-citadels from all angles ...... I actually would pay money to see WG employees play cruiser in the environment they themselves envisioned. And every time they get torpedoed, divebombed, citadeled, destroyed or loose a game I want to be able to electroshock (nothing serious, just like in the vid) them. I envision it would look like this:

Careful, there is more Pony where that came from. Aw, dont worry mate. I am usually the guy completely missing out on other forumites being in the game. ^^ ;) speaking of which: I met Durin_VI again, unfortunately in the enemy team. Ofc I only realised when I saw his Name over his Scharnhorst giving me the evil eye by training his turrets on my poor shitty cruiser. Ingame footage: This time I wrote a greeting, but since the heat of the battle had already started, I dunno if he saw it. Anyway have it again here: Ofc because of the current MM I spend most of the game running and dodging. Also couldnt cit-pen the broadside of a Roon from 9 km; only reg pen. Yeah awesome cruisers ..... I should really quit playing that crap. Its obviously that is what WG want all cruiser players to do anyway ......

10/10 would select all the time. - or install a mod to replace Yoko Ono-port with it. .... also the rage on the forum would be glorious. ...or imagine it had a sort of admirals/captain cabin to administrate your stuff ...... like the depot thats coming in some variation of soonTM. Would so totally need a mod that replaces the ship cat/dog/pet with stuff like this : ........... but yeah WG, if you do that I think I would even buy a Twilight Sparkle (aka Shiny-Horse) or even a Derpy (aka Derpitz). *hint/bait*

Put some Pony regularly on the forum, like this: (and no, thats not a photo of my arm ^^) and people will "recognise" you too. here too, in case the game-end swallowed my line.

of joy! Because, yes they are RNG goverend, yes there arent many of them, BUT even with just 6 of them I have at least double the firepower HITTING the enemy from effective gun range, speaking of effective gun range: I have at least tripple of that compared to Bayern, and best of all: the guns fire shells that are occasionally pening the enemy armor. Thx for the Bayern Wargamaing! Never again will BB gun feel inaccurate for me, or be cursed by shitty pen. The whole affair let me even make peace with Kawachii and Myogi, which I now deem as perfectly fine and fun ships to play. I will definitely keep the Bayern for division play, and to occasionally remind myself of how shitty things COULD be. In the mean time, you (WG) might consider a additional upgrade for the Bayern: The 20 cm guns from the Pensacola. Better AP shells, slightly worse HE shells but with the better reload in the end much better. Best of all: Being able to hit things - whats not to love about that? Playing the Bayern and watching your shells after a very carefully aimed salvo on a perfect target at all ranges: (actually the rage part is missing, but for that you would need a nsfw forum ) €: 21 pvp game with flags and 84 spite and bile fuled co-op games without flags - to rid myself of the aboomination ( ) .... thats a new record even for me.

At least it would be worth it to be trying it in a sandbox pt enviroment and assess the results.

OP has hit ratios from 10 - 18 % in any battleship above 15 km range ...... (10 % Tirpitz!) Honestly you gotta be really full of yourselves to then go onto the forums and be complaining. I tell you for a fact that you are robbing those guys that have the unfortunate luck of being your teammates of at least a million credits in repairs every game, just because the MM decided to put a completely useless top tier, or nearly top tier battleship on their side. So if you want a better repaircost-to-credits-earned-ratio, and maybe even winning some games on the side, I harshly recommend you grow a pair, get closer and stop to try to recreate historical battleship long range artillery hitrates. And by getting closer I mean before nearly everyone on your team is dead and you get cornered like rat by the enemy team while being full hp.

I tottally get it: Guy 1 wants wants to roll out his 18 pts captains even in his low tier ships against players who dont even have a 10 pts captain. Ofc he cant be bothered to actually train those additional captains even with the way of premium account, premium ships and flags. Instead some insta switch is what the heart desires. Thing is: He can already do that, but while p2w is fine, going full p2w and opening the wallet real wide, or do the long retraining route is suddenly not "fun" any more. Guy 2: that "quarter of a million" xp allready did go onto the commander(s) as well .... the xp sitting on the ship as well is just there for converting. It doesnt steal your underwear at night. Its quite telling that the first thing that is suggested is even more disparity between captain lvls. How about a trade in for a free premium consumable per 100 k exp? Oh, let me guess: "boring" (aka not p2w). The accelerated crew training in WoT is in a setting that also has 50 % crews. "Lets" drive a battleship with 1 minute reload and 500 m dispersion .... then we can talk about accelerated crew training. (also inb4 the guys that are complaining that they are sort of at the lvl cap of 18 and cant earn even more captain points - after heavy premium acc and ship use in the first place ofc)

Remember when WG changed (aka buffed) Warpsites repair party, to repair part of citadel damage? Where was your thread concerning that matter? Also so far Warspite received only more AA if anything (turret AA guns for example) so I think you now have the turn you aa off completely (p-key) because the AA is stronger then when you bought the ship ....and you ofc would not want that .... contract and no changes allowed and all that stuff.

