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Boght 25, but the reason is that most of the campaigns/events now give a lot of camos and I have used doubloons (have nothing else to buy) for perma camos when there is a sale 50% of T5-9 and that gives me almost a perma on every ship that I use (+ some I do not use), also many events have given some premikum camo so I have now very few ships that I play that does not have that. Also I have not used the better ones on some principleeven if it is well superior to all below T9. I have a few ships that I have not bought perma for just so I can use some one-offs. So the number just grows. The SC that you get for free thae last 2 years for every T10 also gives plenty as I have nearly all T10 (only RN CV missing)

If you have not reinstalled your windows etc for several years now its the time

Thats seem to be the case. I have stayed with Glory for most part when I am not sure how much I would play or with the side with higher diff like today with Glory when I can play more. Also I am looking to get both team patches. If I lose a few camos on the way does not matter. I bought the containers for Lazo and BBs so I have everything, it just the difference between 2700+ One-off premium camos or 2700+15......

I think apart from the cap/def related, we should at least give a few to the coop games, it does not matter if the rewards are mediocre, just for fun, the 4-goal haul was a decent one and no so easy as the bot games are over so quickly. 4 kills in a coop game is more difficult than it seems, especially if the bots kill each other fast and the map is large. Reward could be 2 type 6 camos or something like that.

no

Yes, you can buy the superbundle (or whatever it is called) with nearly all ships that has been around late year. Not the OP ships ofc. Then there should be a decent chance if you sell your mother to WG..

Well everything counts so if you are in a CV game some planes and some secondaries and you will soon pass 45. Try get 2 spotted in Moskva , hopeless from start

As I bought the 25 premium containers (=1875 tokens) I got Lazo and 375 more than needed, when I reached 500 I bought the Vladi camo. For the rest it depends, I will wait. I have permacamo for all the others even though one is the 50% Commander/50% FreeXp from some event, and Chappa the steam punk from Halloween it is good enough. Maybe camos/ flags I will see if next major patch gives an indication of the way to obtain the RU captain as I want him on one of my BBs presumably T6,

Trials were often held at light condition with forced engines, but in general FR DDs held their speed, maybe some Italian Cruiser you are thinking of?

43,45 kts on trials so why do you state 33 for Mogador?

DirectX?

You can if you play coop, then it is perfectly viable

No order: Ishizuchi Bogatyr Chikuma (prenerf) König Warspite

Yes, when I saw that 25 pack giving 1875 Tokens, and combined with nothing in armory interesting for doubloons (700+ days premium, all ships in port) and I had the fortune to get a Atago = 10700 doubloons for the superconatiner in the starfall event during last weekend making it 25094 I after also have seen that each day you get a free container if you play the Lazo I gave in. In my 25 containers I got all 4 missions, (5) dropped T5, (6) T6, (9) T8 and (17) T7. As I got all I do not know if the order is of significance but another post above got 5,6 and 8 so they are not seem to be 100% in order. Why pay for silver tech tree, yes I play to maximize my captains so saving time for RU BBs is interesting (yes working 3 hours=25 containers), I mostly look forward to T6 as that ship at least existed half ready and I like mid tiers. BTW have you seen the way to get that special captain, have not found anything in the news or is that in next stage? As I plan to set him on Izmail if that ship lives up to expectations?

Maybe, but if they spew out steelships they somehow must adapt the flow of steel. What is the matter of producing 3 steelships a year if the players can not keep pace? The FreeXP flow is far more contollable by the player simply by playing normal more and using flags and camos that are far more frequent. I have over 1 000 K and I have bought both Azuma and Alaska. I managed to get Stalinggrad by the snowflake event and mission + some flow from ranked, but I will hardly pay 35 K Steel for a Colbert or the Soviet equivalent. I may by small amounts for a mission that makes the amount complete but say 200 EUR for 1 pixelship , never. Problem for me is also the desire, if you produce all thee ships but never get info from WG how the flow is, snowflake was as you can remember hotly debated, you can never plan how to get them, now you have some clan battles, some ranked some events, ranked sprint that does not give anything, the flow is to unknown to create a hope when you can get the ships especialy when the flow for you is only ranked and events. The fReeXP is easier to plan as they have put out some ships per year, and the flow is steady so you plan ahead your collection of FReeXP:

