How was your weekend spree?

[Reymu]

Played a bit less than expected because my gut argued with me--[sigh] looks another diet adjustment. You know how tiresome it gets, finding out certain foods make you feel sick and staying well fed becomes more troublesome? Lol.

 

Anyway, had a pretty decent streak with more than half my battles victories. Finished Takao captain's grind to CE, and MM saluted me with a good match. I helped drop a BB going for our cap, then got a surprise Double Strike when one of my torps fired into a smokescreen wiped a Kagero and my HE fired 2 seconds earlier finished off a low-HP Haguro. Of course, that stinking Haguro had the nerve to BBQ me earlier:

Bismarck now waves manual secondaries around rather proudly. I've had mixed results with it so far--apparently it's meant to deal with CAs, not BB and DD so much. The accuracy is up to about 20% or so, but it doesn't seem to make a significant difference. And final battle before acquiring it, I got trolled:

One of my Taiho matches sparked the AA vs. red fighter/bomber debate thread you may know about it. Learned to my annoyance that apparently DDs carrying both rudder shift modules will require their own particular crossdrop to kill, so going to get that figured out since carry by godlike rudder shift works until properly countered. Might be more active in Taiho if CV rework makes this class more accessible to newbies (yes, not everyone's motivated by getting smashed at a competent player's hands), but time will tell.

 

Next I chat with VGLance, going to state I'm ready to join Fog.

 

Had some potato teams, but fewer than usually get on weekend, so not too annoyed. Did have one battle in Atlantic in Bismarck or Ibuki where 4 of our 5 DDs died within first 3 minutes, and told those useless newbie DDS to go back to T4 and learn how to DD. Still holding players to this standard

1) Low-tier (1-4) = probably newbie

2) Mid-tiers (5-7) = Knows many of basics and is reasonably able to pull weight as BB/CA/CV/DD, as well as take constructive criticism

3) High-tiers (8-10) = competent player in many respects

Yep, that's why idiots at high tiers do irritate me. No issue saying in all chat what my mistake was, because no other way to learn, and reasonably expect other players to be able to recognize their bad calls too.

[yUPPatriots]

Had some great games. Shout out to : Revel :

 

wp sir, wp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SideByEach]

Overall not bad. I had a couple bad spots and one flat out dark spot that left me borderline raging. I had to call out a Yamato captain after his rant to use his mini-map. Also found a few pairs of battleship captain "man pants", like new, never used in some tier X games. 

 

Pretty bad when two tier 8 BBs, a couple of mid-tier cruisers and a destroyer roll up the enemy team's flank all with our tier X bb's having never left our cap circle. Amazing and frustrating all at the same time.

[FogInvader]

I didn't play

[IronWolfV]

Won some, lost some, is what is. Still did my best.

[Montana_Prussian]

14-2 Saturday,17-7 yesterday. Much better than last week. 

[TTK_Aegis]

I played my rear end off and got Missouri Saturday night. Then I took Sunday off because burnout. 

 

Initial thoughts on Mo:

My only other T9 experience has been Izumo and Mo is way better than Izumo, at least for my play style.

She turns like a deflated blimp but can still torpedo beat if you're smart about when a spread is likely coming.

Those main guns can really ruin a cruiser's day. Or even a DD's day. Loving the accuracy and hitting power on these things.

Radar on a battleship is hilarious.

While she prints credits, I really don't think it's /that/ remarkable. I can make just as much on a good Yamato game using her premium camo and signals. It is nice to pretty much never worry about losing credits on a T9 game though, even on a horrific loss. 

There are a /lot/ of salty, salty people who get really mad when they see a Missouri this soon after it being released. 

 

Funniest thing I saw all weekend:

A guy in a T10 game started going off on people who were not snipe camping (he was in a Montana). He called everyone that moved up a bunch of noobs (and other things I can't repeat here). When questioned, he went on a tirade about how people should look at his Rank 1 status from the last ranked season and know that he's right because that's the only stat that matters so shut up. Then it happened... a cyclone hit. And he lost his fudge on the enemy team screaming that they were all using a cloaking hack.

 

I asked "So how much /does/ a Rank 1 account cost on eBay?" and he got really, really quiet. 

[VTAdmiral]

0% win rate on Friday put me off from playing at all Saturday or Sunday.

[alexf24]

My usual average game. I am not Unicom material. That said, I had 5 kills in Fletcher and 4 in Budyonni. Turned pink (briefly) by mistake, and got TKd in Leningrad. Lovely weekend.

