Aotearas

Don't be silly. This is an event unique to NA, EU has no such thing. Stop trying to appropriate their centuries of culture just so you can get a couple commercial goodies. It's not like this Mardi Gras were in any way related to the christian based carnival festivities or otherwise european at all. If it were, it'd have something like a french name or some such ridiculous thing.

Oh wow, it's not like I just laboured four bloody consecutive nightshifts (one with so much going on that I didn't even get my break!) with Cologne 30 minutes out by local train. But sure, apparently the NA carnival thingy is bigger than the little party in Cologne or some such, surely otherwise EU would've gotten such a special too.

"Reaper, u suck!" "What?" "Couldn't hit a Lancer two tiles away with a 98% hitchance ... with a shotgun!"

Since the IJN split mostly came with a downward tier reshuffle (Mutsuki to V, Hatsuharu to VI, Fubuki to VI, Kagerou to VIII) there were no issues like this. You stayed on the same research level and ships were replaced as they appeared. So if you had a tier IX Kagerou, you'd get the new tier IX Yugumo and the XP gathered on the Kagerou would be transferred to the Yugumo, plus the captain on the Kagerou would be retrained for the Yugumo aswell. If you are currently on the Ognevoi, I suppose they would replace that ship with the new tier VI Gnevny and transfer the XP plus retrain captain. Effectively you shouldn't lose any progress as you'd still be the same amount of XP away from the tier VII ship (which would be the Minsk after the changes). From then on you'd grind onwards to the tier VIII though I don't know if you have to grind the new Ognevoi and Kiev seperately or if they are unlocked simultanously after the Minsk. If you'd free XP the Kiev, I'd suppose after the split hits you'd get the new tier VII Minsk and would have to grind to the then uptiered Kiev at tier VIII like usual. I don't think you'd keep it for tier VIII. I'm more interested to see how permament camouflages and captains will be handled. Currently on the Tashkent and got enough free XP to skip straight ahead to the Khabarovsk. Am inclined to do it since I could get a couple free port slots that way (at least 3, from the tier VIII, IX and X splits). If I'd even get a free permanent camouflage for the new tier X if I already had one on the Khaba I'd definately free XP and get the camouflage on it, because that's 5k doubloons I'd save *winkwink*. The information from TAP however looks disheartening, getting a measly 9 point captain max for the split DD line ships seems incredibly underwhelming if you already got a higher skilled captain on your current RU DDs (which I do on my Tashkent and Gremyaschy), particularily because the split line really needs a different captain build to shine than the current DD line.

Very, very unlikely. WG isn't going to give people a higher tier ship than you've grinded beforehand (new tier VIII Ognevoi even though the player only grinded up to tier VI or VII). It's most likely you'll get the ship replacements for ships that are replaced (tier V, the Gnevny which got moved up to tier VI and if you unlock the Kiev, the new tier VII, MInsk). If you have researched the RU DDs from tier 8 or higher, you'll get the new ships in the split line researched too (so if you have the current Tashkent you'd get the new Kiev at tier VIII and the new Ognevoi ... if you have the current tier IX Udaloi, you should get the new tier IX Tashkent and the Udaloi in the split line, etc. pp.). In short, don't expect to get ships of a tier you haven't reached yet. There's no official word as of yet as far as I know, but I doubt WG would just have players jump a couple tiers (imagine someone is currently on the tier VI Ognevoi and would get the tier VIII version, but never unlocked the tier VII ...).

Wow ... das war die erste MMD die ch tatsächlich richtig gut fand. Die pantsu shot physics war'n da bei Prinz Eugen ein wenig am makeln aber ansonsten ist das ein Clip der direkt in die Favouriten gespeichert wurde <3

Manga ist besser. Der Anime hat da einiges an Fluff und Weltbildungsdetails verschluckt und ein wenig an sekundären Charaktern gedreht was wirklich nicht notwendig war und mir keinen Sinn ergibt warum die das gemacht haben. Mal vom aesthetischem abgesehen. Ist natürlich persönliche Ansehenssache, aber wenn ich da die geilen Designs im Manga mit den lächerlichen Versionen im Anime vergleiche get mir da ein Hut ab ... Kann den Manga aber nur empfehlen, ist sehr interessant (und hat auch gerade ein neues Kapitel bekommen dass ich mal schnell lesen werde ).

