Tyrendian89

*definitely there you go, that ususally gets people arguing xD on a more serious note, yes very much seconded!

no, smoke affects everyone the same, as has been stated in waaaay too many threads in the last few days. They were just smart enough to have one DD outside the smoke spotting your team for them...

that would be really good to know! curious to see who's right (or rather, what's true since this really isn't about one of you being right or wrong, right? ) here!

US carriers up to and including T8 don't have double torpedo bombers (good thing too imho, just look how powerful Essex and Midway are...) You can choose the plane setup you want to use by researching buying and mounting the respective Flight Control module (leftmost in your module tree)

hard to judge without any precise information, but at a guess that might have been a case of said battleships being outside of their normal spotting distance from your whole team, and then firing. A firing battleship has functionally infinite spotting distance afaik, and that increase persists for 30 seconds after you fire. So your "cloaking device" might just have been that 30sec timer running out, reverting their concealment to normal levels, before they fire their next shot. €dit: or 20sec, whichever is correct our guesses are aligned

true, but since the mod pack is both free, and very easy to find (I mean you see components of it in like 2/3rds of youtube vids, and then it's a very simple matter of googling/asking), I really don't feel guilty about using that advantage...

which, by the way, does nothing except make the game look like crap(and presumably run a bit better on very weak machines...)

having just gotten to Kiev yesterday I'm not sure I can bring myself to spend money on a pretty similar ship, but the lack of bundle is strongly tempting me... hmmm

well shorter games = more games obviously..

2.5% of the XP for killing the mothership afaik, i.e. killing 40 planes counts as killing one carrier.

umm... I don't see much complaining in here (for once... rare enough these days! )

getting buffed next patch apparently - better fire rate and better angles on the front guns won't turn it into an allstar but should help it a bit

I haven't noticed any significant difference between the DD lines as to turret loss... but yeah it's especially annoying on the Og

Stock Fuso (arguably the ship with the biggest difference between stock and upgraded) first match 140k dmg wholeheartedly agrees with you

ohhh yes this patch sounds very good to me! Can't see a single thing that I'm totally opposed to, most balance changes seem either justified (Russian DD guns, Yorck&Karlsruhe) or at least somewhat justifiable (Zao did have the best stats, although I do think bringing the other two up to her level instead of nerfing her down would've been better for T10 gameplay).

best way to play Stock Furu? honestly? free XP the gun upgrade... that makes it a very good ship in the right hands. Other than that, pretty much the usual Cruiser tips, but all amplified for the Furu: - Don't show your broadside to anyone any more than you have to - even destroyers can easily citadel you if you don't angle your armour. - Aim well, since your heavy guns fire slowly. Be patient, wait for that glorious broadside shot into that cruiser! Also, AP can be surprisingly good against lower-tier Battleships - it's not entirely uncommon to citadel Myogis and Kongos from short-ish range.

tempted by the cheaper bundle myself because I can actually use both the Premium time and the dubloons right now, the latter to finally extricate myself from the hell that is the Yorck by converting a bit of freeXP - so it's pretty much a two-for-one deal for me... I'll see if I will cave Definitely seems like better value than the Warspite bundle to me since the additions are in a halfway reasonable quantity and you're not paying for useless flags that you get way too often from Ranked anyway... Still not good because it's still a forced bundle, but a bundle I find myself considering, so it's an improvement in my mind

agreed, I also don't like it, just can't see a positive side to it. But I'm also curious what others think about it, since there must be some positive side to it that I'm just missing...

copyshop?

kinda offtopic, we should really start counting how many of this kind of thread get created and open betting as to the number we will see until the end of the respective month... I'm not saying people shouldn't voice their concerns, they very much should! But this specific issue got tedious long ago...

Battleship Barbarossa sounds awesome, and that's a name most everyone will recognize, like Hindenburg. And then we can have something obscure at T9 to mirror Roon

that might just be the most important advice here both for having fun and getting better, especially if you can find someone who's already good at the game and can teach you (ideally via Skype/TS/whathaveyou)

agreed Ramirez, or at least that's how I feel before seeing the acutal stats WG will give them. Although one thing that could make the Deutschlands work and also be interesting to play would be to make them very very accurate (as in, close to regular cruiser level accurate, maybe 150m dispersion at around 15km, in contrast to the ridiculous spreads both the Wyoming and Myogi get) - that coupled with the presumably good fire rate of the 11"ers and the knack KM ships have for AP ammo might just make them epic cruiser hunters, and also able to punish other battleships for broadsiding...

really? OK if that's true I didn't know and it does change the equation dramatically... can someone confirm? Seems like a huge (intended or not) oversight...

and meanwhile, if a Yamato does eff up, magnificent things like this can happen: