[Deathsnake]

Well a few citadel hits

[StarSlayer]

POI?

[Droid803]

all hail our new poi overlords

[Spoon]

My empire has finally dawned

[Deathsnake]

No post yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlZ2DQRgLc
Premium Tier 6 Cruiser - The Graf Spee! Pocket Battleship

[Rodo]

Preetyyy little toy ship, mhh mhh.

I'm having such a hard time playing as of late. I seem to have forgotten how to aim ffs.

PS: new ijn dds changes... I was hoping to get a good akatsuki, but she seems to underperform in comparison to other dds. Oh well..

[AtomicClucker]

So, new IJNs were a bit of a surprise to me. While playing the Farragut... little bastards fired back.

However, they're truly terrifying in the hands of good players and harassers.

But..... nothing beats a Soviet's guns and a helping hand of Stalin!

Ahem.

So, roughly 5k away from the Schors, and since I've had such a great run, I'm keeping the Budyonny in my ship list. The Cleveland is a frontline brawler that I've gone head on against N.Carolina and survived a firefight with an angry Iowa. The Budyonny? It's a tricky ship to play, but after some of the good XP pulls and fire damage, I adore this vermin.

[StarSlayer]

I am Yūdachi Squallborn and I will take what is mine with Fire and Flood!







Getting a Double Strike on a Bismarck and Nor Carl was pretty sweet, the reload booster is a real force multiplier when you need it.

Still getting back into the groove with Destroyers but this is a fun little Can.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

I've been having fun picking on the hordes of potatoes playing IJN DDs in my Blyskawica today. They are much more dangerous in gun battles than before but not enough to make me afraid of hunting them.

Saw a Missouri earlier, too. Got radar'd. Nothing else happened, because radar on a BB is kind of a stupid gimmick. I can't see it being nearly as helpful as hydro on the German BBs.

Meanwhile, I'm drooling over the German DD previews in the client.

[Scourge of Ages]

So the IJN DD update swapped my tier 6 and 7 destroyers for two 5s, a 6, and a 7, and I got two free commanders. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

[StarSlayer]

Hey Akatsuki I'm going to POI you away with my twelve centimeter cannons

[Scourge of Ages]

All right, Starslayer. I'll see your Shiratsuyu and raise a Mutsuki:

[AtomicClucker]

So, I'm thinking of putting a little 'love' and by that I mean explosions into the Pensacola. Earning credits to get myself a Schors, but I'll probably pickup a Konigsberg first.

And what have I learned about the Pepsi? Nothing.

In fact, I get exploded because most of the games I'm pushing because the battleship captains are either to scared or being wet rags to push. I like to use a 'rolling wall' analogy for good battleship players, creeping forward and sniping. But not all BB drivers are good, and when the squishy Soviet/American cruisers are pushing and tanking  with destroyers, there's something wrong. Either way, won a few hard matches as a Pepsi and tanking because the battleship captains were more busy sniping than driving a steel wedgie into the enemy team's arse.

[Droid803]

Potato teammates have to be expected
You'll always get those destroyers who drive off into a corner of the map fruitlessly trying to stealth-torp enemy cruisers instead of spotting/contesting capture points, or that smoke up preemptively before they even come across anything thus ensuring that nothing gets spotted by anyone because of the damn smoke cloud in the way.
You'll always get those battleships that snipe the whole match at 20km and never hit anything, and complaining about ****ty teams while their cruisers are getting shot up and killed because they're too scared to push up.
You'll always get those cruisers who sail straight into caps, turn broadside, and immediately get citadel'd.

Not much you can do about it but to act as if they're not on your team...
Maybe division up with a destroyer that can smoke you up as you push into caps so you don't have to rely on useless allied BBs to draw fire?

[AtomicClucker]

I should really be moaning less about battleship captains... but god-damn since the update with the new IJN destroyers, there's a spike of terrified BBs afraid of a destroyer sneezing on them.

On the other hand... yes, DDs paired with rapid fire cruisers are dangerous. Get two Fijis and a pair of escorting Minekazes for smoking AP love. I bore witness to a failed pincer with scared Tirptiz captains fleeing from DDs when they're essentially a giant destroyer and armed with torps, watched my flank get chewed up alive. Want to see a Derpitz melt? That's the way to do it. Minekazes torp to harass, but also scout while they rotate with Fiji smoke screens. Rapid fire AP shells into the superstructure. I got lucky and crashed into the hull of sinking Tirpitz and was able to run away in a burning Pepsi XP

I'm developing a new found respect for British cruisers with smart players. Combine stealthy DDs with British AP fire and you've got a kill team.

Still gonna be a while before I get the Leander, and it's meh till the Fiji.

[StarSlayer]

Shiratsuyu is a lot of fun, get this Can before WG decides its too much fun and nerfs the **** out of it.

[Scourge of Ages]

Ran into TechnoD11 in a battle this morning (not collided, but saw and chatted with). First time either of us has seen anybody from HLP on the NA server.

It was fun! there was a big squadron with a Yamato in it, and our side won.

[TechnoD11]

Can confirm. I sacrificed myself so as to ensure minimal damage to Scourge's Atago.
Was playing the Kagero, which I must admit I am absolutely loving! Can't wait to get concealment expert for a 5.2km detection range (!).

[Spoon]

5.4

[crizza]

I added Spoon to my friend-list, but I would never dare to play with him