Redeye Flight posted:

Nah, we're not calling you whiny, the Karlsruhe is just a contender for weakest ship in the game. Keep at it--next tier you're going to get one of the strongest ones. You still won't have any armor but your guns will be INCREDIBLE.

Ice Fist posted:

If you can't beat 'em join 'em.

I ploughed through T6 ranked. Only lost 2 games.

Also I agree that BBs are really proliferated right now, but honestly I attribute a lot of my success to some good DD play. I had some real good DD drivers provide cover and heavily influence matches. Cruisers though? I don't recall being impressed by any cruisers I saw.

kaesarsosei posted:

Keep in mind that the step up isn't as prenounced as it used to be because of the MM changes. Your Karlsruhe is a poo poo T4, but at least it is only seeing T5 ships at worst. The Konigsberg is an awesome T5, but it is regularly seeing T7, and no T5 bar IJN DDs can make that jump painlessly.

OwlFancier posted:

I am banging my head against my T4 BB which is worse than the T3 BB in terms of accuracy, with the added advantage of requiring me to submit my gun traversal requests by post 3 weeks in advance.

Vengarr posted:

I could use some general cruiser tips beyond the obvious "don't be the first into a fight" and "shoot AP at lightly armored cruisers and BB superstructures, HE at everything else". I feel like I'm pretty good with BBs, okay with destroyers, and terrible with cruisers.

ToiletDuckie posted:

Tricky question. Up to Tier V IJN owns the torpedo boat game. Tier VI and up you might want to play US since the combination of Hydro/Radar/Player Competence (heh)/general torpedo visibility nerfs mean a pure torpedo boat isn't ideal. Then again, I've seen Mutsukis and Hatsuharus do terrible things to people...

Polyakov posted:

Bayern good, gneisenau great, bismarck outstanding.

Nobody has fun in early battleships, the Kongo is pretty much the only good one pre t6.

Velius posted:

I'm no master of battleships but the Konig is my worst of the tier 3 to 8 German battleships by far. 43% win rate, which is atrocious. My next lowest is the Tirpitz at 57%. It isn't a good ship. Slow speed and bad accuracy make it really hard to influence rounds.

Edit: it's the worst of all German ships for me, and only the pre boost Furutaka is worse among ships I used more than ten battles.

ZombieLenin posted:

The Yorck is a fantastic ship, but a huge deviation from the rest of the line. She has good AE, huge shell arcs that shoot over islands, and low-velocity floating shells.

Only use AP under 9k, for the most part, and the rest HE.

After her the line returns to basically the AP platform you're used to on the German cruiser line.

But yeah, I loved the Yorck so much I let her; however, when I first started playing her I hated her. So give her a few games before you make up your mind.

no bones about it posted:

You spend a poo poo ton of flags to get that as well as it being your 200% win with a premium ship. I figure I was rocking about 1000% xp modifier because I came in at about 960 unmodified xp.

Also, DPS is a nice way to boost xp yeah but solo capture points are 1000 xp, you get about 300 for an assist.

Lord Koth posted:

Zulu - Top row, third from the right, and it gives a +20% credit bonus. Aside from flag handouts, you get them for First Blood medals. Annoyingly, unlike some of the flags where you get 10 when you earn the medal, you only earn 1 Zulu flag for a First Blood medal, and the limit of only getting the flag reward 1/day still applies.

Vengarr posted:

Always play with goons if you can help it. My win rate in 3-man goon platoons is absurd.

E Equals MC Hammer posted:

I had an iowa blunder into my sims hiding in smoke, broadside, 2km away. That was the sweetest torping ever.

wdarkk posted:

I'm not sure if there's any way to actually fix the "CV is more important than anyone else" thing, other than adding really manual AA control.

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Only 16 games in and I've been lucky with mine so far with 60k average damage. Have had a few frustrating games though including a penascola presenting broadside multiple times without me getting a solid hit and then being melted.

Vengarr posted:

I believe this happens when your shell hits an AA gun or secondary gun, and then bounces off the deck/superstructure armor. You penetrated a "module", so it's considered a good hit. Just...no damage.

Xae posted:

Do they ever plan on doing anything to end this lovely metagame where both teams have 6 battleships that just circle in spawn?

OwlFancier posted:

Hm, everything's been pretty much wrecking me but maybe because I've been consistently uptiered? I didn't have that much trouble in T7 with the konig though.

OwlFancier posted:

There's always DDs/CAs with torpedoes and the thing is so slow that it gets shredded face on before it gets into brawling range, because they can shoot me from 20km away.

Essentially it just feels like brawling doesn't work as well in tiers where everything has accurate, powerful, long range guns, because the chances of you getting a 1 on 1 are very low because everything has interlocking fire coverage owing to the massive gun ranges, and everything can outmaneuver you.

Against things in its own tier maybe it works but when driving it is making me consistently play with T8s it seems like a downgrade for the same reason the minekaze was.

El Disco posted:

The idiot in question since it's hard to read the name. Standard idiot BB driver.

Flagellum posted:

wdarkk posted:

So weird.

Hazdoc posted:

"Crossing the T" is questionably useful even in WW2 naval combat, since ships can turn their guns and don't need to be broadside to open fire. The tactic was a lot more important before radio allowed ships to coordinate their maneuvers better, and certainly vital during the age of sail. Since WoWS doesn't even have any downsides to a BB firing its superfiring turrets (in real life, it'd be quite terrifying to be in the A turret of a bow-on Iowa, for instance), this is taken to 11, with "Crossing the T" being a BAD idea, not a good one.