Weekend spree

[Reymu]

Well, Hindenburg is my 2nd T10. Took her on maiden voyage and she's just ideal for my playstyle. I'll eventually want to decide between BFT or manual AA seeing as she's at 2/17 captain points, but with so few CVs at that tier, it's no biggie.

 

Also unlocked Iowa. The SHS, accuracy, and velocity are a real godsend after the annoyance of NC MB rounds being largely ineffective beyond 16km vs. broadside BBs. Honestly though, that stock rudder is trash. When if WG going to buff the T9-10 BB rudders? Being able to respond faster might encourage some BBs to get more aggressive. When only 5 seconds to react, a 15+ second rudder shift is too much of a handicap.

--Another interesting detail is lag shows up with BB rounds. You need to aim about 200 meters ahead of what your computer screen shows. I aimed what looked too far at a reversing NO and to my surprise, 2 cits and a DS as the rounds went thru the stern. Don't remember seeing that detail anywhere in WOWS wikia.

 

Had to sell Roon to purchase Hindenburg. Former is serviceable, IMO, and is a real pain to fight when played skillfully, but she didn't grow on me the way ARP Myoko did.

 

Really in a credit crisis, so will want to run Tirpitz and MO w/ any remaining FB flags and maybe Ocean Soul or FTW camos, I've got about 900k left after outfitting Hindenburg!

 

Closing in on Haku. Only about 38K XP left, but no idea if worth it, since the cost undoubtedly is higher than Taiho, and have to play that very competently to turn a profit. Match in her last night, the strike Essex couldn't keep up with me, but he did wisely avoid grouping his bombers, so I couldn't strafe him much, but my bombers had a fun time 1-shotting a Harekaze, wiping off a Gnei, torping then burning a poor BIsmarck, and so on for a 161K damage match.

--Still, it would be fun to get tougher planes and be able to try a 2TB/1DB attack, then 1 TB/2DB to flood and/or burn the poor BB for a lot of damage. Plus, when there's 5 dds a team, a CV is required to keep the stealth part balanced.

 

Shoutout to Wichita for adding his Baltimore to my stock Iowa, though honestly we chose lame ships for any sort of carrying.

[Cognitive_Dissonance]

Got my first tier 9, Roon. Moved my 16 point Bismarck captain into her, and she is everything that I had read or researched about - everything the Hipper wants to be (bless her heart!)

This weekend much better than last, knocked out UK missions, German missions (German II), had some fun with Clannies, and pubs worked pretty well together.

Great weekend . . . oh yeah, and moved my daughter to college this weekend, parenting is hard.

[sbcptnitro]

I was riding a wave of a fairly high win rate (for me), until this weekend hit and I needed to grind RU DDs for that 75k base XP. Then it all came crashing down.

Playing the same few ships over and over always turns the game sour for me and I start losing.

 

...and I still have 20k base XP to go on that mission. 

[cometguy]

Same old same old for me. Lots of success in CVs, little success in anything else. One day, I will become consistently not bad in a ship that is not a CV. Hopefully that day falls in 2017.

[Spooooooooooooooooooooon]

Saturday was brutal.  Won 3 games and lost.... well a LOT.  Sunday was somewhat better.  I saw more team weirdness than I usually do this weekend.

[poeticmotion]

5 minutes ago, sbcptnitro said:

I was riding a wave of a fairly high win rate (for me), until this weekend hit and I needed to grind RU DDs for that 75k base XP. Then it all came crashing down.

Playing the same few ships over and over always turns the game sour for me and I start losing.

 

...and I still have 20k base XP to go on that mission. 

This. Gave up on the mission after 11 straight losses in Khab and Udaloi Saturday. I'm just not good enough to carry hard in Russian DDs and I had a long run of teams that needed to be carried hard. :/ 

[Alien_Observer]

I had a good week with the russian dd's. Everything just seemed to hit right.Since the update I seem to be enjoying a lucky streak with the tier 8 russian dd's. Fingers crossed.

[PelicanHazard]

I tanked my stats completing the Russian DD mission, but it gave me The Day of the Supercontainers, since I completed the Yamamoto mission as well and rolled a SC from my daily crates. Nothing interesting, just a few 100x flags and modules.

[bassmasta76]

Weekend was meh.

 

Went 4/12 on Friday (trying to win with Fiji).  Saturday and Sunday were slightly better going 5/9 and 9/14 respectively.  Good times.

 

B

[Edgecase]

Ground out Russian DDs to Grozovoi. 25 Ouborous for my trouble. And Grozovoi, of course, which is the identity crisis moment of the Russian DD line.

Not a fan of these Equip Your Ship missions, they seriously make me spam play one ship to the point where I get burnt out on it. I like the Yamamoto-style missions much better (also finished those this weekend).

