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Looking at your stats I'd say... can't say. You have almost no solo games. WR varies wildly with the ones you have. I know you're not bad at all, but I guess you play 100% in a division and rarely without. I can see though you make a damn good team at that. So yes maybe you are quite good. Dunno, would just be fun to see what happens. I'm playing mostly weekends. Usually I'm going LOOOOOLLLL when I see what happens. Here's what usually happens. There's me in a TX game in a Conqkek (or whatever). EVERYBODY has lemminged to A, so I cap C, and then I go on to 'flank' the enemy. Meaning, after capping C I go to te enemy spawn. Actually, I see no enemy until I get near B. Then what I see is either my team hiding behind an island and getting slaughtered or the whole enemy fleet hiding behind an island and getting slaughtered. One or two things happen, if my team is losing the whole enemy team comes for me, or if it is the enemy tam that gets slaughtered I get to pick up the leftovers. I think it would just be FUNNY to see what happens. Right now I;d rather play CV in anything > T7...

So, you think you are the unicum player... Yes, because in the 'bell curve' that is around what is average. If you are a 60% player, then the average must be restored, so you'll get some that are definately POTATO, say <40%. I think it would be good fun though.

Monarch is better, but after that it gets more - but different. Monarch has the better "relic" guns (QE/Hood guns with more pen) and the armour, after that Lion gets the NEW guns which are flamethrowers & OK AP. Conqueror just gets a few more of them.

I was tempted to quit the line too. The change from tanky AP-monsters to this semi-cruiser flamethrower... auch!! Monarch is better (troll dispersion, but basically better armour, better concealment and guns like Hood/Queen E but improved). Lion is quite good, and Conqueror is just a meme-style troll boat (have to be a troll to appreciate it, really). .

IMO this is the thing indeed. Uptiering should be limited to +1. Meaning the downtiering should be -1, as a consequence. Hell in T7 King George against T9 cruisers, unless you got their broadside, you were toast. You could not outrun them, nor outspot them, nor out DPS them or anything.

Hahaha.... yes unless you are in a T7 in a T9 game... YOUR lower DPS, against THEIR higher HP... and vice versa, too. If they had reversed the fire chance, then at least the lower tiers would have had a chance. You'd have less DPS and less HP, but more chance to set fires and do damage.

When the DD has his bum already burned up for 50% that's all there is left eh. SO your torp may cause a zillion damage but that 50% remaining is all you can get. I've killed DDs that had 100 health left. But well, a dead DD is a dead DD, so...

Easy. I like Leander better than I like Fiji... must be the MM, in Fiji I usually get T8 and lots of T9. It's really good in T7 and quite OP in a T6 game. And I know it is a better ship than Leander... Hell it's great in ops (Narai) but so is Leander in T6 ops (however, that is where I notice how good Fiji is). However Leander in T7 is better than Fiji in T8... don't seem to get many T8 in Leander, far more T9 in Fiji... therefore... That a bit more clear? Same goes for Edinburgh. I suppose I'll like Neptune and Minotaur better as they CANNOT be +2 uptiered. Maybe I'm just unlucky with MM, but I think WG found a system where EVERYBODY is just unlucky with MM. For example I take Fiji, and then I end up in T9 with some T8 and me. Next game I take Texas and end up in all-T7-except-me-and-some-poor -sod. Where the hell did WG stick those T7 when I had the Fiji? I know, WG stuck then in a T8 game * (where those other T8s from my Fiji game should have been). ----> One more brilliant thing they did, like fire chance. Higher tiers have less chance to catch fire. Usually they also have better captains. So what happens. There you are, with your lower captain, and lower caliber, and lower DPM, and also the higher tiers have less chance to catch fire from your less DPM. SO, there you sit with your underwhelming DPS and higher firechance... Og h yes, did I forget concealment? Have a T7 cruiser and you get discovered even before a T9 BB... Least they could have done was increase the chance to catch fire when tiers got higher. And then give the higher tiers better AP but worse HE. At least that would have made higher tiers "more skilled". But no, now EVERYTHING is at a disadvantage when you get uptiered.

So far I find Edinburgh kinda meh (loved Leander, Fiji a bit less, Edinburgh...well...). I like Lexington though but I guess I will be hated for it. MM does play the part though. +1/-1 would be better, in +2/-2 you are either food or OP. Edinburgh at T6 is ridiculous, while at TX it is sort of laughable. Love the ship? Depends what you get for MM. Usually I get +1 50%, +2 another 25% and then the rest gets divided 0/0 or -1 ... rarely get -2.

