TonyStarkshoudnthavedied

I hate that ship. I hated the guts of when I did the grinding of that branch. Of course I played it wrong but I still hate it, I have PTSD :)

I always push up fast to gold. It is easier in the beginning as there are many good players pushing with you, you can get better teammates more often. Bronze is a couple of days, and T5 was really nice, I used Agincourt with secondary build as no CV was in this tier. It took me two sprints to grind through silver, but again it was a nice experience, I have fully trained a commander for Sims during this. Now I just grind the gold rewards at every sprint then switch to brawl, to grind that. T10 ranked (and gold usually) is still better to play with more conscious players than random, but man, it is so toxic. The bullying in chat, the reports, the 4x% admirals who want always you to do their bidding. I also hated full T10 ranked. Ranked is good for grinding for commander XP and credit as well.

edited Cruisers in the present meta are really difficult to brawl with. The last commander rework really screwed them. Cruisers with torpedoes and hydros may have some chance, but no, they are not good in 1v1. CV is the ultimate choice, but it is so boring and luckily no T7 CVs. Brawler BBs are kings in 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3. Brawls are short, (just one week) and normally week after week a different composition comes. The point of brawls is to take you out of your comfort zone and lets you exercise something else then what usually do.If you usually play cruisers, here is your opportunity to sharpen one or two brawler BBs in your port. Take Gneisenau, Scharnhorst or Heinrich to battle with full secondary build. Or some heavy cruisers with torps, like Maya.

We do see them now. This season gold is T10. I use GK. Fairly OK. As soon as u are able to brawl GK turns out good. In random there are too many ships to be able to effectively brawl and not just being a pinata as you veyr graphicly explained the experience.

For me it is Heinrich time. I tried DD, I really wanted to be good in brawl with DD. Played 10 battles, lost 8. Lost against cruisers and BB all the time, against DDs half the time. I switched to old faithful Heinrich. Won every single one of them so far, butchering everything. I'm not good enough with DDs. Or chosing the wrong ones to brawl.

You take your best brawler ship of the tier to 1v1 and polish your technik battle by battle. This is the meaning of this. There were and are always different brawls. They are short in period, so everyone can have what they like. If you don't like 1v1 wait for next season, coming in a week or two I think, and there will be 5 or six different composition brawl during Christmas. 1v1 is really a training scenario where you can sharpen your best knife for random and ranked. You can earn decent credit and easy to collect commander XP, so u can train commanders very fast in brawl. 1v1 battles are fast, 3-4 minutes, so you have a swift rebound and you can use what you learned in minutes.

I think the reason for 6 battles is that it is 1v1, very fast battles, 3-4 mins each. Even 3-v3 lasts over 5-6 minutes. So total grind time still faster then other seasons.

GK beats even Schlieffen every single time. But GK was the king of this season, for sure.

I only lost one single battle against DDs in GK. And that was a Kléber on an early surprise flanking attack from behind an island and my hydro was not on. CVs though, that does not even worth the effort in a BB.

Many plays Schlieffen, but in GK I beat them 4 out of 5. The key is to keep 8-9 km distance from them and you sail away form them angling. In that way he will have difficulty to torp you, you can evade all or most of its tops, but you are still able to use all your main and secondary guns against it. They have low HP pool and if you hit them with main guns about 4-5 times they are gone. My problem is Ohios. They beat me 3 out of 4 times. And I don't understand bcs I suck at Ohio.

I also feared that Schlieffen will be the star of this brawl. But it is not, it is very vulnerable to GK and Ohio. I played mainly GK, it beat almost everything, most of the time Schlieffen and any DDs. I had difficulty to beat Ohios with GK. Not mayn playing them though so it is OK. I noticed two things. Cruisers are almost fully absent and I can understand why. Their brawling ability is wiped out. Another things is, when I was pitted against a CV (exclusively Nakhimovs or Midways) I did not stand a chance to even reach the caps, not that I ever spot the CV and have a chance to shoot at. First encountered with Midway ended up after he sent against me two wawes. For Nakhimov it took four. It was not fun or enjoyable at any levels. It was not a brawl. After that I did not even made an effort when I was pitted against a CV.

It will be a coal ship in a few weeks, so please don't spend your money and FXP on it.

Actually it is just no ship. We had in the first BP 5 premium BF container and a ship. So it is not "instead", they just took away the ship. Still I think the cheaper BP is still delivering decent value, but I will not be tempted to buy the more expensive one, its bonuses were not very good anyway.

