ZER01025
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Post by ZER01025 on Sept 28, 2021 15:40:12 GMT
Not really a new boat but I got the perma camo for Wooster. Now I can play it more without worrying about how much silver I'm losing! Next is my Russian CV. Earned enough soviet tokens to unlock it. Haven't played it just yet. Then I figured out how to get all the points for the 6th anniversary containers was by playing all my T5, T6, and T7 ships. Had enough to buy these perma camos, bought the ships for them too.
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ZER01025
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Posts: 1,192
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Sept 28, 2021 22:36:45 GMT
Well since I've figured out how to use them, I like the skip bombers. The strike groups are so small at tier 4 it doesn't make a difference. I haven't gotten a huge torpedo count game like Yurie but they are pretty nice, but I find the bombers more reliable on getting damage. Haven't really bothered with the rocket planes yet, they seem pretty worthless though.
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ZER01025
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Posts: 1,192
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Console: Xbox 360 & One
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Is R35T a Skreb?: No
Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Oct 5, 2021 21:03:17 GMT
I splurged and bought some containers to get enough tokens to unlock the Serov. I know it's a tech tree ship but it's nice to beat the grind and have all the upgrades. Plus I get to play it in Aegis, my favorite scenario for CVs! Fum CV, not really OP as long as you turn towards the airplanes. All the attacks are done on broadside ships. Also the planes are slow for the most part and you only get 6 planes at most (torp bombers are a 5 plane squad, fighters and bombers, 6). Torps are also really slow so I have to aim ahead a bit even for BBs. It's nice for the scenarios, maybe I'll grind it out for the T10. Then I got to stage 14 on the ship building thing mostly by luck and got a Tier 5 ship container. Gave me a Siroco,
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ZER01025
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Posts: 1,192
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Oct 9, 2021 2:48:38 GMT
Was having a slow day just draggin through to get two containers and do my daily trail to get my steel. Finally finished to see that I had accumulated just enough coal to buy the Max Immelmann! Fun ship so far in Coop too! Love the loadout since rocket planes are so useless I don't miss them.
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Ron James Dio
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Post by Ron James Dio on Oct 9, 2021 17:06:47 GMT
Was having a slow day just draggin through to get two containers and do my daily trail to get my steel. Finally finished to see that I had accumulated just enough coal to buy the Max Immelmann! Fun ship so far in Coop too! Love the loadout since rocket planes are so useless I don't miss them. How are the skip bombers to aim?
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ZER01025
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Oct 9, 2021 19:03:14 GMT
Was having a slow day just draggin through to get two containers and do my daily trail to get my steel. Finally finished to see that I had accumulated just enough coal to buy the Max Immelmann! Fun ship so far in Coop too! Love the loadout since rocket planes are so useless I don't miss them. How are the skip bombers to aim? They require the ship to be broadside. It gives you aim box with three lines. The farthest being where the bombs stop skipping, the closest where they start skipping. As long as you line up a broadside between these lines you should get a few hits and maybe a fire. Since your loadout is these and torpedoes, ships should know when fighting M Immelmann and the Russian CVs, not to show your broadside to the planes. Even angling a little makes it hard to get hits.
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ZER01025
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Oct 11, 2021 15:16:08 GMT
UPDATE- I played the Max and the Midway in the training room. To compare and just for some good aiming practice.
The Midway is definitely more powerful and I still like dropping bombs on ships with it.
The Max Immelmann is just a tad more fun. As long as you return to ship after your first attack yoy should be fine on planes.
Since both the torp planes and skip bombers are faster they require more headway or setup (patience). The skip bombers are pretty consistant as long as you aim for the middle bar and have a good broadside. I was able to get a fire or two run after run on the same ship for a slow, firey death.
