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Actually its not, playing passively is against the rules, see this:

While i was playing Narai today, i had an interesting bug? or whatever it might be. I was pointing my guns into the water, and it kept showing me an island marker. Maybe its a problem with that certain location? Atleast that would be the best case scenario. Worst case would be, thats why sometimes you get salvos without lock-on, because who knows where your aim is actually pointing at? Here the replay when it happened Thoughts?

So a T8 CV seeing maximum T9 MM is fair how? If your buddy wants to play T8 CV, pick a T8 ship. If you want to play Fiji, let him play a T7 non-CV. Just alternate between T7 and T8 then, cant be that hard, right?

And now you know, why you have bot CVs

I assume the next one might come during XMas / new year holidays.... that being said, i wouldnt convert XP into FreeXP. Its so easy to farm FreeXP these days with all those signals and camos. Not worth to throw doubloons (money) at WG for it.

I think there is a difference between getting accidently torped, and deliberately torped or shot at, because someone is offended by you playing a game. Im not saying that you got accidently hit, i mean deliberately rushing next to you and shoot you with all their guns (or torps). Bots certainly dont do that.

I lost count how often i got killed or shot at by my teammates during the last month... deliberate and accidental. Atleast Bots dont do it deliberately, they just dont care if you are in the way. Humans however can see that, and 2nd of all, they can shoot you because they feel like you "stole their damage/kills".

I guess the easiest way would be, to let people choose to play "normal" (aka with human teammates if there are any) coop, or bots only, so you get bots on your team... Atleast they dont deliberately shoot and torp you, like some humans do Its even better for people doing missions. I can understand thats kinda annoying for others, when ive been playing Stalingrad lately, blab a Cruiser left and right and then ram the BB to extract maximum amount of damage. But why should i waste more time, when WG in its infite wisdom makes missions like "1,6 million damage with "some-country"-Cruisers" The secret mission thing is much better. Its just: PLAY THE [edited]GAME. No [edited] attached to it.

Difference ofc was, that Nevsky concealment is 12,8km and Petro was 11,9km before the nerfs. Soon its slightly worse. I dont think radar in itself has too much of an impact for Petro. Maybe the 1% difference we see to Venezia in the same period. Other than that, they could aswell remove it and its still not bad. Also they should raise the ship from the waterlevel, its disgustingly low, which makes punishing it too hard. Well no, because one way to achieve PR was to no-life it and play 24/7. That wouldnt fit with the Stalingrad tho. Good people have Stalingrad, who constantly play CBs and Ranked in higher leagues. More and more "average" players get Stalingrad lately, and they perform really bad with it. PR was "easily" obtainable by heavy whaling, and a lot of noobs bought it... thats just it. Good players didnt want to invest that amount of time or money to get a meh-ship. Also the amount of time you needed to get it 4 free was just an insult anyway.

We have Petro for ~3,5 months now. Lets go back to when Venezia was that new: 2months Venezia being 3,5 months in the game (released mid nov 2019, stats from dec+jan) http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/pastrecords/20200201/eu_2month/average_ship.html >52% Same stats a bit earlier http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/pastrecords/20200111/eu_2month/average_ship.html Almost 53% So should we be surprised? Not really, seeing how Petro carries radar, having match influence being even a bit easier. But its not far off from venezia at the same period. Stalingrad is still being played by best players, there is no reason for it to plummet to 50%. Or you wanna say, people who have 60% and more WR on their acc should only win 50% with Stalingrad, even tho they win more with other TX CAs?

Is there any explanation or should we just guess?

"Butt i NeEdZ da CoOal for FuNdaRar!!11" These openly available reward ships are really bad for the game imo. When you see accounts with 500 battles played and they all have Thunderers... WG just wants to cash in on the grind, so they make grinding relatively easy, only to force people to get Credits one way or the other.

Any other IJN Cruiser? Takao/Atago works pretty well, i think there was one mission in the Anchorage directive for IJN torphits, i got like 15 in one game Thats plenty for 50k damage. Italian Cruiser works too, just speed ahead and smoke up.

