Grand fleet of fog missions

[ThePurpleSmurf]

Hmm, i'm just wondering how am i supposed to complete all the missions?

For example, there is the one with 500 secondary hits. How am i supposed to complete this mission as a pretty much DD-only player without secondaries? Similars apply for sure for purely BB players and the 200 torpedo hits mission.

Also, how can i complete the mission with kill 20 ships of each nation? I have killed 20 Japanese, 20 US, 20 German. But there are no russian ships to kill, i'm stuck at 5 or 6 kills. I play mostly DD and mostly T8 to TX. The only russian ships i see now and then is Khabarovsk, which is usually ripped to bits by cruisers outside of my range and Moskva, long range camper, far out of my range. Any ideas?

I start to understand why we have 2 months to complete these missions.

[Jadefalken]

Well I'm sailing nothing but Soviet ships at the Moment... the floating devastating strikes aka RN cruisers are on hold... so I'll give you a fight if I see you 

 

[aboomination]

how am i supposed to complete all the missions?

 

You aren't 

[svadilfari]

i´ve already completed all but takao (50wins) and whatsherface (200 torp hits) and that´s a week into the event, just by playing normal

i think i´m enjoying WoWs a little too much right now lol

[robihr]

Hmm, i'm just wondering how am i supposed to complete all the missions?

For example, there is the one with 500 secondary hits. How am i supposed to complete this mission as a pretty much DD-only player without secondaries? Similars apply for sure for purely BB players and the 200 torpedo hits mission.

Also, how can i complete the mission with kill 20 ships of each nation? I have killed 20 Japanese, 20 US, 20 German. But there are no russian ships to kill, i'm stuck at 5 or 6 kills. I play mostly DD and mostly T8 to TX. The only russian ships i see now and then is Khabarovsk, which is usually ripped to bits by cruisers outside of my range and Moskva, long range camper, far out of my range. Any ideas?

I start to understand why we have 2 months to complete these missions.

 

if you are dd only player, then rewards are stupid for you.

btw some bb-s have torpedoes so they can still complete 200 torpedo hits

[MrConway]

Hmm, i'm just wondering how am i supposed to complete all the missions?

For example, there is the one with 500 secondary hits. How am i supposed to complete this mission as a pretty much DD-only player without secondaries? Similars apply for sure for purely BB players and the 200 torpedo hits mission.

Also, how can i complete the mission with kill 20 ships of each nation? I have killed 20 Japanese, 20 US, 20 German. But there are no russian ships to kill, i'm stuck at 5 or 6 kills. I play mostly DD and mostly T8 to TX. The only russian ships i see now and then is Khabarovsk, which is usually ripped to bits by cruisers outside of my range and Moskva, long range camper, far out of my range. Any ideas?

I start to understand why we have 2 months to complete these missions.

 

It is the perfect chance for you to move out of your comfort zone and try a different class of ship!

 

You have plenty of time to research and buy new ships to do the missions if you really want to do them!

[Admiral_noodle]

 

It is the perfect chance for you to move out of your comfort zone and try a different class of ship!

 

You have plenty of time to research and buy new ships to do the missions if you really want to do them!

 

Yeah pretty much this. I have gneisenau and Bismarck grinding to do so that's convenient - I'm planning what ships to play to synergies with the missions. I have three tier 8 cruisers to grind now so it seems like a good time!

[ThePurpleSmurf]

 

It is the perfect chance for you to move out of your comfort zone and try a different class of ship!

 

You have plenty of time to research and buy new ships to do the missions if you really want to do them!

 

Oh it's not so much of a comfort zone. It's more like Cruisers are nothing but frustrating because no matter what you do, you get deleted by BBs, especially if uptiered and i feel to have zero impact on the battle. I really would LOVE to play US Cruisers, but i think you know as well as everyone else here how much this Cruiser line sucks. And BBs... well quite honestly, i find them even more boring than to watch a 75 yrs old guy sit on a lake and fish for hours. BBs are slow, sluggish and waiting 30 seconds until i can shoot just so RNGesus dispersion gives me the finger and let me wait for another 30 seconds for a new try? Naaah thanks. 