[ArchMadman]

Started out very tragic but it has been a month and a half since i played and ended the last few with some very nice games with the cleveland

[Deputy276]

Got my Kongo hull upgraded. Otherwise, a "meh" weekend. SOS...same old sheet...weekend warriors. 

[Dolphe]

Terrible, got appendicitis

[TTK_Aegis]

Terrible, got appendicitis

 

Damn. That's like a citadel hit IRL. 

[Admiral_Franz_von_Hipper]

Mine was very good. I set my damage record in my König with 90k damage and racked up a total of 20k exp for the weekend.

[Aduial]

I felt like i was on a camping trip. There were so many people camping behind islands or from the map borders, and i kept dying because i had no support. Other than that, i started playing my Kagero, and i really like it. Averaging 70k damage in it (although i don't expect that to last), and the torps seem easier to land than the old Fubuki's. 

[HazardDrake]

Was ok. Won a few and lost a few on Friday. Then my back went out on Saturday. Went to the hospital, got an MRI, was given emergency back surgury for a badly bulged disk and leaking spinal fluid.

 

I've had better weekends.

[KaptainKaybe]

Annoying and extreme.

 

Saturday: 27% WR despite playing fairly well and getting in top five of my team in most matches.

Sunday: 65% or so WR despite playing average at best.

 

Overall, my WR was hoverng around 40-45%. Weekend potato RNG is a b**ch.

[legoboy0401]

I played my rear end off and got Missouri Saturday night. Then I took Sunday off because burnout. 

 

Initial thoughts on Mo:

My only other T9 experience has been Izumo and Mo is way better than Izumo, at least for my play style.

She turns like a deflated blimp but can still torpedo beat if you're smart about when a spread is likely coming.

Those main guns can really ruin a cruiser's day. Or even a DD's day. Loving the accuracy and hitting power on these things.

Radar on a battleship is hilarious.

While she prints credits, I really don't think it's /that/ remarkable. I can make just as much on a good Yamato game using her premium camo and signals. It is nice to pretty much never worry about losing credits on a T9 game though, even on a horrific loss. 

There are a /lot/ of salty, salty people who get really mad when they see a Missouri this soon after it being released. 

 

Funniest thing I saw all weekend:

A guy in a T10 game started going off on people who were not snipe camping (he was in a Montana). He called everyone that moved up a bunch of noobs (and other things I can't repeat here). When questioned, he went on a tirade about how people should look at his Rank 1 status from the last ranked season and know that he's right because that's the only stat that matters so shut up. Then it happened... a cyclone hit. And he lost his fudge on the enemy team screaming that they were all using a cloaking hack.

 

I asked "So how much /does/ a Rank 1 account cost on eBay?" and he got really, really quiet. 

 

Well, let's see how did mine go: I sucked in my Nicholas(I'm not very good with her yet) had a couple of fails elsewhere, but when I turned to my BBs, all was right in the world. AZ killed a full-health Omaha with the sum total of three(3!) shells, Texas derp-gunned an fail-div'd enemy Derzki at point-blank range before he could launch torps, Wyoming killed three enemy Cruisers with three salvos, one per Cruiser, and Kongo, well, poor Kongo got into a Tier VII match and initially did practically nothing. But towards the end I did some torpedo beats and dodged three or four full torpedo salvos from a Hatsuhara, (I didn't end up taking a single torpedo that match)and I was able to get so close to his smoke screen that I proxy-spotted him, and killed him with my main battery. Then I fought off two or three enemy Cruisers, and killed one myself. I got Fireproof, which I was not expecting to get at all. P.S. My Kongo captain has Vigilance.

[4bRbyHSSzZ6pk]

Saturday: 57% WR, 1 Kraken Unleashed on Montana where I solo'd two full health Khabarovsk with no support in the most weird yet amusing encounter I had. Shimakaze is incredibly fun to play, I don't know why anyone complains about the ship being hard to use or underpowered, the only real enemies that annoys me in it is the Fletcher which I can't spot before being spotted, or CVs which can still be dealt with if you have a cruiser friend to coordinate with and keep safe with your smoke next to your caps. Also, lately I've been using AP with destroyer guns against broadside battleships to see how that goes since I was curious after watching a Notser video, and I've been impressed to find out my damage output is twice as high compared to when I was using High Explosive in those situations. Even if they angle a bit, if I hit the superstructure the AP damage is still better than trying to HE them down providing I'm close enough. I had no idea a few 127mm guns could do AP damage to a broadside Yamato as reliably as 2~3k damage every 5 seconds. What have I been doing all this time...?

 

Sunday: I had to work 14 hours, life's unfair, I played no games whatsoever.

