FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor

The first thing is, you ideally don't build a commander for a premium ship. Since there is no retraining penalty, you can transfer any silver ship captain back and forth any time. So premium ships ideally get more utility out of your existing high skill point commanders by letting you assign those to silver ships for grinds. Regarding Yubari, the problem is you ideally want AFT to kick up the AA range. You also definitely want SI to gain an additional Def AA pop. However, these are BB commander skills rather than cruiser commander skills on the IJN line, mainly because there is no specialized IJN AA cruiser. Now maybe you don't need the full basic cruiser build of PT, AR, DE, CE tro be viable. But you very definitely want PT, but that is not usually considered an essential basic BB skill. I do have it on my Yamato commander though, which is the one I'd choose for Yubari. And in fact I think it's so valuable that I chose it over AR, the full build is currently PM-EM-SI-CE | AFT FP PT. Haven't really used Yubari in the current broken meta though.

So what best to do with these in-game currencies if you're not interested in the carriers? Obviously you could get a ton of signal flags for the Florins, and Union Jack camos if you're so inclined. But what about the Crowns? Is there anything better to do than just let them expire and collect (presumeably) a few credits? EDIT: Ah never mind, I found it meself after all. "Any remaining Crowns can be converted into Florins at an exchange rate of 1 to 8, but only during the fourth week of Update 0.8.1. " https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/game-updates/update-081-british-squadrons/

This morning I got my first victory as an attacker in Space Assault mode. It might be related to the fact we had a DD from the Torpedo Beat mode on our team (Comet Trail). Which I though was a bit insane. Is that intentional? And why can't I pick one of those?

Well, you just need another 300K or less to max him out. Regarding the secondary build, that's not really the most viable option in the high tiers these days. But when the next patch is launched, we get another free commander skill point redistribution and commander retraining period. So you could put all that on the back burner for now and rebuild him then at no cost, and postpone buying the FdG until then, so you can transfer the guy for free. And keep playing Bismarck in the mean time, or do something else entirely. Think through all the options, estimate all the costs and figure out which combination of expenditure and benefits is the most appealing.

It all very much depends on what you want. At the time, my Bismarck commander was one of only a few maxed-out captains I had. So I bought and played FdG mainly in order not to freeze more XP on Bismarck while keeping to generate Elite commander XP. I just didn't want to blow the best camos and special signals on a grind with a ship where the extra ship XP they gave me was basically going to waste, even though at the time I neither wanted FdG nor Kurfürst, both of which I thought were too clumsy and boring. Also general aversion against high tier gameplay. Playing FdG, I did not learn a great deal except to hate HE spammers even more, but the Kurfürst turned out to be a really nice ship for clan battles. However, there is only a single spot for BBs in CBs and I don't get to play it often. Still have no interest in playing it in Randoms, only used FdG in Ranked a single time to try out the buffed Secondaries. But it did give me a yuge chunk of commander XP, especially since I bought a fair bit of Satan lootboxes which in turn yielded a ton of special signals and NY Streamer camos.

Where? It's not in the developer bulletin linked in the news announcement of the second round and neither in the bulletin, it should be in at least one of those.

First impressions of the Second Round: - Why do you waste my time by making me play another four useless Co-Op battles to unlock space battles when you haven't wiped any of my other progress sionce last week? This seems pointless. I could be testing something new instead. - First Space Assault battle: I'm on the attacking team but as if the past week hadn't happened, none of the muppets on my team have a clue what the objective is. We seem to have a minute more to destroy the first genny - it only just gets spotted around minute seven. Edit 1. On the other hand, there was an attacker on the second battle who almost got some shells into an unspotted genny from the side at a fai bit of distance, so not all hope is lost ;-) - It would have been a good idea to publish a list of all the changes you made since last week, to enable players to test them in a methodical fashion. For example, I get the impression the flooding chance of the Space DDs might have been heavily nerfed, one flooding on eight torp hits so far, flying both signals. But it might just be super bad RNG. - Still don't see a good reason to force players to go back to port by not having a "Battle on" button.

I mean they specifically called the Tier VI test version of Giulio "Giunio Bruto"... If you wake up on Friday morning and find your Belfast, Kamikaze, Musashi etc one tier higher than before - don't act all surprised.

PSA: This Friday are the Ides of March. Just sayin'.

