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Any specific reason you pick DD? I think something else might be better/easier. Go with the flow, pick BB. The most problem i had, when there was a BB, and mine was stupid and the enemy wasnt. You play 2vs3 against a BB and Alaska/Ägir you will lose when you are not one yourself. Pommern has a good chance to win that by outplaying them. But if you are a DD? They can have perma hydro and even Radar, so you will just bullied out of the cap, and you cant contest to stop the points. You have Georgia, maybe pick that? Should be waaaay easier imo. The worst things are Pommerns/Ägirs which threaten you. Georgia is fast, has strong guns and secondaries. Dont go where your teammates go and create a crossfire.

Pick one of your clanmates to division with you. But dont come back when your WR gets even lower now that you brought 2 below-average players on your team. Or will you still complain why the 3rd guy isnt carrying you? Should he deal 200k damage and 3 kills every game? btw if that wasnt clear enough: https://wows-numbers.com/de/player/season/569768996,averof_warrior,season,113/ Your stats. You played Yugumo and Soyuz. Which of those you did better with? Pick accordingly...

Only the target ship sees damage numbers popping up, as in the one being hit by the secondaries. Probably thats what youve seen in videos ?

Just to fill in the missing blapp btw guess what happened to BOTH my torptubes 1 sec before i wanted to torp him

I actually spend Steel to get it That being said, i didnt think Pommen is bad to begin with. Ofc the secondary build i ran for Sprint is probably not the best idea for randoms. Without dispersion module, it feels extremely unreliable. The hitrate is decent only because the engagements are close quarter, but even there it seems that it doesnt really go where it should go. Just a different Alsace imo.

3x3 sprint... and people doing a quarter of that that get 100% WR... sure thing

Stalingrads can also get matched against Smolensk, and 1 Stalingrad can easily demolish a couple of em. Id still prefer each team having a Stalingrad, instead of one team having 2 Stalings and the other get Smolensk and Hindenburg f.e. But i guess everyone has their own view about that

Current implementation is death of CAs... its really unfair if one team has Zao/Hindenburg/DM, and the other has Stalingrad/PR and the likes. If both teams would have BCs and CAs would be much more balanced.

Exactly, thats why saying "Alaska is bad at brawling BBs" is not correct. It depends on the BB you face. Obviously you struggle against german BBs, or even french for that matter. But russian or UK f.e.? Its easy if they arent completely bow in. If they are mostly angled, you can get through the "cheek" at the bow.

If the BB can be citadelled, then Alaska is very good at it.

Pretty much why i personaly wouldnt just get a premium ship, because its a premium, if you know what i mean. I like Premiums, which are unique, so they offer something which silver ships dont have. Lenin vs Vladi pretty much the same, no need to get Lenin, as you can just play Vladi compared to Massa vs NC totaly different. You cant play NC the same way as Massa. You could play Massa the same way as NC, but that would make little sense, as you actively gimp yourself. So both ships have a different role and both are good doing that. So if you want to play secondary brawler you pick Massa, if you want good accurate guns you pick NC. The newer you are to the game, the more sense it makes to play premium ships: - More credits (or no credit loss atleast) - Can use any captain without retraining - Always "fully upgraded" as you dont have to buy modules.

No, a class with more influence than others usually deals less damage, because they have other means to win games. Particulary, that means DDs vs Cruisers and BBs. DDs have much less avg damage than all other classes, but still have the highest game impact (of those 3). So its balanced that they deal less damage, otherwise they would have even more influence. Cruisers differ a bit depending if they can carry radar or not. Id say, radar Cruisers or better those that deal well with DDs, tend to have less damage than open water Cruisers. F.e. DM vs Henri/Venezia. IMO, BBs have the lowest game impact, and thus its ok that they are the highest damage dealers. Now comes CVs: Highest game impact combined with highest average damage. Or atleast VERY close to BBs, they used to be first for a good 1,5 years, i think lately they droped behind BBs. But it always depends what ships you deal those damage to. A BB cant just kill a DD, while a CV can do that. If a BB would permanently shoot DDs, it usually has less damage than one only shooting HE at other BBs. And despite that, CVs are still on an equal level with BBs. And quite frankly, making them deal less damage to DDs, but giving them more opportunities to deal damage to other ships (like german CVs) is not the right way. Its just shifting the match influence from killing DDs towards dealing more damage to Cruisers or BBs. Let me ask you this: By what logic should CVs be the best damage dealers?

