Warships closed beta

[nervustwitch]

I know the starter battleship for Japans is terrible...I hate it.Guns have less range than cruisers,moves so slow.
You have to be less than 10km away to be able to hit them.I havent sunk anything with it yet.
Trying to work up to tier4 and see if its and better since it has more range.

[DrFr]

It's pretty cool when you hit a cruiser with a full broadside from a battleship, and watch their health bar drop by 50%!

[benjie~67]

WOW that is great, too bad you did not hit a magazine, could have sent it to Davy Jones locker. Harr Matey

[nervustwitch]

Well I finally got the T4 Battleship fully upgraded.It is much better than the T3.
I can now fire up to 15km and has a much better top speed and maneuvers.

At least i sunk one battleship but I'll be damned if I cant avoid the torpedo volleys. 6 rounds in a row and I lose all full health from a single volley.
The torps seem to be a bit overpowed.
I mean they are fast,turn fast,guns can fire almost as far as battleships,reload times are very fast and tons of torpedoes.Not only that but a battleship cant stay out of their range.
Battleships right now seem a bit useless compared to a cruiser or destroyer.
Unless Im doing something wrong here...I dunno.

[DrFr]

Battleships have to move with destroyers and cruisers to be effective. And you can't waste shots. But a battleship in a squadron with a destroyer or two who will lay down a smokescreen keep the other side busy with torpoedo attacks (so they're busy turning and not shooting) - in that situation, two broadside volleys will sink a cruiser, a single hit can take out a destroyer, and suddenly you're very lethal.

But they're still balancing the different elements - that's why it's still beta!

[nervustwitch]

Yeah I figured that out about battleships.

Now today I thought I would try out the carriers and wow,they can be lethal.

My first time out with it I sank 4 ships,shot down 14 planes,caused flooding on 5 ships.
I ended the round with 4000 xp and over 120,000 credits...non premium account.

That was fun, and I didnt even know too much about what I was doing....lol.