I need friends

[How_Terrible 529]

Looking for decent division mates. I am around most week days / nights. Less so on weekends. If interested let me know.

[SoliDeoGloria 417]

You can hit me up if I'm on, I think i'm an alright player. I max out at tier 7 and will be a little rusty after shelving the game for a couple of months though.

[UglyBigD 195]

I was gonna make a post like this myself. Add me, I'm playing all times of day, although i only have up to tier 5 atm

[Crossfader 1,142]

add me tier 5-8 most night, no mic

[Psycodiver 101]

Add me if you want too, I play battleships from T3 to T8. I play mostly at night

[SFC_Storm 58]

I finally got the hang of the game. I was shit...Now I have been doing 55k DMG + 3 kills i nt5 vs t7`s for tons of games and still losing.

 

FUrry Taco sucks

[Mnemon 38]

Can add me if you like, got at least one BB of every tier, mostly lower tier with cruisers/DDs though I have an Atago for dank credits.

[SFC_Storm 58]

8 minutes ago, Mnemon said:

Can add me if you like, got at least one BB of every tier, mostly lower tier with cruisers/DDs though I have an Atago for dank credits.

Awesome thx.

I love how WOWS Prems arent shit. But they still are made so guys can kill newbs in them.

WOT could learn something from it. Not issuing shit like T34`s and other garbage.

[SoliDeoGloria 417]

1 hour ago, SFC_Storm said:

Awesome thx.

I love how WOWS Prems arent shit. But they still are made so guys can kill newbs in them.

WOT could learn something from it. Not issuing shit like T34`s and other garbage.

Remember when tier 8 was flooded with the Kitikami, when it was introduced? That ship was pretty terrible, and only served greifing purposes.

[How_Terrible 529]

1 hour ago, SoliDeoGloria said:

Remember when tier 8 was flooded with the Kitikami, when it was introduced? That ship was pretty terrible, and only served greifing purposes.

I still have nightmares about the Kitikami spam.

[BiggieD61 364]

I'd offer my ships, but HT politely told me I was not up to snuff when I once asked him to division.  No shade from me, but you should be better than my middling stats to get in a Div with HT.

[map381 264]

When HT starts tossing shade, just remind him that he recieves meat

[SoliDeoGloria 417]

19 hours ago, BiggieD61 said:

No shade from me, but you should be better than my middling stats to get in a Div with HT.

Not sure if you are referring to me, but if I pull up my Warships Today sig, as HT has, it turns out I play at a similar level to him. Because I play a large amount of cruisers, my damage and xp look low, but when put into perspective, it changes a lot. I should probably use that as my sig, to look pretty.

[BiggieD61 364]

7 hours ago, SoliDeoGloria said:

Not sure if you are referring to me, but if I pull up my Warships Today sig, as HT has, it turns out I play at a similar level to him. Because I play a large amount of cruisers, my damage and xp look low, but when put into perspective, it changes a lot. I should probably use that as my sig, to look pretty.

Nothing like that, How Terrible and I chatted one night and he was divisioning with his Relic buddies, so he wasn't available.  I didn't mean anything by it, just that he probably expects a player to be on or near his level to accept requests.

[How_Terrible 529]

5 minutes ago, BiggieD61 said:

Nothing like that, How Terrible and I chatted one night and he was divisioning with his Relic buddies, so he wasn't available.  I didn't mean anything by it, just that he probably expects a player to be on or near his level to accept requests.

I have no problem with divisioning with people whose stats are below mine. What really matters is they people wish to improve. In fact right now I am massacring my stats in an attempt to learn how to play IJN destroyers.

[BiggieD61 364]

1 minute ago, How_Terrible said:

I have no problem with player with divisioning with people whose stats are below mine. What really matters is they people wish to improve. In fact right now I am massacring my stats in an attempt to learn how to play IJN destroyers.

Mesrith seems to be able to maintain his performance and play DD's capably, I wouldn't mind watching some replays from him if he had them laying around somewhere.

[How_Terrible 529]

Just now, BiggieD61 said:

Mesrith seems to be able to maintain his performance and play DD's capably, I wouldn't mind watching some replays from him if he had them laying around somewhere.

That's not a bad idea. @Mesrith, any way you could toss up a few decent destroyer replays either as youtube vids, or just as the replay files?

[Mesrith 356]

25 minutes ago, How_Terrible said:

That's not a bad idea. @Mesrith, any way you could toss up a few decent destroyer replays either as youtube vids, or just as the replay files?

There's a Mahan and a Fletcher game that were converted to video on WoWReplays.com, but no IJN destroyer replays that would still be watchable.  The only one I have left is Shima, but I may upload a few replays as I play it more.

If I had to give a blanket set of tips it would be to not shy away from guns with destroyers, even IJN ones.  Torpedoes will always be a bit of a dice roll even for the best players; using guns gives you your baseline damage, secures kills, and lets you build on that with whatever torpedo damage you get.  When I started playing my Shima after the 5.5 changes, I got rid of Torp Accel and picked up BFT and AFT so that the guns would be respectable (9.4km invisifire).  The HE hits hard and the fire chance is high, but you have to play smart since there's no room for the extra HP from Survival Expert and you're fragile as it is.

[How_Terrible 529]

Just now, Mesrith said:

There's a Mahan and a Fletcher game that were converted to video on WoWReplays.com, but no IJN destroyer replays that would still be watchable.  The only one I have left is Shima, but I may upload a few replays as I play it more.

If I had to give a blanket set of tips it would be to not shy away from guns with destroyers, even IJN ones.  Torpedoes will always be a bit of a dice roll even for the best players; using guns gives you your baseline damage, secures kills, and lets you build on that with whatever torpedo damage you get.  When I started playing my Shima after the 5.5 changes, I got rid of Torp Accel and picked up BFT and AFT so that the guns would be respectable (9.4km invisifire).  The HE hits hard and the fire chance is high, but you have to play smart since there's no room for the extra HP from Survival Expert and you're fragile as it is.

Which torps do you run on the Shima?

[Mesrith 356]

3 minutes ago, How_Terrible said:

Which torps do you run on the Shima?

Mod 3 (12km) without Torp Accel.  The longer range ones are garbage (too slow, ridiculously high detection range), and anything shorter than 12km is a gamble.  It's not even a problem of getting within launch range; it's the fact that everybody is always running away in a tier 10 game, and trying to hit a fleeing target with a range shorter than 12km is awful.  I don't care how fast the F3 Zao torps are, if a ship is running from you, you're not going to hit it unless you push close enough to get spotted.  The 12km range also syncs well with gun usage.

I'm not sure I'm a great authority on IJN destroyers but I'm doing alright.  I'm currently trying to get a couple of my other 10s to 100 games (plan on doing a 100 game review for all of them), and I'll focus on Shima a bit more down the road, hopefully improving on it with some focused attention.

[Downpour 13]

I'm up for platooning if you'd like. I have pretty much the same schedule you mentioned, week day evenings and some on weekends. I've been ~95% solo because all my WOT friends are stupid and don't want to switch so friends to pad win% with would be lovely.