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Still rather complex: - CLs can shoot Ap against everything, which is not too heavily armor (german/Russian BBs) when they show broadside. F.e. Smolensk vs broadside Montana can deal a lot of damage even midrange, because Monty has 38mm upper belt. If you are close enough to aim for the Bow/stern, you can do that aswell. How to dismantly a russian BB close quarter. Can also Citadel Stalingrad if you are close enough. - CAs it kinda depends. Most of them can citadel CLs at any range. Against other CAs, it gets a bit more tricky. But with acceptable reload, you should realize if you get citadels or shatters. If you get shatters, aim higher. And against BBs, it really depends on the CA and the BB in question. Some can citadel them at slightly more range than others (Moskva f.e.), while something like Hindenburg can hardly citadel BBs at all. So with Hindenburg, its better to aim higher (upper belt) even in close range engagements to get pens. Moskva on the other hand can go for Cits.

5 mins - then a 2x2 CV only game starts

Too complex. Noone could remember when to aim for the citadel depending on range and angle. If a ship is flat broadside, citadelling it is easier than if its 45° angled. You only need to know ships with rather bad pen (german CAs) or ships with really good pen (Stalingrad, Petro). If you pay attention to whats happening, and dismiss freak citadels, you will get a feeling when you can get citadels and when not.

I dont think 51% and 65% is comparable skill. Neither is 45% and 50%. So basicly, we have lower ~20-30% as one group, then a huge chunk at around 50% WR which is like 60-70% and <10% above that. The average guys will have a relatively easy time to find matches, while the best could sit in queue indefinetely, depending on the tier they pick.

Too many decent players left the game within the past 1,5 years due to CV rework, so we have too much bottom dirt left, who will just die within 3 mins?

Well, im for removal of spotting from CVs, and im not blind if i dont have a DD. And a DD, that has backup, who refuses to spot a DD without backup is still a noob...

Naturally you have to put them into 4 groups from 0-25% / 25-50% / 50-75% / 75-100%. So if you are >51% you would only face people who have 51-100% WR, as thats the group with the top 25% players.

Yeah right, i wonder how people manage in games without CV Or how did we get by for the first 3-4 years before they reworked CVs?

Its like the JB i had on my team in Sprint, who boasted about having 811 secondary hits - without any kill or useful damage ofc. He ran away from a Alaska who was chasing him, dealing basicly no damage at all I think CVs shouldnt spot anything - not even for themselves. Let them only attack what surface ships spot for them. I think that would be really interesting, and would fix a lot of issues. Also get rid of AP bombs, AP rockets and normal rockets.

No, NC and Alabama are pretty much the same with minor differences. NC and Massa fulfill different roles, and both are very good in theirs. So imo you cant say, that one is superior to the other. Ive had good games in both, and also had games where i wished i would have been the other. Massa is in a sense more unique, thus might be more fun, as there is no techtree equivalent. Meh, i dont agree with all this russian OP BB whine. Yes, they are kinda foolproof, but there are other BBs i prefer more. Bourgogne is much more flexible than Kremlin, and Yamato has overall the better guns thanks to overmatch. The 2 truely OP russian BBs are Pyotr and Sinop.

Yeah, sounds fun for those barely above 50%. And it would be a punishment, since something like devstrikes are much less common when good players face each other because... they dont make such stupid mistakes. Also what @GarrusBrutus said. Having really good games for good players would be a thing of the past, since they would most likely each grab their share in it.

