World of Warships

[Thanas]

Wait...the St Louis has torps?

[Borgholio]

Wait...the St Louis has torps?

I think he meant he only received one torpedo hit.

On that note however, I was in a game with the Phoenix last night and found a use for the torpedoes....scaring people away. The ship doesn't have enough torpedo tubes to launch a meaningful spread, but if a BS is getting too close for comfort, launch a few torps and watch them squirm, giving you time to get away. Even better when one of the torps missed the BS and breaks the back of an enemy cruiser following too close behind it. That was great for a giggle.

[Vendetta]

Torpedoes are good for blindfiring into cap circles as well to discourage enemies entering.


You can fire them in the Phoenix to keep enemies out of 4km range, but any effect they have will be delayed by their short range (and the fact that many people are dumb and just won't evade anyway even if they were in range...)

[Venator]

Wait...the St Louis has torps?

I think he meant he only received one torpedo hit.

That, yes. Running 200+ ping and having two carriers worth of bombers swarming me, I thought it was a pretty decent result.

[Skywalker_T-65]

I'll admit, I'm not the best at this game. But when I get matches like this it makes me happy. Especially since the Murmansk is such a fun money maker.

Too bad the match ended when it did though. I was almost in a perfect position to get three torps up a Wyoming's ass. Oh well.

[Sea Skimmer]

So is that camo is based on making the enemy think your ship is too rusted to be operational or what?

[Nephtys]

It's the perfect pattern for concealment on the high seas of Mars.

[Jub]

So is that camo is based on making the enemy think your ship is too rusted to be operational or what?

I think it has more to do with how Russia treated their lend-leased Omahas, and their navy in general.

[Thanas]

So I survived the Colorado. Near the end I got a lot better with it and regularly got kills.

That said, I now got a North Carolina and OMG SHE IS AMAZING. Great AA, decent speed, and great accuracy. And she can take hits.

[Borgholio]

Anybody else noticing lately that it's next to impossible to hit things with battleships? I'm normally a good shot but it seems that 9 out of 10 salvos are straddling the enemy. Even at close range I can't seem to hit anything smaller than another BS. In my Phoenix I'm scoring hits left and right, but my Wyoming is just not doing very well at all.

[Elheru Aran]

My understanding is that the early battleships are mostly pretty shit with firepower. Lots of straddles and what not. For close range... you just have to hope your turrets are pointing the right way and the other ships aren't moving *too* fast.

[Borgholio]

Yeah I know that the dreadnoughts aren't as accurate as the WW-2 era battleships but it just seems like in the last week or so, my accuracy has dropped to shit. At this rate it'll take me forever just to get to the New York.

[Thanas]

For the US, it gets better with New York and New Mexico (Love Her), then worse with the Colorado (shotgun style dispersion) and then gets great again with the North Carolina and upwards.

[Borgholio]

Great! I'll grind a few thousand more XP tonight and aim for the New York.

[Venator]

My understanding is that the early battleships are mostly pretty shit with firepower. Lots of straddles and what not. For close range... you just have to hope your turrets are pointing the right way and the other ships aren't moving *too* fast.

Or ram things. That works too.



Ish.

[Elheru Aran]

My understanding is that the early battleships are mostly pretty shit with firepower. Lots of straddles and what not. For close range... you just have to hope your turrets are pointing the right way and the other ships aren't moving *too* fast.

Or ram things. That works too.



Ish.

Ah, but by the time you actually ram them in the South Carolina, the game's over! :v

[Anacronian]

So I had an opportunity to try out the Tirpitz and I have some impressions (though note this is after only 16 games in it)
Armor - seems good all round, no glaring holes, the citadel seems standard size.
Main guns - Only 15' and only 8 of them, But this is offset by an only 26 seconds reload time and fast turning turrets (fastest turrets I have seen on a BB in the game), Accuracy seems good.
AA - well it's pretty shit for a tier 8 ship, No way around that.
Secondaries - same as AA's not really something you will put any faith in.
Speed and maneuverability is very good - It's up there with the fastest and most maneuverable BB's.
And of cause the torpedoes - 4 tubes on each side with a 6 km range and it will be a rarity to use them because.. well it's a BB (I only fired them in 3 of my 16 games)

Well, that's my impression - a decent BB but really not a ship you just "must buy".

[atg]

Tirpitz is the premium and Bismarck is the 'normal', correct?

[Thanas]

Tirpitz is the premium and Bismarck is the 'normal', correct?

Yep.

So I had an opportunity to try out the Tirpitz and I have some impressions (though note this is after only 16 games in it)
Armor - seems good all round, no glaring holes, the citadel seems standard size.
Main guns - Only 15' and only 8 of them, But this is offset by an only 26 seconds reload time and fast turning turrets (fastest turrets I have seen on a BB in the game), Accuracy seems good.
AA - well it's pretty shit for a tier 8 ship, No way around that.
Secondaries - same as AA's not really something you will put any faith in.
Speed and maneuverability is very good - It's up there with the fastest and most maneuverable BB's.
And of cause the torpedoes - 4 tubes on each side with a 6 km range and it will be a rarity to use them because.. well it's a BB (I only fired them in 3 of my 16 games)

Well, that's my impression - a decent BB but really not a ship you just "must buy".

Are you a supertester or something? So jealous.

[Elheru Aran]

Random request: When trying to fire torpedoes, how do you switch your target? Frequently I'm in a situation where I'm trying to line up a shot on one ship, but then another ship happens to look like it's in my arc of fire and maybe I want to pop off an opportunity shot... but I can't because the shot predictor is locked to the first ship (usually the closest IIRC).

[Borgholio]

Random request: When trying to fire torpedoes, how do you switch your target? Frequently I'm in a situation where I'm trying to line up a shot on one ship, but then another ship happens to look like it's in my arc of fire and maybe I want to pop off an opportunity shot... but I can't because the shot predictor is locked to the first ship (usually the closest IIRC).

Aim your torps towards the desired target and hit the "X" key. This will re-lock onto the desired target. Works for guns too.

[Elheru Aran]

Spasiba!

[Thanas]

If any of you are ever in need of credits, I suggest going to the Premium shop and spending the ten bucks on the Ishizuchi. It is basically combining the armament of the Wyoming (-2 guns but way more accurate) with the hull of a pre-remodel Kongo. It is the perfect cruiser-killing BB and at the matches it gets the speed of 27.5 knots is amazing. I almost always manage to get a profit of 120+k credits out of it and it is great for training Japanese BB captains as well. Though being a BC, it has kinda low armor so don't tangle with BB captains who know how to aim (though they are very rare below Tier V).

Favorite strategy is grind the NC and if it gets destroyed early then play the Ishizuchi. That way, even if the higher tier battle nets a loss, the repair costs are always covered by the Ishizuchi, making any credits gained from higher tier pure profit.

[Skywalker_T-65]

So the Ishizuchi is actually good? I've seen debates on that myself.

Not that I necessarily need it right now since I've got the Murmansk and Aurora when I need to grind credits, and the former can net me 180k on a good match.

[Thanas]

I really like her. Of course I treat her more like a large cruiser and am trying not to go head to head with anything larger than a Tier III BB.