Migantium_Mashum

Another useless pair of rentals completely up victory.... seems if you have BB rentals you may as well count the game as lost. These two morons, Yamato and Montana, decided that hiding from minute 6 was the way to ensure victory so off the bat we are 2 ships down.... Along with Minotaur I tried to change the result, sinking Moskva and taking the enemy Conqueror down to 30k hp but the two rentals refused to do anything... Played 8 games so far out of 8 games 7 had rental BB's... of the 8 games had 7 losses all with rental BB's in my team and all because they played like idiots... If WG insist on rentals in T10 ranked games that's another reason not to play this game.

Don't often agree with you but you're spot on... won't make it a habit promise

1st Game in ranked for today and once again my opinion of rentals remains unchanged.. rentals do not belong in ranked. We have 2 cap zones A & B so the 2 rentals scoot to A leaving the team grinding their teeth because we all said B.. Guess which ships die within 6 minutes and which ships are at the bottom of the heap.. In every game I have played in ranked stupid rentals have cost us victory...

Don't misquote me this is what I said.... and it relates to non Tier 10 players acquiring Tier 10 ships through renting... At T10 you're happy for players who have made it up the chain by hard work to be subjected to the play of the lower tier performers?

I am happy with any player who has taken the time to grind (however good or bad) to Tier 10 and has not just jumped into a ship they have no experience of playing... Tier 8 and Tier 10 were separate games in previous ranked battles.. you played Tier 8 and when you reached rank 10 your played tier 10...never saw a Tier 8 in a Tier 10 ranked game to be fair... Was I just lucky?

@DariusJacek +1

So you think rentals are a good idea in ranked? At T10 you're happy for players who have made it up the chain by hard work to be subjected to the play of the lower tier performers? Can my 8 year old Nephew borrow your car? He has played GTA 5 so shouldn't ruin it for you...

Lolz... if you've ground it you should use it... and that's my point. You may have got there badly (In your opinion) but you have got there yourself not jumped into a game with a ship you cannot even navigate.

I do indeed.

In my opinion there should be no rentals in ranked.. If you haven't earned the higher tier ships you should not play them for free... Like giving a 16 year old who has only ever ridden a Moped a top of the range sports car expecting it "NOT" to be wrecked within 5 minutes... This mentality, like everything else, just sucks the fun out of ranked battles... WG you deliberately trying to kill the game?

I played 3 rank games last night.. I will play not one more. Game 1: Montana and Yamato rentals sat at the border doing absolutely nothing until the end when they came in to secure their star... Game lost. Game 2: Again the rentals A Gearing ran straight at the enemy and within 5 minutes.. dead.. another rental Montana then just stopped dead.. dead.... Game lost. Game 3: We have a single rental (Conqueror) but this time the game is going good.. At about 11 minutes I have just put down 1 enemy GK and then the enemy Hindenburg within 2 minutes....after 15 minutes we are 2 / 1 in ships (we still have the Hindenburg and me in my Grosser Kurfurst) and I have 80,000 hp and our Hindenburg has 15,000 hp.. The enemy has a single GK left with 55,000 hp so it has to be victory.. I mark in chat that I am going for the enemy GK and if necessary I will ram.. Everyone agrees a good move and at that point the enemy GK does not know where I am...The team tell Hindenburg to stay behind the island.... So our stupid Hindenburg decides that instead of playing safe he will attack with torpedoes with only 15,000 of his HP... Enemy GK turns to avoid torpedoes thus ruining my attack plan and kills the Hindenburg with a single salvo.. I chase down the enemy GK who was originally heading straight towards me and successfully reduce him to 18,000 hp knocking out his aft guns... I keep at him but the enemy points ratio is only 30 from the required 1000.. The enemy team wins (I have the enemy GK at 3,000 hp) but it is not enough to stop them reaching the 1000 points required and all thanks to a stupid Hindenburg who didn't listen to everyone telling him to hide.... I ended up top of the list with 166,000 dmg but this should have been a win.. so 3 stupid games is enough.

