Migantium_Mashum

No doubt with a level 19 commander.... There should be a third option. Waiting until after the update to decide...

Excuse me for saying this, I know that I am possibly mistaken, but shouldn't one be more concerned with killing the enemy torpedo bombers and normal bombers first? I mean, again I could be entirely wrong, but I was under the impression that fighters don't actually do any damage to ships, unless they can now strafe the ships too, I know silly me, probably got it all in a muddle.. But... I don't think I have you know.

As long as it doesn't affect my spotting distance I don't mind....

Are we all so thin skinned in the 21st century? People will be wanting cuddle rooms next.... A player, who is unknown, sitting in front of their monitor in some unknown location, typing words that by comparison to what is said in societies today is pretty mild... and people are offended. Nothing said has any influence on your life in the real world... Ignore the comments in game and blacklist the player in port... If you're really so offended, if those words wound you deeply report it to WG. If it really bothers you, turn off the game, go out the door into the light and mingle with real people in the fresh air..

Is it really that hard to concentrate? If your post includes the word "Vitriol" then perhaps if you improved your game performance you wouldn't be so targeted, maybe. Also, given this is a PC platform game, you don't know any of the other players and they don't know you, what are you worrying about?

Went the way of the Dodo.

Why do you fear Tier 10 in Lightning? My Lightning and Cossack with 5.5km concealment do very well against Tier 10 opponents. They are fast, turn quickly and have some powerful torpedoes, importantly played right they are damn hard to hit. They also have some good guns, in my Cossack (second screenshot) I latched on to the rear of a Yamato (Tier 10) matching turns and speed; I just kept burning his [edited]for about 5 minutes with HE and apart from an odd secondary hit came away pretty healthy after Yamato was sunk.. Without meaning any insult to your play I think that if you're having problems with these ships perhaps you should try a few games in COOP where you can understand the + side to them.. I have included 3 screenshots from games where T8 faced T10 ships.

You guys must be unlucky and the very opposite for me. Every time I have used a tier 8 ship the majority of the time I am within my tier 8 group or Tier 9.. In only a few games, playing Asashio (B) or Kagero have I come up against Tier 10 opponents. But, in saying this, if you play smart you can be just as effective as a tier 10 in most, not all, tier 8 ships.

Got in 4 DD games last night and in all 4 of my games I nailed an enemy DD camping/sitting in smoke with my torpedoes... Daring, Shimakaze, Cossack, Kamikaze & T-22 (My Minekaze needed some exercise and got 2 DD kills).. As a DD player I am ashamed of them...

Because how dare you detonate an enemy ship...some people take it as a personal insult to have their ship blown up.. How dare you, how rude...

Second game and another Tier 10 smoke camping DD ( this time a Shimakaze, oh the irony )takes a torpedo... today is the day for smoke kills lolz... With the Worcester for company we kept the lines from 8-10 secure from J to A.. As Gandalf did say "You shall not pass!!".... "Fly you fools." Almost had the KII but with less than 200hp left, flooding, the kill was stolen...

First game off the bat. Ended up sitting in enemy cap zone after working my way down, spotting all the way, ensuring that the red team had to stop their attack towards our cap to dislodge me.. Anyway Daring, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear at Tier 10 you should know that you don't sit in smoke when Mashum prowls in his Shimakaze.. certain death is all you achieve. Anyhow, back came the red team to attack Mashum who was successfully capping the enemy base and my team, relieved of the pressure from the reds, who were leading with a double Worecester tag team, put the finishing touches to a great victory.. poor enemy Bismarck didn't know which way to turn to avoid my torpedoes...I only got 2 torpedo hits but he was so distracted he was easy prey for our Bismarck..lolz.

As a DD player I know that it is vital to avoid enemy radar... Just had a game where for almost 14 minutes of the game nobody wanted to attack, kill, chase off an enemy Cleveland, Moskva or Minotaur... finally it took our Cleveland to kill his nemesis and a DD to nail Moskva but nobody apart from a Conqueror could be bothered... After the enemy Cleveland died at 14 minutes I was able to make 2 kills which were the Kiev and Yugumo, claim the cap and turn 2 BB's with torpedoes... It frustrates me in that if the radar ships were left alive I could not have been as aggressive as I like to be and the enemy would have had +2 DD's and +2 BB's pushing us back... because up to that point they were. Tell your friends, tell yourself... DD's need enemy radar dead to be effective.

No forum access for 5 hours and I still cannot log into game as unable to connect to server. Would this have anything to do with the upcoming update?

I have the chance of exchanging my coal for the Jean Bart and just wonder before I do about the performance of the Jean Bart? I welcome any advice, any comments for or against.. I would just like opinions or advice from the people who already have her before making my mind up.

Well I played my tester games in coop last night, didn't go random until I had practiced with the Bots.. I found JB burns easily but her shells really do some damage... I was scoring up to 30k per salvo when firing AP against German BB's and the speed at which the secondaries fire is phenomenal... Japanese BB's seemed tougher to score points off with AP but when I tried HE it wiped out the secondaries and AA mounts for fun leaving them burning.. In 2 salvoes I nailed a Moskva with 3 citadel hits, I had numerous citadels from other Cruisers too except Hindenburg which for some reason was able to bounce my shells. Any DD's I faced really didn't do very well at all.. So I am glad I got her and thank you to all for the advice.. just now going to watch the video suggested by @kingzy2013

Well, I am going to try some coop for practice which will enable me to tweak her if necessary before joining the pvp environment. No point jumping in with an untested ship.. Gone with a secondary build as AA @ 94% is pretty good.. so secondaries now sit at 10.1km... now we shall see.

Is she good for secondaries? Looking at upgrade 3 and 6 not sure what to equip for her..

@Tyrendian89 I do enjoy playing Richelieu to be fair and yes I have a better handle on her than some of my other BB's... thank you for your information.

Well that settles it for me.. I go to welcome Jean Bart to my Fleet... and thanks to you all for the help.

You watch next they will learn how to use the minmap and understand north from south, east from west... no we'll just go for the minimap.. just might be too confusing.

In several games last night I had games where at the start up to 3 players were afk for at least 5 minutes, in one game 2 players never even turned up at all.. I usually tell them to buy "Faster dial up wind handles.". It is rare now to NOT have at least 1 afk and if it is a pivotal ship you're team is handicapped straight off the bat.. No idea why but wonder if it has something to do with server overload.

I finally got my PEF last night and ran through a few games in Coop because there was no way I was jumping into random without knowing her capabilities... I find that her AA is powerful and her secondaries are good also. She turns okay for a T6 BB but in my opinion the main armament is poor.. or I haven't got used to her yet. BB v BB regardless of the BB those AP shells just don't do anything... I have also tried HE and had far more damage from them BB v BB, excluding fire damage.. Maybe the few games played isn't enough to fully know the ship yet but that's the way I see it..

I love the white talk when I am in my DD stalking a BB... Late in a game I had a Grosse in my sights who had given me quite a shellacking in my Shimakaze earlier and after sinking a Bismarck I put in all chat that I was coming for him next... I kept telling him which way to turn, slow down, watch your left..all the while he was detected by me but had no idea from where the attack would come..after 3-4 minutes of toying I finally typed in goodbye and thanks for coming then slammed 8 of 15 torpedoes into him.. He actually complimented me with an in port message.. Or, I do this frequently, another time announcing at the start that I carry experimental rubber torpedoes and if anyone wants a demonstration to book a ticket and I will attend their needs and MASHUM is not your enemy.. so all chat can be fun too with like minded individuals.