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Hug your waifu. The Atlanta is a destroyer that can be citadeled. Don't be first, stick around islands and murder the gently caress out of destroyers. Or cruisers. Nothing makes a cruiser poo poo its pants like double digit citadel hits per volley.
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Devorum posted:Finally caved and attempted the Flamu trick. I bought 7 3€ boxes and got flags and camo.
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Jack_tripper posted:the very next box. I've finally won boats christmas 2016 Nice Swastikas nerd
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Dec 28, 2016 22:27
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Hazdoc posted:In a completely shocking way, wargaming has revealed the modified "know where the nearest enemy ship is" skill... by not changing it at all. But they changed the name! Is that not good enough for you?! Lady Morgaga posted:Yes. Big rear end container thing. Yeah, EU. I'll play some tomorrow. I played 6 games today, got my 3 containers, most of them were decent wins so decided to quit while I'm ahead. Don't want to push my luck too much with the holiday players. Iceshade fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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How much longer are these xmas boxes on sale for ?
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MREBoy posted:How much longer are these xmas boxes on sale for ? Until everyone has spent 200 USD or more.
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:Until everyone has spent 200 USD or more. I have no regrets.
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Wargaming will soon catch up on the Salty Flamu and stop the promotion before everyone and their mother gets their hands on 3$ shiny horses.
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:Until everyone has spent 200 USD or more. Ugh yesterday I spent $27 and got a Tirpitz, Atago, and Kutuzov. Today I spent $27 and got some camouflage. This stupid promotion is turning me into a degenerate.
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Lakedaimon posted:Ugh yesterday I spent $27 and got a Tirpitz, Atago, and Kutuzov. Today I spent $27 and got some camouflage. This stupid promotion is turning me into a degenerate. I spent 9 USD today and got the Scharn and Tirpitz, almost ruining my plans for next week when I buy 33 captain's boxes and hope I get tons of duplicates. I want no less than 8 Eugens.
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Dec 28, 2016 23:22
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Wish I had money to gamble on Santa boxes. This sounds like fun.
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Redeye Flight posted:Wish I had money to gamble on Santa boxes. This sounds like fun. Yeah I guess it is if you win big and get a bunch of ships but less so when you realize you could've just bought a fun ship instead of a bunch of flags and camo patterns.
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The idea here is that 100 USD of santa boxes might get me more doubloons than just a straight purchase. This will accomplish _________________________.
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So I never got an answer on this one, is it worth taking CE on a Russian cruiser captain, or is the general wisdom that you should double down on tier 4 skills?
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ZombieLenin posted:So I never got an answer on this one, is it worth taking CE on a Russian cruiser captain, or is the general wisdom that you should double down on tier 4 skills? Some can benefit from CE, but if you're ultimately planning on using the captain on Moskva then it's probably not worth it. So the answer is, "It depends."
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Lord Koth posted:Some can benefit from CE, but if you're ultimately planning on using the captain on Moskva then it's probably not worth it. So the answer is, "It depends." Yep, this captain will be moved up until I hit tier X. I'm about 20k XP away from the DM so its in the foreseeable future.
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ZombieLenin posted:Yep, this captain will be moved up until I hit tier X. I'm about 20k XP away from the DM so its in the foreseeable future. I still feel like CE helps with any cruiser. It does give you some stealth fire capability in the Chapayev, and considering how battleship friendly the meta is I feel like even an extra km of stealth is just about priceless. Especially when you are trying to sneak up on a capping DD and hit them with radar. CVs are still pretty uncommon, so AFT or Manual AA are often wasted. Even with CE, my Donskoi has slightly worse detection than my Iowa. Combine that with a big citadel and negligible armor, and you are a shell magnet. With CE, your detection range is only about 1km more than your radar range, so you can use situational awareness to generally guess when something is radar-able. Just finished with the V-170. Am I crazy in considering skipping the T-22? It looks like the same thing, with worse detection (but with hydro maybe?)
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So after losing like 7 games in a row in the Mahan (sorry Herr_Bazooka) I unlock the Benson and do 6 kills in the first game in it  I think we'll get along just fine.
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  A rousing T8 game in my Belfast of "Oh God why is half the enemy team, including at least 3 battleships, chasing me?" And continued to chase me, even as I got near the northern edge of the map and started heading east. Meanwhile, my team, whose battleships had mostly been really slow pushing through the eastern cap mostly unopposed (I'd started west with 3 other ships, everything else started east), eventually capped and killed everything else. Spent the first bit annoyed, but then became amused as they continued chasing me while being pelted with HE, despite not being able to see me and starting to get shot from behind too. Benny Hill may have been running through my head.
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Official reply to the, uh, concerns .. about the positioning skill. https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/5krvcf/about_commander_skills_and_pitchforks/ Most notably: quote:1. Yes, we have kept "Radio Positioning", while listening to ST feedback AND your "theoretical" concerns. This is why the skill is now 4 points and it shows a sector, not exact location. While it is powerful in some situations, I am just asking you this: before making rage posts go to PT and try (honestly!) to build a solid build with this skill. And think - just think - what would you sacrifice for this skill (e.g. on BB). And then, well, try it in game before making conclusions. Point is, the skill is not added to "ruin" any line or devaluate your mastery. It is a costly situational option. E.g. it may be very good in some game-staggering scenarios when 3-4 ships must chase some half-dead poor guy that tries to cap. Just an example.
