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Yes, Me too. Really old memories from the 70´s. Had the Novo/Frog Model of Ashanti also. I must say that I would have preferred the 8 gun version, but well it is nice to have the shipm anyway. Hope for RN DDs as there are now plenty of DDs and other premiums without tree. New French DD, Italian BBs and cruisers etc and now this, and while there are interesting ships and I like that we have a premium before the normal line for training there are much more useful with the line and with over so many premiums you want them to be useful. Cossack is long gone destroyed by fireworks.

I would have loved a Premium IJN DD at T8 with the best torpedoes during WW2 that had just a change button between DW and Normal torps just like HE/AP shells, No torp booster but smoke, and normal reload. That way you would creat a unique Torp speciality DD, fitting the best torpedo destroyers. And before you attack - I mean just as a torp DD not AA DD, not ASW DD and other things that IJN were bad in. Perhaps that is what you mean , because you should not have to choose beforehand, you might even make the DW version only useable against BBs and CVs just that you can choose on the move in battle. So when you contest a CAP you have normal torps but otherwise or when no DDs remains you change depending on circumstances. I would really liked such a DD.

Thank you - 100 Nov Foxtrot

These expensive flags and camos are in my own opinion necessary for retaining newer players and people with normal time. As others have pointed out they are not P2W but P4C. I have played since a few weeks after the release of the normal version and back then it was two tech trees. Now there are plenty of lines, and while I admit that some players will come up too fast, one must realize that many that starts now/or have less time but more money by these things have an alternative for premium time. But think of those who has played a few lines and are therefor at a decent standard they do not need to grind every tech tree at a slow pace which takes forever. Surely we can agree that a good player that have reached f.e. Montana the normal way can do no harm by speeding up the grind in the other BB trees. One can see it as a alternative to freeXP conversion, which you might not have in abundance. After all they pay. I personally use far more prem camos from f.e. crates in various kinds, the Halloween crates gave plenty to the "Old" prizetag. Combined with premium I have now reached PA T7, started to use the prem camos like Halloween from T5. I have all the other tech trees at T10 apart from CV so with a new job and not want to spend on FreeXPing line as I buy and keep all ships prem camos are excellent. The more lines that are coming will see increased demand and the newer premium flags are combined w camos great additions. It has drawbacks but for me the positive is clearly ahead.

Met @44smok in his Des Moines on Mountain Range in the enemy team, domination, faced him around C in my Zao and DM is as usual tough to fight with the DPM. He had company with a Hindenburg and Tashkent which we managed to sink, had the fortune to kill that ship just as he smoked up. Enemy had also an Amagi somewhere behind. Our Bismarck and Iowa which helped me were the opposite of each other, the Bismarck advanced to be torped by the Hindenburg while I tried to annoy Hindenburg , DM and Amagi infrequently whilst retreating, got some heavy hits myself and was annoyed at my Iowa which just moved backwards, that ship had 70 K of 79 left whilst I used up all my repair partys but managed to sink the Amagi, which finally grounded, making it very easy. Meanwhile 44smoks DM and Hindenburg tried to regroup to B but meanwhile the rest of the teams that fighted mostly by A had resulted in a crushing win and situation went hopeless for the enemy team. You fought to end and topped your team and Hindenburg second, well ahead of the rest, I can salute your effort, however in the end it was a clear victory 7 vs 0 ships remaining, had a decent game myself with 3 sinkings and the second dreadnought in a cruiser = task 6 in level 4 in Yamamoto campaign, trying to tidy up the remaining non CV and non Clear Sky missions.

I can only speak for the Ishizuchi as she is worth her money and easy to perform in. Mutsu, though I have very few games in her is a disappointment, she is not fun, I rather play Nagato. I have hesitated to buy both Kii and Ashitaka as I hated Amagi A-hull and Kii well I have all the IJN BBs and captains in everyone , but Kii has at least the working shells and decent AA, have none of these two.

Even if it is a slightly different KGV clone much better than the first version, a BB should be played as a BB.

True, and w its original torps it is at least a threat to DDs. The number of games that you may accomplish nothing vs the few that will be great will hardly be a prize worth paying. With 5-6 targets on large map, manouvreing pass and away from DDs even more to reach your targets and it will certainly be visible through torp rating which Shimas who have it will not enhance game enjoyment.

I can tell you about the real thing from Sweden some decades ago how a new painter (artist) had an exhibition and got fine reviews from art critics and so on, after a while the creator was found to be a monkey fron the local (Borås) Zoo. It was a great idea to get all so called "critics" a slap on the nose.

Both are good, One advantage in general apart from the hydro/smoke is that Z has faster reload on the torps. If the radar on PA is useful enough I do not know yet. German Hydro is longer lasting , personally I have also the hydro modification which makes the duration even better

Been there for a while, but sure it is a milestone OP. You can even get a medal from me.

