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Work out what 'style' of gameplay you like best from the game.... if you like a big boat, with massive guns and huge damage potential, stick with Battleships.

I personally find the rate of fire on them too slow for me, so I tend to prefer cruisers and destroyers.

Loved smashing Kongo's last night with my Minekaze, was knocking around 40k health off them for a decent torp strike! :D
 
Titchy said:
Thanks guys , just had a bash and upgraded my wyoming guns , range is now around 12k !
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Lol gotta love the first few tier bbs there range is crap.

Lived playing my tier 5 german cruiser last night was fun.

Got up to the tier 4 russian dd l. If they get in close they hurt. 9 torps launched 3km away try dodging that.
 
Gotta love the St Louis for that.

If you get in a good position, you can steam away from a South Carolina keeping it under almost continual fire, while he can't reply because you outrange him by 1km! :D

And when he does fire, you can easily see it, and dodge his shots... whilst also having more HP than he does. :cool:
 
matt_fsr said:
Gotta love the St Louis for that.

If you get in a good position, you can steam away from a South Carolina keeping it under almost continual fire, while he can't reply because you outrange him by 1km! :D

And when he does fire, you can easily see it, and dodge his shots... whilst also having more HP than he does. :cool:
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Haha yeah , im gonan start doing some cruiser grinding next , probably a different race though.

I also made a small error , the range after upgrade is 14.1km but it is still not much as i take hits from much further sometimes i am sure !
 
Gotta Love the St Louis for pretty much anything its a great ship packed with 14 guns!

I prefer Cruiser gameplay at the moment - I find Battleships too cumbersome and I am truly rubbish at Destroyers, I last about 2 minutes tops :)
 
Titchy said:
I also made a small error , the range after upgrade is 14.1km but it is still not much as i take hits from much further sometimes i am sure !
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Depends what you're up against. Some cruisers and BB's can fire further than that and you'll be fighting tier 4's and maybe the odd 5 so sometimes you'll just have to take the punishment and close in before you can do damage.

Knowing that, try not to be "1st" man in the fight. Join an ongoing fight where an enemy cruiser is already engaged, not looking around and so doesn't see you until your shells start hitting him :)

Lt_Red said:
I am truly rubbish at Destroyers, I last about 2 minutes tops :)
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You're doing it wrong :p

Check the detectability range on the destroyer you're driving, and learn to stay beyond that range as much as possible. Depending on your nationality, guns may be your main weapons (Soviet) or nigh-on useless and just alert the enemy to your position (Japanese)

Try to sneak around, not brawl. 'Spurious' torp firing at choke points to discourage or damage enemy ships coming through helps. Also, sneak around a Battleship while his turrets are facing elsewhere, and wreck him with a full broadside of torps. He loves it, I promise! :D
 
matt_fsr said:
Depends what you're up against. Some cruisers and BB's can fire further than that and you'll be fighting tier 4's and maybe the odd 5 so sometimes you'll just have to take the punishment and close in before you can do damage.

Knowing that, try not to be "1st" man in the fight. Join an ongoing fight where an enemy cruiser is already engaged, not looking around and so doesn't see you until your shells start hitting him :)



You're doing it wrong :p

Check the detectability range on the destroyer you're driving, and learn to stay beyond that range as much as possible. Depending on your nationality, guns may be your main weapons (Soviet) or nigh-on useless and just alert the enemy to your position (Japanese)

Try to sneak around, not brawl. 'Spurious' torp firing at choke points to discourage or damage enemy ships coming through helps. Also, sneak around a Battleship while his turrets are facing elsewhere, and wreck him with a full broadside of torps. He loves it, I promise! :D
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Lost my wyoming like that in a battle this morning. I was fighting another BS and just as i sunk him out of nowhere... 2 japanese destroyers did a fly by on the other side and both perfectly placed their torps , it was over in seconds.. Gits haha:D
 
Had same map 3 times then Ocean. Fed up of crap teams my stats must be bad. You get that feeling when in nearly all matches you are one of the last left, you tell others issue warnings, dont go there etc doesnt anyone look at the minimap to see how the battle is going and think, right yeah best not go top right where there are 7 enemies why not go round left and flank them. Sheesh!
 
