World of Warships

I don't understand the "Nerf" to Jap CV's. They took away a torp plane, and gave them fighters... basically I see that as a buff. now you can protect your flights.

 

As a dedicated DD driver... i never use AP ammo. HE just gives me too many bonuses... setting fires that most captains will immediately use a repair consumable on to put it out, just to then be hit by my torps, which either outright kill them or starts flooding that they cant stop because their repair is on cool down. or i can cause a link breakage on their steering which will cause them to not be able to dodge my incoming torps... ( i like to fire on cruisers/BB when i seems my torps have a really good chance of hitting and are less than 15 seconds from their intercept point).. i have actually used HE rounds to do nearly again as much damage in fires as the rounds do by themselves

as i really dont mesh with other ships (DD's RULE!) i see no point in even having AP onboard my ship. (Yeah i even use HE against other DD's as i wanna break that steering linkage and make them easier to hit for my (sometimes non-existent) Cruiser/BB backup

 

Earlier my rudder got jammed by someones shots. It wasnt torps. I think it was a bb shooting at me but my rudder was jammed to port and i ran into an island.

 

the way fires work, using HE is just so much better than AP unless you're a battleship.

 

AP seems better at range if you're getting shots falling straight down. he seems good for fires and damaging guns

 

That's how they caught Bismarck - rudder stuck to full turn.

Actually happened to me too yesterday evening. The silly beginner league Tier II enemies didn't capitalize and I got some decent kills before even being able to fix it. It was that match where I got surrounded, forgot to mention it.

Togg, I'm also thinking about going DD route all the way. Smoke + torps + ability to actually dodge rounds? How asssome is that?

 

Oh my! Destroyer is such a sweet class!

Be everywhere, lay smoke, kill everything with torps.

Just the other match I got 2 DD's and a BB. Damn near of getting a 4th kill in a match.


Still no defeat! And I survive better with DD.

 

Yea I'm only tier II cruisers but goddamn I need to stop have telescope vision on my targets cause DD's keep popping torps at me.

 

Silly fat & slow ships that don't evade them torps! I love 'em, the open sea map is a real challenge for american DD's! It's where I get to experience hurt on my end.

Funny stuff when enemy DD's don't know how to evade. Then again if you're in a narrow strait and I've thrown 8 torps their way I kinda see how it could be difficult.

Protip: don't chase my Sampson! It shits torpedoes with twice the range if you're in pursuit.

 

Ive dodged torps (if i pay attention) with my st louis.

 

I <3 Fast Battleships.

 

Id heart them too if i had them.

 

i had an utterly abysmal day yesterday in WoW... kept getting spotted and focus fired.. nothing i could do would break the cycle... even the game we won i did horribad at.. ended up just stopping .. maybe tonight will be better.

 

I think you mean WoWS not WoW.

 

UlverusMawbreaker in game. Running U.S destroyers at the moment.

 

Is there a way to tell when you get spotted? Like generally a safe distance? It seems pretty random at the moment on whether you're seen or not. Also, is there any indicator of whether you are visible to the enemy or not in game?

 

There are two ways. 1st, check your spotting distance (the distance your vessel is spotted from) on stats page in dock - concealment tab, and watch for distances between you and anything hostile. 2nd, captain's skill avalible for 1 point "situational awarness" - it pops warning whenever you are spotted. IMO this skill is necessary for DD's, useful for CV, and useless/dispensable on CA/CC/BB, as you are either firing all time or your spotting distance is greater than your firing range.

You play DD if i remember? If yes, its quite possible that enemy carrier "planted" squardon on you, best solution i found for such shit is disengage and turn our flak on with focus on that squardon, most carriers call them off then.

 

Yea, also it's not nice being too far from friends with a DD when you get planes after you. Need them dakka dakkas to help you out.

 

I just got my first captain, how do you get those in general?