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Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Yeah, I've been keeping the captains with the ships.... LOL! Guess that was a mistake. I'll have to see what I've got for points. I think the one with the most is in KONIG.


Hey I am no great player or anything so take what I say with a grain of salt. Also hope I am not coming off like a know it all or anything? Just trying to help not be a pest. Might be worth it for you to get some doubloons, swap some Capt's around so your better Capt's are on your better ships, and then redistribute their points to optimize them for that ship and the ones to come you will transfer them to. It will make your life so much easier having a better Capt in your higher up ships.

FWIW this is what I would put on a 10 point T6 BB Capt with either the intention to move that Capt up the line as I go or if I am keeping the ship long term and will play it a lot( and already have another Capt with a lot of points I can move up ).

Priority Target (1)
Expert Marksman (2)
Basic Fire Training (3)
Advanced Fire Training (4)

At point 11 I add Incoming Fire Alert as it helps me a lot. From there it is use the points as you see fit up to 19( which will take FOREVER to get to ). I never bothered with BFT/AFT until I got to T7 BB's being 100% honest so this is a case of do as I suggest and not as I did.

When I got to GNEISENAU and NAGATO I decided to go with a Secondary Build( Secondary Battery Mod 2 in the ship's Upgrade Slot 2 ). I redistributed the points on the Capt's at that point and added BFT/AFT to enhance them. Good lord what a difference. Now any ship within 7.2km of either of them starts getting pelted. It is great for DD/CL's trying to get in close for torps. The secondary's can also finish off badly hurt ships while you shoot at other ships with the main guns or while waiting for them to reload. The AA is also noticeably better even without the AA upgrade in slot 2. I went with an AA Build on my COLORADO and BFT/AFT really helps the AA a lot while giving a modest boost to the secondary's. Once my eyes were opened up to BFT/AFT, I reset the skills on my T6 USN and KM BB Capt's that didn't have them and have seen very noticeable improvements with their secondary guns and AA. Even if you upgrade the main gun accuracy instead of going for a Secondary or AA Build BFT/AFT will still help.

You will definitely want a minimum 10 point Capt with BFT/AFT when you reach the BISMARCK. IMO you will want to go for the Secondary Build using SBM2 in Upgrade Slot 2 as well. BISMARCK has absolutely sick secondary's. Look at what adding SBM2, then a Capt with BFT/AFT, and then a secondary flag will do for you( going to make you

)...

BISMARCK SECONDARY GUN RANGE/RELOAD:
Stock w/ no ship Upgrade or Capt Skills - 7.0km / 3.4 sec(105MM) and 7.5 sec(150MM)
With Secondary Battery Mod 2(SBM2) - 8.4km / 3.4 sec(105MM) and 7.5 sec(150MM)
With SBM2 + BFT - 8.4km / 3.06 sec(105MM) and 6.75 sec(150MM)
With SBM2 + BFT + AFT - 10.08km / 3.06 sec(105MM) and 6.75 sec(150MM)
With SBM2 + BFT + AFT + MYS Flag - 10.58km / 2.90 sec(105MM) and 6.41 sec(150MM)

* - SBM2 also decreases secondary gun dispersion by 20%.

I mean dang, the BISMARCK secondary's if you go with a Secondary Build, have a Capt with BFT/AFT, and you throw a Mike Yankee Soxisix Flag on have more range than a stock T3 IJN BB KAWACHI and almost can reach out to the T3 KM BB NASSAU's stock main gun range of 10.8km. It is INSANE!

Hope all this ranting and rambling helps.

 

[OVERKILL]

Yes it does, thanks!

 

[NHHEMI]

Unbelievable. Literally thousands of games in WOWS with just 1 KM BB Citadel hit( on a GNEISENAU )and in the span of 6 days, 2 of which I didn't even play WOWS, I get 3. 1st a TIRPITZ, then a BISMARCK, and now this morning in between my lengthy novel posts to OVERKILL I played a few games and got ANOTHER citadel hit on a GNEISENAU. This one was at 11.9km for a total of 25446 in damage.

