[H_FAN] Gnirf Players 3,293 posts 67,343 battles Report post #9176 Posted October 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Aragathor said: I'm not clubbing, scouts honor! In that ship it is really impressive 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[BBMM] BLUB__BLUB [BBMM] Players 8,818 posts 17,194 battles Report post #9177 Posted October 27, 2018 This Bone-arch thing is even worse than King Grog the Filth. However, I think I have found a way... Almost 100k, so it's not too bad sometimes. Now see if I can get over 150 with it... But of course it's a loss, again. Dúh. Probably I'm just the biggest potato in the cart that rolls down the hill. Spoiler Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] aboomination Players 5,763 posts 16,940 battles Report post #9178 Posted October 28, 2018 Working on my new profile pic (Yes, it's an abomination from Warcraft 3 with a weeb GER captain's hat) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sisito0o Players 271 posts 3,399 battles Report post #9179 Posted October 28, 2018 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[BBMM] BLUB__BLUB [BBMM] Players 8,818 posts 17,194 battles Report post #9180 Posted October 28, 2018 56 minutes ago, sisito0o said: Spoiler This is why they 'rebalance' the CVs. If the other one gets deleted (he is third from under), there is no stopping you from killing the whole team. Which still takes skill though, so GG and well played. I'm a bit sorry for the other team, must be frustrating. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] aboomination Players 5,763 posts 16,940 battles Report post #9181 Posted October 28, 2018 @havaduck look, it's you - on my back, getting carried being my eyes and brains I need a pic of your ducks, tho - that captain's hat of yours is not warm enough! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sisito0o Players 271 posts 3,399 battles Report post #9182 Posted October 28, 2018 3 hours ago, BLUB__BLUB said: This is why they 'rebalance' the CVs. If the other one gets deleted (he is third from under), there is no stopping you from killing the whole team. Which still takes skill though, so GG and well played. I'm a bit sorry for the other team, must be frustrating. Honestly I feel sorry as well, in that battle after I took the last cap I just rushed with my carrier towards enemy ships and so they killed me. But it's better to feel sorry for the enemy then the other way around, besides they say "strike what is weak, avoid what is strong" so I do ^^ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] Leo_Apollo11 Quality Poster 7,146 posts 31,549 battles Report post #9183 Posted October 28, 2018 Hi all, Many nice matches lately... I didn't post though... #1 Kraken is always good to have... nice match in "Alsace"... #2 My new personal best "Base XP"... nice "Yamato" game... #3 My farewell game for "Bismarck"... it was worthy end... #4 Nice "Donski" game... I really like this ship... #5 "Kamikaze R" was perfect for new "Ranked Sprint #1"... #6 Nice "Montana" game... Leo "Apolo11" 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NECRO] Deckeru_Maiku Beta Tester 6,636 posts 24,864 battles Report post #9184 Posted October 28, 2018 Ok, have to start with the yesterday stats.... After the first six battles I had a straight 100% winrate... solo... random matches... and some nice battles done... should have stopped then... in the end I still had a 55% winrate after 18 battles, but there were some really horrible battles among that. Good battles I had in the Admiral Hippster (win, 72k damage) and Izumo (win, 83k damage) but both came without any sinkers done... One game I could have had great stats in... Edinburgh on Neighbours Domination, starting south-east. Went to A cap accompanying a DD. An enemy DD pushed ours out of the cap, so I sneaked around the island 'til I had him in sonar range and finished him off... just to see torps appear behind me from my "allied" DD. No warning.. no "sorry" just getting sunk by that ret.... menatlly challenged player with several hundred DD games under his belt... and he isn't even a potato, but a real average 52% or so player. Feels Batman... So as a result I ddin't expect much for today. But it seems, RNGesus wanted to reward me for my patience the day before... six of seven battles won (85% winrate) and some real fun ones among them... like... T10 battle, Domination on Shatter (starting south-east) in my Bismarck. Seven T10 and one T9 ship - Cruisers and BBs mostly - saw me sailing up to the C cap, getting around it whilebeing shelled by a Minotaur, that ate a citadel in response... A cap was fought for and B & C were already taken by the enemy at that point. So before it could turn into an island humping competition I decided to effing push the sh*t out of that battle... The second Bismarck on our team followed me and when I turned the corner the Cleveland I knew was waiting for me poor dude.. no torps... - was my first target, with a Montana sending shells at me from the horizon. Took a while to get that Cleveland sunk, so then I turned towards B - still in enemy hands - and towards the Minotaur that still hid there. A DD showed some suicidal attitude by first trying to torp me and then waiting in his smoke for me to get closer... Turned my bow to it and steamed straight at him, even though my sonar was still on reload. Before Icould take care of that DD the enemy Minotaur showed itself, coming at me through the DDs smoke and sending torps... but so badly, that I could dodge all of them and return some love to the Minotaur in