wot_2016_gunner

First thing i did today, right after the update installed (actually after the Server got back online) was to get the King George V , thanks to the cradits that i got from the consumables and i also put Cap on it

@CaptainKreutzer Those are defenetly Ju-87C; the what i call "StuKa mouth" (the radiator under the engine) matches the one on the "Berta" (on which the C variant was based on) and of course the on of the C variant. Only two prototypes were ever built and tested of the JU-87C I also see behind the totally unmistakable propellers and propellor hub of some BF-109T. You can see them just behind the StuKas For those who don't know, both aircrafts (even if the Ju-87 had a C) were identified with the suffix "T" or "Tr" as it denotes "Träger" which is "carrier" in German. Note: To prevent any issues, the IRL pictures are link only due to the planes having swastikas; for obvious reasons.

I have to agree with @Crysantos; to be fair, i too was expecting a "big gun" BB, but that was because it was basically the recent trend when it came to "armoury battleships", we saw it with Georgia, Ohio, Thunderer and most recently Shikishima, so, i was expecting it, but due to the trend followed by the ships that preceded it. Then, Ludendorff gets datamined and instead, she has 12 380mm guns, which i'm perfectly fine with and i think it's actually good for the game, 'cause imo, right now, the game doeessn't really need another "overmatch" battleship, that makes the plating on cruisers completely irrelevant; maybe there will be another one in the future, but for now, Ludendorff is a good addition. I honestly really like Ludendorff in the current state and i'm looking forward to it; we'll see how it develops. P.S. Btw, if you nerf it, which can happen, please, don't touch the HP, nerf something else.

Nice Update. We'll see how the submarines will be this time. Also YYYYYYYYES That's nice. I think it should be like in the old days (Beta and and ealry years) That's really good; not that i really care about it as i got Sansonetti back with the main event, but at least you didn't went for coal.

Well... new... thanks to the datamines we already new of their existence since a couple of days so... let's say they are "new" in the sense of "upcoming". I'm really looking forward to the Ludendorff; i think it's better to go with 12 380mm guns than adding another 457mm ship. We'll see how she develops.

I really like the changes, one issue is... that the armoury placeholders are a little bit messed up (with the Alabama posing as the Bourgogne and Gorizia posing as a Stalingrad) Also, i really like the, i assume stainless, "Steel" camo It reminds me a lot of my third favourite rocket launcher in history, that being the Convair Atlas; the early versions to be exact with the stainless steel baloon tanks and the stage and a half system. (Saturn 5 being at first place and the R-7 family being at second place). You know; it's shiny The one in the picture is Mercury-Atlas 9, launching Faith 7 with Gordon "Gordo" Cooper on board; the last Mercury mission. 22 Complete orbits around the world and the last American ever to go in space alone.

I do see your point and in fact, i too think that FdG looks a little bit better than Ludendorff (i think it's because of the longer guns); still, i do quite enjoy how Ludendorff looks. Actually, here's an interesting thing i've just noticed; i had initially thought that the turrets were downscaled GK turrets, as they are three gun turrets and they looked similar, but instead, upon a closer inspection, they are in fact "proper" three gun version of Bismarck turrets. What gives it away is the small cutout for the gun elevation on the sloped part of the turret just over the guns, which is not present on GK.

Oh, btw, guys, this means "USSR Cruisers", in Russian. "Крейсеры" (Krejsery in Latin alphabet) means "cruisers" in Russian

You get the "Soviet" camo for Mikoyan as the reward fpr completing the directives, not the ship Reward for completing all Directives: the Soviet permanent camouflage for cruiser V Mikoyan.

Overall it's fine; there are some issues, but they are basically the same issues of 0.9.2 (EU DDs early acsess) Namely this which is practically the same as this But the rest is fine

And again, the La Galissonnière showing how good of a cruiser she is. (surprisingly it was a close game) Replay (20200509_145006_PFSC106-La-Galissonniere_08_NE_passage.wowsreplay)

I've pulled the math and, with Main Battlery mod. 3 (what else would you run on a BB to be honest), she out-dpms the FdG (with 406mm) by about 30k dmg in terms of raw AP dpm, but it's just because you have more guns. Still tho, the AP pen is the worst at Tier 9 (since they are Bismarck guns)

While for me it's very underwhelming and kind of reflects some sort of laziness from WG (instead of coming up with something new, they take a ship and change a few things; its' nothing new to WoWS, but whatever). It said on reddit that she trades the aircrafts for Tirpitz torps and "improoved" AA, with the quad MK-103s (see image below; love that muzzle brake btw ) I hope that she'll have at least 2.0 sigma, otherwise she's going to be a worse FdG imo. however, i do have a bit of hope for it tho, due to the fact that she's going to be fo coal and so far WG never screwed up any Coal ship, in fact every coal ship (i mean Tier 5 and above) is from decent to just BS, so i hope that thet don't screw this one up.

Not exactly, each stage decreases the total price of Odin by that ammount (which is 5% of the total price for each stage). It's said that you can get Odin at any time paying the "full" price, depending on how much stages you have; you have 10 stages, it will coust you 50% of the price (17.500 doubloons). the more you have, the less you'll have to pay. you can go up to 18 stages for free, which will decrease the price down to 3.500 doubloons

@MrConway @Crysantos I have a small question related to the camo; so, if i get Graf Spee, which i don't have, i get it with the Parade camo, but do i get the "standard" Type 10 camo as well, or i would have to get that separately? Same question applies to Odin.

Double facepalm?

