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Crewmembers on the ship, they run around doing crewmember stuff, they float in the water if your ship sinks, they get knocked off the ship when you get hit hard. Good for immersion. Give them life jackets so they don't actually die and don't add blood if PEGI rating is a concern.

It does? Huh, the more you learn. Guess I'm a little smarter today, thanks pete.

If you want realism without disturbing the game itself I'd be interested in seeing crew members on the ships, you know, little guys loading shells, manning the AA guns, they get knocked into the ocean when you get shot. Like you would sail around and see some drowning crew members. It would add a lot of immersion. Make them scream too, in agony. I'm suprised why this isn't in the game or why nobody made a mod for this, it's obviously brilliant because I came up with it.

Santa commanders OP plz nerf

Forgive me Pete but don't you mean incompetent? Impotent is when your peepee doesn't work. You know, when your one eyed snake is always looking down. When your trouser snake isn't at attention. When your womb broom doesn't ,.. I think you get it

Yup, DDs win games, all the other ships are there to assist. Picking up the slack if there's some bad BB captains on your team is rough, but doable. Picking up the slack for bad DD captains is damn near impossible without radar and/or CVs, which, incidentally, is the one thing I appreciate about carriers, they are a balancing factor if one team's DDs are potatoes.

It can be one of two things : A problem in your registry, there's a fix going around for this. A mod messing things up, I recently figured out it's smoke timer.

It's not just me? He's here thumbing down every comment of every person that's ever told him there is no nefarious conspiracy by the wargaming dev team? I ... I see. That actually makes me sad in a way, nature is so cruel and unfair in how it distributes attributes.

3 ships died on both sides when I took this screenshot, the poins were at 925 for the red team. We just couldn't get the caps. I'm sure that wasn't the only problem but an all or nothing radar disandvantage does make for some very imbalanced matches imho.

Finished everything in 1 day because I got time off work, that means you can do it in 7 days at your leisure. And even if you can't, the reward is perma camos for T5 tech tree ships, not getting them isn't going to kill you.

Obvious and stupid, the torps are countered by clicking the A or D key on your keyboard. Meanwhile the DD that is not reaching for his torps took away at least 1/3rd of your HP before you even start doing damage in return. I win 80% of my DD vs DD engagements because it's what I'm good at, most of those I just win because the other spaz is trying to torpedo me. If I see the other DD reaching for his torps, I light my cigarette or drink my coffee while I kill him, losing that fight is impossible anyway, I don't need two hands. This isn't some magical secret, if you get rekt by other DDs all the time, you're always launching torps and the other guy isn't, maybe it's time to see the pattern. There are scenarios in which a DD should try to torp another DD, but never do it in a clean 1v1 gunfight where both ships have full HP. You lose the moment you reach for your torps. Unless the DD you're fighting is a potato, but then it's still stupid because you would have won anyway.

@Aethervoxx Are you actually going to thumb down every comment I make on this forum for the rest of time because I pointed out that there is no nefarious conspiracy by wargaming employees to give you bad teammates? You've been doing it for a week, I don't mind but at this point I'm convinced you're twelve.

I'm not one for complaining about matchmaker but this is what the map looks like when one team has all the radar vs another team with no radar at all. The team with radar gets all the caps and wins by points, nobody dies, nobody fights.

Imagine thinking planes won't get sonar and depth charges CV's are supposed to hard-counter everything, submarines won't be an exception.

Not that weird, 50% of DD vs DD fights are won by whoever isn't dumb enough to spend the first 10 seconds of the fight launching torpedoes. The other 50% are lost by whoever is dumb enough to chase the other guy not realizing that whoever does the chasing is at a disadvantage. Winning DD vs DD fights is so easy 1) Don't reach for your torps. 2) Don't chase.

That queue with 62 battleships and 9 other classes isn't even a good example, the ratio is typically more than 10 battleships in queue for every non-battleship. I've seen queue with 250+ battleships and 4 ships that aren't a battleship. You are drawing the wrong conclusions though, the conclusion you are drawing is that this must be happening because every other class is garbage, this is false. The only conclusion you can draw is battleships are more popular and spend more time in queue. As to why they are more popular, it's not difficult, they're typically easier to play and the biggest ships with the biggest F-you guns has a certain sex-appeal with the majority playing a game like this. At its core, people play warships to blow stuff up, really big guns are good for blowing stuff up.

Killed a Smaland in my Grozovoi yesterday, was accused of Russian bias. Russian bias is a meme people actually starting believing in. That said, there's two Russian things that are nonsense in my book - Petro's freeboard, weak citadel is supposedly the weakness but it's 3 pixels tall so there's nothing to shoot at, I don't even bother shooting broadside petros anymore. - Kremlin's citadel armor, again weak citadel is supposedly the weakness but because that side armor is angled, all you get on a flat broadside kremlin is bounces. These two ships can be flat broadside to me, I won't shoot them, waste of ammo, I know I'll get nothing.

If you got Alaska and can't stretch another million for Smaland, just sit on it. You'll probably regret getting the DD without torps or the German cruiser overpen-machine with 4 bismarck guns. If you have to ask what to get, you probably don't really want anything right now, so just sit on the currency until there's something you actually want.

Yeah in that game with 4 radar DDs vs 4 normal ones I can't even theory craft a viable play, I suppose rush them all down simultaneously and fight at 4 dds vs 4 dds at 2km so everyone has proximity spotting?

Actually not a bad idea, just go in a straight line you're guaranteed to spot 10 every game

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I ask because sometimes it's cruisers, those scoundrels are using cover and shooting back at my poor battleship, it's an outrage, they have to just sit there in the open waiting for my 457mm guns to reload. Sometimes it's destroyers, those scoundrels are using torpedoes and my poor battleship doesn't come with a rudder.

Oof on that one, I hate whining about matchmaking but that one is silly. The only way you win that is if the enemy team rolls their face over their keyboard for 20 mins.

What is the griefing class?

A good CV player in an MvR was silly, those bombs without RNG consistently took down T10s to 1/3rd HP and T8s from full HP to dead with 1 squadron. I don't know why wargaming went with RNG instead of a significant damage reduction to nerf it, I can see how that might be frustrating, but anyone arguing MvR was balanced when it launched is either lying or stupid, probably both.