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Sims was sheer cheese, one solo cap and a DD kill would land you top of the vast majority of losing teams yeah... However any DD that can reach R1 isn't a bad player. I don't care enough to stats check but does OP DD?

I can see why folk over there might be B hurt over the voices as the main Mandarin speaking country (China) has its own weird corrupt server that isn't SEA and the PA captains all spoke Mandarin... Then there's the whole political issue with Taiwan too. Also it's why there's no IJN Rising Sun flags on IJN ships as it's a hate symbol for some folk out there. Although I don't believe it's actually banned anywhere unlike the German swastika.

I have this "error" too. Thought it was a bug, no idea it's a feature...

Well yeah it got sold for a few days and has been in various test phases since... They're still great to farm with Enterprise anyway

WG appear to have lost any ability to release any vaguely balanced ships other than BBs recently Don't forget GZ is floating around in there too with the private test thing that's taking practically as long as a woman takes to grow a baby. In fact it's been about 10 months since GamesCom no?

Straight up toss between Yue Yang and Z52 I think. YY having DWT and radar vs smoke choice is actually weaker I'd argue as you can't nuke other DDs and you can't escape in a smoke if you take radar. Z52 is an all round excellent package. Has fairly poor gun DPM but that's what team mates are for lol All T10 DDs take brutal damage from BB AP as my CW experience has shown... Otherwise Monty is a good choice for a BB as it's one of the few BB that is genuinely reliable in regards to gun dispersion and handling which might be important in clutch situations. DM is likely the most viable Cruiser. Radar, epic AA, crazy firepower... Radar Mino might be fun but it would depend on the map rotation. Might be a viable choice if you hate CVs for the epic AA bubble.

Also it comes with a "historical" camo and takes normal IJN captains which is icing on the cake. In case Anime offends you or something

Argh I meant the B Hull that's got 75% of Aki firepower. The C Hull is trash...

Well it got me Rank 1 last season. Very powerful DD in the C/6-10 Hull but needs to be handled with care as you have T7 HP. Please don't take the Torp Reloader, you'll need the smoke.

I just accept the fact we carried almost every game except for that Mountain Range disaster

Or yeah you can just wait if you see 1 CV in queue too and wait till they're gone yeah I'll stop playing at night if there's CV games as they're skewer games and not always in your favour no...

If you're a Cruiser then press Escape immediately if you see 2 CVs in queue and it hasn't made a game yet. Swap out Hydro for Defensive AA... Helped me in the season I used an Atago.

No different to any other Ranked seasons vs a good CV. They have huge potential to shut games down...

Yue Yang is very strong in CW at the higher levels with radar but that's because you can rely on your team to shoot. I imagine we'll see a lot of DM and Moskva. Maybe even a few radar Mino. Gearing might be capable but she's pretty chunky and has no special abilities unlike the newer DDs.

As far as DDs go, they've all got plus points. But I'm leaning towards the Z52 as it's hydro is crazy, has good general purpose torps and is a good all round package. Only awful HE lets things down. I like Yue Yang but not being able to scare enemy DDs with torps and having to choose between radar or smoke harms you in some situations. In CW no smoke is fine as there is so much RPF and teamwork but random folk can't be trusted nearly as much. Would fancy the Grozo as I really like her but probably not competitive...

The XP Buffs of Prem ships are utter bull. I'll openly admit I did it in the Sims because it has the craziest XP multiplier. Cap one point and kill a DD, that's enough to get you top most times in Sims. At least this season will be on a level playing field.

This Season will win me a Black plus I'll be a parent soon so probably no more CW or Ranked!!

Game is old enough for T10 Ranked to not be a problem I think... Likely more balanced than other tiers as no Prem lols Fitting for potentially my final Ranked season as it's top tier

I got Kappa with Prime then cancelled. This time I did exactly the same thing. Same Twitch account. Always made sure I got the rewards then cancelled Prime immediately after.

That Steam thing is a lie!! I got Kappa last time and I had to log into WoWS via Twitch again to link the accounts again before I got the Texas and the missions

I use it and it seems fine. Only issue I had was it wouldn't install WoT 1.0 on my spare PC. Had to delete some files and check the game integrity. A bit more on your account, stats and gold etc might be nice as others have said but it's no big deal.

I can see Vanguard being a lazy conversion. E.g a Lion with 15" guns at T8. Superheal being the only gimmick... Would be easy for WG to do but I'd like it to be more interesting than that.

Whilst this is a salt thread I can understand OPs issue. WG in their wisdom have a completely random MM which can essentially be rigged with 3 man divisions of try hards. Especially when one takes a CV and the other two boost them with heavy AA ships. I can't see how it's fun for anyone, neither for the average potato being bashed or the elite pro division. I've CV divison'ed and it's unfair to play vs the vast majority of times. Barring CVs from Division might enrage and alienate the CV community even more (Year of the CV? No CV in CW anyone?).

In theory that's how a DD cap would work but a huge chunk of the DD population have no clue how to contest caps, knife fight and stay relevant to the game. A lot of games will see 75%+ of DD dying in the first engagement. I'd agree with the sentiment as bad DDs are even worse than bad BB. As bad BB are simply irrelevant to the flow of a game but a bad DD throws the game for their team. WG really need to educate their players but that will never happen. You have WoT players with WN8 under 100 after tens of thousands of games. There's similar here but there's no XVM in Ships linked to stats.

A DD and BB hard cap are things that could be considered but implementing both would likely lead to long MM delays. Imagine 3 BB and DD max each team, that leaves the need for 6 Cruisers or 5 plus one or two CV. Looking at the current state of the queues that won't work! Large BB numbers aren't actually an issue for DDs since they're the passenger class anyway and are waiting for spotters and smaller ships to carry them and screen them from nuclear tipped torpedoes.