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AA is still working and shooting random stuff within your aura. You just don't get the 100% buff. It once was the same as manual secondaries that your long range AA was silent without target designation. But it got changed soon after.

AA and secondary gun mounts do count for this kind of requirement. So just HE spam the midship section of a Yamato and you get the count up in no time. It's not about earning the "critical damage" ribbons.

I have this build in mind. This way, you only give up AR but get to use all the buffed skills he comes with: http://shipcomrade.com/captcalc/1010000001101000000001000010000119

Minotaur does not need Expert Marksman and I play her without smoke. So Jack Dunkek would be a waste here. I put him on Neptune for now, a ship I prefer over Minotaur. But now I wonder if I should make him a dedicated Belfast captain. His Jack of all Trades perk might come in handy on this toolbox of a ship.

I actually prefer Edinburgh over Fiji as a ship. Her size feels more comfortable to me. She is basically an oversized Fiji with better heal and decent AA, but she suffers greatly in tier-by-tier comparison due to T8 MM. If you dislike the static smoke gameplay, you can also play man mode by mounting radar instead of smoke. It forces you to keep moving and pay more attention to island cover as you no longer have a Plan B to conceal yourself. Works really well with my Minotaur imho (surprisingly the only way I can play that ship) but maybe it works for you on Edinburgh. On the bright side, Neptune will reward your grind big time :)

So after this grind you get a USN ship and an IJN captain. Two rewards that are incompatible with each other. Disgusting... jk ofc ;)

The Type 3 "Beehive" kind of fireworks? :>

I still need 3 (?) of them to finish the Honorable Service campaign...

I got a personal offer for the Captain bundle with a total discount of 54% so I could not resist. Good decision, to be honest. During the 35k French base xp grind weekend she was a nice asset. She is a good alround ship with trollish armor and trollish guns (inconsistency in dealing alpha dmg but pretty good overall). Excellent turret traverse though; you can keep your guns on target at any time. She has quite a good AA range since her main guns are dual purpose but the dps is pitiful so you just want to cause panic drops. And unlike her T6 peer, I think she is exceptionally fast especially with speed boost. The only downside is what all French cruisers share equally: the rudder breaks upon every damn HE hit around the stern section. So yeah, recommended if you like mid-tier light cruisers.

A friend of mine uses IFHE on his Freddy (105mm and 150mm guns, no 128mm) and the penetration buff is enough to make it his main source of damage. Needless to say, he charges in "stupidly aggressive" and hence gets sunk very quickly very often. And he is a lousy shot with the main guns anyway. But the secondary dmg can be quite impressive. Personally, i would not give up the 4 points though, especially on Gneisenau. She is so much more fun with a pure AA build.

Maybe, possibly... but how many of those hits did actually hit where they were aimed at? I'm quite surprised to see my Mutsu's MBH being my second worst at T6. But at least she gets s**t done, and once you sink a target with 2 shells, all other shells hitting the wreck will not be counted as hits. Whereas Dunkek scores bounces and overpens galore because she keeps missing the juicy spots.

There were some server issues on 2-3 days during this season that caused annyoing disconnections. Maybe you got unlucky on some of them?

i7-7700k, 16GB DDR4 RAM, GTX1080 (I know I overdid my PC setup a little but I guess it will last some time now)... but still, WoWS sometimes crashes or gets stuck during loading screen. The only real advantage of a faster PC is being able to re-join battle quicker after restarting the game client or rebooting. But it does not prevent encountering the problem by any means. Which is quite sad, really.

So I can just check the matchmaking and decide not to press "ready" if I am not satisfied? Cool :)

Wait. That means accuracy at more than 8 km is better than zero? What is this wizardry?

Just what if... - minefields could detonate incoming torpedoes - mines could be spotted by Hydro and remain spotted for ~15 seconds after Hydro wears off - spotted mines could be neutralized by secondary guns - ships could deploy their paravanes as consumable The latter seems like some pve/scenario thing but the rest might add an interesting dash of mircro-action to random games as you could effectively use minefields as shield against torpedoes.

Place some mines along the map border :>

Asking for a friend mayhaps? :>

Then again, you could stick with Gneisenau's native language in which SHE (die "Gneisenau") was female as well :P

What results? EU lost against RU!

If I may add (again), I did try both builds and ultimately decided against IFHE on Atlanta as the benefit (that I hardly even noticed at all, if there even was any) was simply too little to justify giving up 4 points on AA perks that allow me to be an AA beast that and still take Hydro to hunt DDs and spot torps that pass by my waifu island for my teammates. That's why I use my Iowa/Missouri captain, not my Cleveland captain. Your ship's setup is totally up to you. And I think that is something we can all agree on. You have your raw alpha dmg numbers but that simply did not work for me as I focus on other utilities.

Picking a consumable that only comes into play when there is a stupid enemy carrier present? :> MAA pumps the dps to insane levels (for a T7) so you don't need Defensive Fire at all. I tried IFHE when I was training my new Cleveland captain but ultimately ended up not using this captain on Atlanta anymore because the reduction in fire chance lowered my overall damage significantly while I did not feel like causing any more alpha dmg than a non-IFHE Atlanta would.

I understand you are grinding German cruisers. Getting Prinz Eugen will do no good then because you will get her 1:1 sister ship at Tier 8 anyway. Their only difference is Eugen having 2 cm stronger armor slopes at her citadel but she pays with a tiny bit of mobility. Eugen is more of a collector's thing, or for people who want to play a German heavy cruiser but don't bother grinding through the line. She is, however, a veeery sexy ship and one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, model we have in game. I second Aotearas: In terms of uniqueness you will hardly find a better suited ship than Scharnhorst. She is a great CA/BB hybrid and never gets boring. Kutuzov is powerful but might become monotonous at some point. Alabama seems to be a decent pick but she might be a bit subpar to North Carolina's 2.0 sigma, depending on how much you value main gun accuracy.

It's a collectible item! edit: I did this mission yesterday as I did not play at all on Saturday. 33.5k base xp with 3 French ships that share 2 captains. Took me 35 games. Absolutely despise Dunkek. Disgusting mission :/

However, it is quite rare for a weekend event to be live from Friday to Sunday, not from Saturday to Monday as usual. Is there any scheme behind it or does WGEU decide this randomly?