I saw 3 smokes popped in the same place in a battle, we had just gone blind too. Fortunately at the rate they are used people will run out in a week.

u ran out of smokes

I find it hilarious how people are getting used to using it like a shield. I guess they find that it's less embarrassing to fart up a smoke than get sunk by another ship. The level of hilarity increases exponentially with the difference in ship levels. The other day I was lumbering in my AD vs 2 L1 and SN BB4 (could not be arsed to learn its name), amazingly there was hardly a moment that a smoke was not in the air on their side.

The reload time on the smoke should be tripled or more.

Do we really need one of these threads every bloody week? Countering smokes is SIMPLE! Shoot into the cloud for gods sakes.

What I would do to see a picture from the movie three hundred - "then - we will fight in the shade"

smokes are epic part of game. if used tactically correct.

problem is, there are only two uses - rush or run.

so... now you know where to shoot. OR if you see a cloud - run...because the person will probably chase.
(or that cloud has 4 molkes and a pensacola all HH heavy coming right at you at 49knts - get ready for a large splash - make sure your sailors bring their shampoo because it can be a free shower if the HH miss...if they hit - we may end up with a mass grave in the bottom of A3 - And then resurrect them and sink them again next game.

If its useless why does it bother you?

There needs to be a warning from the Surgeon General labeled on there.

Did a game with my kaiser yesterday, and all I saw on their south was smokes for the first 2-3 minutes of the game.

Every BBs fighting me used at least 2 I think.