Best thread since the anti-achievements. More Pop-music based camos: "Sledge Hammer" - Yamato/Musashi "Shot Down In Flames" - HMS Neptune "Nothing's gonna stop us now" - RN BBs with zombie heal "Should I stay or should I go" - USS Seattle "Ride on" - Katori "Bad" - Izumo, Aigle, Jianwei, Courbet, Bretagne, Ashitaka... "I was made for loving you" - Kongo (or maybe "Love is a Battlefield") (or even "Tainted Love") "Jump" - Bourgogne "It's a long way to the top if you wanna Rock'n Roll" - Großer Kurfürst "Orgasmatron" - Republique "Time After Time" - Fubuki "True Colours" - All the lazy clone ships "Too Drunk To [edited]" - Friedrich der Große "Rip it up" - Minotaur "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" - T-61 "Under Pressure" - any DD with a torpedo range juuust barely longer than its concealment, like Monaghan "Road to Nowhere" - USS New Mexico, West Virginia, Arizona and Colorado "Master of Puppets" - Kitakaze, Harugumo, Worcester "Ride the lightning" - HMS Neptune "With or without you" - USS Missouri "Sweet Child O'Mine" - Aoba "Problem Child" - USS Atlanta "Run to the Hills" - USS Black "Ashes to Ashes" - HMS Conquerer "Great Balls of Fire" - HMS Neptune I'll see myself out.

Emerald actually turns out to be a solid choice for a lot of plane kills. Not necessarily all in one game, mind. But there are lots and lots of carriers in the low and mid tiers, almost every game you get has one or two of them. And while they tend to avoid ships known for some good AA, they like to pick on Emerald because she is not known to have great AA but she is known to be squishy. All you have to do is smoke up and cross your fingers that they keep loitering overhead while your weak but now invisible AA picks them off. Which they usually do. With any luck, that then makes them angry and they send more planes. It may not always help your team win the game, although it can be very effective if you manage to do it close enough to your DDs, supporting them, without getting yourself killed.

Don't really know what to tell you, I somehow muddled through. Have not found a reason not to sell her yet (owning Musashi as well) and I even asked me clan mates. But compared to Neptune, which I'm currently on, the Izumo grind was a complete picnic, that much is certain. At least you don't blow up every time some enemy just so much as looks in your direction.

Well, maybe it is true and I have singlehandedly destroyed the suggestions thread with my BS and that's why they don't read it any more #lol... but then again, they are constantly asking for feedback on lots of channels, like the feedback subforums about the PTS rounds and the current updates, and some of the YT videos. And best of all, apparently WG has introduced Feedback Friday on Twitter recently. Little strokes fell big oaks.

Best self-own I've seen on this forum so far, boasting about one's sealclubbing while what is actually on the line is new players playing these tiers legitimately.

If they nerf these ships, the fair(!) thing to do would be to offer a complete monetary refund to buyers, and at least a partial monetary refund to anyone who ever bought a Satan lootbox (irrespective of any actual ship drops received.) That would teach them not to launch such ships in the first place against the advice of all experts / testers. Just saying.

They also have managed to get many more people to play CVs, which in turn has all but destroyed most of low-to-mid tier DD fun because there's bound to be one or two CVs in every game between Tiers 3 and 6 or so. Even complete potatoes can keep DDs spotted. And with their marketing plans, I'm fairly convinced that is going to remain the case for at least the next two, three months.

Coming back to the firing-across-islands issue again. Following situation: The target ship is stationary, and close behind and island, and spotted. My shells reach it. As soon as the target gets unspotted - if I keep shooting, even if I am stationary and change absolutely nothing, just keep holding the mouse button, my shells now no longer fall around the same point of aim. They suddenly fly a lot further and are thus sure to miss. I can no longer hit the same point of aim. Just because the target is no longer spotted. I don't believe this has anything to do with the dispersion reduction on target lock either. The game actually shifts my aim point away from the one I am actually aiming at. This can't be working as intended. Please fix this.

Monaghan is still better just because a) can just use maxed-out Gearing Ovechkin and b) obscure and c) most people that have heard about it think it's crap EDIT and d) takes Defensive AA and Speed Boost at the same time. Edit 2 e) plus more torp range even with the four-gun hull

Sorry, I can't do recordings, and screenshots would hardly convey it. They have added a fast zoom-in on the explosion while the image turns black-and-white.

And yet they have obviously succeeded in getting far more people to play CVs because the games are full of them. Especially on the low and mid tiers where, as a direct consequence, destroyer gameplay is mostly ruined. The only DD I take out with any regularity these days is Monaghan. Because it's the greatest for trolling CVs.

You forgot Jervis and Gadja Mada. And König Albert is of course just a slightly nerfed but almost identical Kaiser. Also the first few ships of the upcoming Russian BB line are all basically the OR.

The new test Cross server Clan Battle season will include CVs. As a junior member, I can't speak for [SBS] but the amount of enthusiasm seems to be, er, limited among the clan mates. I do think some will give it a try but if this happens in the next regular CB season, I'm dropping out of this game entirely.

Vanquished a team with an eight per cent better average win rate. THE POTATOES PREVAILED!!1 OK, so the slightly bigger potatoes prevailed against slightly smaller ones. BUT STILL!

Make America Harkonnen again.