World of Warships

[MadBurgerMaker]

Ah ha okay.  I'll have to check that tab out if I ever win again and get similar numbers.

Also, you seem to be saying that I need an Atago. 

[Berkut]

If you want to buy a premium for the purpose of generating credits, I think the best are probably Scharnhorst, Atago, and Tirpitz.

Well, the best is the Missouri, of course, but that is likely out of reach.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Oh yeah I saw a Missouri yesterday.  750,000 free XP seems to be a bit much.

[Berkut]

Yeah, it is outrageous! Only a fool would consider such a thing.

I am about halfway there...

[MadBurgerMaker]

  Man I figured you had a lot when you casually mentioned Free XPing through the British line to the Leander.   

[Berkut]

Is everyone playing actually working on the Graf Spee campaign?

[Alcibiades]

Is everyone playing actually working on the Graf Spee campaign?

Yes, haven't started this week's, though. 

[CountDeMoney]

I like to watch people who never learned about steering and sailing right-of-way bitch about running into each other at Tier III.

Almost as much fun as watching people launch torpedo spreads from behind their teammates SIGNAL LAMP SAYS --- --- .--. ...

[HVC]

If you're a destroyer never follow another destroyer. They will friendly your ass. It was funny when the new German destroyers came out, a few minutes into the game you'd see a wall of pink text.

[Berkut]

There is some basic responsibility, IMO, on the guy eating friendly torps as well. You have to have some situational awareness about what is around and what people are trying to do.

If you blunder into the line of fire between a cruiser or DD and a battleships about 10 klicks away from them....well, you might be surprised when you eat a salvo of friendly torps, but that doesn't mean you should be...

I have killed friendly maybe half a dozen times total, and most of those times it was my fault.

But I had a match a couple weeks ago in my Ibuki, and a Montana was coming down around an island. I setup a PERFECT torpedo attack, came in out of his site, set myself up to launch at him as he came around the island. Checked, there was another cruiser off to the side, but going the other way. Perfect.

Drop two spreads, and turn away. Launch looks fucking ideal.

Oh wait. That cruiser...he is turning back! Back into me! Right straight into my launch lane!

I chat and warn him, but of course he isn't paying any more attention to chat than he was the map. Not only does he eat my spread, he saves the Montana from 3 or 4 torpedo hits as well.

And of course I was the asshole. He suddenly had time to notice and pay attention to chat after three long lances ended his participation in our little battle.

[Neil]

As mentioned, this game doesn't always reflect real life.

Dunkerque is a BB in the game, so matchmaking will put you with other BBs, and sometimes the match is really really light on CA/CLs and DDs.  Engaging BBs with it involves essentially charging at the head on-ish ("angling":  this apparently makes you have super armor where 12" shells can bounce off of you lolz) and basically doing a drive by (this is when the turrets can't track), then moving on to the next target while the rear guns set them on fire, etc.  They can burn a Tirpitz pretty well, but you can't really get too close to those because they have torpedoes. Scharnhorst too, although the AP can penetrate those from further off. 

You have succeeded in convincing me that this game would drive me crazy.  Capital ships moving so fast that another capital ship's turrets can't track?  That happened like, never.  Battleship turret rotation speeds were on the order of 5 degrees per second, and the ship could easily turn if that's not fast enough.  To have a bearing rate better than 5 degrees/sec at 30 knots, you'd have to be closer than 180 yards!  That just never happened.  Even against the ultra-slow Yamato turrets (2 deg/sec) you'd have to be inside 500 yards, which you'll never survive long enough to get to.

I understand why they might want to make the game more fun by leaving out real-world factors, but you have to at least make a nod to math and physics, or these might as well be alien spaceships or unicorns.

You think that's annoying?  The ultimate strategy for battleships is:  Getting your T crossed.  The game calculates armour in such a way that by turning bow on you not only present a smaller target, but also are more likely to have enemy shells glance off you.  If you don't present your armoured belt, it cannot be penetrated, or so the thinking goes.  It's an arcade game, with only the loosest historical and technical grounding.

[CountDeMoney]

I got an email warning for "expressing in chat offensive insults and other derogatory comments" or something.

[katmai]

Ok who won the pool?

[CountDeMoney]

They had it coming.

[HVC]

What level did you unleash? Mild, or your full DEFCON fetus attack?