lossi_2018

NO. I am kita owner

Against real people it has no defense. Slow torps, unreliable guns, no HE. Good against dds but the moment you shoot prepare to receive fire in buckets. Paper thin. Again. Pepsi like thin. once more. You will get penetrated a lot. I find it can withstand one volley from some bbs. Some. If they catch you broadside in the open. You are finished. If they catch angled in the open. You are in trouble. Dont brawl. You need to approach to deal good dmg. Big conundrum. Nice ship with good elegant lines and yacht-like appearance. Good angles on the mines torps. Portable mines torps. that move... slow. Big guns. unreliable AP. (Better) Use Sap. Oh wait... SAP sucks. I got nothing Could use a smoke. A real one not this Italian copy that lasts 3 secs. In other words, it plays like an English cruiser with big guns without smoke. Or armor. Or torps. So basically a huge DD with very slow reload. Strangely I like her cuz it can give you good games with weak opposition. Way better than the Monte. Duca is perhaps a more useful ship but still meh. I wish it was better, but damn she's pretty :)

More players are better than me in this crazy inconsistent game mainly by being consistent. Dmg isn't always connected to this. Ships matter. Not all ships perform the same, so in this current meta for example some type of ships suffer more. You need to learn the maps and their 'sweet' spots very well. Depending on the BB and yr ships aren't the best snipers you might have to close a bit but do it sensibly and always with one side covered by land or yr teamates (take first option.) Dont go brawling in the first five mins. Don't go in the first ten. Approach sneakily or block a route with yr guns. If you are focused or the team turns and runs don't be ashamed to go silent and run too. For this you need enough distance so you can disengage and do it again later. Win first and the dmg will come imo. Focus on dangerous ships like cruisers if they are in the open. A good volley from a BB can send a cruiser to the bottom fast. Try to have a solid plan in yr head but be flexible to adjust if the team is behaving differently. Due to the CV heavy meta you quickly know were the enemy roughly is. Again pick a ship you perform well and work with it. Try another line, maybe you will find it more suitable to yr needs. I don't perform in a lot of ships but in some I do very well. Like the Gneiss for example. Or Dunkirk. In others I can't do anything. Some ships are good dmg dealers and you can find this information checking stats but using yr personal experience. Don't play a ship beyond its strengths. Avoid being the most easy ship to shoot at finally. You may be visible due to size but you can be bothersome to approach or focus. Positioning for me is key and map awareness. Also patience. Games can turn around fast even if they appear stale cuz people tend to get anxious as the clock ticks down and do stupid stuff. Ah, and play the other classes. See their strengths and weaknesses. This couple of weeks I'm playing CVs. DDs are the first ships I go after, usually with success but there are some captains that know how to make it difficult for me to hurt them. You can use the same thing, play the ship that gives you fits if possible and find where it lacks. So you can hurt it. We all improve game by game. Slowly. good luck :)

They have some good ships, but the current meta has ruined them. Still gneiss and sharn are still fine as is GK imo.

The 5 star reward is nice but there is no reason to repeat not to mention its almost impossible to find a 'winning' division to try the harder modes. People just dont play it much I think (or well also.)

can you expand on the subject a bit? :) is it annoying? or useless? :)

it is rather annoying though having to relocate and bring him closer to the AA ships, I find the use of the autopilot useful but pretty annoying. so thats 2 annoying hmm... I need to enrich my vocabulary a bit

Too many CVs in games. THis is the honest answer. In all my CV games I focus on the enemy dds almost exclusively at the start of games and at least have an eye out for any that escapes. When you are a vulnerable ship facing a class that hard counters you almost every game and you are being focused from the start it is easy to have a 'poor' game or a short one. As I have played enough dds to know the difficulties of the task they face, I always reserve from giving criticism in chat for their captains. It is an unforgiving class. Nothing that is proposed here can be done by an average dd captain to safeguard his game. Only very experienced players and the small minority of unicums can withstand these 'special' attention for long. The rest of the playerbase myself included find it difficult despite knowing the enemy pretty well. CVs are very difficult to avoid and a good CV captain is almost impossible, it can be done but his team must fail him miserably and that is not something one starts a game having in the bag. If random helps you may make it for a couple of games but in the average the CV will win, which ofc is something historical and pretty normal imo. They are after all the most powerful class of ships and they won a freaking war making all else obsolete

