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Yes DeGrasse looks good on the youtube and Gallant If it is just acceptable RN DD to train for the forthcoming tree is sure buy. Makarov? Gäsp! = Swedish for Yawn While some of you are irritated that Gallant was chosen instead of Glowworm, I think she has an interesting if less spectacular career, in RN there are so many great ships so I am not angry when we get one. Perhaps she was modelled as she may? be part of the movie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gallant_(H59)

I voted once a week, but it differs often it is not the overall statistics but a single ship. As I have around 11000 games that is meaningless to check often but in newer ships or in those that I grind at the moment. It is often just 1 or 2 ships in the week. When I reach 12000 games (last time 10000) I will take out the stats for every ship , captain level and write it in my excelsheet to see the long time development in my around 150 ships, many of them I would not have played of course and many only a handful of games. I have some favourites which I think it is interesting to check,also if I had some ships that I have during the last period have increased the results in and improved or vice versa - new ships with a handful of games are not so meaningful to look at, a single excellent game or a few useless can destroy the stats - 50 games or so I think is necessary to have a real value, even though of course a feeling can be had earlier. Extra notice is of course to those ships that I underperform in and I have tried to improve in more seriously if it goes better.

I am not so sure , think that I have been low tier a lot regardless if I play DD, BB or CA when I choose the "wrong" tiers f.e. T5,6 or 8. I have not noticed that BBs are less exempt if it is so it must be by a relatively small margin.

They look good indeed, bought the 200 and I have some 50 left, use them in my high tier grinds like the other special camos. But a few times I have bought the perma camo instead on my IJN DDs f.e. I bought a few during the split as I then got some for free. But as they are ahistorical I rather have new (new colourschemes) bundles now and then , never buy them 1 for 1 but the 200 bundles that are most value for money. It is always a question - if I grind a ship that I enjoy I am less inclined when th supply dwindles to take them, the most XP related ones I use for my hategrinds. And if there is a nice new premium ship I usually prio the ship.

Regardless of new players are good or bad campaigns like Bismarck brings interest to the game - sad that so many are so negative about a reasonable designed thing, sure there will be some poor players but it is difficult at higher tiers and you must start somewhere. No game can thrive on the experts alone, we need more influx of players, and like has been said before for a new player to grind the Bismarck in the campaign takes some time. If ypou only grind with the T5 and 6 ships even more, without premium flags etc it bring some experience, there are players that have 4000 games with 45% WR and there are players with 1000 games with very good results. I play a lot during the campaign several hours a day, and sure Buismarck influx but not as alarming as it sounds from some post here, 4 Biz i the bottom with 250 XP , can not say that I have lots of such experience, even though a few games might be like that. Biz is a much played ship amongst all people. Regardless we need new players so I wish that we could sometimes be a little more tolerant including myself sometimes. Think that we must respect that it takes a while to get adjusted, personally I have had long time difficulty playing the RN cruisers with the smoke to a barely acceptable degree, now I have at least a few games which I have reached the 100 K mark topped by 159 in Neptune where I am currently. Some of us takes time to learn and build up the captain level to an acceptable degree vs the high end captains lurking at this level. Some games still are catastrophic but at least I am at least begin to know what to do. There are still ships out there f.e. Donskoi which I am underperforming strongly in.

Mission 3 2 matches in coop w Langley= Mission done with ease, Complains about this unjustified, it is like JapLance observes the DDplayers that are to blame. I think this mission is rather okey. That you are encouraged to use different tools for the missions is not at all wrong.

Yes may have worked for me too, Now finally at 0.08 CET I did finally not reach only the 2 BBs in a winning team but 4 BBs, thanks to a "friendly" enemy Bayern who had the great idea to go to a mutual ram when we both had 7 K left roughly and with 4-1 ships remaining it was not so hard to let him do it, might have pushed me enough XP to get to the first 2(Even 1st place), as our team was very even in as a whole in point with several pretty good active players but where I had the luck on my side finally. Our top 4 were all between 1260-1370 something in XP, so I probably needed the ram. Thanks Bayern I have sent him a thanks message afterwards.