You want something that give and outrageous advantage over someone that isnt using the same thing. To properly "balance" it and fit it in the game you have to either make it exclusively based on real money payment or and "optional" for an outrageous amount of credits which again leads to real money usage for p2w-premium ships and premium time. On the side you are throwing the complete ship/captain concept overboard but who cares .... Have it even in picture form: btw: there is even sort the thing in the game: Its called paying 500 doubloons every time you want to move the captain to another none-premium-ship. Since you are so keen on having some more advantages, you shouldnt be so shy to shell out the 500 coins to WG. (ofc only if paying nothing or 200k for the 50 % reduction, and doing the retraining is to "tedious" or "hard") Just think of it as some kind of 500 doubloons "camouflage" that is resupplied for free as long as you keep using the captain in same ship ......

Theres even a need for a discussion on how shitty the CV interface is? I am not a fan of carriers myself but I DO criticise that broken a$$ mess of a UI that would be an embaresment for an open beta, let alone release, let alone a year after release. So theres that ..... If its WG plan to counter the OPnes of CVs by the how abysmal the UI is, than thats a pretty big fail by itself ......

A PC or any sort of decent human interface device?

Any news on making the KK(K) ( ) work; or at least a review of that ship? (I am looking so forward to see (or rather hear!) your review of that pos) On topic: Ofc you still need to get close ..... but so far I simply dont hate, and rather enjoy playing the Gneisenau. Playing it doesnt slowly devour my soul like Bayern. Some co-op matches, and these tow pvp matches, later and without any window for torpedo use (because crapy teams ....): Thats pure gun damage. Ofc you have to get torps into play if you want really big games, but hell: The guns pen shi7. <--- period. The guns hit shi7 you are pointing them at. <--- full stop. The ship can only get better once its fully upgaded. So: What a huge huge HUGE relief ..... I was having massive second thoughts on "german 38 cm" ships after Bayern, .... Never played the Warspite myself, but I played against it, and I listen to what division mates have to say: So yeah, ^--- This.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter? Missery likes company? Well I am through with it, so allow me to grab my . Maybe you all will have a _TOTALLY_ different experience .... or you simply just like the pain? Different strokes and all. .... "I feel fine" . I guess someone saw that little additional "o".

A sad, very sad truth. ^^

I have yet to manage to get below 1k damage/hit firing AP in any other battleship above, lets say, 30 hits - but the Bayern manages that even up to any amount of hits .... Also I have played enough König games in Scharnhorst/Geneisenaus-350mm belt-infected-MM-waters of the time, to know that even those small "T 4 guns" have way superior pen.

Not enough p2w in this game? Just cut the detour and straight order a 18 pts captain for every ship you want out of the premium store. Saves the hassle, and since you are so eager to pay, make it a nice 50 € bundelu per captain - this way WG gets something out of it as well.

Had a CV that knew how to play on my side; furthermore he could actually read the chat. Summary: We won, I didnt hand out any complaints, but in inversion complimented our CV ..... things can only go downhill from here. Game itself was not that special .... .... yeah I know, complimenting the CV on my side: So yeah, they do get a compliment if they deserve it. (Its actually easier for CVs since the bar there is set pretty low .....)

