Bubba_S

Ranked out yesterday With mostly [edited] Haku! 113 games and 62% wr. Tested out some ships in the beginning, but it was soon Clear for me that the best way to progress was playing CV. CV isn't a "I win" button as some thinks… It deeply Depends on Your skills vs enemy CV's skills and to some point the other players ability to Group up and WASD. Worst enemy: BBs: Ohio - awsome AA and survivability Cruisers: Venezia -- a more slippery cruiser doesn't exist… DD: Daring --- always smoked up and damn heal… Easy peasy: BBs: Thunderer/Conqueror Cruisers: Desmoin, Smolensks, Stalingrads and Moskva, Hindenburg DDs: shima, Z-52, gearing

Well, I will indeed be looking forward for these ships They bring more diversity to the game and as such more fun. None seems OP, just different

just make it so 4 planes drop bombs at the same time and its fixed

these guys who grinded through these directives... I don’t know whether to admire their effort or feel sry for em really...

Just bought her... First, she is British, second, I love the Challenge With speed and some battleawarnes, this CV can be the one that keeps BBs burn, burn and still burn «Zao got 2 fires on my BB?..no worries.. just push repair....but but... there is the British bastards...3 more fires for full duration...»

I was intrigued that you said PVE player, and indeed you are. Only 73 games of all your games in random. Don’t take this the wrong way, but you are sure missing alot not playing against other human players. As surly you like this game as much as I do, I guess

just bought Somers with my coupon

Great post and exactly my experience aswell

The first rule of ranked is that it isn’t a grind. The second is that your progress isn’t governed by your teammates, but your skill to either teamplay, carry or save a star. The consistent factor is you and you alone! The third rule is if you can’t adapt or improve yourself you will sag behind and find ranked more and more difficult/frustrating. Fourth rule is the to remember the first rule. You just can’t stay sharp on hours in end. For my experience, as not an unicum, but somewhat still learning and adapting player, is that ranked is immensly fun! Yes sometimes an idjiit yolos and dies quickly, but hell, even those games can be won if you keep your wits. It is the challenge despite this that makes it fun. This season had a lot of good players in premiere league the first 2 weeks and that made it challenging and exciting. I entered premiere league with 74%wr and came out with rank one with 58%... It was like hitting a brick wall, but hey, I learned a lot from the fellow players and got through it. I never was a good CV player, but hey Hakuryu sure became fun in time. PS. CV in ranked is rough, I know it, but still ^^

Great that you guys managed to avoid directive 4. I couldn’t grind so fast so I bought 3 boosters so I could have peace in my mind. But still I see I will be done in 1-2 days.. just before christmas so I can spend time with family without the grind disrupting

Hmm.. I will still go for Directive 3. The guide said you had 14 days to Complete it so we shall see. About those boxes, I was missing only Benham and so I got that after a few boxes. I also bought Gorizia to help me from getting insane and can therefore get that 3rd Directive in reasonable manner.

I had a lot of Doubloons laying around so I bought, reluctantly though, 3 boosters... Now I am at completing 34/35 stages... and done 2 Directives. Don't even need the 3rd as the next booster will come from daily mission and gift... and then I get the PR.. ...so everybody can rape and abuse me when sailing this cursed ship Those 2k steel at direktive 6 is a far fetch though and prolly impossible.

I voted freexp. It is the most available Resource/currency and I have allmost 5 mill now collecting dust... need something to spend it on (and not on regrinding stuff! !

I am glad that they dropped this. It would have ruined the interrest to buy ships in the long turn. If you bought a ship for a certain extraordinary feature and later it’s removed you would feel ripped off or even duped... Personally I own all these ships that is «OP», but when I meet them in battle with my silverships or equal, I am not afraid or dishearted. They are all possible to be countered. Some quite easily, if you just know how... They do have their achilles heel.

Gonna buy this one. Can’t miss the chance to play something so different as a creeping smoke DD hunter. And all the people calling it crap makes it more interresting. If premiums were supposed to have «I win» -button this game would hit the drain very fast...