Being a collector I started every new ship with a fresh captain, but with the new elitexp I am probaly trying to get a few more 19 points captains. I have started with the new eliteXp also to move captains mostly from T3/4/5 ships something I never did before. I have f.e. a Kaiser 11 p captain in store for GK and a 11 p Kolberg in store for Hindenburg, A 13 p IJN captain in store for Zao. When I crossed the 10000 mark games a month ago I did an inventory. I have 1 19p captain on my T2 Chikuma (my favourite ship) took 1500 games. I have 1 18 p captain on New Mexico, with the use of Arizona and first win bonuses I really want to get him to 19 I have 17 p captains on Bogatyr and Yamato, when i play Yamato I use dragonflags to get him up to 19. Between 70-80 between 10 and 16 (some guesswork as I know I have got a little more than my list). I try to press all captains on T4 and above on ships I play to at least 10, especially on T5 and up I use flags until 10 th grade. I have also commenced training of RN and French captains for future use, I have owned Dunkerque since more or less it came out and Warspite and Belfast a long time so I have produced a few around the 10-12 p level.

Naturally, but the OP suggest a line that has very few ships/designs and we have plenty of lines with real ships that are not in game yet. I do not mind playing a few paperdesigns or never completed f.e. I love to have a USS Lexington as a Battlecruiser w 7 funnels and 35 knots or more realistically the started ships with 33 kts and 8-16 a fragile but fast battlecruiser. But I want the real ships taking priority.

Not necessary to use that, as you had designs for improved Mogadors also f.e. contre-torpeillur type 1939 proj arnament in 1940 8-130 D.P. with better AA. The guns were changed from 138.6 mm - 130 mm due to problems with the mounting on Mogador and Volta. This design suitably fickled with can form the basis for a T10 (source The Contre-Torpeillurs of the Mogador class by John Jordan, p 55 Warship 2007). If worse come to worse better use the Regolo ships taken over from Italy.

Troll post. Bearn could be a premium but will not sell much. Graf zeppelin should be premium not an a entirely line full of paperships. Madness Following lines are in my opinion far ahead not in any order: RN Cruisers Heavy (split) RN DD RN CV RN BB RN BC KM BC RU BB JP Bc/BB Alt US BB/BC Alt US CA/CL alt FR BB FR DD IT BB IT CA/CL IT DD Commonwealth : CA/CL and DD PAN EUR: BB/BC PAN EUR CA/CL PAN EUR DD Pan Eur= Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, Greece, Poland , Yugoslavia among others Pan South America Trees are even possible at least cruisers/DDs. Many of these can be reasonably filled with built ships also and all will attract more buyers and players so at least 20 lines are far ahead. In other words Forget it!

I see that your post have been liked by many probably Clan/Div players themselves? I want to comment your last sentence even though it is an example, they may have been poor players. If you face unicum in divisions (or good players becoming unicum in divisions), It can be hard for the other sides average players (like myself) to coordinate good enough resistance. While your assessment may in this case have been correct, fact remains that div. means higher stats. Lack of coordination does not mean that the players all the time are potatoes, but that it is a clear disadvantage to fight solo. This is not a whining over that divisional players have it easier to get good results but the sometimes lack of understanding that if you fight as a solo player you are bound to have a slightly lower winrate/damageresults etc and more difficult to coordinate resistance. If you have voicecomm you can coordinate attacks defence etc far easier and you know that you might have support. I play solo and I accept the disadvantages.

Or as an alternative you rent the ship for 15% 24 hours, anytime during that period you have the opportunity to buy it for 90 % of the normal cost. The abilty to test is worth 5% compared with if you bought the ship directly.

Greetings! Noticing that Roon is one of my better performing (less poor) high tier cruisers I am realizing that I will probably play this a lot in the future. In the BB heavy Meta (often 5) I kind of like the 1 Turret front 2 back arrangement, and I have found that she seems to fit my play style (relative speaking), (Donskoi, Ibuki not performing well and Baltimore acceptable) Currently I have a 13 pt captain with 4 skills, PT, LS (allergic on lost engines/rudder), SI, CE. I am contemplating AFT as the logical choice, but are there other options, more low tier skills BFT, AR, etc Thing is that I am thinking of AFT + MAA later as I think that future realeases of Kaga and Enterprise in T7 and T8 will rise the carrier influx and then AR at T2 is out of the question. I can say that I will let this captain stay, even though I am soon on Hindenburg , there I will put an 11 pt captain from start which I have from Kolberg (Yes like that Dakka Dakka ship). What do you think , especially when thinking of Enterprise and Kaga.

