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Saying that the reload is "fast enough" is false for all ships that benefit from an increase in dps. Unless you can kill enemies so quickly they can't even shoot back. The reload upgrade gives as much extra dps as it says, which is independent on how fast the reload was before. That said, my highest tier UK CL is the Leander so I don't know if the extra dps is better or worse than the extra range of the range upgrade for the Minotaur.

I've had my best games in the Emerald on that map. I just head down to brawl in B with whatever ships dare to approach me.

I once managed to kill all the remaining five enemy ships when my Kamikaze was the last ship on my team. Most were BBs, but one was a cruiser I beat in a gun duel; I think it was a Danae at roughly half health.

It's probably better to switch target after the first fire. Smarter players are unlikely to repair a single fire so you'll get some dots out of that. Go back to it after you've set a fire to your other chosen targets. But when trying to set fire to a ship that has spent its DCP it's not too easy to set fire to the bow and stern sections, so it may be better to switch target after both middle sections have been set on fire.

I started with the dynamic one when it first came out and I haven't switched back. Didn't have any problems switching since I was used to eyeballing it, and doing it well. Now I've gotten lazy and tend to use the numbers more.

The problem with radar isn't how easy or hard it is to deal with for players with a modicum of skill. The problem is that most players aren't that good and can't deal effectively with radar so they either die, camp or almost die, then camp. And when DDs don't push, no one does, unless there's a CV spotting for them and it's already been established that CVs are rare. So, because players of that skill level makes up most of players in any given match, radar leads to more passive gameplay. Isn't it 8 km?

OP, If the price of the Missouri would get raised, would you be willing to pay that free xp right now or lose your Missouri if you can't? Since you've already got it and you want it to be more expensive if makes me very suspicious of your true motive for this thread. They should, however, remove the radar from the ship. That's just stupid.

Fun fact: if you get the Aurora you'll get the ship with the smallest turning circle outside tier 1. The St. Louis is probably a stronger ship of the same type though.

Can I just say that I actually like the Emerald. Sure, it's not very good, but brawling other cruisers and DDs in the middle of Straight is fun. It's not a bad brawler really, comparatively speaking. Also, I'll add that I've kept mine after getting the Leander. Just for fun.

One issue is that games based on killing other players like this are inherently biased towards steamrolling. Once you lose a ship your team is weaker, and thus more likely to lose the next ship. This quickly snowballs until the steamroll is complete. Though a mitigating factor in WoWs is that it often takes a long time to kill a ship, which makes steamrolls slightly less likely than in a game like WoT where the tanks die much quicker. Also, during the Nachi mission I had a blast playing dodge tank in my Udaloi. Didn't really have to work at all to get aggro. And that aggro also made all enemy Russian ships come to me so I could kill them for the mission.

I tend to, if I remember, to type "Heylo, peoples!" at the start of battles and players most often respond, with the occasional player wanting to correct me on the use of "peoples". But those canned messages are more often ignored. I only use F3 to point out targets and sometimes F5 to say yes or F7 to ask for assistance when I don't have the time to type. I didn't even remember that F4 was for thanks since if I want to say thanks I type it out. Also, Swedish keyboards don't have a single key for ü, you have to press two keys for that. Can't you do that on an English one as well? And what about German ones? They actually use the ü letter naturally.

I don't like this nerf. If I can't stealth fire with my North Carolina at 26km range anymore, what will I do? I mean, going closer is a bad option because then people can shoot back.

To have the chat obscured by sun glare like that is just bad design. So yeah, you should be able to change the opaqueness of the chat background just like you can with the mini-map. Also, I'm not sure if I'm just lucky but I rarely see toxic players in chat. I'm fairly quick to give chat reports for people being annoying and I still very rarely run out of them.

Remove this skill, please. I'm not concerned with how powerful it is. I'm concerned with how much fun it sucks out of the game.