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poo poo I wish I had these skills right now.
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Dear ZombieLenin: I'm sorry for Dunking on you, but that was a fun loving brawl. Goons ruin everything. I assume you went for the ram there?
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Given all these "free" 10-point captains, it makes you wonder if they'll give us free point resets again.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Given all these "free" 10-point captains, it makes you wonder if they'll give us free point resets again. Well they kind of have to if the skill changes happen.
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ZombieLenin posted:Well they kind of have to if the skill changes happen. Lol look at this guy thinking they might do that.
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Sun Wu Kampf posted:At what tier do US battleships stop having armor made of cheese? Tier 5-7
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Got a Grem, swore it would be my last 4 Captain's crates. Prinz Eugen and a loving Nikolai. Peace out, I'm done pushing my luck. Flamu was bitching in the background, of course.
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  Done with the Minekaze, and just in time too. If it wasn't for all the Ocean Soul and experience flags they threw at me with boxes, I would've given up on this boat and freexp'd the Hatsuharu. These are just about the best results I can drag out of her, and that is after kicking and screaming. I don't question that this boat used to be amazing at some point in time. Right now, it feels very non-threatening: just an adequate torpedo platform for its tier. The torpedoes feel underwhelming, since to me, having more torpedoes per launcher is just so much more comfortable than having more launchers with fewer torpedoes or some extra range. The speed isn't anything amazing either, they just feel slow, but anything under 60 knots feels pretty slow once you make that jump. At the very least, they reload very quickly, which is nice. Since it has trouble outgunning anything other than itself (not saying you can't take on American DD's on this, but it usually requires you to get crafty with detection or get some help), It thoroughly feels like a one-trick-pony. You will launch your torps. Maybe they'll hit, maybe they won't. If you have a brain, you will pop smoke and shoot things when the opportunity arises, though at that point, you're cosplaying as an American DD inside the smoke, except you can't hide your lovely RoF. If things are barreling towards you, you will wait for them to get close to shotgun them with your good torp reload. If they turn away, you've usually wasted your smoke, since the range on your guns is just so goddamn bad. The overreliance on torps makes it very boring to play, which is unlike the other
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 I feel like I'm starting to get the Ibuki, using it like a longer ranged Atago. Supporting the BB line and setting other BBs on fire with 5k volleys from 20km, over a mountain. I'm midway to the Zao now, very excited to get there. Any tips for either ship, playstyle quirks that might not be common knowledge?
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Goddamn is the Marblehead a piece of poo poo. I don't think anyone was asking for a shittier Omaha, but wargaming delivered! Lets have a tier 5 ship with essentially no AA, that will be fun.
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I don't remember if I've ever gotten Confederate in a DD before, but tonight I got it in a stock Ognevoi with an untrained captain. I like this boat.
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Sperglord Actual posted:I don't remember if I've ever gotten Confederate in a DD before, but tonight I got it in a stock Ognevoi with an untrained captain. That boat got a lot hate at first when the turrets were easy to be destroyed. Now it's a good boat that does well. I got my second solo warrior in it and I did enjoy it, just not as much as the Farragut. It gets even better going up that line too like the USN DD line does.
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Ognevoi wasn't so bad once you got used to playing second-line skirmisher, but Farragut is far more versatile. I average 10k DPG higher in it.
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Cheapest boat purchase of my life http://i.imgur.com/kMLvAsn.gifv Just 1 credit!!!!
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OSad posted:, since to me, having more torpedoes per launcher is just so much more comfortable than having more launchers with fewer torpedoes To each his own of course but I completely disagree with you on that. More launchers is better by far. Its just more flexible arrangement that allows you more options. I would kill for Yugumo with 2x4 or 3x3 arrangement instead of 4x2.
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More launchers with fewer torpedoes makes for bigger gaps and easier torpedo beats, I vastly prefer quad and quint launchers to the torps on these steaming shitpile IJN DDs. They made a new line because nobody was playing them (because they were mediocre), and managed to split a mediocre line into two aggressively bad ones, and then add a German one that is superior in just about every way, I wonder how that's going to turn out for them. I can't see any serious amounts of people being able to grind past the terrible Hatsuharu to reach Akizuki, and nobody who hasn't reached 9/10 already is going to bother trying to get past the turd that is the Akatsuki - which is going to be even worse after these new skill changes, with those ships in particular relying 100% on straight lining into stealth torps. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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ZombieLenin posted:So I never got an answer on this one, is it worth taking CE on a Russian cruiser captain, or is the general wisdom that you should double down on tier 4 skills? I have it on my Moskva, Concealment is still rubbish tho and I get lit up by every battleship in range. I replaced the concealment module with the rudder shift one to help with dodging. Before I was full concealment and it was still too bad to be of much use. I'd say you need either CE or the Concealment mod with nothing you have worse concealment than most battleships you'll encounter.
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It's hard to say which one was worse, the Kagero who turned his engines off and went afk to talk on the phone, leaving my NorCal to be ravaged by a Benson I couldn't find, or the 80% HP Montana who rammed a 5% HP Yamato, killing them both, and essentially throwing any chance of winning the game, because he had ram flags on and turning to avoid the Yamato would have let it have one last shot at his exposed side.
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