A World of Warships Review: Colombo

[@BruderRaziel]

Finally someone who seems to be on the same page, not deluded about "weak" battleships in this game. Certainly since the leg mod update, Colombo has become S Tier for me. Despite lacking overmatch, it feels a lot like Vermont when you get a broadside you can cit.

[@Rio_1111]

G4ng seems to think so as well.

[@hagostaeldmann]

@@BruderRaziel it's also the complete lack of anything approaching skill required to play this thing. At least Vermont requires gamesense for positioning and hands for aiming. Colombo is just oogabooga sap spam drool from mouth 150k+ DMG every game. Also the 20degree guaranteed pen angles of the SAP means you effectively feel like you overmatch any armor under 97mm. Release Colombo was probably B tier randoms, after buffs A tier, now S tier with legmod. I bet we can buff it some more.

[@BruderRaziel]

​@@hagostaeldmann I remember bunch of games trying out the freshly released Colombo, complaining half the match about "what a shotgun" it is, then I look up and the counter is closing in on 200k. That´s when I realized I might have contracted braindamage from one or the other battleship streamer regarding my expectations. It´s also the time when I started more consistently not sucking in BBs... funny how that works.

[@hagostaeldmann]

@@BruderRaziel lol i know waht you mean, it's one of those ships where you think "man i'm having a bad game" and you're at 150k at the 13 minute mark

[@timur_glazkov]

The unpaid actor cruisers when it's the Colombo's turn to get inspected: "I'm tired, boss."

[@hagostaeldmann]

@@timur_glazkov play worcester or san martin into this thing lmfao

[@starmura]

Small correction at 16:43. AP splash damage will follow the 1/10 rule, but the SAP will do 1/6 splash damage instead. In fact, your SAP does 1/10 damage on direct hits, so it is "better" to not hit the sub directly (which in practice you cannot do either way), leading to very funny damage numbers against subs.

[@raphaelhuwyler6640]

Italian bbs have lower horizontal dispersion on their ap and it also was nerfed to 1/10 on dd's specifically to not make them suffer too hard

[@crazyninja22656]

think you could create a video describing proper positioning? love your content I learn so much from you. just got the colombo today im loving it.

[@BackToRootz]

Thx for the video. My higscore w/o Legmode 300k+ and with havent cracked the 200K yet but feels faster turret speed etc.

[@matthewyang7893]

Alright say it with me Columbo should have stayed irrelevant Sap is broken Sap is broken Sap is broken I hate this goddamned ammo type You take massive hits from every angle Sap is broken (Alright I think I’ve made my point, legitimately if they gave a +50% debuff to turret traverse and -25% to sap shell alpha damage it might actually be enough for the legmod)

[@Ducky1760]

Something people forgot that is when they reworked expert loader they gave IT BBs baked in expert loader (something like 30%) which allows you to swap ammo faster than any BB with Luigi

[@agaspversilia]

I love my Colombo

[@Asgar1205]

I really want them to release a broken leg mod for Schlieffen xD

[@barrybolton1396]

1) I actually got to be on the same side in a match w you driving the Columbo...we won. 2) I appreciate your analysis and commentary on the matches...Fbombs and all. -THE_NIBZ

[@Dimchastichni]

I played Colombo before the buff and the leg mod. Ppl were telling me not to play it cuz its really bad, as well as big brain streamers. I absolutely disagre and I was surprised by buffs, cuz the ship was great even before. I've been enjoying it ever since I researched it, like a year ago. I even put steel camo on it. So my fav BBS are Kremlin and Colombo. Next in line of "don't play it's bad" is Republique, and I have a feeling I would be enjoying that one as well. In short: Ignore what the community tells you, play the ship and if the ship suits you, have fun telling them how wrong they are.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Yeh this...I played the conq line and I had so much fun and so high and consistent dmg games....I would just click battle and chill in the ships at mid ranges close to the caps at pre kited positions and really I would just see the enemy crumble or run away from the HE and ppl say this line is squishy and bad. .like u have standard bb armour and also u have superheals wht else do u need..I never in my whole grind had any problems with this line ever

[@FightingFalcon1980]

I totally agree. Played Colombo pre Buffs and found it more or less ok. Came back to it after the Legendary Update and now its stupid consistent. In late game you just overrun at everything that is left.

[@smaug9617]

I tested C.C. With leg. mod.: worst salvo 8k , ordinary: 12-16k and good super good salvo: 29k (all were done with SAP). Don’t forget about smoke, good armor, best firing in the game angles 21-23 . So, yeah, C.C. is nuts 😅.