[Admiral_noodle]

...then you won't get the ships. But since they are high tier cruisers anyway do you care?

 

Personally I think "cruisers always get deleted by bbs" is complete bs. Generally this isn't true. And getting up tiered in tier 8 is painful. But now is the time to play them with so many doing the missions.

[Panocek]

 

Oh it's not so much of a comfort zone. It's more like Cruisers are nothing but frustrating because no matter what you do, you get deleted by BBs, especially if uptiered and i feel to have zero impact on the battle. I really would LOVE to play US Cruisers, but i think you know as well as everyone else here how much this Cruiser line sucks. And BBs... well quite honestly, i find them even more boring than to watch a 75 yrs old guy sit on a lake and fish for hours. BBs are slow, sluggish and waiting 30 seconds until i can shoot just so RNGesus dispersion gives me the finger and let me wait for another 30 seconds for a new try? Naaah thanks. 

 

American battleboats with maxed out camo can be hilarious, though they aren't stellar for secondaries mission.

 

On other hand, Kiev have secondary battery. twin 85mm guns with 6.3km, so technically you can do it.

[eliastion]

 

It is the perfect chance for you to move out of your comfort zone and try a different class of ship!

 

You have plenty of time to research and buy new ships to do the missions if you really want to do them!

 

That would be true if these two missions were T5+. Yes, grinding a T5 BB or DD and then completing a mission definitely seems like a valid option for 2-month mission. But the torp mission is tier 6 (and 200 is a pretty big number for someone "coming out of their comfort zone") while the secondaries one is 7+. Grinding to t7 and then getting into enough brawling to accumulate 500 secondary battery hits doesn't really spell "trying new class" for me.

I'm somewhat OK with these missions since they are for ships that one could already pick up, and in missions that were not really torpboat or BB friendly (it's hard to score a lot of main battery hits on either - the first uses guns as supplementary weapon and the second relies on powerful hits, not big numbers of them). But they are imo quite a bit beyond the "step out of comfort zone for a bit" area.

 

What I'm more concerned about is the mission where you have to kill 20 soviet ships in t8+. The kill missions aren't really too good of a thing to begin with (why not "deal x% damage to Y ships"?) but here there is a distinct problem of lack of soviet ships. This problem means that soviet ships are likely to be focused more than usually, making them perform worse than usually and be more frustrating to play, leading to even less soviet ships... It's a potential vicious loop leading to making somewhat underpopulated branch of a tech tree even less played. Perhaps you could pass these concerns to the people above you? This kind of pressure on soviet ships players doesn't seem like a nice thing to them. I do plan to at least get a 1st win on Tashkent every day (since I'm planning to kill some soviets, I better provide some too, not that I'm planning on getting killed easily ) but that's a ship I don't really feel that bad if I get wrecked in it time and time again. For people who are more dedicated Russian ship players, however... these might be a really disheartening two months.

[eliastion]

 

American battleboats with maxed out camo can be hilarious, though they aren't stellar for secondaries mission.

 

On other hand, Kiev have secondary battery. twin 85mm guns with 6.3km, so technically you can do it.

 

There should be a special achievement for completing the mission with Kiev Imagine the grind  

[Panocek]

 

There should be a special achievement for completing the mission with Kiev Imagine the grind  

 

Actually I might try that on test server. Manual secondaries, AFT and Kiev

[Admiral_noodle]

The kill x of each nation is wrong in my opinion. And I won't be playing my Russian ships until 2017 if this is on. I was going to play Chapyev but I don't fancy being focussed by people looking for kills.

[eliastion]

 

Actually I might try that on test server. Manual secondaries, AFT and Kiev

 

Well, fun thing is that Kiev actually is one of the ships that benefit from most skills of secondary build a lot  

I mean, better reload is a no-brainer and better range - my personal favourite choice since it has soviet shell arcs (making it effective at extended range) while good speed makes it hard to nail (despite general squishiness) at greater distances. 