Really, it is not as much the level of players - even a potato like me can (sort of) match the level of the unicums. That is, once in a while I get lucky and manage the same sort of damage scores. However - reliably pulling that off? No. And neither can they - usually. But they CAN do it (a lot) more than we, the potatoes. However, they ALSO cannot prevent ROFLSTOMPs. But they can cause them, if the rest of the team doesn't potato too badly. The ROFLSTOMP is simply caused by being able to do TOO MUCH damage at once - and one ship blapped means 10% less power. In the higher tiers, you see a lot of 'sneaking around'- then usually the first one to lose a ship tends to lose the game. Similar to real life: the acquirement of the atomic bomb tends to make war go downhill & end very very fast. In the lower tiers you can't get blapped at once (usually...) so games tend to run a bit longer. One mistake in high tier and you're dead. Lots more fun (fighting back) in lower tiers. What I usually do, I play T5/6/7, and ONLY when I get a 'premium day' then I go T8/9/X. Means it usually gets reserved for weekends, and I manage to grind enough credits on other days. I'll not lose any (or at least not much) playing the higher tiers - but to me they are no fun. They are just a means to finally be playing CB with my mates (have to get all TX for that). So after I have all the TX, I'll probably never play T8/T9 ships anymore.

Go back to T4/5/6/7, still most fun of all. Keep the best ships, I always do, never disappoints.

TWO funnies yesterday.... mind that is sundaynight (weekends...) One was in the Lexington: REDTEAM: CV OP FF__ OFF YOU BASTARD MY TEAM: CV USELESS YOU CAMPER S.O.B. Second: so then I went sealclubbing in Campbelltown, met many many sealclubbers (all in div, all in clan... running premium ships). ME: GOOD EVENING SEALCLUBBERS! REDS: GOOD EVENING ARE THERE ANY SEALS LEFT? ...and then I was going to club a sealclubber, he smoked up in his Tachibanana, so was gonna torp him... ...got torped by my only teammate that had no div, no clantag and was running unupgraded Phoenix without camo. RED SEALCLUBBER: WATCH THEM SEALS THEY BITE YOUR ARSE, HAPPENED TO ME 4 GAMES IN A ROW ALREADY.

I'd just stick it in 'special' shells...

"Gash"chutes seems to be some sort of áll other rubbish' chutes.

I think they are sort of rubbish shutes, probably that is where they shoved the spent cartridges.

There is NOTHING that really stops a TX CV, except maybe a Mino division or something like that. If he wants you dead, well, then you are dead. So my thought is: do not worry about it too much. ONE (two?) carrier per game, an he has 10 other ships besides you, some will be far more attractive targets. What DOES stop a CV is a full salvo of AP from Conqkek... often you get the occasion... I did not go full-range on it, but did more of a "Tank build" to make the max use of the zombie heal. And of course concealment, the way I play it it is needed (I use it like supercruiser, follow the DDs into cap and such). The main thing to watch out for is HE-cruisers, their (IF)HE will spam you to death. The CV, yes he'll kill you if he wants, but usually you are not on his favourite dish list. Sometimes I'll de-activate the AA, and only put the sector on - wait until he starts the actual attack. It will be the last attack he puts on you that game, as he is in for a nasty surprise.

It IS situational, and it DOES have less armour than others - a even though Yammy pens ALL ships equally hard. If you can 'create' (or find) the situation then Conqkek can be really devastating.

Ah well, the "problem" mostly was you were the most attractive victim. The other one was the KM BB one tier higher... which croaked it even before you did. I guess the other CV got him You did not venture out "alone" though, that Gnevny was near you and prevented me from attacking more. I dunno what it was with him, maybe he specced "full AA" because for a DD that was awesome, he had better AA than you.

We already have loads of them. A captain in his right mind wouldn't sail like we do. If some real sea captain saw this he'd call us all Schettino.

More dispersion, the further out you shoot the larger the spread. Some guns having trouble, secondaries getting flooded, DDs not able to use guns... Torpedoes having wild dispersion, torps going zig-zag...

Apparently you have a whole different experience than me.... 30 sec reload means HE cruiser gets enough time to set you on fire... and again... unless you have friends. And then he stealths up again. Oh revenge, your name is Conqueror. Hey at least 12km radar means you know WHAT is wrecking you...

I'm not agreeing with that, some BBs are piss-poor. On fire all the time... Also, the point of grouping up is not to sail 'in formation' but rather to concentrate fire and co-operate. Then again... this is WG, teams... are horrible most of the time. And yes Moskva is OK, as it has radar... DDs usually good, even the gunboats. I wish they'd put it in CB...

You mean, you know how to form groups or you die. Unless you have particular stealth, that is. DDs do fine. Conqkek does fine. Just about all the rest have a problem...

....aaand I also think that certain maps should have certain kind of storms/blizzards/whatever. But I'm all for a bit 'more realism' (yes and I hate the radar-through-islands as well).

Yes, this. PLUS I'd like some effects like high waves and ships movement.