I buy the 22.5 K camo if necessary on low tier ships, I heve enough premium camos (perma+one use) that makes this number go up and it is nearly difficult to use all , have 2800+´one off, despite not having bought any in a long time (apart from crates). With a lot of perma in the higher tiers they are mostly used in grinds + on a few silver ships. I have as a principle not used them when I have permas. Most if not all premium consumables, maybe not scout plane but all the rest. Have enough credits so it does not matter, it is maximum performance that matters. It is the cooldown that matters more than numbers.

Fellow players, as an Excel Nerd I keep some statistics, due to workload it has been far and far more distant, intervals, I prefer to play instead. But when I reached the 20000 random solo mark two days ago, I thought it would be interesting. Apart from ship stats there is my experience with captain development. You can look at me as a sort of warning example but also that it is never too late to learn from them. As a collector I keep every ship, meaning starting new captains on every ship (1st mistake). Now I have moved captains more,. With the accumulation of elite XP points and free event captains , 10p captains in bundles, it is a today however less necessary to move to start at the minimum 10 p level on new ships. As which captains to move (if you are a collector) identify ships at low/mid tier that are OP/less dependant on captain skills both premium and/or silver for the various nations to play. I have f.e. made several captains from Ishizuchi, Duguay Troin and have you guessed it Giulio Cesare (+ some others). As soon as a captain is on 10 , I start a new, slow grind ofc, but the points of progression is optimized around 10 I think also skillwise with the CE at 10. I seldom move higher, in case 14 is necessary for IFHE I grind points to increase after the captain have been moved. I try to plan to have a amount of elite Xp in reserve and anticipate future needs. Now with the French Dds and Russian BBs approaching I have 6 French DD captains on 10-11 and 7 Russian BBs at 10-12. And 1,400 000 Elite XP as a minimum level. I am not extremely exstatic about the French DDs , they look fantastic, buit their upcoming playstyle without smoke is not necessarily my cup of tea so I will grind but not develop captains so much (above 10) more than which follows with the grind unless they surprise me positively. I am not also afraid to grind captains in coop should elite XP be depleted. I am now developing my 19 p at my T10 ships in coop a lot in the Legendary Module grind, it is a work almost so do not do this if you are not mentally prepared, but combined with the premium camo and first win bonus it is time efficient to do it on several at same time (f.e. a few games during breakfast before work). I progressed more or less in the beginning parallell so had suddenly several tier T10 ships in short order. Now to my stats in number of captains, it is easy to see the incompetent management of captains early but it is possible to rectify, remember for you who has many, the collector style is in itself negative to captain development so for you that does not keep every ship you are automatically better off. I know that it has been many threads and polls about 19 p captains but no one? has showed the overall distribution. The numbers on 10 p have increased due to my internal goals on having at least 10 p on every ship nowadays have been shifted over time tiers lower and lower, so at first I started even at hig tiers with 3 p for 25 Gold, later at least 10 p on Tier 8 and above later gradually downwards towards 10 p from Tier 1. The reserves have increased a lot when the CVs were removed so new captains there are not produced, I have 8 also in waiting for the "soon" to arrive Italian line. Table at 12000/15000/20000 random games

Well the shipyards in RN were involved in exporting all over the world so why not Japan, they were a lucrative market backed by the British government. Britain needed an ally in the east to match Russian Expansion and Japan was used as such. When Britain and French fought the Germans in WW1 it was if you would have taken the clock back a while quite strange, many wars were rather fought between French and Britain some with help from Prussia. The Windsor Royal family changed their name as you certainly know. So I think the hindsight thing given all the switches from time to time is somewhat difficult. US Navy had their Warplans against an allied RN/IJN attack f.e..

