dommo77

I have 17 21-pointers, including 5 legendary commanders (still lack Lutjens, Kuznetsov, Auboyneau and new Pan-Asian one).

After only few battles I have a very good vibe from Collingwood. Yes, she lost super heal comparing to Nelson, but has one heal more, and only 6 barrels instead of 9, but larger calibre, reloading faster, plus very useful MBRB and hydro on top. Very nice boat

Decent game and final one of Kagero regrind for RB points. TRB of course, sunk both DDs and 2 tier X BBs, got away almost unscratched even though CV was present. I still like sneaky Japanese torp boats

Well, for the first time ever I was lucky with Prime drop and found this big lady in my port a moment ago... What to do with her I do not know yet... I have no other Pan-Asian BBs and 21 pt Da Rong, so I can spec for her as I like. I guess I give it a go.

Simply Loyang. Sunk 2 DDs, a sub, CV and new US hybrid driven by super unicum, what else can you ask from life

I think it's far from worst, AP murders DDs, HE is good for setting fires on BBs - especially if you chose DE skill for Da Rong brothers, torps hit hard and are sneaky, thanks to reload booster you can lay a nice carpet of them, PA smokes are the best in game, and AA for what it's worth is good. If you'd like to see what she can do watch replay of my game I played like half an hour ago, Z-23, Cossack and Akizuki were destroyed with AP only, you can see how easy it is to set fires and how powerful her torps are. I misplayed at the end with Duca, and it was a loss, but good demonstration of what Fenyang can do. 20230116_183419_PZSD518-Fen-Yang_20_NE_two_brothers.wowsreplay

Bit of a carry in ranked.

Bit of a carry in tier VIII game in Shinonome

Regrinding Akatsuki was such a pleasure, quite unexpected, I thought that poor concealment will humper me more. But more firepower, long range torps and greater speed comparing to Fubuki were refreshing. This was the last battle, and could not dream of better outcome - contested 2 different caps and sunk 2 different DDs in knife fights, sunk a sub and CV. Maybe not a carry, few others had a decent game as well, but a major contribution for the team already weakened by afk Ise.

@SmokinSerj in his Benson in tier X battle, we won and you did very well I was in I 56, only had few testing battles so far in this boat, but it's disgustingly powerful.

Without getting into details he is much better player than you judging by his past stats.

I think I broke my losing streak spell with this win... Not great in terms of damage, but I'm quite proud of it - I put my team at an advantage sinking Asashio at the very start (predicted his movement), he is super unicum from very good clan, was in div with another super unicum in North Cal, I'm quite proud of this outcome After that I managed to slip through to the back of red line and wreck havoc - sunk another DD, and every cap they took I was taking back for my team. Nice finish of very unfortunate Fubuki regrind (a lot of poor games on my side plus losing streak...). And this one was straight after, first battle in Akatsuki (regrinding the line) - domination as lower tier The guy in red Rupprecht was streaming this battle on Twitch, announced it at the beginning of the battle. I am deeply sorry to ruin it for him, he did not last 5 mins And this CV, how hard he tried to get me

2 or 3 days of horrible losing streak (I don't think I have more than 10% WR for last 2 days)... Please do not take it as a rant on MM of any sort, just a sad reflection on the state of playerbase: Just a typical stomp you'd say, right? I was first in my team ex aequo with Shchors. I had 16k damage and no caps, nothing! Red players were commenting in chat that they thought they play PvE... Quite humiliating I'd say

It's strange how it works out for me, I also like to try out odd boats and I'm very nostalgic towards ships that existed in rl and especially with interesting history. Contrary to most I do like Leone and Fenyang or Mikoyan for example, I play more CVs lately (I know, I know, it's my therapy when I have a losing streak...) and love Bearn and Ark Royal, also got Indomitable recently and it feels fun (mind only 2 games so far). If I will get enough dubs I will buy Aquila to try her out, and Tiger'59 is close to top of my list as well Subs I did try and I don't feel comfortable in them, but I 56 dropped from one of the Xmas boxes and this is a different boat, scared to say I actually quite like her as far as subs go. This fast reload is very helpful in area denial, you can just spam torps, I don't use ping at all, and gun is an interesting option if you find a friendly island or smoke. Poor concealment and short duration diving capacity force you to think what you're doing and where you're going. I do like both hybrids, probably for historical reasons (Tone was my most anticipated ship in game for a long time), although they are my calamity ships, I think I have 0% wr in Ise and 14% in Tone so far I don't have Kearsage, but I have only 3 coal ships left to acquire, so it's only a matter of time I guess. All this quirky boats are worth trying, Dido, Cheshire, Genova, Canarias, VU etc, they all have something different to offer

