Interesting how La Pampa somewhat answers your question about Shima with TRB Obviously it's not a direct comparison - La Pampa torps aren't as good as Shima torps, but it's still an interesting comparison Also, plane spotting of DDs is absolutely game-breaking

T7 destroyer concealment means they're screwed in T8 and T9 matchmaking. IMO when up-tiered they should all get an automatic 5% concealment buff (half of a concealment module)

Despite my average skills, and some bad choices that I'm grinding to correct, my Mahan runs at 48% and improving. My Benson, however, does far worse. It's at 38%, admittedly over fewer battles.

13:50 To clarify, in World of Warships, Shell Weight is a real stat in-game, but it only affects air drag and base armor penetration. Damage is just an arbitrary value assigned to them. The USN "Super Heavy" AP shells specifically have an extremely high shell hardness modifier (specifically, 2919) that massively increases their armor penetration when compared shells of similar weight (t8 CAs usually ~2400 hardness). The increased shell weight and hardness combine to give the shells significantly higher armor penetration than expected of their shell ballistics. However, due to the unusually high angle of impact of these shells, they also have to penetrate *more* armor, which ironically makes them even more effective at obliterating cruisers (since it reduces the chance of over-penetration). tl;dr: shells weigh more and hit harder, so they pen better; being slow makes them less likely to overpen.

Great guns but it´s unbearably slow. This ship is now one of my ¨port queens¨ that will get played one a year in the Snowflake event.

Honestly I find subs and destroyers far more anoying that carriers

Wow the mighty Mo with the all hands on deck camo is amazing!

wunderbar, großartig

This was such a fun ship back in the day . Over the years it got buffed, power crept , buffed again ... . I am pretty sure i found out about Yuro though this ship .

would you consider these "outdated" ?!? either way teir 10 is wild and i need tips !

I love the Akat. My builds maximize speed and torps. You can get the speed up to 46.2 kts (unspotted) which gives you the speed to flank or switch sides of the map when you run up against enemy dds. It also sometimes lets you be first to a cap on the stretched out maps. One thing you neglected to mention about the guns is their abysmal rotation speed.

Low quality.Video one.

Just pulled the trigger on Agir . . . . I picked up Siegfried with Research Points a few weeks back. - I definitely prefer Siegfried, those 380s PUNISH opponents, BBs or CAs. Agir struggles against BBs . . . but her secondaries seem more impactful than Siegfried. Still glad I pulled the trigger, very good boat! - Trying a Survival Build, 16 sec main battery reload, 10 km seconadies. Will prolly shake things up and modify this a bit just to see. Thanx, Raptor!

when are u going continue "learn to play"...i;ve learned so much

I'm a newer player, but I've put in 250+ games in the Mutsuki and I can tell it really isn't for everyone (I guess it applies to all IJN torp DDs though). The guns are next to useless, and while the stealth torping is solid at this tier, it's arguable if it's truly worth it. My main gripe with it is that since you have the absolute worst guns of anything from T5 to T10 by quite a bit, you are reeeeally dependent on outspotting other DDs and having your team deal with them, which in random battle sometimes just doesn't happen... (and you're liable to come across Minekaze/Kamikaze/Fujin even if you're extra careful, which also have better guns than you, or even worse, run into a sub). There are few things more frustrating than keeping an enemy DD outspotted for a minute and not a single shell flying their way, doubly so if they have Radio Location and keep trying to chase you down as you can do nothing but run (and this is also how you'll probably die at the very end of the match). Moving to Fubuki the better guns really are a breath of fresh air, but your concealment is now no longer particularly special so you can't play the outspotting game to the same extent. She's also a lot slower and really feels sluggish to handle, so she gets chased down even harder (but you might actually have a chance at scraping a kill depending on the enemy's HP, or a hail mary torp), but it does feel nice to lay down a big carpet of torps or use them to cover multiple options better. The impact of IJN DDs in the early game feels very questionable to me with the lackluster cap contesting and your team is one set of guns short, with torpedoes also being of questionable reliability. People say they excel in the mid to late game but even this has caveats and generally I feel you're better off having a ship that can play the early game well too. I can see it working way better in divisions though, but that kinda goes for everything.

I love this boat! They increased her Sigma to 1.8, which helped, and despite her low hit point pool she is SO tanky with the 350mm belt and the heavy deck armour. The secondaries do not seem to be as powerful as Tirpitz/Bismarck/Gneisenau/Prinz Rupprecht but after 50+ battles I understand that secondaries are the side show . . . the main event is the lovely main battery. This ship has my best numbers for any battleship that I play and she is damned pretty!

Nobody expects the british HE

wows pc, where i have to plan ahead before grinding a tech tree on which ships to keep coz limited docks....even after over 10 years we still have limited docks...i forgot i wasnt on legends and wasted a stars and stripes perma camo on NY

Had to stop watching; had players showing up for a tabletop game that I was running . . . 4 hrs of KotS & 8 hours running a game, MAN, I was done in at the end of the day! - Now rewatching last hour. - The veteran players feel marginalized. - OHBOY gelled, fought their way up to the finals and as the scrappy, tenacious underdog. But, like many underdogs that reach the finals of their perspective leagues, they met a championship team in RAIN that used their skill and experience to win the day. Great cast as usual, Raptor!

So we not gonna mention the small fortune needed to acquire this ship. If your lucky, 35-41K doubloons. And that's only if you got it in the 1st 3 days, using the coupon. Now its 47-51k doubloons, again, if you're lucky. Xmas coming, this is a blatant money grab, isn't it?

