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Imagine a DD with a Citadel - Good smoke, great torps with a reload consumable but DD guns, Cruiser size and citadel and between Cruiser/DD detection. I've only used mine in Ops/Co-Op but it's a fun ship once you figure out it's more DD than Cruiser and adjust accordingly.

Yeap I did as XP is scaled on "damage per ship" and not kill numbers. The Blyska's 7 gun salvos were one shotting the majority of my kills so my 46300 damage, when divided by the 19 kills, works out to over 2400+ damage per Schnell boat (which have about 3k health) so I was doing 80% damage to all my kills. When you add up the entire rest of the teams kills it makes 20 kills, so I'd guess he'd have had to do close to 80% damage (he got less XP so lets say 70% best case) to every other ship in the game to get close to the same damage level, and that just doesn't seem plausible.

Yeap, I had a 45% WR Agile who did the same and charged straight to Dover. He managed 9 plane kills, ZERO ship kills, triggered all the extra plane/boat attacks making it harder to escort the ships and lost me my first star in 14 games - The moron in question still got only 150XP less than my Blyska with 12 kills and 28 plane kills - The XP calculations are a joke! EDIT - A 60% WR Cossack player was in the same game and holy hell that things guns are lethal, the only ship I've seen thats even close to the Blyska but with a much better reload and traverse! DOUBLE EDIT - If you got a strong Sims Div going, say 6 Sims and a Leningrad, you could use the Leningrad's amazing speed to get to Dover to trigger extra planes and boats for the Sims to handle and then, using it's 48kt speed, get back to the convoy again, maybe something to think about for those farming this Op.

Or handling, as the 830m turning circle is 10m BIGGER than the bloody Kronstadt - A Russian battlecruiser/BB mash-up!

Something I noticed, and was picked up by someone else who posted a "participation" medal about it, is that everyone seems to get a really good score, even if they did little and doing fantastically well doesn't seem to scale with the Base XP rewards at all. In fact I'd say something is very badly wrong with this as those nearer the bottom of the table as getting 1200+ Base XP for very little effort. Here's a few of my examples - THREE more planes kills and SIXTEEN more boat kills to guy in 2nd place - only 300XP more. TWENTY SIX more plane kills and TEN more boat kills than 3rd place - only 66XP more. Plus I got 220XP less than screenshot above when I only had 5 more boat kills. ONE more plane kill and NINE more boat kills than 1st place - 55XP LESS and despite getting more plane kills I got 80XP LESS than the screenshot above . Now I know XP is scaled with "amount of health removed" rather than kills but my 7 gun Blyska is one shotting full health boats, not 1/4 health ships, so something looks very wrong with the XP tables here.

I've played 10 games and all have been 5 star with most having just 1 friendly die so not even close to losing a star. Maybe I've just been very lucky!

Thats the best bit for me, the rewards for a virtually guaranteed 5 Star win are fantastic with those new signals added!

I have seen a Farragut player die at the start after being bombed by the planes before being torped by the very first Schnell boats

[Operations] - Ran through the new Op Dynamo a few times now, got 5 stars every time and not even close to losing a star! Full AA build Sims and Monaghan B hull with Def AA - The 2 Gun Monaghan is very poor with the Schnell boats, not sure it's worth playing that ship again as a B hull. Ah the Blyska, 7 awesome guns with an eye trained in by 5+ games behind them meant the Schnell Boats stood no chance but I'm more surprised by the 28 plane kills on a "non-AA" DD (in-game at least) compared to the AA Sims 25 kills in second place!

Once you know exactly where to lead the Schnell Boats the Blyskas 7 guns are lethal!!!!! I'm also very bloody annoyed that sinking 16 - SIX BLOODY TEEN - boats more than 2nd place (with a similar amount of plane kills) only gets me 300XP more - Thats a bloody Joke!

Tried the following - Sims - Great AA, Guns need to be under 4km, good gun traverse, great smokes and ship turning Monaghan B Hull - Great AA, only 2 guns so really hurting against boats, good gun traverse, great smokes and good ship turning. Blyskawica - OK AA, 7 absolutely amazing guns even out to 6km, OK gun traverse with EM skill, OK smokes, fast speed but slower to turn. Leningrad - Poor AA, lethal guns which are best in Op to max range, terrible gun traverse even with EM so choose a side early, OK smokes, epic speed (48kts) but slow turn. Gallant - No AA, poor guns (worse than USN for me), OK traverse, poor smokes, slow but turns OK. My fav is either the Sims or Blywska by a long way!