But i think, Camping comes from too many and too accurate BBs in the first place. Would you go with your Wooster on Ocean towards a cap so you can radar it? That essentially means, you are first in line & spotted, while being in range to pretty much all enemy BBs without cover. Chances are much higher, that you die instead of the enemy DD you try to radar. Adding more and more 457mm guns on TX, which can pretty much overmatch any Cruiser doesnt help camping, as even CAs, which used to be able to bounce atleast some BBs, are faced with getting overmatched top to bottom. If they angle so they wont get citadelled, they most likely will get chunked by pens instead. And if you wanna dodge, you need to sit at 16+km aswell.

Yep, story of german BBs. Thats why i think, they work best in divisions. You can create an opening for your team, while you have (atleast) 2 people with you, who can work while you play the punching ball. The problem is, if you try to have an impact from midrange, any other BB is better. So you basicly have to try to get the strength of them going, which is ofc harder than just letting your guns do the job.

No, pushing is definetely the way to go. But often you need your team to cash in on that, otherwise you will just die without any impact. Winning the push and dying is an acceptable outcome. If you have to make a move, GK is definetely a good BB to do it. But its not that easy to do correctly, or get the right moment. Ofc there is still games where you dont have to push, and pushing would get you killed, so you kinda have to live with that. Also taking a torp is not the end of the world, which can always happen even if you run hydro. But Hydro should give enough freedom to make that push happen and not get devstruck by torps.

Can your pick Operation maps in training room? I have no idea tbh, will check that tomorrow.

Well i used to play with rangemod and my kutuzov captain, which naturally doesnt have AFT but IFHE. Then they reworked IFHE, so ive been using my Kiev captain which has AFT and BFT... so i just went with it

Its a problem, when ships that can tank are camping at islands, namely BBs. Also there is no tanking for the team, since you cant force the enemy to shoot a specific ship. If several ships die within 4 mins, they made retarded mistakes by showing broadside. Nothing will prevent them from dying, because why would you shoot an angled BB, when you have a Cruiser showing broadside to you?

Somehow i doubt they would get much revenue from CB clans, who freeXP petro so they can use it. Its mostly good clans anyway, whos players would use freeXP, and they tend to have enough FreeXP to do it regardless. Or they would do it even without CBs. Lower league clans tend to play the ships they have in port, not whats meta.

I have exactly the opposite experience. Usually every TX game has atleast 2 Thunderers (or more) and i rarely see Smolensk these days. I also tend to burn much easier from Thunderer than from Smolensk Usually Smolensk always will target your superstructure because they cant pen anything else, so i burn at one place with FP. Thunderer, while it does have decent dispersion for a BB, will often set 2 fires as it hits your ship from top to bottom so to say. Here my last 3 games in TX MM: Does the 2nd even count when i brought my own Smolensk?

Well, people could just ask for help? Instead (most of the time), they come in and proclaim how something is broken and underpowered, while they have actually no clue how its supposed to work. Imagine someone would open a thread here, how underpowered Stalingrad is... he would get blasted back to T1

Kronshtadt is extremely resistent when it comes to being citadelled. You need big caliber BBs, then you can punch through the citadel roof, which is only 30mm. I guess the only way for a Riga to citadel Kronshtadt would be, to aim infront of the frontturrets, the citadel extends to the side of the ship there (same for behind backturrets). Well i played Smolensk yesterday got 7 fires, and Nevsky after that for 8 fires... Nevsky fire damage was 8900 So i need a good 50+ fires for a witherer But its exactly the way you describe. Except i think the game wants to troll me even harder, i tend to get 2 fires on 40%ers, and then nothing till they have their DCP again, only to get 2 fires again with one salvo! Its like "oh but you got your fires, dont complain" Its like the citadel on a 2k HP ship, when you have been pummeling it to death with overpens prior to that. This got worse for like 2years by now id say...Must protect the drool-[edited]

I think using spotter kinda defeats the purpose of the smoke. Id say, a Wichita with spotter makes more sense than Anchorage with spotter. (interestingly that balti cant equip spotter, that would definetely be better). I rather stick with Hydro btw