It's Back! Henri IV Restored To It's Former Glory

[@harrisii97]

Lets do this too: Day 2 of asking PQ to play Elbing with its legendary module

[@yeeterooni7352]

And he must call it elbingbong like flamu

[@harrisii97]

​@@yeeterooni7352Mandatory

[@heatherrockwell9012]

And actually aim at upper belts this time!

[@gonzdoom]

go back to trenlass's stream

[@goodless]

El Kabong

[@aaronh9556]

Sorry Potato, Its not called John Henry because of John Deer. Its called John Henry because of the John Henry legend. Mighty hammering John versus the locomotive.

[@iron8586]

Ah yes, the famous French folk legend John Henry (def the same as Henri lol)

[@brionmurdock966]

The Henri was put into the game to counter the Stalingrad meta. It was very apparent to anyone who played clan battles.

[@FluffyEvilEver]

Henri released year and a half before Stalin and back then almost no one care about this line.

[@saltyvanilla3304]

Nobody cared about the french CAs when they came out because they had no MBRB And Moskva was overall a better tier X

[@totolescargo]

Henri IV was the first Tier X I grinded when I joined the game. Needless to say I bit off more than I could chew. Starting to play WoWs with such a difficult line to play was definitely a challenge for the beginner I was ... And shortly after I (finally) bought Henri IV, it was nerfed into the ground, which made me quit the game for a while. I'm now a much better player than I used to. I played the rebuffed Henri IV in ranked and had a blast with it for the first time in YEARS (before the buff, playing it in Ranked was basically suicide). I now feel like my growth arc is complete ! Now I hope WG will buff some of the other cruisers : Hindenburg and Zao comes to mind. Out of all the Tier X tech tree ships, cruisers are regularly the worst performing in today's meta.

[@smh6926]

Let's not forget poor Des Moines and its 203mm guns that somehow have less range than Worcester's 152mm guns

[@totolescargo]

@@smh6926 Brother, Des Moines has a low range because it's already very good. If it had better range it would be the best cruiser in the game by far.

[@bohba13]

​@@smh6926 that's because the shells are heavy AF. it's either super-heavy AP or HC high explosive. The short range and high shell arcs are to make you play around the caps so you can use the radar. Yes DM predates radar, but DM's radar was designed with its play style in mind.

[@ElvroomGames]

@@smh6926 it doesnt need more range. it has too floaty shells and its made to play close up and aggressive

[@OhTheGeekness]

Wish Zau would get some love.

[@TheKasperlkopf]

@@OhTheGeekness zao

[@MightOfMjolnir]

if you dont do what every other moron does and park behind islands it's fine... stay with your DD and you'll get easy kills since it's HE just melts them like British HE... like a lot of T10s though it's been power crept with all the stupid ass gimmicky premiums... this is after all a pay to win game so if you want wins, buy premiums! or actually dont that's terrible advice and F**K WG! just get good, WG doesn't care about how shitty the TT ships are as they're only there to lure people into playing a "fun game" until you keep getting smashed by literally everyone in premiums that have gun calibers with massive overmatch that otherwise would NEVER realistically do what they do in game so that people buy those premiums to have "more fun"

[@trains4ourkids]

Faced one of these a couple nights ago in the Maine. It was great game, full 20 minutes, came down to their Henri needing to kill our Salem at the end. I mostly ignored the Henri, but would throw one turret at him now and then. It kept him at long range, which ended up being key by the end. Sometimes I would fire one turret in front and then the rest to the back, just to help keep him at max range. We won, and he didn't burn me down, so it's definitely a win in my book, lol.

[@petedardis606]

I call the Henri’s detection “French Radar”💡🏠

[@capthappy8884]

Been waiting YEARS for this! Started as a hindy main, so you can see my foundation for loving henri! In the....4 years since(?), I've evolved thru years of dd main, to now n last year or so as light cruiser main so I'm not sure I'll ever go ALL the way back, but happy she's a viable option again! o7

[@TheTokkin]

Henri was pure poison to the gameplay. It's introduction was the first time I was deeply frustrated with the direction that the game was taking.

