Commerce Raid mode?

[MexicanPanda]

So watching some more videos on the Graf Spee (because I hate myself) I was reminded that most of the german navy was designed to take out cargo ships and I guess their escorts, rather than actually go head to head with the main british fighting ships. So why don't we get a nice co-op mode where we get to attack a convoy in kind of an Armored Warfare style format. Different difficulties, which would change the composition of the escorts and such and also change the rewards. Maybe it could even be tied into the future clan wars stuff or something where you could attack rival clans resources and supply lines.

 

I know I would love to have AW style PvE with ships. How about everyone else?

[212thAttackBattalion]

I wouldn't mind this: wolf packs of Destroyers and fast Cruisers harassing the escorts and herding them towards the Battleships and heavy cruisers for deletion.

 

or conversely, defending a convoy from attack would also work. I wouldn't mind either or

[IronWolfV]

I'd be down with that. I'd also like to see convoy defense against raiders, or even a U-Boat scenerio(NO PLAYER U-BOATS!) where we'd actually have DDs and light cruisers with sonar and depth charges hunting down subs, and hell can even throw in the low tier USN carriers as sub hunters.

 

Plenty of different scenerios they could do. hell they could even do something a la carte of the Halloween event we had which was quite fun.

[Komrade_Rylo]

we did have one, the Halloween gamemode was a sort of beta test for things of this nature

[Sir_Davos_Seaworth]

Some great ideas so far! How about some armed merchant ships as well?

[MexicanPanda]

we did have one, the Halloween gamemode was a sort of beta test for things of this nature

 

I'd call that more of a proof of concept, since it's so dissimilar to what I'm thinking of that I wouldn't call it even an alpha test. Then again, I don't actually know, since I didn't bother with the event since I heard too many people complaining about it.

 

I'd be down with that. I'd also like to see convoy defense against raiders, or even a U-Boat scenerio(NO PLAYER U-BOATS!) where we'd actually have DDs and light cruisers with sonar and depth charges hunting down subs, and hell can even throw in the low tier USN carriers as sub hunters.

 

Plenty of different scenerios they could do. hell they could even do something a la carte of the Halloween event we had which was quite fun.

 

Convoy defense would also work. I also really like the idea of performing ASW with the DDs and CLs too.

[Volron]

If the information I have learned is on, Alpha's will know for certain, there was a Convoy Mission in Alpha.  They did away with it then because folks would ignore the Convoy and fight it out.  With that in mind, if they were to reintroduce it, it would likely be in a setup similar to the Halloween Scenario we had, which is Co-Op based, or simply a mission that you'd get every now and again in Co-Op..  I'd be happy to see it brought back (so I can play it myself ), but would expect it to be a Co-Op mission set.

[Kapitan_Wuff]

Its a cool idea. But like already mentioned, we had the Halloween escort game mode...and I got utterly board with that after a dozen matches.

[MexicanPanda]

If the information I have learned is on, Alpha's will know for certain, there was a Convoy Mission in Alpha.  They did away with it then because folks would ignore the Convoy and fight it out.  With that in mind, if they were to reintroduce it, it would likely be in a setup similar to the Halloween Scenario we had, which is Co-Op based, or simply a mission that you'd get every now and again in Co-Op..  I'd be happy to see it brought back (so I can play it myself ), but would expect it to be a Co-Op mission set.

 

That's what I said in the OP. This kind of mode would ONLY work as a PvE mode. I do remember hearing about such an idea back in CBT, and remember it got scrapped because of the reasons you said.

[Volron]

Yeah.  Sorry, only woke up like 15 mins ago.   I'd love to see it as well.  I had a blast with Halloween Scenario, though it was tough when the team derped.   I'm kind of wondering if they aren't already revamping it seeing as we had the scenario, and we have a fairly detailed container ship.

 

[MexicanPanda]

Yeah.  Sorry, only woke up like 15 mins ago.   I'd love to see it as well.  I had a blast with Halloween Scenario, though it was tough when the team derped.   I'm kind of wondering if they aren't already revamping it seeing as we had the scenario, and we have a fairly detailed container ship.

 

Huh, I hadn't even thought of the container ship being a step in that direction. Hopefully WG is working on a mode like this then. Right now the only way I can scratch my commerce raiding itch is by playing Victory at Sea, and that plays completely differently than WoWS.

