DFens_666

Depends on the ship i play, and ofc where the enemy is located. I dont have that many games in radar ships (apart from Missouri) and Missouri is not played well sitting at an island doing nothing. I could also say you are one of those persons who doesnt understand the severe downsides of LoS radar - even for DDs! How can you ever bait Radar? If noone is spotting the Radar Cruiser, he simply wont use it. Ontop of that, you wont even get the info that radar is active when you are sitting behind an island. You could just pass by and run into radar.

Could be talking about BBs here aswell Most Cruiser(players) have to play that way, because otherwise they get spotted by the DD and then several BBs will target that Cruiser. Got news for you: WG wont implement LoS radar, thank [edited]for that.

If id go with the most recent ones: - North Carolina - The guns are just WOW They hit, and they [edited]hit hard. - Musashi - Pretty much same as above, the guns just slaughter other ships. If i look throughout the >2 years ive played WoWs - First was Takao i really enjoyed, but it was also somewhat forced because of the ARP grind back then. - Then came Fiji. Obivous reasons, its just very good all around. - After that Missouri: Strong ship against DDs/CVs which have a high influence on the game, so Missouri is good in carrying. Misc: - Marblehead, always nice to take it out for a spin. I guess most player just underestimate what this thing can do. Squishy af, but the guns hurt. - Neptune, but lost its place tho Smoke firing debuff + everyone likes to shoot you in smoke + radar + bad concealment = not much fun anymore - Radar mino, took the place of Neptune fortunately - GK, but my teammates give me headaches... otherwise i do like it

If you cant beat em, join em?

Not decided yet First coupon i got Salem with. This coupon most likely a steel ship, but dont know which one yet. Depends how much Steel ill have after CBs. But im in no hurry, because after CBs ill take a break from Wows - just too much stuff going on right now. And i dont want to play when the new CVs hit the live servers anyway (rather popcorn + forums ) If i dont have enough steel for Stalin/Bourgogne, i might take JB with Coal... but as i said, no hurry for me.

You do understand that those players have a crap WR to go along with? If they would be good players, they wouldnt play like that, so your analysis doesnt really hold up. What is enjoyable about the way you play this game? This is an honest question, i really would like to know. (i looked at your stats, and just by that for me its questionable how this can be fun for anyone) Can you answer this: Lets say there is no DD in the game, which ship should most likely try to cap/spot for his team? Only because its not his primary role doesnt mean other ships, which are even less suited for that, should try to do it. You bring Asashio to the game - its your responsibility to work with what MM is giving you. What you do if there would be a game with 1 CV/7 CAs/4 DDs? Stop playing as Asashio because there are no BBs??

No words for that... wtf is going on with peoples these days? Are they totaly lobotomized ?!

Coop games have a seperate WR - WG doesnt mix random and coop WR into their tracking. on wowsnumbers you can check also Coop WR -> https://wows-numbers.com/de/player/540423429,DFens_666/?type=pve But having high coop WR isnt true... as sad as it sounds, ive seen players with 80% in a certain ship in HUNDREDS of battles! They really actively hurt their team (how this is possible is beyond me) Sadly, there are some people around here who use stats to counter any arguement you bring to the table, 2 examples, when someone is asking for buffs: - If you have bad stats, then they tell you that you suck and you need to git gud - If you have good stats, then they will tell you that you want to protect your toy. And ofc lets not forget many times it happens that someone uses stats for shaming the other... To you in general: You realized that only YOU can change your WR. Thats the only thing which can make you improve This isnt something which can be said for many other wows players. They think they are good, but they are getting dragged down by bad teammates, or basicly every reason in the book is good enough for them to convince themselves that its not their own fault. Bolded part: Have been talking about EXACTLY that just couple of days ago. This must be the biggest excuse in the history of this game. And it doesnt make ANY sense! Playing 4 fun means for those players: - If someone sucks, its ok because they have fun! Imo this is already contradictary in both ways: First: You are already playing bad by yourself, how can it be fun if you are getting constantly outplayed? Second: You lose most of the time - even if you disregard that you are infact losing more often than you win, losing is still not fun. - Someone who is good, doesnt have fun! Either they imply that on purpose, or they have never thought about what it actually means. Ofc we all know, that everyone who is good is sitting infront of his PC like this: " AAH crap again i need to carry my team around, dealing 200k damage having 5 kills and several other achievements while winning - ITS JUST NO FUN" Imo everyone who says " i play 4 fun / its just a game" should stick to coop. They are ruining other players games, which equales their free time. Ofc they dont give 2 shits about that.

