Official World of Warships Thread

Beren · 10 Dec 2018 at 01:54

I am pretty new to the game, still working out how it all works, I had worked up to tier V on a few things but thought I would go for some boxes to speed me up a bit.
20 x Large
5000 Dubs
Ashitaka
Texas
Krasny Krym
Plus a pretty decent number of flags and coal.

Happy that it was a pretty decent deal as a starter pack, will try and hold off now until I have learned to use these guys properly.

I am still trying to wrap my head around play styles for them - The Texas with it's spotter has a pretty epic range, but getting the hang of the different firing angle is proving hard.
I tend to either rock or suck hard with the Ashitaka - I need to play battles back to back with her to get a real feel for the guns, some rounds I get my eye in early and hit hard. Other times with captains varying speed and angles well I am really struggling.
The Krasny... I don't know why, but I keep getting suckered into wanting to close to use my Torps and then getting owned.

Shashman · 10 Dec 2018 at 14:12

Krasny Krym is one of the worst ships in the game

Beren · 10 Dec 2018 at 18:43

BUT BUT it's a premium... There must be a use case for it...

I feel like it ought to be a capable anti DD ship but hey ho.
I am enjoying the Texas, the speed might be low but the turning circle is small enough to be good for torp dodging. AA is awesome. I just need to get better at estimating boat speed especially with long range shots.

Beren · 10 Dec 2018 at 18:43

Edit dbl post.

varkanoid · 10 Dec 2018 at 21:01

Beren said:
I am pretty new to the game, still working out how it all works, I had worked up to tier V on a few things but thought I would go for some boxes to speed me up a bit.
20 x Large
5000 Dubs
Ashitaka
Texas
Krasny Krym
Plus a pretty decent number of flags and coal.

Happy that it was a pretty decent deal as a starter pack, will try and hold off now until I have learned to use these guys properly.

I am still trying to wrap my head around play styles for them - The Texas with it's spotter has a pretty epic range, but getting the hang of the different firing angle is proving hard.
I tend to either rock or suck hard with the Ashitaka - I need to play battles back to back with her to get a real feel for the guns, some rounds I get my eye in early and hit hard. Other times with captains varying speed and angles well I am really struggling.
The Krasny... I don't know why, but I keep getting suckered into wanting to close to use my Torps and then getting owned.

Get the USA St Louis T3 or Russian T3 Bogatyr and enjoy some over the top gun play. Will give you chance to get some points whilst learning how to aim. Some people suggest watching videos but get a couple of good T3/T4 ships and learn the craft with them.

matt_fsr · 10 Dec 2018 at 21:19

Beren said:
I am enjoying the Texas, the speed might be low but the turning circle is small enough to be good for torp dodging. AA is awesome. I just need to get better at estimating boat speed especially with long range shots.

Texas is awesome, especially when you be a little bit rude and fully spec her for AA. I mean everything, ship upgrades, commander skills, signal flags, the lot. AA rating of 80, at tier 5, with a 5.1KM AA bubble which utterly SHREDS planes, and even the 20mm AA throws out to 2.9KM. Just a shame you can't guarantee a CV inclusive match, but she's still a decent BB overall, just slow.

Cromulent · 15 Dec 2018 at 11:49

I've been enjoying this game recently but I'm stuck on T4 at the moment. Need to get some doubloons to convert some XP into free XP so I can go for T6.

matt_fsr · 15 Dec 2018 at 13:30

Cromulent said:
I've been enjoying this game recently but I'm stuck on T4 at the moment. Need to get some doubloons to convert some XP into free XP so I can go for T6.

What ships are you stuck on at T4? The T4 'grind' shouldn't be too bad, and TBH the conversion ratios are awful, you'd be better off buying some flags for extra XP per battle, and aiming to win 1 per day per ship, that's how I've worked my way up through the tree.

Jester* · 15 Dec 2018 at 14:44

Skipping tiers is a really really bad idea. The difference in maps/ships is considerable in just 2 tiers. Especially as you will face T8 at T6.

At low tiers the grind is tiny. If you really want to get through the tiers pay for premium account and play the games needed to get the XP.

Cromulent · 15 Dec 2018 at 16:31

matt_fsr said:
What ships are you stuck on at T4? The T4 'grind' shouldn't be too bad, and TBH the conversion ratios are awful, you'd be better off buying some flags for extra XP per battle, and aiming to win 1 per day per ship, that's how I've worked my way up through the tree.

I've just been playing with the German T4 destroyer and the British T4 cruiser mainly. I'll start playing with more ships then. Thanks for the tip.

varkanoid · 15 Dec 2018 at 18:28

Dont be too eager to go above T6 and beyond I still find the most enjoyable battles around T4-T6. The Jap destroyers have good range and are fun. I've started going up the Jap BB line as previously I couldnt hit a thing with them so just left them but now I've learnt the spread and firing I`m loving it.

matt_fsr · 16 Dec 2018 at 15:16

varkanoid said:
Dont be too eager to go above T6 and beyond I still find the most enjoyable battles around T4-T6.

Very true, I find tier 5 very enjoyable, as long as you don't get dumped into a mostly tier 7 match. Still, if you pick your ship (ahem, GERMAN BB) carefully you can have a bit of trollish fun at tier 5 even if your entire team is comprised of potatoes. As this team was, but I had fun:

Beren · 16 Dec 2018 at 23:25

I am just moving into T5 territory. Going to play with GB DDs for a bit and try and get the hang of them properly.

Cromulent · 23 Dec 2018 at 14:24

Is anyone playing in the new ranked season? I've played a couple of games on it, and it seems pretty fun.

matt_fsr · 7 Jan 2019 at 13:00

Is anyone else finding MM to be a bit 'shonky' at the moment?

Seems that most of my games I take out my tier 7's now dumps me into a mostly tier 9 battle, which is not even remotely any fun, especially being a DD when every other DD out-spots you, and has more guns which fire faster than yours, and you just get radar'd to death by T9 cruisers. T8 was not a lot of fun for the same reasons, but that seemed to be less frequent than it is now!

Wish they'd just damn well implement +1 MM tier spread, it's not like they're short of players to do it.

Repta · 7 Jan 2019 at 13:32

Since they 'improved' T8 MM it has made T7 a lot more brutal. Pretty much every time they change the MM they shift what tiers end up being messed up.

Jester* · 7 Jan 2019 at 14:14

Must admit I haven't noticed too much change in the MM.

But I have been playing a bit less, so I don't burn out during the PEF missions.

EdGey · 13 Jan 2019 at 14:22

Definitely noticed a change here. It's nice to be able to smash things up in my T8's for a change.

Massachusetts is getting a real work-out.

tcfreer · 21 Jan 2019 at 20:29

Well if I can help anyone - I'm a Community Contributor for World of Warships

matt_fsr · 21 Jan 2019 at 22:11

tcfreer said:
Well if I can help anyone - I'm a Community Contributor for World of Warships

Can you give me 50 million credits? On the sly, you know.... won't mention it to anyone

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