Every year, the BF scam is probably the worst of all gambles WG presents to us. The sequential bundles do not cost much, but value you get is really bad. The normal BF containers are ridiculously bad in delivering value, the premium on paper looks a bit better, (ship in avg every 8 containers or guaranteed after 20), but if you want a ship, just buy it cheaper then how much you should gamble for it. And the two most valuable ships in the lineup, the t10 cruisers are free for coal from the armory and available. So don't gamble, don't by the bundles, don't buy containers. First get the free containers form the BP or whatever may come from missions, if you got the ship you wanted, you are set. If not and want to spend money buy the ship(s) directly. They are a good deal, cheaper then how much you would spend even with the 25% coupon or good ships not available otherwise like Massa, Bart, Alaska. Don't gamble. Don't buy T10 ships which you can get for free. If you really want to gamble, save your money for Premium Santa containers coming within a month, their return is much better in value delivery than the poor premium BF containers.

And today you have to play every day for 35 days to get all rewards. And actually no, not 20 days. You complete 15 daily (150 BP) missions and three weekly (240 BP), so you basically complete 3 days a week the daily chain and you are done, bcs that will complete minimum 3, but rather four weekly mission. It is easier to grind this then the previous mission system.

The free commander skill reset dor two weeks, is that for all commanders or only for sub skills? The vague remark about it is under the sub section of the news.

The bonus exchange is planned to be discarded at the next update, it was to be a temporary feature. But why not keep it? Why cant the players be in control of the bonus sizes they want to put on their ships?

We will never sell t10 ships for money... Anyone remembers that?

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I don"t understand how is that really cost? I have never spend a single cent on economic bonus (or flags and camos before)- I play like 10-20 battles a day. I have like 600 of each economic bonuses and they never go down below 200, simply u just get them all the time from this or that. I continuously training commanders so use 100 or 200% boosters on the ships I play. It took me 17 battles today to grind the 100k CXP. Without boosters it may have cost me 40-50 battles, appr. 3 days. So first of all it is not a cost, second even if it were, you do not really need to use it bcs u grind, you use it because u anyway would use it. My policy is with dockyards is just do whatever I would anyway do, normally the weekly missions grind themselves in max 3-4 days.

The dockyard mission rewards were never very generous, the rewards were in the construction phases. And you actually cant pass them, they will be automatically completed as you play. The reward you get is above the rewards you got in teh battles you played so it is a plus with no extra effort. What you can ignore is to spend doubloons on completing the ship, but for that the above economical evaluation applies

The economy is interesting. For the minimum spending of 7500 db you get a T7 and T10, 2000 steel, 20k coal, 4000 RP. You get 25x4 brown, 15x4 green, 10x4 blue, 3x4 red bonus, 5 days premium, some FXP, CXP, 20 useless camos and 10 almost useless loot boxes. Still a good deal. Spending 12000 db get you an extra 1500 steel. With this starter pack you buy the obligatory 6 phases the cheapest (1000 db/phase) and get for the extra 6000 db 1500 steel on 4 db/steel rate. The is a great deal according to my opinion, probably the most economical. Spending 19500 db on both starter packs lands you with 3000 extra steel compared to the minimum option, and steel is 4,5 doubloons each. If you have the doubloons and can use the steel, this would still be great, the overall rewards value still exceeds significantly what you will spend. Whaling the whole dockyard costs you 58000 db. On top of the minimum option it will land you with 8500 extra steel, on a rate of 6,1 doubloons/steel. A T10 ship is 30k+ db, a T7 ship is 5+, the extra steel worth 1/3 of a T10 steel ship, so 10k+ doubloon. This is all together 45-50k doubloons value. My opinion is that the rest of the rewards barely justifies this spending economically. You get the value what you would spend on similar items in the armory, so if you are not desperate for steel, this option is not for you. There is however one uncharacteristically decent move from WG, a gesture to those whom have suffered through the previous PR dockyard and got the ship. Instead of the ship (which you obviously have) you get a compensation of your choice of 35k db or 33k steel, or 63 RP (the price of the most expensive T10 ships in the armory). Out of those the best choice is the steel, as you have every half year a 25% coupon for it, so it is actually the price of not only one, but one and a half T10 steel ships. An now comes whaling. If someone with PR already in port whales the whole dockyard for 58k db, he gets 43500 steel altogether, which is the price of 2 T10 steel ship (with 25% discount used), in a value of 65-70 doubloon. Plus you get a T7 and all the other rewards. That is not a brilliant deal, but still a significant economical gain, which worse considering if you want to spend doubloons.

It was announced long ago it will be a Research Bureau ship, hence available for RPs. Like Slava, Ohio, Vampire II, Colbert, Gibraltar, Druid, Siegfried and Paolo Emilio. You can have freemium ships in the game for steel, Coal, Free XP and RP. Like forever....

How did you calculated that? Genuinly interested. Seems like you need 14500 tokens for the sequential bundles. You get 1500 for community tokens and 300 from mission chain. You need additional 12700 tokens, that is 127000 dublons if I didn't miss anything. So you cash out for that many tokens in the premium, shop, you get the tokens plus 127000k dubloons. How did u calculated the value of the bundles?