To OP you also forget that many Premiums are only accessible a short time. Would you rather pay 25 EUR/month? Do not think so. While all your gamewise arguments are valid, bought myself a Atagao with predictable results, you also seem to forget that the branches are massive now, you have a huge number of ships that will not sell in any sort of volumes. Somehow the revenue must come in. Much of the premiums are probably also bought by decent players that does not have the time to pursue all techtrees, Let us take the Tirpitz as a more positive example, not the newbie buy but an experienced US/IJN BB player, that may not have the time or desire to pursue the German BB, but wait I buy a Scharnhorst or Tirpitz, it would drop the premium sales to a trickle if you not only restrict players that are new but also experienced players that has not researched that particular line. I may misunderstand you here in your definition of branch , but you write branch and not shiptype. Problem is that many forumites are now veterans and if the future of the game should prosper we need new players. Therefor (i borrow this reasoning from a sound post on the NA forum) if we set too many obstacles the game will not attract new players. How much you and others hate it, many players comes to WOWs to play the Tirpitz or some high tier ship well known, if he puts up 50 EUR that helps the game. Hopefully he learns after a while that it might be good to play lower tiers, but we must not fool ourself that most players play for entertainment and we need numbers also , paying players that finance the new shipbranches better gamefeatures and so on. The game is a nichegame so it is important to encourage new players not stopping them. Lots of players with your reasoning would not have more than a handful ships to buy. It does not matter if your arguments have validity for veterans , but you can not cater your business only for hardcoreplayers, there are too few.

If you want to play Battleships and are willing to spend a little money the T4 Battleship Ishizuchi is pretty good in learning the game, good speed sees max T5, use a lot of HE and get results, (high firechance), somewhat unforgiving in her armour which is good as you learn angling. She is my third most played ship roughly 500 games. The angling and armour issue is good as if you play the German battleships they are almost too forgiving with their armour scheme.

A few things can prepare you: Watch youtube guides if they exist on your ship, try to find recent material (after the new captain skills) Flamu or several other has guides with suggested captain skills etc, sometimes you can find it on the wikipedia section also If you made mistakes with your Königsberg you can be instadeleted by skilled battleship players, awareness, Minimap, use different tactics deoending on which boats you have and which enemies you have You can expect to be lower tier a lot when you play T5. You might now and then be top tier with T4 ships, but this will be less coomon than the other way, remember though that you will have a enemy in the same situation. Königsberg have a advantage in the gunconfiguration when you turn tail. Be a support ship. Use WASD. Much better advice can be found from others, long time since I played Königsberg but I play a lot at T5 with ships that are OK to play when uptiered, like König and Kamikaze. Sadly Nürnberg is not among the best T6 cruisers in my opinion, Königsberg is relative her tier better, her gun range is upgraded really good. You can be useful.

That is true, but I like the OPs intent that it is wiser to use them on a high tier ship. Itis better to use them if you do have a 19 p captain on a T10 and use the XP gained on the lower tier captain that you like to boost or a High tier premium. Naturally if you have a slightly lower tier ship that you perform better in and get more XP in f.e. a T) that ypu grind at the same time it is better. But I agree that one should not be to picky. But it maybe a waste to spend vast sums of flags when you advance a captain in lower tiers, partly asit is not that crucial to have a high end captain and if you move the captain he will climb anyway,. The captain XP is reverse to the ship grind as the points are same regardless of tiers. I admit that I wasted far more flags before to speed up grind etc. in lower tiers. It is the high tier grind in stock ships with stock captains (if you are a collector) that are the hard ones.

You also may want to do some damage as this a major source to credits regardless of winning/losing

Problem is that battleships especially US are so slow and fire only each 30 sec, cruisers how much you depise them are in fact quite good in learning aiming and firing in and also have the speed to go around the map better. IJN Chikuma is very good in learning how to angle yourself and decent guns.

After the change to SCs I started to have only upgrades but the latest period I have apart from an engine boost recieved 2x1000 Doubloons 100 Dragon Flags and 5 000 000 credits no ship but I am happy with that. Only TYL in April and May 3 most days sometimes 2. Using an Excelsheet as a statNerd to see what I got. 14 out of 305 TYL is the result from patch

Based on Iowa and used also on Missouri of course, only 15 pt yet. On my Arizona and Texas I normally use my 18 pt New Mexico captain with another build not CE for example so those two premiums do not see Mr Seagal.

Yes or why never buy 3 get the cheapest for free? Not much innovative in multi-buys - or rightly nothing at all - Buy for 10000 get 30 % disc coupon for everything inside game or outside. It is strange that multioffers or some VIP treatment never exist. Well bought a new 6 month period of premium time if you have doubloons you get several in-game offers, I got 3 the last week when I have stacked up on doubloons via Hood, Kutuzov, Port slots and 6 months of Premium, Regular discounts I miss.

It is not P2W it is P4C Pay for convienence. The ordinary creditcamo has the same benefits in the battle, rest is finance.

Do not just look at damage and win rates - Hoods main USP is (besides looks) her speed, many that whines just speak of guns. You can not compare a Colorados ability against a BB in 1 vs 1 with the Hood as Colorado do not have the flexibility.