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Groggy nard
Aug 6, 2013

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I am wondering why neither game has a Premium USS Arizona :911:

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Groggy nard
Aug 6, 2013

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Applied as Groggy Nard

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Aug 6, 2013

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I love sitting on top of deep submerged submarines until they run out of oxygen and just kind of die without even trying to fight me because they can't get far enough away from my destroyer to get their torps to arm.

Groggy nard
Aug 6, 2013

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Pubbies have thrown away me clearing away multiple enemy subs/carriers/destroyers by being killed easily and leaving the capture point completely undefended no less than five times in a row tonight.

Defeat from the jaws of victory, every time.

Groggy nard
Aug 6, 2013

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This game has awesome air squad customization compared to WoWS but dear god do I suck at managing torpedo drops.

Battleships and Submarines are simply :perfect:

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Aug 6, 2013

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If you do fleet battles DO NOT DO TEN GOONS AT ONCE you will fight Dark Judge too much and get 0 kills for a total wipe.

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bees everywhere posted:

We just did 7 vs 10 against dark judge. It went about as you'd expect.

While you were doing that me and two other goons did a normal match and I ended up getting four kills with my TypeS, I swear most sub drivers are so bad at Tier3 I am being practically handed kills at this point.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Lee Outrageous posted:

Got any advice for sub driving?

You will sometimes be put way ahead of the rest of the fleet. Don't rush ahead. Slow down, have a buddy to help deal with anything that isn't a battleship at close range. USE SMOKE.

On Torpedos: Area Denial is a thing, use one to bait enemies into turns and then fire spreads after their turn kills their speed, or just fire blind spreads to force enemies to break off, which will spoil their aim.

On Scouting: Sometimes just finding the enemy BB's is enough to corral your pubbies in the right direction to turn a bad fight into a potential victory. If conditions are right, you can chase around groups of BB's and render their artillery useless in the face of "I don't want to eat torps for dinner and go to bed with the fishes." Actually killing them is just icing on the cake.

Groggy nard fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Nov 25, 2015

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Aug 6, 2013

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Sometimes my torpedoes are retard magnets :psyduck:

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Today my Cachalot Tier 4 American Submarine killed a Wyoming and then chased off a Kongo from the cap point via torpedoes and a complimentary deck gun round to the butt. I then sat for three minutes and solo captured, winning the game by a slim margin.

And that's how I unlocked the Perch Tier 5 American Submarine!

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Aug 6, 2013

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Galaga Galaxian posted:

If it modeled how lovely American Torpedoes are, it'd also have to model Japanese Subs/Destroyers/Cruisers exploding into fireballs the first time someone scores a crit on their (pure oxygen fueled) torpedo launchers. :v:




And Japanese Carriers constantly being on fire because someone decided to try and get rid of AVGas by pumping it through the ship ventilation.

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Aug 6, 2013

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rex rabidorum vires posted:

I think I hate the Omaha. Also for having such impressive hills the amount of shells that can rain on you when you're snugged up to the islands is somewhat annoying.

Everyone hates the Omaha in this game.

But that sweet, sweet Atlanta is totes worth the pain, I promise.

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Aug 6, 2013

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There should be a better achievement for "Capped the point solo in a DD while being shot at by a Kongo and Wyoming for three minutes."

The trick is to switch from going in circles at full forward to going in circles at full reverse.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Average Atlanta match.


Just waiting for the pubbies to realize that the goon who constantly rants retardedly about "how does into botes hellp I need heee" is getting MvP most of the time.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Tsurupettan posted:

this game is cool, I am applying as Tsurupettan.

what are some good boats or lines to go down? are there any major pitfalls/traps? i am reminded of WoT which had a lot of real loving poo poo tanks.

The Omaha in this game sucks but the Atlanta is a few tiers below where it should be and nothing else can really compare. Great for Seal Clubbing.

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Aug 6, 2013

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:shepface: I've never literally killed the entire enemy team before. :shepface:

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Aug 6, 2013

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So I kind of am not so good at BB's compared to my preferred DD/Atlanta/Submarines but my first match of the day yielded this on a non respawn match


The Rhino is Woundless hero :psyduck: I am not that good at BB's what is I don't even

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Aug 6, 2013

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Night10194 posted:

I like DDs, but I'm not sure I'm playing them too well. Can someone explain spotting and scouting a bit better? I just get points for discovering enemy vessels and for having them in sight while far off BBs blow the poo poo out of them, right?

Scouting also depends on a number of things like enemy visibility, your own scouting range for Radar/Sonar(these can be increased with commander skills and installable modules) and smoke.

Fun things to do with DD's!

Anti Submarine Warfare. Submarines will hunt your Carriers/Battleships/Submarines. Force them off target and make them shoot their wads early to ruin their dreams forever with your bigger torp spreads. If they go deep, depth charge them.

Torpedo Thunderdome. Enemy DD's will sometimes challenge you in the narrows to a game of chicken. Pay attention to the shoreline as well as their torps, force them onto the shoreline with a spread(save two torps for when they gently caress Up), or just straight up have bigger balls and better aim. You will Mr Magoo at some point, so enjoy it, because it happens to everyone.

WITNESS ME! If you survive the initial engagement and find yourself alone, but with a good idea of where the enemy BB shellfire is coming from, you can find where they tend to congregate and abuse your smoke bombs to get within shanking distance. If they have other targets often times most of them will not notice you until it is too late. Carriers also tend to gravitate towards the BB herds, making them easier targets than a Kongo who is actually paying attention and moving.

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Aug 6, 2013

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:golfclap: I now almost regret forgetting that Fleet Battles were today.

