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This ship it's truly awesome I didn't feel this for a IJN ship since Kuma, in fact, Akizuki it's up there with Kuma, they are a love letter to us. What do you think about this build? Please note I didn't make my mind about IFHE

yeap, akizuki.

nothing special. Meh. I don't see why I would pick Tallin over Hipper

I have to disagree a little. Not necessary. No you don't, it depends on which division you are talking about, you must know that even better than i do. Because I think you are much more experienced in divisions than me for a division to be good, must have: 1 - good comms 2 - at least, a reasonable understanding how the other members play . 3 - According to you, a sense of teamplay and not a guy telling others what to do in all games that division makes. The game is full of first timers divisions that are equally awful as a random team. I remember a particular Cleveland game with you and a incomplete division , and despite everyone of us did good in there was just not enough, a marginal victory with no stars. we were out of sync, without coordination, I had no comms and I lost track of you as soon as the main assault started. If you take little or no signals, the division it's not farming Hard mode was just a hard limit to prevent farming divisions to abuse in game economy and the regular and casual player end up with the short end of the stick while my first example (gneisenau) was the single exception. Here, take a look to the rule.(this game was lost soon after Pensacola bot, by then, a team of 7 random players were reduced by only 2) And I did this with 10 point captain at most vs 19 point captains I can do better in co-op, much better. Especially, when the effort (because was much harder than anything the game had up to this point) doesn't pay off. If the earnings are similar to this screenshot but the thing is not UF hard mode hard, then i don't mind. I can put camo and signals and do 5k instead of 20 k As do i Aegis I'm always trying to break my previous citadels hits record, currently at 28 (Normandie) i have to do more than 45. Raptor Brawling the 3 bbs at the same time. And so on.

that's not true @MrFingers. I've got 14 days of premium for free, and I'm thankful for the WG nice gesture. In Portugal we've a saying that goes more or less like this. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" others got more? I don't care

pick a ship with HE

Play random

Well, it is what it is. Personally I don't mind, for me playing ops was never about farming (as my two examples show, I've got more but those two are enough ) Above all, it's about relaxing , to be an alternative mode to random, to have fun. (and that's why I went berserk with UF hard mode, that was BS in a Puerto Rico scale, for me.) and to have an opportunity to play a historic scenarios. I'm more optimist. Organised farms will die, but divisions and Ops will not. If you mean the op channel, I believe it will resume as always, bad players will remain, but after that things will improve because of dedicated players and fans. Of course not, co-op it's like single player mode, you are up against two teams. it's you vs green team vs red team. it's difficult to get 800 xp points, for that to happen many things must happen, like the green team to be sunk. It's a selfish mode and you can get away with that. See? like the following statement Only if you want to. Sometimes it feels nice to take a break of random. instead of going random, pick a ship and do co-op or ops. Time to time. @Tanatoy with that out of the way, What about the other operations? what about more operations? What about Dynamo?

I do not play only Ops, I play other modes, I never farmed ops. My Shchors captain was my Orlan captain, started in UF with 6 points, now he has 19 points. the way I see it. first you start in co-op because ship/build and captain, then you go to ops and after you go to random. what's in bold I don't disagree entirely with you but... No, they are not dead I'm not saying this because I believe solo play in a random team it's the way to go, I play solo because my inaptitude to setup Discord, to have voice communications. I played at least one night with @NothingButTheRain in a division in Newport in the time Cleveland was t6. I still have an idea how we meet, but I don't know how he plays and most probably vice-versa. Last Halloween I entered a bunch of divisions, was the same as random teams or worse For a division to work you have to know how the other players do things, how and what both of you can take advantage of your strong points , where to cover the weak points of each other, and so on. other example, notice nothing special regarding farming. (not because I do on purpose but because I reserve the farming flags for special occasions like Halo ops and I could not sustain a farming approach to ops I would deplete my reserves very quickly)

but it is, not always, but it is, most of the times, every time you have a new team your game can change a bit. take Narai as an example. you can go for the transporters, for Little Trouble or for the cv, and in every one of them, things can happen differently. Regarding farming If I go back in time, I remember @lup3s advice me to make the NTFL flag mission (the 35k XP in 4 days) in Aegis, I never understood fully what he meant until I saw some Narai screenshots and others with 20k gains with full bonus builds. Here, this is one game I had in UF hard mode. Nothing special in farming numbers (random team by the way) +1 When co-op changed from 5 vs 5 to 8 vs 8 was a huge improvement but 9 vs 9 feels like the old 5 vs 5, perhaps making 8 vs 9 or tweak the points at start, or end the points system in co-op, the rewards are not anything special anyway. to herding players to random/ranked? I always played operations but I have less ops than co-op games, others players, operation players have less operations than co-op games, you may want to check your battles too. either way, even if ops are not bigger than co-op, no one can deny that ops are a huge and important slice of this game. You can manipulate the spreadsheet, take ops out of missions and they are less played and so on.

Thank you, WG. More than the 14 days, it's the gesture that count. Remember your player base. At this moment ,my country has 1020 infected, 5 cured and 6 deaths. Spain has just announced drastic measures, they will start to select who they will save first. Italy, it's like a war zone.

BXP in Narai has been Nerf? Who cares? The important thing, Narai is back. Hermes, cherry blossom, Dynamo, nerf them all. the important thing is having them all back

Plenty of reasons. I like RU ships, I always liked it, Along with the German ships are one of my two main lines or Nations. but, after a while ,feels good to pick up other nations, other ships, even other classes. One may find a hidden gem in the process. this was how the RU line became one of my favourites, this is how German line became one of my favourites and this will be how a previous line will became my fav. I think I just gave you a reason among many.

