Ferry_25

Like he had any influence in which tier he came. Ah well. I've made my point. It's not my RL credit income that's at stake. I know I wouldn't bug my clients that way....

T_h_o_r! That was an awesome battle. Too bad we were at opposite sides. FINALLY a match whithout campers: everybody pushed and played their role. We won by the skin of our teeth. It was SO close! Just the way I like it!

Nope. All I'm saying is a decent match should have a decent reward. If i screw up and get wrecked in the opening salvo, you won't hear me say anything else than BLUNT (better luck next time) and/or "that was stupid beyond comprehension. I'll try never to make the same again. Take my loss and move on. But he did his job: defending the cap, taking the beating and doing nice damage. When I see all the "fantastic matches on Youtube" very much of them are made possible by players like him. I am such a player too. I simply don't have the skills/ cheats to deal that much damage. And having difficulty in calculations. LTP argument is viable only with a slight handicap it's going that far. It would be the same for me to say: learn to see colors with color blind people. And I am not saying those YT people are bad. On the contrary. They have skills I can never dream of acquiring. For me an epic Tirp battle is when I deal 150k damage. It's just making me a bit sick those "aces" always saying "look how great I am with my kraken and 300k profit. I can tell you: they couldn't have done it whithout the lowlife cannonfodders like I am. And I am not even mentioning the malignancy in the chat I have to read: "stupid noob, you can't even hold the cap!" (while being wrecked by 6 enemies...). In fact if this issue is not getting back to reason I'm considering the "configuration screen solution."

This! It's exactly my point on the T9-10 lines! Even with prem the reward is IMO a joke. You did a decent match. I wouldn't expect to profit 500k from that. But this loss? Or the charity you'd get with prem? And don't start the BS: did you shoot DD's? What was he supposed to do? Try to sneek in the islandgroups and surprise the DD's? In an IZUMO? He did exactly his job: taking on the BB's and cruisers. Landing punches they surely will have remembered. IMO this seems to have been a very decent match. And he gets punished for that?!

Hm, that might explain things indeed Admiral. Too bad I only see those "hit boxes" on my ship when I can tunnelvision at extreme range.

Hm, I beg to differ. My point is: the time a cruiser can Yolo off to 1 useless site of the map is gone or the World of Tankers: lying behind an island and making a snipe shot once in a while and covering back while in fact being completely useless to your team. Egoistic play will be punished. The side with the best teamplay will win the game. As right it should. The T8 and + cruisers hold the key to succes IMO. You just have to pick up your role as support. Cover your DD's and BB's. Even if that means sacrificing yourself. And the BB's should cover their cruisers as well for that matter. From T8 and on the teamplay is vital. Below that you might get away with it but no more. Every error will be punished severely (as right it should too). So buffs are not recquiered IMO. Just take your role and take the risks involved. Or go back to tier 6 and below. And there's always Tetris is you don't like it. Or maybe Pokemon go ( I always tempt to stress the last word of that game but that's an entire different matter (-;)

But in that case I'd get the "overpen" ribbon. But it clearly is a "pen" ribbon. Not the "broken shell of the bounced" shell ribbon. And the same goes with HE for that matter. Note: not always, but quite often. Sorry, I don't have screens to prove it. It usually happens so quickly I forget a prt sc. And I don't know how to upload a pic on this forum (my message is always to long if I try so). On YT this issue is coming up as well. Right at the start. In this case 3 overpens with 14k dmg.

OK "never" would be hugely exaggerated. But I recongise this. Driving a cruiser. A BB @ 20 km looks funny to me and it's -90% health for me. No matter where the shells hit. Sometimes I don't even hear the "metal screetching sound" but only splashes. Even when I see the shells coming, and making a parking brake turn. It almost seems that actually engages my citadel magnet.... No, not always but more often than when the situation would be the other way around like OP has put it.

Wow OP. I am SO glad you brought this up. I'm struggling with the same thing! I really started to doubt my sanity. Thanks for the answers. Obviously RNG can't be influenced but I will try the seq shots more often. While we're at it. Can I ask some more questions parallel on topic? How come, quite often, I see a penetration ribbon but no damage? Not even the lollipop 1030 damage I inflict in an overpen? Damage saturation can only partly explain it: I see it happen on full health ships as well. A shell entering and exiting through portholes? That should be even more rare than detonation (and an overpen for that matter). Firing to a close range broadside cruiser in a BB. I always understood aim at or slightly below the waterline. I used to farm citadels like weeds. But nowadays it's bounces (like really: Izumo firing at a full BS Yorck from 5 km. 5 hits, 5 riqs...). No, not always bu again very often. What am I doing wrong?

Yeah I can't point it exactly but I no longer feel like a complete idiote when facing a Yamato in my Montana. I actually dare to load AP and fire @ them... I think they're more on par now. Yamato still the apex BB. But I don't mind that. Because historically it was.

Nice debate. I'm @ Ibuki right now. Did a couple of matches. I'm getting the hang of it. A little bit. Of course impossible to make a profit out of it. Winning, 40k dmg, 1 paintscratch (about 1000 damage taken) and -20k profit. Not too big in a Zao hurry (the profit prohibition demotivates me usually for 2 or 3 weeks before I try again). But I'd like to zee Zao in action 1 day as well. Russian cruisers OP? Hm, I like them a lot. Considering you'll just have to forget about an idea of an armor and the fact your citadel is very tight and well defined: it only takes 9 squares on the minimap, so that's not too big an area in the battlefield I wouldn't call them OP.