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Night10194 posted:

I managed to run out of torpedoes as a sub.

After killing 3 BBs, a sub, and finishing a second sub with my deck gun.

I think I love subs now.

Are you me?

How many Kongos have died from your submarine shooting them in the rear end so much that they died from being shot in the rear end so much?

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Aug 6, 2013

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Meat_Grinder posted:

Got some great trolling in today. Pretended I was a 5-year old playing his dad's T5 Sub.

You did at least save screenshots, right? You are editing your post to include them, right?

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Aug 6, 2013

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Michaellaneous posted:

Deep-diving and staying still throws pubbies off masively. After they DCed a bit, I popped up and sank the two destroyers with almost point blank torpedos.

Most pubbies still don't understand the concept of "Be patient and wait for the active sonar ping." I see.

Groggy nard
Aug 6, 2013

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[ASK] ME ABOUT MY 10K DAMAGE DEFEATS

THERE ARE MANY

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Aug 6, 2013

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One Use trip report. Repulse is like a Pensicola but not as fast and a bigger target. I can still dunk on morons on either one but it's easier to outmaneuver stuff with the Pepsi.

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Aug 6, 2013

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USN Guns are just


And then when I start thinking that maybe I'm not as good at this game as I thought, this happens!



I am going to need a bigger dumpster.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Lockmart Lawndart posted:

If your not riding sidecar in an aircraft carrier sub the size of a small cruiser, you're doing subs wrong.

I enjoy my AMERICA "I sunk literally the entire enemy team" Submarines too much to do it right.

Groggy nard
Aug 6, 2013

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Ramming other goons in a 4v4 sync drop was great.

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Aug 6, 2013

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You know that historically the only planes the Ise could recover were the floatplane scouts, right? That everything else "Totally wasn't a suicide launch because they could recover at nearby land based airstrips" right?

That boat is very :psyduck:

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Aug 6, 2013

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I didn't have time to mention it earlier, but the Ise also lost a ton of armor protection from the lost turrets, which tend to have better armor than the ships belt(unless it is a skinny Treaty Cruiser), and put a plane hangar in the once flashproof, floodproof ammo storage and turret cavity.

So it took away quite a few of the strengths of a Battleship(extremely hard to penetrate stable gun platform) for a few squads of bombers that could only be used once. It will get deck penned and critted so hard. SO. HARD.

It seems like it might be a fun bote in this game though. Which won't stop me from going :psyduck: every time I pen one with a DD.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Oh my god those last moments of a game in a submarine in a respawn match and you know you have that last BB and you realize that you are actually out of torps

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Aug 6, 2013

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Gonna add to the "Pepsicola is actually decent in this game" grouptalk with "It constantly outperforms the Repulse in my experience." which is really because the Repulse is just so undergunned considering how much of a slower and fatter target it(Repulse) is in comparison.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Stanley Pain posted:

You're WAY more armoured, move just as fast (35 knots on mine) turn just about as fast and have WAY more damaging primaries albeit slower reload.

The extra armor amounts to "Bigger target that is less concealable." With the exact same commanders on mine it seemed like the Repulse was 2 knots slower. Nobody expects the super quick refire on the Pensacola with all the reload time mods/commanders stacked and active, especially maneuvering DD's. BB's who are already engaged with another BB just don't understand why everything is fire, and I can just smoke and maneuver a single enemy BB who gets the bright idea to shoot me.

I tend to drive both of them exactly like an Atlanta though, which means I need a certain level of accuracy from the guns.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Galaga Galaxian posted:

Cause we're not that great tbh.

Also, lol @ them crying about Dark Judge cheating. Maybe they are! Or maybe they're just saying that to troll people, who knows!

Players calling me a "bot" is a thing in this game. Which is partly my fault for consistently wrecking poo poo and getting MvP half of the time, and for the way I spam at the start of each match.

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Aug 6, 2013

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My first match of the weekend.



poo poo's on fire, yo.

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Panfilo posted:

Friggin showoff! Man, I feel like hot poo poo when I get a 3 kill streak . and you guys are killing 3/4ths of the whole enemy team and being like "loving pubbies :smug: "

Hey I only got those 7 killstreaks like, two or three times!

And killed the entire enemy team with an American Submarine once!

I hope things went okay with the fleet battles, I always have to work during the Saturday ones and on the Tuesday I'm usually thinking "Do I spaceships or see if my family wants to meet for dinner and alcohol/controlled substances on my only day off?" and completely forget, which is sad because the big botefleet battles with goons are better than the spaceships at least.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Hello dunkfriend :hf:

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Aug 6, 2013

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Humbaba posted:

Can you guys give some gunnery lessons in fleet tonight? I'm getting 2 kills a match in my Nevada, and I think it's mostly because I'm missing shots. I stay a live well, but I have a tough time hitting DDs at range.

At long range I only fire when I know I can hit or I really want the DD to gently caress off from chasing our subs. What I usually do is try to get into a safe position to hit the escorting Cruisers lurking behind them.

Once they get in torp range, they tend to get cocky and predictable, because they think "lol I got this" and then they become proper dumpstering targets between torpedo run behavior and the reduced shell flight time needed to hit them.

edit: I cleared the application list because pubbies.

Groggy nard fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jan 19, 2016

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Aug 6, 2013

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I don't like them patch notes about team sizes, no sir.

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Aug 6, 2013

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I see I am not the only one with teams that were too heavy to carry today.

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Aug 6, 2013

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Log082 posted:

2) Especially gently caress pubbies who claim I'm not doing anything, and that's the only reason I'm not dead.

"Killsteal more" - A Pubbie who did 1/3rd of the damage I did that match.

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