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I dont think a lot has changed actually. Probably the biggest changes are uselesness of AA skills for Cruisers, so for CAs, you can try to paint a picture in your skilltree with them, as they dont have a lot skills that they actually need. 1pt skills: The only ones i ever use are PT/PM/EL. PM for DDs, basicly all other PT unless i want EL (CAs, UK BBs, French BBs) and i dont have the points for 2 1-pointers. 2pt skills: LS for DDs, AR for everything else are the 2 go-to skills. If needed, i take EM as 2nd 2pt skill. For some ships i use JOAT (mostly Cruisers) 3pt skills: - SI for extra heal or if you have some other special skills that profit from having extra charges (reload booster) - BoS for BBs/BCs - DE for Cruisers - Vigilance if you have the points and feel like it. 99% i never use it 4pt skills: - CE basicly first pick always, unless its a CL that needs IFHE - IFHE when you need it, so mostly CLs. I do run IFHE on Hindenburg. And some secondary build BBs can use it too - FP for BBs/BCs - Manual Sec for Secondary BBs - AFT for secondary BBs BFT/AFT in general can ofc be used for small caliber DDs/CLs to boost firepower/range. But there is also a lot of personal preference for those ships, like Smolensk f.e. It profits from so many captain skills, that you can have several different builds. I dont think there is one true build for Smolensk. Some pick IFHE, others dont. Or AFT for 19km range. Or no CE.... and so forth.

How is it exploiting if its allowed

I liked Nagato for its accurate guns. But i had bad luck with it aswell. That said, i hated Amagi... Feels like a shotgun that makes only overpens

Sure, boring can be concluded that way, but the guns arent overrated. A lot of people simply are incapable of using those guns properly, that doesnt make them any less good tho.

Sorry, cant tell anymore, forum has killed any sense of sarcasm detection...

How do you conclude that if you dont have it?

Well, if you wanna shoot HE, then Conqueror is definetely the better ship for that. But with AP, Thunderer will outperform Conqueror every day.

Some months ago, id have agreed with that. These days? Nah, its which team has less potatoes. Today was horrible, and so was yesterday (this is all 3x div with people >60% WR on acc) 125k Richelieu loss. Now, that might have been able to be a win, but my guns just failed hard the entire game. I shot broadside - didnt get citadels until it was too late. 87k Rich win after that, Absolute roflstomp win before 9 minute mark. We didnt lose one ship. I pretty much steamed full ahead to get my damage^^ Mogami loss - not winable. It was T8/9 heavy and couple TXs. Our TXs died/devstriked early + our BB devstriked too on the same flank. All other BBs 400-800 games premium newbs no idea how to play. Bourgogne absolute struggle till the last second for a win. 20 min game, we basicly won with 100 points. Could have gone either way if id have died. Monarch <7 min roflstomp win. We had Cleveland+Me and CM/Asashio/Normandie vs 6 or 7 enemies. Both CVs were also attacking on our flank. Our Cleveland got heavily smacked by CV + unlucky Citadel early, so he barely could do anything. Normandie Suicided. CM got deleted broadside. I was basicly holding position/kiting. Our team took both center caps, cleared rest of the enemies, the lost with 0 points. Rich win, well was holding center on Neighbours basicly alone. Fubuki got lucky torp spread on me, but my divi handled the rest Smolensk was the usual our team wanted to throw. Luckily, we secured epicenter right away so we won on points. Thunderer again tears of the desert. DD1 suicided at start, other was humping the border. AFK bot HIV. AFK Thunderer reversing into mapborder. 2 BBs on the other flank Suicided. Never a chance to win. Stalingrad, ill give you a picture. Thats after i tanked 1,5 million and getting [edited]ED by enemy CV between A/B and losing 2/3 of my health. Conq + Grozo were horny for our CV and basicly suicided into crossfire. So what do we have: - 2 guaranteed losses (Thunderer + Mogami) - 2 guaranteed wins (Rich + Monarch) - 1 Super close victory (Bourg) - 1 close loss (rich). I mean, you can call it unlucky for me, but the fact still stands, that my team should have been able to pull that one through. - 2 ordinary wins id call the Stalingrad/Rich games. - 1 basicly won but team wants to throw Smolensk game. So atleast 5 out of 9 were irrelevant for how i would have performed (the one richelieu game where i took torps my division handled it basicly). 1 Super hard carry win 2 Normal "carry" with Smolensk / Stalingrad 1 Unlucky could have been won with luck. And if i look at the Bourgogne/Smolensk game, those couldnt have been carries without a division.

HE vs DD, the bigger the better. More convenient ofc CV rockets vs DDs.

