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I joined Waynes "Grind your Neptune to Mino in a Day" gang, only cost me some virtual beers. I'd buy that thing if the price was right (will not be) and if it was OP AF. But looks like coaly Smoll is the way to go, if nothing else comes along. Plenty coal/steel to get if they do next "Ranked Sprint" (gonna abuse my T8 CV I guess)

T10 where? I don't play T10 much - really I think @MrFingers explained why. However since I like playing CB with my clan, if it is totally and insanely OP it is a must have. Russian? Please tell me it is Russian!

Agreed. 1/12th chance he kills you, x3. Because he cabn kill at least 3 per match. And then x how many CVs you have. I tried Hermes to see if it was still the same *(it was, no buffs) and it wasn't even funny. When I grinded it i usually we had 1 CV, now we had 3 per side. Argh. It's also very bad even if you are in a CV. It is almost co-op farming. He who is the fastest gets the most food, or something.

Not much except hide, and make it difficult for them to hit you. AKA you are small and they are dumb (Ok you are in nassau, so not small - you better hope they are VERY dumb). If you notice the torps do not go "active" (the triangle appears) very far away, next time he launches torps, steer into them. You can see them coming, and if you can run them over before they are, they are deactivated. But indeed he must have been a N00b. He'll be useless in T6 and lose credits like mad. So likely that is why CVs in higher tiers are either very good or not really relevant.

That is because indeed the reasons you state: they tried PTW but no good. And he knows it, that is what he says: dumb CV pilots are now fighting AA. All flak can be avoided but they just fly straight in... so yes if you are somewhat savvy you'll usually beat the other CV. Be prepared though when you meet one of the 2.5% that actually knows what to do with a CV. If you ever meet El2aZer online on the red team... well tough luck (and I did experience it). If you have him on your team, the team has to REALLY THROW IT to lose... I'm not even half good, but I take a T6 CV to T9 (div up with a Sims) and still so 50K+. The challenge for me is to get as good as those unicums... long way to go. If things go right I can do mega-damage, but I cannot carry a game like they can. Not yet... Though I am as far as when we div up I get >70% winrate... on weekends...

Carriers start at T4, and then T6-T8-T10. There are no 123-5-7-9. T1-2-3-4 gets plus or minus 1. Means if you take a T3, you can get T4 but also can get T2 match. If you get T4 match - you can get carriers. Usual there is 2, sometimes 3. There can NOT be more than 3... The problem is there is absolutely non AA at T4, it is really pathetic. Ships have little-to-nothing for defence I play carriers and I like them, but playing T4 when you have experience is kinda filthy. Kinda weird you see Langley more than Hosho. Or maybe the players do not know that with the buff Hosho got TWO torps instead of just one. That makes it even more overpowered. Anyway I think yes you have reason to complain. From T5 you can get +2 matchmaking, means you see T6 but also T7. If you take a T6 you can see T 5 (not T4), T7 and T8. And so on.

I think we should have Captain Ahab. The CV would change into a big white whale. And autospank all borderhugging BBs.

Yup that sure isn't gonna happen...

It is the correct place. But he main problem: you are still in T4. T4 ships cannot do a thing about CV. WG has buffed the T4 IJN CV a bit too much. I bet you see lots of Hosho. They are sort of OP. So you usually get 3 per side, most of them Hosho. That will be gone in T6... you rarely get double CV per side, sometimes even none. But they'll still drop on you with ease, if they are half-what-good. The thing is the ones that suck will not cut it, they'll give up at T6, too much credit loss. However what you get is Potato-CV vs Unicum-CV, better hope you do not have the potato.

That is what it is. However.... - You should NOT sit behind your DDs... - what you do is find a nice rock on the flank and sit behind that... - ...in such a way that you can shoot OVER that rock and let it rain on cap & behind. I melted two BBs like that, and a cruiser. Before they got me, of course. That is when I (almost) killed the cruiser, he died to the flooding (yeah, it's just a fleshwound and I had that often). The ship is very hard to play, and I sold it now that I have Minotaur (you get most T10 anyway). However... it is VERY dakka-dakka if you know how to find the occasion. And yes 90k is not enough. It is meant not to be enough, too. You're supposed to run Premium account above T8, and a good (perma)camo. That is how WG makes money. If you can't do well enough, you play the lower tiers to grid some credits. This is how it is supposed to work... buy premium ship, grind credits so you can be Top Dog for a while. It pays for the WG vodka. WG staff also has t make some sort of living... I do not think of the RN CLs as cruisers, they are more like fat DDs. And I'm not very good either, so I have the same problem as you. Wishing you much strength to get to Mino... just as flimsy, but even more dakka dakka (I guess I'll find out how that goes though)