What? Per tier average BBs have almost always more damage than DDs/Cruiser. Some Cruiser can be infront of some BBs, a quick check f.e. Kronshtadt has more average damage than 3 T9 BBs (FDG/Izumo/Iowa) which is simply due to the fact that everyone can play those BBs, and Kronshtadt is somewhat more exclusive to better players. Cruisers and DDs have to work more to deal high amount of damage. BBs need more luck to get decent damage. Sometimes you can have high damage in your BB very early in the game - which is much easier to do for them compared to DDs and Cruisers.

To what did Shima and Kagero die in A? Torps? How can you prevent that.... (look at last position of - i assume Kagero in A, WHY WOULD GO IN SO DEEP?) Doesnt look like any other enemies than 2 DDs were at A, so here is no excuse about no support in my book. Kidd seems to be extra special, as he went back towards C ?! Sadly, most of the times DDs dont realize that especially BBs are just much slower. And you cant expect them to overextend because nothing is spotted (this isnt the DDs fault but the campy nature + crazy Concealment BBs have thx to WG). Ive tried to help DDs aswell, but they die so fast that i cant even help them in time. Or they just sit in their smoke - no help for these guys. They have to understand that they play like crap.

Not sure what you wanna hear exactly Go in and [edited]em up? Seattle 1vs1 killed him easily. Most players think, they are so good that when they are 2 tiers above you, that they dont have to angle or anything. Use that to your advantage. After that i was maxrange HE spamming the BBs in B - nothing wrong with that. Going CE or IFHE is personal preference - i did take IFHE aswell, because its better for me to deal damage than to be unspotted. Doesnt work for every ship ofc, because especially radar ships profit from the advantage in concealment. Preferably you have 14 pts by the time you need IFHE and CE. 2nd: ALWAYS take a camo. Atleast take type 1/(2)/5 - i have hundreds of those because WG is throwing them left and right at me. I dont even use em in randoms, but its better than nothing. (sometimes type 5 if i dont go for XP) Carrying the game when you are bottom tier -2 is not easy - you cant just go there and force it. The more knowledge you have, the better you can do it. Whom to shoot, where to aim at, can you bounce shells or not, can the enemy bounce shells, if yes, where cant he bounce shells, should i rather use HE because AP cant deal damage.... knowledge is key to that. And its not only damage which can win the game, also important Not every Cruiser needs to sit at an island spamming HE, but open water gun boating requires knowing what to do and a good captain and camo AND premium consumables. I think its better if you just experience the mistakes - nothing wrong with that. They will teach you a lot more if you know how to use that information. Not much difference in T6vsT8 compared to T7vsT9. BBs will overmatch you any day.

If you want to make a point, you shouldnt throw around with numbers that can never hold up. In a game with 4 Shimas, they would need to launch their torpedos 7 times (7x15 = 420) to reach that number, which will take them 17,5 minutes That usually takes several minutes BBs can kill cruisers in one salvo. Nope, any T8+ BB can bounce all BBs with its bow except for Yamato and Musashi. German BBs are even tankier as they are mostly covered in thicker armor all around. Even the Bow has some thicker plating at the lower half (i think bismarck has a smaller part tho). You can try to angle in a Conqueror against Yamato shells - they will pen everywhere except the belt armor That said, Bismarck can work as a secondary build ship, alltho i wouldnt necessarily do it in this meta. Are there better T8 BBs? Imo yes. NC rocks as i did play it recently for the first times. Bismarck was my first T8 BB and NC is defenitely better because the guns are so reliable. The most crucial skill to develop when playing german BB is WHEN to push in. Do it too early and you are toast. Too late and you might lose the game.

Just playing some Aegis for daily mission Did more damage with guns than with Torps, hah!

i think i have 32 now.. And ill make it, yes. 1 stage/day i can do even at christmas

I think its very situational. In this instance, i really didnt have to grab the kill, but the problem was, the ashigara was infront of the Fiji, so i might have hit him anyway. Other times, you see CVs drop their loadout on a 2k HP burning BB, by the time the torps reach, BB is already dead. I lost a game to that once ~~ Thats selfish and the sole reason is to grab the kill. Also ive seen players deliberately not shooting so they can get the kill -> this can only be described as KSing.

