Jethro_Grey

Yep.^^ Sniping BBs are the target of choice for any IJN, they barely move and if, only forwards and backwards. Getting their sides yields quite high damage numbers...and you can find those oxygen wasters in.every.single.game.above.T VI. Bad for your team, good for you if the enemy does the same.^^ My Kagero and Shima are very pleased with that kind of enemy BB driver. Well, for DDs there is another way to get lots of XP and credits, it does not have to be damage. But i guess, damage is good for the stats, stats are good for the ego...^^ With the new rewards for spotting, it may even get better for DDs.

Well, don't have tther numbers for the Fubuki and the Kagero, but 20km shima torps get spotted from 2.5km, while the shorter range ones have 1.6 or 1.9km. But considreing i can do massive damage with a single shima torp, i consider this a balanced trade off.

Horrible concealment? If you mean the Russian DDs, yes those have a horrible concealment. How can a Shima with 5.9km have a "horrible" concealment? You don't have to use the Force to guide your Torps to the target. A bit of experience, map- and situatiuonal awareness can help greatly, also - you can't expect to hit every volley fired. Try using the shorter range torps, they don't get spotted that soon plus it increaes your chance to hit something. The guns on IJN DDs are pretty good actually - from the Minekaze onwards. Just don't get into knife fights with Gunboats. Generally, don't do the same crapBBs chicken do with their main arnament: sniping from lightyears away. Just because you can launch torps from 12-16km doesn't mean you should.

I beg to differ. Ships shouldn't be buffed because the enemy players know how to WASD, it's actually up to you to predict and counter their movements. The last thing that should happen is that IJN DDs - or any DDs for that matter - get a buff to their torpedo reload, the amount of Torpspam would be worse then before. I think the problem is, that in the lower tiers the DDs are too strong and when folks finally get higher tier DDs where they have to actually work for it, they get disappointed. Torpedo boats are not supposed to be "easy kill/win" ships. Players need to adapt.

Well, someone should do a song from the perspective of those oxygen wasters, would be a chartbreaker for sure: "...they see my failin', they hatin'..." ^^

I kinda like the Garglehead, despite it's obvious flaws. Sit behind some hard cover and spam or hunt Dds when the situation allows it. @T0byJug: WG doesn't need no reasons to delay things on EU, it's part of their official EU Marketing and Sales policy.

What? When did that happen? I played her a couple of days ago and it didn't felt like it has been nerfed, she's still OP as [edited]when no CV is in play and top tier. The Tirpitz on the other hand...boy that ship has been nerfed to oblivion.

All of a sudden the game takes ages to load and by the time it's loaded, the game is almost over. Not to mention that ships are invisible. At first i thought there was a Strom going on as the ships on the minimap were "hidden", but i was spotted from miles away and my camo wasn't loaded. There was a BB near me, according to the minimap, and keeping me under fire but i couldn't see him even after he was sank by someone. After a while a Cruiser popped up like 3km away and the game ended. The post battle result screen said, i did 600dmg to a Tirpitz... Next game, same crap...still loading while the match is running. Any ideas? Edit: game still running, it seems i've been sunk but still not loaded and the loading bar is at ~1%.

Because they don't like us on the EU server very much or just give a damn. Possibly both.

I won somewhere around of 75% of my games on the weekend, maybe more. But that's not the point. It's the generell lack of team play, as quite a number of players do rather stupid things either because they don't know better ( then stay the [edited]in Coop until you do know and stay as far away from T VII upwards games as possible) - or because thy are dumbfucks ( then pls uninstall the game ). I wish the latter kind of oxygen wasters would put their tongue in a powersocket. It's not enough that we have to deal with sniping chicken in BBs, DDs that seem allergic to caps and CV players who are willing to sacrifice team mates and a sure victory to do a bit more damage. Teamplay keeps allies alive and wins games, but one needs a working brain, the capacity to learn the game mechanics, a bit of situational awareness and draw the right conclusions "i hath lotsa armor and long range guns, therefor i snipe...with HE!" "i iz a squishy DD, so i must hide behind that sniping BB!" "i could strafe the clusterfuck of TBs that are going for our top tier BB or i could keep my DBs safe from enemy fighters that are 16km away...well, if he dies i can still call him a noob!" ...are NOT the right conclusions - feel free to disagree) Everyone has a bad day now and then or just derps, happens to us all but geeez, for some folks this seem to be the rule, not the exception. /end rant

Well, it works after a PC restart. The ships were invisible, the shells not.

It's not like it's so much better during the week, lots of idiots, cowards, [edited], chicken and newbs too. What's different today is, the idiocy has reached a completly new level - something i deemed impossible. The number of people who can't breathe and think at the same time is exploding, so it seems WGs marketing campaign is somewhat succesfull. After several games that were lost due to screaming incompetence* by players who should know how to TX, i've decided to check the equipment needed to record games (Hardware, not SW) and put them on Youtube. So a lot more folks can enjoy the hive of idiocy that is the average WoWS game. It'd will also allow me to make fun of them as starting a "the greatest Idiots of WoWS" thread wouldn't last very long.^^ * Why, why on earth does a BB leave a cap ~seconds from a save victory and sails around an island straight into a volley of torps. Why does a CV ignore my request for help and sends his fighters to "save" a clusterfuck of cruisers! which have enough combined AA to shred the single! DB squad. Compliment to the enemy CV tho, was a well executed cross drop. Last BB sunk, the remaining Cruisers had no chance aganst the BBs on the enemy team.