the form of a well placed salvo that sank it... the DD tried to retreat, but failed... He bravely (and again sucidal) ducked behind the island north of B, then started to shimmy back, just to get caught by my no longer reloading sonar and some secondary (and a main gun) shell(s) and the killing shot by an allied cruiser. On the other side of the island waited a Worcester, and as I couldn't remember if it had torps, I just kept it within my somar range to let others wreck it... which didn't take long. So after capping B, I made my way north, right into the sight of an enemy Richelieu. Charging it like a musketeer I took some hits, but after the first salvo the Ritchie decided to swap to HE... yeah, give me loads of that, friend... got some heals left... while I aimed for superstructure and guns with AP until I had a nice look at a french broadside, that looked very inviting and immediately got penetrated for some big boom... Soon after that the battle ended. With 152k damage done, 3 sinkers a cap (or two?) and a 5178 WOWs S&N rating I was quite satisfied but still astonished to find myself at the #1 spot of the winning team... with all those T10 ships behind me... wowza... Another - for me - impressive game came in my Kamikaze (Domination on Fault Line, starting north-west) when I sailed towards the A cap (the western one...) to run into two enemy DDs and a cruiser... luckily for me all of them weren't very skilled, so I managed to torp one DD and then turned north to run away... zzzzing... screen freezes.. Had to reboot windows and get back into the game, which took me a minute or so... To my astonishment I was still alive, alas far from the cap.. Engage the speed boost and get back into battle... After helping a BB to cap A we turned towards the enemy held B and my real battle began... In the end I managed two more sinkers and ended the battle with three sinkers, only 38k damage done, a win and a 2471 WoWS S&N rating. And there was a 81k damage, one sinker (BB) battle in my Brick'ish Edinburgh giving another win... So yeah, RNGesus was kind to me today, giving me good allied players, competitive battles and some successes... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] WolfGewehr Weekend Tester, In AlfaTesters 2,844 posts 11,496 battles Report post #9185 Posted October 28, 2018 Today was cruiser day. 28k base xp to go for Moskva's LU. Spoiler Be it big or small, we don't discriminate. All cruisers are welcome. Spoiler From one extreme ballistics to another; time to lob shells on enemy via orbit. Spoiler 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jss78 Players 1,292 posts 12,864 battles Report post #9186 Posted October 29, 2018 Le Terrible doing the quintessential French thing -- losing heroically. (I say this with affection.) I actually really, really like this ship. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NWP] Blixies Beta Tester, Players 2,160 posts 6,904 battles Report post #9187 Posted October 29, 2018 Today's grind for the LM wen't better than expected (played solo). I did the third mission (15000 free xp) in the last game, got 18k fxp in that one (all the free XP signals and camo stacked). Time for 15 co-op games tomorrow, can't wait :D 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[ICI] Linkaex [ICI] Players 817 posts 4,619 battles Report post #9188 Posted October 29, 2018 My first 4 games today in the Fushun :') Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[VAR] Ulvesnutepostei Players 636 posts 8,871 battles Report post #9189 Posted October 29, 2018 Even though it was an embarrassing defeat I finally got the last AA acheivement to end the Honorable Service campaign Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
havaduck ∞ Players 2,989 posts 11,824 battles Report post #9190 Posted October 30, 2018 Been a while. Finally some free time and used it to go out a little and other stuff. Today I finally played ranked again........ and boy, its basically getting you soul flayed. The shít you experience there ........ Best game, not damage or experience wise but I got a lot of kills, caped, took damage. Ofc my own dd fúcked my, because thats what your team does. I am not talking about basic retarded play, but concious sabotage. Every time some gaping *human orifice* get the chance to [edited]you in this 1 vs 11 they will take it with absolute efficiency. I now harbour the theory that this is in fact a prehistoric petrified WoWs ranked player, but I am not sure if it big and gaping enough. Solo I played today 7 ranked games - won 5 of them. I was about to ragequit there and then. Thankfully went to play some ops and the 3 more ranked - but in a division with lup3s this time. And that immediately isnt so bad. Not only there is a division to share the salt - there is less salt to go around. And before somebody says something about ragequitting at above 70 % solo WR: It doesnt matter! Thats not the damn point! Up to this day this is the most honest ranked-cast I have ever heard, yet somehow my games are even more desperate: Spoiler Anyway just because I feel like it and Cataclysm is great: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anonym_2hneAFaIyP4T Players 606 posts Report post #9191 Posted October 30, 2018 Believe it or not, it's taken me this long to get over 130k damage . Of course it was a defeat Spoiler And my third ever sunray game - all of them have been 4 stars so far. My bad for not playing the objective I suppose (no, I didn't even get in range of the 'bosses') Spoiler Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