I am not in a clan because personal real life jobb/family/baby situation. I have nothing against clans or whatsoever. I just need the freedom to play the game whenever I want no string attached or being obligated to some clanrules. I have been a guildmaster before and don´t want that hassle again. Though I like to play with ya guys in both randoms and ranked and have fun doing so. Still I have put in in a good effort and money in this game. I have almost 10.000 games under my belt, winrate 58%, reached rank 1 the last 5 seasons. I, as others here would like some recognotion aswell. I hope WG are soon to realize that we lone wolfs also are a part of this game and not just clanmembers. I don’t care about this petty discussion about clans, oil, coal. I just want to ask WG to recognize our effort and reward us for staying in the game as clanmembers do. In the end I see this coal-business as a reward/incentive from WG to keep players interrested and playing. Please WG, don’t forget us lonewolfers doing so. I hope a WG official could comment this edit: lol....it was 11.112 battles....

Well… Here's Bubba's thoughts about this season of ranked I got to rank 1 yesterday in 154 games and winrate 59,74%. A huge leap from usual 300+ games and winrate around 51% Since I got a new baby boy 3 months ago, making my crew totallying 3 decksmen and an Admiralness, I knew I couldn't play 300+ games this season so I had written rank 1 off long ago. Before the season startet I had 15 tier X ships to choose from, 8 of them were used/testet out. My findings was that tier 8 was easy and the Yueyang with smoke was the bomb In only 70 games I was at rank 4+3, YY winrate above 73% and I really thought this was going too easy. Then I hit the usuall wall, got despaired and tried out different ships which didn't work out for me. Back to rank 6 it went. After a review of experience, I went back to YY and that beautiful DD got me home A lot whined to me not beeing equipped with radar, but a radar YY is easy countered if u remember not to smoke and stay even closer to your friends than he is to his. That went the same with Z-52... The other DDs I am sorry to say were no threat. In the end I got 90 games in the YY and winrate 65,56%. My only regret this season is why I tried to make Des work when I had YY. It kept stars well, but couldn't carry games for me as YY. In the end I want to thank all my teammates and enemies through 154 games. It was a blast!!!! PS. Looking forward to take out the Black for a spin

I agree that Ranked need som better rewards. Really devastating to have 2 campaigns and ranked in the same Christmas celebration. I read ur story about ships Rage_unchained. Most are spot on, but how boring ranked would be if all used "BEST" ships. In this season I have seen amazing hipper play so there is other options, but you gotta know what u do. As for flanking DDs, Hiasing (is it?) is the beast with deep water torps. That one deleted other ships even more than the Kageros I saw... What I really missed this season was my sweet Gallant, which took me to ranked last time in the end when I got the hang of it. Next ranked is for the famouse (or infamous) Black. After that I seriously don't know. WG really has to put out a temping carrot for making me play more. In the end I feel really sorry for those who feel compelled to play ranked AND clan games. You guys are in for a serious burnout ingame and real life....

Woot! Finally rank 1. Took me 332 Battles at 50.9 winrate. A little less than last time. The hopelessness to start ranked in the hollidays made this a though cookie. Played mostly Kii, Alabama, Atago and Loyang. As usual the way to crack this is who is greatest iceman to wait for the other to panic or make mistakes. Wish the rest of u fighters still in Ranked the best of good luck and thanks to all for lots of nervending Battles!

With the great story about Scharnhorst its time to refresh this thread. Please wargaming introduce Hms Stord in the game! Then it would be

I thought this was a good win until I saw red fonts... gdamn. I even had more XP than their best player

Yeah. CV isn't all easy. But it certainly doesn't help that allmost all other CVs is trying hard to get the CS-achievement aswell

I do not have the other screens sry. Both matches was done With fighter set-up. It gives you 3 fightersquads. use only autoaim on Your TP and DP since u got to give Your fighters full attention! The tactics where simple. Strafe and wipe out enemy fighters and then feast on the enemy TP and DP. You need some good strafing since u need to have a decent amount of fighters left to the turkey shoot. And do not waste your fighters flying over enemy AA unless the strafe is Worth it. Also do not forget to occasionally kill off som BB and CA scout/fighterplanes as these counts aswell in the "kill >50% of planes)

Well... All done

Good for you, I really hope u had the task highlighted. As for myself, I try both usually. The problem now is allmost everybody is going for Clear sky so every fight is though and challenging...