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Well there goes me thinking I am smart. I did know about the health bar though. Sometimes clicking the ship works, usually you have to click the bar. Also, on some ships I have (Hood, for example) the auto-secondaries only work when I show enough side. When a ship is very close but right in front, they'll not shoot. They only open up when it is on one side, sort of. So, maybe this is about the angle that the secondaries can reach and cannot reach. But I'm kinda sure that it's a bug, as you already said.

I'm kinda wondering, if somebody doesn't know how to attach a replay... is he qualified to read 15.5 km? You know... we get all kinds of people playing WoWS... just sayin'... maybe it was in miles?

Maybe you'd better start with a 1-point captain again, as you will be getting more ships. That way, when you reach high tier again at least you will have enough captains. Sometimes you can also get one in a mission/grind/collection. Or pick one for coal from the arsenal.

If you learn in co-op... I had never done it, then a mate showed me... then the surprise... ATROCIOUS!!! The bots do not push, they just go FORWARD LIKE IDIOTS. But so do teammates. They even manage to lose. OMG. Like pirañhas on a corpse. All I have to do is smoke up in Leander, and broadside after broadside sails past... or so it should be, in theory... Ah man... the expected farming... is really bad though, unexpectedly, as I find out that others have learned farming better than me. But... last games (we had to do 'get 1000 hits with main guns') me and my div-mate killed all 7 of them, left none for anyone else. ~150 hits in Leander and not a scratch on it... FAR FAR FAR different than randoms. Be VERY careful and enjoy. Randoms are much more exciting IMO.

There's also a setting where you can tell the game to NOT SHOW any special camo. Gets rid of dragons and other stuff as well (POI captains going all girly poipoipoi and all that, though I think that's very funny). I never use camo on a CV, because the whole deck and everything else gets painted over, bleeeeghh yuck. At least the special one (I have unlocked it) leaves the deck and such intact. That button is here, on the right:

Might also be you need to set WOWS to éxceptions'for your virus-scan software. Else it might start scanning packets coming in from WG, causing spikes.

Yes it does. When you have MANUAL secondaries, they WILL NOT FIRE unless you click a ship. So basically when you have the manual secondaries skill, you HAVE TO click a ship or they just drink tea. http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Secondary_Armament Manual Fire Control for Secondary Armament (4 skill points) reduces the dispersion of secondary armament by -15% for ships of Tiers I-VI, and -60% for ships of Tiers VII-X. This dispersion bonus only applies to the manually focused target that the captain has selected by holding CTRL and left-clicking. Additionally, ships under the command of commanders with this skill will NOT fire their secondary guns at any target other than the one selected as a focus target, regardless of range.

Well, I hit ships in my Leander when I was even more than 2 kms away than max range allows... WHY? HOW? Well: because I was haulin' @$$ so between when I fired and when the shells hit I was > 2 km further away. Otherwise: since the firing moment, arc and hits are calculated server-side... now way. Get me a bottle of what you are having, seems to work quite good.

I think the economy is fine, too. I'm a potato so I know I'm gonna potate. Then when playing T9 I make sure I get a fire going on some BB. So I do not lose credits. Then after that I'm going for killing DDs and cruisers, all-out. Most of them you see camping because they are afraid, I think to lose credits. There is no fun in that. Why would you play the game like that. Being huddled up behind a mountain, like waiting for the sky to fall on your head.

To me, it just looks semi-interesting... though I'll get to DM in a while, I'd rather have a TX RN cruiser. But the rest doesn't look that good to me either. Might be because I play usually mid-tiers and find them much more fun. Considering TX only for Clan battle, it might be good there.

I like fat Currywurst. Many times she saves my T8 and T9 games. Set a fire on Currywurst, never worry about losing credits after I do... Rightly so they camp at the rear, because if I see one, it gets HE until it burns nice and good. In a CV sure I'll target the ver fat Currywurst, many have secondary builds... I have used premium heal in RN BBs. But usually, when you need it, you are dead anyway... I am sitting on a stash of ~100 of them. Even if the RN ships have a strong heal and you can basically reprint the sip, usually I die quick when they finally get me. Will put them on in Clan Battle, for the good of the team, but that's about it.

I agree that sniping in that ship is really not the way to use it... But JUST MAYBE he has specced into AA... and not into secondaries. I can't blame him in current meta, can you? They all do. The first one to go forward usually is toast. I dunno why people play TX anyway, I'm only grinding one for Clan Battles and that's it. It's not fun at all. Indeed it is nothing extraordinary. Neither are campers at T10... man I am happy I do not have to buy them beer. Or pay their parking fee. Also, I'm soooooo getting a TX submarine and a TX CV. Yeessss I imagine the hamsters are on strike or drunk, or something.

