[AMOC] NewHorizons_1 [AMOC] Players 3,860 posts 46,899 battles Report post #16701 Posted February 17, 2021 Vive la France!! First off, a shout out to Eob2 in the Helena who provided me with good support through the match while keeping his distance to avoid becoming BB fodder. New personal damage record in Lyon. Bot heavy match with only 3 players. I started off near the centre B cap but I headed off towards the east flank when all our bot DD died straight away, while their 3 were still lurking around. Fortunately Eob2 in the Helena was near that cap, so I backed him up against the enemy New York. 3 minutes in and the match was going badly, we had lost our destroyers and the enemy had taken two of the caps while we had yet to take one. So focussed my secondaries on a Podvoisky that had taken the centre cap and gave the New York a full 16 gun broadside for nearly 20k dmg. Our bot Montecuccoli must have softened up the Podvoisky as that died to my secondaries. A second salvo, including a citadel hit, finished off the New York. Still though the bots were due to win in 6m30s. We then lost our other Lyon in the C cap, now 5mins before we lost. Me and the Monte took the A cap just before one of their Lyons entered it. Fired a couple of salvoes but only did a few k of damage to the bow on BB. Then held my fire when it started to turn to engage our Montecuccoli which died soon after, now only me and Eob2 were left and 4m30s remained on the clock. Fired another 16 gun broadside into the flank of their Lyon for 24k dmg which was then finished off by an AP salvo from Eob2. We then headed towards the centre B cap, 3m20s left on the clock. Waiting for us was a pair of T-22s and the other Lyon. Eob2 took out one of them before it cleared the island from my viewpoint. As the other DD came into view I fired a salvo for 3k dmg, not quite enough to sink it but thankfully finished off by the Helena. Those two kills gave us a little breathing space, now 3m45s remaining. Held my fire and waited for the Lyon to show its broadside a gave it a 3 turret salvo for around 25k dmg, secondaries also set some fires which simmered away. Dodged torps from the enemy Montecuccoli and fired a few more shots at the Lyon which then burnt to death by those secondary fires. Now that I was contesting B cap and the sinking of their Lyon we had 6m55s to go. Spotted the enemy Montecuccoli had sneaked behind the island and was going for Eob2 in the Helena, so I swung the ship around to bring the main guns to bear and sunk it with a citadel hit, now around 7m30s remaining. Now, just one enemy left - a Kongo. Carried on in the hard turn to remain inside B cap (about 12sec before we owned it) and bring my guns to engage the bow-on Kongo. While in the middle of the turn gave it a full salvo for surprising 11k of dmg. The turn briefly took me behind an island which allowed me to finish capping B. When the Kongo reappeared I did think about going for a ram, but fired another salvo into the angled Kongo's superstructure for 7k. As the BB showed its flat broadside I hit it for around 12k of damage. Victory was clinched from the jaws of defeat when an AP salvo from Eob2's Helena sank the Kongo! 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SHAD] Miscommunication_dept Players 5,512 posts 24,438 battles Report post #16702 Posted February 17, 2021 Testing the range mod on the Stalingrad before it will cost doubloons to mount it. Had a couple of games where I made good use of the range . I think I'll keep it! 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CHEFT] DFens_666 Players 13,162 posts 11,029 battles Report post #16703 Posted February 17, 2021 When the game starts like this, its game on right away 2 ships lost at the 3 minute mark AND also both caps lost... Halfway through, one of our teammates (who ofc killed himself by blindfiring into Friesland smoke to get farmed to death, but NOT directly rushing its smoke ) said, i hope YOU lose the game (to our div). Really, these people think they are not losing in that case?! 70k spotting even jees. And getting shot at from everything across the map, i hate MMM, and potato alert and whatelse. These people see 65% WR on their screen and its some sort of magnet. So [edited]annoying, i hope WG adds an anonymizer at some point. Cant stand that [edited]. Also weirdly, i start to like drake One of the