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Yes , that they do not state the chances are irritating. If you are new and want a specific skin chances are very small. If they would have given the option even if they would cost 5000 doubloons ( I think that was the cost when the T8 camo duplicates arrived in doubloons) and 2000 for the T3 I am sure they would have sold a lot.

Well I have got a few more, as I grind CVs in coop. I also play Yamato and other ships for the legendary upgrades. When low on player numbers you can have more or less both teams consisting of bots - then you will take a loss here and there. They sometimes make teamkills and other random stupid play which make it hopeless.

Well my biggest fear is DDs (read Kamikaze (clones) and Gremys and to somewhat lesser degree CVs therefor I build the ship to go against that, I have AFT too thus helping with both DDs and Cvs. HA/JoT is for fatsest possible reload on Repair/DCP. I like the reload and decent speed against DDs and other BBs. But I can not say that your list is wrong, what I say is that top picks are debatable - I just have not clicked really with Giulio , but when I look at my own stats thy and my own feel for the ship is not accurate as I quit the captain on 10 p and starts another, I have 6 10 pointers now for my Italian line and 2 8 pointers and most of them have been accumulated on Giulio. Iron Duke, New York and Kongo I have stopped when I reached 10-11 as it is my goal as a collector to have a 10 p on every ship in port. But König I have moved on with. It is a ship that I grind for 19. The percentage difference in play experience is there when you have 17 instead of 10 points is there. I may have took one of your higher picks if I had a 17 p on every ship. I also think that König is good at close distance where it on many maps matter in the end, quite a few games may be won by contesting /holding the objectives and König is a good defender. It is what role you pick the ship for and what is suitable for your playstyle. If I would train another high point captain I would right now probably go for Iron Duke as the RN premiums are more fun to play but there I go with my KGV first. IJN Kongo yes, I think she is fun but less suited to 6 vs 6 if you have to defend, and though I have them all I am not so fond of IJN premiums, apart from Ishizuchi. One thing that have made me tick with König is that it uptiers acceptably, you just have to realize your limitations in random battles. I do not like the odd turret config in OR , worse than Nikolai (mid turrets) and therefor I end up playing Nikolai most of the times. But overall I think that all BBs are decent picks apart from Bretagne, it is the driver and the captain that matters. So play what you like and perform in. I guess that OR becomes viable when the Russian BBs arrive. Gremy I have high points on but I play better in König playerwise, i.e. if i take my Kami r Gremy it is a good ship but when I pick a König I know I am matched against a BB which I feel statistically confident on taking on.

So you tried them all? lower part of the list I agree with. Have not started 2nd season but used König with brilliant results. I think that Giulio are great as a ship but I am not sure how much better. I think that one important thing is how good captain you can put on the ship, have a 17 p on König but can not field more than a 10 p for the others (excl. Texas). One thing I noticed is that there were for me relative many BBs and some DDs (played late in the season) so the HE spam were not a great problem, have not even FP, going for HA/JOT instead + flags. It might be different in 8 vs 8 as there are more ships that can HE spam. That was the reasoning for my build in 6 vs 6.

Agree totally. Last year I bought max package + 1 2nd largest (was it 50+25 or so) and these crates then were very good as the doubloons were frequent. Now with all old camos in store and I also have got NC + Z23 for free pumpkins I will hardly bother, maybe I get weak later when all free crates are gone, Mogamis looks nice, saw an enemy ship in battle so I had the opportunity to study it after being sunk. As you can not get duplicates i assume there is a reasonable chance but the RN containers had a low drop factor of missions and I have not been too inspired yet by your reports here.

Since they hinted the PAN-European tree I guess there will be coming a few Dutch/A-H/Polish ships apart from various tech trees.

while I agree with you , I am more interested in a better premium shop f.e. if you want to buy 5x100 Zulu Hotel flags + a ship you have to make 6 purchases. should be a cart system. There you also can put in make 3 purchases get the cheapest for free and so on.

I think it is a rather interesting move from WG which rewards loyalty (log in frequently) and you can choose on how much you pay. Considering 10 Guineas cost 1 EUR or so you could miss some missions and still get it cheap. Now one can always discuss the terms but I would say these RN events have been among the most positive in gain/effort as there are quite a large number of "free" stuff.

Sure, but if you are interested in the ships now there are so many lines that you need the possibilty to grind faster as these latecomers want to play and have many ships as well, I have every line and started when the game was a few weeks old, therefor I have managed to keep up with the flow, but if I would start now. And somehow the game must have money to pay its owners, employees etc, you pay with your money or time or both it is up to the customer. I do not mind that. It is necessary to get lower/mid tiers populated. The game can not survive on F2P players, something the revenue must come from, and I guess it is from a steady flow of both small and larger transactions from various parts of things or play (prem time) that are a succesful model. And it can not be made to easy to escape. You have over the years a lot of free stuff from missions etc, I think at least 7-10 ships premium ships "free" depending on how you count, some have been free but required very large numbers of play or special achievements but some have been quite easy with alright levels of play. We often say that make the progress slower in lower tiers so that you know what you doing higher up, yes somewhat valid but after a few lines to mid tiers you have done that, for me after all the lines in every nation I would just find it irritating. Those hopeless cases with many games higher up would be equally bad anyway.