I'd say you REALLY need to scratch your head about that camo, and the consumables. Do you really NEED them to get this sort of performance? It's not that bad (maybe not really good either). I make credits in T9 (haven't got T10 yet). Granted, not A LOT of credits. But still some. I'll need ~60k damage to 'break even'. But I do NOT use premium camo or consumables. Those would cost too much. So you need to BUY THEM (for real money) or GRIND THEM. I usually grind them at T7 (have Hood...). This means I do not play the high tiers often (but I do not mind... they are not much fun anyway...). As Miessa says, in T10 is where WG makes money. So you either get VERY good, or grind elsewhere, or YOU PAY. There's nothing really bad about your performance, nothing stellar either. It is just what the average Joe gets. And think: if it were different, this game would not exist, as WG would not be able to feed the server hamsters and such.

I thought you could still get Dunkirk stuff by doing Dynamo. Maybe I'm wrong - and it isn't on at the moment. IMO though if you want captains, grind one to 19pt. Put him on your favourite ships, it is amazing how the other captains grow. Plus never have to sail around with a half-dumb captain. My 19pt is on Hood/Lion (soon on Conqueror).

Most of this stuff works on T4 and T6 RN CVs as well. I tried, got 40k in a T8 game. Next game T6 got 5k the team threw soooo hard man it was just ballistic. I did one flight, came back, half the team was dead and then they killed my CV.

Just about any Billyboy Gates PC will do though, we run it here on an i3-4GBram-2GB GFX and an i5-8GBram-4GB GFX, both full blast, no performance issues, the i3 just loads slightly slower. On same ISP, and that also is no problemo. Mind though I had some trouble with W10 nanny, the i3 has W7 and runs a bit better. Never had a crash yet though they do need to feed the server hamsters, but everybody gets that.

I'll take Fiji or Leander in co-op, might do it in randoms though. 1000 hits, I think 5-10 games.

Actually it is pretty bad... promotes bad behaviour, this event. Because usually I manage to com waaayyyyy on top in co-op, I am now doubting if I should bring Icarus to randoms... But I know I REALLY SUCK with DDs...

The 'part 2'made me take Furutaka and later on Aoba to co-op. Kinda funny. Since I do not have IJN DDs... well, made it. Thought that was the end of co-op. But... Man that new thing is really a chore. Took Icarus for the torp-thing to co-op. ROFL. Duckhunt part 2. Just YOLO forward, when ships show up, wait untill detected, smoke up and there they come and eat torps. Biggest problem: your team YOLOs right after you so the ducks take a dive very fast. Did the fire harvesting with Hood in randoms. Hilarious HE fest. OMG that is really troll, shooting HE with Hood Must say I could not resist the odd AP broadside cruiser blap here and there. And finishing off a Bismarck, too. Guess he thought he could broadside at 7km, since so d far I had only set a bunch of fires. Ah well, that ended as expected. BLAP. But unhistorically this time it wasn't Hood. Meanwhile it rained containers as same time the requirements for Fly Sky Thing. I hope Exeter is worth it... well it's kinda hilarious anyway.

Man your list looks like mine... except mine isn't finished LOL. 1) Erie (Used to be Black Swan before they nurfed it! :'( ) 2) Charleston... 3) Caledon / Tenryu 4) Danae / Kuma 5) Murmansk /Emerald 6) Leander 7) Helena ....aaaannd I haven't gone further, so far. In some I kinda suck too.

Well, but that hingy is not actually rewarded, so that is what I think is lacking in skill. Plus - the contra-play is not skilled either. You are fighting the RNG from the surface-ships. But I guess it will have to do.

Well, sometimes you are the hunter and sometimes you are the food...

I have sort of the same list, but since I suck at Dds, I call it my "what to shoot first list'... PRIORITY TARGET

I have one, and what happens - he 'steals my kills'... of course. Have the same 'confirmation bias'. Not that it makes me lose or win much more, just that games end REALLY quickly. In the CVs I need a looooong game to do really well. Which means damage level for me = zilch.

I donl;t know yet... I'm still stuck at T6... it DOES happen there though if you are 'awake' then a DD has no chance, certainly I wuill kill a T6 DD before he reaches me, a T7 will find it difficult too - depending on the map. But a T8 DD... well... nope they are too fast and too hard to kill. T6 and T7 have gotten smart too, they bring friends those B*st*rds. Yes, tried that but they still manage to do it, only less often indeed. WR is much better, but then they take my kills so K/D and damage is worse