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ZER01025
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Nov 5, 2021 18:48:33 GMT
Latest addition: I really don't like giving WG my money but I just had a birthday, it looked cool, don't have any German cruisers and this is a reskinned Mainz. Yurie did a good review on that ship to so it I went ahead and got it. This is ust one of my good games, I had a couple like this one. It's ALOT of fun to play! Sure it's only in Coop so far but thats all I play these days other than ranked. If I ever get the chance to play T8 in ranked this will be one of my go to ships! The HE rounds seem to ignite ships pretty often and the AP rounds hit hard too. Plenty of torpedoes to throw at anything that gets to close as well. I don't have a Mainz but this thing is pretty awesome. It's also pretty cool to look at too. I had a small space marine army back in the day and now this ship can sail in their memory. FUN SHIP!!! \\\\\\
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ZER01025
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Jan 2, 2022 17:13:52 GMT
I got this a while back, when Aegis was the weekly scenario. I had collected enough dubs for a T10 premium camo and was considering getting the normal camo on my mino to replace the old Halloween event camo when WG released this. After regretting not buying the Ark Royal when it came out I decided to swoop this up. Haven't played it alot recently but it is alot of fun. Read on the forum it's a nightmare for DDs, I haven't tested that out yet but I'll let you know when I do. In the port it has an interesting feature. one of the elevators functions and raises what I assume is a load of bombs. Close up Then the week of Christmas one of my daily containers was a super container, the best part is it gave me 15k coal. Enough for me to get the ship I wanted! Kearsarge! It's a pretty cool ship, only had one good game with it in Coop but it's a tough month for good Coop games. I have yet to successfully use my fighters. In Coop the games are so short I'm lucky if it last enough for one run since I have to wait 2 minutes to use the fighter consumable. By then I'd rather use my shot whats probably the last unsunken enemy since my guns have a 36 second reload. If I launch sooner the AA on the enemy ships is usually enough to kill all 6 planes in the single attack flight. Soon I'll play with it in training mode but I feel like the best use for these fighters is spotting the elusive final DD or sub in randoms. Still a cool ship, glad to have it in my collection.
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Shhhhh
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Post by Shhhhh on Jan 2, 2022 19:13:47 GMT
You PC guys get all the cool toys
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ZER01025
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Posts: 1,192
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Jan 2, 2022 22:18:04 GMT
You PC guys get all the cool toys Oh don't worry, if it's anything like wot was on pc, alot of this will end up on console I'm sure. Just might take awhile, you did finally get the Mino.
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Shhhhh
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Post by Shhhhh on Jan 2, 2022 22:40:45 GMT
You PC guys get all the cool toys Oh don't worry, if it's anything like wot was on pc, alot of this will end up on console I'm sure. Just might take awhile, you did finally get the Mino. Fair point. Had Yamato player really upset with me for using my smoke build to max effectiveness.😁
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Ron James Dio
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Post by Ron James Dio on Jan 3, 2022 7:25:28 GMT
Oh don't worry, if it's anything like wot was on pc, alot of this will end up on console I'm sure. Just might take awhile, you did finally get the Mino. Fair point. Had Yamato player really upset with me for using my smoke build to max effectiveness.😁 If you smoke camp me when I'm in my Yamato or Shikishima on PC, you're gonna have a bad time. Spotter planes change the guns aiming from a straight on to a more top down view, you can shoot for the base of the tracers originating point and dev strike the ship.
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ZER01025
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Posts: 1,192
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Jan 3, 2022 10:14:21 GMT
Fair point. Had Yamato player really upset with me for using my smoke build to max effectiveness.😁 If you smoke camp me when I'm in my Yamato or Shikishima on PC, you're gonna have a bad time. Spotter planes change the guns aiming from a straight on to a more top down view, you can shoot for the base of the tracers originating point and dev strike the ship. I use a combination of the ships last known location on the mini map, the reticule on the mini map and trail and error.
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Post by Ron James Dio on Jan 3, 2022 10:28:04 GMT
Last week I dev struck a smoke camping Smolensk in Shikishima. It was incredibly satisfying. Not only do her guns sound like a nuclear explosion, she deals catastrophic damage with every shell strike, cycling her guns every 23 seconds without AR.
You don't want to be in smoke sitting still shooting a Shikishima if her captain has good aim.
