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Wade Wilson posted:I've been sending my Erie out on waypoint runs with the Map and somehow or other having some pretty fun rail-riding games. ditto about the bad habits. Get to tier 3 and start flailing around there, chikumas and chesters is its own little microcosm. If it's like tanks it's ok to be poo poo for 5000 battles or so
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Pubbies are so bad I managed to get 'Surprise Attack' (10 torp hits) done in 3 games with Sims  Finale was an Aoba trying to chase me around a small island, and I just pooped torp when he was around corner at 2.5 km. Devastating Strike.e: tbh don't try doing that mission with Sims. It's nightmare. Aesis fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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I'll guard the carrier in my DD for a little bit if my friend is playing the carrier, just doing a quick sweep around checking for DDs that get past the initial scrum and go for him and letting people get stuck in and distracted before I sail up to begin Operation Dickstab. Works best in US DDs, since the guns will destroy other DDs really well and they need the enemy to be stuck in and busy to properly stab them in the dick. The IJN DDs are great fun, but I love the US ones for the sheer number of tubes they've got and how great that makes a death or glory sprint from behind an island.
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Jul 23, 2015 16:57
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Hazdoc posted:Fun fact (and maybe I should have mentioned this earlier) This also allows you to keep more speed in a turn (using half rudder).
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Jul 23, 2015 17:09
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So when does Bismark come out so I can keep it in my hangar and admire at how poop it is? 
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Jul 23, 2015 17:14
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According to the in-game clock I have just spent eight minutes and a handful of seconds steaming at full speed towards the enemy before I made range to fire my guns in the New Mexico. This isn't a design decision which motivates me to play your game, WG.
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Jul 23, 2015 17:31
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:According to the in-game clock I have just spent eight minutes and a handful of seconds steaming at full speed towards the enemy before I made range to fire my guns in the New Mexico. This isn't a design decision which motivates me to play your game, WG. Was this the ice map? If it wasn't, oh boy, the ice map.
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:According to the in-game clock I have just spent eight minutes and a handful of seconds steaming at full speed towards the enemy before I made range to fire my guns in the New Mexico. This isn't a design decision which motivates me to play your game, WG. That's why you have two monitors.
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Jul 23, 2015 17:35
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Hazdoc posted:Fun fact (and maybe I should have mentioned this earlier) Importantly it allows you to consistantly use half rudder so that you can menouver somewhat but also not always outpace your guns tracking (looking at you Furutaka).
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yaay posted:the official forums are tanks circa 2011 before the 45% always shoot HE Play4Fun brigade got shot down by wotlabs type posters. It looks like they bought into the ships beta en masse so they could make a save haven for their bad opinions and now they're lamenting how terrible the game is now that other people who might possibly care about playing well and winning can take part. The alpha forum was flooded with posts about "toxic" players, mostly self-congratulatory posting about how nontoxic the anime avatar brigade were. Hilariously, those same forum posters tried to ostracize anyone they didn't like by calling them toxic over and over every time they showed up. I mostly avoided the alpha forums, but I got accused of being toxic for sinking enemy ships several times. Most of those people are bad players with FOG usernames now. Boats has a fair amount of those lovely players who left tanks because of "rigged mm and XVM hackers". Congratulating some random player on their 41% win rates and 500 wn8 usually gets results.
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demonR6 posted:Have to check when I'm home and can get in the account. Wasn't a whole lot but still I got tired of eating the bill mostly. Haven't played this game in two weeks, but I've gotten lots of use out of your server for this game and others. Just paid for 6 months. Thanks for setting this up and maintaining it for however long you've been doing it (a long time).
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so any goon presence on the EU server or is it mainly NA?
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Aesis posted:Pubbies are so bad I managed to get 'Surprise Attack' (10 torp hits) done in 3 games with Sims Get a minekaze or isokaze and finish the mission in one game!
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Jul 23, 2015 18:46
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The Omaha is garbage. THERE I SAID IT (I have no upgrades on it)
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sky cancer doesn't cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooount SKY CANCERRR wow thats not a whole lot of torpedo hits for 8 kills, I presume you burned a lot of nerds to death i can respect that
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The Locator posted:Haven't played this game in two weeks, but I've gotten lots of use out of your server for this game and others. Just paid for 6 months. Thanks for setting this up and maintaining it for however long you've been doing it (a long time). Thank you kind goon. Sometimes I wondered if anyone cared if it was up or not because most of the comments have been "why don't people use X or Y server". I propped this one up because we had our own, it vanished and after going to a couple of the other servers they didn't feel like home. Our server for the most part has a do as you will within reason policy and has been fine that way for a couple of years now. I have always left it open to new games as well so it is not limited to WoT, WoWS and now Armored Warfare.
