[crizza]

I think I just stumbled upon Slayer in his Friedrich der Große?


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[Col. Fishguts]

No, I think he's called "TheStarSlayer" (and plays on NA)

[StarSlayer]

Not me, I play on NA and while its unlocked I am still collecting the monies to buy one. 

[crizza]

A shame, I asked him and he said he's on HLP board.
Anyway, just wrecked a Bismarck with my Derpitz, so satisfying

[Rodo]

Just sold the Clev and bought the Pepsicola.

First game with 50% commander and I'm like... "not bad". Though shell flight time still feels a little on the slow side.

[Scourge of Ages]

Just sold the Clev and bought the Pepsicola.

First game with 50% commander and I'm like... "not bad". Though shell flight time still feels a little on the slow side.

When I first started sailing the 'cola, I was entirely underwhelmed. Until about this past Saturday, when I watched a certain youtube video that revealed a certain ability of a certain tier VII US Cruiser... Basically your AP shells have a massive advantage over other ships', because they penetrate where other AP auto-bounces.

[Rodo]

Yeah knew that, I've been following Chase for a while now.

Still, mostly tried to fight dds and burn bbs, not sure why but there seem to be fewer ca's around as of late. Or maybe it's just my luck.

[StarSlayer]

The trade off between Cleve and Cola is that Cleve's shells loft into orbit while Cola is spotted from it.  Seems like its always the first ship spotted right before I send her a freight train of tasty citadel hits from Nagato.  They seriously need to fix that ship's concealment.

[Enioch]

Reached Rank 1

It's anti-climactic, despite the MONSTER 10/2 W/L run I got once I reached Rank 3. There's an interesting amount of metagaming involvged in picking the time you're doing your ranked matches (when there's actual people with brains playing) and picking the ship based on the queue stats (i.e. don't play DDs when a good CV player is on the prowl - just wait for them to stop playing and go back in).

Also, teamwork OP.

Just one more Rank 1 for #getship. Waiting for next season.

[crizza]

I hate the fact that you need a T6 ship to even start playing ranked.
And that a Kiev zigzagged at extrem range, torching my Gneisi to death.
And that I held the line in my Mogami against two Tirpitz, a Gneisi and a Scharnhorst... I zigzagged, torched them, used torps to keep them at bay... and then my BBs decided to shred them... lucky me

[Enioch]

So, after twenty or so days of forced interaction with Miss Benson, I got back home and found my darling(s) waiting for me.



There was some heated discussion but eventually my transgressions with the ga̸iji̸n̨b҉o̷a͞t͘  were forgiven and we took a small trip around North. My first game in her in a while.  Holy ****, is Shimakaze still an amazing ship. Note the 2.4k base XP without a single cap. 

Including the replay, because I really wanted that Kraken. 

http://wowreplays.com/Replay/19754

[Spoon]

noice

[Col. Fishguts]

That's impressive.

In other news, the RN cruisers were just released, yay for 12vs12 Black Swan melee fights.
Did I see that right that they have only AP shells on all tiers, and not very impressive looking AP from the stats?

[Enioch]

Yes, no HE on the RN cruisers

Also no AA consumable. But heal since at least Tier 6 (possibly earlier), haven't checked yet, good radar and smoke

And the AP might not be amazing on a per-shell basis, but it encourages aggressive target seeking (to find those broadsides) and the guns have very good ROF.

[StarSlayer]

Some of the vids Flamu put up indicate that Fiji upwards its seems pretty solid when played correctly.

[Enioch]

Oh, they're pretty good ships. I've fought some of them at T6-7 and they're a bloody nuisance to hit

[Enioch]

Seething rage.

138k. 7 kills, none of them killsteals. And it's still. Not. ****ing. Enough.

Full credit to that Kongo, he played it perfectly, the bastard. I was chasing him, at under 7km, firing HE into his superstructure and he was under 5k health when the game ended.

[Rodo]

Damn good game. Nicely done!

[Droid803]

so i picked up this game again (haven't touched it since cbt) because i want an arp takao
but i need a tier 6 and my highest tier is 5
and i suck
and my minekaze doesn't have the long range slowtorps anymore so i can't easymode cheese
help
how do you play this thing now i forgot everything ahhh

[Scourge of Ages]

how do you play this thing now i forgot everything ahhh

I'd recommend getting a BB if that's feasible... a good BB game gets a ton of experience (you might get more damage in a CV, but they have an exp nerf last I checked).

As for destroyer tactics, somebody else will be along shortly to help you. I find them fun, but inconsistent for me since I'm not good enough.