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I agree Flamu is a very good player and is sometimes spot-on with his commentary - however I think he "makes a living" by selling drama, often amplifying specific aspects and overdramatizing. I can put value in his opinion but I (often) take it with a grain of salt <pun intended >. :edit: Regarding Daalarna, I think - since you seem to have a decent amount of experience with the Halland - you can get a good idea yourself how the ship would / could perform; after all they're not that different that you can't form any real thoughts on it yourself ?

That explains all those bots players camping in the back of harbour - and then they're surprised if one of the waves gets through Players being in the healing circles usually indicates they don't know how to play the Op (Newport). Especially if they go there before the 3rd wave has been dealt with, since they can't deal sufficient damage from there to stop the waves from entering the harbour. I find that having players in the healing circles is usually an indication it probably won't be a 5* victory, but that's just my 2 cents on that

It really is ... Yesterday I had a flawless 5* victory on it with San Diego (not the best ship for that Op), and a bit later a poor 2* victory with my Charles Martel since the first wave was able to get to the circle (). I did manage to break 400k that game so there's that But, when an Op goes wrong, I found it often to be a player-related issue rather than a ship-related issue.

Probably because le angry man said so. People need to have their thoughts / opinions chewed out for them

Well they added supershits and subs so Benham may come back as well - WG loves their toxic ships

I don't understand the obsession with the healing circles ... I can't remember the last time I went to those healing circles in the Operation Newport Defense. You can't get crossfires/broadsides from the positions of the healing circles, so why sit there ?

I found plane kills give a lot of XP (also in other battles).

I just met @NewHorizons_1 in Coop in his Plymouth - he got the kills, I got the planes

It's not a bug, CV players were always able to sink themselves.

I'm confused with people whining about that first scout squadron in Hermes, yet most of the time when I play Hermes, most of the allied ships (human players) do NOT turn / move towards the incoming scout planes Self-fulfilling prophecy imo and I don't understand it; - whine about the scout - don't move closer to try and put more AA on the scout > scout escapes and more airstrikes will come in - whine about the scout

I agree that some ships are (a lot) stronger than others in Operations (be it a specific one or in general); but isn't the bolded part an argument for the players being the problem, instead of the ships ?

Is that so ? What "requirement" did you have to fulfill to take part in the Auction (Patrie / Edgar) ?

Blyska but play it as a Russian gunboat DD

they're basically the PA DDs but with a citadel - so you play them like DDs with a citadel

You're correct, but this protected MM is only for 200-300 games iirc ? Imo most of these T1 spammers are toxic trash, and imo they "scare" new players away from the game. I had a bunch of friends who wanted to try out this game, but couldn't be bothered dealing with the toxicity as low as T1 (they expected some toxicity in the game, especially at high tiers, but not at T1), so they left. Some time ago I joined them for a T1 game, that's when I learned of this clan consisting mainly of these toxic T1 spammers: they spend half the battle trash talking the enemy team (they were especially targeting my mates since we were the only human players on the team, and both of them got sunk quite early), they kept trash talking even after the battle in port - I found it sickening and it formed my image of these "T1 mains".

You start the Operation by sailing towards the direction of the scout planes - you don't even need to "haul a$$" to get into AA range. I've had once where the scout planes escaped, but that didn't mean the end of the Operation (on the contrary, it netted me a lot more plane damage - and XP - than if the scout planes were destroyed). (:edit: tbh i've thought of disabling AA at the start on my San Diego / D7P, so I could get more plane damage & kills later on in the Operation ...) The one real issue I have with Hermes is when the healing circle and the final Gneisenau don't spawn - the lack of healing isn't that bad, but not being able to sink the 5th BB costs you a secondary task. Another issue I have with Hermes (be it much less important) is that the bots seem to be abnormally focused on non-BB ships in this Operation; though this is mainly an issue when your (human) BB players are shite and deal no damage. I think this focus is probably due to one of the secondary tasks being "have 3 battleships survive", and the average BB player wouldn't be able to survive halfway through the Operation. (though it is really annoying to be the furthest ship away from the 5 KM BBs, yet they're still all targeting you ... )

How about you sink the ships faster ? I've not lost a single Cherry Blossom yet, with multiple minutes left on the clock. I really like the new Operations, I think it's fun and easy Credit grinding.

all I can see is the 76k damage at the end of the Operation that's bad I have no issues with the planes in Hermes, more with the abnormal focus on DDs & CA/CLs by the bots (and they leave BBs alone ...) if anything I'd like more planes so I can shoot down more (+ I want to try get 500k plane damage) :edit: and tbh not getting the scouts killed is probably due to shitty players not knowing the Operation, the ranges of their AA sectors, or sector reinforcement

Snowflakes being snowflakes I'd guess

Broken artillery in a game whose main feature is artillery ... i'm sticking to Operations & Coop at the moment.

> be relatively new player to the game > play against a dude with almost 20k battles at T1

I got reported multiple times last weekend for (I assume) bringing a T6 ship into Operations.

iirc Skåne was a pain to grind through (might have done it in Ops even) - T8+ were ok

T-61 in Ultimate Frontier : Perth in Aegis : Aigle in Newport Defense (didn't take an after-battle screenshot, but this was a victory) : Huanghe in Hermes

It says at the top of the screenshot : 61 containers opened