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All but the most inept CV players have learned by now not to feed an Atlanta all their aircraft so it's hardly uncommon to just be avoided like the plague as soon as they now which half of the map you're at. As for the rest, looks pretty solid so I don't understand what problems you might be having.

First game of the day: What was supposed to be a leasurely warm-up game turned into a hard carry, oh boy. Should've just stopped after that game because apparently it set the trend for today's session. Not in the success department mind you, but in teams that apparently put more effort into trying to throw the games away than anything else (apart from raging in chat of course, plenty of that). Horrible, HORRIBLE teams. Actually just one team today that was halfway competent, the rest ranged from "sigh" to "why would you EVER do that!?". Didn't help that the Lightning which I was grinding isn't exactly much hard carry material. But at least I got the Jutland now so I can say goodbye to tier VIII MM again. Urgh ...

The CoOp bots won't know what hit 'em.

It should be in your game directory in the replay folder. You're going to have to find the specific game. If you have it you can then open a ticket with WG support and detail what happened, preferably give an ingame time to where things looked particularily fishy.

If they somehow fix/rig/manipulate the game then it's illegal. So if they used all chat to say declare a truce, etc. you can send the replay to WG support and they should get penalized for it (harshly I hope). If it's just a bunch of players from the same clan getting into the same match but playing as usual, then it's okay.

That's a whole lot of account informations those guys want for what's essentially peanuts. Not even worth the trouble making throw-away accounts unless you absolutely MUST have that Tachibana Lima.

For my current ships (going to have to juggle a couple port slots to rebuy most of my tier V regular ships) my count is 78850 coal and 5750 steel. Steel count would obviously increase throughout the duration of the event however, since after knocking off a couple snowflakes I'd have enough steel to get the Stalingrad (+200 steel) and I'm still grinding towards the Jutland/Daring (+50 and +100 steel respectively) and towards the Hakuryuu (+100 steel, though I don't feel like grinding CVs too hard right now, so I might either miss out on the Haku or bite the bullet and just throw a bit free XP at it, I have plenty of that after all). So in grant total I might get 6200 Steel out of the event (unless I suddenly start getting gifted with tier VIII+ premium ships out of the blue). With the current 7% clan facility bonuses on coal and steel that should top out at around 84369 coal and 6152-6634 steel. Nice haul. Didn't count ARP/pseudo premiums.

Patch 0.7.12, under other changes and improvements, bullet point #6: Fixed a rare bug which disabled the bonus to shell dispersion when guns were locked onto a target. Let's hope that's the last of it. Though I kind of wonder exactly how rare this bug is/was because I seem to have been experiencing it more regularily than what I'd classify as rare and I can speak for multiple clanmates of mine who had the same experience. Anyhow, here's to hoping!

Do you mean the laurels and chain around the ship symbol respectively?

I'm not entirely sure I understood your question correctly, but as far as the snowflakes are concerned, regular ships (white letters and ship silhouette) of tier VI-VIII earn coal and tier IX and X earn steel. Premium ships (golden letters and ship silhoutte) of tier II-VII earn coal and tier VIII-X earn steel. The infographic is inconsistent with its imagery since it displays two ship silhouttes for the premiums and only one for the regular ships despite both categories having a distinctive reward difference based on the tier range.

WG is still having troubles balancing the Alaska because as it turns out, having a ship with large caliber guns with Des Moines penetration angles packs a really mean punch. And that's a problem if the ship isn't russian.

Erm ... no. You won't penetrate a battleships mainbelt armour with that AP, but the upper hull is far, far less armoured and can be easily penetrated even by 114mm AP shells if it's a flat enough side. Cruisers have even less armour. You can get 3-4k AP volleys every couple seconds with DD AP shooting at the upper hull or superstructure. That amount of damage can very quickly accumulate to frightening proportions if the BB won't (or if angling priorities take over, can't afford to) angle away from those "puny" DD AP shells. And specifically in a RN DD with its numerous short duration smokes you can exploit such a moment maliciously and with regularity. And the small caliber on the Jutland/Daring actually makes the AP very potent against DDs aswell since you won't just overpenetrate everything doing minimal damage. It's even recommended to shoot AP at minimally angled (as in, not autobounce angles) DDs because you deal more damage with AP penetrations than you'd do with HE. Your dismissal of AP as an effective ammunition choice is just another example of you not properly understanding the game mechanics and/or how to apply them in your favour. IFHE is still necessary to use HE effectively and having to play around that is an inconvenient hazzle and challenging even for good players at times, but it's far from making a ship unplayable. Plus if you're happy enough to spend money buying the Cossack I fail to understand how you make the argument that you couldn't afford to spend doubloons to reset the captain and then subsequently spec into IFHE (you won't exactly be benefitting much from the added range you get from AFT anyway if your HE basically shatters by default and you won't be able to reliably hit weak armour sections at that kind of range with the 114mm guns' ballistics). A clanmate of mine hadn't specced his Akizuki into IFHE because he went full AA troll mode on it (he really likes bullying CVs). He still wrecked DDs despite the anemic HE performance (that was before those 100mm guns got the 1/4 HE pen buff) by ripping through broadside DDs with the AP. And we all know what an IFHE Akizuki or higher higher tier sisters *cough*Harugumo*cough* do to other big ships, even though IFHE isn't even necessary to have those guns perform against DDs anymore.