[@SteelxWolf]

Yeah being able to free farm BBs and juke their every salvo with 30 seconds between made this one of the more toxic ships to fight against imo.

[@StarLinx9740]

​@@SteelxWolfsame here bro i really hate to fight this ship it really suffer that range that reload boost that speed boost i mean wtf when i face it i was like bro are you kidding me

[@gabrield4627]

While I agree to some extent I think the game went the toxic route when they introduced the Conqueror. And when they added the Henri, it wasn't that meta defining until they put MBRB on it.

[@quoniam426]

I liked to play aggressive with this ship, on the flanks to intercept flanking DDs and cruisers. I also trolled Conquerors with it, rushing them as if I was an Italian DD. Minotaurs trying to angle against me was pure joy, I just loaded AP at their bows. To take a Hanri at long range, you've got to be more than one ship, one fires fore, one aft, so whatever choice the Henri does, he will take damage provided you aimed well. Of course a third ship to fire exacly where Henri sits to prevent him of staying stationary or catch it there is a bonus. No matter the cruiser that I play I'm always focused down by the red team because my BBs are so far away that I have no other choice to get closer and basically be on the front line... which makes light cruiser gameplay very frustrating.

[@KixSlim]

I’m so happy this ship is back with the power creep in game these days. Been sitting on St Louis because I didn’t see Henri as being that strong but now I’ll finish the grind ! Such a sexy ship too

[@tomriley5790]

Hope they bring back the old legendary modules from Des Moines and Zao in a similar way, they were great fun.

[@loje248]

So happy to have my favourite flamethrower back in business, might make me come back to this game

[@williamgrand9724]

Can't wait for JTR to set a new galactic record.

[@kenzovermandel9590]

I recently tried to meme a bit with moskva and just waltzing forward with just the manouvrability mods, range mod and then take the lighthouse setup on it. Yes i have a concealment of over 20km but i felt that battleships tunnelvisioned on you from max range and if u just shoot them back from absurd ranges you take no damage when played well from all bbs and you just farm them out. I have played like 2 to 3 games of it where people cursed at me in chat from not dying after 15 minutes of bb salvos and me just farming them from 20+km. Its also something similar to this.

[@mthorne074]

When I'm dealing with ships that are speed juking I like to fire one or 2 turrets to get him to commit to his juke, then the other set while he's in the middle of his juke. Usually works to land a few shells on a Henri /Ragnar/etc and makes him reconsider

[@Nurg1982]

i tend to single fire each turret when I see a throttle juking cruiser whilst playing a BB

[@ianatkinson5509]

18:05 that is some insane blindfire

[@TheAradar]

Spread out your volleys against Henri. Force him to accelerate, then you shoot more volleys. If you put all eggs in same basket as is normal against other ships, you will most of the time miss against a good Henri player.

[@bLock_c1pher]

Can't wait to re-grind to get back my Ship from (R-B) BRIG!!!. Sir, You are the Lege Mod!!!. Thank you Potato Quality, take care.

[@EllieBanks333]

Thank goodness! We really needed a ship that can attack without being in any danger while doing so.

[@ascutt]

Awesome, I watched your vid, went and played Henri - 200k and a kraken!! Guess who's back, Henri's back!!

[@danielflynn5746]

Henri was my first TX cruiser, I got her after the nerf, really looking forward to taking her out since this buff.

[@sirdancealot2645]

Honeslty, I don't know the legmod worth it over the rudder mod. It just makes a meme build to cross the line of complete madness. I feel really comfortable with the rudder mod and without any concealment skill. It reduces your rudder time to something like 5.2secs which makes it extremely frustrating for BBs shooting at you :D I do wish 305mm guns would have faster travel time and flatter arcs though. It feels weird to have this much floaty shells.

[@bboybombo]

In the absence of of the unique upgrade, Gunfire mod2 and Steering Mod2 works pretty well too.

[@Coyote27981]

Funnily enough, the counter to Henri was another nerfed and abandoned cruiser... The Legendary Zao. Detection was under 10k. And it had superb rudder speed. So you could sneak in and take the Henris up close... Even easier if the Henri chased after you.

