[Spoon]

http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/common/ranked-battles-season2-update/
Find the poi

[Scourge of Ages]

Congrats, Spoon Empire! May you sink many botes in the battles to come!

[crizza]

Just played a match in my Kongo, Tier5 I guess, as I was toptier and range king...
A Furu thought it was clever to move only after taking damage and then camped behind an island.
As my shots struck home and sunk it, I simply typed "All hail the spotting planes"
That rage...

[Spoon]

Yamato~ Yamato~

(Detonation with a secondary on a fletcher at 4km)

[Scourge of Ages]

Minekaze-chan
Deadly ninja, poison arrows
Vanishes in smoke

-Scourge of Ages

[Rodo]

Unlocked the Fubuki.
Having such terrible matches 

I'll have to learn how to handle a destroyer, yet again.

[StarSlayer]

I feel your pain, I loved high tier IJN Cans in CBT but since I reacquired the Fubuki I've been playing like a complete ****ter in it.


Okay, so the Ranked grind is real.  Took the Atago out first but I felt I wasn't contributing enough so I switched to Tirpitz.  I was concerned she couldn't hang with Nor Carls and Amagis but Tirpitz really is a very competitive platform.  While I've been consistently having high damage games and printing credits, I can't seem to string enough wins together to progress.  I'm still settling into using these guns at range against cruisers but I think they really need to be the priority target going forward.  They are the squishiest targets and killing them early ought to start the momentum shift plus free up our own Tin Cans.

[Rodo]

It's probably because higher tier players are not dumb enough to eat a full torpedo salvo.
It's just luck right now... either you get a noob player and you do things right, or you get good players and get lucky while doing things incorrectly.

And the fact that IJN dds are bad with guns does not help at all.

You went hull C or kept the B one for the extra turret?
I'm thinking of keeping the B one and using it as a pseudo gun boat.

[Spoon]

Well next patch supposedly the torpedoes will be stealthier and high tier battleships will have a slower ruddershift time so

[StarSlayer]

Considering how unpofitable the high tier economy is the skill spread may be skewed heavily compared to CBT.  As Spoon mentioned, there are some torpedo concealment buffs and BB turning nerfs in the pipe so it might improve.  Once I finish with the ranked season I think I will probably concentrate on the Fubuki and see if I just was having a bit of a funk.  Kagerō was my absolute favorite platform in CBT, I will be sad if she is pants in the current meta.

As for upgrades I always kept the extra turret, AA on IJN Cans is useless, stealth is everything.  If a CV decides keep you lit the extra AA isn't going to scare him away.  While you lack the traverse and RoF of the USN DDs their shells only come back down due to orbital decay while yours shoot nice and straight.  With the full turret arrangement you throw more shells in a salvo than similar tier US Cans save Gearing and can kite very effectively due to the arrangement.  Played right you can win gun duels with US cans, and its extremely satisfying.  In addition the extra guns are useful when you need to finish off a wounded ship that your fish haven't quite kill.

I haven't faced enough VMF cans but on paper they appear to be scary as **** though.

[NGTM-1R]

Soviet high-tiers can fire their guns from stealth, and hit like light cruisers. They are indeed scary.

[Spoon]

Soviet high-tiers can fire their guns from stealth, and hit like light cruisers. They are indeed scary.

I would go so far as to call them cancer.
Soviet destroyers from kiev onward have literally zero counterplay to them if you are in a battleship. It's just a constant stream of being set on fire by russian laser guns that are firing while under the effects of a cloaking device. Not every player in random knows this and abuses it, but in ranked it was a 100% thing each battle.
The very definition of not fun.

[Gray]

Soviet high-tiers can fire their guns from stealth, and hit like light cruisers. They are indeed scary.

True, they are scary and that's why i enjoy them so damn much.
However, they can not fire from stealth, this was nerfed before they got released to the public.
Which is a good/ bad thing, depending on if you sit in one or have to face one. ^^

And with the next patch they get nerfed again from Kiev upwards, which makes them less of a threat 'cause you can sink them faster.

[Spoon]

However, they can not fire from stealth, this was nerfed before they got released to the public.

Except, you are wrong. And they can.

[NGTM-1R]

However, they can not fire from stealth, this was nerfed before they got released to the public.

A nerf is not an elimination. The fact Tier 5 and 6 ships can't do it doesn't mean none of them can.

[StarSlayer]

Wow, I keep pulling High Calibers and Confeds out of my ass but cannot string victories together to save my life.  If this was PVP I'd fricken love this consistency of purple results but when its tied to not progressing up the ladder it's enough to pull your hair out.

In any case Tirpitz is a good boat.  I figured she wouldn't hold a candle to Amagi or the NorCal but I'm really surprised how fantastic both her and Warspite turned out.  At the very least I will be able to bankroll some new boats when this is done because these gals have been showering the credits.

[majorvader111]

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[Col. Fishguts]

Invite taken, thanks

I didn't follow the whole thread, but is there something like a HLP channel/group/clan?

[NGTM-1R]

Clans are not a thing yet, for some reason.

[Melon]

Honestly, there's a lot of little extra features that were mentioned to be there upon "release" that still aren't. Oh well, I imagine they'll add that stuff at some point.