Not only that, also CVs are back. And every single time the complete and utter noob CV is on our/my side. Check this fella: - He does a FULL DROP with EVERYTHING on a 2 k HP Dunkerque that has 2 fires burning. - Delaying action at our cap. Not only does the enemy outnumber us 2:1, they have a DD, a cruiser and 3 battleships (or rather 2 since one died fast) against 2 cruisers on our side. I ask him to spot the DD. Ofc our master of [edited]doesnt just send over a squad (empty loaded, doesnt matter), but waits to assemble a full strike ...... on the dd. Yep that one ship cruisers CAN kill relatively easy, IF they are able to see it, and he goes for a full strike. MISSES with EVERYTHING, ofc, and doesnt keep him spotted. Meanwhile the enemy battleships shoot our cruisers to shi7. - Post-mortem I watch this guy: Autodrops ..... really bad autodrops. What are "bad autodrops"? Are not all autodrops bad? Well, autodrops at the bow of a ship are definitely worse than on the side, so there has to be discrimination between just being bad for not having found the alt-I-win-key at T7 (or 8 since ~ 500 games in t7 +8 CVs combined), and terribad for the former + not figuring out that dropping on the bow with both squads isnt the smartest. So yeah I hate so say, but seeing this guy playing: Him not doing manual drops is actually the least problem. The even more severe issues are definately noob and stupidity related. .... but there is more, as I saved the best for last: Rank 1; what else do you expect? "Skillbased" matchmaking and ranking expressed at its purest in a WG title. North group, aka they guys that survived had all the time in the world. Why push the cap? Only a 2:1 advantage, while the cap is being overrun? No need to push; lets camp! If the enemy can hold a 2:1 then our cruiser in the south definitely can do the same! Since this was the 4th loss in a row, my greatest achievement will not be outright rage quitting., ____________ I mean seriously: We need higher repaircosts. WAY higher repaircosts. And linear rewards. They can stuff the loot-crates up the waste chute, just hand over linear rewards!

(speaking solely from my perspective - and a warning: I am probably "not good company" right now) [edited] 2. So after 30 games its only 50:50 to have 15 victories. I would like to roll with at least 80 % chance to have 15 victory but lets stick to 30 games. 30 (pvp!) games are for me basically two full days of playing. I do that occasionally but not very often. So 4 days is rather more reasonable. So we are in big in IF and MAYBE territory right there. 3. With the current resurgence of CVs I am sure as hell not inclined to play any pvp where the MM puts fu<king fu<ktards on my side, and the enemy gets the decent (or hell even a guy who knows about- , and with working alt-key is enough) player. I can tell you for a fact that I played 1 pvp game yesterday before ragequitting, and ....... I dont know .... 30-50 co-op games, mostly in the [edited] Bayern to rid myself of that pos. 4. So as you can see most of those 100 game would be spent in co-op, and WG is gracefully extending their middlefinger towards co-op players time and time again. I have no problem staying in co-op if thats my "skill-bracket" (I dont have hidden stats if anyone wants to check), but then the mission should be doable (with higher requirements) by co-op players as well. If I think really hard I am able to name 2 things in the past year: The "men of Emden"-challenge, and the those last birthday achievement were doable in co-op. €: correction here: the year started with OBT. So last year is concluded and had "men of Emden"-challenge only. This year had those birthday achievments doable in co-op and one even co-op specific; so I guess that it for this year then. WG doesnt want to "spoil" players, especially on the EU server. [edited] hard. I tell you one thing: I dont know if I will be even able to do the 1 pvp victory for the dragon flags. And honestly why even bother? I know very well that co-op matches wont be counted (because we can see time and time again what WG "thinks" of co-op players with their missions); ranked and team battles - who knows? I dont use p2w (but yes I have put money into the game). I have 0 T 10 ships. ~1700 co-op battles and ~2500 pvp and probably another ~150 in team an reanked. I can get a 10 pts captain in time. 15 pts are completely utopian. Those flags, working best with premium, and dont help me with ridiculously high xp requirement. Should I care enough about those flags and delve into the sewer that is pvp only to discover that WG has spat yet again in the faces of co-op players? (apart from the usual spit for being on the EU-Server anyway)? Well thats to be seen ..... €: Just to make sure: there is no anger at all put in your direction - so plz dont take the tone as aimed towards you. In contraire I just wanted to explain my view.

I know already that I will probably play 100 "games" in that time and not be able to finish it ...... Obviously you dont remember the initial "release party".

This, and fixed. The hull is great. The guns arent. (Oh god they suck!) The best way I found so far to play Bayern is to cautiously creep around outside effective gun range (thats inside effective gun range for every other T 6 BB ) and try to delete cruisers. (Everything in this game can deal massive damage to cruisers. If there ever is a ship out there that practically cant harm them you know you fount the ultimate turd to end all other turds). Being so close should allow your team (the none cowards ofc) to work their magic on the enemy undistrubed. After that, even if DD are still around, you then proceed to get even closer, .... merciless and reckless. You either die or crush the enemy. The thing you have to master is that you dont do damage bursts at distance, and you dont do damage burst close up. So you have to be close to be able to hit and pen things (<10km, better yet <8 km), but on the other side you are supposed to live long enough for the random non-cit AP spam to mount up over time. Thats a pradox here, but once the rush to german BBs has died down, I can see the Bayern to be a very valuable ship in a division (basically everything a NM can do anyway .... but worse ). See yourself as some sort of shitty "Rook" that can only kill enemy figures 2 spaces away and only overtime like 6 moves.