Because its mostly impossible? Even if you would put more variety in those maps, it might still work against you: - Ive played random games, where i had 3-4 times in a row the same map - During this sprint season, ive had 2 maps much more often than the others*. So if id have picked ship A, it would have been good more often than Ship B. It leaves still room to complain, especially in a mode that ends within 30 games for many players. You might just get "screwed" by map RNG, giving you the wrong map over and over. And then you pick the other ship *bam* now you get the wrong map again. * 17/27 games have been only 2 maps for me. And i think its fine, that during this event, some ships were better than others. Last sprint it was different. Next sprint is different. Its fine. Best ships this season. Last season Oh look, a CV. And a DD also. Where is Tirpitz, a ship very similar to Pommern? Why are some ships not allowed to be better in 1 sprint? Especially if they are often worse in Randoms? I guess german ships are not allowed to be good ever

Thats why, WG gives you the option to buy T9 ships so you can participate. Even good ones for that matter. Need to add one thing to this: No, thats not at all what you were complaining about. You started with "i only have Izumo, and this gamemode is particulary rigged to favour ships like Pommern, so i demand to either change the gamemode so it favours MY available ships, or that they offer rental ships suited for that gamemode". So in essence, you want pommern for free. Or any other ship like Pommern which is suited for this gamemode. If they would have given rental ships, lets say Iowa, Neptune and Yugumo, you would still complain because those ships are not suited for this gamemode. The same thing happens to Clanbattles: People with T8 ships can get 3x3 rental ships, each time 1BB/CA/DD. And those are never premiums. Its usually Yamato/Montana/GK, Hindenburg/Zao/Moskva (was it i believe before it became premium) and Shima/Gearing/dont remember the last DD, might have been Grozovoi. Just to summarize, why you want Pommern, or ships like Pommern: - Everyone should be able to participate. - To make that happen, give us rental ships - Ships not suited for closerange engagements are bad. = leaves us with Pommern and such.

Those ships were absolutely useless in CBs. Worse than picking Izumo in this Sprint. Thats your opinion. I personaly dont want someone who has played 1 game without any experience join me in a rental ship in ranked at T9... Ive had people with 0 games in randoms at T7, they shot at teammates because they dont know what to do. Sounds like a great addition.

The only restriction is having 130 battles played on your account - nothing more.

You dont seem to understand, that this game is build upon what you describe as being unfair. Its a f2p game. They need to get money somehow. So the game is build upon a grind. If you want to make that grind easier, you spend money. player A doesnt invest money, so he has to invest time to grind coal to get Pommern. player B has money, but not so much time to play. He buys Pommern from premium shop. You want to get Pommern 4 free (literally), because you demand to be equal to others without investing time OR money. Which btw, is the exact opposite of fairness. You want something for free, which others have to work for one way or ther other. gl with that. Maybe you should look for another game, since you pretty much dislike the core on which it is build. Maybe WG should just give us everything for free, and then they can close the servers one month from now, since they dont earn money anymore.

Replay please.

Truth hurts i guess... So its insulting to say, that there are players in this game, who have no clue about why they should pick ship A over ship B in a certain game mode? Then you can interprete everything as an insult. Not to mention, why should anyone care if they get called "noob" by someone they dont know? And still, i didnt target anyone specific by that, so everyone has to decide for themselves if they are offended by that, or not. You cant be offended by that, since you know Izumo was a bad pick. The problem i have is, that if you pick Izumo, the OP suggested that you get easier MM by not getting matched against BBs with torps. And that makes no sense. Ill say it again: If that would happen, id join those people because why not? Id enjoy to play Neptune if i could avoid Alaska by doing so

Too many "weird" incidents let me believe, its not really RNG - Permanently shooting a broadside target, getting overpens and pens, but not cita. When target has a like 1k HP, you get a citadel <-- MANY streamers also complain about that, and it really happens often. To me it feels like "you got your citadel, now be happy" - Last salvo/secondaries from a dying ship tends to start a fire very often. Last salvo also feels super accurate, dealing tons of damage, even tho prior salvos you didnt receive much because you were and still are properly angled - If you are about to kill a ship, you often get fires from secondaries, even tho you didnt get a fire before. My new record are now 3 fires within a few seconds with Pommern on a Musashi while doing a driveby at 1km (how my secondaries manage to hit every part of the ship is a mistery on its own). This is a bit like the citadel stuff, you could call it statistic rigging, as you got the amount of fires you were supposed to, even tho they actually didnt do anything. - One salvo starts 2 or even more fires, target DCPs and you dont get a fire till his DCP is back up again. Same happens often enough with BBabies DCPing one fire. Last times i had to DCP 1 fire, because i would have died, i received 4 fires from a T61 with 3 salvos, and 3 fires from Mogami with 2 salvos. Also thank you, my tinfoilhat is sitting nice and tight