better T9 techtree Cruisers i think. Very tanky, the heal is nice (friesland started 5!! fires on me) and the HE power is very nice. Slapping an Alaska for 9k is funny 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SPURD] Itwastuesday Players 1,768 posts 13,575 battles Report post #16704 Posted February 17, 2021 Last Izumo game in the IJN regrind... Things looking grim, been chased by Thundelel and Yamato all game and a chungmu and who knows what, and we're losing all caps. But the enemy team somehow loses a bunch of ships and I push middle, alone, against the chungmu, Yamato and Thunderer. Hi Yamato, do you know about the cheek? I do. Somebody in their team flames him for losing brawl to Izumo. How about flame themselves for being dead and not able to impact the game? Some people. Hello old friend, how I've missed never shooting HE. 11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skurfa Beta Tester 809 posts Report post #16705 Posted February 17, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 9:34 PM, Deckeru_Maiku said: right at the start our BaBBies and Crusassers did the often seen "Left goes right, right goes left, DDs go everywhere" dance... Valid tactic.... you confuse the enemy into thinking backwards is forwards and forwards is backwards, and they charge away from the caps. 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CHEFT] ForlornSailor Players 7,374 posts 11,735 battles Report post #16706 Posted February 17, 2021 1 hour ago, DFens_666 said: Halfway through, one of our teammates (who ofc killed himself by blindfiring into Friesland smoke to get farmed to death, but NOT directly rushing its smoke ) said, i hope YOU lose the game (to our div). Really, these people think they are not losing in that case?! I took a screen of that. Not gonna lie: it got my blood boiling. While I am / we are fighting like crazy to try and keep the chance alive to win this game, this **** yolos his BB to death, because in his skull filled with potato-mash, the game is lost. And he f**** doesnt understand, how Tashkent needs to be played (he targeted me before that, didnt manage to screenshot it, too busy with the game). Cant even gasp the fact, that I already passed 80k damage. Yea, sure "just cap" with 2 alaska and a drake literally sitting IN the cap! Then look at the points/caps/time. We were fighting to grab kills and push towards the caps before the enemys reach 1000 points. My last action was to rush down the last enemy DD because I wanted to make sure, they cant come back again - I killed Friesland and the shot in the air from the dead Friesland still got me. But yea, worth it, cuz that clinged the win. What a game... stress, but such a comback just feels like epic win! (especially when you have one "teammate" rooting against you constantly in chat. Middle finger goes out to you, if you ever read this.) 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[THESO] KillStealBoss Players 12,123 posts 62,182 battles Report post #16707 Posted February 17, 2021 Nothing amazing in dmg but die hard in a DD? lol. 5 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[AMOC] NewHorizons_1 [AMOC] Players 3,860 posts 46,899 battles Report post #16708 Posted February 18, 2021 New personal damage record for not only cruisers but also T10. Using Zao as an oversized destroyer. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[PEZ] Yedwy Players 11,301 posts 39,586 battles Report post #16709 Posted February 18, 2021 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CHEFT] DFens_666 Players 13,162 posts 11,029 battles Report post #16710 Posted February 18, 2021 After trying to have fun with secondary Pommern in ranked, which, how can i put this, didnt turn out to be as fun as i hoped it would. Alltho not because of the ship, but rather because of my teammates. First game 2 AFKs (one was talking, but refused to move because we didnt go where he ordered us to , btw he is a 39% player with >14k games) and the 2nd half my team yoloed into the enemies 1 by 1 before the 5 minute mark. So then i was like "Fine, ill take a DD", which ofc the game used to troll me. When playing BB, both games had 3 DDs/side. So what happens when i pick DD? Yep, 1 DD game, with CV and 2 Radar Cruisers on the enemy team But Fletcher is stronk Also for some reason, the 2 ships coming with me actually managed to deal damage upon my spotting (100k). 