If I play we still lose because salties wont play along. That of course, wouldn't have helped your collapsing team on the other flank, but you can't do everything.Ĭhat is turned off in game most all the time because of the abuse, liability and salt etc. In general, I'd say you didn't really play to the role of the Benson, your firepower was somewhat wasted on the fleeing cruisers and battleships, when you should have gotten that Shimakaze. Near the end, you played far too close to the Des Moines, he has a 10km radar. Yes, he's two tiers higher than you but you had the help of your team, whereas he was isolated.

Your job as a gunboat destroyer is to hunt him down. The Fletcher and Kagero were spotted off the other flank, so it must be a Shimakaze. Alerting him torps were on the way by smoking up is a sure way to miss them.Īt about 8 minutes, you saw torpedoes come in from the port side, and one of your teammates pinged that area. As he went in you, you should've torpedoed, speed boosted, and kept your distance.

When the BB rushed in, IMO you spent far too long to disengage, making you waste a smoke. Also notice that the cap was being taken before the BB entered, and you were RPF'd, which meant a DD was nearby. You rushed in before the Des Moines was spotted, which is a bit risky, I would've put myself in a kiting position and reversing into the cap instead of getting so close to the island. Best wishes to you just some things of note, the first thing you always do is look at the team match up, most importantly what kind of DDs the enemy have, how many radars, if they have a CV, etc. I feel you are in the right place and asking legitimate questions in a quest for self-improvement. I mean, whenever you have the time from KOTS action of course.

But this thread just yells out for your insight in explaining things about tactics and human tendencies in battle.

I felt I did those and yet everything I did was worthy of a 'uninstall/delete' comment. My thinking, as the t8 DD in a t10 match with enemy radar cruisers, was to spot, screen, send out torps, cap. My mistakes I can think of (about 20 hours later): should have rushed the BB pushing in the smoke, the smoke wasn't ideal (was hoping to help the Atago retreat) but I did try to spot still, and that I should have possibly? tried to tango with the shimakaze. I uploaded the replay here, as I wanted to get some constructive feedback on what I did wrong (and perhaps confirmation that what was said was out of line). I get that there are some toxic folks in the game and I think I made a few mistakes but I feel the things that were said were not called for and super frustrating. Hope this is the right spot? I'm not unicum or anything (I'd say just average), but I had a game last night that quickly became quite toxic.

Lol replay chat