All 3 of the recent KM BB citadel hits have been at almost the same angle and with them coming at me. I can not believe all of these KM BB citadels lately. It is almost as if the KM BB armor got nerfed and WG didn't tell us?

 

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Just took the Leander out of moth balls and for a quick run and did my highest damage with it to date. Only 1 kill but should have had 3. The BB piggybacking off me stole them.

When I don't play it for a while then take it out I always get surprised by how much fun it is to play again.

 

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103K seems to be wild today.

This one was in BAYERN and was a really good game. FOR ONCE I was not alone at the end against multiple enemies. Good thing too as I got into it with the enemy YORCK and ARIZONA that were capping A. I charged in to deny it to them and I got the CL on the way in and then the BB in a brawl but at a big cost.

I just took a beating doing it from it's secondary's and an enemy CL HE spamming me during the brawl. I lost a lot of HP to the fires. I also got nailed hard by the main guns too. I think our team's ARIZONA had Adrenaline Rush on his Capt which gave it to the enemy one. It just fired way too fast. It was reloading faster than me and it's reload is 4 seconds slower??? I wasn't expecting shots so fast and thus it caught me without enough angle 2X's and spanked me good.

Even though we were down 3 vs 4, I was pretty hurt, and we were down points the 3 of us at the A cap worked our way TOGETHER towards the enemy at D capping and sinking as we went. Really nice when people work together! I would not have been able to pull this one off alone. I was glad for some help at the end for once.

 

[OVERKILL]

I was just in a match with BAYERN against two BISMARCK's..... I held my own but eventually the one BISMARCK got me with a good salvo and that was all she wrote.

 

[NHHEMI]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
I was just in a match with BAYERN against two BISMARCK's..... I held my own but eventually the one BISMARCK got me with a good salvo and that was all she wrote.

Yeah, it is tough facing +2 MM even in a tough ship like BAYERN and if you have more than one after you it is even harder.

I got into a match yesterday with my COLORADO that wasn't a +2 MM situation but was BAAAD! I got caught in a triangle with one off the bow( TIRPITZ ), one off my side( BISMARCK ), and one off my stern( COLORADO ). Game was winding down and it was me, a SCHARNHORST, and another COLORADO who flat refused to do anything but sail the edge of the map vs those 3 ships. We were down big time in points and they had 3 of the 4 caps

The SCHARNHORST and I did our best to pull it out but failed. I had the TIRPITZ down to like 1500 HP but couldn't kill it with TWO SALVOS! It bounced everything that hit it in those last 2 shots. RNG screwed me big time. I was like WHAT???

You can only angle to so many ships at once and I was trying to alternate between shooting at the TIRPITZ while not showing too much side to the BISMARCK or COLORADO. I failed and eventually got taken out by the COLORADO who stovepiped me.

Our SCHARNHORST managed to torp and sink the BISMARCK just as the TIRPITZ rammed him. The whole time the 2 of us are in the caps and fighting the 3 enemy our buddy was just sailing along the edge of the map and would not come help. Other players who had died are imploring him to at least go to an empty cap and get points. I swear he intentionally threw the game. At the end when the enemy was at 940 points he turned towards a cap and we were all like a ltitle late bud.

Facing multiple ships shooting you is very tough.

 

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Yesterday I posted above how I set a new high with my LEANDER after not playing it for a long time. Well, this morning I set my new high with FIJI. Been trying to play my CL's a little more lately and today I even played FIJI. Glad I had the monster game I did as I forgot the flags for reduced service fee and extra credits I always run on T7's so I don't lose $$$. NO problem of that in this game. I was a one man wrecking crew. My FIJI is still 100% stock as well. Haven't even researched the hull and gun upgrades yet let alone mount them. Even stock it is a great ship.