Atago is really a very good ship...I just got it an hour ago with the Black Friday event, and boy oh boy, straight away first two games with it had a couple of ranked battles ending up in top tier base xp wins!

Okay . . . . so, which T VII DDs aren't 'a little rough'? What are the good Tier VII DDs?! I love that boat . . . but I think the skill floor is higher than my present skill. Good game!

Low score for a Kwaken, but thrilling as usual Raptor

Strange camo on those Euro boats - sea is blue not green lol. "Lets pretend we are floating islands!" lol

How to play The minotaur? Colonize. Colonize everyone

The ship need buff

Good vids Raptor. Love how you tell us,how you think. I am close to unlocking Chung mu. Do you think, it is best not to upgrade the gun range?

Iparanga is a weird boat.. I have never been able to citadel it with 15" German BB rifles, but Hipper and Rochester.. plenty when hit around rear turrets.

Well I just came across your channel, but really enjoying your episodes as I try to improve. I just put a new captain on Mogami to prep him for Ibuki, and switched to the 8" gun configuration. So I then can keep the old captain for 6"...

many people fail to realize that the short gunrange on italian dds is actually a blessing in disguise, when apparently all they can imagine is farming from afar, which is obviously not what italian dd are designed to do. 7:30-7:40 is a perfect example of what the proper utilization looks like. one of my other favourite activities is shooting capital ships in bow and stern with sap from short range, dipping in and out of detection range as i please, which sometimes goes horribly wrong, but more often than not it doesnt. playing italian dds is not for the timid or passive, its like a fulminant opera that usually ends in great triumph or utter tragedy.

Are you saying that there is a Russian-bias in the Russian CVs?! 🙃 Now, I am coming close to having enough steel for Svea, but I am worried that as a Light cruiser Svea is at a disadvantage despite all of her tools. Soooooooo, Stalingrad . . . better than anything else at 30k Steel or less? I am a Light cruiser driver who has found that Heavy Cruisers hold up better at higher tiers. Thanks for any input!

Tora, Tora, Tora is, in my mind, a much better film. Midway's script was week, the international cast of Tora was a plus for me and, honestly, I prefer the music. 'A Bridge too Far' is one of the best World War Two films, period. In my mind only Tora, The Battle of the River Plate, The Longest Day and The Devil's Brigade match up.

“Ok, the Stord point blank with a Nuremberg should be the end of the Stord.” I didn’t even finish the thought, “Yeah, but a Nurnberg point blank with the rest of his team should be the end of the Nurnberg” and he was dead!

Good video! But this is really about how to equip the Baltimore and why. It is not about learning to play this ship. By the way, Baltimore these days is an extremely dangerous and nasty city in America (Maryland) which mostly is a nasty, Dem controlled state. Many years ago Baltimore was an interesting and beautiful city, but the Dems have taken over and completely ruined it. Baltimore has not had a Republican mayor since 1967, all the rest have been corrupt Dems raping the city. Google Baltimore and see for yourself how terrible the Dems have made it and look at all the scandals and crime.

2024, Still DFAA? No second thoughts? 😅

the new french dds are all very good, i love them. do you already have a plan for the release of the next "learn to play italian dd" video?

Raptor, I am rewatching in the a.m. and have had three bloody awful games in a row. Almost quit for the day, pulled out Ipiranga and had two great games. Wargaming causes rage attacks and then gives back. Sigh . . . may play Siegfried next; only three battles in her so far, but she is so much fun! - Noticed I was 10k Ship XP from buying Los Andes . . . played Ipiranga again, best game of the night, now I have Los Andes! These Latin American BBs can be a little soft, but I like the play style for some reason. My B-day is a few weeks after yours, first week of February. Hoping to be set up for another Research Bureau regrind then! Got that Siegfried game in . . . WHAT A GREAT BOAT!!! Thanks for that Siegfried / Agir comparison that you did on stream back in the summer!

This is why i love this channel, you find every build ❤

The Helena is a beast in 2024 Operations!

And ya, it does seem like a downgrade other than that, I like it.

Great idea for activating codes in game . . . and we still haven't seen it! "Hello, it's me . . ." Hey, a Todd Rundgren song!

I got my fifth Tier X ship and opened up the Research Bureau a few weeks back. I'd been saving Free XP and heard about the x2 event being open and did three resets. 41600 Research Points and the 10000k you get for opening the Research Bureau . . . and today after regrinding to Des Moines I bought me a Siegfried! 1 Co-op test battle just now ... 129k damage and three kills in a race by 9 players to get more points and kills than everyone else. - One salvo/one Encounter - I one-salvoed a 60% health Sinop - I eliminated a Siegfried with a few salvoes and a torpedo salvo . . . . . . I like Siegfried!!!

Will this work on skirmish?

Ugh.. i feel pain for those ships being so helpless. CVs really enjoy a life of few risks and constant action. Of couse, you are a good player so you know how to make planes work well. Probably better than most. But what can the ships do? It feels like a turkey shoot.

Acutally russiand DDa kinda like european DDs, not great at anything(but not in usa kinda way). If i need to pick russian/eu DD over USA DD, there is no choice...usa all the way.

I cant find a role for that ship. Cant hunt other DDs, HE 22mm pen sucks, slow reload and only 4 guns, mediocre torps, not the best concealement. On paper it seems you have rep but its usefull as on Skane and will restore one shot you got from other DD. Ship just sucks.😂 Defensive AA on 47 AA defense...useless.