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Just had a game with MaxxyNL in his Sims while I was in my Missouri farming credits (one of 6 in game!!!!) - The game, while a win, was a typical BB-fest on Tears of the Desert in Epicentre mode which is never a good combination. The enemy pushed the left side heavily (my side) with 4 BB's, 2 DD's and 2 CA against our DD, me and an Iowa. While our right side mopped up the enemy without issue we 3 ships alone stalled the rest of the enemy for all the game until we'd bled them dry before all being sunk. I played "poorly" but still did a respectable amount of damage (143k) but some how came top in XP (1700-ish) with MaxxNL in 2nd on almost identical points but I only took 1 screenshot PS: Played with all the Bismarck flags (XP/Free XP, Commander XP, Credits etc) and over 3 games (1 win and 2 loses) and made 2.8 million credits

Liquidator, Clear Sky and Solo Warrior for me, in that order - I'm a cruiser main so rarely get to torp, rarely get focused by a CV enough to kill his planes and rarely stay alive to the end to get Solo (I think I was eligible maybe 1-2 time in nearly 3k pvp/pve games that I remember but always lost).

I've been saying this for the past 8 months and nothing has changed Check the date! - http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/62084-cruisers-are-becoming-more-and-more-pointless/page__st__60__p__1304505__hl__+limit#entry1304505

WG...............................tackle...............................BB...............................overpopulation?????

Not a bad weekend so far considering the few amount of Co-Op games I've played. The player skill felt higher too (subjective I know) so I'd guess the Bismarck Campaign must be taking a lot of BB players back to PvP -

Finally got a SC after 6 months and 650+ games (inc Co-op) - 50 Ocean Soul Camo - better than a bloody module anyway!

Used the link above and got mine a few hours ago (make sure you're logged in to the WG website though!).

Playing a lot more Tom Clancy's Wildlands than WoWS right now but still managed to sneak in the odd game -

To be very fair to Tyrendian89 - Just how DID a Beta tester (so played the game a while) get to T9 without noticing the Fire icons on the health bar? I completely understand a new player with a T3 BB asking this question but not a T9 Beta Tester. I wonder if they've only just started playing again after a long break or something? One thing I did learn about the Fire Prevention captain skill is that while the health bar and DOT show 1 fire, the fire graphics for the ship ignites both "Superstructure" fires so with 1 fire burning it "looks" like the ship has two burning and this can put off people shooting HE at you as they already think you're badly burning enough not to bother with - sneaky!

I remember the youtube clip of a DD detonating a full health Yamato from non-hit HE splash damage, poor man!

WG in it's quest for World of Battleships absolutely refuses to do the 1 single thing that would cure the problem immediately because restricting BB's to only 3 per match (or 2 BB and 1 CV) would increase BB queue times which makes BB;'s less popular. In the mean time BB players are rightly complaining about the high number of DD's without realising that the high number of DD's is due to the low number of Cruisers to kill them, and the reason for the low number of Cruisers??????? Too many BB's and too many BB's = too few cruisers which = too many DD's which = unhappy BB players and the pattern repeats. Think of it like a food chain - When there's too many Predators and not enough Food what happens? The Predators die out until their numbers are low enough that the Food level can recover. If this doesn't happen and the number of predators keeps increasing ALL the food dies out meaning ALL the predators eventually too. It's a really simple context yet WG's love for BB's means they'd rather see the game die slowly from too many BB's than do anything which reduces BB numbers. Now there's a lot of better ways to reduce BB numbers but these all take time (make better cruisers etc) so for now a limit is the easiest & quickest short term solution. However, remember it's different on each server so while the EU server is BB heavy for the past 6 months, the ASIA server is still Cruiser Heavy (no BB meta -YAY) so 1 "global" fix may not work as a BB limit, for example, is worthless to ASIA despite being helpful to EU.

Hi all, I just played a T7-8 game where 3 of the team seemed to be under-performing significantly in their premium ships (Tirpitz's & Saipan). I checked their stats and found that all were T3-4 players with <600 WTR's and T7-8 Premium ships which begs the question, does WG still see low tier players jumping into much higher tiers as a problem like they said they did with the ARP Atago clone when it was T9 players only for a T8 ship? I've no issue with players buying the ships but I would think a restricted MM would be ideal to ensure that those who have bought the ship have a basic understanding of the game at that level before being able to play it i.e. You must own a "silver" ship in the tier directly below the Premium ship you've bough to be able to play in PvP so for example owning a T6 to play a Premium T7 or a T7 to play a premium T8 etc. For those who want to jump from T3 to T8 without working up the Tier system there's always Co-Op to practice in which, as a co-op player, I don't mind that much as there is more XP for me to farm. I know when I first started playing I did exactly the same with the Kutuzov and I wish I'd been stopped from playing PvP until I was ready as I was bloody awful in it and it actually put me off the game for a bit. Eventually I found the T6 Molotov when I was an experienced T5 Kirov player and I did 1000% better as I knew the game better by then. Anyway, I guess I'm just a little salty for the weekend madness which has just started so Good Luck and Have Fun