Map was Neighbors and was standard battle mode. I pushed up with our 2 DD's to the islands just to the left of the enemy base to spot and try and use their smoke. Worked perfect as the 3 of us just slammed them. They left early but I stayed and even used my smoke, along with hydro, and was able to put a major hurt on the enemy. I was finally forced out by the enemy FIJI who spotted me with it's hydro and found myself sort of in the middle wide open area with BB's all around and that FIJI coming after me. YIKES!

I was able to nail the FIJI as it rounded the island for almost it's entire HP with a great shot and 3 citadels. Next salvo finished it. I then had to WASD like a mad man, send torps from both sides, and shoot for all I was worth to get out of the middle of the enemy BB's. I took a HUGE hit and almost died but thankfully I had that great BRN heal and was able to recover. Game ended with me in a run-n-gun dual with the enemy MYOKO that I finally won. Both of us were almost gone and as my shells were hitting to take it out I could see it's shells about to hit me and I may have died. It was that close.

Really fun game. I get a little carried away in my CL's now and get very aggressive. I think it is a habit of playing BB's. I forget that I can't take a hit like they do. But pedal to the metal, WASD, torp runs on enemy BB's are a blast. I mean I had 41 secondary hits with the FIJI for goodness sake.

My torp aim this game was way off though. Really bad. Only 1 out of 12 hit. But, at least it turned them off.

Far and away my best match with FIJI since I got it. I just don't play it much is part of it( only 24 games so far ). I really need to get the hull upgrade for those extra HP. Anyway, here you go...






Had another really good game with LEANDER too. Not as high damage total as yesterday but a really good game overall. Was an all CL battle. Almost never see that. 4 LEANDER's p/side so it was smoke soup all over the map.

It was one of those really fast games where everyone dies right off leaving you alone and shaking your head as you hear "You are our last hope". Man I really have come to hate that. Once more I had to pull it out alone at the end vs. 3( LEANDER, ATLANTA, and ATAGO ). Not sure how I did it as I was only at about 60% HP but I did it. I was just about dead when I finally got the LEANDER that had chased me half way across the map.

Had a good game with NEW MEXICO too. Also on Neighbors map and I sort of went up the middle beating on stuff as I went. Killed 3 and damaged 3 others.



Had to stop playing for an eye break. Still have 1/2 my ships to play for their daily bonus. Figured I would do this while resting my eyes a bit.

 

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For a ship I really don't like I sure do seem to do well in GNEISENAU!

Map was Haven and 1/2 of our team were BOTS which is weird as I had seen very few BOTS prior to this game this morning? Anyway, our BOTS all yolo charged the middle while our NAGATO and our only human DD went to A while I went to C with our YORCK.

What a crazy game. I swear I have never seen friendly BOTS die so fast. We had barely started working along the edge of the islands towards C and it was down to just the 4 humans on our team vs 7 of the enemy. They then went on to get 3 of the 4 caps in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately, they then all went after the other guys so we had to abandon capping and try to go help them. Got a couple hits at range on a couple ships and our YORCK got one but both our guys died doing the best they could against so many. It left it 5 vs. 2.

I felt really bad for those 2 guys. Hate it when one or two guys end up fighting the whole enemy fleet and you can't get there to help. Even with our 30 knot+ speed we just couldn't get to them in time as we were on opposite ends of the map plus all those darn islands that hide stuff.

I sure would like to know where all these easy Co-op matches are, full of stupid and easy to kill BOTS, and where no one is ever damaged or sunk, the Co-op detractors are always talking about. I think too many don't give the BOTS enough credit for their accuracy. Anyway...

Luckily those 2 teammates put up a good fight so at least the DD's and CL's left were damaged. The enemy GNEISENAU and NAGATO were pretty healthy still but better 2 than all 5. I got 4 of the last 5 and the YORCK cleaned up the last one, the GNEISENAU, after I got 3 torps in it. Neither of us could believe we did it.

