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GK is still good... havent touched the others in a while On a 2nd note: PEF is really strong. Maybe german BBs need PEF-like Sigma and all is well

Well, there is ofc one problem that WG is removing those older FreeXP ships after some time. Back when Missouri was the only one, it was something special and it was a great ship. While still good, i dont think its as good anymore. Musashi will always be very strong, it cant really lose that role i believe. Nelson is atleast on a lower tier, and a very strong ship in capable hands, and the only ship still available after a long period of time. Maybe they deliberately left it in, so casual/new players could get this one first (even tho they probably wont do too good in it). Kronshtadt, while unique at first, already lost a bit of interest. Atleast on my side. Barely played it. Alaska is more interesting to me. Azuma i dont care at all. Friesland looked more interesting to me at first glance, but now that the first players got it... not so much anymore. Also i believe, WG will just keep throwing FreeXP ships at us, while removing the others after some time. So even Casual players should be able to get something at a later point. I agree, its not that easy for them to get that amount of FreeXP. I also understand, that they want those ships aswell, but it would be more beneficial for them to spend their FreeXP on other things.

Not sure why people think, PEF is a bad ship... ranked sprint ofc Ontop of that 5 High caliber and 2 Devstrikes.

Maybe casual players, who cant invest enough time or money, shouldnt be the ones getting those FreeXP ships? Casual players should use the FreeXP they accumulate for B-hulls and such, so they can have a better gaming experience (and are less of a detriment to their teams)

Well, WG should just get some balls and do like @MortenTardo said: Ban premium ships, regulate DDs even more (maybe not even DDs, just hardcap every individual ship at 2, so you cant run 4 Henris f.e. or something similiar). Nobody needs those troll setups - they are only there to piss off other people. Like we played that russian Clan once who was running nothing but Stalingrads in the test CB season with CVs. (well, they lost, but still, they could perform way over their own level of a barely above 50% clan). I always like the arguement when people bring those troll setups up "oh that clan xyz is so awesome, you would have lost regardless" So then why dont they do it? Win/lose fair and square without taking the piss out of other players.

Next level (if id say it, they would probably ban me, so use your imagination ) WG not even understanding how useless CV WR is... im used to that from forums, but you would have thought, THEY would understand. Guess ive been giving them too much credit lately when i thought, they are carefully planning each move to milk the customers as good as they do. They are just lucky Well, as they seem to make changes now without even mentioning them, does it even matter anymore?

Thought id share this one from wednesdays CB session I thought like, eh wth, why not try it Also: 9k BB AP on a DD Its quite weird, that Sinop/Vladi seem to be performing extremely well for me against DDs and BBs, yet against Cruiser its very disappointing so far

True, Cruisers are not that clear cut (neither are DDs, as i only have Benham and it feels weaker than others). Alaska / Kronshtadt arent bad, but they are not like normal Cruiser. True... on T7, i have a lot of ships, but if i pick a BB now its either Nelson or Lyon. I think, Lyon is the only silver one which performance on par. Not sure about Sinop, ive had some very weird dispersion the few games i played it.

I know someone who got a T-61 out of a SC... so id wish it would be fake news

Yep, i beached (spells parked) myself pretty good in my Vladi that game Took me a good 2 mins or so to get off there Same here... we tried it once, and it felt disgusting. Our enemies were frustrated, and i dont think its the way to go. We even played really uncoordinated and still won - which is even worse. But its equally annoying to get those 5 Stalingrad or 5 Harugumo games on TX. I think we need more restrictions for CBs except the 1 BB max rule. Would be more fun overall IMO, as it prevents any Strong/OP ship to be picked in large numbers.

Yeah i agree... Vladi/lenin too strong against Cruisers, so we get 3-5 DD setups. Alltho playing Yesterday in Storm, it was mostly 1 DD only. But the T8 Gunboat DDs are also too potent against Cruisers, because they dont have a Citadel, and a Kiev has more than 30k health with its heals... Which is only ~10k less than the Cruisers, who have a Citadel. People arent complaining about OP ships, because the OP ships are silver ships this time. Unlike Stalingrad, which is just insta whining all the time since its locked behind Steel . However, we dont know what TX CBs will bring next time, now that we have Russian BBs. Its already bad on T8 as we can see. Maybe not on T10, who knows. Depends when Slava will be released. Also, IFHE change comming, so return of Hindenburg? HIV cant pen 50mm anymore then. Lots of changes, cant really tell what exactly might happen.

