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Stevefin posted:So many Battleship players just seem to want to recreate the Yamato battle tonight  
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Kesper North posted:TIL don't buy ship upgrades, because you can't sell the ship again without piasters to remove the upgrades
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Kesper North posted:TIL don't buy ship upgrades, because you can't sell the ship again without piasters to remove the upgrades You call sell them without upgrades. It's on one of the tabs 
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bUm posted:Now if only Wargaming made realistic explosions when you set off their ammo. The Seriously the pyrotechnics in this game are lacking
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whats the pw for the goon channel, i wanna escort some bbs with my omaha
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Mar 15, 2015 22:28
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sarmhan posted:You can click on demount in the sell menu and change it to sell instead. SuperSix posted:You call sell them without upgrades. It's on one of the tabs Thanks guys! That was very helpful.
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Game would be legitimately better if they came up with a gimmick for destroyers that wasn't smoke. Constant disappearing and reappearing ships is just dumb and obnoxious. Or they should just implement it in a way that isn't so dumb. Make ships in smoke have no markers of any kind but still make them render or something. Fart Car '97 fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Mar 15, 2015 22:40
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SuperSix posted:whats the pw for the goon channel, i wanna escort some bbs with my omaha If you're talking about the channel called "goons" the PW is the same as the one for the WoT goons channel. Thread is here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3516406&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Riller posted:If you're talking about the channel called "goons" the PW is the same as the one for the WoT goons channel. Thread is here: thanks
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BadLlama posted:I'm actually liking US destroyers a lot, I go where the enemy destroys probably are going and just blow them up with my guns then go on close range suicide torpedo missions on battleships.
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Mar 15, 2015 23:03
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I think that any area filled with torpedoes be hereby referred to as a "blunderdome" because it only takes one blunder to go down in flames. Especially since there's no thunder of guns, or at least no reliable thunder of guns.
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Where exactly do you shoot carriers to actually cause damage to them? loving shot a carrier 50 times in my DD to kill him everything was doing like 200 damage only.
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Mar 15, 2015 23:09
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BadLlama posted:Where exactly do you shoot carriers to actually cause damage to them? loving shot a carrier 50 times in my DD to kill him everything was doing like 200 damage only. Use torps dumbo, DD guns are basically useless against anything that isn't anther DD
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Mar 15, 2015 23:14
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I'm having trouble killing carriers in cruisers too, tbh. I'd definitely like some pointers on where to shoot them and with what.
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Strobe posted:I'm having trouble killing carriers in cruisers too, tbh. I'd definitely like some pointers on where to shoot them and with what. AFAIK the tier 4 carrier has basically no hit box for half of the ship since its see through, try hitting the stern and or using HE to set it on fire to prevent it from using its planes.
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Riller posted:If you're talking about the channel called "goons" the PW is the same as the one for the WoT goons channel. Thread is here: I added this to the OP because :reasons: I am not sure if this thread can or can't be seen outside of being a paying member but regardless it's linked now, thanks!
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Fart Car '97 posted:Use torps dumbo, DD guns are basically useless against anything that isn't anther DD Smart people will actually be constantly moving away from me making torping the carriers hard.
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Strobe posted:I'm having trouble killing carriers in cruisers too, tbh. I'd definitely like some pointers on where to shoot them and with what. Set them on fire with a round of HE, so they can't arm their planes. AP might be overpenning, but you want to aim for their stern either way. btw DDs op  
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So I didn't ever see this go by: Evidently Paul Allen found the wreck of the Musashi (a.k.a. the other Yamato-class) earlier this month? https://twitter.com/PaulGAllen/status/572431062522982400 I forgot there were two of those things. (three, if we count the carrier!)
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Learning how to manually shoot planes made carriers fun. I still need to practice making the torps go the right direction, though
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Going heavy on the fighters is pretty legit for a carrier. I had a game where I only did around 6K damage, but I shot down over thirty planes and took home 1.6K experience and 100k credits. It also kept our team's capital ships from getting wrecked because I bled two carriers dry of bombers. Dive bombers are weird on automatic. They can hit almost anything, at least once or twice. That makes them great for dealing with destroyers. Against other targets, uh... They don't do much damage, but they crit well, and start fires. I tried using the auto-aim from multiple angles. Against a Kongo, from behind, with a perfect run-up, they nailed 4/4 bombs. Same ship, same speed, but from the front, they only hit 2/4. Full speed DD from the side, one hit. Stationary carrier, from the front, 1/4.  Either the automatic bombs are RNG as gently caress, or your bombs have a greater chance to hit from certain directions and suffer a penalty from others.
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Another 100+k torpedo damage game ruined by my retarded teammates' complete and utter inability to do anything useful.  