Continuing the Co-Op Cruiser fest - and a Kutuzov game where a BB spawned at the top of the North map by C, went to D despite being told not to, saw nothing there (obviously), did a U-turn when he saw 4 enemies at C and then headed back up the map to C rather than capping D and cutting across the gap into C. By the time he got back around the top of the island to C a Tirpitz and myself had sunk all 4 ships so he finished the 10 minute game with 0xp despite actually sailing about rather than being AFK so I don't even think he fired his guns! - Great game for him and a PSA for BB players everywhere - DON'T GO D ON NORTH!

Leaving the German BB's alone for the night, went back to my Fiji and hell yeah do I love this thing! Plus some Blyska action

................and then writes in Chat "Good Job Noobs!"

I still think you should be able to buy a Premium with 0 battles, you just couldn't use it in Random/Ranked until you had another ship in the tier below it, unless you play Co-Op where there is no restriction. So PvP gets "experienced" captains in Premiums and those who just want a Tirpitz on day 1 can blast away in Co-Op. I found the quote from MrConway regarding the ARP Takao issue which seemed to be WG'EU's answer at the time - MrConway: Which is at odd's with their current "open door" policy regarding Premiums, but like I said, I'm just a little salty right now

Hmmmm, this is starting to become a Theme Charging a full health Gneisenau in a 1HP Okhotnik - LIKE A BOSS!!!!! (got 4 torps on him but died in the process)

Ah Scharnhorst - Best DD/CA/BB in the game with 3/4 of the enemy team killed Yolo'd into the middle of their fleet and brawled like the proverbial boss with secondaries smashing DD's and Torps smashing everything, Awesome fun!!!!

After being friendly torped by the same guy in my first 2 games I wondered if I shouldn't just switch the PC off for the night but I met up with the [PVE] clan and had a few good games but my Tirpitz is still my favourite BB, especially now she has her proper secondary range back!

Same here since November, I don't believe all these tales people tell of getting these mythical Loch Ness Containers I've played 800+ games (PvP & PvE) and opened 200+ "Signal" containers in the past 6 months and got zero!

Nope, sorry but thats not realistic thinking. *IF* the "noob" spread was equal amongst the teams then you'd be correct but it's not, so you'll end up with games where there is 2-5 noobs on your team and 0 on the opposition team. So for everything to equal out statistically you'd have to play lots of games, yet after 5-6 bad games it seems like most people just give up, so they never get the chance to experience the 5-6 "noob-free" games you're talking about. Unless you are some of those lucky people who don't have noobs on your team, the weekend effect is there for a lot of us. If it wasn't no-one would be complaining (Occam's razor etc).

A few from the PTS in the Montana - I really should grind this line (I keep saying this every PTS ) and the Des Moines line!

Free XP is 5% of Received XP so 5% Free XP + 100% (i.e. twice as much) Camo = 10% Free XP. In your pictures your Free XP is 186 & 184 which is 10% of 1860 and 1836 (Received XP) so the camo is working.

It's something I've been thinking about for a while now regarding Two Brothers. Due to the limited programming of the Bots they "tend" to go all Russian and "Rush B Bylat" and head for the middle of a map which, on open maps, is no issue and even on some split route maps (Faultline, North & Northern Lights etc) it is still possible to meet more than 1 bot per match depending on where you sail but Two Brothers is a complete mess. Due to the size of the islands, once you pick a route to sail you are unable to support the other 2 routes and, with so few ships in co-op, if you pick the "wrong" route out of the 3 you can sail all match and never shoot at another ship as the battles are usually over very quickly so even if you did reverse course you wouldn't make it in time. While it's my least favourite map for co-op and it would like to see it removed, my usual tactic for this map is to sit at the bottom of the left island. This position can cover both the Left and the Middle much better than being fully on the left side and gives you broadside shots into both areas. It also only leaves a 2-3 min+ transit to the right side should it be needed. It also allows any spotter/fighter/radar aircraft you have to spot in the middle for you too.

Both these games felt terrible to play as I made mistake after mistake, including pulling several Notsers in the Moskva game, but still "somehow" did quite well in both games, which amazed me!