The_Chiv

Oh my favorite stalker. Nothing I said devalues the next statement. You are right I should have said most of my cruiser games as 80% is not 100% Now I have played a ton of cruisers even RB my USN cl line. 2nd time around it was much easier as I learned some hard lessons the first time. And those lessons have been pretty helpful in how I play other cls. You can keep trying to throwing shade and feel accomplished with some witty post but sorry kid you wont be living rent free in my head. Have a great day.

Yeah I was playing in my worchester and I did something like 140k aa damage for 25 kills. To say I was pissed was an understatement.

I mostly play super cruisers these days

Contrary to popular misconceptions Cruisers like the Cleveland, Seattle, and Worchester are not DD escorts. The more aggressive they are in the early game the more likely they are to be focused and killed. Fact is these ships can shoot over most terrain and be safer then say Smolensk hiding in its smoke. The only survivability buff the Cleveland needs is better players who are not trying to chase damage but who are chasing wins.

This has been something I have been trying to do for a bit. Kill a DD, a cruiser, a bb, and a cv in 1 game. We did it.

So here is my 2 cents on this topic. Each nation has their own flavor. I highly doubt we will get a copy pasta with better or worse stats. I think we may see something interesting. SAP ROCKETS. Ok that is a joke, please may this only be a joke. No seriously this should never exist. Knowing WG they will make it similar to the USN just with better accuracy, better defense, Slower speed, and less per flight and less per attack in order to maintain "Balance"

Friesland above Kitakaze????? Really. I would much rather have "Bang bang kitty" over "would you like fries with that" any day.

would be fair

Many, included myself have advocated for render range definitions and nerfs.As it stands now a plane can go forth and spot an enemy and all the planes allies will be able to shoot at said enemy if they have range or if terrain is not a factor. This tends to make the dd and cruiser experience very very painful to say the least. The simplest and easiest way for WG to address this would be to apply the same delay to render that radar has in it. Lets ne real even when you are able to duck some of the planes you are probably gonna turn into the incoming fire which can be even worse then the planes. It tends to be overly punishing and leaves players with little tactical options and tends to force everyone into slow moving blobs. Adding a delay to render reporting for other ships would give players a breath or to to take defensive actions and mitigate the power that plane spotting has.

There is trial and error, and then there is never learning anything new. What we see is people playing to their comfort and never evolving their skill sets.

Oh trust me I have seen way to many passive dds make it to the end of the match and never once spot enemy dds or engage them or come near a cap.

This is very true. On NA I had a bit of help and I was at like 45% with 7k games and since then have risen to 53% all because I asked for help and people gave it.

I turned off my ability to chat because all the bone headed things I have seen today alone in sprint has made me break out the Emergency RUM. I have few simple doctrines I follow in all rank sprint games as a cruiser player. Order of importance and what I should be targeting. DDs, Cruisers, BBs If there is a cv you do not split up Always take a ship with a heal or smoke.

That is a tough call to be honest. You should also consider the fact that in a few months WG is going to be forcing their commander rework on us all and it will affect those two ships you have listed. Sigfried: Will no longer be able to take defensive tools thus will burn. You will also not be able to make it into a secondary built cruiser thus you lose a ton of potential DPM. You will get more AP damage and not much else. Ohio: You will lose much of your brawling DPM due to massive NERF to the secondary mechanics under the rework, however you will get access to a sniping tool thus making the OHIO a more AP centric Thunderer. So with that said I would go with either the Slava or the Colbert. Both will do well in the upcoming Rework. Slava will be even more accurate and colbert doesnt suffer a concealment penalty by taking demoman which increases HE damage.

As some one who tends to get a chat ban once ever 3 months I would like to point out that chat bans are progressive in terms of punishment. So if you are chat banned for 4 weeks that means that you have already gone through the 1,3,7,14 chat bans. There are 2 ways you can get a chat ban 1. you pissed off enough people to where they reported you for misbehavior in chat and it bans you, or you said something that got flagged by the automated system for review and then the ban was issued. Now I tend to get one of these every 3 months and I know exactly why I got them. I have never once gone over 7 days. The fact you have gotten to 28 is kind of telling and probably a really good indication to the fact you should not be talking in chat. Also if you are torping from behind friendly ships you deserve to be pink and you will get no sympathy from me.

There is some great truth to this. Sadly the wiki is a bit vague on this topic, however there is a lovely how it works video How it Works. Economic: XP and Credits | World of Warships - YouTube the TLDR; is as follow. Damage to bxp is % base. If you do 10k damage to a bb it will be worth less then doing 10k to a cruiser and even less then doing that same 10k to a dd. So dds, and cruisers represent the best targets for generating bxp. Capping and defending also represents a great team play aspect that generates you base xp and tends to be a great teamplay way for dds. AA is also mentioned but the amount you get for this feels extremely anemic. So...So hunt dds, then cruisers, then bbs. Take caps, defend them, and pray for good rng when it comes to AA. If that fails find a high rate of fire HE ship with smoke and just rain fire on every BB till you break 300k.

looks like mine sweeping gear

later on it will get a decent dispersion and the smoke gimmick is a great get out of dodge tool. If you get a chance to get into the super cruisers Alaska is great as is Agir. Stalingrad is well broken.