Well... you have 200 games, in total. Now look at how many I have, in each ship... Do you think I can aim pretty well in some of them? Errr... yes I can blap a cruiser at ~15-20km... usually. But I'm not that good. The secret is: practise... practise... practise. At a certain point, you KNOW how much lead/where to aim. Uhhh well for some ships I'll never reach that point... and some ships are just crap by default... but still... THIS is why there is a difference.

Also functions as radar for that person only, AKA he is spotted by everyone all over the map smoke or island no matter.

Agreed. IMO they could just fix up the uneven tiers as coal or premium or whatever. Make them have the planes from the lower tier, like Ark Royal. Slow planes, better rind the next one up - but challenging. So, the T7 IJN premium should have planes from Ryujo. T9 could be Shinano - having Shokaku planes, mix up spaded/unspaded. Or put some planes on them that are unique. I'd love a RN CV that has lend-lease US planes. Test to find out how many will suffice. Yeah yeah I know they'll be OP anyway...

You sure about that?

It is. With RTS I got PC freeze/lag/strange stuff happening about 1 in 10 games. With the Reeeeework I get such stuff ~once per month. So, less buggy. Granted, it was easy to improve that... and still bugged.... but hey. It is like, first you torch the whole country and now just a small city, let's call it "success".

Get ARSONIST abilities on the gunner, +5%. But have the risk of your ship catching fire when you shoot HE also 5%. Unless you spec the captain with more "Idiot control" capabilities.

...and he also didn't accidentally run his torps in a teammates behind. @Ukio after 8000 games you must know as well as I do there are many more ways to be even worse...

That guy was referring to subs, when they come. BTW I have those teams too. Sometimes I wanna torpedo them myself. Usually I am too late though.

LOL well then it would be a VERY FAST dipping sonar at 100kts... like a waterski. No I mean the planes, when using it can be detected too - by the sound they make. Say 10km. And they;d spot WHATEVER is under water in a range of 2.5km around the planes. So yes they'd spot torps... 2.5km... DDs they'd spot as well, but 2.5 km - they do that anyway. They do, I see they make large trails when shot or crashing down burning.

Just limit the "spotting distance" to 2.5km, enough to bomb subs. But the DD would get detected then anyway. And make those a choice... you get rockets or those planes with the sub-detector and depthcharges. Done that way, we might finally make DDs a bit happier.

Clipped your message a bit, but I think this is a VERY GOOD IDEA. If they will not give us new maps, then make some alternative game modes. I never understood anyway why visibility gets reduced to 8km for all. Percentage would be much much better. You'd still see a fat BB much sooner. Also, DDs would be even harder to spot for a CV. Uh, unless they use the AA, that is. Also, I'd like to see big waves and ships rolling, going up/down etc - combined with reduced accuracy, smaller ships suffer more. Torpedoes would be all over the place, mega dispersion. They'd also miss due to becoming deep-water torps, sometimes. Note that we can have fog/mist as well, we've seen it in Halloween missions. Rain? Thunder-lightning? Also, night worked very well there, too. It's not like they cannot do it. We know they can.

I heard CLIMATE CHANGE is coming, so, it might just happen that HELL FREEZES OVER.

I just met @Cyclops_ in his Smollyboat, he (and the rest) carried my Mino through Ocean. First time for me with that ship, was expecting to get blapped any second. After a real ROFLSTOMP got delivered I managed to smack some poor Yamato, rest of the game I just assisted with smoke and hydro and spotting. Glad I made it out alive....

Today I had a Ryujo player who thought the best thing was to attack that Ark Royal... (by the end of the game he had gotten me 50% and did nothing else at all). BTW everything is Arty in WoWS. Just we have flying arty as well. And he does his own spotting. Enjoy...

This is not really true.... I just had a game all rockets hit, on a cruiser, giving me 3K. FACTCHECK: - Usually on a DD even if i he is sitting stationary broadside, some rockets miss; - if modules get hit, these give no damage. Therefore... 3K salvo regularly... nope.