@Max_Kammerer Agree entirely. If I was alone in my criticism I could understand being rebuffed by players like @ColonelPete, but; I was not alone and some of the better players in the game, much better than me, tried to make WG aware of their failings without WG taking the slightest notice... WG released an unfinished product expecting that we'd all suck the sour taste of change and not leave the game. (Yeah that worked didn't it) Out of the whole of my clan 1 player remains, wallet closed he says for good, and every lost player from my clan purchased premium time, ships, containers etc etc... Many experienced players argued the rework rendered ever other ship class next to useless useless, especially DD's, with justification, WG immediately began to implement patches to soften the CV's impact in game didn't they, as if that wasn't an admission of a monumental [edited] up.... They weren't wrong in that assumption. You then had the famous "Flying Shimakaze" which showed how broken the update was. People argued the change was to do with the game going to console, which certain individuals always denied...yet my old Clan mate is now playing the very same game on his console.. I too posted screenshots of the comments from other servers which showed how much people hated the rework... I spent hours collecting screenshots to show server numbers were down.. screenshots don't lie because they cannot speak or type... (Strange that in the few games I have played the number of players in game is no longer shown) I have come back now and played a few games. I don't have the enthusiasm as I did before and my wallet will remain closed. I found game play has become very timid .. nobody pushes, nobody supports and in the games I have had with CV's the CV who is supposedly your ally focuses totally on trying to obtain kills even if that means they attack ships you're torpedoing causing you to waste full salvoes because the CV turns the enemy ship. Hardly great teamplay... In fact now I find the game totally boring... think I have played 4 games in a week...

Do you ever change the record? You're right and everyone else is wrong is getting rather boring now.. you get a penny for every time you advocate the rework? I had two and a half years of playing DD and everything I learned over that time was immediately rendered useless right off the bat with 8.0... other people with far more experience agreed with what I said. As I said, immediately after the rework it was shite for the DD; now at least, with the tweeks, a DD is playable again... As usual though in reply you'll read from your little script.. 1. CV Okay. 2. CV Good. 3. Rework doing what the rework should... Change the record before you get it scratched..

You're talking out of your rectum.. the 8.0 rework killed off the DD entirely and people with years of experience had their learned skills wiped out. I came back after 2 months and found that the changes to CV have at least given the DD more of a chance now...

Oh believe me when I tell you that the rework sucked my motivation to play away... I am only an occasional visitor now when before I played daily for hours.. I also think that it wouldn't hurt WG to give you 1 free skill change once a month especially if you buy premium time.. But, I suppose WG doesn't want to keep the player base happy now eh?

I gave up playing after the rework 8.0. Everything I had learned over 2 & 1/2 years counted for nought... I came back last week for a few games in Gearing, Shimakaze, Chung Mu and I have to say the games were okay.. certainly better than immediately after the rework.

I wasn't being sarcastic or caustic or calling your ability, so if I gave that impression apologies..

My biggest gripe with the CV is that I launch my torpedoes at a target and then the CV attacks him too causing the target to move from the path of my salvo.. Depending on the DD played up to 15 wasted torpedoes and an age to reload for nothing...

Good build but why sacrifice SI?

The funny thing with Shimakaze is that the lowest ranged torpedoes are detected at 1.8km which is greater than the mid range... so you get 2.5km, 1.7km and 1.8km detection respectively... That's why I sometimes like 6.4km @ 81 because whatever the spotting range nobody escapes...lolz

I use 16km @ 67 or 9.6km @ 72..... if I am feeling really brave 6.4km @ 81... and that's fun.

I took my Shimakaze out for the first time in nearly 2 months... Even against an enemy CV I survived the whole game, sank 2, held off 5 ships.. survived 4 CV attacks and contributed to victory. Never write off a ship if the captain knows how to play her... This is how I have set my skills.

Well only my third game back after 2 months absence. Someone said to me at the start of the game "Why would you play your Shimakaze..it's rubbish." Held off a Hindenburg, Minotaur (Which I sank with a Torpedo), Conqueror (Which I sank with torpedoes) and an enemy Shimakaze... Kept a Moskva lit for deletion as well.. So why bring the Shimakaze? Pretty satisfied with the game... and kept our Salem safe behind a wall of smoke... until he decided to leave cover and continue firing at the Hindenburg and Conqueror... Asked the CV at the start NOT to target the ships I was firing torpedoes at and as strange as it may sound he didn't...

Saw your post at the start and because I have been absent for some time I didn't immediately recognise your name. 1st game back after 59 days.. your team played very well.. mine not so good. 3 times our CV attacked a target I was already trying to torpedo. 2 BB's behind me refused to engage that Moskva at C and once your Khaba joined in at C with 3 other BB's I could not hold my area alone.. and our Hindenburg on your A line didn't help either.. anyway thanks for the mention and greetz from Mashum.