AprilWhiteMouse

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #118 - Wichita

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2276

Embargo over.  I've been working on this one since December.  I'm so glad it's done.

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #117 Irian

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2463

Bedtime for Mouse.  What a crazy week it's been.

Content Update: Mouse Spends 8,888 Doubloons Three Times So You Don't Have To

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2491

Hi, everyone.  I'm coming up for air only briefly to stick this up here.  I'm up to my eyeballs dealing with all of the new CV mechanics and trying to glue in what I learn into no less than six reviews I'm working on currently.  Expect the Irian review first within the next few days.

I should be more visible in the coming couple of weeks.

Content Update: Preview of HMS Exeter

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2376

I threw this together as quickly as I could!  I'm going to bed.

Mouse Droppings #6

Happy New year, everyone.  I hope you all had a safe and wonderful holiday wherever you are.

My own were spent with family -- specifically my sisters who each had the flu rampage through their households.  They each have two young girls so the sickness hit them especially hard.  I spent most of my post-Christmas being an extra sets of arms to provide cuddles and an extra set of hands to help change bedding, clean and run errands.  I'm never going to say no to baby cu...

Happy New Year!

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2310

A quick look back at some of the more memorable ships which kept me oh-so busy in 2018.  Lert chimes in too.

Content Update: Prinz Eitel Friedrich

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1829

BAM!  No time to talk.  At least two more to do before 2019!

Mouse Droppings #5

It's the most wonderful time of the year!  ♫

My family has always celebrated Christmas.  Yet, I find myself feeling like a bit of a Grinch this time of year.  I place this squarely on my time spent working in retail.  Christmas decorations would go up after close on October 31st and carols would begin playing over the PA system the very next day and wouldn't stop until January.  Sale preparations, inventory and training would all precede this by two mont...

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #115 Bourgogne

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2129

I apologize about the lack of a Mouse Droppings post this week.  Real Life is kicking my butt.  Between taking up a second job, caring for babies, birthdays and getting sick, it slipped through the cracks.  The late publishing of this review should be a ready indicator of this -- I was hoping to have it up last week but stuff happened.

Thank you all for your support!  ...

Regarding World of Warships Santa Crates

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2179

I got enough asks this morning to put my Bourgogne review down for the day and crunch some numbers regarding the new Santa-themed loot boxes Wargaming is selling for World of Warships.  I did the math to figure out their equivalent value per drop.  I'm still collecting data to give a rough impression of odds.  

Mouse Droppings #4

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=2157&preview=1&_ppp=0731f642ed

The article isn't published, so please keep it to yourselves. ;)

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #114 - West Virginia

Ugh, my brain is not thinking good.  My apologies for not linking this when it was published on Friday.  It was such a mad scramble to get it out on time, it totally slipped my mind.  Bad, Mouse.  Bad.

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1935

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #113 Vanguard

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1928

One down, many to go.  Immediate backlog includes:  Bourgogne, Dreadnought and Charleston.  

Mouse Droppings #3

How was your week?  Mine was interesting.

I recovered from the plague by Tuesday and rolled up my sleeves and got stuck in with some more playtesting of Vanguard.  Wargaming had dumped a whole brand new set of updates on her and I was very curious to see if they'd finally hit that sweet spot for balance.  I believe that they had. I submitted the feedback to Wargaming detailing as much on Wednesday. To prepare for my review, I began ramping up the number of games played, taking m...

Crunch Time

Wargaming have finally given me their release schedule for the November premiums so I could budget my time and ensure that I got all of my reviews out.  I would like you all to note it is now the second week of November when I received this.

The good news is that you're getting upwards of six reviews within the next few weeks.  The bad news is that they will not likely be published when the ship comes out.  Wargaming has given me zero notice that HMS Vanguard and HMS Dreadnought...

Mouse Droppings 2

I had a lot to write about this week.  I had big plans.  I have notes here about Vanguard.  I wanted to talk about the possible changes coming to the Japanese tech tree.  I wanted to celebrate that the proposed zero-damage penetration change was being rescinded.  Heck, I even wanted to talk about what happened at Blizzcon and how I perceive what happened there was being symptomatic of changes within a company that consumers should always keep a wary eye out for. &...

