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I wonder why bad players would profit more from this than good players? Cruisers would get the biggest advantage out of this, because they could pick Hydro or DefAA. Running DefAA by default would be obsolete, since i just could pick it once a CV is in the game. This is also horribly unfair against CVs/DDs, as it would mean, every Cruiser could pick DefAA/Hydro depending on the situation. No CV? run Hydro always. Get a CV? Pick DefAA. In the end, you could just give Cruisers both consumables at the same time and be done with it... (US CLs have it anyway) And then you have the occasional Secondary BB which could profit tremendously from that, like Bismarck/Massachusetts. If they are toptier, run Secondary build. If not, go for tank build. In the end, better players would gain an even bigger advantage, since they are the ones with enough Captains/Elite Commander XP to run several hightier Captains for both builds.

Oh, thats a better topic as im not really a DD guy 1. eeh... 2. Emden is pretty hilarious with 19 pt captain sealclubber setup For non-premium id go Jurien. 3. Friant is really strong... alltho i had good games in Tenryu too... and St. Louis is ofc good aswell. 4. Duguay-Trouin 5. Marblehead 6. Leander hands down 7. Fiji (Shchors is really good too, and buffed Myoko is awesome aswell) 8. Kutuzov Non-premium id go with Cleveland 9. Thats a good question really, think i have to go with Neptune from the ones i have 10. Minotaur... in CBs, i really like Worcester, but in randoms it doesnt fit my playstyle Leander ?

On another note, i agree that 4 CV games are pure cancer, and they need to go. 1CV/side is more than enough. Couple of days ago, when i played Amagi, there were 4 CVs in the game... Man they ruined my entire game. And needless to say, i kinda ruined theirs aswell Since they couldnt kill me. The only positive thing was, that they also couldnt kill my potato teammates Fun? nope...

Well, if you would have continued to read, i said that the problem is mostly the other players on my team If an Operation can be done with 4 guys getting 5 stars, then the operation should be easy for 7 guys? But its not... Says a lot about the playerbase i guess. This weeks OP is making the playerbase extra stupid, because of the healing circle... its their excuse, to sit the entire game behind the island, trying to hit ships at 16km moving towards them. Needless to say, that this doesnt work ofc. If you are lucky, you get 1-2 DDs on top who just yolo die to the first wave. Ive been there, seen it all, i know what you are talking about. But still, the bots can be killed easily by proper positioning. Their only redeeming feature is having an aimbot. And the problem with an aimbot is, that it will miss if you evade But ofc if random potatoes are sailing in a straightline - ALWAYS - not ever touching their speed either, ofc they will get punished hard. You can tank bots in your cruiser because they shoot your belt armor trying to citadel you (even better when you are on fire, so even Cruisers shoot AP)

It didnt even pass their internal testing... that already says something. Radar going through islands is not a big deal. Yesterday i had an Akatsuki sitting an entire Hydro from my Z-39 behind an Island. He didnt die (while he ofc did lose some HP). And still it was his own fault, by not checking line-up. Rushed straight into the cap and sat there. If it wouldnt have been for a Seattle, i would have rushed him ofc. So you could say, Radar saved him from dieing within the first 2-3 minutes of the game. I would have most likely died myself if i would have rushed him. The day before that, i was radared atleast 4 times by a Kronshtadt (maybe i was radared by a Belfast aswell) while playing Gadjah, and a couple of times through island aswell. Still survived, because i kept my distance to the Kronshtadt at all times so he could radar, but i could hide or run off. 100x better (more fun) to fight against Radar ships than fighting against CVs (which was in the game aswell ) Because its also bad for DDs? So lets say, you go to a cap in your DD, and i know you are there when i play a radar cruiser, but im not spotted. Why would i pop my radar? I would never (cyclone being an exception) use radar when im not spotted anymore. Which btw, also removes the teamplay ability of radar, it would be totaly selfish to use. But lets say, someone does pop radar, the DD doesnt get that info either. He might run around the island straight into a radar ship, which is worse than sitting it out behind the island.

When its weekend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1. Game we could have been AFK really. Enemy died almost all at A, i went C first, got no opposition. Went to B where both DDs were, got some shots on the Jervis, ran away. Then i got the Asashio in B, which i killed. Meanwhile, enemies had almost no points left, tried to torp a BB, then the Jervis came back, almost got that too, but game ended... 2. Now we had the team from the enemy side before.... I kept spotting a DD and 3 Cruisers -> no damage output. Our cowards sat in spawn, and still died. Enemy Hood/Icarus and Kamikaze had a total of 5 devstrikes Icarus had one devstrike by single launching all torps into our normandie bow. After we almost got our side clear, the other flank rushed into us, 6 ships all full HP 3. game i went to D, and so did enemy Akatsuki. He went behind the island, i sat next to him with Hydro. He hugged the island so hard like his waifu, he survived Torped an Edinburgh which was sitting next to the Cap, then spotted the Akatsuki again for the kill. Rushed ahead, hydroed the Nelson at an island for more spotting damage (121k ) Went to Cap C, suddenly Indianapolis pops around the corner, tried to kill him, but he was so saturated that it took me too long so he could kill Wolfgewehr So as i said -> its weekend