[@ivanholik2245]

i did use to pick zao against henri in clan battles , decent fire rate from zao , you did outspot it and if you were not dumb to do salvo shots but one at a time you could make them hit breaks and shoot the rest of the guns

[@FlamingZombie626]

New players don't know how far in the trenches we were early on. You'd have skills worth 5 points, every ship class pulling from the same skills tree, and lower skill point cap

[@secutor7142]

What a coincidence, I just started grinding out this line!

[@exterminatordj3901]

Would love to see a druid game from you PQ, much love on the vids

[@j_taylor]

Check out Ripper DD. He plays Druid a lot, is scary good at it, and narrates his decision process during the video. I've learned a lot.

[@exterminatordj3901]

@@j_taylor oh I watch ripper all the time, would just like to see PQ give it the love it deserves

[@GERMAN_ENGINEERING]

I got in my henri and it was fun. Although teams kept getting smoked before I could get the damage up.

[@vivekpatel3752]

The issue with henri and hence french cruisers was rightly demonstrated in the first game and also shown by flamu that you don't have battle impact. You rely on the damage output. Your utilities are not for a team play but rather focus on your own damage. So by the time your damage does impact the game you loose

[@thegeneral123]

Wow, I might actually finish the French cruiser line now then and get Conde.

[@Hoddevik92]

Is there another good way to run the ship than just a insane lighthouse build?

[@DieSammelstelle]

Dont Run legendary Mod and Take the concealement alternativ way

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Well if u want the best dmg and reload then light house build if maybe a little of that then take conceal as well

[@tahiribnmohammad5410]

those acceleration stats dont take into account taking prop mod Also, the UU stat he gave was wrong you get 5% added range and 10% reload, maybe he saw this afterwards

[@j_taylor]

20:56

[@yohangongora8199]

Hi Potato nice video, as usual... An offtopic, I saw in NA server today a PanAmerican BB, Los Andes, can you make a video of it?? Thanks

[@loiselxd2084]

Love the vid Quality like always. would like a Brawl Mode p.heinrich vid ngl

[@Geneticlyinsane1]

Was my favourite ship for a very long time and was probably 1 of the tier 10's I found myself consistently playing more than most others also the main reason I had to get Conde

[@robrutledge6591]

Great reviews of the ships, but could you talk more about what's happening in the game and why you are doing what you are doing. Thanks

[@N1FL0WSY]

i never played the original henri so my first experience with it was with the 60 sec so i played it now after the buff and my god its so much easier to speed juke

[@antonytheocharidis9576]

Ι played against a Henri in an Odin today. I have never felt more powerless lmao

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Well odin is a piece of shit ship so that's not your mistake there

[@ElvroomGames]

Hey PQ would love to see Admiral Hipper.

[@MrZemIan]

Yeah, it is crazy hard to hit. Have one game where I got 2,6M potential damage... And I took zero damage the entire round back in the day xD

[@jasonroberts9794]

I played alot of Henri post nerf as well, got odd cits just like the Goliath and stopped playing it

[@EGAWEF]

Still cannot escape the skill blackhole for most 😂

[@FormulaZR]

I have PTSD from the HIV w/ IFHE being the hard counter to Stalingrad. Think WG could un-nerf the Khabarovsk now?

[@admiralprinceeric323]

I kinda ask about Henri IV so far that I've never played recently on this update. I hope is gonna make it a try

[@josephscates5684]

What's that mod on enemies ships. The green circle, and what is it for??

[@MartialEmperor6344]

It's aslain mod the rest of the details I'm not sure about

[@dovaskostasgr]

Henry is my first tier 10 back before reload booster and have better aim system back there I feel the chance after the give the legendary

[@dovaskostasgr]

22:00 That why is so trolly now

[@g0veGaming]

It has been the most frustrating thing to play against recently.

[@TonyC2328]

Personally when I see accel juking, I just fire 1 turret at a time

[@StefSucka]

My Favorit Ship, hard to play but it makes a lot of fun ❤

[@bohba13]

Abonyu lighthouse Henri is back boys!

[@Kaspaarr]

I wanted to ask, how do you get the blue smoke for the shells?

