Captain_Newman

In a nutshell, yes.

The most evil thing you can do with Cunningham is use him solely for 'clubbing sessions in an Ark Royal..

Luckily, I was able to grind all of them for free except for Kuznetsov (was on a break from wows when he was grindable) - so I did get him for coal, I still think the price is outrageous though. I will point out that if I didn't have the other special captains already, I wouldn't buy them for coal, they're not worth that price; Kuznetsov is basically overpowered (him being a russian commander is pure coincidence, I'm sure) and imho the only one worth getting for that ridiculous price. I didn't get Lutjens since he wasn't grindable and I don't think he's worth that much coal.. already have that other special captain on the Hindi (I forget the name), I hate the GK, and rarely play the z52 these days due to heavy levels of powercreep. Including coupons would definitely help - even if they regenerate very slowly, on par with ship coupons (so you get one every six months), that'd still improve the situation drastically. I'm fine with coal being the currency you get them with, but 175k is pretty ridiculous.

In b4 the "hurr durr not constructive" brigades lock this.

In order to activate his talents, you need to get two floodings for one, and a witherer for the other. You'll struggle to do either consistently with the Mino, witherer will be almost impossible due to nerfed floodings, inability to set fires, and the fact that trying to force torp use on the Mino is the fastest way back to port... The only thing you can use is the improved JoaT. Not worth it, he's wasted on the Mino. Either use him on Conq / Thunderer, or Ark Royal / Audacious.

I have never seen t10 permacamos discounted, and I've been playing for years. However, trust me on this - don't buy any permacamos. WG nerfs tech tree ships all the time, you can easily end up with a ship you never play anymore having the 5k camo. It's not that hard to at least not take losses in t10 without one, anyway.

I would wait until the last moment, until you are sure you won't be able to grind the coal in time. The answer, however, is yes - she is worth it.

Russian CV's are probably going to be the stop where I get off the crazy train.

Personally, I see them rarely. Just seeing a teammate shoot another team mate on purpose is kinda rare, I'm not sure if I see that maybe once or twice a month, tops? Actual exchange of friendly fire that results in a deliberate team kill? I've got over 11k battles and I can say count how many times I saw that just using the fingers of one hand, it's rare. Though I will admit that when a 42%er bb yoloing manages to push your DD from smoke in front of 7 angry sets of guns and incoming torps, I am tempted to do some (not so) friendly fire myself.. I've never acted on it though.

If you're not just calling it "radar", you didn't quite get into the mindset of a wows german bb captain.

Because nobody's buying them for steel. Not very popular. Neus has it's niche audience but it's overall a very rare sight as most people can't grind steel very fast, and don't really want to spend it on this ship. Flint's been power crept over the years, and with recent MM changes also exists in a tier that's uptiered +2 all the time. Black is still strong, but most people can't DD to save their life, especially in the current CV-infested meta. Radar on DD's will become a bit less special soon as well, so there's power creep too.

Dunno. Might still play it. I did win the two games I played it's just that.. I don't find it fun at all. It's not a rational dislike that I can explain, I just don't really find it fun at all.

As usual, when I saw the ranked announcement, I said "mkay let's rank out this time". As usual, I played 2 battles and I just can't be bothered.

It's not like I don't know what I'm doing in DD's. Yes, most of the time I can position in such a way to avoid CV spotting. However, if they tunnel vision on you, there's no magical solution if they just keep coming. You'll mitigate, prolong, and the enemy team will probably lose because both CV's are wasting time on you, so you'll probably win - but still have a crap game. Just because sometimes you get to nuke them doesn't make the class fun to play against most of the time - in order for you to even get in a position where killing them is possible, they need to have made a massive mistake first. If they're sitting behind an island with half their team between you and it, I'd love to see your magical solution for killing them. Even you admitted they're broken, so there's nothing to talk about. No, I'm not the kind of DD that isolates itself, yolos, and dies first to CV's. I still hate them with a burning passion, it's the worst piece of game design I've ever seen.

It's not far off now... low tiers are such a mess, it's insane. WG balancing department and any CM's that say they're happy with the rework should be forced to play DD in t4 8 hours a day.

You get the same permacamo bonuses on coal and fxp ships, as well.

Additonal moral of the story: never backline torp. OP, the only time you can torp when there is an ally between you and your target, is when that ally is with you on voice comms and he's confirmed it's ok to torp. Otherwise, there's no such thing as friendly torps, and once you've fired them, if there are allies in front, you can assume they'll eat them.

Dumb or greedy.. hmm...

- they're looking into how they can improve ranked. - they introduce CV's with invulnerable planes into it. [Edited - Immoxb]

Click on your name in the port screen, a drop down list will appear.

Putting lots of thought into things before they are released into live is not the WG way. Example: El2a correctly predicted that the planes would basically become invulnerable in the current arms race ranked season weeks before it was released. Apparently players like him actually understand the game better than it's creators. There's a reason why every major decision they've made for the past 2 years has been a massive dumpster fire.

Weird. Have you checked your inventory, if it's there? If you confirm that it's really gone, open a ticket with support and ask for it to be restored.

But not a counter for cruisers, in general you'll want to avoid getting in direct gun fights with them. Haida's primary role is to find and murder the enemy DD's. You won't be lining up cits on broadside cruisers like a Gremy or Kleber would.

It's an Albemarle hull (modified Neptune hull, that is) that gets the t9/t10 234mm guns instead of the 203's found on the Albemarle. These guns have the improved 1/4 pen built in (especially interesting with the inc IFHE changes), but only gets 6 rifles to Albemarle's 9. I don't really find her too insteresting, tbh.

That reminds me, I need to find a way to replace the sound effect of the base being capped warning. It's incredibly irritating.