GraySlayer

Cos he was buggin me the little tyke and also because as an experiment I wanted to see the difference in my own stats and if with the best ships and captains and guidance you could lead a new player. You can't!

Ive been waiting for that one myself LOL

Well it is summer holidays and a lot of these kids want to jump into games like this during this time as they have nothing to do. Also bear in mind he had 19 point captains on all ships he chose, full camo, T2 modules etc and also guidance. And he is a little gamer too! Even I was surprised how bad he actually was to be honest. It made me re think how easy or not this game actually is! I think it's harder than we think it is for a new player.

No he jumped into ships he wanted to and I do apologise to the teams that had to suffer his efforts cough.. For his first two sessions I let him be and you can see his stats were just awful. I did make him watch some Flamu before hand and also gave him the basics too on aiming and positioning etc. He played about 50 games in total over the week.

To be honest he has been bugging me to play for ages so I thought actually it will be an interesting exercise because the difference between how a new player plays and how I play will be glaring to see in my stats which it was. But I wont let him again LOL. He can have his own account now.

I'm picturing Z with his gimp settling in for a WOW session..

We all get teams like that though and I just accept it. Of course we all enjoy it when we get the dream team and it all goes well but I accept I AM going to lose 3 to 4 games out of ten when I play each game session. In saying this I also don't understand the mindset of players with terrible stats as I am not like that myself. I do strive to win and I do watch videos to help me play my best etc. As for the ten k battles this one just blows my mind to be honest. I mean 10000 x 15 mins (average) = 150000 minutes or 2500 hours! How can you spend 2500 hours doing anything and not improve? That's the bit I don't get with all of this and is what leads me to believe that some of these players are bots.

Hi Guys Can someone explain to me how this works please? is it this.. 1. The normal crosshair is fixed at 30 knots and you have to guess how fast the ship is going and then lead accordingly by looking at time to target on shells so BB is flat out 10 secs to target and I put the 10 check mark on his first gun and I'm good. Cruisers I lead more and DD's even more? The dynamic adjusts itself according to the ship speed you're targeting so if time to target is 7 secs you just put 7 on the first turret and you're good as it is auto adjusting? The reason i ask is ive gone from normal to dynamic and now my shooting is all over the place.

This is a bug. I have collision avoidance OFF and mine does the same. It has caused me to die several times now by getting stuck on islands and is very annoying.

My Yamamoto has his pyro turned on :)

I think they are bots introduced by WG to make it harder for you so you are more inclined to buy shiny new stuff?

It's the summer hols, get used to it for 2 whole months :)

How do I get one? Seen a couple and a Fujin. I guess they won't be available again right?

Does anyone know who the set the initial stat levels to be Unicum 60% Super Unicum 65% Was it the third party websites that were created to monitor them or was it set from WG? If they were set at the start of the game based on no or minimal data then surely now after so much play across the whole player base there would be enough real data to adjust those levels to be in line with the player bases actual statistics wouldn't there? I mean Unicum might actually now be 57% for example?

Ah ok I didn't know that. That's where it came from then.

I don't know if that would matter but stats matter to a lot of people. Clan recruitment is for the most part based on stats so I wondered how set the levels had been set is all.

Matter? It only matters to me because I'm interested.

My IJN DD's but especially Mutsuki, she is a little beast on the right day.

Actually he is right. WR is an important measure on how "good" a player is. It is probably the only realistic one we have. However. My exception is to his statement that my opinion is not valid because I have 1 tier out of ten tiers where Ive not found my rhythm yet. This suggests a certain smugness on his part to be honest. In that unless you are a purple Unicum in all Tiers you cannot have an opinion on anything game related which of course is nonsense as we all know. As for the reasons why T9 is my nemesis. It's simply because Ive played ships that I just don't like and then persevered with those ships game after game out of frustration. Those ships are now all sold including my JB.

You're not so bad yourself for an A S S

Well there is that. You can never get the coordination to pull off complex fleet stuff anyway with 12 random people 90% of which don't want to talk to you and 60% of which are potatoes anyway no matter what you suggest

I did say it does not often work on WOWS but when executed well it is decisive for sure. Ive been on some mega pushes and they always work.

In most all situations you will face it is better to keep the whole fleet together although this rarely ever happens in WOWS and you will get slayed for being a lemming train. However if you do all stay together 1. It is very hard for one ship to get prioed by the enemy as like a flock of birds to a predator there are just too many targets to choose from 2. Invariably you will meet a lesser force and with overwhelming fire power annihilate them as you should 3. All of your ships including your DDs have much better instant support 4. Good luck attacking a close fleet with planes So why does the lemming train not work more in practice then? Simply because without one flag ship dictating orders the ships in the fleet wander around and don't push as hard as they should with a fleet format. This enables the enemy DD's time to cap two other points. What should happen is you all push very hard on A and steam-roll your opposition. Once A is secured you ALL turn to B and gradually push forwards to mop up the remaining ships coming at you from BC and to secure B cap with A behind you. DD's in B will be pushed out Ships sailed in fleets for this very purpose, they did not often split up and go their separate ways. If 12 ships sail for A at most you will meet maybe 6 opposing you and those 6 will panic when they see the size of what's coming at them so their efforts will be not coordinated and they will all turn and flee. As I say this tactic fails in this game not because it is not a sound way to manoeuvre a fleet of ships that are all supporting each other but because it lacks conviction

Can someone that knows a thing or two take a look at my stats and give me and idea why I'm finding T9 so hard please? Just after some pointers even if that pointer is you're not ready for T9 yet https://wows-numbers.com/player/561457836,GraySlayer/progress/ Cheers

Ha ha In that sense yes but not in the sense of I had my own account before. I do have a LOT of experience playing the game though before creating this account. I think you're right as in I have played aggressive at T9 in both Chung and JB and then of course got deleted early on. In all other Tiers I play much more cagey and in DD's I do tend to like stealth play as my style. I got Kremlin yesterday and oddly played very aggressive (for me) and it seems to be working out but of course only 4 battles so I guess that wont last if I keep doing that eh. Ill sit back more at T9 and see what happens. Play more stealthy