Oh get over it. it doesn't mean a thing anymore. I seriously got pink by 1 (I kid you not, one) accidental salvo against a friendly when in tunnelvision and he happened to slide before my ship. Didn't kill him, did app 1000 damage, he was still full health so no real harm done. But I got the color of fame for that. Some other day there was a guy in his Cammeltoe spamming torps and opened up at friendlies. Didn't turn pink. In my case I just spammed 7 T1 matches to get rid of it. Nothing to lose there. This system is IMO as sick and broken as it can be. The real TKtrolls get away with it while an honoust mistake is being punished.

I think they mean random battles Rol_Ber. In which you have 100% winrate so far! (-;

Ok: he (or something else) spotted you the first time in the channel and he waited you up. It CAN be a fun strategy on that map. But it can backfire just as easily. But please Skybuck: keep up the "X files!" I still don't have an explanation for the "ships jumping over torps" work you did... This never ever happens when I get a torp spread: the slightest contact, being it the warhead, the side or even the propellor of the torp, it's a guaranteed torpdetonation and a dito guaranteed flooding. I have sincerely no idea what the fuss is about from a phantom being called "torpedo belt." Torp = flood. Period. Edit: please people, will you give him some slag? He's asking feedback. AFAIK that is something highly appreciated on the forum. Or am I wrong and is this turning into a "bully" spree? In that case, I'm done on the forum....

That's why i've pretty much given up T9 and 10. No matter what I do, it's a loss. It's too demotivating for me. I'm simply not good enough/ don't have an aimcheat in order to harvest 300 k damage. Did a lot of decent games. Kagero f.e. 2 full caps, 10-ish damage, scratch on my paint (2 of 300 damage taken), winning the game. -50K profit. Granted: I don't expect to make 200k out of that but this makes my think: rust in peace in port!

Hey welcome and good luck. Don't ask my why but it's not allowed to beg for codes on the forum...

Oh here we go again. Look: these things happen. Period. Be a man and deal with it. The same goes for when you're playing a DD which gets detonated by a secondary hit, a DD tripping over a random torp, a cruiser getting 1 shot by a BB and a CV whose planes all get shredded before the 5th minute. It happens to us all. And you're in the recieving end but also in the dealing end in all those cases. In you case I always make it a deal to compliment the guy who manages to make such an excellent ambush and serving me with an inescapable torp treat. I know how hard that is when playing a DD myself...

My sincere appologies. Of course I meant the legendary Luxembourgian navy.... I didn't dare to mention the Centrafican navy. For those ships would be far OP....

Don't forget the Swiss, Hungarian and Mogolian navies!

Yep. THat's why I stopped selling ships.... Being a pathologic collector I want them all... I highly like to take out the lower tiers occasionally when I'm bored with the high tier campgrounds. Lower tier battles are always guaranteed to provide my appetite for action!

I never understood the "limited time" issue. Why the hell would you do that? To create an artificial scarecity?? IMO every product should be available for everybody. And I don't care about the "PTW whining." It's my cash, I work hard for it so I can do whatever legal activity I want with it. Furthermore: premiums tempt to have an extra sting to them (torp on tirp f.e.). But they are by far invulnerable. High price? Yeah maybe. But it's your choice. And Murmansk/ Emden are IMP premium pearls which are highly affordable. So my opinion: just put it on sale indefinitely.

Lol. Molotov is very agile and a beast of a ship. Scored a Kraken yesterday. But when it gets hit... It hurts like hell. (-;

Your call of course. Did you like Phoenix? I only liked Chester and St Louis on the US cruiserline. The rest I simply hate. OK Cleveland was meh for me. But in the rest I suck in the realm of sucking. The extreme best parts of the t6 and up US cruisers I think are their torpedo systems. Which aren't there. The rest is worse. Good AA? Like you're going to be in a lot of CV battles. And the red CV's will shun you anyway. So scratch that. Oh! Radar! Yeah, like you're going to survive the trip to the DD's... If you get an inch too close you'll be 1 shot from every angle with your extra-ship citadel. In every bloody US cruiser I thought: ok, maybe the next 1 is better. It's not. I'm pretty much stuck @ Baltiless. A BB looks funny at me in extreme range and it's bye bye, next game for you Ferry. That'll be 200k.

Interesting topic. For me CV's hardly have any influence on my matches. They're annoying at best. I extremely rarely get sunk by a torp attack. Only when I'm completely distracted in combat they sometimes manage to surprise me. Or an excellent fishone pattern which I cannot dodge at all (always compliment that CV player if he/ she does manage this). Oh and the rare occasions of a detonation. I'm not fond of playing CV's either. The controls are so boringly simplistic and I cannot grasp the meaning of the particular "setups" you have to chose for your planes. I always manage to pick the wrong ones. Having a strike setup guarantees me an enemy CV with fighters. Fighter setup? That's the best way to get into a USN cruiser infested match. Why I am not able to outfit my planes in battle is really beyond me... AFAIK that's how RL CV's are working. Adept to the particular situation. And once I'm out of planes I can't do anything anymore: all other classes have infinite ammo. But not the CV's with their limited plane stock. So CV's are not for me. Only play them when I 'have to' like with the diamond event. CV's being the reasons worldwide navies has been altered forever is by far not reflecting in any way in Wows IMO.

Granted. Never been in that situtaion. I never said the Imp is not powerfull. It is indeed. Just focus on her and torp spam it and you'll never notice it was even there in the first place...