U69_2020

In general, the smaller and more agile ships should go evasive. And I have seen players doing a cop stop to their allied battleships and complaining that those behemoths would not hit full reverse because of that incompetent nutshell captain turning hard to pass 10m in front of their massive bows. I can hardly blame that battleships refusing to cutting all speed and accelerate again for half a minute because their teammate is a .

Maybe it's not related to the current update, but as that weird message appeared now and not earlier: How many clans can I found/join? Is this a new premium feature? I have been in a clan since day 1 of my account.

Dive!

Of course they will. They are completely balanced, historically accurate in their capabilities and feature no exploitable game mechanics. Hurry up WG, I want my U-69 back asap!

If it is no submarine, the next sound I hear will be the one of a ship being sold for credits...

I don't want to open it and be disappointed...

I got no idea how T7 economy looks like because the only ship I have is a T6 tech tree DD, but I have never ever lost credits in a battle so far. I play coop without camo, signals, premium and clan bonus, so either T7 features an insane increase in upkeep cost or you are painting your ship with the most expensive camo and are dumping ammo all over the place with reckless abandon (and not hitting your targets).

So do I. I trained my DD commander from level 1 to 17 just by sinking subs with my Gaede, and received roughly 200K - 250K elite commander XP and free XP each just by sinking subs with my U-69. Now I have nothing to do in WoWs for the time being...

The OP German T1 Hermelin!

My rather short-term impression is that people do not place too much trust into statements made by WG.

Well, apparently Soviet dreams are the defining features of WoWs' current iteration. But I am a T6 guy, so I can ignore that crap and pretend to play a somehow historical naval game.

Damn, no more sub games? I got subs for 2 more days in my port... I will go into hibernation now. Wake me up when you can play subs again.

Allied players trying or succeeding to inflict damage on me is common enough (I do not count bots, who obviously have been programmed to teamkill at every opportunity, especially if you bomb an enemy sub). If you get shot at right at the start of the game repeatedly and that person gloats and spams in chat about it, then I shrug and attribute his condition to his parents being probably siblings to continue a family tradtion spanning several generations, and file a report that - in all likelihood - will vanish without a trace.

Ok, then I am just lucky - because I have played a maybe 100 or so sub battles, both with DD and sub, and only 1 time - before I knew about that unholy 6m crap - has my DD been hit by sub torpedoes. And I go for subs with both DD and sub all the time. If islands are a problem, hydro penetrates them as easily as radar (from what I have heard). So, even with that exploit in existence, a DD is probably the safest ship to use if fighting a cumbersome submarine.

Sorry, but then you are driving your DD wrong. Do you know the extremely narrow torpedo angles of subs? Their glacial turning capability? Look on the minimap. Point and end of the sub's "arrow" icon = bad. Just approach it from the side, there are some ~150° blind spots where a sub cannot harm you. And you do not need to use your guns if this proves to be ineffective, because on the surface your own torps work totally fine, and they can be launched laterally with you staying out of the sub's engagement vector all the time.

Something like that, maybe...

Nah, I do not get enough dubloons from login bonus...

I do not see how this is supposed to be useful, but well... maybe I can upgrade my Hermelin for 200k XP to Super Hermelin...

Do we at least receive the ship XP that we earned with the subs - maybe as free XP?

Played my first operation!

Which, aside from its only trick, appears to be a rather subpar performer. And those torps are so obscenely visible that only the totally oblivious should ever getting hit by them.

I guess the crew requires not as much time to speedload ONE launcher as to reload TWO launchers. Makes sense to me.

Did the Kitakami have a TRB?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I checked the wiki and Yugumo has access to 8 - 12 km torps and a concealment below 6 km (?). Also, Akizuki has only 1 launcher, so TRB makes sense to get a 2nd chance if you miss. Yugumo has 2 launchers, and giving her both smoke and effectively 4 launchers would be quite a bit too much to ask imho. You are not supposed to sit conveniently in smoke and spew forth torpedoes continuously.