Given some thought I suppose I can fix it on my Kutuzov so there will be elite XP automatically (19 p Cpt)

Thx makes it important which ship you end the mission with, makes it also less attractive even though I have RN ships to use

Now the thing remains is does it look different among the classes, I was also surprised about T8.

I snipped away the pictures. Interesting effort. One thing is that we maybe progresses to fast and you started with a difficult line. But otherwise I agree a lot. But what is the solution? Difficult, many players are very experienced now, and to be a new player requires patience. It is rather tough some times here in the forum when we say to a disappointed/frustrated player, Git Gud or you have only played 15 games at T8 so you know nothing , which is correct but the player may have say 1000 games and is still a newbie, just think of it maybe 250 hours /4 games/hour). That is quite harsh for a game. I have 14000 games but I am still learning and CVs I have barely touched (less than 100). OTOH it is good that you learn the whole time. Perhaps the 2+ removal at T5+ would help.

All ships that you can buy for doubloons are shown in the "open without Mod" tech trees for the varying nations. Not every premium that you can buy in the Premium shop is in the tech tree. New Premiums are always exclusively in the Premium Shop in various bundles and may enter tech tree later. Belfast if that is a recent screenshot are probably then shown with its old prize, but has been withdrawn from sale just like Kutuzov and Perth ca two months ago. You might maybe recieve them in supercontainers, maybe in the Santas gifts if they show up again, please take note if they release them then as last year it was clearly stated which ships you could win/get. There are a few other premiums that are withdrawn f.e. Nikolai and Kamikaze/Fujin as WG withdraws ships that are considered OP sometimes. Perth may return the other two probably not. It was when the smoke were changed that these ships were withdrawn together with refund option.

While is certainly part of the situation you have lot of players even veterans that have lots of trees left. Well I have all techtrees apart from PA and CVs at T10 but I play most at mid tiers and T10. Seldom 8/9. But if I have had the working situation during my first 20 months I would not even be close to my situation now. Your post give me however lots of inspirational thought which is only known to WG f.e. progression amongst different players, how long players remain, what is the reason that they quit/stay Which tiers, which lines etc does people start now compare with the old days where you had only IJN/US etc..

There are sometimes discounts on this so pay attention

Stick to the big boys and play more as a support shipm is a general rule but in a DD heavy meta and with spamming HE cruisers of T10 + Lion you are a prio target in Biz, Enemy has also Biz and Tirpitz so you have your opposite number. But 5000 dmg is pitiful and indicates that you either were deleted by CV early or if you survived longer had the wrong position. But sometimes the gods are against you. But I play lots of cruisers and for me the German BBs are first on the list if I do not have a better target nearby like a close DD f.e.. Well I obviusly prio targets soundly, but if I have a US, RN, German or IJN BB at similar range all others things equal the German tends at least for me be the easeist target.

commendable effort and thx for publishing this. As a starting point in the discussion. I read though the reddit page also. I agree to some points there where the number of upgrading is shown, I know it is anecdotal but I feel yhay in T8 you are often more alone i.e. facing larger number of T10s than in f.e. T6. But those numbers need more work and it is interesting to see just the basics.

Yes that cpt is useful, it is interesting how many dismiss flags, if you have a Full kit KGV w same captain and have the 20% more recovery flag , Nov foxtrot, and a few more it might be a difference in strength of 110 to 100 so why not use it?

You have obviusly not played ranked where the Juliet Charlie prevents from fun and engaging...... Nov Foxtrot might be useful on ships with lots of consumables f.e. BBs with repair and DCP where you alternate usage, there is 5% cooldown not useless. On lower tiers one does not care but at higher tiers it is a miniscule advantage per flag , but they are adding up.

Yes been through that 5-10 times or so , but it was for me a while ago, happened more during first year with wows, cant remember in 2017. You might try a integrity check in the start up meny. Might help with problems maybe not this one but it does not hurt.

Yes and in reality they will come as 12 Shimas against your Montana and have reloads. And those torps you would not detect. So you can say that the Shima represents a large number of DDs, it is just to look at the stats about dmg between BBs and DDs. No nerf whatsover is called for. You know there would be no games,at all if players would opt out if line-up was not acceptable. Oh no - triple OMNI dvision with Flamu in enemy opt out Blogis in Saipan in enemy team - opt out I play a lot of cruisers - 5 BBs in game opt out I play a lot of DDs - Oh no 3 radar cruisers on enemy team etc etc , They are short games and if a game does not suit you it is a new one a few minutes away. Or do you think that enemy CV always attack a just your high end AA ship out of twelve ships directly every game.

FYI The 18 inch guns in the "ferrys" are hidden behind fake walls