Camperdown

80% of DD fights are around caps, so DD hunting for me is just going to a cap and get everything in or around that killed. Don't need speed for that, just good concealment, some defensive smoke and decent guns. And some support ofc, but that's not about your boat but about your team. That's another discussion entirely

I think the RN earlier tiers are fine, though not as good relatively as T8-10 are. I find the earlier German DDs variable, some good, some meh.

Lightning has low detectability, hydro, many short smokes and good gun power. Daring and Jutland also good. German DDs from T8 on also good.

I don't buy flags. I run lean signal setups, only the really important stuff. I only run anti-deto in ranked. Why would you run speed flags except in a few slow ships? I only run speed flags on slow BBs in higher tiers and in slow DDs such as Jutland and Kita in ranked. Some ships I don't fly any signals at all. The flags are, as everything in WoWs, badly overpriced.

I can be a bit of an armchair admiral. At the beginning of the game I tell the team on my flank what I will do and what would be helpful. I play DD so support is important. In addition, if teams do stupid stuff I may get salty in chat. Especially cruisers that don't shoot DDs, BBs that don't shoot radar cruisers and DDs that don't spot I frankly don't care much if the noobs are offended by this. It relieves my frustration a bit

Interesting this confusion about WGs business approach. Attract new customers Frustrate them at T4-7 Lure them to pay their way up Create fomo Once the new customers are seeing through this or get bored Rinse and repeat Order more vodka and caviar That's it. Nothing more to see. You don't like it? Run for the woods. Or find a way you enjoy the game and ignore the shenanigans as long as you can.

I prefer solo and moaning about it

If you exclude the impossible, you end up with the truth: WG does not care about our opinions

There was the US civil war too, but those were mostly coastal actions. Guns became more effective after 1866, f.e. the British 9" mlr could penetrate up to 10" of armour. Only the Italian navy had a few of such guns at Vis, the rest was ineffective against armour.

Don't overdo the importance of ramming though. Guns were still the main weapons in that age. World of Ironclads

I am all for it. Including World of Victorian Warships for the pre Dreadnought era. Sadly ..... you know what comes next .....

I would rather recommend the RN DD line from Lightning onwards. More versatile than the IJN. Esp the many short smokes help develop a better play style and allow a more offensive attitude.

And if you buy Satan crates you may win an Enterprise

WG decided that higher tier ships should have thicker plating that cannot be penetrated by he. Which is bollocks. Ships were constructed with 15-20 mm steel, which was sufficient for strength. Base fused HE could penetrate any ordinary plating. Having created one rediculous mechanism they came up with another one to allow smaller ships to do some damage to larger ships. And then they decided to give some BBs a rediculous fire chance. I regret all these silly arcade type damage mechanisms. Stick to something close to reality, it makes the game more interesting imo. Abolish thick side plating outside the armour areas and reduce fire chance. Make HE work against normal plating. But WG won't do it. The overmatch mechanics is one way to herd players to high tiers and expensive premiums.

And now let's have the RN BC line too. Though, that will cost a lot of deto signals

Ah, I suspected it might be E Yorck. Good, then I like her too

I like the historical ships up to Mackensen

The value of your account just dropped significantly by this post.

6 kills: 3 DDs, a cruiser, a BB and, because I am not a prejudiced guy, the CV too

Smaland, Haida, Belfast

WG does not expect anything from the auctions. Except they get very precise price elasticity information which they use to fleece customers from their moneh. Pass the caviar and the wodka comrade

WG is blatantly uninterested in customer feedback. They are also piss poor in customer communication. Their customer orientation is a disgrace.

I always appreciate it when enemies yield victory by sailing through the two brothers channel one by one

Although I understand the limits of 'historical' or irl arguments in the context of a WG game, I would also like to point out that typical hit rates in WWII were between 1 and 5%. So the 30-40% one can achieve with current RNG are already generous

Hmm, I kinda enjoy shooting down dozens of birds in my Orion