Met Tellson with a Division mate, both in D.Donskois. His team curbstomped mine in no time on the western side, while i was leading the push and chased both Donskois on the eastern side while being under fire from them, and a Bismark, Khaba and a Zao. The BBs on the eastern side took refuge behind my Hindenburgs armour - what a ship. Luckily, the game ended before the combined fire from the guys mentioned above and the other guys from Tellsons team who managed to come around the otherside could sink me and the pittyful rest of my team.

I got chat banned again...after like two days... Apperantly it's considered an insult when you tell a bunch of in the back sitting and sniping pussies that they are pussies that chicken out at the first sight of a red blip on the map. So stating facts it's considred an insult...strange new world. It's like saying to a british chap that he's british, or to a smart person that he/she's smart, or to an idiot that he's an idiot...how can be that an insult? ^^

If the information is correct that the KA was set to "Promo", this could mean either, that the ship will get used for those events like GamesCon, Gamecity Vienna, and the event in Italy and we get it some time this or next year when they have a new Premium they can hand out. Or it stays a Promo ship and in both cases "[edited]You EU!!!". It could diminish the "gift" value of the ship if they hand things out that you can buy in the shop for a few bucks. A dickmove by WG no matter how you turn it. It's the Campeltown, Kamikaze, Halloween, GNB crapall over again.

Mr. Fingers did something like that.

Seems like it's not coming today.^^ Pure PR? Well, a very diplomatic way of saying that he was lying the second he opened his mouth. No KA in the shop, no official explanation why not. The usual [edited]from WG. I can't say i like the absence of any kind of official reaction from WG in regards to why the KA is not yet on sale, but from their perspective it's better to let the fire burn itself out instead of potentialy puring gasoline into it like the did with the Kamikaze event. And it worked, sadly. It's also kinda dissapointing that the players started a shitstorm when there was a Premioum to get for free, but when it comes to something one has to pay for...well not so much. I'm actually tempted to start a petition to either remove our EU community handlers and let the 'muricans deal with EU as well, as it seems they are doing a much better job, or put some pressure on them to sync their events and sales with the 'murican server. But honestly, i doubt WG will take even notice of it and chances are that it wont get enough support from the players.

I doubt it. That Arthur guy (WG) said that some ships may take longer to see release on the EU server (because reasons - of the retarded kind) so maybe we get KA finally - two weeks after NA - but i have my doubts. Seeing as the Panzer IIIK still hasn't seen release on EU MONTHS after it was on sale on NA, so yeah don't get your hopes up.

I see. Well, lets wait till sunday and see if the Konig Albert hits the shop. Btw Arthur, the Panzer IIIK was month ago on sale on NA, in EU...i think it was about never ago.^^

When sailing in Yamato, Montana or sailing the Top Tier BB in general, i usually don't wait to see where my team is going and then join them. When on a domination map, i announce: "going to cap A, support would be nice", i usually get enough support - sometimes more than i need - and despite my best efforts the Lemming Train starts. Folks usually follow the "top dog" and stay and fight when you stay and fight. Saltyness in chat can be pretty annoying, as i noticed in a game recently (post somewhere on this board, heavily edited by BBV). Despite that, disabling the chat isn't the best idea as you could miss possibly a vital information. I considered muting, but unless the person starts actually spamming the chat with meaningless drivel or has a sudden attack of F-key tourette, i leave them on.

Consider sailing in a straight line as self imposed death sentence. How fast your ships is, can can easily be determined by watching your smoke stacks, slow speed -almost vertical smoke, fast speed - nearly horizontal. Check iChasegamings YT channel, he explains it quite well, also: there is a thread somewhere on this very board that has more info about that.

Ohhh, i like that one. Well said sir, well said!

After the update finished and i started the game, i noticed that the second Premium camo for the Prinz Eugen is there. Nice, instantly bought it. Than i saw another event camo...seriously? What the hell is that? The GamesCon camo was nice, actually the first camo that can be bought with dubloons that doesn't suck, and i had the small hope that it'd stay a bit longer. So, instead of writing a complaint of epic proportions - which would get ignored anyway, we're on the EU Server after all - i decided to write a small but hopefully feasable suggestion - that most likely gets ignored anyway because we're on EU Server - namely: Instead of putting so much time and...effort... in Photoshop or GIMP and create those incredibly ugly and halucination inducing creative and artistic Event camos, how about we buy upgrades for existing (Premium) camos? Some of them hurt the Eyes - specifically the IJN ones (not to mention the copy pasted Prem Camo on IJN ships) - but are still better than the usual eye cancer we have to shell out 50 Dubloons for. Point is: We don't have to see those butt-ugly Picasso-esque camos and get the same bonus for the 50 Dubloons. The time saved could be used to create Perma camos for all ships and i'm sure that Folks would at least consider buying temporary "camo-upgrades" if they don't have to play with Kleenex in one hand to wipe the bloody tears from their eyes. Alternatively it doesn't have to be upgrades for existing camos, but Signals or Flags instead that give the same Bonus, but is much smaller and is easily ignored as not everyone is into expressionism. Second thing: Pls WG, for the love of God: Try at least some Server equality when it comes to Events and offers in the Prem shop. How would i have enjoyed getting the "Talk like a Pirate Flag" or giving you some Money for the König Albert... Right, we got the fugly 1 Year Anniversary flag, i'm sure i'll be sailing that one...on my T 1 ships...when playing coop...in a division. Yes, i know - i did not care how i phrased my suggestion, but i don't care about that either. ^^ regards a paying customer

This would be a slap in the face of the EU player base. Basically, what WG always does.

Nearly 5k games played, all line grinded simultaniously and except the Khaba, the last two CVs in both lines and the last two German BBs all TX in my port. Not much of an CV player, so i guess i'll finish them after i get all the other ships, i.e. never. ^^