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Took out the Fuso for the first time in quite a while and got a really tense game. I didn't even notice I had done this well until the post-battle screen because I was constantly occupied with what was going on. Was a lot of fun as well though and the result speaks for itself.

Got the container today with Gallant in it. Quite happy with that, after first impressions. Not that easy to play (especially when the Cv has a hard-on for you), but quite well-balanced.

Maybe, but that would mean she would have significantly smaller guns than the other large cruisers (305/310/380 mm). I was just hoping to get something like Henri and Moskva: not quite as fast as Henri and not quite as tanky as Moskva, but in between (and with slightly bigger guns). Would have made a nice tier 10, imo.

What do you expect of completely fictional ships? The tier 8 is at least paper, but 9 and 10 are pure WG fantasy, just like with the German cruisers. Could have used a 254 mm armed cruiser design instead.

I don't really care that much which, since I alrady got all the t6 that I really wanted. Only exception: Huang He. That one I don't want. At all. Ever. I guess T-61 would be nice, since she is very strong, but not a must-have for me as a cruiser main.

She is gorgeous, but I still believe she should have been at tier four. I mean, should she really be considered a tier higher than Wyoming, Kaiser, Gangut, Courbet or Orion (all of which even get, sometimes fictional, upgrades)? Only reason to put her on tier V is to make her sell at a higher price, imo.

Got the rest of my tier 10s done. Not much luck unfortunately. 4x 50 camos 3x 100 normal signals 2x 50,000 free xp 1x 1000 dubloons 1x 7 days premium 1x 14 days premium

I know that the 419 were better, but also boring. I got the Montana for a 12 gun t10 BB and I like her way more. Then again, I also play Yamato secondary build, just for lulz, so I am not one to ask for most effective builds ;) I will definitely get the Thunderer, as soon as the coupon resets at Christmas (expect if Siegfried is coal and comes out before).

Might have sold Conqueror entirely now, since without the 457 she is completely unintersting to me. Just keeping her for things like the birthday SCs.

Things like that don't factor in the game (un)fortunately. Just from the top of my head, German DDs (especially with 150 mm guns), the Mogamis, earlier Atlantas and I believe even the Clevelands also had issues with sea-keeping (and quite a lot more ships I am sure). Here's hoping that we get somewhat realistic ships (look wise) where possible.

You can still laugh, I don't mind. Make it a good natured laugh instead ;) Build (Yamamoto special captain): PM, EM, AR, SI, BoS, AFT, ManualSec, so you got it almost right. I don't use Priority target on most BBs, since I consider my awareness good enough in most cases and being one-shotted is not as much a threat in BBs as it is in cruisers. That also leaves me free to use Auxiliary Armament Survivability mod or whatever it's called (more health for AA and secondaries).

I actually use the upgrade on one single ship: Yamato. After you are done laughing, here's the simple reason why: I absolutely hate slow turrets with a passion and main battery reload mod makes it even worse. So, Yamamto's increased EM + secondary build (Secondary module 1, AFT and Manual Secondaries, no IFHE) makes turret traverse just about bearable. Yes, in most cases, a full tank build is far more effective on Yamato, but no one ever expects it and the secondaries are quite good fire starters and DD deterrents. And it's hilariously fun! Back to topic: I agree that the module overall is next to useless and needs some kind of rework. Mabye a small additional accuracy bonus, of course there is always the question of balance and when it might be too much. Moving it to slot 5 could also work. There are a couple of ships where I would at least try to play without concealment. It's quite hard to say, apart from the module needing something.

Since I have posted it in another thread, I might was well put my data into the "offical" data collection thread, for science and such. My first six birthday containers (5 tier 10s and one from the objectives): 3x 50 camos 2x 100 normal flags 1x 50,000 free xp Gonna return when there is more to report.

Those numbers roughly correspond with my experience. Great effort and thanks for posting. Edit: Of my 6 birthday SCs I had so far, 3x 50 camos, 2x 100 normal flags and 1x 50k free xp.

You misunderstood me. I know I can use the codes at any time, but I can't play till Friday (work). Now I have even more Birthday Stuff waiting for me when logging in for the first time in 0.8.8.

I won't be able to play until Friday, but the codes are something additional to look forward to. Thanks everyone for keeping your eyes open and sharing!

And particularly not fascist war-losing navies!

I think it's better to start with a moderately powerful, maybe even slightly weak ship and then improve (carefully, not with a hammer). Better than the other way round. I noticed that the AA suit has 37 mm guns (so like Hipper's B-hull), not the 40 mm Bofors of the C-hull. So AA should be a little bit worse, I guess. There might be a typo in the spec sheet for the Mainz though: shouldn't it be 6x2 105 mm guns (12 total), not 12x2? That would be quite an extensive long range AA aura otherwise...

From the reload and turret traverse, Mainz turrets seem to be exactly Könisgberg turrets (probably no 360 though). HE DPM is over 30k worse than Chapayev (198k to 163k) and with only two thirds of the fire chance (12% to 8%). Just as an example. On the other hand you get decent survivability and built-in IFHE. Could be interesting. Let's wait and see. Also, a non-op premium would definitely be welcome, especially an HE-spammer that doesn't spam too many fires ;) Edit: Those turrets look tiny on a Hipper hull.

So, to get a historical no-torpedo hull of Zara, you have to buy the premium. Figures. Mainz could be interesting, I guess. Königsberg turrets, but Hipper survivability. We'll have to wait and see how that anemic fire chance and HE damage stand up at tier 8.

Hey fellow captains out there! While looking through some old WoWs screenshots, I came across some of games that marked some kind of "milestones" in my WoWs "career". While I don't have screenshots for all of the milestones further down, I can still remember them. So I was wondering, do you still remember what ships you had yor first time(s) in? My own: Very first WoWs game: Erie 100k damage game: Kirov 200k damage game: Izumo 300k damage game: [still waiting] 2000 base xp game: Budyonny 3000 base xp game: Pensacola (when she was tier VII) 2000 base xp in a loss: Leberecht Maas Die Hard: Kongo Kraken Unleashed: New York Solo Warrior: Izyaslav I left 400k damage and4k base xp out for now, since I feel they are extremely rare, but if someone had games like that, feel free to add them (for bragging rights). I am curious if maybe we can even make out some patterns, if we get enough replies. Looking forward to your input!

The facts that she has no torpedoes and only two guns with an unprecedented rate of fire makes her look interesting to me. I guess that it depends on your definition of "interesting" though. I cannot comment about whether she is fun, since I don't have her, so you might be right about that. From what I've heard and seen about her she is defintely not for everyone and so might be great fun for some, but none to others. I think it's fine to have premiums that don't suit everyone's taste. For a start, you don't get the same ship three a piece in each team every game like it was for example with Smolensk after she came out.

I'll get the captain if I get enough tokens, if not get some dubloons and spend whatever is left on whatever, maybe camos.

The main question is: Is Friesland interesting and fun to play? If the answer to those two questions is mostly yes, then she is fine as she is. I don't get why people are already calling for buffs now that for once there is a premium that is not extremely strong or even op, like many others recently. It's the way ideal premiums are supposed to work: Be interesting and different from tech tree ships, earn more xp and credits, but not be any stronger. Just my two cents.

Only the Graf Spee one looks good, the other two are quite bad visually (to me, that is). And that price? LOL. Nope.