[ArIskandir]

How about everyone else?

 

Yes

[212thAttackBattalion]

If the information I have learned is on, Alpha's will know for certain, there was a Convoy Mission in Alpha.  They did away with it then because folks would ignore the Convoy and fight it out.  With that in mind, if they were to reintroduce it, it would likely be in a setup similar to the Halloween Scenario we had, which is Co-Op based, or simply a mission that you'd get every now and again in Co-Op..  I'd be happy to see it brought back (so I can play it myself ), but would expect it to be a Co-Op mission set.

 

way to stop people abandoning the convoy: the rewards, credits, xp etc etc you got was based solely off of how many convoy ships survived the fight. you can kill all the enemies but you get F all if you let half the convoy get sunk or disabled. 

 

 

[yashma]

I'd love a mode like this.  It would be fun to play on both sides, convoy escort and convoy raiding.  I would also absolutely love the idea of fighting AI u-boats.  

 

While it would make the most sense in co-op, I'd even be down to give convoy modes a try in PvP.  It probably won't work as team work is too much to expect from randoms, but WG could try and come up with with creative rewards to incentivize team work.  Such as providing rewards only for doing the objective rather than just standard PvP actions.  Worth a shot in my book.

[Mexicanarmada15]

I think it would be hard for the team defending the convoy. It always seems easier to get a team to work together to destroy things rather than defend. I tried out the halloween event a couple of times and it could be very annoying when no one seemed to work together.

[CorvusBB39]

 

way to stop people abandoning the convoy: the rewards, credits, xp etc etc you got was based solely off of how many convoy ships survived the fight. you can kill all the enemies but you get F all if you let half the convoy get sunk or disabled. 

 

 

We could have a PQ17 "award."

[DelroyMonjo]

Maybe if they had 120km square maps....of Ocean.

[SireneRacker]

Sure. As long as it would be a seperate game mode (like Co-Op, Random, Ranked,...) I am on your side.

[Zehroflcopter]

So you want to delete Escort and Cargo Ship bots with your warship guns? Just go sealclub at Tier Five.

[Montana_Prussian]

I'd be down with that. I'd also like to see convoy defense against raiders, or even a U-Boat scenerio(NO PLAYER U-BOATS!) where we'd actually have DDs and light cruisers with sonar and depth charges hunting down subs, and hell can even throw in the low tier USN carriers as sub hunters.

 

Plenty of different scenerios they could do. hell they could even do something a la carte of the Halloween event we had which was quite fun.

 

And sub hunting was actually the primary job of DDs.

[MexicanPanda]

So you want to delete Escort and Cargo Ship bots with your warship guns? Just go sealclub at Tier Five.

 

Tier 5 are the seal now, unless you haven't noticed. I would have to go tier 4 or lower, and I don't get off on ruining new player's experience, so I'd rather stomp bots.

[ThreeLineRifle]

So watching some more videos on the Graf Spee (because I hate myself) I was reminded that most of the german navy was designed to take out cargo ships and I guess their escorts, rather than actually go head to head with the main british fighting ships. So why don't we get a nice co-op mode where we get to attack a convoy in kind of an Armored Warfare style format. Different difficulties, which would change the composition of the escorts and such and also change the rewards. Maybe it could even be tied into the future clan wars stuff or something where you could attack rival clans resources and supply lines.

 

I know I would love to have AW style PvE with ships. How about everyone else?

 

 

....buuut I doubt it. How long ago was the test for 8 vs 16 in co op and not a SINGLE word since?

[yUPPatriots]

we had the Halloween escort game mode...and I got utterly bored with that after a dozen matches.

 

same here

[Sir_Orrin]

What I used to do in the Training Room, may it Rest in Peace, Is grab a German Battleship (BISMARCK!!!) and pit myself against a bunch of Un-armed Langleys, with escorts. Take out the Escorts, then go run down the Langleys. ton of fun. 

[MexicanPanda]

What I used to do in the Training Room, may it Rest in Peace, Is grab a German Battleship (BISMARCK!!!) and pit myself against a bunch of Un-armed Langleys, with escorts. Take out the Escorts, then go run down the Langleys. ton of fun. 

 

That does actually sound like fun. XD