The GNEISENAU is trying really hard to make me like it.

The YORCK and I didn't panic and we stayed together. We started capping to slow the point loss and let them come to us. As they did we were able to slowly pick them off and eventually win.

 

[NHHEMI]

Last post for today ( honest

)

This was a FUSO match. Nothing overly special at 106K and 2 kills BUT I am posting as I went toe to toe with a USN T8 BB NORTH CAROLINA and stomped it for 61K+ of it's 66K HP's. I was by myself when it appeared so I took it on but expected the worst as it is a beast and the FUSO has weak armor. I managed to bounce/minimize the return damage from it's massive 406MM guns to my ship, somehow, again and again. Unfortunately, just as I was ready to make the kill shot someone else finished it. I was so

that I went and took it out on the enemy FUSO.

This one is the 2nd best game ever for me in NAGATO and the 1st time I have broken 100K damage since my 1st game that was 119K but a loss. This was another game with good damage but low kills. I sunk the 1 and damaged 6 others pretty good but pretty much I was just softening them up for the others.. Got so annoying it was funny.





This last one was a good game in COLORADO. I am really liking this ship. Easily my favorite of the T7 BB's. I just wish it was a little faster and had like 5K more HP. Biggest reason to post is I whomped a FRN T6 BB DUNKERQUE for 50901 damage with just 9 shells! I was going to help our DUNK who was under attack by the enemy COLORADO and DUNK. I got a long shot off at the enemy DUNK as it is charging our DUNK and did good damage to it( 19K+ )then it vanished behind some islands. I kept going and got a shot on the COLORADO for a citadel and good damage at range which was cool. The enemy DUNK finally comes out from behind the islands on what looked like a ram course with our DUNK. When my guns finally reload I let fly and just vaporized it. A citadel hit for 31974 in damage. So just 9 shells to do almost 51K damage( full health is 52600 ). I LOVE the guns on the COLORADO!!!

Was a pretty good day for me today.

 

[NHHEMI]

Holy Cannoli Batman.

Just set my FUSO high, which is also my 2nd highest Co-op score, and my highest score where we actually win. Action was so fast and furious I didn't realize the amount of damage I was doing until the very end.

Was a standard battle on Fault Line. I will never understand why guys, and especially BB's, take off for the edges when there is just 1 cap/base per side. In Co-op especially if you just stay within range of the base you know the BOTS will come for it. But, as is usual everyone took off for the edges. It left me near the base to defend.

The enemy push was all 3 of their BB's( FUSO + 2 KONGO's )and a PENSACOLA up the middle towards our base. I called for people to come back from their sight seeing tours and help defend(

). I then charged the middle to intercept the enemy ships to try and slow them down and give people a chance to get back. I know at some point others realized what was up and chatted defend base and came back but I was too busy to see who. I know our 2 other BB's were no where to be found though.

Took on all 3 BB's alone while the enemy PENSACOLA HE Spammed me. Had all 3 of them on life support at one point. Finally had to break off so I went behind some islands so I could loop back towards the base and to go after that SOB PENSACOLA!

PENSACOLA is one of the easiest CL/CA to take out but do you think I could get one good salvo with a bunch of citadels, even when it was beached broadside? NO! Took 3 to finish it off and by then I was battered, burning, and almost dead. Thought for sure I was going to burn up but the fires went out with just 200 HP left. PHEW!

Only enemy left then was one of the KONGO's at about 1/3 health that had clearly used it's heal. I was in the base by then and thought my day was done. But then I realized my teammates were still too far out and the KONGO was charging the base so I turned for the KONGO to do what I could. Nailed it for almsot 20K and a citadel as it rounded the island to head for the base and took it down to under 1000 HP but it survived. I wasn't able to avoid the return fire and 200 HP doesn't stop even a secondary hit so I was done. Someone FINALLY hit it from long range and took it out. You can actually see my FUSO upside down and starting to sink, with the destroyed enemy KONGO behind it, in the screen shot.

