ForlornSailor

All I know - this guy was in a war for 26 years. and then again for 5 years.

Its a question on how you play, I guess... Lost a round, cuz our only DD was playing hunt and seek with a low Tirpitz on the border of the map around islands... It was so clear that he just wanted to farm Torp dmg and BBs... even when the Tirpitz was a 2k HP, totaly out of place - he waited for his torps to reload. Meanwhile, the enemy DDs spotted, capped and won the game. Well done DD...

First - are you sure the sender is WG? might be scam Second - if you are not logged in, you cant redeem anything for your account (makes sense right). Thats why you are brought to the download page.

You know whats the best? when you use DCP due to teamdamage and then 5 sec later receive a fire from enemyfire. I litereally died cuz of that once. I was so pissed, I wished I could get back in the game to TK that ****, which is still happily sailing around...

Like Belfast, Kutuzov and Kamikaze(s) ^^

In that case, that Missouri was @DFens_666 and the Shima some random guy - who was pretty pissed ^^. Good question. I tend to think its stationary - as in it cross-checks your aim and how it should be exactly at the moment, your shells leave the gun. But thats a complete guess, drawing conclusions from what ive experianced. It could well be something different. And some of the cruiser players will just go and play another game too - theres pros and cons to everything. I agree with your conclusion. But how to change this? Or, as you said -" WG have said they're not going to do that" - this counts for BBs as well obviously. Their way of dealing with overpopulation of BBs was to introduce RN BBs I guess. Also, just because its easier to play a BB, doent mean, you are easier to do good in it - quite the opposite actually. I really dont think, that this is an universal rule - both on behalf of CVs and BBs. Let me explain. Every cruiser reacts differently to BBs and Cruisers (and CVs, as a matter of fact). Ill try to compare with a few of my Cruisers, that Ive played a lot. Shchors - does really well against heavy cruiser meta. 2016, there havent been that many games with 5 BBs and <4 Cruisers, so it was easier to play this ship. These days - I dont dare to touch it. BBs can citadell it all across the map and all you can do it HE them back, pretty much doing low dmg. RN CLs - They can feed on BBs very well. If you take a Neptune, I love to be in games with 5 BBs (if its not Missouris) and a CV. I can shredd planes, farm dmg on BBs (and those numbers rack up pretty nice) and hunt DDs with the nice concealment and high RoF. What you dont want to see is other Cruisers, especially with high RoF. Des Moines, Moskva, Roon, Hindenburg - they will eat you alive. Current meta plays in the hands of RN CLs. Hipper - A complete monster against Cruisers, not so good against BBs. RoF is low, HE is bad. So, games with 2 cruisers, 5 BBs and 4/5 DDs are a nightmare. That are just a few examples of how a changing meta can have a direct influence in one way or the other on different ships. So, a heavy BB meta is not necessary bad for all cruisers, but on the other hand can be very bad for certain cruisers.

I recall a certain Missouri doing 18k on a Shimakaze yesterday. Followed by a complaint in open chat. This auto-assist is annoying - atleast, I think! Are there any real informations around for that? It messed with my shots again today. I engaged a shima with my Moskva. He slowed down and turned into me. I had my turrents desynched, I knew, where he was turning, and shot on his nose, while he wasnt yet fully nose on me. Only the last one hit, the first went WAY off, the second was inbetween - obviously, cuz the autoaim corrected my aim, to match the shima moving sideways - which by the time my shells arrived there, wasnt there anymore. The next salvo - he was still moving very slow ahead, but I was pretty sure, he was going to reverse. Reason: he had his smoke behind him, my radar made him nervous first, but then he understood, he has to get back. So I aimed OVER him - while he didnt reverse yet. Then he actually was moving backwards - and my shots fell in the water infront of him. Must have been auto correction again.