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Tier 6 INJ destroyer sucks stock. I went from 3 torpedo launchers with 30 sec reload to 2 with like a minutes reload. to be fair its the same amount of torpedoes, just now 3 per launcher. It's just that its such a slow reload...i feel like a cruiser SuperSix fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Mar 15, 2015 23:59
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Other than signing up and waiting has there been any guaranteed access sorta method to get into this beta?
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SoggyGravy posted:Other than signing up and waiting has there been any guaranteed access sorta method to get into this beta? Weekend testers and alpha testers have guaranteed spots, otherwise no.
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Playing this for awhile then jumping into a amx 13 75 in tanks making for some weird feelings while driving.
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Can one of you naval spergs help me out here? I've seen these things on several ships but I can't tell what they actually are. This one's from the Ibuki, next to the front batteries: Isokaze has them mounted on racks at the stern on one of the hulls. At least they look the same. E: Also the game is fun, I guess. Keksen fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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The guns on a IJN destroyer turn so slowly I'm not sure why they are even there.
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Keksen posted:Can one of you naval spergs help me out here? I've seen these things on several ships but I can't tell what they actually are. This one's from the Ibuki, next to the front batteries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravane_%28weapon%29 (I spent forever wondering about it until it came up in a book I was reading. Anybody knows if Y or K guns are visible on some of the US destroyers?) xthetenth fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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CitizenKain posted:The guns on a IJN destroyer turn so slowly I'm not sure why they are even there. It's a real downer in the fun category to not be able to shoot my piddly guns just to have something to do while bobbing and weaving enemy fire while trying to set up torp runs. Interesting/cool.
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Nordick posted:Yeah I had a game in my Kongo where a Cleveland got a drop on me from behind an island. I got some decent hits on him, but he just tore me to loving bits with his fast firing batteries while I was struggling to turn fast enough. I think I got like half of his health, while he gunned me down to like 10 or 15% before loving off. And he didn't even use torpedoes. Yeah this doesn't work at all at the higher tiers. A few games ago I took on four cruisers at medium-long range in my Amagi and won.
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Gamesguy posted:Yeah this doesn't work at all at the higher tiers. A few games ago I took on four cruisers at medium-long range in my Amagi and won. The only time I ever survived against a battleship in my Cleveland is when they're using the Nagato which has serious accuracy deficiencies. I can put DPS out there but a battleship will still kill me waaay before I do much to him if he's aiming. Destroyers have a better chance but their smoke isn't really good unless a battleship closes and it doesn't take much to kill one.
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I just raped a Fuso and two carriers in succession in my Cleveland to end the evening which was not a bad thing. Here comes the Cleveland Steamer.. 
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I am having a really terrible night with this game, holy poo poo. I'm playing like poo poo and all my teams are criminally stupid.
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Welp a dive bomber just one shot my Destroyer while I was evading like a mad man because 3 BS were about to shoot at me. That was cool I guess.
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Citadel hitting cruisers with BBs: never not funny but probably a bad thing for gameplay. Pubbies shooting torpedoes at my battleship is kind of endearing, they're really not good at it.
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Anyone gone down the IJN Cruisers line? What's it like? And how does a tier 4 IJN destroyer go from 1.6 torps/min to 0.3 torps/min at Tier X....
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The tier X destroyer launches like a billion torpedoes at once so it takes a while to reload. e: At least that's what I assume it is. hopterque fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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SuperSix posted:Anyone gone down the IJN Cruisers line? What's it like? The tier 3 and 4 are heavy destroyers. According to wargaming text, they were intended to be lead destroyer. However, unlike the actual destroyers in the game, they lack smokescreen. I have been messing up a few bad players though that haven't catched that my hitch on cycling another volley was because I was launching my torps. I'm on the kuma right now btw. The tier 4. Guns are a wee bit weak compared to my phoenix. I blame that mainly on the kuma using 140s compared to the phoenix having 152s. That said, the torps on the kuma are 7km range (5km on the phoenix) and they actually reload at a pretty decent rate. Nothing sweeter than doing a narrow spread from 6km out (and thus, away from secondaries) to land all 6 torps. Last couple games, I have sunk a couple of larger tiered battleships because they were so focused on their big guns that they forget to steer till it was too late for the torps. The torps didn't kill them outright though, but chunked enough of their hp that I suddenly had the advantage to finish them with the guns shortly after. Also, I sank a cleveland in the same ship because as he avoided my torps, he ate 3x citadel hits from my guns and sank.
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Get the crew's gun rotation skill for IJN destroyers or don't bother using the guns at all. It increases the rotation speed by 2.5 degrees, or well over 50% for most lower tier destroyers. My current plan in the game is to go for the Des Moines, but goddamn if playing Japanese destroyers while getting rocked every time a battleship farts at my Pensacola isn't making me rethink that.
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