Atleast its technically possible with FreeXP Do i want Monty? Yes. Do i need it... thats the whole point pretty much. Should have kept them for Snowflake-like event coming up with next patch Thats one reason to keep ships in port atleast.... Or if their playstyle is unique/they suit you better than the premium ships then you could keep em aswell.

Hey, im a premium noob, i have as much Premium T9/10 ships as regular ones Been trying to grind Iowa, but unless i force myself to pick it, i rather take Moosashi Thats why i was disagreeing with it. If Musashi is both stronger AND more fun to play, why would i pick Iowa? Afterall its still a game, and should be fun to play. But the problem definetely starts at T9. Imo the Premium T9 ships are just better than the silver ships. T8 is different (atleast for me). Something like Massa is more unique but not better than other BBs.

For me, it feels like the opposite Why play a techtree ship, if i can take a premium which is just better Btw, been thinking about a "similiar" topic, as we get more and more Freemiums, but as we can only play 1 ship at a time, it feels to get questionable to get them... just as port queens. Wonder if other players have the same feeling. When Missouri was the first/only FreeXP ship, it felt special. And i have over 200 games with it. The more of those free ships i get, the less i play them. The later ones i have often not more than 10~15 games played

For some reason, that didnt work for me either at some point. Now i have a shortcut in my replay folder, and i drag the replay over it to start it. Maybe try that one.

How about you get some hightier Radar cruiser experience, and tell us how much fun it would be if your mechanics would be in place. Btw, number 1 wont ever happen, as WG tested it, and they didnt like it (atleast they got something right...). And number 2 seems to be even a worse version of number 1. Only Belfast and Black can carry both Radar and smoke at the same time. If you meet any other Radar ship in smoke, then the enemy team just worked better together. No need to punish Teamplay. Maybe you shouldnt sit behind an island in your own smoke, but try to get one of your Cruisers to help you from your smoke instead

His team must have had a T4/5 fail div aswel (Hosho + BB probably). It couldnt drag a T4 CV in there if its not in a division.

Well they did say it, but i think its easier for them to release not too many gimmicks at once. If you dont do it right away, you can always do it later on I think it will take a little while for people to adapt to it. You can already see the difference when CCs tested it first and what they can do now (Flamu/Flambass vids per 0.8.7 on YT and their stats now are completely different). Most people simply dont keep track of test ships on the server and what they are capable of (atleast id think that). So naturally, a fast HE spammer like Smolensk with smoke is not something you would expect. Some people even thought it might have Radar because its a russian Cruiser People cried for a long time about OP RN CLs. and nowadays they really arent that outstanding anymore. Litereally everyone is shooting in smoke by now, and when people do it against Smolensk, it probably hurts a lot too. Ive said it before, i dont consider it to be OP. Yes, its unfun to play against, but what ships arent these days? RN BBs spamming HE, Gunboat DDs (IJN/French even Russians), CVs, Smolensk, Colbert, Stalingrad, RU BBs...

But they moved atleast 3 steps back with Hosho now.

I did consider SE aswell, but in the end, kinda lacks points. And i just took my Kutuzov captain so that wouldnt have worked anyway. Smolensk could use 40 pt cptns

AFTER 0.8.7 ?

Yet, Flambass has 30k less average damage with his Smolensk compared to Wooster... even less WR. Its not a good carry ship, and the best it can do is farm stupid BBs. As seen in the video. They just ask for it. And the CV wasnt much better

Would make sense from Flamus pov, as he is from Finland

No, thats not true. 190k in DM is not average. We cant help if you post your best games. Best games are not your average performance. You could show us a few replays from todays games. - If you did good and won then we cant tell you what to do better, as its basicly pointless. - If you did good and lost then its not much help either, because it might have been a bad team. (unless you farmed damage on BBs f.e.) - Show a game where you didnt do well, then we can tell you what you should have done differently.

Hard to say since we talking about a span of more than a Year. It depends a bit what ships you have been playing aswell. PR: Can be, that you farm more damage, as PR depends mostly on damage (and kills/wins). Or you play ships, where a lot of people struggle in, but you perform a bit better than them, while its still not enough to carry your teams Avg damage: Play more hightiers - easy enough. You will deal more damage automatically, but doesnt mean you should win more. XP: Maybe you play with premium account now? Its included in there. Or again: more high(er)tier games.