Kudos to the Gearing, he hung around and cleaned up the last surviving reds.

Still the same old fighting soul. Still the same lethal 460. Still the same awesome gun sound. LOL

And while I no longer expect it to top the scoreboard given how gimmicky battleships and insanely high DPM cruisers rule Operations, not to mention submarines with their artificially boosted Base XPs, it was quite a pleasure to see my Yamato get the second spot.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I sure have not. Search box, above the mentioned Player not found (see attached screenshot).

Had it just twice in my Coop match, two different players, not marked as private (!)

In fact, if I'm in a destroyer, you're supposed to move up WITH ME so when I get to much agro I can smoke up and farm while YOU"RE THE ONE GETTING SHOT AT... because you're in A FFIN BBABY AND YOU CAN HANDLE IT.

You don't need to end the game with 3/4 of your health.

You don't need someone to 'spot for you'.

You CAN close in to within 12-14km and the bots WILL SHOW THEMSELVES BY SHOOTING YOU even without a 'spotter'. Even IF there are bots throwing fishes at you, if you positioned correctly you will not get hurt to much since the bots almost never narrow spread fish your way they are about as good at that as you are in using your bbaby's health/repair/heal combination of features.....

If you're in a babyboat and you press 'battle'' please make sure you got your ffin BIG BOY PANTS on. stop crying for diapers / spotters and ffin STOP CAMPING BEHIND ISLANDS.

/rant

*this is what happens when you went to play some Jutland/Fletcher/Kitakaze games... you get to many diaper crying bbabies which just sap the fun out of the whole game by showcasing what is wrong with this playerbase and hence this whole game.

edit: btw tags here are to limited, bbaby and 'big boy pants' can't be added. Sad :(

And I've got to say that I'm having an absolute ball.  Granted, some of the matchmaking is a little awkward ... the game where the enemy team had a CV and three Nebraskas all of whom thought my Salem made the perfect target ... I admit that I had some choice words about WG.

But beyond that, I'd have to say that as a PVE junkie, I don't ever want Asym game mode to go away.

Am I the only one?

My first time to have three rows of ribbons.

Minefields and Motor Boats make life in Operations a little bit too exciting for a heavy cruiser that lacks the DPM.

15 kills. 2187 Base XP. This Goliath is making up for all the time spent anchored in port doing nothing but tea. LOL

Is there any setting, I can change, so that the latest comments, on any subject, come first , instead of having to scroll down, looking for the latest reply?

Important discovery I made just a minute ago running my Surcouf. Phillipe Auboyneau's talent for capturing a point will proc off of random secondary objectives that require a point captured. Thus, it can be said that all unique captain talents that should proc off of similar things will do so in Ops as well now. Something to keep in mind during play if you're selecting based on captain talents...

Subs are completely unable to clear mine fields outside of Surcouf which has an ASW, that said they're even more useful at what they do best, running and grabbing points, hitting far flung secondary targets. That said, they're very vulnerable to the motor boats from the motor boat port swarm hovering them to keep them lit or just rush ramming them if they stay surfaced.

From my most recent operations, the most important random secondary objectives to knock out ASAP are the Mine Field dropping cruiser generally named "Hyaena" that sends in air squadrons to drop mine fields, and the Torpedo Boat port. I've had several ops come too close for comfort because of those torpedo boats.

If anyone else notices especially bad combinations of secondaries happening together or Operations with specific secondary objectives being far more troublesome post it up. I'm slowly putting together a comprehensive Ops guide, and if spawns seem to be fixed for where certain random secondary things like that pesky mine drop cruiser, or the torp boat port... it will help the whole community in taking it out faster. I'm planning on including maps in the guide for ease of reference which will include locations and "Don't go here" marks because of "doom spawns" like if you go too far north on Aegis too soon and spawn in the 5 BB death squadron...

My highest Base XP yet in Newport. 2829. 😊

A couple of days ago (pre 15.1) I played a few Asym matches with Valpa (+ blue credit Booster) because I`m still broke. I had really good matches damagewise, so my earnings were 1 million+ credits on average (with 1.3 million credits as my best income).

Played one match with Valpa today and several with Von Zuckerhoff. And lo and behold - I`ve earned only 600k credits over several battles now. Last match with Von Zuckerhoff (+50% base credit multiplier mind you): 257k damage, something like 1.630 BXP. For that I gained only 775k credits. With a freaking blue credit Booster (!)

This seems as yet another eco nerf to Asyms.

I made 4,146,022. LOL!

🤣

😂

Class dismissed.

The main goal was HMS Minotaur - still love this ship.

Well, in the last couple of days I've been looking at my Summary and notice I was getting close to a goal I had set.

So for the 75,000th Co-op game I took HMS Minotaur out.

What a ride!

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If you've picked her up, take her for a spin in PvE, rock solid monster. Even in Asymmetric she's a very versatile beast.

First game was in Killer Whale. A bot got my cruiser, but I made 2000 Base XP. I covered the dash to the exit area, and good thing my team made it on time.

Lovely cruiser, Fiji is.

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It's guys like this bot user that are ruining player's chances of ranking well in the Lunar Trial leader boards. So, if you see a bot and it isn't a WG programmed one shooting back at you or that you're supposed to escort and protect. Do the right thing, and report the hell out of it, because we all know bots are scum that cheat.

I use main guns in normal mode most of the time. Only when targets are 6-8 kilometers away will I use the Fun button. That way the slow as an angry turtle shells will hit the target faster than the time it takes for a radar Minotaur to set himself up for a crossfire.

It has been my ship of choice for the Steel Fleet. And with the 200% XP mission that came with the ship, it was a like hitting 3 birds with one stone in every game.

Unkillable - suffer 200% ship's HP in damage & survive
Pyromaniac - cause 20% fire damage to at least 5 ships
With Extreme Prejudice - cause 75% damage in 5s to a ship and destroy it
Killstreak - destroy 2/3/4 ships within 10s of each other (on average)
Close, but no cigar - earn 6 contribution to destruction ribbons

(add division achievements, too, while we're at it)

Meta strat - reverse in spawn for at least 2 mins continuously
Potato brain - be destroyed by damage from torpedoes or subsequent flooding while the hydro consumable is active