Toivia

With the Nurnberg you just have to make sure noone is shooting you with anything bigger than 140 mm guns. The moment someone is, you run/hide. The running option also gives you the opportunity to easily use 66% of its firepower.

Well, this nicely sums up my misery since GNB started. Particularly my inability to do well in DDs since over a month ago:

V prémiových lodích všechny kapitánské perky fungují ihned bez přeškolování na onu prémiovou loď. Ale kdybys toho kapitána vrazil třeba do Mogami, tak by se detekce neukazovala, dokud by kapitán nebyl přeškolen. EDIT: Mimo jiné proto mám rád Kamikaze-R: Nedávno jsem koupil Mutsuki, hodil na ní kapitána z Minekaze, zaplatil 200 000 kreditů a pak kapitána šoupnul do Kamikaze-R. Na tom jsm mohl dál klidně hrát, protože všechny perky fungují, a zatím jsem vyzkoumal těch zbývajících 50% XP na přeškolení kapitána na Mutsuki. A teď už můžu hrát mutsuki s použitelným kapitánem.

Well color me disappointed. I was hoping for at least a good Tier 4 premium (since we could get some collector ships along the way). Oh well... EDIT: To be clear, I didn't expect everybody participating to get the ship. Either they could make a necessary amount of collected diamonds for it, or they could make it a reward for one of the missions that are milestones of GNB.

Woohoo, god job on the Hipper!

Ta děla nejsou špatná. Ale torpéda jsou prakticky k ničemu. Ideálně zajet za nzký ostrov a pálit, respektive schovat do kouře a pálit.

Hmm, tohle mi zatím přijde jako nejhorší DD, s jakým jsem se kdy potkal. Umikaze byla naopak na stejném tieru nádhera. Problém je, že než se dostanu na 5km k vypuštění torpéd, už je po mne (Umikaze má 8km torpéda). Takže nějak moc nevím, co s touhle lodí vlastně mám dělat. Smith má sice taky torpéda k ničemu, ale alespoň má překvapivě schopná děla.

Pancíř na přídi sice něco vydrží, ale bohužel pak ztrácím jednu věž za druhou. Co byste doporučili za moduly? Zaměřit se na AA, sekundárky nebo hlavní baterii (a doufat, že trefí a nebude to za 0 respektive overpen)?

Just had 4 battles in a row in the Amagi (mostly Tier 9 battles), where all of the friendly BBs actually retreated further back from spawn and then ran to a corner of a map with CVs. Most of the cruisers along with them (ocassionally, I've even seen a DD go along). Now, I just can't explain why anybody sane would do that. Obviously those few players trying to cap were soon overwhelmed and sunk one after another, including me, who just tried to support them. Clearly those cowering in the corner were soon besieged from all sides with the enemy holding all caps --> obvious loss. I would have though (as unbelievable as it is) that they might just all be bots, if it weren't for them to ocassionally post in chat. Obviously they wouldn't react on my queries. I'm just at a loss here, obviously angry. What the heck am I supposed to do when half the team or more basically runs from the battle before it even starts? Since the battle is lost from the start, should I just go with them and hope we'll lose (by points) before I get sunk?

... a přitom je to taková blbost. (Pardon, už mizím.)

Well, I find sometimes hiding behind BBs a necessity in cruisers. A focused cruiser is a dead cruiser, particularly if focused by BBs. The ideal for me is if BBs and cruisers are close enough that they can switch positions if needed and close enough to the enemy that they can all fire at him (that's in particular why I have such a problem with camping and running BBs). And an aside, since my last post, I actually finally started to get wins again. (Note that I haven't played more than for the dailies or to get a daily bonus for the first win on the couple ships I'm leveling.)

I've taken a look at your stats and I can see how you would make those credits. Me menawhile, I'm happy if I don't lose credits in a Tier 8 game (after counting the camo). That's what primarily discourages me from Tier 9. (Tier 7 sure is better, but I still don't gain much and it does happen I lose credits even there.)

It was still a lot, 3 full caps, 10 torp hits and three kills. I'd guess 2700 base XP minimum (way above my max).

Are that many people using premium consumables? I mean, given how fast all BBs I face are repairing and healing, it would make sense. But damn, where do they get the credits?

