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Hi Nooby, play cruisers like you'd play a glass canon medium tank in WoT. You need to harass the enemy but make sure the enemy BB guns are pointing in another direction first. For countering enemy cruisers understand their weakness and strength as much as your own and make a judgement who is top dog, and for countering enemy destroyers treat them with contempt while dodging all the torps.

As a fellow newbie I'd say don't get fixated on what you think you initially want to play. Just understand the subtle differences between the T1 cruisers and you start to understand how ship stats affect different aspects of their performance. None of the T1 ships are significantly better or worse than others, but how you play them individually makes a big difference in success. Understanding T1 stats and ship performance is only a toe in the water, but I think it gives a good grounding in interpreting where you want to go next. And all the T1 cruisers are easy to divert from at T2, but you'll soon realise 'this T1 cruiser plays more like a DD, this plays more like a CC, this more like a BB', so don't ignore them.

Perhaps a blunt analysis, but if you didn't win the battle it shouldn't be expunged from your WR stats. WR is the only parameter used, so anything other than a win is a failure, call it a loss or a draw, either way you didn't win in a game that is about winning and not failing to win.

Had one yesterday and dead before I could get back. Posting from a foggy England.

Good idea. But what you'd need to go alongside the penalty is one for players who aren't reading the map and let somebody who see's an opportunity go unsupported. It's a team game, just saying 'can't be bothered to help' is entirely different to criticising somebody that should have been given some help.

Happened to me as well, another ship embbed in me and you can't do anything. The idea this is about Windows Vista is a red herring. Edit : I've been using Win 10 since before re-joining WoWs.

So let's have a look. I'm not averse to skipping ships, I've done it with tanks in WoT and I've done it in WoWs. But it's to get to a happy spot, a tier and ship(s) where I feel happy to play, not dragged down in low tiers, and not slaughtered in high tiers. But if the imperative of the OP is to get to the top tiers no matter what, without improving their WR along the way, then I can't see why anybody here is giving positive advice to advance the plan, because you'll be complaining about so-and-so player one day. My advice would be to drop down the tiers until your WR keeps up with some sort of respectable tier average.

I don't buy the idea that 'heavy tank' equals 'battleship' because while the OP sings the praises of the KV-2 he fails to stress enough its downsides, three big ones in fact, the left, right, and rear of the turret, and up-tiered the entire hull is a downside. True it can splat other tanks, but it's only truly strong in it's own tier, good match, and played carefully, it's not a typical heavy tank that can absorb many shots and most die early in WoT Random battle. So good guns, tactical, fragile if flanked, a constant eye on survival, always an eye on opportunity, I'd say the Budyonny or Emile Bertin. Both can grief higher tiered opponents with HE, either can put either a smile on your face, or a frown, just like a KV-2.

Watch Flamu or Flambass on Twitch everyday for free Twitch loot containers with some flags and 100,000 credits.

I've got 3, must be luck, or poaching. I didn't know I had any until this thread made me look.

I think WG having the ability to know if your PC is switched 'on' or 'off' is the thin end of the wedge, or the start of a slippery slope, whichever analogy you like. Being afk is good enough and no more.

If it was that easy you'd have the situation where if a player didn't like the match up they'd just switch off and abuse the system. I imagine the system works similar to WoT, if you go afk for any reason the reports accumulate and if you are afk often enough over a short period of time the player gets a warning and then a ban. Usually it's about the internet going down but it's the players responsibility to have a good connection. Actual power cuts in your case are more difficult especially if it's a region wide cut, but if it's your own fuse box tripping then it comes back to being your responsibility to fix before pressing 'Battle'.

Maybe the team sending in 'afk' reports, but seriously, a forum post was worth it for a slight screw up over one battle?

I think if players are believing the fault is in Aslain's mod pack that's been downloaded from the official site they are chasing after a red herring. It may be the only mod pack they currently have, but if they've experimented even unwittingly with others in the past that are illegal that's probably what is triggering the ban. And as with WoT players claiming the same thing, this isn't necessarily something that was triggered last week when your files were clean, the data collection for the next big banwave is starting all over again right now, so it could have been months ago that the player got caught.