[ThePurpleSmurf]

 

American battleboats with maxed out camo can be hilarious, though they aren't stellar for secondaries mission.

 

On other hand, Kiev have secondary battery. twin 85mm guns with 6.3km, so technically you can do it.

 

I think as DD player my playstyle is way too agressive for CLs. Check out my pityful and embarassing record in New Orleans or Cruiser in general (my BB stats are very old of when i have played less than 600 battles i believe). It's just in my blood to rush forward and play objectives and kick the first target in the face that pops up on my screen. This does not work in a Cruiser, because a BB spots me, boooom 50% of my hp is gone.

[Gojuadorai]

 

You aren't 

 

but i have 

 

 

[LordMeru]

 

Oh it's not so much of a comfort zone. It's more like Cruisers are nothing but frustrating because no matter what you do, you get deleted by BBs, especially if uptiered and i feel to have zero impact on the battle. I really would LOVE to play US Cruisers, but i think you know as well as everyone else here how much this Cruiser line sucks. And BBs... well quite honestly, i find them even more boring than to watch a 75 yrs old guy sit on a lake and fish for hours. BBs are slow, sluggish and waiting 30 seconds until i can shoot just so RNGesus dispersion gives me the finger and let me wait for another 30 seconds for a new try? Naaah thanks. 

 

Try german battleships!

[ShuggieHamster]

not sure why theres so much resistance to trying something different even if only to learn the weaknesses of other classes.

I learned BBs for project R and Cvs for GNB ... if it hadnt been for those events I'd still be limited to Cruisers and DDs.

now I can play anything and have a good feel for where the other classes have issues that I can exploit.

find bbs slow and sluggish? - try the Kongo

dispersion an issue? - brawl in the german BBs

think you can multitask? - try a carrier

theres more to this game than a single play style.

[aboomination]

 

but i have 

 

You aren't OP. Everyone else ofc can beat the missions 

[krazypenguin]

The tier 8 mission requirements have pushed me into that tier before I felt comfortable that I was ready for it.  It's not going well so far...  I think the 50 wins will be *despite* my efforts, instead of because of them...  ;-)  

[Admiral_noodle]

The tier 8 mission requirements have pushed me into that tier before I felt comfortable that I was ready for it.  It's not going well so far...  I think the 50 wins will be *despite* my efforts, instead of because of them...  ;-)  

 

Do it in divisions

[eliastion]

 

Do it in divisions

 

Well. If he feels that he sucks, and finds another person like him - and if they BOTH actually do suck at t8... division might not be the ideal way to improve winrate  

[xXInfinityXx]

Hmm, i'm just wondering how am i supposed to complete all the missions?

For example, there is the one with 500 secondary hits. How am i supposed to complete this mission as a pretty much DD-only player without secondaries? Similars apply for sure for purely BB players and the 200 torpedo hits mission.

Also, how can i complete the mission with kill 20 ships of each nation? I have killed 20 Japanese, 20 US, 20 German. But there are no russian ships to kill, i'm stuck at 5 or 6 kills. I play mostly DD and mostly T8 to TX. The only russian ships i see now and then is Khabarovsk, which is usually ripped to bits by cruisers outside of my range and Moskva, long range camper, far out of my range. Any ideas?

I start to understand why we have 2 months to complete these missions.

 

Well, I can tell you how I got good progress on the missions I, with my range of ships, didn't reach.

 

I bought myself a Prinz Eugen. Now I have 100k XP on it alone and no gold to FreeXP to victory. But on the bright side, I'm well on my way to completing missions like the 100 damaged modules, that I just didn't seem to be able to do in BBs.

[Admiral_noodle]

I just need two wins at tier 8 and 11 Russian ships to complete the two missions left. Oh and a bunch of torp hits but I don't care about that mission.