Mouse Droppings

I would like to thank you all for your suggestions on what to name this weekly blog dump.  A couple of you suggested "Mouse Droppings" and it made me giggle snort, so that made it a shoe-in.  Welcome to the first of what will be a weekly series of shitposts going forward for all of my Patrons.  Here I can do just about anything, from talking about upcoming reviews to what I've been up to or just venting.  I think it should be pretty fun and it should live up to its title.

S...

I need a fun name for a Monday blog post...

 Hi, everyone. It's been a busy day chasing after babies, but here's my post as promised.

Before I go any further, I want to thank you all for your support this year.  Real life has blown up in a bad way for me and it's been difficult keeping up with everything to the point that I'm not feeling too happy with how much attention I've spent here.  So what's been going on?

My parents lost their jobs within the last year.  They had lost almost all of the money they had in...

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #112 - Le Terrible

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1802

I cannot stress enough what a godsend all of you have been.  I'll have a big post on Monday regarding what's been going on, why updates have been slow and what plans are for the future.  Don't worry, it's nothing bad, but the info will be restricted to my Patrons only.

Talk to you all then!

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #111 Jean Bart

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1572

The first of two reviews that are coming out this week (or so I hope).  Thank you all for your patience.  I know there's a backlog of rewards I need to tackle.  Once I have a handle on Le Terrible, I will be crunching through them all.  I really appreciate your patience in this.

Content Update: Premium Ship Proposal #1 - Prince of Wales

http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1602

Something a little different for you all today.  I was doing some house-cleaning through ShipComrade's archives and I stumbled across a near finished review of HMS Duke of York.  For those unaware, the release version of that ship differed very much from the preceding version that was in testing.  I had nearly completed my evaluation of this test version when she underwent ...

Content Update Premium Ship Review #110 - Cossack

Link here: http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1432

Thank you all for your continued support.  This one was a doozy. I spent well over 40 hours working on this one article alone; it swallowed up most of my September.  I couldn't do it without you guys. ♥

Content Update: Premium Ship Review 109 - Stalingrad

 http://shipcomrade.com/?p=1290

♫ Rainbow Stalin!  ♪

Yikes, this one was an ordeal to get through.  For those of you not aware, I've had access to Stalingrad, off and on, since mid to late May.  She has gone through so many iterations that it would be a research project just to tally all of the differences.  This made amassing data on her difficult as changes from one patch to the n...

I'm back, baby!

I'm back from vacation.  Things were hella busy between April and July with an average of three reviews published per month on top of testing and other Community Contributor responsibilities.  The burnout was pretty real and I took some much needed time off to recharge my batteries.  I'm happy to be back and I'm hitting the ground running.  

Stalingrad has been released and my review should be out early next week.  The British destroyers are nosing their way towar...

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #108 T-61

https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/166862-premium-ship-review-108-t-61/

Yes, that's a link to the forums and not ShipComrade.  There's still some teething issues to fix with the new format on the site, so T-61's review may be delayed getting published there for a week or so while everything gets sorted.

Community Contributor Container Co-Op Code Contest

https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/166357-community-contributor-container-co-op-code-contest-july-2017/

Win yourselves some loot for playing Co-Op and shoving torpedoes up people's noses!

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #107 Boise

http://shipcomrade.com/news/444/ctrl-c-ctrl-v-that-was-easy.html

Don't get too excited -- this is mostly filler.  Boise is a clone of Nueve de Julio.  The review itself is largely a copy and paste job.  I only did it to try and head off the inevitable "Where is the Boise review?" questions and then having to explain that Nueve de Julio is the Boise review.

Content Update: Mouse Makes More Medals

http://shipcomrade.com/news/443/mouse-makes-more-medals.html

Why should World of Tanks and World of Warplanes get all of the fun?  World of Warships is severely lacking in achievements and medals and I thought it could stand to gain a few more.

Content Update: Premium Ship Review #106 - Nueve de Julio

http://shipcomrade.com/news/440/i-would-pan-the-americans-but-thats-just-being-mean.html

Note this review may (or may not) also apply to USS Boise.  The jury is still out on how the American release of this ship will appear.

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