NothingButTheRain

I meant in general. This is from a website and not from ingame, right? I don't see the number of games :P

No I'm not forgetting. We don't even know how hard it will be to acquire steal and coal, for all we know it will be just as difficult to get an Alaska as it will be to get a Black, so I'd rather have it available in a means I know I can get one if I wanted to And to be able to get one doesn't mean it will be easier to get if it's just as hard to get as, say, Stalingrad.

I have the same problem with DDs hiding behind me when I'm frontlining in a BB and the DD keeps on hiding behind me when people keep asking to spot and we get torped multiple times Besides, one of the problems with tanking for your team is if I then retreat, only to see the entire team retreat ahead of me ending up in me getting focussed to death because noone is willing to take over the tanking bit

Oh Alaska better not be one of those t10 exclusive reward ships Definitely would prefer it be a t9 freemium instead of a tier 10 exclusive clanwars/ranked ship I'd prefer the point based system as well but it could be hard to balance.

Exactly my point The advantages of a DD are so arbitrary, it's better to just take any CL

I completely agree with your take on DDs in operations. Quite frankly, I've seen a remarkable increase in the number of DDs playing Killer Whale, often having 2 DDs in the team and in one occasion even 3 DDs (yes that was a loss). Particularly the Japanese DDs end at the bottom of the list and I ran out of reports which won't help in any way in that regard With multiple DDs in the team, even if I do insane amounts of damage it will still result in a loss most of the time. And even if they do manage to perform somehow, the team would've been better off if that good DD player had taken a CL instead And Halloween with DD is so totally fun! I kept going for the 1m damage But here I had some real use for the team. There was ample heal, could hide in the green fog more easily and could do massive amounts of damage, but it required some more skill and WASD hack With the standard operations they are basically just CLs with smoke and HE, but with shorter range, no heal, torps that often miss and have long reload times and very little HP. They are basically just bricks or perhaps mosquitos who end up just going for the easy targets to get some easy xp while leaving the hard work for the rest of the team The few good things I have seen people in DDs do, are things like smoking up teammates (rarely see this happen though, except maybe Raptor?) and baiting the enemy torp bombers into torping them, as they have the agility to dodge more easily. But they depend on the team to tank and perhaps spot for them, increasing the strain on them and this way they increase the chances of the team crumbling under the pressure.

Which is what I mentioned when I was talking about the 10% coupon for €30 being forgettable I also was not talking about whining, dunno where you saw that. It is virtually completely worthless, but the same could be said about the 20% coupon I used earlier while the same ship was on sale half a year ago for 50% dsicount, correct? woops, you're right

I agree. Just wanted to mention most more seasoned players were aware of this 'feature'

True and I like most of them

This kinda is how I look at it. I gotten a 20% coupon a couple days ago and wasn't planning on spending it till I saw the tier 5 Italian BB, which I had wanted for a longer time. The most important reason for me actually purchasing it is due to the final price (including that 20% coupon) it wasn't very expensive to begin with. There's only one other ship I really would want and a 50% coupon would only save me something like €6? Not worth waiting a year for imo. But I do see the points of view of most of the people here complaining, I've gotten a 20% coupon earlier this year and decided to not spend it for basically the reasons stated above. And frankly, 10% for something from €30 upward, that's kinda forgettable. There were more like 20 premium ships last time I looked? I even bought this Italian BB (the cheaper one, not the canned ship).

It only works for text messages. I recently even had a battle where I gave someone a +1 and later found out I had actually blacklisted him previously He could still send the F4 etc commands, which most more seasoned players are aware of. I'm glad blacklisting doesn't exclude you from ever seeing this person again in a game, if only because it would result in matchmaking manipulation. I suppose it would also be too taxing for the servers, making matchmaking vastly more complex.

I don't really care if these get a separate class or not. I'm pretty sure they can manage as a CA in the game itself, kinda similar to how Kronstadt is implemented now.

I hope to see such ships make it into the game! And please also include ships like Hms Tiger and Derfflinger

It does help a lot, but only if you know how to use it (so basically anyone but a real beginner will know how to properly use them). But the other consumables also have premium variants, some of them I choose to not use the expensive one and pick the free one. I'm actually kinda happy there is a free one, in WoT both of them costs credits, right? I can't remember but having to play without any way of repair, that's a pain!

I usually play alone and whenever I see a CV when playing Musashi, I usually ask my team if anyone has any AA, in exchange I will assist them with my heavy metal messages Often someone is kind enough to provide me with AA, I still remember one battle with a friendly Conqueror and we basically lay besides each other for most of the match, repositioning together without getting in each other's way, even taking turn in tanking while the other healed Btw, is Kronstadt a lot of fun to play?

I just checked ingame, I can buy the Musashi HSF camo right now, for 5000 doubloons. I don't have Yamato yet, but will surely use that camo once I get her. Actually, it's the main reason I decided to start playing IJN BBs again (at the cost of other lines). I'm still debating on yes or no skipping Izumo

I would absolutely love for Shinano to become part of this game! You did very well on your first article ever, have +1 from me! People tend to forget that actually creating such an article is not as easy as it may seem (kinda like someone like Flamu makes it seem sooo easy to shoot 300k dmg with a tier 5 ships lol). I even used to roleplay with a friend back when we were young, we even envisioned the 4th being completed and I named it Hokkaido (not very realistic but it sounded totally awesome back then! ).

No you are correct, it's the mission with 3 parts that coincides with the fire mission for Indianapolis. I merely wanted to illustrate how I experience the fire missions compared to the citadel ones.

Tell me all your secrets! I just take Musashi, usually, but there's sooo many carriers today in the higher tiers. Even had a battle with a tier 7 and tier 6 CV while playing Gneisenau and in 5 battles got deleted by CV 3 times (those 3 torp bombers I do manage to kill won't really help in that regard ).

I didn't keep count like you did, but in the last month or 2 I gotten 3 supercrates I think, one was hydro module and I gotten loads of ouroboros. Running out of papapapa though

I was very happy with the month I was gifted last year The 50 camos I actually find quite useful. The signals, depends what I get . I even found a use for the spotter plane modules, finally!

I find the citadel missions a lot tougher. The fire missions I find relatively easy please don't make these harder! Step 1) Monarch Step 2) Shoot HE at a BB (with good health) and see if it burns Step 3) Shoot HE again if he put the fires out, win, done!

2 battles in my Monarch fixed that little problem (first was a loss...so)

Des Moines is a terrible ship! Lets give it radar!

Well frankly I think the Yamamoto supercrate that gave me a free Atlanta was surely just garbage, the ship is soo fragile it blows up if a seagull lands on it! Stupid useless stuff those collections burn em all!