Clan Brawl - April Fools' Day

[Afghanicus]

So is the whole Clan Brawl event an April Fools'?

 

Not sure if I missed something but I just gathered some clan members to give it a try and guess what - we couldn't play because none of us have the bloody CVs.

 

So no T10 CV = no play?

 

Very well done WG, very well done.

 

[Rautainen_Biisoni]

 

WGs idea of good april fools is switching BB spawns so usually BB and CV gets killed instantly.

I joined so my mates could get a few divisions rolling. I was done after the second "april fools". Not playing or paying for this garbage.

 

Here's a free hint WG. A good april fools is when u astonish and amaze people and after that everybody laughs.

You just waste peoples time here.

You really aren't missing anything by not being able to play this.

[lovelacebeer]

Well if nothing else this experience has convinced me that the next season of clan battles with CVs will be so un fun I wont participate. 

[rage1750]

Had one game in the mode with some clan mates.

Noped out of there really fast; garbage mode.

 

[Ouzo11]

13 hours ago, Rautainen_Biisoni said:

A good april fools is when u astonish and amaze people and after that everybody laughs.

Oh people laugh alright.
It's just not the player base but some edited*

[Bear__Necessities]

2 hours ago, Palubarac said:

So no T10 CV = no play?

They've been out for a year now....

[DFens_666]

We played 17 games to get the 15 wins, id say we had fun. I enjoyed it more than regular Clanbattles.

The BB swap in spawn happened twice to us. Im not sure what happened the first time, i think our enemies didnt like it and they went back to port/yoloed right way. 2nd time the GK tried to Citadel me in my Mino, but he got only overpens since i was close enough and flat broadside We had a good laugh tho.

 

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[Bear__Necessities]

Well. My team actually had great fun. Even with 5km cyclones, baby small maps and BB's spawning in the middle of the fleet. 

 

 

 

[T0byJug]

6 minutes ago, DFens_666 said:

We played 17 games to get the 15 wins, id say we had fun. I enjoyed it more than regular Clanbattles.

The BB swap in spawn happened twice to us. Im not sure what happened the first time, i think our enemies didnt like it and they went back to port/yoloed right way. 2nd time the GK tried to Citadel me in my Mino, but he got only overpens since i was close enough and flat broadside We had a good laugh tho.

 

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took the Scubs 20..... My fault why so many.. but yes after we realized it really douse not matter, we had fun. +lots of ramming flags and in my case 100 no detention flags (I'm a DD man) it's just all positive

[Jethro_Grey]

1 hour ago, Rautainen_Biisoni said:

 

WGs idea of good april fools is switching BB spawns so usually BB and CV gets killed instantly.

I joined so my mates could get a few divisions rolling. I was done after the second "april fools". Not playing or paying for this garbage.

 

Here's a free hint WG. A good april fools is when u astonish and amaze people and after that everybody laughs.

You just waste peoples time here.

You really aren't missing anything by not being able to play this.

That seems actually like a ton of fun. I‘d play that mode.

[ForlornSailor]

1 hour ago, Rautainen_Biisoni said:

WGs idea of good april fools is switching BB spawns so usually BB and CV gets killed instantly.

I joined so my mates could get a few divisions rolling. I was done after the second "april fools". Not playing or paying for this garbage.

 

Here's a free hint WG. A good april fools is when u astonish and amaze people and after that everybody laughs.

You just waste peoples time here.

You really aren't missing anything by not being able to play this.

 

I totally agree with you on the aprils fool thing: WG kinda missed the mark there.

 

Other than that: fun game mode, some surprises - like the 5 km spotting on the T2 ice map. Man that took some adjusting to. Just dont take it too serious.

[Peffers]

mad CV spawn was a bit scary as a CV, when u spawn in the opposite corner to your team.

