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If you like DDs and Cruisers go down the English cruiser line (Smoke, early heal) and you will enjoy it as they play pretty close to a point :) Also you will get to play some (one especially) really fun ships.

He must have had a nightmarish startle when he saw the screen loading. Not easy to pull yourself together but the last bit with him dying trying to do something kinda moved me, oh well

It lags at times a lot here. Greece.

What do you mean merge? Is this about the mm? Or something else?

In the Fiji and Leander I wish I had more smokes as I always run out. Dds almost always. Now heal -mostly bbs (since in the cruiser if I get shot prob won't make it out alive so my first care is to NOT get shot), that depends but cuz of my playstyle I use all of them most of the times, especially in high tier games. Now in the Yami I could have done with a couple more since I enjoy burning a lot. Nothing better than healing up and survive to get that fireproof/dreadnought, I really like those :) ps: If I die before the repairs are out usually it means I haven't done well imo

Worse is getting one and wishing you've opted for the regular for the creds

I lost a game wit seven kills last month

I dont understand

ehm... nope

PEF helped me finish quick. All other ships I tried couldn't carry, but the Prins Eitel while not the strongest in my sec built is an excellent cap contester and can tank pretty well against this tier. Guns, AA nothing special but suprisingly not terrible, no complains, it did its job :)

Moment I switched to PEF in ranked I went straight to first rank in my best stretch ever. I have no idea if it was the opposition (the teams were awful per usual) but the ship carried almost all the games I played after rank 5. Sec Built (with Bism captain), it wasn't all fun but it was a good performance by a forgotten ship that managed to stay afloat most of the times despite getting focused by every single cv I encountered. Guns are still meh, dispersion is atrocious but if you wiggle it here and there right and get close ship is a workhorse. It needs a good captain (a very good captain) but it did the job so I will not say anything else. My general feeling is German ships due to their particular playstyle are not very compatible with high tiers or uptiered if u prefer. Situational but if the moment is right they can really put out some superb games, unfortunately that is not the current meta. Cheers :)

My secondary built PEF performs better than any other ship in ranked, for whatever this worth :)

At least one afk ship (sails to border and then parks) in almost every game in ranked, lost one (last one before first place) and won six without a teamate, while maddening and not good sport, I can understand the reasoning as one of them ranked out dis way when I asked him (politely-ish) after a game. Seeing I haven't despite my better efforts I think perhaps the joke is on me haha

I'm always broke due to terrible ship purchases (re-) and mistimed sells. Every bit of cred counts to the point I can't afford to play high tier ships and when I do even a win wit poor earnings leave a poor taste in mouth. If you don't have prem account game is too expensive to enjoy, unless you go out naked which is counter productive, though probably enjoyable for the virgin nature ship-loving purists

This is great stuff, it's so good I'm thinking of deleting my post and reposting dis wit yr permission. Great. I'm not as high in HE though haha :)

I wrote a kinda guide based on my journey with the izumo (short one) which I can't remember and cant find probably for the better haha. Anyway It started horribly until I stopped being ashamed to troll people relying on its (very few but there as other mentioned I'm sure) strengths. You angle it right, you can tank with the best of them. Stronk. Great guns. Never show broadside to use them. NEVER. Don't even think about it. Find a good cover to peek shoot from, if you can't do not be ashamed to turn your arse and start firing while moving away. Yes you can use all the guns this way too, and believe while horribly embarrassing it is incredibly effective. Slow as a pregnant truck so don't push without a good way out, in fact, rarely push -let others do it (they won't probably). Very slow ship to master... but, it is easier than Yami. Yami is the one that will do yr head in. Upgrade everything if you can it needs every bit of help and stick with it. While not showing it at first, if you learn it well, it is one very hard nut to crack. But until, you will, get torped, focus fired a lot. But also at times people will disrespect you due to bad rep and when that happens you will blap them away to the neverland. And nothing is more satisfying than that :)

same here

PEF is my best performer in ranked. It don't mean anything though, since I haven't any other bb there to use so idk

I reached 5 but what I've seen makes me wonder if I should continue, I may rank out immediately or get stuck cuz the things I'm seeing here make random salads look like palatable and I was on the verge of quitting haha :) But I must confess the extra salt and finger-pointing might be worth it just for the jingles:D

I proposed making a fresh thread on how to play these maps but didn't get any traction, people like to be confused and bewildered it seems. It makes for funny (sometimes) and frustrating (most of de times) games. Cheers :)

I had nightmarish games in the yami. It got so bad that I stopped playing it for a time. But lately I found that if you focus on yr personal plan (build about the almost certain absence of plan by the team) and get in the thick of it you can have good games. Blap the He spammers early, identify them, move into a favorable position where you can see them and blow them away. You can take a punch and they can't. Find a good spot. If I find a good area to cover approaches yami is a hell of a ship to have. But be prepared for some frustrating games. They come wit the t10 and it is not the ship. But all other ships mentioned have strengths. Don't be afraid to retreat if things get tricky :)

Standard is the one you have to defend yr cap, which usually no team defends it? If it is that is what I hate to play more... and ofc it is the one I play more

Its annoying as all hells per usual, cvs are a problem as are the premium ships and 19 point captains (if you dont have one) and all the stuff people have mentioned and haven't read... anyway, cuz per usual mm never puts 2 competent teams against eachother, so... whatever you do, your team will mess it up or... whatever yr team does you will mess it up ( ) Having said that, I will play it as I'm in a losing streak algorithm (start of month Lossi-turn-to-lose) and very poor || Soo I need creds without having to be annoyed (there's that word again) wit defeats.

my problem is that the mm, fixed as it is to give me losing streaks, puts more radars on the enemy team (9 our 10 times) or no radars for my team at all. After a while the joke gets old. Today I had 3 games in a row with no radar (on team) and seven out of ten with an unfavorable imbalance with the apotheosis of the last, where we had 1 and the enemy team had five (3 cruisers, 1 sims and a bloody missouri). I spend the whole game on the verge of being spotted or spotted and had not surprisingly not fun at all. Ofc I lost cuz that is the way this week will go it seems. Having said that, it is all come down to frustration, you get frustrated you play bad (like me) and radar for that reason only, I guess serves its purpose. So good job wg, mission accomplished as yo caught the spirit of this invention to the T. PS: Btw, can someone make a thread explaining that when a radar ship is spotted by a dd, team should shoot it (long and hard) and not the flamed up half-ded bb? If they don't, then it will fire its radar up, the dd will flee or die fast and then the undisturbed Atlanta etc will open up on them with impunity. It seems no one wants to shoot them ever. Oh well, this went longer than I wanted but it helped me calm down so cheers :)

Listen, I get chatbanned regularly. I have a temper I know. I explode easily. I want to win, or have a good game who doesn't right? So when I see what I perceive as someone blatantly throwing a hard earned victory I explode. I call him out. I use curse words, or other strong epithets or plant-names, chinese food-recipes etc. I get reported and then banned. I never had any doubt I would get the ban after each explosion and I think that it is fair as, while that individual may have been wrong (for throwing game, shooting at you, cursing you in turn, or doing whatever idk) the rest of the team shouldn't have to listen to me berating him for a minute. Some words may be perceived from an automated system -as an attempt to bypass filter- like... lets try it haha... ffs?