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Jul 23, 2015 20:04
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Junkozeyne posted:so any goon presence on the EU server or is it mainly NA? On and off on the EU servers. We're mostly using the 2PAC teamspeak server and have a chat channel in-game.
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I got the langley to gently caress around with carriers a little, but i'm not sure how it works, i upgraded the aircraft and the hull, but i can only launch one wing of fighters and bombers? i have like 9 of each type stored, are they only for repairs?
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Jul 23, 2015 20:49
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Is the Furutaka getting buffed any time soon? Playing it is a cruel joke.
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PirateBob posted:Is the Furutaka getting buffed any time soon? Playing it is a cruel joke. You think Wargaming buffs/nerfs things. How adorable.
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Fizzil posted:I got the langley to gently caress around with carriers a little, but i'm not sure how it works, i upgraded the aircraft and the hull, but i can only launch one wing of fighters and bombers? i have like 9 of each type stored, are they only for repairs? They are to replace lost planes. Each carrier has a limit to how many squadrons of what planes it can take. Better Carriers carry more squadrons and more replacement planes.
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Arrgytehpirate posted:You think Wargaming buffs/nerfs things. How adorable. They do though.
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Hazdoc posted:Haha holy poo poo. First win, but holy shiiiiiiiiit Panfilo posted:They are to replace lost planes. Each carrier has a limit to how many squadrons of what planes it can take. Better Carriers carry more squadrons and more replacement planes.
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PirateBob posted:Is the Furutaka getting buffed any time soon? Playing it is a cruel joke. The gun upgrade that decreases its reload time to 16 seconds makes it a bit more bearable, but yeah it's all around pretty drat rough. The guns have decent penetration, at least, so you can usually roll with AP against other cruisers from longer ranges than usual.
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Ranger seems by far the worst US carrier. What is puzzling is that it's air defense setup has 2/0/2. So I've more dive bomber squadron over the Independence. This seems like crap. You'd be much better off having 3/0/1 instead. At that tier you're going to be up against IJN carriers that can throw out 3 torpedo bomber squadrons and 2 dive bomber squadrons at a time easily, if not more. You can only engage 2 of those squadrons. Even with a US carrier, you never want all your fighters too far away. If an IJN opponent saw I had 2 fighter squadrons far out, he knows my carrier is defenseless. I'm having to pull out all the stops if a Hiryu decides he wants to knock me out first. Try to anticipate having his bomber group sneaking around, staggering my fighters to prevent both getting bogged down, all the upgrades and skills to boost my damage, staying near a friendly Cleveland, avoiding tunnel vision, etc. But it is hard.
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I'm starting to really enjoy BBs since learning to take ranging shots and get a bit closer, and figuring out where the Citadel it. The Kawachi is still like slamming your dick in a door, but the South Carolina and Wyoming are great.
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I seem to have made someone very mad by making use of the mythical "border cheat". I do this like, once in a never, but this match was exceptional since I loaded in late and was pressured into the wall by a bunch of enemy BB's. Either way, I'm a dirty cheater. Aesis posted:So when does Bismark come out so I can keep it in my hangar and admire at how poop it is? I think it'll actually be pretty good. I know that it had a weird armor layout, but didn't it have really good citadel armor? It almost seems too good to be true, since the torpedoes give you that extra tool that can save you from situations where a destroyer goes in for a run, or a cruiser comes around an island, you unload on him but can't quite kill him, now you have those torps for knife-fights while you're reloading your big guns. Or if the armor is good, you can even be really aggressive on this ship and shotgun other battleships. It's like a super, mega-fat destroyer with 15 inch guns that can actually take a hit! Maybe. I wonder if the torps are going to be poo poo or the ship itself won't get a repair ability as a balancing factor or something. Maybe the rudder'll be made of paper mache and any attack bomber that manages to plink a hit on you will knock it out due to historical accuracy. Edit: Apparently now that I've looked it up, the Bismarck never had a chance to mount her torpedo tubes. So this is not looking as good as I first thought it would. OSad fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Filthy cheater.. what else do you do.. take advantage of the crosshairs and aim? Use ships with AA for cover?