Sadly the flippin' game crashed (ever since 0.6.1 the game has an infuriating propensity for crashing ... typically several times during each gaming session!) when I wanted to pull up the match report to take screenshots so I can't provide screenshots (can't look up match details from previous longin sessions and since the game CTD'ed ...), but today I had a game in my Yamato and ended up with a bit over 145.000 damage upon my spotting in addition to ~2.100.000 potential damage and my own damage count. No secondary hits (my Yamato isn't specced for secondaries, captain isn't even using AFT), but 145k spotting damage ... as much as I'd like to say that was just me playing my usual manmode BB gamestyle, but seriously ... 145k spotting damage, in a Yamato. Someone on my team hasn't been doing their job. Not at all!

Aluminium can burn quite intensely and afaik was used in metallic components in shipbuilding from the start of the 20th century.

It takes two to tango. You can't put the blame on others alone if you gleefully jump at the chance to bicker around too. But whatever, let the mods clean this mess a second time, maybe then the point will come across ...

Maybe they should've considered chastity beltarmour.

Mods have already scoured the topic and you still think it's a good idea to continue?

We have a forum thread for that sort of thing. Helps keeping the forum clean if not everyone is making a new topic about a great game.

L2DCP & git gud. I let my BBs deliberately burn to farm Fireproof medals.

Incredibly tanky when angled (lower part of the bow can bounce Yamato shells unlike other BBs), good dpm with its 4x3 gun layout, excellent secondaries and hydro. Bringing all guns to bear however makes you vulnerable to AP and that thing has a turn circle measured in football fields.

^ Way better explanation than mine. In my defence, I just had a 9hr nightshift without break and simply can't sleep, so my brain is currently running on fumes

Again, that is the Royal Navy definition of a battlecruiser. It isn't the only one, though easily by far the most prolific so it's easy to get it wrong and just assume that it's the only one. The more broad definition of a battlecruiser is that in light of the then lacking speed for dreadnought/super dreadnought class of ships, some form of sacrifice had to be made in order to enable battleships to keep up with cruisers. The RN did so by eschewing armour protection, whilst keeping the big guns. The result is the classical RN battlecruiser, big ship, big guns, but poor armour protection for its size. The RN always had a penchant for choosing firepower over protection. The german navy however is the exact opposite. "The purpose of a ship is to stay afloat" is the maxime that german shipbuilding went with. So in order to save weight and thus make ships faster, they didn't skip on the armour, but rather on the guns, whilst keeping the armour protection. In that light, the Scharnhost ingame is a battlecruiser, german flavour. You can say it's two different doctrines on the same subject. It is a bit of irony however that the most prolific version and the one that saw the most ships deployed under said doctrine, never really adhered to its originally incepted purpose. Battlecruisers were never designed to engage in direct face-offs against conventional battleships, they never had the protection and in an equal exchange of firepower, the battlecruisers would always lose against battleships. Compare the battle of Jutland where the british used battlecruisers in their mainbattle line against full-fledged german battleships and suffered dramatic losses as a consequence. The basic concept has always been to outrun anything that you can't outfight (slow battleships) and outfight anything that you can't outrun (other cruisers). Long story short: RN battlecruiser doctrine saw to ships with superiour firepower. See HMS Invincible. HSF battlecruiser doctrine saw to ships with superiour protection. See SMS Von der Tann.

To be fair, the server averages aren't particularily tough to exceed once you put some effort into understanding and getting better at the game. A sizeable jump in performance can be attributed to a player that simply flipped the switch and started trying to work on his skills. If that's the case for this thread, then kudos for that and keep up the work. Still a bit premature to start celebrating oneself though

I'd be careful about requesting nerfs. You mentioned launching torpedoes and if a couple BB babies find this thread and see how you may be hurting their precious ships, WG might just press the button ...

