You know, backward—forward, backward—forward.
He can torpedo me, but I can torpedo him back.
Mino, who instantly smoked up!
This is getting too spicy.
This is not what I signed up for.
My name is Rajeev Girdhar. My nickname for the game is Lordofdroid.
I’m Global Operations Director.
I’m taking care of player interaction, player-facing communication,
content, and other things.
I like playing Hindenburg because it has many guns,
it’s very accurate, and it has very good penetration.
And because it has German armor, I can get by doing some foolish stuff sometimes.
If somebody tries to come close to you, you can always torpedo them.
It has a very strong Hydro.
And I love my Iron Cross camo on it: it makes it look very royal and very cool.
I really like it.
Hindenburg in Ranked, I guess.
Kurfürst, Kurfürst, Schlieffen. Ok!
Ok. Mino, Napoli, and Harugumo. Interesting...
If our Gearing plays semi-ok, we should be fine, especially on this map.
Des Moines is AFK. Oh no, he’s not AFK. Ok, oof!
He’s debating like, “Where should I go?”
You know, backward—forward, backward—forward.
I joined Wargaming six years ago.
I've always been in games.
I started in games in 2006, as my career, as my workplace.
I was actually a player before I joined the company,
so it’s a great pleasure and kind of a dream come true for me.
Four of us are going to A.
Des Moines is going to C.
And Kurfürst is going straight, to the island.
We're trying to play like a proper team.
“Can you create a screening smoke, if needed?” the guy is thinking.
Oh, so Harugumo is there.
Is Napoli syncing with Mino there?
Where’s their Mino?
They have Mino.
They have Mino, where is she?
Oh no, not Kurfürst, you’re not supposed to appear there.
It will be painful if he shoots at me. Which he will.
Wow!
That Kurfürst instead of shooting at me, full broadside to him, shot at Schlieffen.
This is getting too spicy.
This is not what I signed up for.
Cause I have a Schlieffen right behind me and it’s gonna hurt.
I need to go dark, I need to go dark!
Oh no, that Kurfürst shoots at me and...
Could be worse but I’m still alive.
I guess I need to kill that thing.
Why am I spotted now?
Is it because of Schlieffen?
Let me go, please.
Please, please, please...
One of the coolest and funniest memory is always going to Gamescom.
It has been a long time since we were there.
But the last time I was there, there was fun, there was a big booth.
We were shooting torpedoes, literally—these big ones,
with our torpedo launcher that was custom-made.
It was amazing!
I would really wish to go back there, but, you know, it’s a different world right now.
I survived that; I can’t believe it.
I’m gonna have some fun with Napoli here.
If I can trap and pin my torpedoes, or if he shows me his broadside.
He is, but he’s taking cover off the island, and I’m all showing my broadside to him.
So, he’s moving forward.
Which he will stop because our Schlieffen is reversing.
The other battleships are having fun with Napoli.
So, I will load HE, and I’m going to see what to do with that Harugumo,
who is sitting in the smoke.
Oh, my Hydro is still down, but I will proxy-spot him.
He can torpedo me, but I can torpedo him back.
Here we go, Harugumo.
Nah, Harugumo, you’re not winning this one.
Aha, I got him!
And again, I’m on the edge of the map.
Another fun memory is always meeting our CCS, who sometimes come to our office.
And they can ask some really tricky questions that you have to be careful about.
But it’s always fun to see them off their persona
and have that interaction, you know, which some of us miss.
So, it’s a very interesting memory to make as well.
They have two ships left; we have five ships left.
We have two caps; they have one cap.
630 to 138 points, but they are with full HP.
Maybe their Mino will get out Gearing or something.
It will get more interesting.
Oh, there is Kurfürst.
And there’s their Mino, who instantly smoked up.
Maybe I’ll kill that Kurfürst.
Come on, come on, come on, vamos!
Come on!
Yes!
And it ended.
So, we won the game.
It wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t very hard.
So, I was following Gearing,
and I was hoping that he would give me some smoke at the beginning but he didn’t.
But I still had to follow through because I was really committed.
And then when I got to the edge of A, there was Kurfürst and there was Schlieffen.
And I was really hoping that now there will be smoke, and there was smoke,
but it was too close to my smoke-firing penalty.
So, while I was sitting in the smoke,
I was taking a lot of damage from Kurfürst,
who by the way ignored me for the first few shots which was...
But in the end, we got him.
And then I had to move out of the smoke up straight
because Schlieffen was coming from my left.
So, I moved up.
Then, I saw Harugumo, smoking and firing from the smoke.
And when I got close to him, he got out.
And Hindenburg from that range... He wasn’t going to get away, really.
So, I got him.
Then, we had to move back and go fight Minotaur and Kurfürst.
And when we got there, Mino was screening the smoke.
More or less.
And Kurfürst was charging in.
And I was charging in, because I was desperate for damage and XP.
So, I had to just go all guns blazing and shooting at him.
I think I got him from my AP in the end.
And the game ended then because the Mino was dead.
That’s how the game went.