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0991330/ Clouds over the hill TV-series, Quite expensive buy for me, but I did it (3 seasons). The battlescene at the start is from that. Debatable english translation but costly production of Japan from 1870-1905, follows two brothers (officers) one in the army aand one in the navy and a poet . Training, development involvment of German/RN trainers etc, visits abroad, tactics lots of foreign actors to really set the history (from a Japanese perspective) and actors even those portraying f.e. Tsar etc very portraitlike, the RU-Japnese war covers a large part.'Highly Recommendable if you wish to look at very good battlescenes from this war - I thought I will never have a chance like that and I was not disappointed. Just be careful to order correct area coding on the DVDs. It costed me around 150 USD to import + taxes. There are no 2- minutes battlescenes - there are many and they are long also from war against China which preceded the Russioan war but wea re alltogetehr talking hours of battle scenes and Tsushima is part of it naturally. Even lots of scenes from Russian side. Now to second part - one problem was also lack of training on the russian side and natural sea experience - the Japanese sailors were better on that too. .

You are certainly not. It is the way to go, I think that premiums sure is a way of income for Wows, but alt tech tree lines to grind is of course more interesting, more diversity for new players and something for our oldies as well. With the numbers of premiums in port way above those needed for practical purposes the urge to splash the cash is more limitied to very special ships. After more tech trees - Pan EU and Italy for example it is easy to do alt lines /splits for several nations especially BBs/BCs but also cruisers or in f.e. RN DD case an alt line with all together different perks even if the mid tiers are similar appearncewise.

If you are short of cash and plays decently much, if you like the game premium time (especially when on special offer) is a sure way of improving the cash flow. Consider this: If aftergame costs in mid tiers makes you break even on F2P mode at T6-7 the Premium time makes your credits go up 50%, it can cover premium consumables better also if you invest some of the surplus in that esp. DCP and Repair. Longer in game = more damage more cash. But all other things equal say 100 K service Income 105 K = 5 K Profit Premium 100 K service 157,5 K Profit (better if its WOWS only I think) 57,5 Profit thats 11X more. And when you finance T7 ships yto T10 you will find when you get there that they cost a lot, 20-30 Millions at the top, so if you ot already have it consider that as an option. Take advantage of missions that gives free premiums. Now to answer your original question, if money is not an issue, Alaska may be better I have her as a collector but I had the FreeXP, The T9s are not the first Premiums I would have bought.

I use him in Fuso (and therefor also in Ishizuchi). Why not Yama, well I simply do not like the Yamato playstyle so while I certainly concur with that Yamato ond Harugumo are excellent choices, the important thing is to use him in a ship that you enjoy and use, better to have him in a ship that suits him good that you like to play rather than in a ship that you do not like to play, even if that ship are even better suited. This reasoning is valid for all special captains ofc. F.e. I use Jack Dunkirk in KGV as I like the midtiers (same as for Fuso).

in some distant future....maybe it is time for Washington in some form. But US ships are not few in game and we have countries (mine included) that have zero (0) ships or very few that are a large part of player base, I think it is well overdue thinking of us than bringing in the xxxxth Us ship.

no, as expected

@MrConway Since there are some other posts adressing this three stage hunt for Ironium. Stage 1 and 3 is tolerable 750 K damage and 1,5 M credits but 100000 XP for 2nd stage, surely there must be a Typo, we are talking about at least 15-30 hours of play for that stage alone. It is so heavily mismatched with the other two stages in relative effort so it is hard to imagine otherwise. If you have a event like this , is it really only those that plays 30 hours in one week that should have any chance. Failed the 10/10/10 demands last week as I only had around 10 hours to spend on space battles. Is it really the purpose of this event. And I am a hard core player. Please investigate this immediately, and confirm that the demands for 2nd stage is calculated and presented correctly.