It's just not recomended; the ship itself is okay-ish, until you look at the HP: 52.800 HP just doesn't cut it at tier 8. It's less HP than Kongo. It might waor in Co-OP or some Ops, but in random, even against Tier 8 struggles due to the HP nerf.

YEEEESSSSS!!!. My god it took so long to get a win. Teams these days are just a tragedy ; thank god this time i was in the winning side. Not the most interesting of games, also considering i was with Zara in Tier 9MM. Also, i've finally researched the Amalfi

Alaska is just a monster. Yes, she's not japanese, but if you really want a FreeXP ship, nothing really competes with Alaska. Azuma is just not worth it by herself, plus, Yoshino exist, which is just better than Azuma, so there is really no reason to get Azuma. The only problem Yoshino has is that there is just better stuff to get for Coal, like Georgia and Thunderer, but with Jean Bart and Smolensk now being removed from purchase (they have been removed with Update 0.9.3) Yoshino might not be a bad pick after all; squishy as hell, but it's not a bad ship imo. TLDR: forget that Azuma even exists. As @Furius_Marius said, the main problem is the fact that they are Japanese premiums and they are all a bit meh, with very few good/decent ships; with some of them being the only one available (i.e. Kaga) and others being removed from purchase (i.e. Kamikaze and its clones and Musashi). That's very good on your part. I tend to "select" which ship to get based on "if i want that ship", regardless of the Tier and the fact that it's premium (apart from the fact of being Tier 5 and above). Taking already into account that i might be able to get the said ship (let's say it's for coal), what i do is basically is: i first look at reviews of that ship, from multiple CCs (honestly, i mostly just listen only to Flamu's opinion), just to know if the ship is good or bad. If it's trash, then i just do like if didn't existed, because it would just be a waste of resources, most recent example being Agir. If the ship is good (and "good ship", for me ranges from decently good to straight up BS like Alaska and Georgia), then i ask myself:"Do I want that ship?" forgetting about the Tier and the fact that its a premium. Now this can go both ways; here's a little story. The first Coal ship that i wanted to get was Musashi, i had just started playing, but you know, it was a long term goal that would have takien it's time, i wasn't in any hurry; i wanted it, not because she was a Tier 9 premium, but because she was Yamato's sister. However, WG removed it from purchase, and I couldn't do anything about it and i let her go. Then, Georgia gets announced, and at the beginning i'm a bit "okay, let's see"; i follow her development, and the more i follow it, the more I'm like "I WANT that ship", not because she was premium, but because she was a (really) good ship. Then Georgia get's released and I got lucky that i had just enought coal to get her with the coupon (which i had), because i wasn't playing since a couple of months due to the fact that i was studying for my High School Exams, and just before the coupon reset I got her. Same thing was for Alaska (which i got on my birthday btw, with FreeXP), it was just that it took way longer to get 1milion FreeXP. Smolensk, on the other hand, is when i DON'T want a ship; was Smolensk a bad ship, absolutely not, it's completely OP; it was very recommended, but did I wanted it? Absolutely NOT. In fact, before Jean Bart and Smolensk got removed, I chose to get Jean Bart, which i kind of wanted a bit to be honest, (on March 6th, her launch anniversary), because i didn't wanted her to have the same fate that Musashi had for me.

The main problem, WG, is that: THERE ARE NO TEAMS I'm literally done with the teams these days. Not only, i keep getting the new players every single time, that don't know anything about the game and don't understand how to play; DDs don't contest caps, don't spot, yolo and get killed at the start of the game, exc.; BBs run away. You know what i mean. I doesn't matter how good you are, or if you are top tier or bottom tier; it just doesn't matter. You're team just evaporates while the enemy, at best, looses 4 ships (if you're lucky). What is even more frustrating are those teams that throw the easiest of wins; i mean, maybe it's a completely fair battle; both teams have done good, but let's say your team is winning because you have the cap advantage, or the points lead, but your team just doesn't care and throws the game. It's infuriating. I mean, i literally have to do the job that 12 people should do, but i'm only one. I legit cry when i have these teams, because, no matter how good i try to be, or how much i do; it's for nothing. I honestly don't care about winning or losing, but it's the exact opposite of fun that your team get's completely deleted but the enemy team looses maybe a couple of ships.

@dommo77 I'll tell you my suggestions for each class so that you can then decide (as you have all the classes; i.e. BBs, CAs, DDs and CVs) CVs: Kaga BBs: either Mutsu or Ashitaka; Kii imo isn't really worth it, it's just a worse Amagi. CAs: Atago, it's still decent DDs: Asashio. The only problem with Asashio is that it has Deep water torps that hit only BBs and CVs I wouldn't really say that; i'd just say, don't be in a hurry with those, take it slow.

Overall, okay changes imo. (besides Agir)

I mean, i like the game mode too. I tended to play i somewhat like epicenter; not going too far out (at least, up where there were some "buffs"), because i knew that there was going to be a cap at some point in the match; so that i could contest it. Still tho, the problems that this ranked season has are the same the randoms has, primary of which being that the quality of the playerbase is just below 0 at times; it's not as bad as in Randoms, but sometimes it happenes (not to quote Smolesnk, exc.). I only played Georgia, she's not my only Tier 9, but for a Tier 9 BB is the best pick imo (also because i have no Tier 10s). I've played 16 battels and i have reached Rank 5, but i don't think i'll play more of it, because besides the one victory that made me reach Rank 5, in all today, i couldn't move from rank 5. It's just so toxic.

Same, I played 8 battles today, only won 2, one that got me to Rank 5 and the other one "in the middle", the rest were all losses. I just couldn't get past one rank today

And... i got Rank 5. Not that stellar of a game, but, at least, we won. Fun fact, there were no DDs.