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. Then again, you can't be patting too hard if the excerted strenth equals your ingame performance .... soooo, pat away.

Ich glaub da ist jemandem nicht bewusst wie viel Geld man an Spenden bei so einem Stream einsammeln kann, insbesondere wenn man zu den bekannteren Leuten der Szene zählt (hab keine Ahnung ob dies auf diese Person zutrifft weil ich kein WoT spile und mich da nicht auskenne, aber der Punkt bleibt derselbe). Das geht da fix in die vierstelligen Summen wenn man genügend Fans hat, und bei den ganz großen Streams gibts da echt kein Limit nach oben. Und um einen anderen Punkt zuvorzukommen: Was die Todesursache angeht kann man spekulierien wie man lustig ist, Fakt ist nur dass so ein Streaming Marathon nicht der Grund ist. Wenn das der Fall wäre hätte ich schon ein dutzend Male ins Graß beißen müssen mit diversen schlaflosen und extrem stressigen Nächten zum Prüfungspauken an der Uni. Wenn ich drei Tage intensiv-pauken mit ca. 5 Stunden Schlaf (total, nicht pro Nacht) mit Nudeln vom China Imbiss und Energie Drink überlebt habe und am Ende noch im genügend gutem Zustand war die Prüfung mit fast voller Punktzahl zu schreiben, da wird auch kein normal gesunder Mensch bei einem 22 Std. Gaming Marathon draufgehen. Würd ich trotzdem niemanden empfehlen!

I mean global stats with several tens of thousands of games played, so that variation becomes less and less prominent. Not 30 games. And yes, trying to draw conclusions from ship stats based on just 30 games as opposed to another data set that has ~400.000 games played and then talking statistics is stupid. A player being above server average doesn't indicate the ship is op. But the ship itself enjoying significantly higher server averages than others in its category and tier does! Players with better stats all across the board typically means they have better judgement (knowing where to go in a game, how to approach situations, how to use a ship's advantages, how to cover for weaknesses). That also indicates their assessment of say a ship is more qualified than a player whose stats are consistently worse. If you need help, wouldn't you rather ask someone who you know is good at the particular task you need help with? Or if you have the choice between someone who's good and someone's even better yet they somehow offer conflicting advice, whose opinion would you consider having more weight? As for different versions of the same ship being OP, you do know that for one each of those ships have a lower total match count which only increases the impact of outlying results (you will note how the ARP version with the highest match count actually comes closer to the regular Myoukou server averages) and in the case of some versions (the ARP Nachi for example) which had difficult requirements to unlock, the increase in performance numbers can be attributed to the typically higher skill of players that managed to unlock it (or rather, the lack of many subpar players that didn't manage to unlock it).

And Dominico continues cherrypicking his arguments whilst happily ignoring all the available, statistically significant data that doesn't paint the picture that he wants them to. Willfull ignorance paired with gleeful arrogance (stating he's a "top 10 Belfast player" ... out of a sample size with a laughable 30 games played, yet continously ignoring how people point out that his global stats in the Belfast are just barely above server average) but hey, he's an expert, we should all listen to him no matter how circular and onesided his argumentation is. All the other dozen'ish players with better stats, significantly more gameplay experience, etc. are clearly just delusional, lying and/or too stupid to see how wrong they must be.

Yeah ... about that. That's not exactly a representative sample size, is it? 30 games out of a global 400.000+ games. Trying to draw conclusions that way will just have everyone with a basic understanding of statistics roll their eyes The point he made was that if we'd consider that Belfast is neatly balanced, then naturally the Myoukou should do similarily well since neither of them have a distinct advantage over the other. That's what being balanced means after all. The stats however don't indicate that. The Myoukou is not nearly performing as well as the Belfast. In fact the only ships that manage to match are the Flint (big surprise there) and the Fiji (and I have yet to see a person that doesn't think the Fiji is extremely strong for its tier). P.S.: I'm talking global stats, not Ranked only.

Link plz. Because the stats that I found show you just barely above server average. And the rest of your cruiser stats are firmly hovering around or below server average. So excuse me if I don't exactly believe that you're an authority on how to play cruisers.