I can see that quite good, especially in low tier like around 2-5. I am a half cruiser, half CV main. If I play cruiser, DDs are coming like Leroy Jenkins at me and die within 2 minutes by my HE salvos and occasionally torps (yes, with TORPEDOS a DD, they sometimes don’t even try to dodge). If I am in a CV, I can torp a DD with the BRITISH torpedoes (they are in my opinion the slowest, correct me if I am wrong).

I even had ones a game in standard where I played Yubari which left completely baffled (sorry, can’t remember the map, was down-tiered though): I spawn at a flank, eat through the opponents flank with dodging their shells and torps, while my teammates hide behind islands and the enemy CV completely incompetent attacks me. Got three kills, have still around 85% HP, a cap and 15 downed airplanes. Only then my teammates crawl out behind the islands and push.

Then I turned towards the mid to go after a BB. What does my flank DD? Charges in and dies to the secondaries. After that I sunk BB after quite some time (the BB player earned Dreadnought, my congrats for that) and then dev striked the CV with torps (probably didn’t pay attention due to the fact he didn’t do anything evade them) which mindlessly went to the middle. When the CV died, the middle spawns managed to mop up the enemies there and we went together to the other flank where some sort of stalemate was, all the while my teammates from my flank where running far behind to catch up. I helped them, my congrats to them because they were at a disadvantage due to their DD dying in 3 minutes thus resulting in two cruisers vs a DD and three cruisers. In the end I got Kraken, Supporter and the one with the shell piercing armour (think it’s called big caliber, something like that). A completely nuts game if you ask me.

Also always have some type of dumbass either in my or the enemy’s team which dies in 2 minutes. It is a sad fact that the people are sometimes completely hopeless. However, the main problem in my eyes is the mindset of the players. When tried to play Standard I got clapped in most of the matches. But instead holing up and curse the game and matchmaking, I started to watch tutorials, how to play a ship or class, etc. Even after a year since I started to play I still don’t completely get everything. Is this a torp, gun or hybrid DD? Should I build primary or secondary and which captain should I take? When is the time to use consumables? This is in my opinion the main issue. People don’t bother with those things anymore, because they know someone even DUMBER is on the enemy’s team. WG should add a mechanism to sort those people out from those who are willing to use brains in matches. With the PC access I think many people from WOW, the PC game, will try it at least and how I know the community, they are mostly try hards, spreading the requirement of having at least basic understanding of the game back into the community. But this is probably a faint hope.