I think I can help you. First thing I would like to do is dispel some of your pre conceived notions as these tend to make any effort futile as you are already defeating yourself. 1.Italians are a great line. Get the special commander for it though as this will make it even more powerful in so many ways if you are willing to put in the effort every match. 2. Russians do not need IFHE. Not even the CL really needs it and to be honest is a huge mistake to take it. Russian Cl at t10 can get a fire chance of 17% on a reload rate of 5.3s with 19km range. So what this means is you are a really annoying long range kiting ship that can operate well in advances and retreats and if you play the shim alternating between these two directional modes you can be a rather annoying thorn in most battle ships sides. Also 30mm he pen is fine as superstructures are generally less then 20 on all ships. The CA which is really closer to a Super cruiser is probably one of the most broken cruisers in the game that anyone can get. Its AP makes it more akin to say a Stalingrad, however since it is a cruiser it doesnt get the super cruiser dcp cooldown issue. 3. Des Moines has been a staple in this game since day one and will keep being one for 3 reasons. Rapid fire 8inch guns, 10km radar, and super heavy ap that has great pen angles that pretty much makes any soft angling by a cruiser pointless. The Worcester use to be an amazing anti air/ anti dd platform but both their communities cried and complained and nerfed it into the same relevance as the Atlanta. If you can master the terrain game you can eaisly make every other ship you can hits life a living hell, that is until the commander tree rework and then you are nothing more then a fragile aa platform that will get nuked in the first 5 minutes of the game when you are trying to support your team. 4.Germas are probably the best of all worlds combined when it comes to cruisers. Your AP is strong. Your HE is consistent and your armor is surprisingly durable at range 5. UK cl is a high skill ship, not for the fait of heart. UK CA is a very rough ship to play at t10, however if you play it similar to how you play say a IJN cruiser and most super cruisers you can easily do some extreme damage. Sadily though the UK Ca is extremely inconsistent. 6.The French are not bad at t10. In fact if you have the skill and practice it can do some disgusting things, like draw 4million potential damage and take none of it. It is however a high skill ship that will require some advance combat tactics and or a div to really make it shine. Now I would caution you as coming soon the Commander skill rework is coming and Cruisers in general are gonna be shat on so keep that in mind. As long as you practice and make a greater effort in fighting cruisers and dds and less of an effort damage farming on BBS you can easily turn any cruiser into a nightmare that can easily swing a game or recover your team from a loss.

We survived.

Who can actively dodge most incoming fire and will soon get a commander skill to mitigate that even more and doesn't have a citadel

thanks to all the over powered smoke camping ships People have been developing skills to deal with smoke campers. As a cruiser guy I can tell you right now when I see a light cruiser slowing down I know what is coming and I have made that shot enough time to know when to fire and collect my 10k+ damage on them. When they are in smoke they give away their position and their movements by firing, combine this with the last seen feature on the mini map as well has the where your shots will land circle on the mini map you can relatively predict where to fire with some degree of proficiency if you have developed this skill. Also spotting Aircraft that extends range of shots is really good for giving another angle of veiw to make this task a bit easier. So while yes smoke is a great defensive tool you still run a risk when shooting in it.

These are the premiums I picked up this year. Yoshino, Anchorage, Georgia, Okhotnik, Thunderer, Odin, Agir, Pommern. Thunderer: arguably one of the most consistently overpowered battleships ever made. Georgia: How a German bb secondary guns should be. Agir: Its no Alaska but man is this ship a citadel farming dream. Anchorage: Wonky yes but once you get use to it a ton of fun and has a great paint job Okhotnik; Joys of super containers and one hell of a yolo boat. Yoshino: Better then Azuma but rather forgetable Pommern: I loved this boat then I saw the commander skill rework. Odin: This can be a fun ship and is really the next evolution of Scharnhorst, however it is way to fragile and has horrible accuracy at any range. I did not mention Oklahoma as I have not played it yet but yes got that and some other free ones wg just threw at us. Desire to play them is low so maybe 2021 who knows.

One last go before WG nerfs all light cruisers.

BB ideology. I can shoot 20km I will shoot 20km. DD ideology. Only dd can see me so don't let dd see me. CA ideology. Im dead anyways lets make it memorable. "WITNESS ME!" CV ideology. Damn you bastards social distance already you are killing my covid bombers.