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Steam pre-downloaded an update this morning.

I haven't played Yorck much at all lately, and after having fun in Narai I decided to take her out for the first time in this operation. Only a normal 6 point commander, and no signals/camo, but not a bad result which included my first Ray achievement.

Apparently dying, in An Instant Before Victory, is an achievement. But as the description says (no doubt in an Arnie voice) " I'll be back "

Just out of curiosity, did you have a camo that reduced service costs mounted?

Yup, this is my approach as I prefer more laid back environment of co-op/scenarios, plus I'm not that good in PvP. As FreeXP is based on such a low proportion of your score (though that can be boosted with signals/camos OFC) it isn't the main objective of why I play Scenarios. I'm usually after commander XP (and to improve my skill) - I see FreeXP as some nice side dressing. If I went with the sole intention of grinding FreeXP I'd probably loose my mind.

DD'ing in Scenarios? I am impressed - braver than myself.

I think I'm getting better at Narai - all completed with 5 stars after chasing down the carrier. Weimar with Lutjens. HMS Fiji with a regular 12 point commander but sporting "Happy Pi Day" camo plus various eco signals. Scharnhorst with Lutjens - triggering his heals pretty much saved me near the end

Foggy memory on my part. It's not the boosted sector, but the full 360º that turns orange.

Probably on @Karasu_Hidesuke's menu.

No doubt PvP is quicker to grind FreeXP, but it is possible to do in co-op / Scenarios. In December I got enough for Groningen, I'm now sitting on 1.1 million. Before that I've got Agir, Alaska & Nelson all mainly done with co-op (OK, granted a lot of co-op). What I find hard, sometimes, is resisting the urge to skip tech tree ships I don't like - I'm looking at you Kansas, F. Caracciolo & Lion. Kinda testing myself to see if I have the patience / self control to get 2 mil for Hayate. I've been playing operations more of late mainly to grind more commander XP** with the FreeXP as a nice side effect. ** Weimar + Lutjens + Narai seems to be my favourite combo at the moment.

Scoring a citadel hit on a Derfflinger ... with HMS Dido. Bot was heading for our base, the island to the left obstructed torps, so switched to AP out of desperation.

The horror! The shame! Of having to take the helm of a warship ... in a Naval combat game. But, yeah the auto-pilot isn't the smartest AI in the world. Did kinda look like the OP was trying to draw love-hearts on the map though. To achieve the OP's desired course (and preserve what's left of my sanity) I'd probably just manually reverse, do an airstrike or two, and then stop.

Meh from the Firepower container bought with Mediterranean tokens from Personal Challenges. @Nov_A, do you want to swap that shiny new Hayate for 25x Leviathans?

359° - basically the field of view hidden by the plane's tail/rudder. What is additionally depressing about this proposal is that WG said they were going to make incremental changes over a longer period of time so they could measure the effects of a given change. Surely the proposed spotted change from a few months ago (only showing ships spotted by a plane on the minimap) would have been sufficient.

If those destroyers were also trying to cap, the Myoko may have kept resetting them - Defended ribbons are worth quite a bit of XP.

I see what you mean. We just about salvaged this with one star. Still, I got my 2nd Major Contribution.

The irony is your score is only loosely related to raw damage. Winning, percentage damage, and objectives (defended/captured/kills etc) are what give you a good score. It's a pity tanking damage (over time to discourage yolo'ing) isn't rewarded more - maybe that would encourage BBs to take a share of the enemy's fire power earlier on in the game. OK, this is only co-op, but I remember a match in my Georgia with a Dm. Donskoi that spawned next to me. He got targeted by the bots and bow tanked really well. Allowed me to speed boost up the flank and hit citadels left, right & centre. I scored well, while he got squat despite the fact he fulfilled vital role in staying alive and keeping the opponents occupied. A bit of role reversal for BB & CA though.

Citadel sniping in Nurnburg, one of my favourite T6 ships. Almost got the Ryūjō, but the Bayern finished it off with one HE shell.

Looks pretty spicy to me. What went wrong?

Five stars in Narai in good old Fiji that I haven't played in a while.

* Sad Atlanta noises *

Sadly, I don't have Belfast nor the '43 version. I think the original was already unavailable by the time I started WoWS.

There lies part of the problem too - commander skills. You wouldn't pick that skill for other Royal Navy cruisers as the CLs don't have HE to improve and the CAs suffer from the penalty. So do you run her with a commander that has unique set of skills that is not a good fit for the rest of the cruiser fleet? Dido as a Minitaur would have solved that - you would just use a high rank CL captain and job done. Edit: I'm currently using Dido with my Minotaur captain as he's nearly elite - but it's not an optimal fit. Later on I might use Cunningham and pick a Dido-esque skillset but it still seems a shame needing an extra commander for just one ship.

Just me and the F Sherman (who turned out to be AFK until that last 30sec) spawned on the West flank, but the Schultz & Drake opposition were also joined by the Zao. Oh great, now I'm really outnumbered. Fortunately I was in Atago whose torp angles are better than the Zao - dodge this! Thankfully the bots contesting the centre cap were kept occupied by the rest of the team, so I was able to hold my own.

Whenever I hear of any company being based in off-shore tax havens I always envision the "head office" staff comprising of nothing more than an accountant, a lawyer and a couple of secretaries. Probably more time spent on the golf course and sailing gin palaces than actually doing anything corporate.