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Insert name here posted:I once pulled up literally right next to an enemy Kongo in mine and we duked it out Age of Sail style and it was boss as hell Had that happen on Big Race today, too. We passed so close that the primary turrets couldn't keep up tracking anymore while the secondaries kept firing into each other at point blank. I just took that as an opportunity to blow a neary cruiser into pieces with my forward turrets.  What I'm saying is that people need to be more aggressive and willing to get stuck in with their BBs. Stevefin posted:I think the only real difference we will see from WWII era German ships in game was their design to be 'unsinkable by flooding'. which could lead to less torp damage or less flooding damage/chance Didn't the Bismarck also have some fancy sliding breech system for her 15-inchers that allowed a rather high rate of fire for guns that size? IIRC, she could do around 3 shots a minute, which would be a pretty loving impressive RoF compared with the current in-game BB primaries.
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Saying "GG sea cancers.." made two enemy carrier players mad. One tried to go into a tirade but the cap timer ran out. Mission accomplished.
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Zigzagging through cannon fire, smoke, and torpedoes everywhere owns bones, especially when you blind fire your torps and wipe out the enemy teams destroyers i know torp fu
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demonR6 posted:Saying "GG sea cancers.." made two enemy carrier players mad. One tried to go into a tirade but the cap timer ran out. Mission accomplished. Carrier sailors also get really mad when first their fighters then their torp bombers fly in a straight line towards the battleship blob and into a cruiser's woodchipper I've discovered. Seriously, carriers consistently seem to attract the biggest morons in my experience. At least tunnel-vision battleships usually put some shells on target.
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Mar 31, 2015 03:34
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Yeah carriers are consistently the most useless players in the game, except for maybe the DDs who rush in and get bitch-slapped out of existence 2 minutes into the round
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Mar 31, 2015 03:46
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Magni posted:Had that happen on Big Race today, too. We passed so close that the primary turrets couldn't keep up tracking anymore while the secondaries kept firing into each other at point blank. I just took that as an opportunity to blow a neary cruiser into pieces with my forward turrets. Make sure not to do this near islands or destroyers will eat you.
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Mar 31, 2015 03:49
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Make sure not to do this near islands or destroyers will eat you. Sometimes. Other times you can do the funniest poo poo to them because hey just plain don't compute a BB being that reckless, flub their tops and then sit there looking sad and confused while the secondaries open up. I wouldn't recommend trying anything like that with the Fuso. The Kongo? That girl can dance once you get the hang of her.
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Calling them Sky Cancer is fun, but I prefer calling them worthless instead. Especially the ones who call to "protect the carriers guys!" at the start of the match. Got one guy to rage at me when told him he had a "worthless pancake ship" after he asked for protection, even as I killed a destroyer who broke through the middle and beelined him, and he ended the match with five air kills and 3rd last in exp. Meanwhile, our carrier who didn't say poo poo downed two battleships and enabled at least one cruiser kill that I saw. Dodging torpedo planes is a lot easier than it seems as long as you stay aware of them and don't tunnel. The problem, like real naval battles interestingly enough, is it is a major disruption to your movements and maneuvering.
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Mar 31, 2015 04:21
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  (I'm sad I died by being an idiot and never got to take a shot at the Yamato)
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How do secondary batteries work?
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Hammerstein posted:http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-044.htm That was likely me, I link navweaps a bunch because the articles are all fantastic and well worth reading. This one is well worth reading both for game and history reasons: http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-069.htm And this one is super fun and is probably the best understanding of how ships got made and the sort of stuff the designers were thinking about : http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-035.htm Shadeoses posted:How do secondary batteries work? Get too close to red boats and they will shoot them a non-zero yet insufficient amount.
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TheDemon posted:Calling them Sky Cancer is fun, but I prefer calling them worthless instead. Especially the ones who call to "protect the carriers guys!" at the start of the match. I like to tell them that they aren't sky cancer. Cancer doesn't have a cure. 
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Mar 31, 2015 04:42
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CitizenKain posted:I love getting a battleship near another battleship, it looks like battlestar galactica with all the secondary batteries opening up. Especially if there are some planes overhead. Are there any videos of this? I'd love to see it.
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Does anyone else never get "decent" games in a DD? All my DD games are either I die instantly in a horrible manner and I get double digit XP or I gently caress poo poo up and get quad digits on a loss (or I die instantly in a horrible manner and still get quad digit XP  ), but I never get average games where I get like 500 or 600 XP.
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Mar 31, 2015 04:55
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So what ship is best to grind credits in at the moment? A Kongo?
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Adventure Pigeon posted:So what ship is best to grind credits in at the moment? A Kongo? So far the Omaha has been my prime choice for credit printing.
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Mar 31, 2015 05:38
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All the tier 5 ships I tried so far print credits like crazy. 100k+ for a decent game normally.
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This game needs a mod that shows gun and torpedo range for everything. Also it was better in alpha when every other battle was a 1 on 1 with some shitlord, instead of you vs 23 shitlords.
