Zigiran

Since I got only 1 TX ship: I'll be playing Shima! Yeah, I do not expect to reach rank 1

Confederate and high caliber in an Omaha? Sure! Really close game: we ended up 3 vs 6 with me being at 260 hp.... We won by capping their base while their 6 ships were sitting in our base. And a T-22 with 21 plane kills, the enemy CV's were playing "gotta catch them all" I guess...

I just unlocked the new mexico (T6 USA BB) and I'm wondering what to take as 4th module: Stearing gears mod 2: faster rudder shift (20%) Damage control system mod 2: 15% faster fire and flooding recovery Both seem very useful?

So I just read 8 pages about CV's and here is what I learned: - Planes are too fragile - AA is too strong - Plane damage is too low - Planes have too much HP - AA is too weak - Plane damage is way to high I have just one question : Are you people playing the same game? Cause to me it looks like you are playing 2 different games here.... 1 in which CV's are OP and 1 in which CV's are useless

T4 planes can not be killed by T3 and T4, please lower their health! So it is just how you look at it I guess?

I have decided to keep my Omaha (I allready unlocked both T6 cruisers) and I'm looking for some advice on my captain. He is currently 10 points, the build being so far: - Priority target - Expert marksman - Demonlition expert - 4 spare points I checked on http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Omaha and it suggests that at the 4th row both "Inertia Fuse for HE shells" and "Concealment Expert" are good choices. Which of these 2 should I pick first and what would you advice I should go for next? The other 4 point skill or first take "Preventative Maintenance" or ...... ?

Thanks for the tips As for the B vs C-hull: the C-hull does give mid range AA (the B-hull only has short range AA), so longer range and a few flak bursts, but it does lower the short range continuous damage a lot. So I'm not sure if it is an upgrade in AA or more of a side grade. And you loose 2 guns and 6 torps. I'll pass. Also, the B-hull AA is not non-existent, it is just short ranged (1.8 km). The damage it does in that small area however is... decent (and turns into crap when getting the C-hull). For FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor: EM was in my original build, 3 months ago. I posted my new captain build above your post. Is it known if there will be another free re-spec? Because if there will be, then I can take DCfF now (since I got the spare point) and switch it for SI later.

It seems I'm not going to buy much... - Get 63k damage in an Omaha, with a cap, win the game. Points worth: 40 for the win and... oh, you didn't land any killing shots? 40 points it is. - Get 67k damage in an Omaha, 1 solo cap, 23 defence ribbons (the red team really wanted my cap), loose the game. Points: did you not get a killing shot? Right, 0 points for you. At this rate I can't even get the first bar of 100 points for today

Going to necro my own topic here.... I played my Omaha a bit more (I really, really, REALLY like that ship), so I'm now sitting at a 17 point captain. My build so far: PT AR LS DE IFHE CE This is 16 points, leaving me currently with 1 spare point now and eventually 3 spare points. What to spent those on? My idea would be to try to improve my AA somehow, since at T5 you face double CV a lot: BFT: 10% increase to my AA damage. While the Omaha AA damage is not bad, it only has a 1.8 km range (using B-hull). I'm not sure if that makes BFT really usefull SI: getting an additional use of my fighterplane (and hydro). The fighter planes are very nice and lethal, getting another use would be nice (4 uses instead of 3) DCfF: fighterplane launches an extra planes. This mean I launch 3 fighters per use instead of 2. With 3 uses since I then do not have SI. And this would leave me with 2 more points, so I could take JoaT? Any suggestions what to take? Maybe something completely different?

I had this crazy idea to start a new ship line... here is a tip: don't. Once you hit T3, you will get ships with almost no AA (or literally 0 AA) while you mostly get double CV games. At T4... just the same. Ships have still almost no AA. There is nothing you can do to stop a CV in a T3 / T4 match. Nothing. Go try it yourself, play a T3 / T4 match and check the result screen: CV's loose about 1 to 6 planes per match. All you can do is pray that the CV is bad and won't hit anything. If you face a CV that knows how to aim and he comes for you: you will die.

Being a casual player, I am not sure I can get the Lazo. I will either get boxes (for coals / special flags) or camo's. Although I did get a nice amount of camo's from the space event, so I might go for the boxes. But this event does last for a while, so I'm going to save the coins first.

You can get them from the boxes

Play with a T5 in the weekend... I've seen T4 and T6 CV's leading the charge, causing them to be sunk within 4 minutes of the game....

I know the portslots were for sale during christmas, but sadly, I didn't buy them then (I just started then and I had enough slots at that time). So I'm wondering: how often are they for sale?

Fun fact: only 2 USA cruisers have torps (in the tech tree): T4 (Phoenix) and T5 (Omaha). Since the rest does not have torps, I guess people forget these 2 do have them?

Short anwer: yes Long answer:

I think the main problem people have, is that in a random battle you always face 10+ enemy ships. While you face 0 - 3 CV's. So you can make a 19 point captain that might or might not be usefull. I find this an awkward choice that we have to make.

But this raises an interesting question for clan wars: Why would you take a DD? If you face an enemy with a CV, your DD is in trouble and can not spot very well. This will hamper your team. Unless you brought a CV too. It feels to me that putting a DD in your clan war team is a huge risk with CV's around. Will allowing CV's in clan wars make DD's obsolete?

Not bad for an Omaha in a T5 / T6 match?

In the game, hover over the banner in the top left, it will show you how long the event lasts: So that should be plenty of time to get both sides to 20 attemps for the flags and symbols

1: Omaha: Yes, it does explode when hit by AP, but if can evade shells: the amount of guns, the gun placement, you are spitting fire in a 360 degree circle. And a surprising amount of BB's seem to forget the 5.5 km range torps. Situational, but devasting. If it had a smaller citadel, it would be an OP ship imho. 2: V-25 / G101 / V-170: The first tier german DD's, what a fun they were! Fast, fragile and deadly. The V-170 still holds my record for most ship kills in 1 battle: 7 (and that was in a 10 vs 10 match). 3: Kagero, pre 0.8.0. Very sneaky, running it with TRB, no smoke. Excellent for spotting and capping. And sometimes you could get high damage with the torps. Sadly a port-queen since 0.8.0. 4: Hosho, pre 0.8.0. I liked the RTS playstyle, I found it relaxing to play. And I liked the Hosho, because it didn't have 10 squadrons of planes I need to pay attention to. And it did have the double torp squadrons to set up cross torps (which the Langley could not). I did only play it in coop, but still very relaxing and fun. 5: No clue. I do have some fun with the Köningsberg and the Émile bertin, but they still feel as a lesser version of the Omaha. Besides the Kagero there are no high tiers in this list, for a simple reason: I only got the japanse torp DD's at T9 (pre 0.8.0, haven't played them much since then). All other ship lines I have are at T5 / T6. I'm a pretty new player

But the "Wall of valor" does not check if you are on the winning or loosing team, just the amount of participant's points you have gained, right?

Thanks, I just noticed it. I did buy a few

@MrConway Uhm.... do we get 2 patches and flags or is 1 of these numbers incorrect?

Not sure what you mean with "clan play". If you mean a division: that is not required. And just being in a clan does not give you any advantage while going in a random game on your own. Random games are just... random. Yes, sometimes your team will crumble and nothing you do will save it. And sometimes the enemy team crumble and you will have an easy win. And other times you will have a good fight. It is random.