World of Warships

[Destraex]

What are your in game names?

[Tuna]

I'm HTuna in game.

[Shelldrake]

I'm Shelldrake2 in game.

[bboyer66]

Great time yesterday.

So in one battle, in my German tier IX BB. Me and 2 other ships are kicking ass and taking names at one cap, while our main force is getting their asses kicked at another. Of course they all start whining and blaming me for their asses being kicked. At this point I have 760000 damage done and 1 BB kill in the first 6 minutes of the game. Of course these bozos just keep telling me how much I suck as I go on to kill 3 more ships and end with around 210000 in damage. Somewhere along the line I told them they were clueless and to STFU, and apparently they reported me because I was chat banned for 24 hours LOL. Of course I was the top damage dealer, and XP getter on our team, which we wound up winning.

Later I am playing in my Russian Tier VIII cruiser.  We are winning the battle pretty handily and I am chasing a DD that is harassing us from the edge of the map. I get some hits on him before he goes out of viewing range. Then I turn on my radar, light him up, and shoot the shit out of him at about 9-10 Km to finish him off. He promptly messages that I am a cheater and using some "Warpack" hack. After the match he messages me and tell me to enjoy my ban for cheating. Of course I am chat banned and could not respond LOL. 

The meta at the higher tiers is getting crazy. BBs and cruisers just sit back at long range and do very little damage. If you play aggressively , your team just sits back and watch you get focus fired. Simple tactics like massing more firepower, and attacking the enemy lines weakpoints are beyond most of the players.

However in ranked battles, at tier VII, a totally different story. Players play agressively, get the caps, and attack as a team.  WHile I am not a big fan of Tier VII ships, the battles are far more satisfying then the random tier X BS.

[Nefaro]

French cruisers seem a slightly unusual choice - the French navy I thought was pretty marginal in both world wars, and I wouldn't have guessed the French market was so big as to drive this.

More British ships would seem more obvious , plus the Italian navy.

Still - more is good. Will be interesting to see them, learn something new.

Yes, more is good.


I still get the feeling that the devs are thumbing their nose at the Brits by holding back their BBs and DDs.  Also would've expected the Italians to have a notable showing before the French.  *shrug*

[Nefaro]

The meta at the higher tiers is getting crazy. BBs and cruisers just sit back at long range and do very little damage. If you play aggressively , your team just sits back and watch you get focus fired. Simple tactics like massing more firepower, and attacking the enemy lines weakpoints are beyond most of the players.

That's why I tend to enjoy Tiers 5-7 the most.  Tier 8 is also a lot of fun - in those rare matches where you are top tier, or there is only one or two T9s, tops.  But didn't see those very often; you're usually just bait for T9 & T10 matches.

There are rare top-tier matches in which one side pushes as one and just steamroll the spread-out kiters and campers on the enemy team.  Even more rare.  Usually ends up with a small portion of the team pushing ahead while the rest hang out in back, constantly ducking behind islands and blocking their own guns from firing.  :-\  Then there is the top tier CV harassment, which is a whole 'nutha Oprah. 

[Destraex]

My crazy mate says
Mate: Let me flush out those destroyers with my battleship
Smoke all around.
I follow and predictably blow up.
Me: That's the last time I follow you in with a BB to take on Destroyers.
Mate: Didn't you see the way I was manoeuvring?
Mate thinks he is doing well by somehow out turning the destroyers at 3-4km range in smoke.
Me: Are you kidding me?
Mate blows up for no gain.

[JasonPratt]

I would really think you need to get into reliable groups at the higher tiers anyway.

(I'm still stuck on Tier 3 and 4, and will be a long time before I get everyone in my garage pulled up to 5. Longer because I'm easily distracted into playing other games and working on other projects. ;) )

[Nefaro]

I would really think you need to get into reliable groups at the higher tiers anyway.

(I'm still stuck on Tier 3 and 4, and will be a long time before I get everyone in my garage pulled up to 5. Longer because I'm easily distracted into playing other games and working on other projects. ;) )

Your overall win rate increase steadily, the more people you squadron with.  For obvious reasons.  It isn't a massive gain, but it's the norm.

It's just surprising how straight that increasing line is, on a graph, from playing solo to having the maximum 3 people in your group.  :nerd:

[Tuna]

I still have a couple tier IVs when you want to division up. IIIs are long gone though. Get to V as fast as you can ;-). 2ndacr had us in. Tier X matches last night. Very costly if you don't do well.

[DennisS]

Just played a game with my tier III US cruiser, the St. Louis. I was top dawg on the team, and knew that I would do some damage. I sailed right on into the thick of things, and got the Kracken Unleashed award, and a stupid amount of exp and credits. GREAT fun!

[Destraex]

Don't get in close to a German cruiser:

[steve58]

Don't get in close to a German cruiser:

Destraex, I had trouble viewing the video.  You might want to check out this thread Staggerwing started on posting videos.  O0

[Destraex]

Cool thanks. Other forums are fine. Guess I have to get the alternate one for this forum.

[steve58]

One of my better games and my 5th Kraken :), but it was a defeat  :(  Still love the Konigsberg.