What a match. Wish I could have lived but I definitely did my part for the win.

 

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So the last 2 days I have done really well. Today, not so much.

Today, for the most part, I always seem to be in the wrong area( i.e. no one to shoot or suddenly surrounded by 4+ and alone ). I can't seem to hit ANYTHING today either??? I have died a LOT today. I mean a LOT! Even had 3 losses( others not doing so well either it seems ). This is one of those days where I have had to rely on teammates to pull a win out vs the other way around for the most part. Also, it is a really odd mix of people playing today so some games all 8 are human but most have seen 3 or 4 friendly BOTS and even a few horrible ones with 5. Friendly BOTS are flat out terrible and just die way too fast and easy. I think it has contributed to my bad day.

So my general method of play each AM is to start with my lowest tier ships and work up to my highest. When I finish all ships at T5 and get to T6 I play all my T6/T7 CL's before the T6/T7 BB's. This starts me out with easier games and let's me get into it. Usually this works well but I had one horrid game after another today? Average and below average games for me ALL morning and as said a lot of dying.

The only bright spot through finishing up the CL's was I finally got enough XP in FIJI to upgrade the hull. So my FIJI is no longer stock. Man I can use those extra HP in it. After FIJI, I went to my T6 BB's and finally had a good game when I got to BAYERN though. Funny how one of my most inaccurate ships suddenly couldn't miss. Came down to me, our New Mexico, and our CV vs 6 of the enemy. I got 4 including sinking the enemy CV for the win...



Felt good to play well again and I figured the rest of the day would be better. NOPE!!!!

Took my NAGATO out next and when the pre battle MM screen came up I was like

Here we go, 1/2 the team are bots again, PLUS lookie lookie, a RUS T9 CA DMITRI DONSKOI. So a T9 match with something besides COLORADO. I had heard those DMD's were tough and man are they. I hit the enemy one a couple times early on at a bad angle and did nothing to speak of. Later in the match though, with it on life support and almost dead, I caught it straight broadside when it beached avoiding torps. A full salvo of 8 410MM guns at about 10km and did 840 damage on 1 pen with 4 bounces. WHAT!!!???!!!

We won but I did little in the game as it went really fast and I was in the wrong end of the map a good part of it( went to back up our DMD who then turned and went the other way leaving me behind = nice ). Only 40k and 1 sunk so no screenshot of results posted. Our DMD however was a beast and went nuts wrecking everything. He sunk 5.



So next up was GNEISENAU. Loaded the camo and flags and off to battle. I was thinking what will go wrong this game? When the pre battle MM screen came up I was like OH COME ON now you are just messing with me!!!

2 USN T9 Premium BB MISSOURI's. Also, a TIRPITZ thrown in for good measure. It was yet another game where 1/2 the team were bots too. Oh fun. So it was just the 4 of us in the BB's for humans. Our TIRPITZ, one of the MISSOURI's, and I went left and stayed together. The other MISSOURI went off lone and later in the game I had to run to try and save him from a CA torping and HE Spamming him to death. GNEISENAU is NOT the BB you want shooting at range trying to hit a CA to save someone. I got a couple hits though which at least helped him take it out before he died.

Before doing that though I went for it and did a number on one of the enemy MISSOURI's and sunk the enemy GNEISENAU. The 3 of us working together really helped. I only sunk 1 but did do 101K in damage so a good game all things considered.





That left the COLORADO to play and just a few hundred XP needed for my last container. Figured one game and I would be done. NOPE! 1st game was full of T8 BB's( 2 BISMARCK, TIRPITZ, ALABAMA )and 3 T8 CL/CA. I was the only T7 and was bottom tier. All humans on team at least. HORRIBLE game for me. HORRIBLE. I actually lost 3K credits because I couldn't hit anything and when I did the shells bounced, shattered, or penned with no damage( not sure how that works but it happened ). Had to play another game for the last container and it was almost as bad although I did make like 20K in credits.