[@Pake154]

french special captain

[@MartialEmperor6344]

It's a choice u can activate it through the legendary commanders only ..shell type colour can be changed

[@bohba13]

Oooh HENRY!

[@paddington1670]

Would like to see a Warspite video!

[@gblowe62]

Now they need to bring back old Khabba

[@boyo5891]

Review the comodoro please.

[@dasegos93]

Damn it! Now we have to face a colbert with better armor and better pen

[@MartialEmperor6344]

And flatter arcs and better range

[@dasegos93]

@@MartialEmperor6344 even worst

[@dovaskostasgr]

O common the Henry he don't have the dpm of colbert 😂😂😂

[@MartialEmperor6344]

@@dovaskostasgr yep

[@jackychung6613]

Hi, does anyone know the mod name of circle speed indicator ?

[@gonzdoom]

The 2nd replay was more convincing. Farming Tier VIII with Tier X was fun to watch, but not ideal.

[@roberthsieh8639]

Dmg output did change cause they nerfed the legendary mod a bit

[@JC-xz4ec]

While the Henry is great at getting damage I never found it a ship to worry much about when it comes to actually winning the game. Now and then it would work out for the Henry, but that's true of any ship. It's a high damage, low impact sort of ship.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

That was when it was nerfed sure but now u will see that things will be different with Henri considering it got it's base acceleration back

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Yeh it is an HE farmer which will tease the hell out of u and that's it's main role but that's on the player and his choice

[@miklosdenis653]

Enry, silent H! mon dieu PQ...

[@miklosdenis653]

I love you PQ! I just can't hear my US friends saying Henry

[@j_taylor]

The way we Americains talk, monne doue PQ will rhyme. 🙃 Coucou des Etats-Unis.

[@robbleeker4777]

What is "A lighthouse build" ?

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Lighthouse build means that u build everything into reload of main guns and dmg of main guns on either HE,AP or SAP and disregard concealment completely and also work into rudder or propulsion mod..this build works on long range cruisers like Venezia and Henri extremely well

[@MartialEmperor6344]

It is a very fun and effective build but has high skill floor and needs a player to be cautious for the whole match in terms of getting shot at and positioning

[@robbleeker4777]

@@MartialEmperor6344 thanks

[@Trenorts]

My 1st tier x ship. ❤. If you want to hit Henry, dont use all your gun at once. I dont know how to phrase it properly.

[@Alenoir88]

I been there 3000 years ago when this ship was the most annoying thing in World of warships.

[@clmwrx]

Open water dd isnt that easy. Let alone cruiser

[@beaugator]

Not that I'm the diction police or anything but, it pronounced "Aun-ree" with your best french accent! lol

[@ioantudordetesan417]

when are we going to see a decent Zao? they forgotten about that ship 9 years ago after release

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Zao needs atagos upper 40 mm belt plating and some better turret angles and turret speed and that's it

[@ioantudordetesan417]

@@MartialEmperor6344 acceleration is bad, torpedo angles are worst and can't shoot over islands like the USN light cruisers. also Zao is classified like heavy cruiser in game but it's far from that. I love that ship and love to see it viable in the game

[@MartialEmperor6344]

@@ioantudordetesan417 yes acceleration us had but the conceal is good so it covers up for it plus giving it atagos 40mm upper belt would solve the problem of it taking hits at range

[@DaroZuo]

Yay more HE

[@CrazyGamer1098.]

Please play Incomparable

[@mattiknowyourmum7521]

No way Henri got a buff before Zao 💀.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Zao did get buffs before Henri it's just that those buffs didn't really help zao in any way other than the dispersion

[@dutsu89]

This is my most hated ship, this thing was nothing but toxic

[@Mr_King96]

*Gets 257k damage, complains about his aim being poor* Just PQ things

[@dididikaaa]

Why play Henry when you can play Conde?

[@JustSomeGuyWithNoMaidens]

Henri is cheaper to run

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Henri is un-nerfed that's why 😂

[@sucmanutz]

damn was thinking about playing wows again. but yer fuck that! rubbish developers!

[@rexstuff4655]

They should never have nerfed her, not like that, anyway.