True, i believe thats because Operations mostly dont offer anything for better players. So really bad players keep playing operations and its still too hard for them (kinda)... Most of the time its even easier to do an Operation with a group of 4, than with 6 random guys, which really shows how bad the playerbase actually is. For me, Operations are already too easy, id like to have a hard mode for them finaly But as you pointed out correctly, i still need a team which is doing atleast basic stuff like shooting the right targets and go for objectives. People most of the time die / lose an operation because they are so cowardly. They are not good enough (or have bad RNG on top) to hit something from range, but the bots will hit you, especially if you are not evading. If they would play more aggressive, they would stand a better chance. F.e. just look at this guy in coop today He never left the spawn, was only moving on B/C line for the first 5 mins (and even then went behind an island). And he still got torped there just because he was such a coward. Loyang at C had a nice game, killed 3 full ships by himself because the NC stayed in the back, and the Buffalo/Lightning came over to our side (for whatever reason) ignoring the 2 DDs in the middle.

I dunno whats fun about a game which should be so easy that you could do something else in between Which is funny, because just yesterday i tried to get defended ribbons in coop. I was lucky that my team didnt help me defend our base on Two brothers, so i got that done. Then i thought, ah game is already ending, and i went to the kitchen. Came back, and a bot BB actually sailed also through the mid and popped out at 3km when i came back to my PC. Torped him -> he died

Isnt even that much. I did the vive la france collection from scratch, i think i needed only 4x5000 coal. Same for the Bismarck collection, but there i had a couple of pieces already. (5x5000 coal) You could do the math on the worst case scenario, but surely it cant be that bad Imo its worth it, f.e. if you look at getting the Captain from the Vive la France collection, which is most likely cheaper than buying one for 30k coal directly

Ask you clan if you can do the 300 XP stages, they can be achieved in coop. On the other hand, this is an event where 2 clans compete with each other. It would be strange if you could have the same success in coop and random battles

Care to elaborate why you think that its currently not?

Since there are people who are doing extremely bad in CVs, there has to be skill involved But i think its more like, either you get it, or you dont, so id say its definetely different than RTS CVs. They had much more of a tactical aspect imo, since you couldnt just rush ahead into the enemy fleet because the enemy CV was there and you could have lost your planes to him right away.

I actually got interested because of the 3x DD division, and they actually won... the one shima i checked had like 14k damage in that game But those shimas werent good players. Didnt bother to check the other division tho.

anxiously awaiting his response in the forums... lets see if he will embarrass himself

People who are getting bullied in reallife, who have no real escape from it and compare it to a video game, which noone is forcing you to play. Thats really shameful and disrespectful for people who are actually being bullied

What a hard game... looked pretty bad early on (lost one DD, then our flank just got facerolled by the T9s). Think i was 4 times radared and several times spotted by the CV Just because of that, has to be the best game today, since i managed to survive despite the odds

Met @AndyHill in his Kronshtadt just now. Man that was a tough battle. But you didnt get my little Gadjah

Just do it in Coop. And RN BB HE is really strong. I dislike other missions much more. Atleast dealing fire damage is something i can influence myself (by shooting HE). I really got annoyed by getting defended ribbons (or captures) and i only get standard battle. That is so much fun! Even more fun was, that one DD actually got INTO our base (i was doing it in Coop btw). You know what happened? I detonated him

I agree - looks weird. worst player 763 XP? When does that ever happen (and all got >1k on the winning side too)

For BBs i basicly dont use it... too long to switch sectors, since the CV is normaly attacking from both sides anyway. For Cruisers, i switch IF i feel its necessary to switch. Sometimes they lose enough planes before they get to the other side, then i dont necessary switch anymore. And i usually pre-switch the sector according to my movement and where the CV is most likely to be.

lost for words... So because WG has their hands full with balancing CVs (and other stuff ofc) and have no time to make a program for Bot CVs, that means that WG wants to get rid of CVs

Hard to say... could you have torped him? that may have been the fastest way to get him. (apparently, he didnt torp you either). And then is the question, how much broadside you gave to him. A lot of factors coming in to play like @Tyrendian89 said aswell. Sometimes you have to try your best and hope that you get a bit help from your teammates in the process. However the more you know about the game and the mechanics, the more chances you have to beat higher tier opponents.

Not getting a citadel is a treat on those german Cruisers. They are designed so you dont get citadelled in close quarter combat (BBs still can citadel them, and US CAs with super heavy AP too, not sure about the others, but its not that likely). You really dont want to engage a Hindenburg close range with another Cruiser, simple because they are good Cruiser killers.

No, thats only for HE. (i actually wrote Pen, but i meant overmatch too) f.e. Yamato has 460/14,3 = 32,16 -> rounded 32, and we all know Yamato can overmatch 32mm plating. I play GK with the smaller caliber guns too, and i can guarantee you they have no probs overmatching DMs