First a transfer/ one new fight or so then kicked out and not been able to relog for 20 + min

Yes , problem is the captain but perhaps it is possible to use a DD captain with OK results. Sadly there seems to be a huge number of ships in the works that have been presented , but are not released ,must be record level now.

I would throw in another silver, König, is strong have decent AA, OK speed and fast reload, comfortable guns, I managed with luck to get 12 out of 13 with her. OK I have a high end captain (17), More or less AP only.

It is true, but I think they are good performers even if they are designed wrongly, you can be competetive especially the lower/mid tiers I have enjoyed. Orion was very strong before nerf, probably useful still. I play Warspite more than QE but QE is not bad.

1 and 3 if you like the Russian line, long range kiter and HE spammer, will shine with a 14 p captain IFHE/CE as previous poster have said, have a 19 p on her and also the premium counterpart Kutuzov. Chapayev is very good also in scenarios, Cherry Blossom for T8 cruisers. Yes she performs well in coop also against bots, learn when to silence your guns, she can be deleted fast if caught. I am a colector therefor keeping all ships, and I do play Russian T3 6 8 , seldom the others right now, but it is also because I think they are tierwise very good, I have many Svetlana games also but not lately. I have 19 p in Bogatyr and Chapayev and I have clicked with the Russkies, if you like Schcors you will enjoy Chappa.

There is updates practically every week so if you have not played there could be some size of download

In that ship it is really impressive

MY best performance ever, Ranked Sprint 14 games 13 wins and 1 best loser made me rank 1 only soloplay 13 in König and 1 game in Gremy

Well for some mysterious reason I performed brilliantly this ranked sprint , can never hope to make it better. 14 games, 1 win in Gremy and 12 out of 13 in König + 1 as best loser. I usually never bother about the normal seasons , latest went abysmal, but normally I perform decent down to 8-12 or so. But this performance is fantastic for my standards as it is only solo play, no divisions, a few games I was lucky but things went smooth. I play König because I click with the ship, I would perform worse in f.e.Kamikaze but I usually play well in König so my relative impact on the team is greater as I am matched to another Battleship.

I would say that one thing that is not necessaraily taught is what to spend money on in order to benefit most and also captain management (skill and moving captains). If you enjoy the game the game are more fun and easily progressed through with some money spending, and what to spend on is also much dependant of long vs shortterm etc commitment. Now, you have far more to spend on than before when I started playing. All different resources, some free, some for real money. Different tiers for premiums, the game has matured which also would hav emake the tactics which I used less good today.

It will be more boring, as the opponents are less varied. It will also increase waiting times. Now if you want same tier fights , play clan wars or ranked where the tier is same on all ships involved.

I may agree that there are many things, but I prefer that to being no/few activities. You must learn to ration your play, learn to accept to jump over some things. I do not play clan wars f.e. makes it easier so there you have a gap automatically. For me is more the problem to miss a activity/mission that I want to do. And to have overview - the missions with all Legendary upgrades is gigantic...

Scandinavian Star (2nd from top) -horrible accident - one classmate was onboard and managed to survive but 159 (wikipedia) did not. Nightmares were common the first years, he said. Probably the fire was started by sabotage.

Coop vs Randoms: I have increased my coop play a lot during the RN missions, I barely touched it before but now I have played it a lot ( I also grind CVs in coop but that is purely out of saving other players, and myself from pain). During the 4 mission days I played it because it was very effective timewise , when the Hall of Fame grind it becomes more random again, especially with the fine points for achievements even the normal not heroic ones. But points vs/time coop is not that bad, it is worse but when you feel the stars do not align in a few random losses with a few point for a enemy ship, it may feel good to play coop. Naturally the XP related missions is poor and those you play randoms but I have found that I have really tried to max points vs effort. One reason is also that I went dry of eliteXP during f.e. my Harugumo/Kitakaz grind, which followed the US light cruiser grind, those 14 p cost so I have grinded 10 p for my RN DDs in coop while playing 19 points ships also. As I keep all ships I need many captains, 9 RN in this case. The 15 win part of the legendary module grind is also effective in coop. Have you also increased your coop play? Thoughts from other players appriciated

One excellent thing is that you do not have to have the missions selected as in the campaings, just when you unlock the next stage all is there for grabs, saves time and frustration as the time is short. The rewards are fine, just for playing, sure the RN missions are making the line-ups as they are but not to a irritating degree, all new lines will do that and probably this method improves it a lot, and after all there are so many lines right know so it will be less the more game matures , German BBs anyone? 12 vs 12 Nassaus , well some of it may we see when the line is released but the low tiers are so quickly even if you do not use elite XP, I have now 180K on my Lighting so I am ready for the T9. T2-4 I will ofc get also.

Thank you all for your answers, it seems that some players have done like me, Yes I know that you get them in random as well, but my aim has also to be in the Hall of fame as soon as possible on saturday morning, and my working days are sometimes limited in time so I have really tried to to them in coop if it is faster. Agree with Xevious_Red the CV have been used a lot - also fine in torp/citadel missions not only plane kills.