World of Warships

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Kerplunk

On the other hand, I can't seem to get a citadel penetration to save my life now. Hopefully it's just RNGesus hating me for a few games.

Odd, I'm experiencing the opposite. In one round last night, I had 5 citadel hits. I was thinking they made it easier, must have just been a lucky night or something.

Another question, was watching some replays on youtube and one guy was getting buzzed by a bunch of bombers, he appeared to somehow select the incoming enemy airgroup and "prioritized" them? Did I hear him right? Can you do that with secondary or AA fire?

[Kerplunk]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Another question, was watching some replays on youtube and one guy was getting buzzed by a bunch of bombers, he appeared to somehow select the incoming enemy airgroup and "prioritized" them? Did I hear him right? Can you do that with secondary or AA fire?

Yup, you can prioritize air groups or ships for secondary fire, just hold ctrl to bring up the mouse cursor, then select the target. A little icon will show over it to indicate they are the priority target.

[BlackArcher101]

Be warned though, if a DD is within secondary guns range, prioritizing the air target well divert secondaries to air (at least I think this is how it works). Prioritizing sea targets does the opposite.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Solid, thank you gents.

[Kerplunk]

So I've been reading forum posts, and it sounds like they changed the calculations for armour penetrations. While the calculations are now (more?) correct, they are causing BB shells to over penetrate the lighter cruiser armour, while most of the time bouncing on the citadel due to angle bounce mechanics. Explains why I couldn't crit any ship at close range, but one-shot a cruiser at 12km out.

Hopefully they adjust the calcs to balance things out. I feel like I shouldn't be getting more citadel hits from a cruiser on a battleship than the other way around.

[dammage79]

Just got the T6 German boat! Pretty pumped up about this one. Good ranged torps along with 10 rounds per minutes guns? Machine gun time in the big boy world.

Also dove into the Russian DDs as I needed a 4th boat. Fast, but the early torp range of 3KM is pretty bad. Cannot wait to get to the T5 boats.

[dammage79]

I've also started a 2nd account to specifically target marching through the BB lines. I find for FTP or even dumping 20-30 bucks into the game you just cannot carry more then 4 boats per account. At least with a separate account I can focus all my coin into two ships. Which is optimal I think.

EDIT: I'm super hesitant to dump money into these kind of games but that Atago Japanese Cruiser is super sexy. And a T8. Unless they do a Premium HMS Hood type thing before X mas, I may spend some dough on the Atago.

[GoinAllTheWay]

I just can't say enough how fun the Omaha has been to play, that thing brings the pain. Only been playing it for a week or so and already have enough XP to get the Cleveland which also looks like a hell of a ship.

Awesome ROF, fast turns, good top speed. Just last night I sank 4 ships in one round with at least 5 citadel hits. So. Much. Fun.

Can't wait to try the Cleveland out too. Big turrets, COVERED in AA guns and a decent looking top speed.

I thought this game would get old quick, just the opposite in fact. It's been a surprising amount of fun to play.

[dammage79]

Get used to massive hang time on Cleveland's shots. Once you get used to it, its quite satisfying to watch your rounds drop in out of nowhere.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Man, you weren't kidding about those hang times! Quite a bit different than the Omaha. Took me a while to compensate, so many shots landing behind my target.

Fun ship though. shoot down tons of airplanes now too. Especially when in enhanced fire mode.

[Kerplunk]

I......HATE....the Pensacola......

[BlackArcher101]

Yup, I basically using my free-XP to get past the Pensacola as fast as possible.

I just got past the Aoba to the Myoko and I'm starting to like the Japanese Cruiser line better than the US after tier VI. The guns do decent damage, but it's really nice having 10km torps. I seem to get half my kills just from that as a lot of ships forget I have them.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

Yup, I basically using my free-XP to get past the Pensacola as fast as possible.

I just got past the Aoba to the Myoko and I'm starting to like the Japanese Cruiser line better than the US after tier VI. The guns do decent damage, but it's really nice having 10km torps. I seem to get half my kills just from that as a lot of ships forget I have them.

Love Aoba but the torp angles blow. Good for escaping close DD S but other than that meh. I'm getting close to Myoko myself.

I find with the Pensacola you really need to unlearn a lot of Cleveland habits. It's takes a lot that not dive in and get into close range battles. I'm getting used to it. I find hitting citadels much easier than any other ship so far.

Russian DDs suck at low tier 3km range.

[dammage79]

Are any of you guys enjoying the ranked battles yet? Im personally having a tough go of them today but over all a nice change up from PvP.

You get a boat load of flags for wins.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Never tired the ranked battles. I've seen that option but never tried them, what are they all about?

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Never tired the ranked battles. I've seen that option but never tried them, what are they all about?

8v8 so small battles. Start at rank 18, two wins in a row gets you a rank up, you get a TON of flags per rank up and theres 3 permanent flags. Rank 1 being the Jolly Roger flag. Can make some decent coin too once you get into rank 10.

Fight strategy seems to be the entire battle group sticks together, Focus fire on one ship at a time and go from there.

Im doing it for the flags. Ive got like 40 EXP flags now and about 15 speed boost flags. And about 150 magazine flags.

[dammage79]

Good bye Aoba, you were a wonderful and fun ship to play. Hello Myoko! Thats how a T7 ship should play! Man alive. So much fun.

Ive gotten used to Pensacola play now. Step 1: Pretend lik it took forever to load into game. Step 2: Hang back at half speed. let the res f the team take all the focus.
Sep 3: Fire away and then run away.

[Kerplunk]

Isn't step 3: Fire WHILE running away?

I don't think I've actually faced a battle in that damn ship.

[dammage79]

Let's talk Battleships. I started a separate account to grind out BB's. As a cheap scrooge type I really don't/cannot afford to dump large chunks of change into the game and on accounts to level maybe 3 ships. Since my main has all 3 cruiser lines I wanted to level BB's as well. This was the way I chose to do so.

I ground through the U.S lower tiers twice. The first time I got to maxed out New York. She's really nice solely due to accuracy over Wyoming and South Carolina. SC blows. Wymoing have 6 guns which makes up for meh range and slightly better accuracy. Both are Brawlers.

This new grind I'm in Wyoming maxed out and about 6k away from NY. Which i going to be an amazing relief.

As for the Japanese, I just got Kongo today. Maxed out Myogi is great, major downfall for her is having only 3 guns. Range is fantastic, top 5 in the game for all BB's I think. Accuracy is a flaw.

I hear that once Kongo is maxed out she's one of the best in the game. I like her guns but the speed and turning are a big downgrade coming out of maxed Myogi.

Have you guys lined up against the new Russian Imperator yet? Holy hell does she pack a wallop. More so than any other lower tier BB. Close range she is deadly and has a ton of HP. Chances are if you're in a Japanese BB and you get into her range. She'll beat you 10 times out of ten. Best option is to use that 16km plus range and widdle her down if you can.

Anyone have mid-high tier BB's? Or are you all just like me and a sucker for the cruisers?

[dammage79]

Anyone gotten into ranked battles? i've made it up as high as rank 8. After hitting rank 10 you need to win 4 in a row to hi another rank. Sticky bit is, if you lose, you lose a ranking star. Im buoying between 9 and 8 right now. Cannot seem to get higher than rank 8 with 2 stars. Which sucks because the season is coming to a close soon and that rank #1 prize is a big boon. 10 million credits.