triumphgt6

Actually a CV with air detection radar over a longer distance could be interesting - no surface detection but able to detect a formation of aircraft - not the type or number but their presence? Would allow better air defense and also the ability to bluff opponents.

But had very little armour!

Division up - I'll look out for you! Then there are at least 2 playing the same game!

Saw @ColonelPete in his KGV. A winning battle notable for a complete absence of destroyers. Pretended to be one in my Fiji and had fun baiting a couple of cruisers before trying the same on a New York and suffered a devastating strike!! We still won despite my ineptitude! The Colonel completed the win by blatting a Ryujo who had clearly run out of planes and was going for a ram!

How many surface ships over destroyer and above were actually sunk by the Russian Navy in WW2? Seems strange that at end of war marathon is restricted to Russian ships rather than those of the Allies. I had a quick search and apart from transports and a hospital ship, I could find very little but I am happy to accept my ignorance in Russian naval achievements in WW2. The army and airforce are clearly another matter and they effectively won the war in Europe.

@Leo_Apollo11 is clearly playing a lot! Met him in a Tier 7 game - he was in his Normandie - I was in a Fujin - my first game of the evening, I find the Fujin a good way to get the brain working - exchanged pleasantries and then got down to business - capped C and chased off the Aigle before managing to land a few torps on Leo, so he backed off. Left to cap B and chased off the Kamikaze in there and held it against some opposition including the Gneisenau. Unfortunately the team had lost C so went back to help, got the leander and found we were down to me and a Dunkerque who had been in A, against Leo, a New Mexico and a Shinonome. Went into C but missed first few torps on NM and smoked up to reload. He sensibly charged me and killed me just before I sank him. This left Leo, on low health and against a full HP Dunkerque. He skillfully backed up angling and reduced the Dunkerque's health before ramming him and winning the game for the team - well done!! I should have gone for him rather than the NM in hindsight!

It is pretty pointless really though if it gets above a certain number, you get more compliment and reports to give. I do think it could be made more useful but difficult to really see how. However my karma does just slowly go up - and that is despite using RN cruisers and the Fujin almost exclusively these days. Although not up to some of the good players, mine is at present over 200 and slowly rising each week. I am never salty and compliment enemies who play well and especially if I think they played well when killing me!

To be fair, Tier 5 is the most unforgiving tier. It does get better! Tier 7 is far better as even when uptiered, you have a chance. Having said that, Tier 5 DDs are best played at Tier 7!! Fujin in particular!

Done that before - which explains my 17% wr in this ship!!

Possibly a use for the Karma system - become battle monitor if you have the highest Karma on the team - or become a monitor if you have over a certain amount. Could actually be the first useful thing it could be used for. Clearly the monitors would need to be monitored!!

Disabling F keys would actually be the best for me - have had a handful of games ruined by some idiot constantly spamming F key messages quite deliberately. Reporting him for abuse of chat would not prevent him carrying on this behaviour.

Not sure we are really from different sides here! I agree completely - there is no helping some people! As with almost everything in life, there is a standard curve; inside the 2 standard deviations are the normal human beings who are playing because they enjoy it and will strive to get better as the game is more fun when you win. In that group are the people who are naturally good and those, possibly like me, who are never going to be unicum, maybe because I am not as co-ordinated or because my reflexes are not as good due to increasing age, but who will try to play for the team and I doubt really annoy anyone - except when they sink you. However outside those 2 SDs are the rest. These are the ones who believe they are either god's gift and everyone should do as they say because they are so good, and at the other end the trolls who like nothing more than ruining the game for the other participants and the idiots who will never try and you are complaining about. Both in my experience are rare but certainly have a negative effect on the game. These people are the type I will report. Of course the normal people will at time be useless and stupid (hands up if you have never done something idiotic !) but they probably don't deserve some of the bile directed at them. I imagine some of the responses are simply defensive but of course this is the internet..... Clearly one way to make sure that you at least have a couple of sane people is to go in as a division.

I suppose the answer really is to use the flag - I have hundreds of these which I never use because ramming seems a fairly rare occurrence - but I admit I don't play BBs much. I do agree that it is not a very realistic scenario but BBs getting that close would be very rare anyway. One could argue however that ramming your own team mates is actually not punished enough!

Completely agree with you - there should be a simple button to just turn off the chat screen. Having said that, I have had useful help through chat - I remember Dropsiq at times offering helpful advice when I was a noob and several other forumites also offering advice and assistance, all in a non toxic way. So sometimes it is worthwhile just ignoring the morons for the occasional pearl!

I had full AA equipped Atlanta including the Clear Sky flag - AA rating 85 I think. Had activated defensive AA and expected the skies to suddenly become devoid of aircraft - as per usual! Instead the sea rapidly became devoid of me!! LOL

Do seem rather good - came across one briefly when out in my Atlanta - unlike a Saipan a couple of months ago, who targeted me and lost all his planes in very rapid time - and raged about it - the GS targeted me and despite having a fully AA specced Atlanta, he completely demolished me in no time at all - can't have got more than 5 planes before dying ignominiously. Well played him but quite an eye opener!

Have had the game either freeze or disconnect twice today - no mods , good connection and dedicated gaming laptop with SSD and plenty of RAM. Ran check and seemed OK when I next played so putting it down to bad luck - but slightly nervous!! Not had a problem with this computer before - 76FPS and ping of 30 when playing.

I have to confess that the advent of the Lyons has not improved cruiser play - 16 shells in a broad spread can make one's day a little trying!

This is a pointless argument - all sorts of atrocities have been inflicted on the innocent by almost all belief systems - whether it be political or religious. My own country (Britain) invented concentration camps and were perhaps the only country actually successful in complete genocide (Tasmanians). Christianity imposed the Spanish Inquisition on the innocent and both Catholics and Protestants persecuted each other for many years. Of course Fascism and Marxism/Communism have reeked destruction by their fanatical followers , but it is the fanatics that cause the problems. This is a Russian game - I expect the Russian fleet to be glorified rather more than possibly historically accurate (I note the lack of a real opponent to the Mikasa!) but, on the whole , the developers seem to be striving for a balanced game and each nation has interesting differences in game style. I don't mind paper ships, though I have little real interest in playing them. But I wouldn't wish nationalities the lack of good ships to sail!

I just ignore them and if they are particularly offensive, I report them. I always use more compliments than reports so I don't find the problem too bad. Had ebola wished upon me a couple of days ago for speculatively dropping some torps into a smoke screen and killing a destroyer - completely his fault! I think people like to blame others when they do something wrong as they are cross with themselves. Much better to praise good play - especially those that kill you - after all, they must be good to destroy you!

You do know that you can change the theme at the very bottom of this page - where is says theme?

7 in the Fiji. Just one of those days when everything just worked. The 6 in the Atlanta was even more amusing though!

Far prefer cruisers - battleships are slow and clumsy. Yes, you do live dangerously, but it is much more fun!

I think it could be made to work - but maybe as an extension of the Operations - instead of just capping, make definite objectives which are clear at the beginning - maybe include some AI members who will slavishly follow the objectives. Would certainly add variety and asymmetry would be part of the match making.

Room for those who wish the benefits of being in a clan (discounts on research, extra XP and reduced repair costs) but wish to normally play on their own - we are a friendly bunch though and will division up if you like! Clan battlers would be best advised to look elsewhere but the clan has all the benefits of membership and no training etc! Will be increasing available places soon as well. Requirements limited to 45%+ WR and over 18. We have played in clan battles for the extra pressies but we don't expect to win..... At last glance, Omni were not looking nervous!