It's just luck to get 100+, oh and "helpful" allies who choose 2 AA rating Gallants PS, Update to scores - 65 - Sims 53 - Monaghan B hull 28 - Blyskawica (holy poop for a Non-AA ship thats good)

There's an 81 in the Monaghan thats been posted on Reddit however my personal best (in the only game I've played) is 50 in the Sims.

[Co-Op] - Not flipping my poop when, during a RN "spotting damage" mission, I spotted 6 ships (3/4 of the bots) in my Gallant at A-B caps just to watch my entire team NOT SHOOT at them as they rushed away to take the C cap! This is my screenshot after 7 minutes of battle when I died, then and only then, did my team turn around and start picking on the bots!

I haven't played the mode yet so this is just a guess based on the OP, but I think he is a T9 ship and it looks like he's complaining that Arms Race is filled with T10 ships and his T9 ship has no chance against them in that gamemode.

I was extremely lucky that my team was extremely good, only 2 guys had less than 50% WR in my team (both 49% and still new players who hadn't played Dynamo before) and we had a few had 60%+ WR so the average was 55% WR with 5 playing Dynamo before . Best was that the two new players, who didn't know exactly what to do, asked for help and did the right thing by following what others said such as timing Smoke with the others to always cover the convoy, avoiding the minefields etc. I'm not too confident every team I play on will be like this

That is with 200% first win, premium time, USA camo & and every single "Special" signal (inc the new ones) which increase XP (so no Wyvern).

Well, played my first game in the Sims - LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I had a great team with myself and the others smoking the convoy most of the way so we only lost one single ship and got a 5 star win on the first try. From my own performance I badly messed up the timing of Def AA as I forgot that, the closer you got to Dover the more planes were used so I'd used (wasted) all my Def AA on the earlier smaller waves and had nothing left for the last two huge "swamping" waves but I also thought that, despite having 450 AA DPS, the enemy planes were very "hard" to kill so, even though I obviously did well, so many planes survived when they really shouldn't, so I'd guess they were T8+ health rather than T6-7. I also found that, due to the speed of the Schnell boats, anything further away than 4km was a wasted shot with USN HE so instead I had to actively hunt the Schnell Boats close to their spawn (especially at the exit of the minefield) hence the large number of kills (got 6+ kills in under 30 seconds at minefield exit).

I had this happen quite a lot about 6+ months ago, where the "camera" auto-tracking would just stop, even though the ship was still targeted, but I've not had this particular bug in a long time now.

[Co-Op] - Last ones for another week or two - A fantastic Des Moines game where I decided that simply setting fire to BB's wasn't fun enough so I charged in with AP blazing and did surprisingly well, including "drive-by's" on 4 T9-10 BB's and a whopping 77k AP damage in under a minute to a Montana which was distracted by a friendly BB. and then the first game in my new Kitakaze, with the stupidest torp acceleration reload ever - it's faster to use that at the start rather than to let your torps naturally reload due to the 3min torp reload and 2min 40 acceleration reload. and finally an Atlanta game with the LOLanta doing what it does best and ambushing things while wrecking DD's

Fine for me and just played for the last 65 minutes with no-one else talking about ping etc and no AFK ships from disconnects.

[Co-Op] - I haven't taken many T8 Tech-Tree cruisers out in a while so I thought I'd take the 155mm Mogami out for a spin - and an ever popular Missouri game, even when it's a mediocre one like this, still nets a nice chunk of Credits, when you add all the credit flags/signals etc.

[Co-Op] - With the recent "influx" of PvP scrubs (even OMNI guys) infecting my beloved Co-Op game, all after their "quick" SuperContainer games, I've had to step it up a little Although in some games even those filthy PvP players actually turned out to be pretty good at brawling However all joking aside, one of the bigger issues with the PvP stampede into Co-Op is that games are lasting far less time, so everyone comes away worse off than before. I mean this game was only 4min 19sec, the BB's had hardly moved before the game was over and the enemy still had a full health Iowa (was about to torp it) and a T10 CV left alive!

No probs, it's still very early Alpha so WG haven't really released any info yet, other than a gameplay video, so we're all still guessing here.