havaduck ∞ Players 2,989 posts 11,824 battles Report post #9192 Posted October 31, 2018 3 random today: Spent most of the game getting fúcked by the enemy CV; he kept me perma spotted for 3 (or 4? cant remember) BBs + Balancegrad. Its a T8 carrier, he is attacking trough the AA aura of at least 3 T10 ships and one is a AFT + Range-Mod + Def.AA T10 cruiser - and yet the Sky Cancer still gets planes trough + as a bonus nearly me killed via vision and keeping me spotted. Balanced! And ofc he has the reserve planes to do that a few times - even better! Later on, after crushing a flanking DD (he didnt smoke, I didnt radar ) we had the upper hand at the enemies arguably stronger flank so this was a clear win. Traded also shots with Iceys Balancegrad - did more damage to him in the game than vice versa, so that is good too. Spoiler Next game: More shitcruisers! Because nothing scream "I counter you" than sitting 6 km from a DD you cant see with 15 torps that can kill/criple you in 2-3 hits. So I started zoning this guy out. Asked div. mate Freyr to help me but he wasnt spotted, that meant he was further pushing into our half of the map south. AGES LATER, and barely dodged (expected, yet poorly executed, yet barely dodgeable) torps I had this corned in the bottom right VERY edge of the entire map! Balanced! So after another age or two motering my [edited]back into battle from the first time I saw A10 in ....... years?, I again joined the battle and kept a Musashi from tipping the balance. And lets be honest: After the nerf this is a pretty shitty cruiser with bad arcs, so getting the ocasional fire and getting citadeled is all its good for. Spoiler Ah, and my current hate grind: Monarch. Then again, could be worse. I could be driving a shitty cruiser. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[COSTS] Greystreak Players 29 posts 4,832 battles Report post #9193 Posted October 31, 2018 A noob, carried by his Clan-mates to a Five Star finish on my first run of this Operation, with zero damage, and no losses: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
havaduck ∞ Players 2,989 posts 11,824 battles Report post #9194 Posted October 31, 2018 I was actually hoping for lup3s to carry my lowly áss around but ...... time was running out, and with only 3-4 hours left I had to wade through the sewers all alone. 5 games, 3 wins = I could bore you with stories about the pink DD + B10 DD (south spawn ofc) both being dead within minutes, but I will limit myself to just scenes from one game, that is the quintessence from ranked. Well without the aspect of people being absolute squal0r trying to screw you, but its still pretty close. So lets go, Ill explains as we go. This first one I chose to represent a cruisers perspective: From below the water surface. It doesnt get more realistic than that, thanks to WGs awesome balancing. I am a cruiser main so I know to absolutely play the fúck anything but a cruiser in ranked. I would even play a CV instead ...... DDs: Ah, they can loose the battle the fastest and most decisively; and they know it! They will miss no chance to fúck you this way or invent other more creative ways if you try to carry. Example: So this is our PA DD already getting his áss handed to him and forced to smoke while only inflicting superficial damage on the enemy Nicholas. Now, having a cloaked uncontested DD infront is never good, but a Nicholas cant stealthtorp (he can if you come towards him) so in general we should be fine. Our DD could get B (for free even), even C maybe and harass the BBs over there. You know be useful and make the most of his remaining hp. Of course the fucktard cant be convinced, "must throw game!" is what is his DD-cutiemark is telling him. Bonus pts for not having smoke ready anymore and charging in again, even more bonus pts for already nearly getting killed by torps fired into his smoke. So the only reason this isnt over after the most driven and eloquent sabotage is because I blapped the Nicholas. The more keen eyed of you might have spotted the Kongo and Texas doing the usual border patrol thingy. To be fair, the Kongo was by far the bigger coward but anyway this leads us to ........ The Battletards! This is exactly how things usually look. I am in front of everyone else. This position is carefully chosen, and I am contesting B which is crucial because the enemy has a lead in pts and caps. Like fúck, I am actually more save here than with some pinky DD still alive on my side ...... You know, I give the tardatoes a lot of shít but they deserve it. Look, you cant make this shít up! I am caping, being the sole target for the whole enemy team AND YET the Global Gluesniffer Positioning Service (GGPS) is guiding them all to the same fúcking point behind an island where they can potentially and efficiently lose the game for us. But Hava, thats just one unfortunate screen, you cant be sure they are all ballless cowards trying to throw the game? O yeah? Yes, I got the cap, yes I survived without issues, yes we won that one, but god damn what a shitshow. Seriously how can they be this cowardish? No DD anymore, no CV in the game, no HE spam AND there is somebody in front of them. It is still not the fúck enough to get battleshits out of their natural hiding position. Some screens: Adjusted for a win I was close to 1800 base already, but we had only 2 players at most. You know our Furutaka could have easily caped, and I explained to him to go dark and use camo, but alas why listen to me. He hid with little health behind the island til everyone was dead - then he ran to waste our time some more. Now