How many games to get to the chewy center of Tier VIII?

Ah. I mistakenly used Premium to mean both actual gold bought ships and fully upgraded tech tree models. Now I understand.

They don’t undertand the game mechanics, that firing your guns makes you more easily detected. Honestly , there seems to be no real difference in the vast majority of game play between low and high tiers. Most players want to hop in a game, shoot shoot bang bang game over. That’s all it really is. I DO wish those players would stay at low tiers but that ain’t happening.

Sadly it’s more that they don’t care. They’re always in DDs or low tier Cruisers. And the concepts of the game are so unimportant to them that they fire torpedoes when kilometers out of range, bounce off one another and islands and generally just act like morons.

Converting free xp from my Midway  

Done. I’ve bought and upgraded the North Carolina. Seventy some games in the Colorado and 150-175 in various Premium and Elite ships for Free XP conversion.

I will never again try and power grind a ship. It’s painfully tedious and sucks all the fun out playing. It makes it work instead of play. Going forward ships will advance when they advance. Seems so obvious, but hindsight works that way.

When you move up to the Colorado you will see a major jump in your impact on the game. Because the Colorado’s 16” guns are a whole new ball game. You will score citadels on anything you target. Not every time, but a lot more regularly. No more bounces when you use plunging fire against lower tier Battleships. And a single salvo of 16” HE will take ⅔ or more off most Destroyers and Light Cruisers inside of 6-8 km as long as you target midships. Just focus on any upgrade that reduces your reload time.

Then the biggest difference once you do get the NC is speed. You’re much faster than earlier US Battleships and the twin 5” secondary turrets rotate incredibly quickly. You’ll get the cap circles inside the 15 km range of your main battery almost as soon as the game starts. And these 16” rifles are excessively accurate compared to all of the US and IJN 14” boats. It almost feels like you are using one of the 6” German cruisers in terms of shot grouping. Plus you will never again have to worry about a DD outpacing your secondaries. They will always be aimed and ready for the reload.

Gawd, what a boat!