@MrConway, @Tuccy, @Crysantos: Is it possible that the 'Steel Monsters' campaign will also be added for purchase ingame for the equivalent price in doubloons?

You could know if you had the basic understanding of how HE penetration works and why the caliber size of 114mm won't let you penetrate 19mm+ of armour as is commonly found on DD hulls at that tier. You could know that 120mm isn't the same as 114mm and that IFHE isn't recommended for no good reason. You may know what IFHE does, but evidently you have no bloody clue as to how to use that or when it's advantageous or even necessary to pick as a skill. As for the nonsense you've been throwing around, the AP on the Jutland is plenty strong enough in contrast to what you've said and can make the Jutland work until you get the skill. Your talk about Priority Target being a useless captain skill was also complete BS because you quite obviously have no clue what that skill even does. You have been spouting nothing but animousity when people told you you're doing things wrong and when people brought up your stats to exemplify the fact you're doing things wrong, you went on a tirade that stats mean nothing to you and that you don't need to have great stats to do simple things ... yet for some reason you aren't capable of doing exactly those things yourself because lo and behold, they would actually serve you incredibly well if you tried using it on a non-IFHE Jutland. The only thing you've done here is flaunt your inadequacy and rage against the heavens because the game didn't meet your ignorance-fueled expectations and instead of accepting advice and criticism you've stomped your feet in juvenile indignation rather than try to improve. The best thing however is your bleedingly obvious hypocrisy about the cost of respeccing the captain. Rather than pay the handful doubloons, you spend even more money to buy the Cossack, presumably because your subpar build works on that. You literally spend more money being contrarian than it would've cost you to make captain build work (which btw would also improve the builds synergy with the other RN DDs).

I like how this thread started with OP apparently having no clue about how HE penetration works and then just continued to pile on uninformed nonsense, half-knowledge and willful ignorance despite people telling him what the problem is (or as it turned out, lots of problems coming together in one giant package). If you don't care about stats or whatever, why did you come here to complain? Doing damage or not, winning or not, etc. is just stats in the end. If you don't care, why bother complaining about it? Or do you simply not care about stats the moment someone uses them as a sign that you're doing something horribly wrong?

Vroom vroom.

People like to be dramatic and use the term "dumbing down" ... but I'm pretty sure it applies to the CV rework.

Someone tell me why Exeter needs the Repair Party.

You don't get orange for first time or otherwise rare occurences. You get pink first (without CoOp restriction). If you got orange just for AFK penalties because your internet dropped then it's been dropping a whole lot and in short intervals, in which case you'd better bark at your ISP for not providing you with a stable connection.

Have 20 tier Xs and suddenly that's 4000 steel.

On what day does the final directive unlock? I.e. how much time does a player get to complete the campaigns/missions only available for the Prinz Eitel Friedrich if they don't buy the ship in the premium shop? Tagging @MrConway, @Crysantos and @Tuccy in hopes of getting the answer.

Kek. We had to blow off some steam from a frustrating CB session, so we went for something filthy, in this game a Gearing, Worcester and Moskva div. And you see that @Reaper_JackGBR, you're not brandmaterial yet. Earlier that night we also ran into @Earl_of_Northesk in his Midway and a SPUDS friend of his in a Conqueror. The funniest part is that I had literally pondered if I should switch my Montana from tank/CB setup to my full AA trollbuild, but decided against it because "how likely is it you're actually going to see a CV, right?" ... cue Earl in a Midway . To be fair though, even my full troll AA Montana wouldn't have gotten many aircraft with the Conquerors stripping my AA away everytime they hit me with their british HE.

~125k is what we added up together iirc. Which is pretty much 25% more than what we worked out a well positioned Moskva can take before going down (~100k). And Moskva is already ridiculously tanky for a cruiser.

Because AA in the reworked system appears inadequate and is conceptionally next to useless to protect anything other than yourself considering longrange AA like those 100mm DPs is incredibly unreliable in the rework.