[kerensky914]

My son's hockey team went 2 - 1 - 2 in a tournament full of "better" teams.

Tied the Orlando Jr. Knights 2-2, lost in shootout.

Tied the Anaheim Jr. Ducks 5-5, lost in shootout.

Beat the Portland Jr. Winterhawks 2-0

Lost to Phoenix Jr. Coyotes 3-6

Beat the Anaheim Jr. Ducks 4-1

 

Spoiler

Great pic here of my son laying out Anaheim's big hitter.  After the game he told me this kid tried to "chirp" him at a face-off, and he said, "Dude, when I hit you a minute ago, you coughed up donuts on my jersey."  Maybe he plays too much WoT... ;)

 

Love this pic, leaping to get around a check.

 

Oh, wait, you meant weekend spree here on WoWs?  Oh, hell, I didn't have time to play here. ;)

[Montana_Prussian]

My son's hockey team went 2 - 1 - 2 in a tournament full of "better" teams.

Tied the Orlando Jr. Knights 2-2, lost in shootout.

Tied the Anaheim Jr. Ducks 5-5, lost in shootout.

Beat the Portland Jr. Winterhawks 2-0

Lost to Phoenix Jr. Coyotes 3-6

Beat the Anaheim Jr. Ducks 4-1

 

Spoiler

Great pic here of my son laying out Anaheim's big hitter.  After the game he told me this kid tried to "chirp" him at a face-off, and he said, "Dude, when I hit you a minute ago, you coughed up donuts on my jersey."  Maybe he plays too much WoT... ;)

 

Love this pic, leaping to get around a check.

 

Oh, wait, you meant weekend spree here on WoWs?  Oh, hell, I didn't have time to play here. ;)

 

Nice. Taught my Grandson to skate backwards. I'll make a D-Man out of him yet

[Estimated_Prophet]

Ground hard to finish a bunch of things up, and my win-rate suffered accordingly.

 

Using ships I wasn't familiar with didn't help; (Benson; a useless lump as far as I'm concerned; and Missouri; didn't do too badly in it, though my average damage was low; but then I hate high tier games and that attitude didn't help either.)

 

Switched back to ships I like; Farragut, Independence, Ryujo, Warspite and Bayern; and started doing much better.

[Mordran]

Saturday was alright, but I should have stopped at 8 games Saturday morning where I had a WR of 75% instead of going to 12 and finishing with 50%.  I still had good personal performances for the most part and the losses were competitive, so it wasn't completely terrible.  Sunday was a different story.  Topping the team or coming in 2nd in my first 11 battles on final score, but the battles were so lopsided that even with good personal performances (at least damage-wise) I only came away with an average WTR and 1 win out of that group.  The speed at which some teams collapsed is breathtaking, and it makes it rather difficult to put out a good personal performance when the side you're supporting is holding up but you're already down 5 ships to the enemy's 1.

 

I was also accused of camping the base by a tomato-red WTR Sims (only DD on our team). Standard Battle on Hotspot with an imbalanced split, they had the numerical advantage in front of our base and we had it in front of theirs. I'm in a Bis and had a Dunkerque, a Prinze Eugen and it seems like the CV and maybe one other cruiser on my side. Apparently the side in front of their base, including the Sims, derped into the defenders, and on my side the Dunk rammed a New Mexico for god knows what reason and the Prinze Eugen ate some Yorck torps, and the other cruiser decided to go off to the other side of the map leaving only me to defend or our base is wide open. My desire to dig myself out of my loss hole made me keep defending all while being raged at in chat for camping (another match where I finished at the top of the scoreboard by a mile but the whole team performance was a roll).  Sunday night proved to be more stable for whatever reason, but even at that I couldn't push my WTR into blue territory for the day and the WR stuck at 41%, stayed up way later than I should have just chasing some wins when I should have called it a night.  I wasn't unicum but I thought I was pretty solid (outside of 1 game where our CV was afk and the enemy Shokaku decided I needed to die).

 

So all in all, a normal weekend.

[Adaa]

#0 what is your recommendations for German Tier 6-7-8 bb captain skill-picks ?..

 

i am about to buy my T6 german battleship, and i am unsure if i should focus 2ndarys, or not (and/or if manual aim is worth it). 

 

what are your recommendations for those ships crew-skills (and no i dont spend money on WG games anymore, still living off my earnings in WOT turnies and clanstuff, and wanted to keep it this way) so respecing the captain is a no-go for the diff ships up the line.

 

[Canadatron]

Had a fun weekend. Lots of wins, lots of fun with friends in a division but low low WTR due to helping a buddy grind T3.