Captain_Newman

I've literally never had better luck with containers than I did this Christmas. For perspective, I had a bunch of dubs I was going to spend on the PR event, then when I saw how they made that event and that the PR is kind of mediocre, I decided to just dump that into lootboxes instead, using any dubs they dropped to just get more of them. From these I dropped Belfast, Enterprise, Roma, Gascogne, Le Terrible, Abruzzi, Blyska, Lazo, Yudachi, Ashitaka, Arizona, Hill, Siroco, Yahagi, Murmansk, W. Virginia 1941, Molotov, Graf Spee, De Grasse, Ark Royal, and Huanghe. The clan mates were getting a bit salty about my rng there, so I decided to troll them further by getting an 8 pack of large boxes, and dropped a Benham and Gremy out of those. I got some of them a few boxes as gifts after that, I know at least one dropped ships from those as well. Some will get crap, others will get great drops. It's the nature of RNG. When you compare this haul to the one I had last year (opened plenty of boxes and only had a Prinz Eugen), I can't really complain about them this year. If only the rare ships I listed there dropped it would already be great. BTW, I'm not talking anyone into buying lootboxes here; if you decide to buy them, you need to understand that it is gambling, and that there is a good chance that you won't get anything really good out of them - there are plenty of people with that exact experience.

Tirpitz doesn't have hydro.

It also reduces the chance of being set on fire, which stacks with your built-in resistance (calculated based on tier difference between you and the guy shooting you). When you add that up with BoS for reduced fire durations, and the fact that most people will spam your mid ship which means they'll only ever get one fire at one time if you're running FP, you have quite a useful skill there. A high tier BB has an enormous health pool, and you should look at these HP points as nothing but a resource - you trade them for damage on the enemy team, and you use them to tank damage; if you know what you're doing, you usually want to be the one being shot at, because while they're shooting at you (and you know how to tank and/or kite) they're not blapping your team mates. Using that HP pool as a resource that keeps your team alive and lets you deal damage and get kills on the enemy team is how I tend to see the BB's HP as. This makes it all the more annoying when you're doing your best to carry the game, are getting low, have monster damage, couple of kills, confed, high caliber, and you're still losing while the rest of your BB's are all full health hiding behind an island somewhere on the map border. A BB that doesn't tank for it's team is probably not doing it's job, and skills like FP are a big part of that. There's some differing opinions in this thread, but some come from unicums that come from top clans, and others from people with hidden stats that recommend secondary Musashis. I'll let you decide who to listen to, here.

TBH Enterprise is kind of similar to hacking Same thing btw. Not really a CV player, but since an Enterprise did drop I went ahead and used her in this sprint.. it's kind of an "I win" button...

He probably mixed it up with the WG anniversary event which does give SC's for every t10 you have. You never got SC's for snowflakes ever since they were introduced, last year t10's gave us steel, this time around it's small santa crates (which is a downgrade since the small boxes are pretty bad).

Yea I hear that's good, I need to grab that at some point, absolutely love XCOM 2.

Thanks again. Got two more ranks to go, so if one appears I'll give this a shot.

Funny thing is, I have neither the Marblehead nor Marblehead Lima, and I always just assumed I'd be dropping those premium Omahas before anything else. Instead, I got stuff like Belfast, Benham, Enterprise, Gremy, Roma, Le Terrible, Gascogne, Lazo, Blyska.. and the t6 drops would blot out the sun (the only t6 prem I don't have atm is the Makarov, which wasn't in the boxes and isn't available in any way atm). Not complaining

I already grinded mine completely for free, so I'm now doing it for a friend. ..no, not really. Ain't nobody got time for that, and she's not worth the money. In the end, I had a bunch of doubloons to burn, so instead of using them on the PR, I decided to drop them into lootboxes, instead. I think that Enterprise, Benham, Belfast, Gremy + a bunch of other non-rare ships are better to have than a single overpriced t10 cruiser featuring Montana dispersion and handling, but not featuring her overmatch or armor. I'd rather just play Alaska or Missouri if I'm going to go high tier tanky radar ship.

Thanks a lot - will give that a go next time I see one :) The one GZ I killed so far was kind of incompetent, after he took a few torps he actually started running away from the caps, so I just farmed him to death. I wanted to ask about the range to ensure his secondaries go for the belt - are we talking 2-3 km, or more like 8-9? Thanks!

Yea I have the same issue. It takes a few min to reconnect, by which time you may very well die. I had situations were I got killed due to this already. What happens is, I usually notice first that I can't fire (while I can still see what my team mates are doing). Then I see that my ping is listed at -35. A few seconds later the screen goes black. If I'm lucky, I can reconnect without restarting the whole game, but it takes a few min. It's become common enough that, if I leave the game running while in port and afk a bit, it's about 50/50 that I'll come back to the "reconnect" screen rather than to the port.

I don't think there's a contest between Massa and Atlanta, especially with the current state of MM. Atlanta can be fun, and also unforgiving. Massa will be fun more often, as it doesn't need to despair if it gets put in tears or mountain range two tiers up - it will still perform just fine. It's also one of the most fun BB's in the game. Another factor to consider is the current state of MM - t7 will face t9's very often these days. T8 has been "fixed" in that regard so you will be top or mid tier a lot more. Between these two? For me (and I own both), Massa all the way.