[@davidsnow9504]

Ugh. Us BB players used to HATE this thing. Now we 'get' to do it again. Sigh.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Well BBs get bullshit armour and bullshit overmatch so cruisers get stuff like Henri

[@xxxthwagdrakexxx4672]

Henri used to have even better acceleration back in the day so no. I chucked one for 20k without a citadel on a reload mod Monty so....

[@TheKasperlkopf]

Day 1 of asking pq to play Nevsky w range mod. Can't wait for the t11

[@MartialEmperor6344]

No no no we don't need a t11 Nevsky

[@Caleb-zu1pk]

The Annapolis nerf needs to be undone. What a dumb nerf to a SUPER SHIP

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Bruh fr?

[@Caleb-zu1pk]

@@MartialEmperor6344 did you play it before and after the nerf?

[@MartialEmperor6344]

@@Caleb-zu1pk I don't want to play it...

[@sper8556]

Henri 4 get buff

[@Thaa_Farmer]

play atago please

[@mannyplayspoe7183]

These moronic devs haven't even brought out the potential improvement to the absolute toxic cancer that are CV's and they already unfix the healed HE cancer that was the Henri. At this point they should just unnerf the Smolensk and bring it back into the armory so that we can see 10vs10 HE cancer spamming + the 1 mandatory subcancer and the floating airport camper boy. They truly deserve every player that they lose. Unfortunately that only leaves us with people having the characters of kitten torturers...

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Look it's toxic but heavily reliant on skill most players will not be able to make use of it's acceleration and speed.. smolensk is a whole other story it's a potato friendly ship having a million guns and very fast reload on the guns

[@paulchirica7890]

Tbh I’m not pleased to see HIV back in meta

[@clmwrx]

Lul

[@BasJon]

I am sorry but I hate the way you pronounce the name of Henri............

[@txgator7299]

This thing is so annoying to fight... Why..

[@commandercors]

The punctuation in your title is incorrect. It’s = a contraction of it is. You were looking for the possessive- its.

[@clmwrx]

Wow man. Good job. Good for you

[@clmwrx]

Pat on the back for the punctuation police

[@cacacaca-rb8ub]

3rd

[@x-0728]

I'm not a fan honestly. More HE spam and camping is not what the game needs right now,

[@tehdoughnut9862]

As a Canadian, you should at least attempt the French pronunciations.

[@clmwrx]

Lul😂

[@justbite6355]

Henri is a toxic ship and the last thing that the game needs. Hope they will nerf it again. It was a Stalingrad counter back in the day and it did its job well enough. But this long range spam is just fucking cancer. Just as annoying as a cv.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

Henri is a toxic ship but St Vincent,incomparable,Kremlin,Maine etc aren't toxic ships just cause ppl like them cause they r bullshit proof lol?

[@justbite6355]

@@MartialEmperor6344 I do agree, that there are a lot of toxic ships at T10 right now, but these ships can be dealt with a lot easier than a Henri camping at the back of the map. You can't do shit against it and it forces you to play back further as well.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

@@justbite6355 please explain how can these busted ships be dealt with more easily than a Henri ..Henris problem is that it requires skill to make use of it's ability ..the other above mentioned ships and more r completely potato friendly ..everyone spams these ships and everyone becomes a hero in these ships ...Henri has clear weaknesses and a high skill floor plus a long reload..s

[@justbite6355]

@@MartialEmperor6344 How is Incomparable busted? How is Kremlin still busted? Maine is brutal but so are a lot of Superships.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

@@justbite6355 bruh fr that's the thing ...cruisers r suffering the most in the game and ppl still think they r busted but in reality they aren't...they r overmatched at any angle by BBs ..so if Henri is not able to dodge then it's a dev strike or an almost dev strike...Incomp is busted cause it has better conceal than some cruisers, has one of the biggest guns in the game ,is fast as hell ,has hydro ...Kremlin is tanky as hell that even HE doesn't seem to work against it...

[@xhawkeye8717]

Wireless keyboards are a meme.

[@saabstory69420]

Marceau with MAXIMUM speed

[@miked815]

Pq still not able to pronounce incomparable properly.