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3 out of 4 turrets down on the Colorado. This ship really has nothing worthwile, terrible accuracy, range, speed, hitpoints, armor and squishy turrets.
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Holy poo poo, my heart is still pounding from this match. Daily, but still, holy poo poo was that an adrenaline rush towards the end.     Replay: https://www.mediafire.com/?1r2e94x1204ooio OSad posted:Edit: Apparently now that I've looked it up, the Bismarck never had a chance to mount her torpedo tubes. So this is not looking as good as I first thought it would. Several of the BBs already in the game had torpedo tubes, too. They don't in-game and neither will any other battleship afaik. Magni fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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OSad posted:I seem to have made someone very mad by making use of the mythical "border cheat". I do this like, once in a never, but this match was exceptional since I loaded in late and was pressured into the wall by a bunch of enemy BB's. Also, I am super jealous of the enemy carrier for getting the name ArmchairAdmiral. That would be terrific for herding lemmings and general trolling.
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You could always rename to BackseatCommodore...
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OSad posted:
Put bluntly, no, Bismarck did not have either exceptional amounts of armor or a good layout. The fact that it took so many hits to actually sink Bismarck was just as much due to errors the British made as any aspect of its own construction. As for its competitors, North Carolina mounts significantly more armor in important places, and, while it probably has more belt armor than Amagi due to Amagi being a battlecruiser, Amagi likely still has more armor on the turrets. Even then Amagi's armor is laid out better, which can count for a lot. Another real issue is that Bismarck's deck armor is quite thin, which actually leaves it vulnerable to the same sort of shots that took out Hood. And what do you mean about the NC not carrying 16" guns? It carried the Mk 6, which was most definitely a 16" gun. Hell, you have to go down to Tier 6 to find battleships not carrying 16" guns.
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Treaty battleships are going to be tier 8s, which means some 15" armed ships and maybe a 14" armed ship. Bismarck's "belt" is pretty good because of the heavily angled backing plate preventing close in vital shots (lol they don't happen anymore anyway), but the scheme's vulnerable as sin outside that range. Might be good in close, but then it's torp bait for destroyers.
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OSad posted:I think it'll actually be pretty good. I know that it had a weird armor layout, but didn't it have really good citadel armor? Bismarck will probably be fine. It's realistically way outclassed by North Carolina and Amagi, but it has a lot of belt armor (in a brute force layout almost identical to the Bayern several tiers below, but still) with pretty decent secondaries and 30 knots. It's also really big compared to its likely rivals, which probably translates to a lot of health. The 15" guns are nothing special, and once France and Italy are in there'll even be more powerful 15" guns at tier 8, but they should at least reload quickly. It's also Wargaming, and for all the Russian bias whining they've introduced/buffed an awful lot of overpowered German tanks and turned a relatively blind eye to German tanks that have been overpowered for years. From what I heard, the Germans in warplanes were very strong from the start and kept getting buffed. I guess it'll probably be a good battleship for rushing in and brawling with your fast firing guns and high health, but not very good at longer range fights.
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WG has a pretty pronounced German bias. It's not quite as bad as gaijin's arbitrarily making German ammo racks extra special and non-explodey to make up for their tank designs sucking, but it's definitely a thing.
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Lord Koth posted:And what do you mean about the NC not carrying 16" guns? It carried the Mk 6, which was most definitely a 16" gun. Hell, you have to go down to Tier 6 to find battleships not carrying 16" guns. I just converted the 406mm in the game's tooltip to inches directly on google. Supposedly 406mm is exactly 15.9843 inches, which is just shy of 16. I have no idea how inches work though, I guess at that point you just round it up and call it 16 inches then
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James Garfield posted:It's also really big compared to its likely rivals, which probably translates to a lot of health Aren't hit points already a function of displacement? Should give it marginally more health than a NC but nothing notable
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I guess their pro-German bias isn't that much of a problem because the real German navy  has all kinds of ships that'd actually be interesting. Even their actually built ships were good.watch the release German tree go Nassau -> Deutschland -> P class -> Scharnhorst -> O class -> Bismarck just to pander to wehraboos
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