ARP Takao? nah, prepare for the ARP Nachi pain

[AgarwaenME]

1. Get Taiho or Hakuryu

2. Finish all missions within 3-4 days.

 

So how many secondary hits and ship torpedo hits do you get in that taiho?

[ilhilh]

 

So how many secondary hits and ship torpedo hits do you get in that taiho?

 

It annoys me that the torpedoes mission doesn't specify ship torps yet definitely means them.  200 ship torp hits will be the last mission I complete I expect.

 

The secondary one is a joke for anyone with Bismarck/Yamato.  I essentially did that in 3 games (technically it was 4 but I had over 99% by 3 games!)

[Tirande]

Finding a severe lack of Soviet targets very annoying for the Nachi mission. It seems the Soviets have gone into hiding since they're the most uncommon ships out there seemingly.

 

[AgarwaenME]

 

It annoys me that the torpedoes mission doesn't specify ship torps yet definitely means them.  200 ship torp hits will be the last mission I complete I expect.

 

The secondary one is a joke for anyone with Bismarck/Yamato.  I essentially did that in 3 games (technically it was 4 but I had over 99% by 3 games!)

 

Yep, the secondary mission is absurdly easy if you have one out of a minor set of ships available. But that's sort of the issue with this entire thing, tons of "easy" missions (besides the Nachi one, since you can do nothing but hope you actually meet the ships you need to kill to finish it) that all require you to pick either a high tier ship, or a specific type of a specific nation. Still, you can grind those fairly easily if you have a nice selection of ships (throwing in some gearing battles for t9 wins in addition to my usual blysk runs will get me the torp mission done for example). Killing russian ships? Entirely down to luck or just playing a massive amount of battles.

 

If people at WG EU had a minimum amount of clue, they'd at least have limited this mission to 10 russian ships and 20 of the rest. Given the ratio of nations at those tiers, even 5 russian would be balanced.

[T0byJug]

What about players (like me) who don't have any kind of Battleships? Not like i am going to grind for a T7 bb now, just to finish the event. I am not whining, just pointing out that some players prefer only 1! type of ships. 

 

Its a b#tch for players like you agreed,, But you must remember the hole reason for mission like this and GNB(grand naval battles) is to get players out of there comfort zone and play different things.Chalk this one up to experience. If you want to make sure as many missions as possible are available to you in the future you need to.

Make sure you have ships of all main nations(US/RU/IJN/Germany) to Mid tiers (5-8)

Make sure you have at least 1 ship in port in all tiers possible.

Grind at least 1 ship to tier 6-8 of every class. So you need to get yourself a BB and a CV old chap

 

IF you  don't do this you will find some missions just impossible to complete.

 

My recommendation BB/CV

do the German tech line Mid tier are good jack of all trades. Reasonable Main guns good armer and above average secondaries. AA is pretty hot as well

CV IJN. Mid tiers have good strike capability and can still have fighters to get you a few plane kills if needed for missions. 

USN CV have the problem in mid tiers they are ether all  strike or all combat air patrol. 

[ilhilh]

I've just checked and I have 4/20* already in as many days without putting any focus into targeting ruskies.  In fact the only change that I have made since the missions came out has been to abandon lower tier games and focus on just my Kiev, Bismarck and 9+.  With so many missions on the go I want to just clear out the easy ones with general play and then I can be more focussed with the more challenging ones.

 

With a requirement of 20 SN kills in 2 months that works out at about 1 every 3 days so I am not going to panic just yet

 

* I'm at 9 IJN, 7 USN, 4 SN and 15 KM

[Nekrodamus]

Everyone who is going for Nachi should drive Russians himself regularly (at least one 8+ or three 6+ per day) so we all will have our chances for those 20 kills.

[Fino_93]

Everyone who is going for Nachi should drive Russians himself regularly (at least one 8+ or three 6+ per day) so we all will have our chances for those 20 kills.

 

 

Quite agree, if more people run soviet ships the mission should be much more easier...

 

 

 

[T0byJug]

Everyone who is going for Nachi should drive Russians himself regularly (at least one 8+ or three 6+ per day) so we all will have our chances for those 20 kills.

 

I have CA  tier 5/6/ 7 and DD tier 7/9 will sacrifice myself the the sea gods!!! as long as you all say I am VERY VERY VERY NICE

[periscope_up]

periscope_up, on 04 November 2016 - 02:42 AM, said:

1. Get Taiho or Hakuryu

2. Finish all missions within 3-4 days.

 

So how many secondary hits and ship torpedo hits do you get in that taiho?

 

I've got 104 secondary hits so far, just by playing my CVs (Shokaku, Taiho)   But yeah, the main battery mission and the torpedo mission are the only ones that you won't be able to finish with CVs (torp bombers drops are not accounted for and.. CV doesn't have the main battery).. But for these two I've got my Farragut, Fubuki, etc.

[AnotherDuck]

Nagato with secondary build works for me. Scharnhorst is also an option if you have her or are willing to spend money.

What about Izumo and Yamato?

Yes, this mission screams for German BBs of tier 8 (7?) + but they are not the only option. ^^

 

I have ''Nagato'', but not a secondary build. Haven't bought Amagi yet, because money was spent on Germans, Brits, Russians, and before that T9 DDs of non-Russian origins (that now have fulfilled their purpose of getting to T10, but got a new mission with bribing gently convincing Takao to come to my fleet). Nagato doesn't do too well in close quarters. Still, mission isn't that hard anyway. Just yolo a bit, and eventually you'll get it. I forgot to check, but I'm most of the way through Bayern's xp collection to the next tier, probably close enough to just free-xp it away. But probably not even necessary.

