Bindolaf_Werebane

Use free XP, comrade! Why hoard?

I need intelligence data!

Same. Wouldn't be a problem for me, though.

O7

I've never bought a ship. I have a few tier V premiums, which I don't play. Only Viribus Unitis, when I want to feel dirty, but that's rare.

I don't have the Marco Polo, so I can only post my observations. 1. Rarely see it in matches. 2. Extremely rarely do they have any bearing on the outcome. Big pass for me.

No. I decided, however, that I won't play a mode I don't care for, since even the rewards are minimal. I stick with random and ranked.

I will make a case for Viribus Unitis here. I thought the ship is crappy (and it kind of is), but those guns... Sweet Jesus. My stats in her are waaaaay above my punching weight and, aside from being slow, it's a fun ship to play.

I read "they nerfed the XP", haven't touched the mode, next!

Ok, some background would have been in order here, you're right. I am strictly free-to-play and I don't put up with WG's greedy BS. This means I don't move captains anymore. At all. No respecs. So, any "extra" skills that I can use on multiple premiums (they made it so one premium captain can have different skills for each class of ship) are valuable to me. Certainly more than Marco Polo (lol) or Pommern. I'd get Marceau, but I'm crap at DDs, so... captains it is!

I find that especially after the rework, captains are a good choice. I might like to get the Yoshino eventually, but nothing in the armory interests me, really. So I got Cunningham (and of course Kuznetsov) and I'll probably get the rest of them too.

I'd switch 2 and 3, but it doesn't matter. It's that the playing field is not level. Having CE and RPF and other useful skills at tier IV will make up for quite a bit of skill. A potato will be a potato, of course, but for average and above players, the captain makes a huge difference. I stay at tier X, where the playing field is level and there are no blatantly OP ships.

This thread confirms my assertion that seal clubbing is not about the ship*, it's about the captain. WG should limit the captain skill points at low tiers, problem solved. * Obviously there are hilariously overpowered ships that only make the problem worse.

It's a nerf. Autopilot has killed me more times than other ships. All the automation is there to ensure balans.

I like how everyone is ranting about CVs being broken (they are), but then "oooh, Ise! It's great and such balanced mechanics and interesting gimmicks". How quickly the "I didn't sign up to play warplanes" argument crumbled... As for the OP, "You have to decide whether to scout or strike, your ship is susceptible for fire/flooding damage so you might have to abort strike and return to the ship to use damage control or heal and you can use extra planes in your squadron to mitigate AA-damage, if you lose a plane, you lose equal amount of striking ability for that strike" This literally describes CV play. I personally wouldn't care for manual interceptors, manual secondaries or anything like that.