[thiextar]

Its astonishing that even in a mode with swapped bb spawns, tiny maps and 5km cyclones, the single stupidest thing in all the matches is the bloody carriers

[Bear__Necessities]

Just now, thiextar said:

Its astonishing that even in a mode with swapped bb spawns, tiny maps and 5km cyclones, the single stupidest thing in all the matches is the stupid carriers

What? I had a great time!

 

[Benser33]

Worst thing about the mode was the ocean epicenter map that was really nothing more than a straight up trading race. Not really quirky or fun.

[Xevious_Red]

Our clan had lots of fun - 18 games played, 13 victories.

It was fun adapting to weird situations.

[powerverde]

2 hours ago, lovelacebeer said:

Well if nothing else this experience has convinced me that the next season of clan battles with CVs will be so un fun I wont participate. 

if cvs are in CB its game over for me.

[mcboernester]

Hopefully even the last person who was like "maybe this will work" recognizes how awful the upcoming CB season experience will be. This was a perfect glimpse for me and it went exactly like i predicted (playing haku). Nobody was having fun, everybody just complained about being permaspotted and ap blapped for 25.5k while staying angled to the enemy fleet. And for me it wasn't fun either, it felt incredibly dull and boring. 

 

I really pity every team that will bring a BB instead of a CV.

[Starchy_Tuber]

3 hours ago, Rautainen_Biisoni said:

 

WGs idea of good april fools is switching BB spawns so usually BB and CV gets killed instantly.

I joined so my mates could get a few divisions rolling. I was done after the second "april fools". Not playing or paying for this garbage.

 

Here's a free hint WG. A good april fools is when u astonish and amaze people and after that everybody laughs.

You just waste peoples time here.

You really aren't missing anything by not being able to play this.

we thought that spawn was hilarious and good fun.

[GarrusBrutus]

4 minutes ago, mcboernester said:

 

I really pity every team that will bring a BB instead of a CV.

Aka the teams that simply do not have cv players. I wonder how big the difference will be between total battles played on average per season between the past seasons and the upcoming season. Because I doubt all those clans who do not have cv players will play a lot. Including cvs actually excludes a lot of teams. 

[Bear__Necessities]

19 minutes ago, GarrusBrutus said:

Aka the teams that simply do not have cv players. I wonder how big the difference will be between total battles played on average per season between the past seasons and the upcoming season. Because I doubt all those clans who do not have cv players will play a lot. Including cvs actually excludes a lot of teams. 

The difference will be huge. But, you know what. Tough. My patience has run dry for complaints. Rework is over a year old now. There has been plenty of time for clans and players to learn and get good in CV's. I did. I was and still am an opponent to the rework. I refused to play CV's until the patch where they got rid of RPF on planes. But I knew they would be coming to for CW. I knew that if me and my clan wanted to give a crap about CW some of us would have to git gud. I chose to. I chose to learn a new class and excel in it, rather than [edited] and moan and ignore them. So to those clans just realising how done over they are now? We told you. WG told you. They are not going to listen to you. Quit or adapt. 

[DFens_666]

1 hour ago, mcboernester said:

Hopefully even the last person who was like "maybe this will work" recognizes how awful the upcoming CB season experience will be. This was a perfect glimpse for me and it went exactly like i predicted (playing haku). Nobody was having fun, everybody just complained about being permaspotted and ap blapped for 25.5k while staying angled to the enemy fleet. And for me it wasn't fun either, it felt incredibly dull and boring. 

  

I really pity every team that will bring a BB instead of a CV. 

 

Sorry, i totaly have to disagree here. This is not what i experienced.

I had lots of fun, and so had the 4 others playing with me. We won 15 out of 17, which is really good i think. Sure, we had a SU CV player with us, but it was often more beneficial for him to play for the team, IF the enemies played as a team aswell. If they went solo suicide, they got spanked for it. Then again, they would get spanked even without a CV?

We faced a lot of Typhoon clans aswell, so i wouldnt say they were bad clans in general.