Just a really bad day overall. RNGesus is made at me for something?

 

[NHHEMI]

Just realized I got the NAGATO and GNEISENAU game timelines backwards ^^^. GNEISENAU game was 1st. Yesterday was so bad I guess I was blocking stuff out right after it happened.

 

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I believe in some of these earlier posts I have made the comment that the USN T6 CL CLEVELAND is one of those ships that when I was working my way up in the game and played against it I hated it because it was so darn good. Hard to kill and just set everything it could see on fire. However, once I got to it I felt very disappointed. Takes damage, and big hits, very easy and doesn't deal out the pain like it did when I faced it. I mean it is okay and all, and occasionally I have a decent game, but overall it is an average CL IMO. Great AA but other than that meh. My best ever game to this point was 89K and 4 kills but 50K was one BB I burned down and the other 30K and 3 kills was cleanup duty.

I just had a match and for the 1st time I felt like I was playing the ship I used to see and couldn't wait to get. 113K in damage, 1 sunk, and damage caused to all 7 of the other enemy ships. Had a great game but it was a LOSS!

Oh what I wouldn't give for torpedoes on CLEVELAND. It is so limited not having them like pretty much all other Cruisers in the game once you hit T5. It just makes it almost useless if facing BB's alone as I wound up doing. USN losses them at CLEVELAND and it really hurts.

In this game it was going pretty good. Very even down to the end almost when I wound up alone against a SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU. Unfortunately we were down a BB right from the start as our GNEISENAU was afk. We were only down 350 to 190 points and there was like 9 minutes left so it was doable. Well, against any other BB's at T7 except for those 2.

I could easily out run, cap, and then hide from any other T5, T6, or T7 BB's in that situation. Some T8's would be fast enough to hang with me but ONLY those 2 BB's at those earlier tiers had the speed. Because of that I couldn't get away as I was close supporting our BB's when they died and I was left alone.

I did what I could running away, WASD'ing like mad, and trying to set them on fire. But they finally got me. The SCHARNHORST took out our afk BB by ramming for the win. I was so mad. If I just had torps it would have been different. I really need to get IFHE on this Capt but need 2 more points 1st. OY!

I swear the bots just NEVER miss. Doesn't matter what you do. Slow down, speed up, WASD, etc... they just hit you full on almost every time. Rare for them to miss 100%. I actually find it easier to dodge humans shooting at you. Just so frustrating to set high score and have the kind of game I always thought I would only to LOSE!

 

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Things had to get better after that above ^^^ and they did. Won the rest of today's games and had a few good ones along the way.

Had a really good game with BAYERN shortly after the CLEVELAND debacle. Came down to me, our CV, and our GNEISENAU against the enemy GNEISENAU, NEW MEXICO, BAYERN, COLORADO, and their CV. They had 3 of the 4 caps and we had only had one. We were down a little over 200 points. The CV was behind me as I fought for the A cap. I had the BAYERN and COLORADO on my end. CV got some torps on the BAYERN and I finished it then brawled with the COLORADO to take it out. I then capped A giving us 2. Unfortunately, the CV lost it's strike planes and only had 1 fighter left by then. None the less we charged on to B. Our GNEISENAU was alone vs the enemy GNEISENAU and NEW MEXICO on the other end at D. It got the NEW MEXICO but died LONG before I could even begin to be close enough to help leaving the full health GNEISENAU. While we could the CV and I capped B. Our CV used his fighter to spot the enemy CV which I managed to take out in 2 salvos. I was badly hurt after my fight at A and the CV had no strike planes left. We had 3 caps though now and swung the points so we just ran as the GNEISENAU and I took pot shots at each other at max range and won the game on points. Very rare to win a Co-op game on points but I will take it.