Since I have said all I had in this topic, but still reading the thread (prob have to check dis out, might be i have some kind of addiction lol), I'd like to post here a warning for those playing these weekend that the usual influx of higher tier players is expected once again, so beware and sail safely, cheers

I agree

I always have a good wing to throw at an enemy (usually boomers since i dont use em much - unless im in a British CV) and even when uptiered (which is all of the time cuz reasons) and I play CVs for about 2 weeks now (I haven't touch them before). You always have something to use (remember even an one attack left squadron of 2-3 planes can kill a hurt ship since it's denuded of meaningful AA by this point). You have to be pretty blind to lose all planes in all squadrons or keep diving between 6-7 ships for some reason. I guess some people will do that for intimidation(?) or the beautiful explosions or idk.

we need another Russian ship... NOT NOT NOT NOT not not not NOT not not

Kaga

For some weird reason, some ships really get the worst teams to play with. It's like they are cursed or something I really can't figure out the why.

One game I had wit Flambass he went down pretty fast. He was on my side unfortunately

Upvoted automatically for quality rant = o7

Hey, as a historically multi-chatbanned person (recently reformed) I can tell u that you dont have to say a lot to get the ban. In the heat of the battle which you are trying to win and everyone else isn't sometimes we can get silly and say stuff. I have. Not overly offensive but offensive enough. Take the ban and move on. No matter what you are trying to say, team will not improve. Just keep giving 100% if possible or take a break, it is the current state of the mm to create these roofstomps and there is nothing that can be done. Teams are completely missmatched and the games are unfun af. Try to help them pointing at the map (it won't save you from reports) and playing well. Always play as if the team is against you and you are against the whole enemy fleet. Eventually the losing streaks will diminish (never go away) as you will turn into a machine. Play CVs to exact the most influence in game when all seem out of whack. I find that playing CVs will help you get more wins and break the 'bad' luck. Sometimes losing cause me to play very bad so there's that to consider. LIke now in the midst of a 4 game losing streak I found the time to write this long boring post to cheat my luck a bit. Then I will go back using all CV line ups and try to drag teams, screaming and glue running out their noses to the finish line. It will be an ordeal but I set a goal to make this at least 50% before the end of the week. I will probably fail but I will have tried. Hard, persistent and relentless until someone wakes up and helps or you found yourself with a couple of forumites and enjoy what I call a miracle sweep. Rare... but oh, so very satisfying :)

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Upvoted for quality historic allegory

No, can't find division

I gave up complaining about mm and teams etc... during the summer, when I was plagued by a 46 day losing streak. I still lose so this is not the reason I stopped complaining. I still rage in chat, still use all my reports early in the day etc... I agree wit all points almost completely. I can offer my 2cents as for the why. In losses (or in very easy wins) I always check at the team composition. In 9 out of 10 times the team that gets steamrolled is very new. As in it has players wit very few games played. I had teams with 10 players with less than 50 games played and a couple of 200-300 ones. I played against them and I had them in my team. When I did or some other poor, unlucky (?) older timer did then the game was torture. No matter how well you played, no matter how hard you tried, when 80-90% of yr team is 2-3 DAYS fresh players it is difficult to win. Can it be done? Sure. bUT if it catches you unwares then game is over faster than it is humanly possible. Why is this happening? MM was patched recently and I think one of the 'tricks' to (FIX IT) put in was this. More steamrolls, more roofstomping, for reasons obvious to everyone with a (1 -one) brain cell. This coupled with the recruiting center that has me inviting waifu, my little brother, his friend, waifu's long-time bestie etc to play the game when, they didn't want to or liked or even more so understood/found it interesting enough to try it out themselves. Dis is the kind of crowd it will attract. Good people, fine guys and girls but totally oblivious wit wows and the kind of game it is. Why? Because they were brought in wit no regard for that skill or interest. They were brought in after urging for the same reason I didn't mention right above :)

NO SHIPS no ships NO SHIPS NO SHIPS No Ships at all

While I like watching Duca in port just bathing in sun, I'm not sure the ship is playable. I kind like Genova more (in randoms) which says a lot since I believe she sucks like a lot. But they are fine looking ships :)

ok, I was just being facetious, no intent to offend

Are you going to say that there was no luck involved? :)