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ZER01025
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Post by ZER01025 on Feb 3, 2022 17:01:31 GMT
I went ahead and paid for the last 5 stages to complete this. Haven't had the chance to play it yet, I 'll update you when I do. Until then, here's a video from drawing board to finish of the Marlborough:
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Post by Ron James Dio on Feb 4, 2022 0:02:11 GMT
Let me know how Marlborough is, I have heard that she is VERY polarising. Her armour seems squishy to me, from what I've faced anyway. Maybe not repulse levels though....
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ZER01025
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Post by ZER01025 on Feb 4, 2022 3:57:34 GMT
Let me know how Marlborough is, I have heard that she is VERY polarising. Her armour seems squishy to me, from what I've faced anyway. Maybe not repulse levels though.... Oh I haven't played it in randoms yet. I doubt I will. I read LWM's reveiw on it so I didn't expect a much from it. So far it is doing great smashing bots in Coop which is primarly why I got it. 16 barrels reloading every 22 seconds gets alot of explosive ordnance thrown in the right direction in a hurry! I've wiped out DDs in a good salvo. The HE does pretty good but I guess it's not like the British BBs. The AP will pen cits at close range too. Also you can get those nice broadside shots in Coop where as in randoms it's a bow tankfest. They talk about it having the worst sigma in tier 9 but after grinding the GK to complete the ops to get to stage 27 the "worst sigma in T9" doesn't seem so bad. I also get 4 extra shells per salvo than with a GK, also the Marlborough has British guns not German guns. Her 16 shells seem to consistently group accurately and rather tightly, but I'm also not shooting at 20km. While her secondaries were called worthless, they will take out a weak target that gets too close. From what I read from LWM's review the randoms playstyle would be very much like that of a Jean Bart. It also said kiting is bad too and from her gun I guess so. This is all with my 21 pt Thunderer Captain so I haven't retrained him specifically for this ship. If you want a T9 with 2 camos, 2k steel, 10k coal, 4k RP points and a Mega Santa crate for $30 (if you've reach stage 27, the farthest you can go) I say go for it. Especially if you don't mind smacking bots with your 16 guns, I doubt anybody in Randoms will be stupid enough to give you a chance. I paid $50 for my Cross of Dorn and it's a T8. Other T9s go for like $90 right?
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ZER01025
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Post by ZER01025 on Feb 4, 2022 4:24:39 GMT
Here it is in port in both camo patterns (bottom one is actually the alternate color scheme of this camo if you've unlocked it that option through on of the collections): Some of my better games , the first one was actually my first baattle (all in Coop of coarse) I'm not having any buyer's remorse, if anything I wish I had bought the starter pack when it was 5k doubloons, but I didn't know you couldn't complete it without buying a starter pack at the time. Edit: I just realized that since my Mega Santa crate that I got when paying to complete my final 5 stages gave me 2500 doubloons, so I actually did get it for 5k doubloons. Not the Missu or Big E I was hoping would popbout of that contaiber but it's better than flags camos or premium time!
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ZER01025
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Posts: 1,192
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Date registered: Mar 1, 2016 14:07:16 GMT
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Post by ZER01025 on Feb 19, 2022 3:08:08 GMT
Latest new botes: Turbine, it's okay but I doubt I'll go further than this down the line. I forgot to upload a pic of Chumpking but here's Chumphon. I grinded out this one only to find out it was just an early access ship afterwards, kind of a bummer. It's basicly a Chinese Atlanta but the side turrets dropped for AA, creeping smoke and a 6 second reload. I've seen them in Ranked but they havent stood out as strong ships to fight with or against so far. Last and not least of the newest additions, the Khab! Yup right before 11.0 dropped I went ahead a free exp'd the rest of the line I hadn't completed which was kind of alot. About 700k fxp but I was close to 2 million and I figured it was easier to replace the spent free exp than build up the coal needed to buy it so I went ahead and did it. Oh and since it became a premium I don't have to worry about training a captain specifically for this ship, big bonus for my 21 pt Kremlin/Smolensk captain! Pretty happy with it so far, it's like the Kleber but can take a hit, also has smoke.
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