This one was a skin of my teeth win with NAGATO. Man I don't know what is up with me in that ship lately but no matter how much I hit or where I hit( IF I hit that is - lately it is very inaccurate )I get c-r-a-p for damage??? I have been plagued with poor AP consistency with the IJN BB's going all the way back to MYOGI at T4. Some days it obliterates things and other days it does nothing. More nothing. Very frustrating. This was a slugfest game with 3 T8 BB's, 2 T7 BB's, and 3 T7 CA's. I hit various enemy BB's multiple times, and missed TONS of easy shots( dispersion not aim ), and hardly scratched them most times. I had NORTH CAROLINA's broadside 3 X's at 8-10km. One was a complete whiff with shells landing everywhere but on the ship, one time did ZERO damage despite me seeing good hits, and the other did 2K and again with good hits. These are 410MM guns for goodness sake and they should pummel stuff when they hit. Only real big hit I delivered was when I said screw it and closed right in( 3km )and brawled with a NORTH CAROLINA and did get it for a big hit but took a HUGE one back that almost killed me. Just bounce bounce bounce even on flat broadsides. So frustrating. Game came down to a badly damaged TIRPITZ chasing a badly damaged me and I FINALLY got a good hit and took it out. I couldn't have taken another hit from it either so it was a good thing I got it when I did. I should have had 2X's the damage I got and at least 2 more kills based on the chances I had. It was brutal. Even other players were noticing I was getting no damage for good hits. But, we won in the end. Still, despite being the last one alive and saving the game I only came in 3rd.





This last one is a FIJI game. I was top tier in a Cruiser battle( 1 DD ). I am posting it because I want you to look at the number of citadel hits = SEVENTEEN! I went to the A cap with our DD and smoked up. I then proceeded to wreck the enemy ships there taking out 3 and badly damaging another. Took out a full health OMAHA with one salvo that had 5 citadels. It just went so fast. They charged us and I just wiped them out. Ended the game by going to the C cap to help there and got 1 hit on a CLEVELAND and then the kill shot on last enemy ship( OMAHA ). Not a lot of damage( mostly T5 CL's so not a lot to farm )but sunk 4 and those 17 citadels. WOW!

OH, 1st game with the upgraded hull and what a difference. I love the extra HP even though in this one I didn't need it but the better maneuverability is HUGE. Rudder shift going from 9 to 6 makes it very nimble. I really like this ship.

 

[OVERKILL]

I am not having a great go in BAYERN. I seem to play a much better game in KONIG

Go figure. Of course KONIG is completely upgraded, BAYERN is not.

 

[NHHEMI]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
I am not having a great go in BAYERN. I seem to play a much better game in KONIG

Go figure. Of course KONIG is completely upgraded, BAYERN is not.


KONIG is one of the best BB's in the game. I would call it "great". BAYERN is very good, and I really like playing it a lot, but it is not great. Main guns can be really inaccurate and the AP penetration is not great compared to other BB's. It has some flaws but it is as tough as nails.

Fully upgraded it is a much better ship. Go for the hull upgrade just as soon as you can. It gives you a big HP increase, some workable AA, and a good boost to your rudder shift which is pretty bad on the stock hull. On the gun and speed upgrades you decide which matters more to you. For me I would go speed then guns but your call.

What are you running in the upgrade slots? This is how I have mine and I feel it is optimal for BAYERN.

Slot 1 = Main Armaments Mod 1
Slot 2 = Aiming Systems Mod 1 ( a MUST have with BAYERN )
Slot 3 = Damage Control System Mod 1
Slot 4 = Steering Gears Mod 2 ( -20% to rudder shift + upgraded hull gets rudder shift to 11 seconds )

Most all ships suffer in stock form but BAYERN is one that really does. Once it is fully upgraded and you get your upgrade slots filled out the ship play a lot better.

 

[OVERKILL]

I'm running the same upgrades as you are but I'm still on the (A) version of the ship. I haven't gone for propulsion or aiming system upgrade yet because I wanted to get into (B) hull first, as it massively improves the AA and other things as you've noted.

