Noworriesderpy1

Geez seems a bunch of folks been here since rock of ages and a whole LOTS of games played Anyway I am a true member of the Grumpy Old Men's Club. Retired 2Xs (20 + years Military and 20 + years Fed Govt). So I have NO thoughts of ever working again. My daily plan consist of sneaking my little princess of a wet nose therapist into my man cave so I can sit in front of my "Puter" all day and do whatever I please. ( till I get yelled at by the wifey for sneaking my wet nose therapist upstairs) Been here since late 2017

You are right, unfortunately Tier VI CVs as well as MOST ships in that tier are severely handicapped thus will be a cause of frustration for that player. Tier VI IJN DD Fubuki still does wonders though

Gosh I remember the days that the dreaded week of Defense of Newport would come around and chances of having a good game was dependent upon the composition of players experience level. I welcome the changes that WOWS have implemented with Operations specifically with the Randomness. Now the advantage of tailoring\playing a specific ship for each scenario has been somewhat diminished. ( Ex: Wiemers exploiting Northern CV route to annihilate ships at spawn point early in Nari) I will say I even cringe now when AEGIS comes up. As many players have already noted with the speed of the escort ships the chances of eliminating them early on have been drastically reduced. Let me add the accuracy of those escorts seems to have been taken up to a rather insane level. ( BOTS are notoriously good at focus fire). WELP lets say if your in a BB your chances of surviving past the first 2 waves is significantly reduced. As for Hermes, Ultimate Frontier, Killer Whale, Cherry Blossom, Defense of Newport, Raptor Rescue and Nari the changes are not as GLARING as Aegis IMO. It had been always challenging whenever playing with a mix experience group but with the reintroduction of the older operation scenarios given the constant influx of new players it just adds another notch to the challenge. @Wolfswetpawsand @Asym_KS as well as a few other established forum gurus have already noted eloquently the pros and cons of the changes in (Random Operations) within this thread.

You hit the hammer on the nail or as they say hit it right on the nose... Aegis has become a royal pain in the behind if you don't a div of at least 2/3rd of experienced players ( even then it can be painful). Oh Raptor Rescue is close behind as well. Also the what is maddening is that we often get the same scenario multiple times but being it is "random" guess like rolling dice you can get the same number multiple times.

Dang as many games as you played getting reported and losing Karma is EXPECTED... Heck I received one for not laying down smoke when a retreating BB DEMANDED I lay one for cover ... I was in a smokeless DD.

All I am going to say is AEGIS has has overtaken Defense of Newport as one of the hardest. The escorting cruisers of the convoy are NO JOKE. It used to be if you had a CV you could essentially carry a weak team, welp those days are gone.

LOL Got to give her the Props as she has shown that going with the basic formula you can get consistent high BXP in COOP. Plus being a youngster helps

Hey Hey your letting the secret of playing DD's in COOP out !!!

LOL playing DD's if you are within shooting of any BOT ship they firing away at you (specially as you indicated with its secondaries) now what I have seen are BOT Cruisers and DD's tend to overshoot the closest Human or Green BOT ships right next to them to shoot at the closest DD. Most of the time the turrets of the BB are just too plain slow to deal with a DD closing in unless the guns happened to be pointed in that direction.

Welp recently playing the Holland in coop battles seems the CV BOT planes no matter how much I zigged and zagged was hit by direct skip bomb hits (meaning the BOT planes did not skip bomb across the water). Not once but twice Seems now I have to be a tad more aware and ensure I have my bow pointed to those MAX CV Planes on top of dodging all those incoming shells from every bot within shooting distance. As for the other CVs with rocket plane attacks they are still way off though.

Wait Seal Clubbing\Tier Padding in COOP ? There are no Junior BOTS The problem is lower tiers XP and credits just dont cut for the time. Only reason is to do the lower tier Champaign's ( which I been putting of for YEARS) Though I have to admit it is kind of fun to go DIV up and do a few PEW PEWs every now and then.

Speaking of PTS it used to be good for receiving those flags which made it worth doing at least 3 COOP battles each round. Now with the Community tokens.... it has become sort of MEH.... Though let me preference first it could be just me but there seems to be NOTICEABLE difference between EU, RU and even Asian players vice NA play in COOP. ( could be that since I been sticking to CVs in PTS ) Maybe they are not use to aggressive CV play ?

I have played the T4 , T6, and T8 Russian CV's. T4 CV is way better than the other CVs in that I found it can CARRY when all seems to be lost and you ( only human) are left to deal with the remaining RED BOTS. If you already are use to the use of skip bombers then it will not be an issue. T6 CV is suspect may end up being BANNED in Clan Battles as it is quite effective for Tier 6 CV. T8 CV for me at least is somewhat a tad on the need more side.... being there are quite a few T8 CVs which are pretty good and just outshine. You have to be a bit more cautious when attacking as you do not have the ability to do multiple attack runs. Also you may want to use the CV like the Zeppelin in attacking cap zones ... as the secondaries have a decent range.

Hey Hey ... Being the Mighty PVE CLAN members primarily do nothing but storm around and stomp on the measly BOTs in PVE ? ( ya know like not venturing in Clan Battles, PVP and Ranks unless by accident ...yes accidents do happen ) so why would it matter ? Plus the Clan-Related forum area... is like the deep dark dungeon

Oh yea I can attest to that ... seems every BLUE MOON that DD seems to be a BOT super unicum from HECK. Last Monday evening I seen it take out the human Fiji ( who was at half health due to the Missouri. With no other CA around I took my Sharnie B around the corner and there she lay my secondaries are going off but we are so close I cant torp her BUT SOMEHOW due to BOT MATH it ( infamous instant BOT torpedo arming) can torp me as it laided double barrel launchers into my side. Had to laugh.