What do you play when a new ship line is released?

[RenamedUser_92906789]

Hey people,

 

I have been wondering how many of you play this way.

Usually I just play ships I like. Or I just play my premiums to stock up on the credits.

 

But when a new ship line is released I hate playing them right away.

I try to counter them. So when a new BB line is released I play my DDs, when a new CL line is released I play my BBs and when a new DD line is released I play my cruisers.

 

Now with the PA DDs about to be released I started playing my French CL line and German DD line.

I will mostly try to counter them with my cruisers and gunboat DDs.

 

This is one of the "enjoyments" I have with this game - countering the meta.

 

How about you? What do you do when new lines are released and the MM is flooded with same class ships?

[The_Tyke]

This post makes it sound as if you will be facing entire teams of PA.

 

Half those new DDs will be on your team, and they will not comprise the entire team on either side.

 

Instead of changing your game to combat 40% (at most) of the enemy, what will you do to support the ones on your own team?

 

I will be playing my usuals, for the sake of the poll. If I change it will be only because I have lately focussed DDs, and I envisage horrific queues. I will play RN cruisers if that proves to be the case.

[RenamedUser_92906789]

32 minutes ago, The_Tyke said:

This post makes it sound as if you will be facing entire teams of PA.

 

Half those new DDs will be on your team, and they will not comprise the entire team on either side.

 

Instead of changing your game to combat 40% (at most) of the enemy, what will you do to support the ones on your own team?

 

I will be playing my usuals, for the sake of the poll. If I change it will be only because I have lately focussed DDs, and I envisage horrific queues. I will play RN cruisers if that proves to be the case.

 

Im surprised how some of you guys get stuck in details. You know exactly what I ment :)

With the recent RN BB release I had like ALL BBs being RN ones in  team (or most of them). I didnt mean that whole team was composed from RN BBs only :)

[Capra76]

I guess it depends upon the line, I don't see PA DD as being that significant and I doubt they'll be that popular so there's not much reason to adjust to them, for something that is more of a game-changer, maybe.

[kfa]

I will be playing more CVs to counter them because i find them boring. They are just US DDs with slightly tweaked torps i am sure as hell wont be spending any free xp on that.

[ThePurpleSmurf]

I play as usual and do not jump on the new line hype train, that most people seem to enjoy. For the PA DD in particular, i was very interested in this line but the more i have seen them on streams, youtube and so on, the more i think that these DDs will most likely be played only by very few people, especially at high tier (8+).

Their main weakness is the lack to torp enemy DDs and this cripple these DDs by a lot. It will be extremely hard to contest cap zones and hunt down enemy DDs, flushing them out of smokes with torps and so on. This will result in, most of the time, pityful rewards XP-wise (can't torp DDs = huge xp loss, can't contest caps = huge xp loss, and so on).

I really expect to see very few of these ships at tier 8+ because people who try the line will realise how difficult they will be to be played and drop the line at tier 6, maybe 7, because the tier 7 seem to be the best DD in this line.

[RAHJAILARI]

Was planning to go cruiser myself. hate those long queues, when everyone is trying to play the new line all at once. When they released the RN BB's I played DD, so more of the same I guess... See how they can be countered then.

 

Although I must admit, I have been playing Cruisers almost exclusively lately, since I have decided to start learning how to play them (still somewhat of a of a potato, I admit), so you could say I'm just gonna continue with the usual never-the-less.

 

Might be a bit of a hardship position though, since these ones have the dreaded anti-Cruiser torps in them. Hmmm, mebbe, if I just bravely skulk behind our own BB's (instead of like, trying to protect them from DD's or some other foolish and suicidal stuff) and feed them to the sharks first?

[Capra76]

27 minutes ago, kfa said:

They are just US DDs with slightly tweaked torps i am sure as hell wont be spending any free xp on that.

 

3, 5 & 7 look interesting as a sneak preview of the RN line, T7 if anything looks a bit too good but no doubt it'll be nerfed before release (i.e. some time today).

[_DeathWing_]

 

[RAHJAILARI]

Excellent tip @_DeathWing_, lucky for me - I do have an Aki...

[T0byJug]

3 hours ago, nambr9 said:

Hey people,

 

I have been wondering how many of you play this way.

Usually I just play ships I like. Or I just play my premiums to stock up on the credits.

 

But when a new ship line is released I hate playing them right away.

I try to counter them. So when a new BB line is released I play my DDs, when a new CL line is released I play my BBs and when a new DD line is released I play my cruisers.

 

Now with the PA DDs about to be released I started playing my French CL line and German DD line.

I will mostly try to counter them with my cruisers and gunboat DDs.

 

This is one of the "enjoyments" I have with this game - countering the meta.

