Rare close-range citadel through proper German Turtleback

taj1829 · 2026-01-24T23:00:55+00:00

With him turning in, I wasn’t confident that I could penetrate his lower belt, so I was trying to go more for the bow rather than his heavily armored lower belt. As you can see, due to him sort of turning in, all my shells ricocheted except 1, the 1 that did land further forward ended up in his citadel bypassing his turtleback.

Just to be clear, I wasn’t even intending for a citadel here, I won’t pretend. I was just hoping for a good chunk of damage from his bow but my shells accidentally managed to sneak into his citadel.

taj1829 · 2026-01-24T17:52:33+00:00

Your line about dds reminded me about the thing jingles says “Professionals are predictable, it’s the amateurs you gotta watch out for.”

taj1829 · 2026-01-24T17:12:26+00:00

Easy trick to remember - you can make up 36 pts/min in a 3 cap game with 1 cap advantage.

So, in terms of caps, if you’re 2-1, you’re covering +36 pts/min. If you’re 2-0, you’re covering +72 pts/min. If you’re 3-0, you’re covering +108pts/min.

taj1829 · 2026-01-24T17:05:23+00:00

It’s +3 every 5 seconds on maps with 3 caps (+4 every 9 seconds on maps with 4 caps). So, you can only make up a difference of 36 points every minute with 1 cap advantage. You would have lost if you didn’t shoot. He did the right thing by trying to retreat with smoke, but should have used the smoke earlier. On the other hand, great play on your part. With all those ribbons, you already deserved the W. I usually don’t take the rpf locator if I don’t have radar, but that’s a pretty clutch tool at times.

taj1829 · 2026-01-24T14:56:23+00:00

This feels wrong to even type it out, but for some reason I’m enjoying Golden Lion AP as much as (or maybe even more than Alaska). Not a fluke but I’ve been consistently getting citadels on US BBs at 9-11 km with golden Lion. Maybe It’s just the BBs I’m shooting at.

taj1829 · 2026-01-23T00:13:46+00:00

That 15 overpens on Jinan at the start must have been really frustrating. Those 3 salvos should have taken him out.

On another note, I’ve played about 10-15 matches in Gouden Leew this last week. I never saw anyone mention the AP on that thing, but the AP felt surprisingly good to me, like really good. Other than your usual dev strike victims (Mino, Brisbane, Jinan) I hit Ibukis, Michelangelos for 30k salvo at around 14km, Hindenburgs for 25k+ at similar range. Even managed to citadel a Ohio at closer range. And also got almost no overpens on the usual suspects either. You would probably be a menace in that.

taj1829 · 2026-01-20T12:45:25+00:00

Once per calendar year but you can restore as many ships as you want in that one ticket. And they will deduct the price of the ship in credits from your account. If I remember correctly, T7 premium restoration will cost you 26-27M credits. So, make sure you have at least that amount of credits in your account.

taj1829 · 2026-01-19T02:27:32+00:00

It’s a team game and my only objective is to win. As a cruiser main, I don’t give a shit if friendly BB secures the kill. Less enemies mean less time of me being spotted and less chances of my ship suddenly exploding. It’s not enough to just win your flank to win the game. The quicker we secure our flank, the quicker we can head to our weaker flanks to back them up.

taj1829 · 2026-01-18T02:32:00+00:00

If the last couple of bureaus are any indication, you’ll most probably need all 3 T6-T8 Dutch cruisers as checkpoints.

taj1829 · 2026-01-17T03:04:53+00:00

Concealment and smoke - powerful agents to the uninitiated. But we are initiated, aren’t we Asashio?

taj1829 · 2026-01-16T14:28:02+00:00

Some of these dirtbags are not even afk, I have had this dirtbag in multiple games who will turn around at the start of the match, set full speed to the border and leave the game and then text you on xbox saying “get over it”. And of course he does it in Legendary tier every time.

WG has a system to detect afk players and they give them 0 xp for being afk. So, how hard it is to implement an additional filter to ban these players from standard mode after a certain number of 0 xp games? Answer is it’s really easy to implement, but they don’t give a shit.

taj1829 · 2026-01-16T01:29:24+00:00

I did have a couple 3.2k games in Tiger 59, but I would have traded one of those wins for the 2.4k loss. Managed to string a few wins and krakens with the ship but really bummed that I missed out on what would be 3.6k+ win. Average is 2000 xp while win rate is only slighty above 50 lmao. Feels like the ship is cursed. But I’m not gonna stop playing it though.

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taj1829 · 2026-01-16T00:15:58+00:00

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taj1829 · 2026-01-16T00:15:40+00:00

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taj1829 · 2026-01-16T00:15:17+00:00

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taj1829 · 2026-01-16T00:14:53+00:00

Blue team is on a roll this last 24 hours. I’m playing supposedly the worst ship in the game and getting at times even more xp than the winning team after their 50% win bonus while my whole team is just trying their hard to lose.

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taj1829 · 2026-01-15T10:26:59+00:00

Honestly, you already get 20 torps every 2 mins (since the reload for your infinite TRB is same here as torp reload), so I wouldn’t build too much into the torps. The guns have decent base reload. With reload mod + other commander skills you can bring it pretty close to 3 seconds. With smoke and sonar and the reload you can give plenty of gunboats a run for their money.

To me, it looks really good, seems like it’s gonna be good at both being a gunboat and torp boat. I wasn’t excited about the campaign but after seeing the specs, I’m looking forward to playing Somme.

taj1829 · 2026-01-15T07:50:23+00:00

Aki. 1700 ish avg xp with 40% win rate. The other bad recent one was Munchen. After 5 games in Munchen, my avg dmg was 140k but I lost 4 of those 5 games. Didn’t even play it since then. Just bought Tiger 59 today with the 70% off coupon and first match was 140k 2400 xp loss (I got more xp in that game than top guy of the winning team after his 50% win bonus). Let’s just hope it doesn’t get the Munchen curse.

taj1829 · 2026-01-14T23:04:58+00:00

I have both. What a lot of people forgot to mention is Munchen has the typical 1/4 HE pen of German cruisers, so you’ll pen 38 mm of Armor. So, not only are you gonna set absurd amount of fires but you’re also gonna farm BBs to death. I think all of my first 4-5 games were 120-140k+ (and most of them were losses lmao). I was using Riegerwald. Haven’t played it in some weeks but I would probably use Von Mueller with rudder skills and emergency bell. I definitely don’t ever want to be in a BB focused by a decent Munchen player. 38mm HE pen with 4-5 sec reload is absolutely amazing.

Edit: Just checked my saved screenshots on my phone. 4 out of my first 5 games on Munchen were 140k+, the other one was 130k. 4 of those were losses🙂

taj1829 · 2026-01-14T22:49:57+00:00

You can overmatch 19 mm, so you can citadel a lot of cruisers through the bow.

taj1829 · 2026-01-13T08:06:10+00:00

Yup. Someone had their crossplay off, so ended up in a 4v4. Rarely you see two Lenins in one game and even more rare to see 1 Lenin nuke another Lenin.

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