This is something I indeed have to work on - positioning, especially in US cruisers. In heavies it's not that bad as they are much tougher (plus heal), and even Buffalo was quite nice experience for me, but light ones... Like I mentioned I will reset this line some time in the future to learn this style :)

Can't really say anything below tier V, as I did not play it much and none of the ships was memorably bad... Also the list below is very subjective, I was struggling with ships that others would call decent the least. Tier V - Kongo - maybe because it was one of the earliest grinds, I tried recently to play her again and it was as bad as in the past... Tier VI - few strong candidates, but the top 3 for me are Bayern, Devonshire and Weser Tier VII - Omono, I fail to see the reason for her existence, what a brick plus this turret traverse... Tier VIII - Cleveland. Yes. I was struggling a bit with US light cruiser line, and I was waiting for a saviour - everyone was saying how good Cleve is... Bollocks - no range, no chance in close quarters, terrible when uptiered, boring to play, it made me love my Edinburgh that I see superior in every respect (grinded her at the same time). I think the biggest disappointment for me in the game, and made me do something I never did before - I free XPed Seattle to get Worcester for Xmas certs. I plan to regrind the line in some time, just to check if I can make it work somehow... Tier IX - Felix Schultz - omg... Tier X - I have a feeling after only 1 game that Worcester would be a strong candidate, but from the ones I recall the most frustrating was for me Harugumo... After Aki and Kita that I love, I could not do anything in that boat...

This may as well belong in 'carry harder' thread... I sunk every single small craft in this battle - 4 DDs and 1 sub, and our 5 BBs refused to move from behind ONE island they were hiding throughout the whole game.................... The only player who supported me was a sub! Rest of my team's DDs gathered on one cap and were unable to take it, mine was the only one we took at all, and we lost it to Albemarle who capped it having 3 our BBs less than 5-6km from her behind the island... Drama.

Happy New Year all, have a good one!

No one noticed Tromp has been added to the armory? Asking price over 20k dubs plus 1 mil free XP. I'll wait for her to be available for coal, but maybe someone did have a few spare dubs and fxp and can share first impressions? I've seen Potato Quality's yt vid and Tromp looks interesting...

Is sealclubbing even a thing at all now? You go to tier V and you have allegedly new players who just learn the game, but you go to tier X+ and you get this:

I'd like to join, thank you!

Nothing remarkable really, but I don't do well in Smaland. I think it's overconfidence, I know I'm in a good DD and often take fights that I shouldn't... This was a loss, and I took out both Daring and Smaland, the latter had a very good game and sunk me before I got him (although at the beginning of the duel he was half health, I was like 2k...). Through the whole game I was harassed by Salmon, he was 54wr player and my teammates made it easy for him - just stationary targets. With me it wasn't that easy, but just look at that: - yes, it was this silly mode with buffs, but cmon! He was still over half health when I died... Subs seem to be buffed in different ways than other classes. And still I don't like them, I tried to play but it's so boring... Maybe I will try again in some time, but it won't be my favourite for sure, I will stick with my DDs :)

It's not sealclubbing if you're bottom tier in tier VII battle, right? Massa, Massa, that's a real thing!! Oh boy this ship is so much fun!

3rd game in her, so it's hard to say yet, but Napoli definitely has potential. Annapolis used her gimmick from 3km and barely scratched me (he tried all the time to citadel me through the bow, I don't think he knew about icebreaker), granted I was angled. I specced her as much as possible for secondaries, but main battery was still performing well. Good bote and fun :)

@Nibenay78 in Annapolis, I was in Napoli. Not an easy battle, and you were extremely unlucky with this Patrie, but I took revenge - their Annapolis had no chance, and we won eventually.