wot_2016_gunner

Izumo with the carry; 182k dmg (new personal record), 2k BaseXP, 2.78 milion potential and: Dreadnought, Confederate and High Caliber (plus a Dev Strike on an enemy Nagato) I LOVE THIS SHIP SO MUCH! Also, as you might notice, i got this

That's the main Type 98 Rangefinder (15m, the same mounted in the turrets) mounted above that are the Type 7 antennas of the Type 22 radar (originally, it was the Type 21 when it was installed in 1943, but in 1944 Yamato alone got the Type 22) for air and surface search. There are also 2 antennas of the Type 13 air search radar, mounted on the mast right behind the smokestack (you can see them turning in port)

Just got a SC today; 7 days of premium; not really something i needed right now, but still pretty good drop

I still have the "old" ones, i'll use the Resource one for Thunderer in a few days, so that i'll have a new one for future ships

I've finally grinded all Izumo modules, not it's time to grind for YAMATO (for wich i kept the WG containers that you get, for example as compensation or from some missions, that give you 1 premium day each, i have 16 of them, but i'll wait until probably after Christmas to actually use them, more because of thing to do in the next patch: Snowflakes and maybe Strasbourg campaign) Also, Rental Tirpitz as a bonus

It's always amusing getting 1 Milion Potential Damage in Pepsi-Cola (The team could have been better tbh, but i'm happy anyway)

I don't understand what you mean?

This is... interesting

Now, forgetting a bit about what happened with the Santa Gifts; I'm honestly TIRED of these kind of missions; they are always the same and they are always:"in one battle get 1.2k Base XP, 1.3k, 1.4k, exc." for... ?! ONE Standard Gift or Standard container in other cases. Like, really?! I'm really tired of these missions.

Yep, i agree; came to the same conclusion

The thing is also that WG doesn't realize that nobody buys those ships because they are

Finally! These days i was doing the 5 Epochs Campaign mission that requiered you to get 60k Fire damage in Myoko, Aoba (which i don't have, i still have to rebuy) and Devonshire; it has been a bit frustrating for 2 reasons: 1 my fire RNG was absolutely garbage, couldn't get fires to stick or couldn't get fires at all; 2 playing Devonshire uptiered (and playing Devonshire in general) is not a pleasent experience. Today tho i was able to get a nice Tier 6 battle and farm almost 30k fire damage (i was a 32k before, got lucky in a Co-Op)

I wish they kept the 2018 thingy (below), the current system is fine but...

I've made another version, my own this time, took me 3 days to rectify this stuff (some values might not be perfect, but i'm not the expert here; i mostly changed the cruiser skills, giving skills for each type (AA cruisers, RN CLs, Battlecruisers and Secondary cruiers) and also trying to give Atlanta a fighting chance again); https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15JTPjlBI7kXuJAZVRsLZce_hrxkk8qApoyoDlCDbzeM/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you @Leo_Apollo11 i had already calculated it tbh (and it matches) 25900 Coal + 750 Steel right now, tho i still have a couple of ships to get + Thunderer.

Yeah; technically Alabama (and Massa) are a harder to citadel, at least close range, due to the underwater citadel, but medium to far range, it's absolutely possible, a Bismarck can do it if it hits. Georgia has basically Iowa armour scheme, there might be some value differences, but it's pretty much the same, she even has the cheeks problem of Iowa, so as long as you maintain perfect angling it's fine, but if you show broadside, you get cit easily and my Izumo knows it, i kept citadelling Georgia showning broadside. Thunderer tho is easy to cit as well; it's a Conqueror hull, which means exposed citadel: stay angled, you are "fine" (i'll touch on the plating in a second), show broadside and you get wrecked. Both ships are vulnerable to HE spam; Georgia a tiny bit less due to the 38mm deck and upper belt (which also offers you some protection against Yamato and Musashi's shells, IF you bait them to shoot the belt) while Thunderer has 32mm plting everywhere, so HE spammers just eat it for breakfast, in fact, Thunderer is technically squishier than a Conqueror, because it doesn't have the super heal. Both ships do have improved heals tho: Georgia get's the Massa heal which reloads in 40s and Thunderer get's Warspite heal. I've always considered Georgia more of a flanker rather than a brawler, you don't really have the survivability to be brawler, you use your speed boost to reposition quickly and catch broadsides Oh, and never forget that Georgia has Bourgogne's speed boost (+15%, instead of the standard +8%) To the OP @Shiplife

There always was, since 2017, but for 2018, 2019 and 2020 they didn't listed the shortlist

In my experience, Nurnberg is one of the best Tier 6 cruisers, but... why would someone spend money for a Premium copy?

@Shiplife This is an extremely difficult decision as both are really good ships; I personally don't have the problem as i already have Georgia and i'll get Thunderer in 10 days (not because i need coal, because i want to get her in a launch day before the coupon reset and HMS Rodney's launch day in Dec. 17, so i choose that date). I'voted for Georgia, i have her since she got released and she hasn't let me down since. I'll say: if you want to play an OP ship get Thunderer, if you want to play a FUN ship, get Georgia. Motivational Georgia wallpaper in spoiler

I've seen in the News discussion that the problem might be related to the fact that today's task was to try out the "Reworked ranked battes" but that has been postponed, so the might be reworking that

Same problem over here "403 Forbidden"

The issue is also that back in 2017, when they actually told you the "shortlisted" ships, those were actually decent/good/really good ships; you could get De Grasse and Mutsu from the standard ones, and those are okay; Scharnhorst back then was really good, Okhotnik was borderline OP; Alabama and Lo Yang were top ranked picks; so while rigged (apart from them telling you) you actually got good ships, and it might have been very likely that you already had one of those because of the fact they were good. This time, the best drops you can get, imo, are De Grasse, which is still okay-ish and Orkan, because it's a radar DD; the others are meh at best: - Viribus Unitis: 35.7k HP at Tier 5 in a BB... - Makarov: is a soviet Nurnberg, while Nurnberg isn't bad, you know the "exploting Nurnberg" meme and i wouldn't spend money for a premium version of it. - California: is meh, slow, 356mm don't cut it at Tier 7 and 26mm plating; you have good range and somewhat good accuracy but... - Duca d'Aosta: it's a really poor damage platform; dmp is poor, 14km rang and trash fire chance at 8% - Yuudachi: do i really need to sayd something about it? - Vanguard: it has multiple issues; 32mm plating, the citadel ia absolutely gigantic, stick out significantly above the water line, it is huge in size, the firing angles are terrible and the only battleship you beat in AP pen is the Monarch and that mostly spams HE, so that's not a great achievement. - Ochakov: it's good against DDs but as soon at something shoots at it, it explosed.

I mean knowing the chances doesn't really change things, as the chances of stuff dropping from a container are the same every time you open a container, doesn't mattery how many you have, that just gives you more tries; it doesn't changes your chances as they are the same for each container you open. This is pretty much how lottery and gambling and RNG works; As Neil deGrasse Tyson said:"We as humans have a profound inhability to understand statistics, and probability" check the spoiler below for full video

It's Belgium that banned lootboxes (i know it becaue one of my clanmates is from Belgium)

Which is why you got the SCs