No, i didnt say that. The context was "if there is a choice between Pommern and something else, a good player will pick Pommern because its a strong pick". If you would have to choose between Pommern or Izumo, would you have picked Izumo? And while asking that, there are people who either picked - any ship - a ship they want to grind - a ship they like and neither of those are necessarily suited for the meta. If you dont have a choice - then thats that. Then you pick the ship because you have to. I could also say, if the player only has Pommern, doesnt mean he is a good player. Randoms? Its not really a secret, that secondary ships are either harder to play well, or are outright worse than ships suited for longrange combat. And not this season no, but how about other ranked seasons? Should someone complain, who has 400 battles and only a T8 ship because he couldnt participate at all? Thats the core of this game: Grinding. We dont have any influence on this, we are just telling you how it is.

Report them to Support? Thats against the rules.

Hey, i dont disagree with you there, ive asked for that myself. But the problem is, WG just doesnt care. They will just make up something, and even if they wouldnt, its their call.

1. The difference is not 100% with Pommern to 0% with anything else. Would it matter, if you get 60% with Pommern or 55% with a techtree ship? However, i do agree that WG planed it to promote Pommern. Smart? Definetely. Shady? Yep, i agree. But we are talking about Ranked Sprint here, which is 20-40 battles with ~4-10mins per battle. 2. No, what i mean is, if i have Pommern or Iowa to choose from, id take Pommern naturally. I think i could have chosen 20 other ships, but a good player will pick the best ship he has to get the job done. Ive seen people pick a badly suited ship, even tho they have a much better one available. Back when i started the game, we had ARP missions going. And some of those required T8 ships to do it. I only had Hipper at that time. It sucked to do those missions with it. Yet, i managed to do it anyway and got all ARP ships. But why should i complain, that someone who had been playing for a longer time and had more ships available had an easier job to complete it? 10k coal is not a one time offer. We had 13 sprints by now, they come all the time. Next one is probably different, and Pommern will be bad, maybe Izumo is better. Just accept that, not every ship is equally suited for every gamemode. Play more, collect ships if you deem its necessary. Otherwise just enjoy the game. Yamato is nice, something Pommern will never give you as it doesnt lead anywhere. 3. See 1, but i dont think it matter. We are talking about a 10-day event here, which gets repeated several times per year with different setups. The loss (you didnt really lose anything btw) is so insignificant, its not worth to be upset about that. You got your coal, maybe you had to play a few more games than if you would have had Pommern available. To the last sentence: Too many ships available by now, its impossible to do it. Just look at CBs, where introduction of CVs essentially removed 95% of the ships for Typhoon/Hurricane clans, because using any other ship would put you into such a huge disadvantage, that it would just be an insta-loss.

Many who do that actually? Seen that several times... There have been threads, making demands that faildivs should get BETTER MM

https://wows-numbers.com/de/season/ship/ranking/113,Sprint-13,3761190704,Pommern/?order=battles__desc#leaderboard those people really dont look like the p2w crowd. Who knows, how many Pommerns just got bought with Coal and not money. So those arent really p2w. Taking Pommern didnt mean, you will automatically win. Good players however took Pommern, because its a strong pick. They could have taken many other ships aswell, but why not take the new shiny toy, which "happens" to be good in that gamemode? About the first part: That is kinda the nature of the game tho? Why do i need to be jealous/mad/whatever about people, who have been playing more&longer, so they have more ships available? Its not impossible to rank out with "lesser" ships either, as you have shown yourself. And by adapting your strategy, you had more success than fighting on Pommerns terms. Lets take FDG as an example Very popular (4th), but horrendously bad WR. But there are still people, who did well with it. Just a small example.