Shiratsuyu: 21Mahan: 20Sims (BL Mk. 7 mod. 2B): 20Sims (Mk 15 mod. 0): 17 Kiev: 15Leningrad: 23Blyskawica: 24 - 3 = 21 I've never met a Blyskawica I feared going up against in DDs.Myoko: 20 Indianapolis: 17Flint: 21Lolanta: 21Shchors: 18Yorck: 10 Fiji: 21 Belfast: 26 Nagato: 18Colorado: 18 + 1 = 19 It was the first BB I really liked. Not fast, but decent guns and AA, and the superior heal just feels special.Gneisenau: 16Scharnhorst: 26Hiryu (2/2/2): 20Hiryu (3/1/2): 20Ranger (1/1/1):17 Ranger (0/1/3): 22 (It should be +1 not +3, right?)Saipan (Torpedo Bombers): 21Saipan (Dive Bombers): 17

I've completed this mission and I wouldn't be upset if they removed or lessened the requirement. For some reason I feel like I've gotten the most Russian kills playing my Russian ships, mostly the Udaloi and the Kebab, but also some with the Chapa. Thing is, everyone's drawn to you, which includes other Russian ships for you to kill, so you don't have to go chase them, you just have to be better than them. Also, while I like the extra challenge while playing Russian ships, the mission is still bad as it promotes selfish play and bad teamwork.

So, got my third Solo Warrior today, and it was a real one, not one of those go cap or hide until the match ends kinda Solo Warrior. And of course I uploaded the replay. http://wowreplays.com/Replay/23478

Which you like best probably depends more on your playstyle than anything else since the ships work a little differently in my experience. The Udaloi works a little more like a standard gunboat DD since it's smaller and more agile. It's also good in tight quarters and suicide rushes with its really good forward torpedo angle. You can almost shoot straight forward. The Kebab on the other hand feels more like a really light cruiser without a citadel that can outgun anything smaller than it. Of course, I kept both and I can't decide which of them is my favourite ship in the game.

I wouldn't be too sure of that anymore since with the changes to the IJN DDs the Kamikaze might just go the way of the Gremyashchy.

I've only very recently gotten the Kebab and it feels like a great ship. Haven't played enough to really know the ins and outs about it, but I do play with the non-stealth 4x32 setup (I don't have SE yet). I also don't have any rudder shift upgrade and instead I'm trying out the acquisition mod because no matter how I plan to play I'll always somehow get into situations where that extra km certain spotting comes in handy. The Udaloi meanwhile is probably my favourite ship. I play it a little more like a standard kinda stealthy destroyer rather than the light cruiser style for the Tashkent and Kebab. It also has maybe the best forward angle for the torps of any ship I can recall. So if you're heading straight at enemies you can just shift a little to the side and throw the fishes and then go the other direction for two more salvos. Also of note is that they're both still fun to play even with the current meta of everyone instantly targetting any Russian ship they see.

I don't really get why there are so many complaints about the chat being abusive. Today I had maybe 2 or 3 games where someone was rude in chat, and I played enough to get 3 containers. Now, I did have a higher than normal winrate today, which lead to more pleasant team chat, but I feel it's still fairly representative of the game chat in my games overall. Also, without being able to chat after death I would've missed out on a lot of interesting conversations since players often have a hard time chatting while they're in the middle of a heated battle.

Yes. Do that. See first hand how DD's play and how they work. Then decide how OP they are.

In a recent ranked battle I rammed another BB with my Bayern. I had around 15k health left which was the damage we did to eachother, which makes me think it's based on current health rather than max health, unless there were some damage saturation shenanigans in my case as well. We also didn't do exactly the same amount of damage. Also, it was very disappointing to not be able to end the match with an honourable ram, but I did manage to sink him with flooding damage, so eh.

I wouldn't actually notice all that much. It's really a pain to hold those buttons in for an entire turn. I use "Q" and "E" instead. Though admittedly, I use "A" and "D" to reset the cruise control to neutral.

It's those keys, but you might have to use the right Ctrl and Shift keys. Since you control the camera with the arrow keys and 4-9 keys on the numpad you still have your regular ship controls free. Last time I used the free cam I could control the ship at the same time.