I had only a million FXP and i was at Chappa when i started. I used, economic flags (not special ones) and economic cammos i did 77 battles with Chappa ) i started with a 8 point captain or less), 47 with Donskoy, all equiped with those bonus, I also played other ships because reasons (to do Directives), all were equipped with economic camos. (i dismounted the perma camo on all of them) So, Budyonny, Nurnberg, Bayern, Shchors, Nicholas, Bismarck, Gneisenau, all contributed for the FXP that was necessary to get Moskva, in the case i would not get Moskva through Donskoy. In the end it wasn't necessary, i did it via Donskoy and now i have a surplus of FXP above 300 k plus the million i already had. TLDR : every ship that you play, put some camo and flag that give you FXP bonus Moskva cost 265 k + what donskoy will cost + what chappa will cost + the modules of every ship . If i was in your position i would add the special flags ( dragons and what not) on top of that. p.s. 7 weeks to the split? I thought it was next thursday (01-04-2020)

So, after this amazing IFHE rework, what's the best way to burn BBs? especially high tiers BBs I just unlock Orion and burns everything it touches. and it's fast...very fast ...so fast that one can take a nap between point A to point B. apart from that . will this continue from...let's say from t6 to t8? I heard bad things about Monarch, why?

USS Laffey's story is cool, butT9? As long it's not at expenses of USS Jonhston (DD-557) which is a Fletcher.

Yes, I know the following was made in co-op Yes, I know that last BB could had killed me many times over. Yes, I know this was just A game. 20191217_111848_PZSC506-Huang-he_42_Neighbors.wowsreplay Î never liked Huang he Practically no armour, pea shooters for guns, and overall meh. But I was surprised how easy it was, even when I compare with other co-ops games I did with it. The thing is... Instead of unlocking a fremium ship I'm thinking of unlocking Leander and Fiji. and all I know is that Huang He is a Leander with less a turret and with moving smoke. which are other similarities and differences between them? I already know if I ask for recommendations for a similar ship you will answer Perth. (another Leander with moving smoke) please advice.

That I don't know. I think the real Yamato was hit by 12 torps and 6 bombs before being sunk. US Forces tried to hit Yamato on a single side (they learned that with Mushashi, because when they attacked it from every side they could, they caused counter flooding , prolonging the act of sink it). Seems pretty good to me. And in game, I can tell you that once, i launched all 12 torps of my Hipper, 12 hits and i didn't sink the freaking thing. But, yes you are right. take Tirpitz. The British launched a crap ton of operations against that ship, a single stationary ship. in the end, WG made it weak in AA, a 2k ton heavier ship than Bismarck, both full of AA capabilities. The Yamato last mission, was basically, to turn into a Tirpitz and fight until the bitter end, once reached it's destination, IMHO what happened was better than what was planned, in a way, more mercifully. Warspite and Bayern.

Don't be. Many of the paper ships were not built for some reason, for some technicality. IMO Paper ships have the upper hand when compared to real ships, in this game, because they never received the "baptism by fire", For Real ships, the way they were "baptized" was used by the game for balanced purposes while for Paper ships that balance it's more schematic. based. And let's face it, listening the fan base...it's a double edge sword. I can give you an example. If it was up to me, I would put Bismarck as the leading ship of this game instead of the crappy Yamato, and I would make it a premium instead of Tirpitz. There's a couple of ships that achieved more than the rest of ships in this game, those couple of ships should be the apex in this game. Fletcher instead of Gearing it's other example.

In the other day I picked up Kuma for old times sake , I love that ship. The only downside of that ship it's being a low tier one, right in the middle of that huge confusion. anyway. there I was in the Solomon islands map near C cap, shooting while concealed, then I saw an allied cruiser throwing itself to the "jaws" of the entire red flank.

Or you could just burn everything in sigth. Now it's more like you say.

Wrong. When we are swamped by ships from the Russian Federation, we will remember the days were we had proper ships from URSS. All or almost all made with paper just like the Trebant (this car was made with compressed cotton) but you get what I mean it will be Putinium vs Stalinilium

I just open 67 resources containers and got around 35 k coal among them 3x or 4x 1200 k coal.

it was exactly that. I reset all my ships. thank you

Well, Nicholas/Farragut. To me they are the same ship, after upgrading Farra's hull. Everyone praises Clemson for being a exceptional dd for sealclubbing, a fun ship and maybe... strong? I never like it, it's just a piece of junk. And I know, low tiers, the "National flavour" creeps in slowly and so on, but Clemson almost killed the entire thing for me, and by the time I reached Nicholas, my interest was null and for a long time was a port queen, my naked DD. It bombed big time in the 25 torp mission, back in the day, who remember that awful mission? It was very recently that I picked it up i don't remember why, this time with LS...and oh boy, those guns never goes quiet, first thing I noticed. So I started to play more and more. And both of them are starting to became a ship to consider to do things. the following may be co-op with no cv or with cv, who cares? pretty good if you ask me, you can argue that a good human cv player would not lose t planes to a dd, it would kill the dd right of the start, and so on. Bottom line, look at this ship potential, I was impressed. Water and fire mission (get 100 ribbons, with fire, torp hits or hits on the citadel)