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CDD] Dutchy_2019 Players 1,927 posts 13,486 battles Report post #16711 Posted February 18, 2021 18 hours ago, MacArthur92 said: Nothing amazing in dmg but die hard in a DD? lol. Yup. Once had the same with a Podvoisky butt-slapping a Minekaze (panick move because I potato' d the rush) capping our base. Laughed a lot, and part of my team was like 'WTF ?!' I thought the same while nearly falling out of my chair laughing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[LAFIE] lafeel Beta Tester 7,707 posts 7,856 battles Report post #16712 Posted February 18, 2021 All in all a productive day. Some good games, blasted through directive 1 like it was a piece of cake, and got this. (side note, spent 3k doubloons to get 1200 tokens) 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CHEFT] DFens_666 Players 13,162 posts 11,029 battles Report post #16713 Posted February 18, 2021 Killing (almost) all DDs in 2 Smaland games... still wasnt enough in the first one even, because team was just camping in spawn, yet still dying They rather lose and survive, than try something. Tallinn with 8k HP One more from Ranked, Hizen camps island. Reverses one side, i see him accelerate. Rush ahead, torp where he is going out, run away. Wasnt a flawless execution as he saw me for a split second before he ate the torps, then flooded to death Outplaying a Kitakaze with Fletcher: 1. Outspot him 2. Slowdown and shoot him 3. Hope he shoots back - he did and stays spotted 4. Shoot him for 20 secs 5. Throw torps while leaving own smoke to dodge his torps 6. Hit it with a torp 7. Receive minor damage (<2k) 8. CV comes in and snags the kill at <300 HP (see 20.432 damage of whatever he has max) 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SCRUB] WolfGewehr Weekend Tester, In AlfaTesters 2,844 posts 11,496 battles Report post #16714 Posted February 18, 2021 Spoiler Spoiler 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TOXIC] ThePurpleSmurf Players 2,554 posts Report post #16715 Posted February 18, 2021 That's some decent credits (no mission bonus credits) and potential damage for a Jean Bart. Also, a Paolo tried his little smoke-rush-torp trick on me but found out the hard way, that a BB with speed boost and reload boost is something he don't wanna mess with. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NTT] arquata2019_ Players 2,248 posts 17,471 battles Report post #16716 Posted February 18, 2021 @Beastofwar yolo emilio vs 3 same ppl clan BE LIKE 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NTT] arquata2019_ Players 2,248 posts 17,471 battles Report post #16717 Posted February 18, 2021 1 ora fa, ThePurpleSmurf ha scritto: That's some decent credits (no mission bonus credits) and potential damage for a Jean Bart. Also, a Paolo tried his little smoke-rush-torp trick on me but found out the hard way, that a BB with speed boost and reload boost is something he don't wanna mess with. ribbon mod name? gg btw 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TOXIC] ThePurpleSmurf Players 2,554 posts Report post #16718 Posted February 18, 2021 3 minutes ago, arquata2019 said: ribbon mod name? gg btw I don't know. New modpack came out because of the patch and all ribbon mods were removed for the moment so i can not check it. But it was something simple like Ribbons v2 or something like this. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NECRO] Deckeru_Maiku Beta Tester 6,636 posts 24,864 battles Report post #16719 Posted February 19, 2021 Only played three random battles today, due to italian missions being doabled in CoOp. So I started with - surprise, surprise - the Ranger. The last couple days I was shown my limits by getting uncarryable teams. So my hopes today weren't very high, even when PotatoAlert showed my a +2% winrate advantage for my team over the opposing team. 49% to 47% doesn't sound that promising... Luckily the enemy CV was quite potato-ish and the DDs in my team proved to not be completely incompetent. So me sinking one of the three enemy DDs gave us an edge. As did taking out the enemy Nürnberg when it tried to keep an allied DD from taking the B cap (on Strait map, domination mode). After that is was mopping up duty, sinking two already damaged enemy BBs - Bayern and Warspite. The battle ended shortly after that