VKleita said:
People still playing this?

I've got to tier 5 and started to get rather bored, but I think this is because I only solo play it
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I stopped playing because I was sick of the rng hit deciders. The last update before the new ships broke battleships to the point where they were useless.

Playing with others they had the same problem too and I think theyve pretty much given up.
 
Nope still playing and still enjoying it. Circa 850 battles post Closed Beta now.

^^The last update hasn't broken battleships at all. They are still just slightly behind carriers in damage potential at the moment.
 
There was a period where BB's could not touch DD's. So switched to DD's and enjoyed the change in play style, getting up to the Nicholas. Noticed recently BB's hitting my teamamtes DD's, so recently switched to newly acquired New Mexico - can now 1 shot DD's and damaged CA's :)
 
Still playing it although still poor teams. Been exploring the game files and I've been researching how to create music/sound mods as they are a bit scarce. Its different to WOT (FMOD) as WOW uses WWISE which features in games like Total War and Assassins Creed.

Sound mods are easier (although still quite involved) and someone's done a gun sound mod already on the EU forum and in my tests I changed the BB firing to Donald Duck but I wanted to do the music.

Music files are even more complicated and I am 90% there just changed the port music to Johnny Horton's "Sink the Bismarck" song which is quite a funny song and just need to test it later this afternoon when I get chance to see if it worked.

Downloaded 34 naval related war movie themes last night ready so if it works going to create a tutorial and mod.
 
varkanoid said:
I changed the BB firing to Donald Duck....
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:D

Brilliant!

I'm still playing, toying around with the Cleveland, some T5 stuff, some T4's and working up the German cruiser line, currently T3.

Still enjoying it to a certain extent, but I think I've almost run out of exchange credits - although the huge amount of RP to get anywhere beyond T6 may refill this back up a bit, or I might have to chase a few of the achievements to top it back up again!
 
VKleita said:
People still playing this?

I've got to tier 5 and started to get rather bored, but I think this is because I only solo play it
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Nah, It was battleships that interested me, but I got fed up of RNG being particularly bad (seriously, when most shots land either in front or behind your target in the same flurry of shells it leaves you thinking "Well, what else can I do?") This has apparently been fixed in a more recent update, but I just have not really had enough interest in loading it up.

Plus I got a bug while I was playing that I'd go for a single click to send a tracer shot and it would fire all my shells anyway, and miss. :(

I also played game after game, doing plenty of damage (in cruisers anyway) and still lost game after game so this made me kind of give up.

You can see this from two points of view:

- Either I am so bad that I am a determent to my team and probably causing other players to rage (really doubt this and have not been singled out as yet)
- I am getting lots of bad teams.

Either way, why would I want to keep playing?
 
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linktoinsanity said:
Nah, It was battleships that interested me, but I got fed up of RNG being particularly bad (seriously, when most shots land either in front or behind your target in the same flurry of shells it leaves you thinking "Well, what else can I do?") This has apparently been fixed in a more recent update, but I just have not really had enough interest in loading it up.
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Good point. Personally, I find the battleships too slow-firing for them to be my personal main ship type, but I've had some real WTF moments, when i fired a turret on my South Carolina, and 1 shot hit the bow area of an enemy BB, and the other missed his ship behind the stern!

Maybe this was my gunner?
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Coupled with the short range of the guns, and the relatively low HP that thing had, I was glad to be rid of it!

It's still quite good fun though if there's 3 of you, on voice comms, and working together to take apart enemy teams, and actually playing to the strengths of your ships, which it seems a lot of players fail to do.
(The amount of players in BB's I see lobbing broadsides at destroyers is rage-inducing, while they're being set afire from stem to stern by a nearby cruiser... )
 
Still playing and still liking it, up to tier 5 in dd's, cruisers and cv's so far and tier 4 in bb's.

Have to say just unlocked the furrytaco and i'm pretty disappointed in it coming from the excellent Kuma.
 
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