whats shocking, thats the best of the potatoes. The other 3 were actually WORSE ad hard as that is to believe. I tried to get both cruisers to HE spam the enemy battleships instead of sitting behind island and do nothing; you know USE those damn island and just spam them to death instead of fapping with both hands. Is it that hard? Apparently it is. Spoiler From the game above. I tanked a lot in this one, and still didnt suffer enough damage for a Dreadnought. But caps are scary n shít must hide behind islands ...... Thats a good one too. In this game our DDs immediately proofed to be utter shitmongers. So we immediately played with 0 vs 2 DDs and the enemy had the cap in Epicenter. This time I lost a lot more hps breaking the stalemate. And I chose to trade to make sure to take out the Cesare. Wasnt a huge trade. A few k ship for another few k ship - equal roughly. We were turning things around but getting rid of a Kamikaze and a Acasta while fighting equal amount of BBs? Dodging torps alone means you WILL give broadside ........ Anyway it was our Bretagne vs a Acasta and a Texas in the end. So all things considered a 1 vs 1,1 (yes Acasta is THAT useless). Acasta (was already low) gets spotted and killed by Bretagne. I tell him to turn left because he most definitely has torped. He listens at the last possible moment and alas, dodges the torps. So its him vs Texas and both on equal hp. Now I dont know anything about Bretagne, but Texas probably has better guns. Bretagne should have better angles and HE. This is a fights of wits! I tell him he will be spotted by planes, the NY is coming around and that he need to angle and turn right. He however turns left, eats one salvo that takes of nearly 2/3 of the max. hp in one go. Yeah ......... indeed, a fights of wits - or lack thereof. Then he just runs away. Literally JUST running away. He doesnt even shoot back. Hell even his turrets are not pointing at the enemy. Like wtf am I watching there? ............ Sorry but I am powerless against that amount of stupidity. This one gave me R1. Nothing special. Team wasnt crap for once. Didnt need to and couldnt do much. I am probably missing at least another 100 k game - but whatever ......... So whats the conclusion? I think it took me ~23 games. 23 games makes it also my longest ranked season to date ......... and with good reason. I might try the next sprint as well (if I get a div.) but in general? Just no. I have plenty of cleaning chemicals I could drink and which is indeed both more fun and healthy than playing ranked. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] aboomination Players 5,763 posts 16,940 battles Report post #9195 Posted October 31, 2018 0,3,3,4,5 - it's actually pretty easy, but most players are still struggling with controls atm 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] aboomination Players 5,763 posts 16,940 battles Report post #9196 Posted October 31, 2018 11 hours ago, havaduck said: Ponies Today's stream is pretty nice! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NECRO] Deckeru_Maiku Beta Tester 6,636 posts 24,864 battles Report post #9197 Posted October 31, 2018 I managed to set up an IKEA couch without any troubles... And in the game I did my first - and only - tour in a sub, getting five stars without doing really much... Only had time for a few more battles after that. Had a loss in the Izumo... Took my Kamikaze for a ride and ended up in a T7 battle... ah, well... one T7 BB, Cruiser and DD each, couple T6 and lots of T5, including a Kamikaze on the enemy team. When the enemy pushed to hard on the eastern side I was at, I went for the middle of the map, trying to torp a Kongo on the way there and missing it, but insta-killing the Kamikaze, that I hadn't even spotted. Lucker, yes, that's me... After that I managed to stick five torps in that Kongo, but didn't sink it... but it was downed by an allied BB... Managed to sink a König though, by sticking some torps in it. Also did a bit of capping... so two sinkers, 98k damage, 4420 WoWs S&N rating... normal Kamikaze on T7 match... And I ended in aT7 match (Domination on Neighbours) with my Krasny Krim... annoying enemy BBs and DDs at maximum range, sinking an Aoba and harassing a Leander out of it's smoke, so I got sunk by an ally... In the end I got sunk by the last surviving enemy ship - a New York - that needed four salvos to sink me, while I sailed more or less straight ahead at it... three salvos missed me, when I already way below 100 hp *giggles*. A minute after I went down, the game was won when that New York got sunk, too... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] aboomination Players 5,763 posts 16,940 battles Report post #9198 Posted November 1, 2018 When you spot the eastern tower and still are the first one to enter the lair Spoiler 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] aboomination Players 5,763 posts 16,940 battles Report post #9199 Posted November 1, 2018 @havaduck KW is basically a Gerfaclon on steroids (and very good looking) - 6 torps in the front, 4 in the back, but very weak secondaries. So, on par with the Barracuda in my book - less fires but more floods - and 1 knot faster. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] aboomination Players 5,763 posts 16,940 battles Report post #9200 Posted November 1, 2018 Guess I will write a small guide for this ops now - sadly can't upload the replay on the wows replay website, it was just perfect from start to finish...ok, Rasputin was my kill as well, but whatever 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