Warspite kill as we reached the 1000 pts margin. So 4 kills, 72k damage and 4.5k PR got recorded for me. In my Furious I got a T8 battle with only two T6 (non CV) ships per team, with a Baltimore and Cleveland being the enemy cruisers, and T7 and T8 Euro DDs... as expect it didn't turn out too well, as also this time my team had a 3% lower average winrate. And yes, it showed... I barely managed 30k damage, didn't sink a single ship - even though I damaged all three enemy DDs and helped getting two of them sunk by spotting them... still the battle was lost. And as I try to play my Krispy Kreme every day, she had the honour to my last random battle candidate for the day. And as there was a Krispy Kreme on the enemy team, I did reward a +1 karma to the "other masochist in the other Krispy Kreme", as I always do when I face a Krispy Kreme in battle. Oh, of course it was a T6 battle with a CV, as so often when playing the KK. And the teams were kinda equal-ish, even when it meant equally bad (~47% average winrate, said PotatoAlert). So from the start I knew that I had to make an impression and an effort to carry this sack of potatoes. In the end I managed to sink an enemy DD and two BBs - even though not all on my own - and gathered with these 3 sinkers 76k damage and a 4.9k PR, even though the honor to secure our win went to our last survivor - a DD - who managed barely not to get killed by the last surviving enemy ship - a german BB - while the counter finally reached the 1000 pts. Yeah, I might have avoided to get sunk myself, and yeah, I put a lot of pressure on our DD by playing risky... but when I checked before going after the next to last enemy BB the DD was safely hiding away from the other BB and we were already ahead 900 to 200 or so, which in my book read as "Battle won of the DD doesn't do anything utterly stupid". Which he luckily really didn't... 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[SPURD] Itwastuesday Players 1,768 posts 13,575 battles Report post #16720 Posted February 19, 2021 Some Hindenburg play, finally settled on a build that's just fairly normal with the damage increases and mediocre concealment. Uh oh, there's still a Shimakaze and we're down so many points. I rushed down an Iowa and a Baltimore before this so I have about enough HP to die immediately to Shimakaze guns. Hah, a good joke. Like any Shimakaze uses guns! 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[BOATY] The_Chiv Players 1,592 posts 18,060 battles Report post #16721 Posted February 19, 2021 Some decent AA numbers for the Alaska. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[CHEFT] ForlornSailor Players 7,374 posts 11,735 battles Report post #16722 Posted February 19, 2021 It had to be done :) Spoiler Best shot of the game - that is actually on the Vladivostok on I6, 27km away ^^ And the exact same damage on the Kurfürst oO Not 100% happy with the end - I reversed to drop detection, because I was on double fire and used DCP for them. Which worked but.... a DD from out of B cap blindfires over the island in my direction, hit one shell and what? gets a fire. So Im detected again. Ofc from a Thunderer I dont expect anything else but HE (he puts fire no 2 on me) BUT the Kurfürst also shoots HE and... perma fire number 3. I die to the fire exactly 1 sec before my heal is up again. sigh. Could have been a much better game. btw, what I only realize now: Okinawa of all maps :) You did that on purpose, right WG? :D 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[-EXS-] Hades_warrior Players 5,381 posts 6,643 battles Report post #16723 Posted February 19, 2021 Can't complain. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[AMOC] NewHorizons_1 [AMOC] Players 3,860 posts 46,899 battles Report post #16724 Posted February 19, 2021 Dusted off Adm Graf Spee for the 50% 1st win bonus and some commander XP on my 19pt Scharnhorst/Bismarck captain. The Aoba pulled a hard turn right in front of me. Do you reckon there may have been fish on the menu? Got a perfect salvo from the front turret into the broadside Aoba : 3 citadels and sunk it before those torps were launched. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NWP] Bear__Necessities Players 5,291 posts 15,376 battles Report post #16725 Posted February 19, 2021 How to sum up today 2 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