 

I agree, many Missions promote bad play. I also think the Kills Mission and Torpedo Mission are the hardest/grindiest. Also excluding CVs from e.g. the Torpedo Mission is meh....they're like made for these but no, I got to suicide with a Derpitz or spam with the Benson  (which does not have good torps). 

 

As a DD player, neither kills nor torpedoes is something I even care about. I'll get them eventually. As mentioned above, I'm using Fletcher and Kagero to get Takao (although horrible luck with teams so far, way below my usual win rate), so I often get torpedo strikes, and I quite often get First Blood (roughly twice as often as average), which isn't the only kill I get most of the time.

 

Everyone who is going for Nachi should drive Russians himself regularly (at least one 8+ or three 6+ per day) so we all will have our chances for those 20 kills.

 

I'm only up to Buddy, but that's a ship I've neglected due to the German BB invasion. Should really take her out more, as I do want the higher tier Russian cruisers.

[Syrchalis]

When I hit 20/20 for the other nations I had 3/20 for russian ships. This is really a bit annoying. WG should have thought of this and made it 5 or 10 russian ships. One could have seen this coming.

 

I mean WG balances by stats. Why didn't they just base the numbers on the nation stats on T8-10?

[Turbeen]

 

Grand Fleet of Fog - ARP Nachi ...

 

To destroy 20 IJN, U.S., and German ships with ship tier VIII+ till 1st Jan 2017 should not be a serious issue, but to destroy 20 U.S.S.R ships ... could be a serious issue.

I´m playing tier VIII nowadays, and it is very hard to get even one U.S.S.R ship in enemy team ... and what about to kill her, it is another question completely.

 

Would it be useful to change this particular condition, e.g. instead of 20 U.S.S.R ships ... to destroy 20 U.S.S.R  OR  20 U.K. ships ?    Or to exclude U.S.S.R ships from conditions completely ??

I think that I would not be the only player who has the issue to destroy U.S.S.R ships to get ARP Nachi ...

 

Thx in advance for any adjustment asap !    ( ... no, I´m not complaining, but ... thx for understanding ! ...) 

 

[JapLance]

My tally is already at 19 Japanese, but only 3 Ruskies and 2 Germans...

 

[silence5]

 

Oh my... maybe this is why I've been suicide sank twice in my Udaloi yesterday... 

 

When I see a soviet DD on the minimap I just see red and go ...

 

But yeah ... Zao is the best at catching RU dds completley of guard. deleting full health khabas in 3 salvos always feels satisfying.

PS: I'm at 15 kills on ruskies. I think I need 1-2 more german kills ... but those come on thier own. You need to focus to actually get a russian kill. 

[robihr]

1. Get Taiho or Hakuryu

2. Finish all missions within 3-4 days.

 

3. Go broke!!

[VeteranGamer84]

We need to play RU ships to help each other completing this mission. .

[Spellfire40]

16/20 IJN

20/20 US

5/20 RU

15/20 Germ

 

[RandyWookie]

Not 100% Takao-related, but I had the Hiei + captain already, won the Hiei + captain again. Am I blind or did nothing happen except that the skill points I had distributed on her earlier were now refunded (6 points)? I mean I just won the ship but it shows 722 xp on it which I got from the one battle I used it for months ago.

 

Edit: Not true - I now have 2 x captain Hiei and one ship. Working as intended then I suppose?

[Tungstonid]

Not 100% Takao-related, but I had the Hiei + captain already, won the Hiei + captain again. Am I blind or did nothing happen except that the skill points I had distributed on her earlier were now refunded (6 points)? I mean I just won the ship but it shows 722 xp on it which I got from the one battle I used it for months ago.

 

Edit: Not true - I now have 2 x captain Hiei and one ship. Working as intended then I suppose?

 

As stated numerous times in other threads: If you get an ARP ship you already have, you receive a port slot, the captain (which will transfered to the ship) and a crew slot. You won't get a second ship (in your case the Hiei) and right now you won't get a credit compensation either which is something WG does have a look into and it will probably be fixed.

[Doolio]

I'm sorry to detract but aren't these missions till january? Or am I missing something? I mean, a lot of you who posted here are waaay beyond the progress timeline if we take number of days and see what should one do daily in order to complete the missions. Or is there some additional parameter I am not being aware of?

[Diabolik__]

Two full months to complete the mission guys, why are you panicking?

[Comrad_StaIin]

best do the Secondary hit mission is get yourself a secondary specced Bismarck and enjoy

[MrEff]

Two full months to complete the mission guys, why are you panicking?

 

Not really panicking, just making an observation. 

 

I managed to bag a Moskva tonight bringing my total up to 4, so slowly getting there. Still, it'll be interesting to see if things change once the Soviet special ends.

[Ashandorath]

Two full months to complete the mission guys, why are you panicking? 

 

Simple. There is on average 1 russian player on the enemy team per game (at least from experience). Considering that there are 15 players per team, if you wipe out the enemy, you have 1/15 chance of getting that kill. With 20 kills necessary, that equals 20*15=300 games expected, assuming you wipe out the enemy entirely every match. I don't have the full two months, so I need to play about 7 games every single day. Given that I have a deadline on the 15th of december, I'm going to have a very hard time getting all those games in.