Had @domen3 and his division on our side today... pretty much expected faceroll

That shows when you record it from a replay. @ OP 1st video: Cant stretch this often enough: Your priorties are totaly upside down. You shoot BBs over Cruisers, and Cruisers over DDs. It needs to be DD > Cruiser > BB. Especially if you have HE loaded. Even Orion profits if you switch to AP occasionally. Against CLs, ok you can citadel them. But against broadside BBs? Might aswell go for AP. 2nd video: You are on the strong flank. You are toptier BB. You start shooting HE. And you go to the mapborder with the slowest T7 BB. Those were free citadels left and right, and you didnt take them. Also, you aim way too high when you have AP loaded against broadside BBs. you are lucky you get 1 on the KGV. I dont get citadels shooting midhigh at enemy BBs

What an INSANE game... i thought we lost this. At ~7 mins left to play, enemies had all 3 caps with equal points. And in the last 30 secs, it was either me or their Conqueror dying. He died Also it was like first blood after 7 or 8 mins played, which tells alot about the camping this game had. And the problem was, that our GK/Thunderer/Yamato/Yoshino basicly never left spawn. Well, the GK did with me when we disposed of their Thunderer on the flank. He died pretty fast

Every ship can have 4 fires. Probably unlikely to get 4 fires on a DD, if you get hit so often you are probably dead before that. I once got 4 fires in one salvo on a DD in an Operation... maybe i can find the screenshot.

Doesnt matter anymore. Because if you have lets say 4 sec reload left while MBRB runs out, it gets bumped up 8 sec. So you cant get extra gain from it anymore, thats why it doesnt matter when you pop it.

2849 * 1,65 (wows premium acc) = 4701 exp. That doesnt mean, that you cant have a game with more BaseXP. When you get a 3k game without premium account active, it will still show 4701... so its a bit misleading.

And then we would all have 50% WR

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Hehe, you wish Operations used to be awesome like 2 years ago. I could play Solo and get comfortably 5 stars in any. I dont play Solo Ops anymore. In fact, i stopped playing most of them, as with a team, i can just play Narai whenever i want which is much more fun and yields better rewards than the T6 OPs. And thats half the problem: Most good OPs players stopped playing random OPs i assume. They rather farm with a team and get guaranteed 5 Stars. And it might be, that the decent average player isnt interested or also stopped, because the good players dont play them anymore, leaving only the worst players to constantly play them. And thats just a desaster...

Getting ships from f2p containers must be a myth anyway...

Thats actually really valid, and ive considered doing it aswell. I did that at some point for a short time, and it really felt different. What certain players do can only be explained using MMM. Ive had games, where some players die ABSOLUETELY NOTHING but shoot me once i was spotted, regardless of angle and range. That they always had their shots ready even using BBs tells something too...

I mean, in that situation i wouldnt mind dying either, as it really was won at that time. Doing some rambo stuff if its certain that you can win is something i do too, and why not, you can also learn something from it. Focusing on surviving is good ofc, but if you are like 6 or 7 vs 2 in the end, then you can take the risk^^ Sure that wasnt the best way to do it, but if you never do it, you wont learn it for situations when you need to do it. So thats why i think, doing something like that in a won game is also worth doing. This time, you died. Next time, you might be able to take both ships. Hindenburg can certainly do it, if you know how to do it. But that also requires knowledge about gamemechnics/armor/overmatch. Like the GK cant overmatch your entire side armor if you are angled. He can overmatch your bow. If you learn how to angle, you will be able to migitate the damage from him. And you can wiggle in and out to use all your guns between his reload, since he has like ~25 sec. Force of habit is always bad. In this game, every battle is different. You need to react differently to every new situations. There is no "do this and you will succeed".

Had a quick look at it. First things first tho, this is something ive been wondering myself so often, and now that i see it, you can tell me why you did what you did: You spawned on the right flank, then you made a 90° turn to the left, and moved to the left flank. Why? This is EXTREMELY! bad, and you should NOT do this right away. If you see your team moving away, then yes, move away with them. But dont abandon a flank for no reason, especially if your team sticks with that flank. Now, it was Epicenter, so helping Center isnt bad, but you still moved past the center to where C-Cap normaly would be. Basicly 4 mins into the game, you couldnt do anything because of your movement. Now that we got that out of the way - That spotter plane usage against the Bajie was wasted, he was dead. If your team is shooting it too, then i wouldnt waste it. Its "only" a spotter plane, but you never know if you need it 2 minute later for something else - A little bit too much tunnel vision, DD was spotted, you want to shoot him, and also shooting a Cruiser is better than a BB sitting behind an island - If you see this, that your entire flank is cleared of enemies, you move IMMEDIATELY towards the objective or enemies You waste too much time here, still advancing to the outside. - In the end, that torpedo rush didnt matter as such, as you already had won the game. You could ofc turn left instead of right, and move behind the island to safety and launch the other side of torps at them.

so sad... this map is just god awful. I was going towards B at the island, but got farmed by Mino + Smolensk + HE shooting Repu + CV, so i had to run away... Then i had to help vs the Grozo + Conq just steaming through center for our CV

Exactly that. If you have a bad attitude, BEFORE the game even started, its no wonder that you will lose more often.

I think there shouldnt be much difference. F.e. last year i had 66% in both BB/CA, and 67% in DD. Rule of thumb: DD/CA you dont want to die. BB is acceptable to die, if it enables a win.