NothingButTheRain

I noticed this as well, with the remade ops. Either 4 or 5 stars or a loss. And Narai indeed seems unwinnable with a random team, even though I managed a single win on PTS. All new operations seems to not be as straight forward anymore, less predictable and everyone needs to be everywhere right now! It's like having to work in a restaurant, bringing food to the right table and a single unsatisfied customer can cost you your job (or get your job sunk, like Raptor or some important transport in Narai gets sunk). Except that you do it for gamingfun and not as your job I do believe that the newer more chaotic variants of the operations are a good example of how a hard mode could be implemented, with the old (more simple and more predictable) ones being the normal mode.

I noticed this as well and also think things will get better once people don't automatically go the old route anymore

I did notice more tier 10 ships being taken out, probably due to the tier 10 special module missions. It's not every game like that but I have seen a lone tier 8 cruiser get into a match like the above a couple times. But yesterday in my Scharnie, I gotten into a tier 8 match. I was kinda surprised but it happens.

This is what had me worried

And I seen this happen a couple times yesterday, which ended up causing everyone to loose and thus never receiving the reward. There was just too many freeloaders (on top of the usually mostly useless DDs which was 1 or 2 in most teams). Yes it would It's kill stealing by definition. How can you not understand? This has nothing to do with the definition of killstealing. What are you trying to imply here anyway?

The kill mission (which often seems a kill stealing mission) along with the masses of DDs in this operation netted me 4 losses out of 4 games yesterday. I guess I'll wait for a couple days till the freeloaders gotten their mission done or have given up on hoping someone will carry them while they can killsteal their 5 kills

In my region the regional valute is euros.

Yes bring it on! I want some ARP ships!

They are €4,50 for me. 5 are €22,50, 15 are €60,75 and 30 are €108

It was glorious, especially since that same Musashi had gotten a Die Hard medal less then a minute before he himself got rammed for my Die Hard (he was on low health and I happened to be in the neighbourhood ). I use the HSF camo on Yamato and I like it I do want that camo on Musashi though, but I never had the opportunity to get that cheap doubloons using that glitchy buy trick? But it's really expensive for the enhancement it gives so how about WG making it a little bit cheaper for a sec?

I want another cat commander! With also a unique own voice

I did ram a Musashi to death not long ago in my Lion I think? Die hard! I vote that, in compensation for the Yamato buffs, the Musashi HSF camo gets a temporary price reduction, for its faithfull subjects That way Musashi doesn't get more OP and we still get a better deal for a ship that seemingly hardly anyone wants

You may have your wife, but at least I have my Scharnhorst

Actually, when I first saw "First Blood" it literally put a smile upon my face , as an UT player I thought it was pretty hilarious!

I was under the impression that at least some of the older players had nothing left to grind anymore. Also there is tons of new contect being added (new campaigns, events, tweaks and additions like the arsenal and new accompanying new resources). Frankly, I was kinda hoping they would add some of the 'missing' tech tree ships more faster I do agree that the addition of new maps is going really slowly... Same thing for new operations, though there's arguably more progress here then in new maps.

Very good writing It's worth the read as it gives a good insight in what the problem is and why and how to possible fix this.

Last attempt was a 3 star win, but I do agree with general concensus that this ops should be tweaked to be less strict. Even though last attempt we had several good players who REALLY tried, NONE of the forts survived! I was Ranger again, 2nd place this time 142k dmg, not bad.

How does the hydro stack up against the torps?

I play her kinda like I would play my Kongo. I also feel like the range is a bit lacking, but this isn't a problem for GC anyway. I did use SI but don't really think the heal signal is needed on GC when already selected SI. I don't use a fire prevention captain skill, I can just cloak and heal it all back and I think the extra heal is a bit more versatile. I run the premium heal. I use skillz to prevent GC from melting due to too many fires.

It would help if you did not hide your stats. There is a youtube video which was pretty good and from relatively recently. In short, at least one (not totally incompetent) BB goes top right to kill all CLs that spawn there (the bot Aobe will join you but can't be relied upon). One other BB stays near the south west of the island to kill the early rusher Clemson(?) that rushes the turrets early. Don't get torped and use the repair zone if you get hit pretty bad. Try to have lots of health near the last wave (don't need 5 heals by then anymore, so use your heals fast and often, use the repair zone to basically heal citadel damage only).Eat torps that would otherwise eat your team's cruisers and remember that allied torps cannot damage you. The other 3 classes have the primary objective to not die! Go towards the north (don't go left on the map, past the islands!) till you're in the repair zone where you will spend a significant amount of your time as cruiser. As CV I think the best option is to sail north a bit longer and enter the horse shoe shaped island from the east. First deploy torp bombers and dive bombers, the fighters can wait till the first set of enemy DDs are dead. Once fighter is launched, use it to guard the fort turrets (though till now, my team NEVER managed to save at least 3 of them) and use the assault planes to strike opportunity targets without loosing too many planes. I noticed enemy Ranger has 2 or 3 fighter squadrons? So an air strike I can't win and there's also an enemy Dallas with DefAA. So I try to spot and hope teammates can finish at least the Dallas, though I prefer my fighters to stay near the island guarding against bomber attacks. As a DD, you should know what you are doing or not take a DD in my opinion. Most DDs I wonder what they have been smoking? But in general (and I could be wrong here) the BBs mostly protect the island and the cruisers mostly protect the heal area.

I've tried it now with my Ranger some 4 times or so? And for whatever reason only one was a defeat I think. I know it's not my raw damage as I'm kinda 4th place maybe 3rd usually? And I did have some good teammates who could carry and I could assist (and they recognise my assistances and make use of it, like spotting and post DC fires).

I would go for Kutuzov

I think this is debatable? First of, having Iowa as tier 10 would mean that Montana could not have made it into the game. I'm happy with how Iowa, Montana and Yamato were put into the game tier-wise. Also having Iowa and Yamato in the same tier would not have helped regarding the non-USA/JAP navies tier 10 ships. As a personal note, I'm adept at modifying existing games as a hobby of mine and part of what I ended up doing was filling up gaps in order to complement the game I was modding somehow. At some point you kinda have to make up something (if only in the name of fun, and interesting is also fun in my opinion) and make it at least somewhat plausible. Imo they did this pretty well in WoT till things started going into the vast extreme with "World of we made all these tanks up!" (quote by Jongles, approximately) and I really hope this will not happen to WoWS. Balance is another issue entirely. The Brit BBs tier 8 and above, I think it's somewhat plausible. I'm not sure about the HE thing, but it does make that line more unique though imo it could've been a more traditional line with better armor, less conceilment and no zombie heal (but with the HE spam) without making the line more inferior in any way. GK I can understand the triple turrets, or WG would have to have replaced the triple turrets with double turrets of greater caliber. Actually, I would've liked the Super Yamatos to be implemented in some way, though I don't mind this not being the case. But suppose it had, then I think Yamato would've needed to be implemented in a more tankier way then it is now (it's weakly odd protected citadel everyone knows about). I will admit that I have always been more lenient in this regard, but the way WoT went is not my thing and I hope WoWS doesn't cross this edge as well.

It's not, as the hull was actual metal. Metal =/ paper. Or at least that's how I look at it. I don't suppose there is some more official definition of what a paper design defines?