 

How about you? What do you do when new lines are released and the MM is flooded with same class ships?

It was not so bad when the RN BBs were released as they seemed to be a Cap on the number in a battle.. 

As one of the 2 Clan DD players I have a responsibility to get to to the Tier X Pan Asian DD ASAP. so i will be playing them....

But I will also be taking my gunboat DDs out to play. Best way to learn the weakness of my Pan Asian DDs is to fight them

@nambr9 I picked play the DDs.. but the option for me would be play the new line and there counter

[Favuz]

I keep playing the same, with an eye on changes.

 

For example, i'll keep playing my russian cruisers and usn DD, My Edinburgh a bit less, and surely i'll not buy and play stock Izumo (don't want to give free damage to CVs trying new loadout)

[creamgravy]

I'll be grinding up to the N-Class asap.

[fumtu]

Depending on the line. If WG release new line of cruisers or DDs than yes, I usually play them soon after release. But if they release BBs than no, I don't play them but rather play DDs in that case. In PA DDs case yes I'll probably start with grinding tomorrow. But I'm interested in only two ships of the line, Gadja Mada and Yueyang. 

[T0byJug]

23 minutes ago, RAHJAILARI said:

Excellent tip @_DeathWing_, lucky for me - I do have an Aki...

What DDs to take..

I have

RN III/VI

SU IV/Vx2/VI/VII/VIII/Xx2

IJN II/V/VI/VII/VIIIx2/IX/X

KM II/IV/VI/VII/VIII/IX/X

USN II/IV/VI/VII/VIII/IX/X

PO VIII

PA VI/VIII

 Choices Choices Choices.

 

Tier IX/X German DDs best counter I think

 

[T0byJug]

4 minutes ago, creamgravy said:

I'll be grinding up to the N-Class asap.

Hell Yes.. She looks Beautiful.. 

[Capra76]

2 minutes ago, T0byJug said:

Hell Yes.. She looks Beautiful.. 

 

Do we know if the stats are final, she looks very strong for a T7.

[fumtu]

4 minutes ago, Capra76 said:

 

Do we know if the stats are final, she looks very strong for a T7.

 

It's already released on other servers so there are no changes. Maybe after many many months of collecting statistics they will nerf it if there is a need for nerf or if it perform better than premium dds at T7, you know like Shiratsuyu. But for now we will get what we see in those CCs videos.

[T0byJug]

8 minutes ago, Capra76 said:

 

Do we know if the stats are final, she looks very strong for a T7.

5 sec reload on guns and 18 Sec to travers turret 180....

[ClappingLollies]

Im gonna play cancer aka Belfast. 

[LOZFFVII]

I'll just play as normal.

I'm too close to shimakaze to give up now.

 

5 minutes ago, fumtu said:

premium dds at T7, you know like Shiratsuyu.

Last I checked Shiratsuyu was a silver ship, not premium.

[fumtu]

Just now, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Last I checked Shiratsuyu was a silver ship, not premium.

 

Yes and the only silver ship at T7 that was better than premium T7 destroyers. Eventually it get nerfed. You probably understand me wrong or maybe I wasn't clear enough. I mentioned Shiratsuyu as example of the ship that get nerfed.

[Capra76]

5 minutes ago, T0byJug said:

 

5 sec reload on guns and 18 Sec to travers turret 180....

 

Better than IJN/KM in terms of turret traverse, a bit off USN but you'll probably have EM skilled after Gremy/Gnevny/Anshan/Huanghe so adequate.

 

Firepower lags Mahan slightly but on a par or better than everything else, well ahead of Mahan as a torpedo boat and par or better than everything else.

 

The only weaknesses I can see are the poor rearward turret arcs and the DWT's lack of versatility.

[LOZFFVII]

11 minutes ago, fumtu said:

Yes and the only silver ship at T7 that was better than premium T7 destroyers. Eventually it get nerfed. You probably understand me wrong or maybe I wasn't clear enough. I mentioned Shiratsuyu as example of the ship that get nerfed.

Yeah, I misunderstood what you meant.

Actually I remember the nerf and was like "it needed a nerf?" at the time. I don't really remember doing all that well in her, other than the first time I used the reload booster - scored two hits on the same ARP Takao, both causing flooding about 20s apart. He flooded to death. It was funny.

[creamgravy]

Gadjah Mada is more like Kiev than Shiratsuyu, it's a really strong tier 8 fleet destroyer. Giving it Fiji torpedoes isn't a big enough nerf for tier 7.

 

WG need to either increase concealment to Mahan levels (reasonable) reduced HP (Kiev was kinda neutered with 12k HP) Remove the aft torpedo tubes (historic flava) or swap it with the tier 8 (4 gun Benson can be balanced like Sims)