CVs out of CB, CVs out of ranked - where does it end? I dont agree with baning them vital parts of the game. Why would someone play CVs then at all, if he cant participate in many gamemodes? What I´d like to say as a constructive suggestion: Number of planes should be scaled down for CVs in ranked. That would make a lot of sense and if the same is introduced in CBs, they could imo be back there aswell. Well, that would mean, 1 guy more is losing a star - or do you think, the guy with low XP in the winning team would save his star? But then again - this could make ppl play cowardly in the start, especially DDs. Cuz early death = no XP = no star, even if u win (maybe even by your bold action). Well, that I agree with. Thats a general problem in this game. We have too many different ships on the same tier nowadays with different gimmicks. Thats whats causing this mess... You are lucky you survived the 3 tops tho LOL. Every time I hit "battle" im sending a prayer ti RNG-Gods "please let there be more potatoes on the enemy team then on mine." Says enough about this mode. Like Aotearas, I only get the flags. Even camos are not worth it anymore imo. So Rank 10 and cya.

I´like to add: if you are not comfortable (yet) with attacking DDs yourself - dont throw everything at them, often its enough, to keep them spotted as much as possible. They cant really torp, cap or play aggressive anymore and if you have a decent team - they will shoot the spotted DD. If you dont have a decent team, then you will most likely lose no matter what so ...

Good question. Im in the german BB line myself. Got Gneisenau unlocked for quite a while now, but am hesitant to get her. Even with the recent discount I didnt bite. Bayern is a great ship imo - but as you can read from the replies here, opinions differ a lot. Im a little bit hesitent to get Gneisenau cuz of only 6 guns + you´ll be matched against T9 from time to time. Also, from my RN CLs I know, Gneisenaus superstructure takes a lot of damage. Then, when I look at Friedrich and Kurfürst... I dont see myself playing them. Imo, there are better picks. Iowa - if you dont have Missouri - or, well, the Conqueror and Lion, seems to be more powerfull imo. But its a lot of personal preference I guess. If you dont mind brawling, got a good sense for when to use DCP - then german high tier BBs can be pretty strong. I think, they are pretty depended on the team tho. You want to be near your cruisers and even near your DDs, to scare the enemys away. If your team plays strong, you will shine aswell. If you are left alone...oh well. F.e. I feel as if I have more options to make a play in the Missouri. About the captain-build: I guess it all comes down if you see Gneisenau as a keeper or want to move on ASAP. Gneisenau on T7 will meet CVs quite often I guess, and with the strong AA can really profit from it. Secondaries are good, no question, but imo, they start to really shine from Bismarck onwards. So if you plan to pass by and move the captain up - go secondary build. Else - AA.

Man, im amazed, that you stayed so calm and still try to help him. He is not worth your time. Actually - not worth any of our time. Im out, having a cup of tea

Try Ranked for that - much easier there. Ive rather had problems with other ppls then with myself & the missions. A huge part of the ppl just threw anything they might have learned over board, only to get torpedo hits and / or BB kills... That beein said, yesterday the gameplay was mostly back to normal. Either I was lucky or those super-try-hard ppl are finaly done with the missions.

What a stupid excuse... 100% agree. I never understood the logic, why cruisers shouldnt have access to heal - always!

I really really hope WG is paying attention to this thread... The current toxicity with mission, that annoy everyone, cant be their goal.

And who would have thought about that? Thats why in most game, many game mechanics / rules / settings are changed for competetive / organized games, but obviously we cant have that here...

Same goes for DDs... A few torpedo hits net you more then making sure, your team can fire away all the time and do way more dmg.

@Aotearas ah the famous Deutsche Post. Hey, I have a very similar sounding story with them aswell. Ive once send a parcel to southern Germany. Almost exactly 2 months later, I receive an email, when I was going to send the goods. I was confused, since i myself brought it to the postoffice. Checking the trackingnumber, it was stuck in a storage - 2 or 3 days after I did send it. So I write a mail to them, asking, what is going on with that. A few days later, they answer, that they cant find it and its obviously lost. I should file (like you) a demand for refund, with a list, what was in the parcel. Thats when the magic happens - next day, the customer mails me: Package has arrived this morning. No note, not damaged, nothing. I check the trackingnumber and yep: In the morning it went in the delivery truck and was then handed over. hmhm. Maybe someone stors them at home, if he suspects something valuebale in them, waiting for a few months, if somebody is asking for it, and if not: its all mine... who knows.