 

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Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
I'm running the same upgrades as you are but I'm still on the (A) version of the ship. I haven't gone for propulsion or aiming system upgrade yet because I wanted to get into (B) hull first, as it massively improves the AA and other things as you've noted.


Smart move. How much more XP do you need?

 

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Well, just finished up for the day with my last game/container. Not too much to post about but a little. Mostly today was an average day again. Not a lot of big games with the average being about 40-60K for CL's and 80-90K for BB's. Had a couple 100k+ games but not as many as I usually get. RNG seems to be messing with me lately and I don't hit or do little damage when I do. Had another NAGATO game where I couldn't do squat despite not changing my aim or anything. Just poor dispersion and AP damage. Oh well some days you do well others you don't.

Couple noteworthy things...

I. - Yet another T9 MM for me with COLORADO. According to the MM system I was the top tier ship but it sure didn't feel that way.

I swear I have come to expect it now every time I hit battle in that ship.

This one was not anything bad really as it was just 1 T9 DD and the rest were all T7/T8 ships but it was on a map I have never played on = Tears Of The Desert. That is one of those maps people complain a lot about as there isn't a lot of cover. They are right!

at least down the end I spawned on. 2 little islands around the cap and that was it. The other end looked to have more but still not a lot. We won but I didn't do a lot. I was so slow and behind everyone by the time I caught up it was mostly over. I did a little damage but basically broke even credit wise.

Still it was kind of neat to see a new map.



II. - played 2 more games with COLORADO to finish the day out and did really well. 1st game was on Neighbors and I teamed with another COLORADO player and we did well. I did 107K in damage and sunk 3. I forgot to take a screenshot so nothing to post but it ended really cool. The other guy and I were trying to cap C and were being charged by the enemy FUSO and COLORADO. I caught the FUSO in a turn at around 9K and did 39K damage with 3 hits and 2 citadels. It went POOF! My very next shot I had the enemy COLORADO coming at me and I citadeled it through the bow for 21K+ and it went POOF too. So 2 shots to end the game and both took out BB's with 21K+ HP.

The last game set my new high score with COLORADO. 146K. Only sunk 1 but this was a BB slugfest on Estuary. 3 T8 BB's( BISMARCK, NORTH CAROLINA, and ALABAMA )plus 2 T7 BB's( COLORADO's ). Even though I only got one I doled out the damage to 5 others and earned high score for the game even with just the 1 kill. As the game was winding down those of us alive were off in C when the last enemy ship we could see went down. I had seen the last 2 enemy BB's way down in A a little earlier so we start going that way. Everyone but me went down the center runway between the islands but I don't like that. Limits your maneuverability when you need to fight. So I went back to the more open area where we spawned. Sure enough both enemy BB's( NC and ALABAMA )come around the end of the island ahead of ME so it is just ME vs 2 T8 BB's and both were full health( or so close it didn't show on their health bar they had lost any ).

I chatted for help and went bow on. Our BISMARCK came through the islands and went for the NC so I went for the ALABAMA. We traded a couple blows but then it hit me for a HUGE blow right through the bow( clearly a citadel ). I was like OUCH!

But then it had to turn to be at a better angle to my teammates who finally arrived( hey even BOTS know to angle to the biggest threat

)and that let me get it mostly broadside for 2 citadels and 25K+. That took it out. I then turned to the NC as it had taken our BISMARCK out. I got a good hit on it with a citadel, at the exact same time another ship hit it, taking the ship out between us. The other guy got the kill though.

So a good game despite only 1 kill and it is my new damage high for COLORADO. Hands down these are the best BB guns I have used in the game. They have now surpassed KONIG for me or at least tied it. Man they are super accurate and hit really hard. Just love them. Oh if only this ship had 5K more HP and could do 25 knots. It would be unstoppable.

About it for today. Mostly average.