DFens_666

If you killed the shima, it might not be a surprise actually? You are T8, he is T10 and a low-HP ship. Dealing one overpen worth of damage might be worth more than if the GK citadels a T8 Cruiser. Well, thats really subjective. Most people think, it doesnt matter what they do because they are 1 in 12. But this prevents you from auto-losing every game with a stock ship aswell (btw playing a stock T9 ship without captain/camo/flags pretty much deserves to have bad results - just saying). But even playing with a sub-optimal ship at decent levels would probably grant you >50% WR.

This. Its on a steady decline for years. Dont expect anything anymore. They solely play for themselves, and do whatever they feel like. Suiciding in 3 mins or running to the corner of the map. Normal business these days.

And that game was unfair because...?

https://wows-numbers.com/de/player/540423429,DFens_666/ My stats My last Tallinn game How could MM now, that i would be first blood without doing anything? This game is not only about skill, its about luck aka RNG too.

Well, the deck is ofc negligable once you get closer. As to icebreakers, i dont like to rely on those. Sure i might be biased by myself, because i know about them and i dont get fooled shooting into those. Problem still remains ofc, that you can get overmatched at the entire length of the upper half of your hull. Stalingrad/Moskva/Petro can get away with it better, as their entire midsection prevents overmatch. Alltho Moskva and Petro can actually get citadelled despite having an icebreaker, Stalingrad is much safer due to the hidden nose. And in the end it comes down to, being able to rush someone who doesnt know where he can overmatch me is an unlikely scenario. Going 1v1 against someone who knows this, is a much bigger problem.

Ofc we will just take your word for <10% WR with a hidden account

But the armor is only 25mm? So you get overmatched everywhere before you get close. Imo it doesnt help not getting citadelled closerange, when going close already costs you all your HP. Zara has better armor in my book, the entire midsection is 30mm or more. So you can bounce up to Musashi at the upper belt. The bigger issue for me is, that the guns dont hit and that its so clumsy.

This is a 4 people Narai run recently... now tell me, that this doesnt suck? I got a bit more XP, and everyone else got less. Not a good trade imo

They used to before they nerfed them... let me find some old screens. That was 2,7k base XP before the nerf. Should be like >70k commander XP. 2,9k Base in Dynamo Sometimes we got >3k base, which was 40k FreeXP, couldnt find a screenshot now. Imo the T6 OPs didnt give too much rewards ever, also they were also impossible to do with 4 guys. Dynamo was doable with 4, and so is Narai. But there was always a chance to [edited]up and lose a star. Or sometimes fail entirely, so imo there was sufficient risk <-> reward to balance it out. As i said, now its mostly waste of flags really.... You can grind some T7 ships to avoid bad MM.

My complaint is, that it gives the same rewards whether you play with 4 or 7 guys. I liked to do Narai with 4 guys, as it is actually rather challenging and it gave decent rewards for that. Also you could actually fail, so there was some risk involved. But now? Why should i do it with 4 guys and take a risk? Doing it with 7 i find extremely boring tho... Havent touched the other OPs since they nerfed them afaik. In a good random game i can almost get double the amount i get in Narai. In the same timeframe. Even in a loss i usually get the same than i get in Narai. So why waste flags there?

Ok, havent played those actually Lets say bottom 5 atleast. Hipper is quite bad too, but it has atleast the armor. And Tallinns guns are just horrendously bad. CM has speed, better guns and MBRB, with similar armor.

Well, there were also people who claimed how OP Tallinn is I think its the worst T8 Cruiser actually

I had the exact same situation on that map last week. Except my 2 BBs just died like flies. We were 3x div, DD + 2x smoke Cruiser inside the C cap. A Pommern and Tirpitz just rushed ahead through C, dealing 0 damage and dying. If the enemies dont just suicide like idiots, it wont work. In flambass video, the Alsace was just super dumb. Camps at the island so he gets rushed by 2 BBs, then manages to eat torps. Hipper also doesnt provide firesupport, and Alaska is kinda on his own. DD also suicided. In my example, enemies have an Asashio camping back with his mates. Even tho we hydroed the torps, i still think our BBs took 1 each. The Montana provided crossfire for the bowtanking Iowa, dismantling our BBs. Hindenburg and Albemarle kited away while spamming HE at them. Im still baffled they both died within 5 mins, guess they didnt know either DCP or repair party Just to show how useless they were I was the Kutu, the map-screen i took from stream.

I did try that with the Coal-Smoke-Upgrade... sadly its overkill Dunno, i stopped paying attention because they all seem rather useless now. Yamato is still ok i suppose?

Replay? Should be able to see if the flag actually was on. Maybe it wasnt? If it was on, who knows what kinda bugs are floating around right now... everything might be bugged. But check the replay first.

I guess its kinda hard to say, atleast for me. I try to use reload wherever i can. However, if i would go range, i might favour this one? Dunno tho... The question is, how much does the -7% dispersion do in reality

Well to me the Hindi LM is just a downgrade... current Zao is like i dunno ? boring probably? Unnecessary?

The only way WG would buff LMs if people would stop using them. I had high hopes for Hindi LM - then i saw all the potatoes actually using it So no chance, idiots will be idiots, WG should start trolling them and make LMs which nerf your ship, see what happens^^

-> This Same happened to me, which also caused a Kronshtadt to randomly pop radar (i assume he was so smart to know, if the CV pops a plane there, a DD must be close) which resulted ofc in me being radared, shot and attacked by planes

I might watch it later, but just to clarify: What happened when he ram you? Did you die / did he die as a consequence of the Ram?

Better than playing normal T7 Div - sees T9 more than 50% of the time id say.

True, T7 is rather bad these days. Was my favourite tier, now i basicly dont play it at all. But paired up with a T6 CV, you have a fairly high chance to not get into T9 MM, because CVs cant get thrown under the bus, they always need a T6 counterpart, which means a 2nd fail div to make it happen. Otherwise you will always be in T5-8 MM range with that faildiv. I think WG should just restrict hybrids same way as CVs: 1 per div, including any CV.

They nerfed the Zao LM recently. It used to do this -20% rudder shift time -7% maximum dispersion of main battery shells +8% main battery firing range Then they removed the buff for rudder shift. In general tho, never believe what WG is advertising. Its often misleading or outright wrong (or outdated in this case). Always look for the infos yourself, f.e. in the wiki https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Upgrades#Slot_6

Exactly, but which one is more likely to happen Im just saying, when playing BB, i often dont see much of an issue if a CV is going for me. Contrary to playing Cruiser or DD, which can be quite annoying when the CV only manages to spot you.

Yeah, but id call that a situation where you can/have to kill the BB. Its not like, you would fly all the way to the end of the map to kill an HE spamming GK while ignoring a DD in the cap.