Just trying to get some feedback, if i were just super unlucky, or did WG secretly change the Operation (as i suspect they did with others before aswell) Basicly every HE shell which hits you starts a fire. I was playing Fuso with FP and DCSM1 (and DCSM 2 + Fire flag, but thats duration only ofc) and basicly it went like this: - First shell hit bow -> Fire - 2nd Shell hit superstructure -> Fire Nothing more as i let them burn - Immediately when superstructure fire went out -> next fire (happened several times) You cant really show that with hits / fires because they shot me more often while i was burning, so they cant cause more fires, but here the summary - Myoko 1 hit = 1 fire - Kuma 17 hits = 2 fires - Furutaka 6 Hits = 1 fire - 2nd Kuma 9 Hits = 1 fire - Aoba 8 hits = 1 fire - 2nd Aoba 17 hits = 1 fire - 2nd Myoko 6 hits = 2 fires as i said, you have to take into account that i was constantly burning anyway, so most of the hits couldnt start more fires. Without anti-fire build i would have died twice over i think. Also i could hardly get any citadels on the Cruisers, but that could have been simply bad luck with BB dispersion - but usually it was never THAT bad... i think i had 2 Citadels on Cruisers this time. (everything else pretty much overpenetrated) But the fire chance must have been tweaked for the bots, its just not normal imo. But maybe some others have different or similiar experience, so we can guess if they changed something or not

What a coop game to finish the Daily mission When you pretty much dont have a team, this happens -> go in, kill everything (yes the ashigara kill was blatant KSing, i shot one turret while he was burning, then killed the Fiji afterwards) I thought i would die several times, but the Bots let me live a little longer till i killed them all basicly. Bots ran out of points, there was one BB ahead of me i still might have killed

Midway vs GK does sound kinda unfair tho

Personaly i wouldnt let a ship coupon go to waste unless i know im playing that little that even paying like what? 30k coal for a ship will set me back months for something i want. If i look at the coal which i gathered after it was released: Bought Salem for 180k. Spend 45k on Bismarck and Vive la France Containers Currently at 125~k. Thats like 350k since coal was released, and while i have taken Resource containers quite often, i havent taken them solely, so more coal would be possible. On top of that, im still missing most from snowflake event.

Definetely worse against Cruisers afaik. GZ bombs even fuse on a Fiji - know that from OP Hermes all too well

Thats why AP bombs are crap Not to mention ships like GK which are pretty immune to AP bombs if i understand it correctly. Atleast El2azer says that, and yesterday an Essex with AP bombs dropped me - it hurts, but dont think there was even one Cita.

Well, i mean we can speculate all game how AP bombs should work, im just gonna say it the way i see it: AP bombs should be against BBs, not against Cruisers. Also i dont know how the hightier CV AP bombs will be with the rework, i just saw the ones from Hosho while Flamu was playing it. Easily citadelling a Phonix, but got stuck on couple of BBs he tried them on (IJN/US if i recall correctly). Its not like Cruisers are getting punished enough by literally everything. And AP bombs overpenning Cruisers seems fair imo. BBs should switch to HE for DDs, CVs have other weapons aswell, which they can use against Cruisers. BBs use AP vs other BBs aswell, thats why it feels kinda wrong that AP bombs (atleast on T4) cant hurt same tier BBs. Pretty much the same with current AP bombs... which can shred certain Cruisers better than BBs - and its bull imo.

Thats what i was thinking too. Someone said the silhouette looks like Boise-class Cruiser... and Wichita wouldnt be too far away from that.

I thought hitting the torpedo bulge and not penetrating the belt armor behind would result in a shatter ribbon? Alltho it certainly could explain some of those non-damage pens. Should be easy enough to test, just take any Cruiser vs any BB with Torpedo bulge and see what happens. (well not something like Moskva ofc, something with low penetration). I sometimes tested citadelling BBs with Hindenburg, and usually i shattered on the belt armor, and i think there should have been some with Bulges there aswell. As for Spaced armor: I thought only the French CAs got that, but not the BBs? Personaly, i dont have more problems with French BBs (as compared to French CAs, which eat RN sAP like candy). 0 damage pens have been around for ages, like @wilkatis_LV said already. Havent had more lately than before, but just some days seem worse than others... cant explain that.

Yes, so wouldnt it make sense to increase penetration to not get stuck on BB armor? Rather than to screw Cruisers even more? I think its funny that Lowtier Cruisers are already pretty thinly armored, yet get punished by something which is supposed to hurt heavily armored ships