Since i dont have every TX, ill just go with those i have: Best allround BB: Bourgogne - speed, reloadbooster, 12 guns Best pushing BB: GK Best Area-denial / best guns: Yamato CL / Anti-DD: Radar Minotaur CA / open water: Venezia DD: I only have Gearing

Yeah, thats why we switched to 2x BBs. One goes center (Pommern) the other on the flank. Worked mostly well, except against 3x BB games, when ours still decided to derp around. If those 3 manage to focus fire, you are done. Ive been playing with div basicly every sprint that i played (havent played that often since it just feels so rigged at times) and i havent noticed a big difference. With a division partner, the average teammate(s) felt worse than playing solo

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Yep pretty much this... we were "blessed" the entire day with Brindisi, Ibukis, Saint Louis, RADAR neptunes... enemies? Nah, they had Ägirs and Alaskas almost all the time. Occasionally a Roon, which is still 100 times better than Ibuki. or how about Iowas and Izumo? Yeah always my team At worst they had Soyuz, which again is much better than those 2 other turds. we constantly pinged him to stop (ofc no camo) AFK then suicides Iowa - also a dreampick, see what he did? Brindisi devstriked after 2:30 Ibuki - no camo, big surprise?

Great isnt it? Either join them or go home... WG is pretty smart actually As i said, in Clanbrawl i used to play Mino, which has the same maps. But there you only have the occasional Stalingrad, and quite frankly, Alaska is a scarier ship to face. PR is the worst, luckily they hardly exist and most of the time played by below average players.

@Execute0rder66 After break 4 games - 4 wins the 4thalready was a monster carry Of our DD, instead of play it safe, had to rush the 20k musashi (which i was torping and guaranteed dead) to die to its secondaries

AP bombs aswell as AP rockets should not exist at all. You cant really balance them, especially since they usually drop more on hightiers. Its against the concept of "low" alpha damage.

1/10 games no fun >>>>>>>>>>>>> 9/10 games no fun (depends a bit on the tier).

Yeah dunno... i assume play 4-5 games (so get 4 wins) then take a break for an hour or so. That would seem to work. Just feels after 4 wins, they turn a switch and suddenly its retard fiesta

Met @BruceRKF in ranked Sprint today. One of the few games, where the enemy team had the stupid 3rd guy I would have liked to play Buffalo too, but against all that Alaska spam i think its not good enough :/

I tried Ägir 1 game (but then took a break) before that 8 games Alaska then 9 games Pommern. The Cruisers we paired with Jutland, the Pommern with Missouri for crossfire (and backup Radar because you never know). The 2xBB tactic worked marvelous the first 4 games. We had mostly Cruisers with us, we just told them, hug an island and spam from there, we will go in and spot. And it worked. Then after 4 games, all hell breaks lose and they just did absolutely nothing anymore. Communication also went to 0, they didnt respond anymore. In theory i would prefer some other Cruisers, but something like Neptune you can just forget against Alaska, because it will rape you. Even tho in Clanbrawl i often played (radar) Mino or Edinburgh. But against Alaska or potential Ägir spam it wouldnt work. Buffalo was another thought, but takes too long to be useful, and you will lose against Alaska too.

Ive sometimes felt that solo in ranked sprint is easier in previous seasons, but thats really lame (dont want to play solo^^) Not to mention, most games vs good division got decided by the 3rd player(s) not by any of the divs. One game vs Typhoon div the 3rd guy in the enemy team had 3 kills lol... and one game vs Hurricane the 3rd guy carried them again, while our just played "shoot my broadside". So it "shouldnt" make a difference atleast from that pov. I mean, we have played Clanbrawl all the time together with an alternating 3rd guy, and usually we won 15 out of 16-18. So we can get 80-90% WR in clanbrawl against good clans aswell, but here with random plebs, literally the 3rd guy is [edited]you in the [edited]

Totaly understand what you are saying... Its ridiculous, it feels like active rigging: played a session (div) earlier today with Cruiser/DD, first loss then 4 wins... then 4 losses During the wins, the 3rd random guy actually managed to communicate. Suddenly the losing starts: No camo, cant talk, absolutely irrational movement. And the enemies? Its like playing 3 SUs, who never did anything else than play together and make perfect movement choreography. Often even have preturned their turrets even tho coming unspotted around the corner 2nd session after a break, now with 2 BBs: 4w... 2l - 1w - 2l Absolutely unplayable. It was like permanently playing 2vs3, while enemies had a 3rd backup BB disguised as an Alaska, while we had Ibukis without camo, RADAR! Neptunes... Enemies literally always Alaska. Or if it was 3 BBs, then we had a gluelicker who just suicided into them showing perfect broadside to die before we crossfire going. And 2 BBs vs 3 BBs with secondaries/torps/no citadel is simply impossible to win. 99% of the time they even tried to ram because why not, they won already. edit: forgot to add - first session 120k avg damage + >1,7 avg kills with 2 persons is not enough for 50% WR (44%), and we are mostly talking 1DD/2CA games here! - 2nd session 187k avg damage + 2avg kills is 55% WR... my [edited]really, that is so [edited]far gone from reality its not normal. those [edited] have better WR with 40k avg damage and 0,5 avg kills here what our 3rd guy usually did