My favorite thing to do is hunting DDs with my RN CLs. "Even if completly boy / stern pointed" - is a total missplay. Did you look at the armor of them? Their plaiting is overmatched from front and bow. You want to angle. And then Neptune / Minotaur can bounce most cruisers shells very safe. Ive found, the RN CLs are much more versatile then other Cruisers. You find yourself more often in useless fights with Russian Cruisers - my experiance. I have a survivabilty rate of 64% on Fiji, 62% on Neptune, 53% on Edinburgh and 50% on Leander. Only Cruiser im doing better in that sense, is Graf Spee. Which is its own class, somehow. They have a lot, that will compensate them for this. Speed, Concealment and Smoke. If you cant make it work, maybe the RN CLs are not for you. They are my favourite pick if I need a good round. Edit: And when someone answers reasonably and disagrees with you - its boring. Right dude... vote /close

Thats just... wow... I have no words. outragous.

Oh, sometimes the postal service can be very abusive too. Ive had one case, where someone complained, that Ive send his goods in a completly unfit packaging without any padding. Which left me confused, cuz it totaly wasnt the case. Audio equipment in it was ready for the trash, there was no way to repair that. Btw - he did everything right, he refused to accept the parcel. We both filled complaint to the postal service, demanding, that they refund the worth of the good. So the post started to "investigate". In that process, they did send me the so called "original parcel" back, telling me, this is either how I have packed it or the adressant party has manipulated the package, to claim, it was the fault of the post. Thus, they refuse to reemburse me. At the same time, they have told him, that they refuse to reemburse him, cuz the sender didnt pack according to ToS. Funny enough, the so called "original parcel" was a completly different, weak and much smaller package, filled with shredded newspapers(!), that ive put back together, to find out, it was a local town newspaper, some 300 km away from my place - and neither the hometown of the customer. My and the other guys advantage was, that we remained calm and kept good communication, while the post tried to turn us on each other. I demanded to see the signature from the customer from the post, which he must have signed, when accepting the parcel. They couldnt show that, cuz the post simply lied - he never accepted the parcel in the first place.

Overlay came to my mind right away, when i saw the first video :) Looks to me, as if it should have been a hit... Im completly with your conclusion here. The marker should always show the exact point, where the torps arm. No matter which launcher, no matter what angle. So, current state is sloppy programming at least, if you dont want to call it a bug.

Yea, thats is absoluty true. Ive got caught in my Neptune in the center of the map, perma spotted by 3 DDs and 3 or 4 squads of enemy planes. I was waiting for that nice sound & explosion, we all love - but it didnt happen. Neither did the DDs care about me, I shot them one after the other... and ~20 planes... insanity! I couldnt stop them all from killing my friendly BBs in my back tho. There are no levels in this game.

With 120 sec on the clock, all caps and even score - that Minotaur opened fire on you? and your teammate is complaining, that you engage him? Man, I really wish I could throw a game manual at some ppl - and a goddamn calculator...

Good point, noted. Still I dont get it, how he thought I was refering to him - since he didnt meantion grammar at all. Ah well..

I had a similar event. PADD saying "no cap, I have radar". So he rushes with a Gearing, they face a Missouri division and... can someone guess? Right. Gearing smokes up, stops. PADD goes in his smoke, stops also. They play gunboat... for about 25 seconds. At the same time, we lost the 3rd DD yoloing the C-Cap. You really wonder - why does this keep happening? And how can you get caught pants down by radar when... you try to abuse that mechanic yourself? This. Also, the mission-design is horrible, it usualy promotes ignoring the objectiv and selfish-play. And it forces ppl to play ships, that they are obviously not comfortable with. Right now, I suggest, stay away from this game. Its nothing but a constant anger....