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Wow. In how many games?

Hi, I am currently playing Des Moines quite a bit. I like her, she has decent protection and good, fast firing guns. As a DD main, I find it my role to try and support DDs at game start with radar around the caps. Of course that requires me to get uncomfortably close to the red team, so I try to use island cover as well as possible. Still in half my games the second I open fire I get blapped by an 18" gunned BB I had not previously spotted for 3/4 of my health. OC that really reduces my usefulness for the rest of the game. It seems there is a group of 18" players who specialises in this trick. Now this puts me in a dilemma. I can OC not try to radar caps in the first minutes. That feels lame, because if I blap a DD early on, that is a substantial advantage. But losing much of my health early in the game does not work either. Any advice? I have started to collect fxp to buy Alaska, because I hope she will be more resistant to 18" gunfire when properly angled. Do you think that that may work?

I think the answer with a decent team would be: stay silent behind island and let others shoot up the red DD. Now where do I find a decent team in WoWs

Are you grinding any stuff that forces you to play ships that you don't do well in? That's usually for me what gives me low WR in a period.

It's not a team game cause in most modes you don't enter as a team. But the game certainly benefits from team play

The quality of the game is governed by the nut behind the keyboard

You conveniently forget that while you play in a team of triple unicums, many divisions will be average or worse, so you would basically be invincible. While that may indeed be fun for you, it would not be so for the red team.

I find the MM interesting. It seems WG is purposely experimenting to see what happens with very diverging teams.

Facing Alaska's in my DM convinced me this was a gut bote. In DDs Alaska is pretty tough to face but not the worst. Ships with higher rof are more dangerous, but Alaska has protection which gives her staying power when facing 18" BBs. Any normal CL or CA risks being blapped in the close radar support role.

I have recently decided to go for the full mil fxp and buy Alaska. Am now at 250K ....

I basically like the mode. It's got more variation than randoms, which can get a bit boring. And bringing DDs and a brain to the game is always a good idea

In real life BBs never used torpedoes successfully, except possibly Rodney on Bismarck in the final battle and maybe some unconfirmed possible hits at Jutland. Now WoWs is quite unlike real world in many ways, so perhaps this is not too relevant

Ah, you got better

You are kidding, are you

If you have bot CV in team it will sit in spawn until killed just like human players do

As a torp boat or generalist DD, I generally us my guns in two situations: - against another DD when I have the advantage and/or better support - against other ships that are so low HP that I can kill them fairly easily I may be forced to use my guns as well when I am spotted and cannot go dark.

I find the asymetric games a good alternative to coop, which I find boring and does not offer much rewards.

You don't have to do all the missions

I think the issue is not the fire chance in general, but the fire chance on some specific annoying ships

So is she a T8 better Buffalo? That would be a bit unbalanced

In what does she differ from Buffalo?

WG has a strong commitment to customer satisfaction

Git gud Seriously, it just happens sometimes. Have a beer, curse the patatoes and get on with it.

Enterprise?

My experience with how the system works is: - ramming an ally: rarely any consequences, HP loss rediculously low, you don't turn pink - hitting ally with torpedo: you turn pink for 3 battles if you don't have prior offenses - hitting ally with shells: depends on number of hits/damage. You don't seem to turn pink for light damage. Perhaps there is some kind of threshold - reflected damage only for repeated non- trivial offenses in same game