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On TeamSpeak earlier tonight.... : hey guys lets do a 6-7 division! : ok !     GAME ON !  A bit later....       The Shimmy did the usual DD thing of trying to solo smokescreen cap A, but we somehow spotted him & focused him down. The Essex driver was  ping as hard as he could I think, he blew away some serious chunks of BB HP, and for whatever reason the Yam driver eventually felt the need to try and hide from us by going down the small E-W channel @ Cap A while the torpedo bombers were landed for reloading.   I saved this replay for posterity.McGavin posted:This game needs a mod that shows gun and torpedo range for everything. One of the mods that demon6 posted up-thread a ways does a perma-alt key thing, so at least you can see HP bars & ranges (see 1st screenshot). MREBoy fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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The Yamato isn't too scary right now because their turrets are hilariously easy to pen. I guess they forgot to add a 0 or something to their armor value, because they're just pathetic. Shooting HE in the T6 Aoba managed to keep knocking them out over and over. He ended up getting me with his secondaries, but not before I torpedoed him, flooded him, and set him on fire with less than 7k HP left 
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MREBoy posted:GAME ON ! Man, this seems like it was a fun match! I wish I could join a division and do cool stuff like this sometimes. You mind sharing the replay later, when you get the chance?
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I can't the the ship short overview in the top left/right corner, like in MREBoys screenshot. Is that an option in settings I've somehow missed, or did the mod that keeps ALT pressed down remove it somehow?
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Cythereal posted:Carrier sailors also get really mad when first their fighters then their torp bombers fly in a straight line towards the battleship blob and into a cruiser's woodchipper I've discovered. To be fair, a lot of it has to do with spotting mechanics (or at least I hope). Often times a carrier will send his planes out to a battleship and have the planes go over an island, only to find out that a Cleveland is hiding behind said island and was not spotted because of that. If the carrier player is not paying attention at that point, none of his planes will ever come back. I do it all the time in my cleveland and it is hilarious. It sucks when you're the carrier tho. I find that carriers are not nearly the sky cancer that artillery in W.o.T are. Carrier players are often hit or miss. Either they do a poo poo ton of damage and/or maybe a few kills, or they are completely useless and none of their torpedoes hit. The funniest poo poo is when a carrier is loading with only fighters, and there's no carriers on the opposing team. When your only targets are scout planes, you are in for a very boring match. McGavin posted:This game needs a mod that shows gun and torpedo range for everything. But.. the game already shows you. For torpedo range anyways. When you aim your torpedoes, it shows you exactly how far it will go. It just does not tell you in terms of km. Gun range is a bit tricker tho, bu tfrom what I noticed if you can aim for it you can hit it.
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Daktari posted:I can't the the ship short overview in the top left/right corner, like in MREBoys screenshot. Is that an option in settings I've somehow missed, or did the mod that keeps ALT pressed down remove it somehow? Here's the link to the OP on the warships forum. http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/21244-from-eu-mod030modpack-carnival-in-wows/
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Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet).  However, I still have four more EU keys sitting around. Post away if you requested an US key but want an EU key instead (or if you just want an EU key period). I'll wait with handing them out until tomorrow sometime, preference goes to people who were top on Dr Arbitrary's waiting list, if they want the keys that is. TheFluff fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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TheFluff posted:Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet). First of all, thanks for the last key  However, now one of my friends is heartbroken, as he wanted to play the game as badly as I did. If you feel comfortable about giving out seconds, he and I would very much appreciate it! If someone without a key wants it, that takes precedence of course.
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TheFluff posted:Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet). Sidesaddle Cavalry fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 18:38
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demonR6 posted:Here's the DropBox link to the rising sun flag I made fro those that wanted it. Gracias!
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TheFluff posted:Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet). Would love an EU key if there is one, my F5 key is starting to wear out as I frantically check for an email to see if Wargaming are willing to let me in on the sweet ship on ship action yet. Kingcobra fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 20:45
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TheFluff posted:Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet). I don't know if I am already on that list but I asked for an EU key back on page 54 and I am still interested.
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TheFluff posted:Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet). I think the only EU request left on the list is from Doctors Inc
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Mar 31, 2015 21:19
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Posting to join the queue for a US beta code.
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I'll take a European code, if possible. Pork (period) is (period) infidelicious at Gmail dot com. Infidelicious fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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TheFluff posted:Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet). I'd love an EU key, been signing up to everything I can but had no luck yet. Add my name to the EU list! chrisgould at gmail dot com
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TheFluff posted:Well. I seem to have been unsuccessful in procuring more US beta keys (as of right now; there may or may not be keys coming later, I don't have any definite answers to that yet). I'd very much appreciate an EU key if you still have them. Thank you. ghostofmussolini at gmail.com
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Dammit_Carl! posted:Gracias! You can probably figure out where it goes by searching. 
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The list of EU people I have left is:
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I'll take EU also, I'm not picky. Edit: I mean instead of US, if they are availible. Ataxerxes fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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