viceadmiral123

I've gotten my CV line to t8, but my impressions are overall negative: 1. Slow games, everyone plays "strategically". Prepare for many draws. The ice map is nothing special, and is too big. 2. Repair costs are getting steep. You are still making net profit, but your progress in upgrades and other ships will be slow. 3. For CVs, enemy AA gets very strong. Cleveland is ridiculous vs air, you still get him in t8, and his repair cost is nothing compared to yours. BBs get strong AA now. I play DD only in t5, it's the most fun I have with it, and likely I'll only play CV in t4 or t7. Going to see how the CA line develops now.

A good game in t8 CV gives about 250,000 gold, and you pay 40-50,000 in repairs. A bad game will be negative 80,000 or so. Makes you play really carefully. Often you are a top-tier ship in the match, the tradeoff being the repair cost.

I gave my t8 JCV a few games, and I think I will keep it around. I am making a profit, albeit the repair sometimes takes more than half of it. And I'll be hiding in the corner, if you need me

Any more free bonus codes available other than this one?

Thanks for the feedback. I don't bother with forum much. I'll stick with below t8 games for now

Watch your language tho.

Minekaze is as good at it gets for a DD. Don't get your hopes up.

I don't see what the OP is complaining about. Unescorted BB, no pressure on the CV from AA or enemy planes. What did you expect to happen?

This is not something that you can freely control, it's kind of a bug. You have to use the automatic targeting mode and rotate the approach vector in a weird way. You can get various spreads, down to straight row. You just get regular fan-spread penalty for this.

My experience with BBs, mostly playing against them: 1. Low-tier BBs are a pile of poo. I free-exp'ed the BB after Kawachi, because it was just unbearable. 2. Medium-tier BBs players don't play smart and don't get team support. They are OK as ship stats. 3. High-tier BBs are really strong. Smart players mostly, they play the BB well and get team support. t7+ BBs are formidable. So the curve of the strength of BBs, due to various factors, begins low at low tiers and goes up exponentially for high tiers. Contrary to that, for example, DDs are fun and easy to play at t3-t5, and get crappy from t6+.

I really enjoy the game as a free one. I don't mind not having extra 2 skill points, or being able to reset my captain. You should not get too attached to your captains if you don't pay money, as new skills will likely be introduced and old ones tweaked.

High-tier DD gameplay is not like low-tier DD. If you like ninja style DD - play t3-t5. t6-t10 DDs are more like light cruisers.

UPDATE: it's actually called "Witherer", my mistake. 60,000 dmg in flooding or fires, comes along nicely with Arsonist and Liquidator achievements if you really want to mess with the enemy team

I've only gotten in once so far, while trying to get a "Confederate" and spreading my dmg around enemy ships. Does not give signal flag reward. For those that don't know this achievement, it's "Deal 70,000 or more fire or flood damage to enemy ships in a game" or something like that. It's 2 cruisers' worth of health, from DoT damage.

Well, you have to play to get that achievement. Not to get kills. Not to win the battle. To get the achievement. I pick my games where I try to get it depending on the MM, other games I play normal.

At t3 I don't think the enemy has enough HP pool to get 70k of damage in DoT effects. You don't have that achievement I gather.

UPDATE: just got my 50% bonus EXP flag for the first time in 3 days or so, every day getting Confederate achievement. It may be possible that this is related to equipping 50% flag, and keeping it on auto-resupply. I got my flag while not being on auto-resupply, just to test it. I am sure there is some bug in the interface that may prevent you from receiving this award.

Most players like the bang-bang style of ship play. They don't like having to defend against planes. I play all types of ships and I am OP with any of them.

DDs lose concealment and torpedo reload as they go up in tier after t5. You are supposed to play as a light cruiser at that point, staying with the main group and scouting ahead. I've made a topic a couple of weeks ago about it. Best gameplay you are going to get out of a dd is t3 through t5.

I know how to get flags. I had about 90 flags that give 50% exp bonus at one time. I get Confederate every day, but I don't remember getting the 10 flags in the last couple of days. I have been playing only 1 ship. I will try with another I guess.

Today, once again, I got many achievements and a confederate, but no reward flag icon appears. It MAYBE giving me flags without the confirmation window. I have them on auto-ressuply, and I have to record the quantity to know if I get them or not....

I got 7 kills in a single game tho.

This statistic is useless, as WG has the complete data and will act on them if they want to. My thoughts - cruisers are great vs planes. If you have less CVs than the enemy, and you got a BB instead of a CA, you are at a disadvantage. If you got more CAs, you are balanced concerning air-counters. Generally, people play stupid, carriers can find easy targets and sink them.

You get the same reward for all tiers, but ship repair goes up. If you want credits - play a ship that is cheaper to repair, and you feel good with it.

I took dogfighting with no reasonable option overall. Thanks guys.