Ferry_25

1973. Guess I'm in the middle aged population! Since my C64, with final cardeidge III mind you, I've been hooked into games. RTS, 1st P shooters, war games and occ fighting games (Street fighter series. Ken (?) because of his longer sute mi was my favorite).

Ok small nuance: what I meant is DD's suiciding into an infested cap, whithout checking if there's support: capping because I must cap!! Not realising a tactical retreat is a more viable choice: live to can another moment. Instead of bringing your team back 1 ship and never cap at all...

I totally disagree. IMO the players who don't play their role are the ones whining the hardest on this forum about being 1 shot in their cruiser, being HE spammed in their BB and the torpedo's won't hit anything from 19.9 k away. In fact: I think these are the same campers/ yolo solo suicidals and cap OCD DD players around. Can't really say that much about CV. Because I don't see them very often and even ingame I see their planes traveling around the map border the whole time whithout being much of help/ thread.

I also have "epic last words" revelations! Aim, shoot, BOOM "enemy severely damaged!!" Team chat. To all: "Lol I just fired 3 shells in your cita.... "Don't panic. I am safe in the cloud. I wasn't spotted in the first place, just stay put and cap it out. They can't shoot you." "Ah: the last known position of that DD behind the island is already 10 minutes old. Surely he won't be that stupid to stay put there for that time?" "Oops, detected. Ah! Shells miss. Heck: I am not going to evade, nor return fire: I'll be in stealth in 3 seconds. That BB has just fired and reload is at least 25 seconds." And I was right! THAT BB just fired.... "Ah, bombers spotted my (T9@ the time) Kagero. Lol. It's only a T7 non-Saipan CV. IF he hit's I'll just put out the fire. What's he gonna do? Detonate me?" Team chat: "Sucker DD! You must come closer before you can hit me with your torps!"

Nice to see you're making progress. There is no "right or wrong" Do whatever suits you best. Just take it slowly please: that skill leap when upping a tier is becoming more and more appearant. It's the same with driving a car: build up player experience (and I don't mean the points on your screen). Going up in tiers is for me huge fun though: new challenges and learning new skills. I would recommend trying some other lines/ shiptypes as well: it could broaden your horizon: maybe you'll like IJN DD play? Or you can rule out certain lines (for me it's CV play f.e.). In any case: you'll get to know your "enemies" better. I like Jingles as well. I'm only not into WOT and that's what he's mainly publishing. search the channel of iChase: he is a teacher by profession and he explains things very clear. Notser, Flammu, iEarlgrey, Aetam, Aerroon are more publishers. One word of advice: of course they are very good players but the battles you're seeing there are their epic ones. Don't believe every battle they're playing is going that great. I challenged a few of those people and only Aerroon had the guts to make compilations of battles in which he derped as much as us mortals do!

Actually there is a trae of truth in there. In the "stunned" part that is...

In my beginning of my "Wow's carreer" I was looking for fortified churches on the mapislands: everybody was talking about "citadels." I was looking hard in TV, in straight lines and what do you know? I DID get my citadels!!!

OK. Remember 1 rule of survival: detected = incoming until proven otherwise. As soon as the "detected" flares on: start smashing your WASD keys! The "trick" of cruisers is lying in it's name: cruiser. It's derived from the Dutch word "kruiser." In English it would litterly roughly translate as sailing crosswards: the cruisers were ment to zigzag around the main fleets to catch pirate ships: more lightly equiped for more speed but enough equiped to stand their ground if necessary. What does this mean ingame? Exactly that point: as long as you're not detected you can quite safely sail in a straight line (beware of rogue torps of course *duh*). And like I said: as soon as you're detected, just assume there's a volley of BB shells coming in and start changing speeds and courses. Yes: some shells will disperese into your citadel but it reduces that risk drastically. Also: don't open fire at the first ship that pops on your event horizon: you don't know if he's alone. Firing up = giving away your position until proven otherwise. In much cases it's very reasonable to hold on for a few seconds untill the situation has become more clearly and most of all: you have prepared your exit strategy! If you run into overwhelming odds and you're going to be detected no matter what: start your turn before detected, open up if you're full broadside (that way you can shoot all your guns) and by the time they can return fire you're angled again. 1 of the most difficult targets to hit is a cruiser who is sailing away in an angle and adjusting speed and slightly courses. In my case I'm almost 100% depending on RNG to hit those buggers with my BB. Last but not least: you have the same relationship in cruisers vs DD's as BB's have with you...

I've posted it elsewhere as well. I don't grind the line (maybe sometime in the future I will). But I hardly see the RN cruisers ingame. They're either hiding behind a rock, in a cloud or at the bottom the whole match. They don't bother me at all. IIRC I've been sunk by 2 or maybe 3 RN cruisers since the release. I recall 1 incident in which I completely forgot a boat who was hiding behind the island for 15 minutes and once I was being killstolen. And I lost count of how many I've 1 shot, regardless what ship. Heck I don't even run away when playing a DD! Would never ever cross my mind to pick a knife fight with any other cruiser in a DD. But agains the RN cruisers? (non Belfast to nuance that). Bring it on, slight angle and the bounces are annoying for the ears but otherwise I'll ruin their day every encounter! So far I like them: very nice for my dev strike collection.