I think perhaps WG want cheats to uninstall all illegal mods, not just the ones they got caught with. Tell them what the mod was and they may well think the others are OK when they may not be. There are a lot of 'innocent' whiners on the WoT forum after the recent banwave struck. Common advice is 'don't try to cheat', 'don't download any mod or modpack from anything other than the official site, even if it has the same name', and 'always remember it is your responsibility to assure yourself of the game rules and don't assume that mods can't accidentally be made available yet still be illegal'. The last point is most relevant, check and double check both the legality and source of the mod and it's relationship to game rules and don't try to 'interpret' the rules just to suit yourself. I'd add that I've never known WG to issue warnings, the first 7 day ban is the first time the cheater knows they've been caught. The next ban is permanent. A warning slap on the wrist before a ban would be counter productive, people would start playing games with 'how long before I'm clear again?', or 'I'll switch to a similar mod that's still illegal'. Players should rightfully be scared of getting banned, they are ripping off everybody they play against after all, that's you and me folks.

I was offered the Cossack as well, it makes me wonder if there isn't a WG scam going on and they have a whole pile of Cossack's on a dusty shelf that they can't sell.

The context I took from what Flamu was saying was that it wasn't as good as the Baltimore with the subtext 'if you already have the Baltimore'. I think Flambass said something similar, if looking up the tech tree it's not bad, if looking down the tech tree then why would you want it? The resulting conclusion I took away from watching both reviews is that it's ok for some players and not worth bothering with for others, so is it a bad ship or a good ship, depends which end of the telescope you are looking through? I've not read any comments in the forum that look at the ship in any context other than 'I've got the Baltimore' which is disappointing.

If they are air cooled engines they need air to cool them, the faster the air the better within an upper and lower limit. If you've been going full speed and back off the throttle then the engine suddenly has an excess of heat to dissipate. To keep the engine heat within limits the engine speed should be reduced gradually. That would be real life anyway, I don't know if it's modelled in the game like that.

I have Pingplotter working in the background when I play games and nothing coincides with WoWs events and a flaky connection. But next time I'll send the trace log to Support.

Something similar I guess, recently it seems to be after I've done something 'significant' such as launch a big long range salvo, the ship stops responding to helm and ploughs straight on until the shells have landed. Also the whole game froze once until the shots had landed. My graphics are max'd (WoWs 'Recommended' settings, I've not changed them), I wondered if something or other needed turning down, but I'm loath to do it as the game runs very well 99% of the time. I've not had this happen before the CV patch.

Exactly, nothing is an 'accident' in this game. I see the Commander reset is now back to gold while players are still coming to terms with the carriers part A) and part B) fiasco, talk about keeping people on their toes, I imagine some more gold will be bought this week in the continuing efforts to sort it out. In terms of the video he makes a good point at the end, and if I can paraphrase, 'the RNG thing just seeks to equalise the ships so nothing stands out'. OK, great some may say. But no, it just means players are always trying to buy the latest thing for the slightest hoped for advantage it can offer, and often it won't. WoWs needs ships that players can identify with, feel good with, and not feel they are going to have the rug pulled from under them all the time. Not all ships will be good for all people, and the GC is great in it's tier, but gets decidedly flakey when up-tiered as it is.

Given all the stats Wargaming have on their game it must be an incredible and astounding surprise to them that the GC seems now to be OP! I mean, what were they thinking? Unless it was to milk the community before taking the prize away so they can milk the community all over again with another offering in the GC mould. Maybe I'm being overly cynical? I think at some point Wargaming have to stand by their decisions and not take the wee wee out of their players by changing the parameters of what they bought. How would you feel if the size of your Levi's changed suddenly without your waistline changing to explain it?

Not sure how a CV would cease to be classed as a warship in WoWs, they were ships, and at war, but given the relatively small player base how would you feel losing maybe 25% of players in your CV free games? Yes, just play with your friends, very healthy for the game in the long term, as if.

'Littlekittenoftummytickles' is the sort of name you need if your instinct is to surrender. No, it's just not acceptable to surrender, or claim your internet died, or that your dog ate the keyboard, you enter a team game to play a team game to the end. Same goes for players that go to hide if they are losing, it's not big and it's not clever.

OP, it appears you skipped over playing tier 1 pretty quickly, but if you haven't learned tier 1's three brutal lessons, of 1) being influential in the game, 2) getting into the habit of doing more than your own hit points in damage, and 3) surviving to the end of the battle, well it just gets harder from then on. I'm not saying go back to tier 1, but I think these are the parameters you should be judging yourself by, and if you aren't managing a good ratio of the three principles go down to a tier where you do, refresh your senses, and work back up again.