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I do have them all, but why spend FXP, for now? I have some RB points and I'm slowly regrinding lines, so more will be coming... This is a weird one. I've got almost nothing to spend coal on (no more captains, only Malta at Tier 10, some uninspiring Tier 9s like the Tulsa...), while FCXP is always useful, which is why I've hardly ever had more than 1M of it in reserve. I'll make a bid, but I would've preferred credits. Keep the coupon in mind: if you've already used the one from June, you have almost a year to apply the next one. Depending on how much steel you earn, you might afford a "leap ship" (one without the coupon), and still make it for the next one. That's how I got the Ragnar last fall/winter. In other words, the coupon constraint might mean you don't buy as soon as you have enough steel: if you always have, let's say, 5-6k extra by then, you might as well put it on a Somers bid, as that's effectively "extra steel" (assuming you never use it as a coal surrogate). Just a thought...

100% I'm positively surprised they're asking for Free Cpt. XP instead of FXP, but that leaves me with > 1M FXP and nothing really to spend it on...

Saw @Bland_42 on the Public Test Server, driving Agir and later Hipper

There's simply no way I'm going to spend 10k+ dubs on it, even though she is "the one that got away", and a historical ship. I'd be more than happy to spend, say, 1M FXP, 100k coal and 5k steel, and throw in 20k RB points as well, but I sense WG wants cash only

Having 3 launchers for basically the same DPM is just better: your alpha is higher, and that's often all that matters 12 torps simply cover more ground than 10 you can launch 2 sets and keep 1 in reserve if you roll a low starting hp and lose a launcher, that's 33% of your torpedo power gone instead of 50%. Ditto for a simple incapacitation.

She's gonna be for dubs, right? Can't I use some of my other...thirteen resources to buy her?

This is the kind of arcane stuff I'd never figure out for myself

Nope, I too played 10-15 games in the Hector over the past few days, to try a full torpedo build. Clearly, WG gave Jedi precognition powers hydro to all those Venetos and Vladivostoks, 'cause they dodged my torps like they saw them coming from 14 km away

That's why you could "tank most of the damage": Salem is tankier than most Tier 7 BBs, and don't get me started on the Stalingrad... Try to grind the Santander in this mode, and it's going to feel like a survival horror.

What a mess. What is even the point of the Public Test Server, if you have to change the rewards by 15-50% because the mode is screwing up your economy? And of course secondary BBs were going to be the best moneymakers in this mode. And of course playing cruisers, even many Tier 10 cruisers, is a pain in the a** when there are 10 BBs, even just Tier 7 ones, on the enemy team, especially since said BBs would apparently rather shoot a cruiser 14 km away than a BB 4 km away...because reasons.

It's one of the main sources of steel, the others being the Battle Pass (daily missions in the past) and Christmas snowflakes. Possibly Clan Battles, but not all clans play them (mine doesn't). As for the dubs...they don't make sense financially, unless you consider them a bonus. I mean...it's clear that playing about 5 games per hour, winning 3 and getting those 200 dubs, which are worth less than 1 Euro, is a poor deal. The point, hopefully, is that you were going to play WoWs anyway, and 200 steel/dubs every 5-6-7 games, even if they're limited by the Sprints, are enough for an extra ship each year for both currenciesm, as long as you play diligently. The other point is the different meta: brawling BBs, for one thing, are more competitive. My impression is that torpedoboats are, as well, given people tend to push more with fewer crossfires and less focus to worry about.

This has to be a meme at this point. As you go up the tiers, enemies tend to have higher fire-chance-per-minute, but ships also have a higher fire resistance coefficient. One should also have more than enough points to take Fire Prevention, by now. In short, the Soyuz has the same tendency to catch fire as any other Tier 9 BB. She does have a specialized repair party, but that can be either a pro or a con, depending on the situation: it's arguably worse now that sub pings overwork it, but again, it doesn't make fires any more likely.

Got the FR25 after the recent buff. First game a win, second game a good win. The difference 1 km in torpedo range makes

Sure: you need time to write "s%*k on that, you filthy casuals!" in chat

Asymmetric Battles -> CTs -> "junior" container -> only ship missing from this list

Best one so far for me Basically, play competently with a secondary BB and it's an almost guaranteed 1.5 - 2k base xp game in less time than it probably takes for Randoms, which you're also far more likely to lose. Compared to Coop, it's more exciting and far more profitable, given you need far fewer boosters. Compared to Operations (which are complementary, given the tiers), again it's better: shorter games, lower chance of losing because the winning conditions are simpler (technically one doesn't even have to sink all the bots), and there are no "secondary objectives" that screw with the rewards if you miss them.

I think I have, but they're rare anyway, so it might've just been confirmation bias.

Asashio is solid, fairly unique in playstyle and not available anymore for dubs. Overall, that makes it a very good drop imho. While we're at it, Yoshiko as better armor than Azuma, but slower heals.

I prefer it to Convoys, were the team sometimes just ignored the objective. It's a relaxing way to earn CTs, otherwise rare for me (I don't follow Twitch, so they're only from the PTS), while chilling in the GK and such.

Incidentally, I find the dubs containers utterly unappealing: I have all the Italian cruisers, all but the Malta as far as the "firepower containers" are concerned, and with the Black Friday ones I have a greater than 50% chance of rolling a duplicate ship

That's Convoy when there's a BB-only mission for Community Tokens. 6 BBs per team were standard, and sometimes the MM would make smaller teams just to get rid of the excess. When it was cruisers-only, we had games with 6 cruisers per team, just the same.

The WoWs subreddit seems to be public again

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