They should've called this season "Rock-Paper-CV". I dropped an Enterprise from a box this Christmas. Yes, it's basically cheating to use it. No, I don't care. WG needs to see the ridiculous WR CV's get in this, it will illustrate well what a dumpster fire the CV rework has been. The only time I actually have to work for it is if I'm going against a GZ, which is worse than Enterprise in a team vs. team situation, but in 1vs1 it has an advantage due to it's ability to just sit in caps and you can't go near him. Luckily I only met two so far, one was competent and I lost, the other was not so I won. I also lost one due to me not noticing in time that the autopilot was drunk - got myself to blame for that one. Anything else? They lost at the loading screen. Pray tell, WG, what were those mogamis, atagos, tirpitzes, bismarcks, CM's etc to do in order to win? I literally had a disconnect vs. a Mogami where it took me about 3 min to reconnect - when I did he was already shooting at me. Still managed to quickly dash behind an island and then killed him with AP bombs. Pretty disgusting when the enemy's only chance is that I disconnect long enough for them to kill me.

Vampire - mission grind, back in the day; Missouri - bought for 750k fxp about two months before she was removed; Musashi - bought for fxp; Giulio Cesare - she made a quick reappearance in the store before she got removed for good, I had a feeling this was the last chance so I snatched her; Kronshtadt - fxp purchase; Belfast - this year's Christmas box; Enterprise - this year's Christmas box (WG hasn't given it rare status in the captain's log section yet, but since she's both broken and not available anymore it's only a matter of time); Gremy - this year's Christmas box; Benham - this year's Christmas box; Yes, I had got tier luck with boxes this year. Sue me

You get in a double CV game in t10 mm and you complain about DD's being lower tier? Literally doesn't matter since they'll all be permaspotted when their smokes are down, and killed in short order if the CV's have half a brain between them.

If you're in a ship that has a heal, if you get hit for a lot, the inability to heal most of that is a fairly sure way to tell. Or, if you're sailing a full hp Omaha and suddenly explode.. yea

I just had a disconnect in ranked sprint, it took a few minutes to load back in. You can guess how that went... Actually, no, you probably can't. I still won vs. an enemy Mogami, because I was in an Enterprise, and since your glorious CV rework was such a successful story of creating a fun and balanced class for anyone, even with that disconnect the poor guy never had a chance. But let's not go offtopic here.. I've had these disconnects a lot recently, and the connection on my end remains stable.

Step 1: check with your clan mates, do they suddenly have issues too? If yes, it's probably server side. If not, problem's likely on your end. Step 2: check your connection, does it work ok with other things? Have you tried resetting your router, things like that? Step 3: make a ticket with support if none of the above helped. My ping's been normal, btw (EU).

So I've played a few in an Enteprise, which illustrates the fail that is the CV rework well. I lost one to a smoked up edin in the cap (on points), as I was dumb enough to not go for AP bombers roght from the start. The next time I encountered one I fixed that mistake. Anything without smoke doesn't really have a chance. I had an Irian that basicaly just parked and said "ok you win" when he saw he was facing an Enterprise. WG, adding to the list of things you never should have done, allowing CV's in this mode. There is no other ship class that can survive being the focus of a CV. Not sure what's the point of this 1v1 season with CV allowed...

No, when targeting a CV you go below deck. If it's broadside it eats cits. If angled away go for the stern for full pen damage. Just target a surface that isn't at a high angle to you and you should be fine. I mean theoretically you could go for the bridge area but there's no reason to, it's small and gets saturated fast, while most of your shells will be bouncing off the deck.

I've met broadside ryujos and rangers in ships like Zara, Amalfi and Gorizia. They eat citadels across all ranges like there's no tomorrow - with SAP. This sounds like an aiming issue to me, but a replay would help us determine that for sure.

I hope so.. as he holds a "special place in his heart" for the old GZ. You know, the one called the Click Zeppelin in which you could autodrop just as accurately as manual dropping, so you basically got to left click ships off the map. Literally, if you wanted a german bb removed from the game all you needed to do was left click it once or twice with your AP bombers. Yes, that amazingly designed mark of a skilled player. That's the one he likes. But yea, let's make it possible for you to just do consecutive strikes 3 seconds one after another, we can't have boring ol'l mechanics interrupt your farming session on the yamato. The fact you were able to buzz around him for 10 min without lossing the ability to strike doesn't strike you as OP, I take it... and I guess focusing 10 min on a single Yamato while you're not spotting for your team or striking potentially more important targets doesn't seem off to you, either, right? Yea, CV's are just here for you to farm other players with, it's all about you mate, let's make them even more broken than they are now.

"Why did they stick me on this premium russian submarine, I don't get it? I know my ships, damn it! Kids these days..."

Yes, Massa secondaries are incredibly accurate, even without manual secondaries I feel like they hit more than bismarck does with a man sec build, but I could be wrong on this, I haven't gone out to actually test it. I will, however, say that she puts the Bismarck to shame when it comes to secondary power.

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