 

For some (obvious) reasons, i enjoy CVs more in competetive gamemodes. I had fun back with the CV testday in CBs, and i enjoyed it today aswell. However, i do not enjoy CVs in random battles, because the lack of teamplay. Either noone helps with AA because they are dumb, or occupying the CV is actually useless because your teammates keep licking the window clean. Which doesnt happen when you play with your clanmates.

[ForlornSailor]

1 hour ago, mcboernester said:

Hopefully even the last person who was like "maybe this will work" recognizes how awful the upcoming CB season experience will be. This was a perfect glimpse for me and it went exactly like i predicted (playing haku). Nobody was having fun, everybody just complained about being permaspotted and ap blapped for 25.5k while staying angled to the enemy fleet. And for me it wasn't fun either, it felt incredibly dull and boring.  

 

To me, I was rather surprised, how easy it was to shut down 4 out of 5 enemy CVs. Its not going to be different in regular clan wars, quite the opposite with even more surface ships. Ive had couple of times 25+ planes (as Gearing) and our Cruisers went into 50+ quite a few times. Played 17 games as Gearing, not even once I got killed by the CV.

 

On another note: got word from @Redcap375 and he told me, he and his clan very much enjoyed this clan brawl. His direct words were

 

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Haven't had so much fun or laugh's in WOWS for a long time.

 

and I can see why.

[El2aZeR]

Me: Hitting a Kremlin and 2x Salem in tight formation for hilarious damage.

Enemy CV: Gets gunned down by my teammate in a Smaland over several minutes, dealt a total of 7k damage to him.

 

Skill gap is fixed kek.

[mcboernester]

1 hour ago, ForlornSailor said:

 

To me, I was rather surprised, how easy it was to shut down 4 out of 5 enemy CVs. Its not going to be different in regular clan wars, quite the opposite with even more surface ships. Ive had couple of times 25+ planes (as Gearing) and our Cruisers went into 50+ quite a few times. Played 17 games as Gearing, not even once I got killed by the CV.

 

On another note: got word from @Redcap375 and he told me, he and his clan very much enjoyed this clan brawl. His direct words were

 

 

and I can see why.

 

1 hour ago, DFens_666 said:

 

Sorry, i totaly have to disagree here. This is not what i experienced.

I had lots of fun, and so had the 4 others playing with me. We won 15 out of 17, which is really good i think. Sure, we had a SU CV player with us, but it was often more beneficial for him to play for the team, IF the enemies played as a team aswell. If they went solo suicide, they got spanked for it. Then again, they would get spanked even without a CV?

We faced a lot of Typhoon clans aswell, so i wouldnt say they were bad clans in general.

 

For some (obvious) reasons, i enjoy CVs more in competetive gamemodes. I had fun back with the CV testday in CBs, and i enjoyed it today aswell. However, i do not enjoy CVs in random battles, because the lack of teamplay. Either noone helps with AA because they are dumb, or occupying the CV is actually useless because your teammates keep licking the window clean. Which doesnt happen when you play with your clanmates.

 

My Games went like this most of the time:

 

started dbs

spot the enemy ships 

enemy ships stick together

fly into the aa of 2 cruisers and a bb to drop a cruiser

cruiser tries to avoid by steering, still eats 8.5-17k, i lose my squad in the progress

cruiser shows broadside by turning in, gets blepped by my surface ships

 

 

And we mostly faced high typhoon or hurricane clans iirc (at least the matchmaker works), so im not sure how much skillgap is left here. You also have to bear in mind that those turtle tactics aka hiding 4 ships in 1 smoke while the carrier spots won't work in CB since you will have to play for 2 caps.    

 

EDIT: the patch killed my mxstats replay saving again.... but the games i could still analyse dont look to me like i have been shut down in any way. I assure you the Rest went the same way basically.  Not sure what happened with the bottom 2 though, can't be right. On the mountain range one me and the other cv got sniped 2 minutes in cause we spawned west and all other ships east within 20km or so.

 

The only effective way to counter this right now seems to be perma smoking. Feels like 2016 again where you put your t8 ships in 1 big smoke bubble.