I'm on WoWs now guys, and i'm a noob.

60% of combat in this game is controlling your ship, as a BB you should almost never be sailing in a straight line without changing course at least slightly. Once you fire a round of shells, hold right click to zoom out, while locking your guns in the direction you are pointing.

Have a look around. Where are the enemy ships? Where are the DD's? If you are actively spotted, drop two throttle notches and turn hard to either side for a few seconds. Long range torps are aimed at where your ship will be on its current course, so even slight changes can mean missed torpedos. Where are enemy planes, is anything heading your direction?

BB's have huge rudder shift delays and turning cicles, but they are actually fairly mobile as long as you keep situationally aware and are actively trying to avoid torps and planes.

What shells are your enemies firing at you? AP? If so start to turn your bow towards the enemy. Your bow armour is extremely angled and usually fairly thick, so its hard for most ships to penetrate it.

If you get lit on fire, use your self healing consumable, Damage control party. It heals non-citadel damage effectively, and it will heal 100% of the damage fires do. Let the fire burn out while the consumable replenishes what damage you do take. Save your repair party consumable for when you have no self heal, and you are struck by a torpedo and start to flood.

In WoT, do you sit broadside to an enemy while you shoot at them? In an E100, once you shoot what do you do to stay alive? You angle your armour. Same as a BB. only turn your ship enough that you can shoot all your turrets. Fire your shells, then turn back to center while you reload.

Spent the evening in randoms after staying in co-op for a bit. I went to tier 6 too fast initially and my win rate in randoms was a miserable 46%. Started to really try and focus like i do in tanks and managed to get the win rate up to 49% and make a fortune in xp and credits. Hoping to get back over 50% tomorrow. Ronnie your post above helped. I was constantly thinking of the E-100  and how i would play it (on an open map) It's helped alot.

Also HMS Hood firing HE is pretty nasty. You can just tank reds damage whilst setting everyone on fire and raking in the damage.

Just like WoT, you need to do research. Learn the mechanics. IChase especially has helpful guides on his YouTube channel. Watch them, learn from them. They helped me.

Autopilot is a trap. Unless you're a CV. Manual control during battles keeps you alive.

DeGrasse is okay. Nothing really special, but nothing really bad about her. I'd go with Priority Target, either Adrenaline Rush or Expert Marksman, Demolition Expert, and Concealment Expert for your first 10 points. Pretty standard CL captain skills.

Seriously asking, what kinda cash outlay got you that? I bought 5 of the small boxes as a "test" and don't think I did too badly - 10k free xp, 300 Gold, got two camos though.

How long are the Santa boxes on sale for? Can't get the website to load on my phone tonight. 

Any idea deal what's in the NY boxes?

Interesting... can you gift things between servers? I'm considering trying to buy some of the crates with my EU account, but gifting them to my NA alt.

IFHE is a must have skill for all CLs that can fire HE shells. However, it should be taken after Concealment Expert, since the ability to "go dark" when running from a bad engagement is much more important.