I just recently found out Lo Yang has sonar... It was in Rank battle. OK Ferry: "Now smoke up and turn on your sonar!!!" eeer, sonar???

I think this is a wonderful idea!

Cool! I am so curious to the RN BB line!! Would be wonderful to see them only equiped with HE shells and no AA!

Excuse me. but can I politely ask you to tone down? You don't know what his/ (her) disability is! Maybe he has poor eyesight in which case those numbers are great. I know what it is to have a disability. Though nothing too serious and I can function perfectly fine with it: I'm slightly dyscalulatic (is like dyslexia, only not with letters but with numbers). It always takes me that extra half second to "process" the numbers before taking a shot. I think if I could have acces to the absolute not to be talked about taboo mod, that would in fact for me be the same help as the rightfully implied colorblind mod for those disabled persons. But even bringing the Aim assist up in a discussion always ends up being, metaphorically speaking, me being lynched by an angry crowd. When I only sugesting it as an assist for my disability. Not to cheat in any way! IMO those things are pissing me off a bit: some disabilities (color blindness) are being taken care off and others (mine: discalculy) are slahed away as "cheating" with an assist an calling people with a disabilty bad players whithout even knowing the background situation of those people. I dare say I know a thing or two about disabilities from my profession...

I'm not sure either. I have 250k free xp on my account now. 3 M fee xp stocked on ships. I always use free xp fo the upgrades. Don't want to suffer through stock hulls. And AFAIK Mo is an Iowa with radar. I kind of having a "love-hate" relation with Iowa: either I shred everybody to pieces or I only miss, bounce or overpen. Furthermore I'm a bit "anxious" for the "Yamato effect." (Hey, it's a Yamato. let's focus it out because it's a Yamato). I'll just wait and see what the cat brings home. Reviews and stats. Maybe I'll take it.

Regrind I'm afraid. Or use free XP. IMO you're going too fast though. The players will get better the higher the tiers. If you're not ready for that this game can quickly become a huge frustration: it's no fun to be 1 shot in the 3rd minute over and over again. Please: slow down and enjoy the current ships! I made the mistake of advancing too quickly and nearly quit this indeed marvelous game. Edit: sorry. I misread. You're @ level 5. I thought already at tier 5. My bad.

You're sure you met the tier req? And not played a 3 by accident?

I understand your POV. The trick is to create equal surroundings for both sides. So both sides have the same opportunities and hindrances. So they appear quite symmetric. But I think the maps are very different. But that's my POV. What I have noticed is it seems some ships are "stuck" to particular maps... When playing Tirpitz it's (don't have exact numbers) 90% chance I get in 2 Brothers or the fire island map. Atago = trap. Konig = Solomon. a.s.o. And I always seem to spawn at the same side of each map in 99% of the cases! 2 brothers = south. Trap = north. Ocean = south east, etc. Am I the only 1 having that?

Luckily those kind of people are very rare. IMO the overly vast majority of TK's is a stupid but otherwise unintentional mistake

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Hey! Welcome on board. You'll find This forum very nice. We all share the same minor brain dysfunction on liking games! Atmosphere is very benign. Though we don't shy heated debates but we tempt to agree on disagreeing. Pretty much said about ships. If you're planning to spend $: I'd advise you to take a premium account. It is making life easier. 1 strong word of advice: Go slow! The higher the tier the more difficult the game is. So go over when you're perfectly comfortable with that ship. Please: Assign to our lotteries: Ships and doublons to be won! You'll find them in the gameplay section!

Spot on! And dont forget: we still have MtM's ex to blame if something goes wrong!!

Hm. I'll try of course. But untill now I have noticed Rank is not my thing. IMO too luck depending. But the first missions are nice for the goog rewards. Don't think Flint will haunt my port any time soon though. (-;

I'm afraid you seem to misunderstand me my friend. Of course it's your choice what you play and don't play. Like and dislike a.s.o. I will never argue about that. And I agree with you to se things in perspective: gamewise Nachi is a Lemon green Myoko cruiser with nothing special other than the color and a free skin which gives more stealth (looking at those colors I cannot grasp why but that's another matter ). The whole point of my thread is to ask WG if they might want to losen up the challenge. Just a bit so the frustration will wear off. That's it. Not to mock your P.O.V.!

OK OP. You might want to tone down a bit. Though I tempt to agree with you on this matter. It would have been much custumor friendly if WG had allowed free transfers for a certain period of time after reshuffling the whole bunch.

Didn't make it yet. Had stage 4 y'day. in Yamato. Found out only after the battle! Not really focussing on stage 5. But I'd be happy to complete it. An extra portslot is always welcome for a OCD ship collector (124 in total and counting...) as I am. By the way: I am not able to buy additional portslots anymore. Not that I'm in dire need right now but I don't see the option anymore. It used to be at the end of your shipcarroussel?? Pic below in case you don't believe me..