Since you guys seem to keep this thread afloat, let me add another example of... well, it's probably not as much stupidity as inexperience this time. With my Tenryu, I valiantly charged with another 2 cruisers on the east flank in the Big Race map. It was a Tier 4 battle, so I planned to very quickly run assuming more than one or two enemy ships appeared there. But, soon I realised one of us three turned before any enemy showed up. And what's worse, the second cruiser kept charging (despite my warning) even after we noticed 3 enemy cruisers, 1 DD and a BB sailing toward us. So I ended up alone, running from all that lot. At that point I realised I really should have been way more attentive: everybody else from the team was rushing full speed through the islands on the west side. Nobody was near our cap anymore barring me running from what soon became pretty much most of the enemy fleet. Obviously noone heeded my advice and turned back, not until half of them was dead between the small islands, prey to enemy torps, and I was long rotting on sea bottom. It was almost cute watching all those 10 symbols together on the minimap, like a green wool ball... soon to be a plaything for a red cat.

That seems sound in that they wouldn't hand out premiums to everybody participating (which is far fetched indeed). But as piet11111 notes, the Profintern (regardless possible naming issues) would at least tie with the Kamikaze-R as a Tier 5 ship. And given what I've seen of the Campbeltown, I'd take the russian ship...

Well, this only reinforces my decision not to use any mods at all. But please, implement training rooms already. I'd really love to try what exactly would be the ideal way of behaving/aiming in the game.

Oh my... I gotta xp it fast while there's time.

I used two premium days as best I could. The first one (reward for some mission a week ago) netted me just below 2750 XP (2717 if I recall), enough for the first week mission. Then bought the one day premium for 50 diamonds and managed several games above 2750 XP, sadly the best of them still falling short of 3000 (something like 2920 is now showing on the GNB page). The funny thing is I managed at least 2 slightly over 2000 base XP battles in between the two premiums. I'll yet have to decide whether it's worth it to me to get the 3 or 7 days of premium for diamonds and get trying again (was playing like 40-50 battles for each of those previous premium days - pretty damn tiresome).

I'm kinda curious what prompts that question about fair distribution of ships etc. I've gotten it 3 times in the past week, obviously just those times where there was nothing to complain about in the MM. Other than that, giving both teams the same amount of DDs seems like an obvious fix (I suppose with an even number of DDs, one team can get one more - but having them distributed 4/6, 2/4, 1/3 is nonsense). On top of that, I'd kinda like DDs to be capped at 3 per team (exceptions of course with low player numbers). I'm probably biased by only playing IJN and german ships, but in neither of their lines, I like to see many DDs in a game.

Forgot to add, it wasn't BBs running and hiding yesterday but cruisers (somehow I kept getting battles with just 1 BB per team). 7 cruisers together reached the corner in ocean and without any noticeable change in course started border skipping (well, until they got stuck exactly in the corner, thankfully they usually died fast).

Heh, yesterday I had a streak of 8 or so losses and most of those were again people just running away from caps, leaving them all to the enemy and getting cornered on a map border (it's real fun getting shot at from several sides). Well, I went with the flow - after my advice, example and then remarks were all ignored - and even survived a couple times. Btw it's curious that since the GNB event started, my winrate is falling every day I play (kills and kill/death is also afaik going down).

You can win domination if you have one cap. But having no cap at all and no ships that can fast cap (when all BBs stay way back, DDs and cruisers die very fast) is truly difficult. The ideal is to have most of the capital ships slowly push forward (or at least stay in range of the important zones) picking up the enemies one by one focusing them. EDIT: Not to be too negative though, I did get a couple games where it was the enemy team that screwed up the exact same way (we had all caps, we never met any real resistance - every time a single enemy showed up, he was easily dispatched). The reason I even came up with this thread was that not only I started seeing this behaviour in pretty much every T8 battle (to some degree), but even in my Fuso, I'm starting to see it more and more often.

It's one thing to not rush in a high tier BB (then you could really get in trouble) but it's another retreating from spawns from the very start of the game while your DDs and a couple cruisers go ahead to get caps. The problem is that I usually end up faring much worse than those 'would be bots' because I'm the only one spotted by the enemy most of the time and get sunk very quickly. Actually I think I'll stop trying to defend caps and help the team because I'm always alone in it and get sunk without much effect.

Nemůžu soudit, jak se s ní hraje, protože ji nemám (a asi nikdy mít nebudu), ale sakra to je nádherná loď. Dost možná nejpěknější křižník ve hře (taky mám rád Konigsberg, Myoko, Atago). Dlouhá, štíhlá a nemá tak typický 'tlustý zadek' jako naprostá většina BB i křižníků (typicky třeba Iowa).