 

1 hour ago, Reymu said:

--Another interesting detail is lag shows up with BB rounds. You need to aim about 200 meters ahead of what your computer screen shows. I aimed what looked too far at a reversing NO and to my surprise, 2 cits and a DS as the rounds went thru the stern. Don't remember seeing that detail anywhere in WOWS wikia.

Is it happening at close range? Iowa is a very long ship, and I find that the rounds from the rear battery can come from a pretty significantly different angle/distance than the ones in the front.

 

1 hour ago, SmirkingGerbil said:

Great weekend . . . oh yeah, and moved my daughter to college this weekend, parenting is hard.

Congrats!

[paradat]

Weekend was volatile lol. Lots of fun however. Played lots of Russian DD's

[Jnobsire]

Had a lot of fun this weekend in game. Finally made it up to the Taiho!!

[TangledThorns]

Got a Neptune and retraining my Edinburgh's captain for it with discounted cost of doubloons was nice.

[Sovereigndawg]

2 hours ago, sbcptnitro said:

I was riding a wave of a fairly high win rate (for me), until this weekend hit and I needed to grind RU DDs for that 75k base XP. Then it all came crashing down.

Playing the same few ships over and over always turns the game sour for me and I start losing.

 

...and I still have 20k base XP to go on that mission. 

I spent a lot of time with the Izyaslav in co op and ground out half of the mission that way. It's more fun when you are killing 4 and 5 ships at a time in 6 minutes or less and get 350 to 400 base xp per battle. The most boring part about it is Victory, Victory, Victory,  Victory, Victory, Victory, Victory, Victory, Victory,  Victory, Victory, Victory... anyway you get my point. I finished the mission and all I got was a crumby mod upgrade. I felt so let down.  I would rather have a root canal than get those crappy [edited]waste of a super container upgrades. Ok not really the mod things are slightly better than a root canal but not by much. Please war gaming take those unwanted items out of the Super Containers and make them Super again. Sell them for 1.5 mil credits and you will see how valued they aren't.

[SkaerKrow]

I did pretty decently in my Missouri, which was a nice change of pace. It wasn't a good DD weekend for me, though. The Gallant captain skill grind burned me out for them a bit.

[Reymu]

Video of purchasing Hindenburg finally uploaded, just for interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MJ9TFp0J6M&feature=youtu.be

[mofton]

Ground to Donskoi, purchased and immediately hated it.

Sold Shimakaze - the boringest destroyer in the world - and repurchased Yugumo with F3's and TRB.

[Reymu]

3 hours ago, Edgecase said:

Is it happening at close range? Iowa is a very long ship, and I find that the rounds from the rear battery can come from a pretty significantly different angle/distance than the ones in the front.

NO was about 18km away when I took the shot.

 

Close range in Iowa hasn't happened yet.

[centarina]

1 hour ago, mofton said:

Ground to Donskoi, purchased and immediately hated it.

Sold Shimakaze - the boringest destroyer in the world - and repurchased Yugumo with F3's and TRB.

been playing fair amount of donskoi and doing pretty well in it.      (mostly due to uk and isoroku campaign)   

[mofton]

1 minute ago, centarina said:

been playing fair amount of donskoi and doing pretty well in it.      (mostly due to uk and isoroku campaign)   

Stock is unpleasant, but it also seems a conflicted and confused ship.

Guns to stand off at range but radar to hunt DD. Moderate ROF on only moderate caliber guns. Seems to need IFHE to buff the 180mm's to pen 32mm armor like the 203mm's already do, but at cost to the fire chance. Poor maneuverability, large citadel, weak armor, but suddenly 8km torpedoes to presumably ignore. Poor concealment.

Very confusing. Chapayev had torps you knew to ignore, 2km better concealment to get use of radar and fade out and in some ways seems to have comparable firepower due to better ROF...

[Panzer1113]

Got the Z-52, will be interesting to see how it is vs the Z-46.  Loved the 46, sold to finance higher tier and move captain.  Hopefully not a Fletcher/Gearing situation again...

[centarina]

stock grind sucks on all the t9s.  I started with range mod then swap to rof one  when I got FCS upgrade.   playable with double rudder mod as well. :D

[Deputy276]

Wasn't a very good weekend for me. Wanted to take the Bismarck out and get that hull upgrade, but MM kept putting me with tier 9-10 BBs and CLs and my team mates (PvE) all panicked and ran when they see them. I was losing credits and that shouldn't be happening. Switched to Atlanta and Indianapolis and was back to having good games again. Was a whole lot of torp spam going on, though. Hard to earn any creds when your targets kept disappearing before your guns reloaded. MM really sucked through most of the weekend. 

[Stampz]

All my games this weekend were either my team steamrolling or getting steamrolled.  There was no in-between, no close games at all.