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And another loss, Trento. First place in all three losses. I think I'll leave it at that for today. Enough token farming.

Win, Gallant.

And another loss of course, Gnevny this time.

She did last time with Missouri, afaik. She even has an EU account as well, I believe. Anyway: Loss, Aoba.

I noticed that both in the extended tech tree, as well as on the WoWs Fitting Tool, Moltke is not considered a test ship anymore, but a premium ship instead. My guess would be that it cold come as an early access ship via Twitch Prime, like De Ruyter or Dante Alighieri before. Do you agree or does anyone know more?

Agreed, Generally, dreadnought era ships are generally more on the handsome side, while the "classical" beauties are found in the 30s and 40s. With the Italian dreadnoughts of the Cavour and Doria classes you even get both in the same ship XD

Doesn't happen too often, but sometimes I am actually right with my guesses XD Just got her via Prime as well and now I am off to admire her beauty in game.

Those are the H39 (Friedrich der Große) guns. I have yet to see any plans for 406 mm guns in the Imperial German Navy, but there are plenty of mentions of 420 mm guns. And as @ColonelPete pointed out, since they are WW1 guns (essentially just bigger Bayern guns), their performance would be worse than the 420s on FdG and GK which are already not stellar in penetration. There is literally no reason for 406s!

One more thing I still can't get my head around is why the tier 8 and 9 have 406 mm guns, when all the GK designs these monstrosities are based on have 420 mm guns. Were there even plans for 406 mm guns at the time? I don't think there are any benefits in terms of gameplay for the larger guns either (no overmatch thresholds or many extra HE citadel opportunities). It's just completely unnecessary to have 406s instead of 420s.

I am just going to get every single one of them up to and including tier 7 (because real, kinda) and not bother with the high tiers which are bamboozling in their design (thanks to WG fantasy department) and also ugly as hell (Zieten taking the crown, but tiers 9 and 10 are not exactly lookers either, imo). Then I'm just gonna rig them for secondaries, meta be damned, and see where it goes from there. If nothing else, tiers 6 and 7 could make for nice ops ships that way.

I had enough captain xp lying around to get one captain to 21. It's still the only one. Of course it doesn't help that I like to constantly change which ships I play, not the same ones all the time. If the progression was roughly equal to what it is from 1 to 19, I might have some additional 21 pointers by now (or at least 20 pointers, only one made it from 19 to 20 so far). The grind is insane. I just don't bother aiming for it though.

Indeed. I don't mind tier 3 and 4 as early access, but the higher tiers is just bad for gameplay quality. It could make people actually play lower tiers again if you actually had to start from the bottom. Of course you would also need rewards, like the daily missions or other events to be doable at low tiers.

For me, in hindsight, it's probably getting Flint for steel (with coupon) back in the day. Although, back then she was a lot of fun and probably even OP and I got good value out of her before CV rework, IFHE rework and then commander skill rework neutered her. Apart from that, I have not regretted a single one of my purchases/resource spendings, since I always informed myself as best as I could about the ships beforehand. And of course, I have not spent any money in more than two years either.

I have been using either of two mods in order to be able to look at the camos without being sick all the time. If you essentially want to keep the colours, but get rid of the awful patterns, you can try out Unique Camouflage Plus. Unique Camouflage Plus If you want to get rid of the patterns and too bright colours altogether, you can use Simply Grey Pain + Historical camouflage v1. Simply Grey Paint + Historical camouflage v1 Both can be found in the visual mods section. Either is miles better than the hideousness of the vanilla camos and I like them both. Thanks to the modders to bring us more immersion.

Agreed. I like that you added the white stripes on the funnels though, they look good.

Good eye, captain! Enemy Zeven Provincien sunk our Kutuzov right when we hit 1000 points. Would have prolonged the game by a couple of seconds and give everyone the opportunity for a bit more xp and credits. Damn those servers XD

Yeah, just watched this as well. I had a game yesterday in a DD where almost all my torpeodes missed, although I thought I had lined them up perfectly. At first I thought I might have accidentally come across a whole mass of players constantly changing their speed (despite cluelessly driving in a straight line all the time), but this makes much more sense. Sad, really, but comforting for my ego XD

Find the error... hint: do the numbers

Looking forward to the German battlecruisers up to tier 7. Tier 8 to 10 are completely uninteresting to me. No interest in that dockyard ship either, but it's great that we can pick up Repulse on the way. Graphical updates could be nice as well. However, I am strictly against those "superships". You might as well just introduce tier 11 instead. Bad idea, imo.

Sure, but that was also the time when tier 7 got the sweet spot in MM and was always top tier.

I exaggerated on purpose. Personally, I would have prefered a move to tier 6 and then keeping her available for everyone to buy. I mean, theoretically, all those who got her at tier 5 would have payed tier 5 money for a tier 6 ship. Then you could have later Leonardo da Vinci as the tier 5 premium for example. Oh the irony: The one time I would have liked for WG to actually go through with something they did not.

I already have all the low tier premiums that I really wanted, so I did not care much about what I was gonna get. The only thing I did not want was Charleston, since she is too similar to St. Louis. All the other ships I didn't have are at least somewhat unique, even if it is only in looks. So, of course I got Charleston, because that is just my luck.

They tested GC at tier 6 a while back and intended to exchange the vastly overpowered tier 5 version for it. Even without any changes, she was fine at tier 6. Of course, everyone went ballistic that their shiny OP toy would be a tier higher and therefore not as OP, so WG scrapped the idea (although issues with compensation and stuff like that also played into it). So, they literally could just have put a copy of GC as Novorossiysk at tier 6 and the ship would have been fine. Instead they are experimenting with changes to dispersion and armour. Let's see where it goes.

Well, that reads like the right sentiments and courses of action to bring players and WG closer together once more. However, in my eyes, WG has lost pretty much all of its credibility over the years, so you will have to excuse me if I am just going to watch and wait as to wether things will actually improve. Very nice if true, but not holding my breath,

Good if it's true. Hermes, Ultimate Frontier and Cherry Blossom were great fun. However, with WG's track record, I'm not holding my breath. I'll believe it as soon as I can actually play those ops, not before.