[@hagostaeldmann]

@@smaug9617 one of these games I had 5 salvos on yamato/satsuma for over 120k dmg lol

[@imagineian0146]

Idk if you take requests, but mecklenburg would be cool

[@nlb137]

Colombo has faster SAP than AP, yes. And it's got lower shell drag than Montana, so the speed advantage increases at longer ranges. Your SAP is 1s faster than Monty AP starting at ~15km, and hits 2s faster at ~23km. Also, I think the proliferation of 360° turrets is another example of WG's "QOL creep" (see also, 30s turret traverse and 16s rudders on every new BB). It's effectively a turret traverse buff, letting you switch broadsides with ~90° instead of ~270° when angled in. It also means brain-damaged players can't have their turrets on the wrong side of the ship because they didn't pre-turn them before turning the ship. Mostly I'm just salty about the lack of the historic cost; spacing turrets so they can rotate 360° should require a longer cit and longer overall ship, but for paper ships instead they just space them out towards the middle and remove more superstructure to make it fit (which is *also* a buff ingame, even though ships had superstructure for a reason IRL). I think the issue is partly that they tried to buff the QOL of the ship to make people like it (rudder and firing angles), but still nobody likes slot machine salvos. So they give up and buff the accuracy... but didn't revert the QOL stuff. It'd be less busted, even with current legmod, if it was clumsier with poor firing angles, and thus at least sorta a "I can farm you consistently, but I also get farmed consistently in return" situation.

[@Crowe_77]

Just started to play Colombo, like 20 games in it...this ship is a BEAST!!! I love it more then Vermont!!! Average/game 140k damage

[@yourfavoritejojo5235]

I find it funny I LITERALLY RESET this line before all the buffs came recently fml.

[@EvoraGT430]

This ship just goes to show WG have no balancing department.

[@matthewcasady6276]

I've been getting games lately where some have 4 or 5 DD's and the next has 1 or 2. One or the other the majority of games lately.

[@darkroom0716]

I guess at least its AA is bad? But I don't really like Carriers being the solution here either.

[@simonpotter7534]

Can we have a Russian BB?

[@banhbaothit1629]

do a random battles commentary on schlieffen i swear its unplayable rn

[@hagostaeldmann]

@@banhbaothit1629 I hate Schlieffen mostly because I'm not a fan of zero input ctrl lmb gaming it just isnt fun to me

[@banhbaothit1629]

@@hagostaeldmannmost games you barely use your secondaries

[@rocketfishx3474]

Wouldn't a better solution be to nerf the pen angle on the sap? Or nerf the sap some other way? Nobody is upset that the Mecklenburg is accurate. Nobody thinks Meck is OP.

[@hagostaeldmann]

@@rocketfishx3474 I'd say that should be a basically mandatory START, giving SAP something like 15/30 instead of 10/20 angles but still...its not going to balance it. Ultimately it's the fact you cannot overpen that makes SAP disgusting.

[@starmura]

I disagree slightly at 30:37. While Colombo's UU is a very lazy, pure buff, I would say that GL's is instead a UU that is required to make the ship fun. The airstrikes are still mediocre, but at least you can somewhat spam them now, instead of having half-assed guns and half-assed airstrikes. GL has so many downsides, that I would say its UU, even if it's not as interesting as it could have been (imagine if they focused it on allowing you to ACTUALLY pen BBs, etc.), is justified in being a "straight buff." So yes, GL is in fact more interesting to play with the UU, since you can actually focus more on using your gimmick.

[@EdSilvia1]

So new players don't play this ship because you might give the veterans a run for their money.

[@Magnusthesausagedog]

overmatchs 32mm with ease, ship is fucked right now

[@EvoraGT430]

No it doesn't.

[@hagostaeldmann]

@@Magnusthesausagedog it technically doesnt overmatch 32mm but I think I get what you mean. This SAP is overall easy better than 32mm overmatch AP

[@kingofthekludge]

you won 3 out of 4

[@naumanahmadtariq8717]

Ok so what about when in the beginning the cv spots you and battleships start firing at you from 26 kms. Every salvo takes out 10% of your health. You cant do anything. Its not a strong ship. Its a very weak ship.

[@SWIFTY_WINS]

Nice try buuuut... You're forgetting she has a friggin smoke too to top it all off hahah. Not only is this ship strong in basically every single department already, but then you also have a fuel smoke (which no other BB line gets) letting you escape CVs, subs, and focus fire all at the press of a button...