Rotating between Stellaris and Dark Souls 3 as the mood takes me. Also, the 4th book in The Witcher series just got officially released (translated), so I might need to get around that and then play some Witcher 3 again.
What's your poison till HOI IV is out?
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WoW's and Silent Hunter 3 mainly. Used to play a ton of WoT but quit about 4 months ago just got tired of the lack of balance.
I have to work for 9 more days, then I head home and its just 5-6 days until HOI 4 comes out. Sadly, i'll have to leave for work again for 14 days the next day! 
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They all play differently, so it is up to your personal tastes and historical interests:
DD
IJN DD rely mostly on stealthy torpedo attacks, but they have inferior gun-characteristics to Soviet or USN DDs. Minekaze at tier V and Fubuki at tier VIII are both major highlights.
USN DDs have okay torpedoes and good guns. Benson at tier VIII and Fletcher at tier IX are major highlights.
Soviet DDs have really good guns and crap torpedoes. Kiev at tier VII and whatever the tier X is are major highlights.
Cruisers
IJN light cruisers (tiers III-IV) are pretty standard fair. Their heavy cruisers from tier V+ are really solid surface combatants with great torpedoes, lots of great 8" guns and generally poor-to-okay AA. Myoko at tier VII and Zao at tier X are major highlights. The latter is OP to be honest due to its insane HE performance and stealth fire capabilities.
USN light cruisers have much better AP than the Japanese (6" vs 5.5" guns). Their heavy cruisers aren't as good in direct surface combat compared to other nations, but they have good AA and better armour generally speaking. St. Louis at tier III, Cleveland at tier VI and Des Moines at tier X are major highlights.
Soviet cruisers have crazy high velocities and typically long ranges for their tier. They also have good-to-great AA. Their maneuverability sucks: large turning circles and slow rudder shifts. That means they can take a lot of citadel hits if the person using the ship isn't paying attention. In the effort of avoiding the spelling of Soviet ships, I will just mention tiers: III, V, VI and VIII are all solid.
German cruisers have good velocities and god-tier AP as a general rule. Their HE isn't all that great though. Tier V, VIII and IX are all major highlights.
BB
IJN BB/CCs are typically faster, but have weaker armour. They have long ranges, poor concealment and good accuracy. Tier V, VI, VII, VIII and X are major highlights. It is a really strong line.
USN BBs are typically slower, but have better armour and AA. Their ranges and accuracy leave much to be desired for the most part. Tier IV, VI, VII, VIII and IX are major highlights. Tier VIII-X USN BBs are getting buffed in a patch coming very soon.
CVs
Gameplay and balance with them is kind of a mess at the moment. I would avoid them for the time being to be honest.
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I've been going to the youtube and watching a lot of Vietnam War coverage via American network television broadcasts.
Just warming up with some Company of Heroes 2 matches
I have been playing a fair amount of CoH 2 as well the last couple days.
I just comp stomp with friends though. I'm nowhere near good enough for PvP, haha.
A lot of people think that Carriers (CVs) are the SPGs of WoWS. CVs sit back, don't directly engage, and are counter to Battleships and other slow moving camping monsters. They also force Battleships to work with Crusiers.
IRL submarines weren't used in the slug-match types of battles that are WoWS so they don't really belong in that game. Destroyers fill the torpedo-ambush role.
At the risk of sounding like a Quisling for Paradox and Wargaming....
...this issue still haunts the WoT forum, but SPGs do have a place in that game. SPGs are counter to the tendency of players to choose the biggest, baddest tank possible and camp in a clever defensive spot for the entire match.
It's "unrealistic" for SPGs to have such accuracy, but they aren't usually at such close range and they are avoidable. Everything is unrealistically close range in WoT (tank-ramming being a regular part of the game).
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I've been playing a decent amount of EU IV during my free time. About to finish an ironman game as France.
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- Kerbal Space program : refining my single launch Eve lander (400 tons lander alone, over 1000 launch mass) by making it not explode on re-entry
- World of Warships : though frustrated, im addicted to it, after getting the Yamato and Zao im in the Roon trying to get the Hendenberg T10 German CA
- World of Warships : though frustrated, im addicted to it, after getting the Yamato and Zao im in the Roon trying to get the Hendenberg T10 German CA
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Just ordered HOI4 yesterday. I still play HOI3, and if the new game is disapointing, I will still do. I can also play other games: CS:GO, War in the East, EUIV + some 20 game I have bought I haven't played yet.
Battlefleet Gothic Armada, Dawn of War I and II, Out of the Park Baseball 17, some Matrixgames games such as War in the East, War in the Pacific, War in the West, Order of Battle Pacific, PanzerKorps, and Starcraft II.
My game tastes are pretty much all over the place.
My game tastes are pretty much all over the place.
Eat, Sleep, Hype, Repeat.
But I did a bit of Stellaris, EUiV, CK2 and still gently finishing off Fallout 4.
But I did a bit of Stellaris, EUiV, CK2 and still gently finishing off Fallout 4.
