Lesta Mega Devblog - New Port, New Soviet DDs

[@Flamuu]

As you guys have requested it, from now on Lesta specific devblogs will be the light blue color, as opposed to WG devblogs being the bright green. Hopefully this will help clear up any confusion. Twitter: twitter.com/flamuchz Discord: discord.gg/Flamu Stream: www.twitch.tv/flamuu Insta: instagram.com/flamugram/

[@lianxia1111]

Thank you, that helps a lot! Though I imagine it might lower view count, so I would understand if you don’t continue to disclaim it in the title

[@Flamuu]

@@lianxia1111 Huh? I've always specified if a devblog is lesta, either in the title, description or both.

[@TMar1961]

Links to the blogs themselves would be nice.

[@RandomPredator]

I play wows for 7 years now , I play on 3 accounts , first I have 512 ships , second 96 and 3rd one 47 ships , grinding ship is not issue , same credits , issue are port spots , WG need to remove port slots limit same as they will do with commender slots , I think that will draw more players to the game . Here are tricks: Commanders : keep allways max comanders you have ! , when you will get new commander you will get spot for free ! Port slot : buy Charleston in armory for 15k coal , you get her and port slot , sell Charleston you get 3 mil credits ... buy Charleston again & repeat ... there was time that I had all ships for coal in armory and a loot of coal , I have done that like 50+ times on my mine account .

[@frankfletcher_1]

20:22 I loved the part in the new Fast and Furious movie where Vin Diesel drifted a Soviet Destroyer to protect his family

[@NavytroyXIV]

As a spaniard: Madrid being cringe is lore accurate.

[@ОсликИа-я2ы]

24:00 - on CIS Gnevny has 7 km 13.2k 55 knots torps and a heal, there's your difference. Also it's faster (38 knots vs 36.8). They've buffed main line quite some time ago. Basically Fubuki/Hatsuharu situation when line differences aren't as apparent yet.

[@Dhdja2741]

52:21 RBU-6000; 213 mm ASW rocket launcher, irl has auto loader btw, range of up to 5 km. 52:35 those are AK-230 double barrel 30 mm, soviet CIWS system, fully automatic, has IRST+air radar complex, can track planes and shoot down missiles

[@derreckxiao2910]

Don't the RBU-6000s have a range of 6000m/6km, hence the name?

[@deepbludreams]

I love how they stat pad close in weapon systems like this when some USN ships are covered head to toe in automatic 3 inch twin mounts and it somehow is worse.

[@tba2821]

WG refuses to buff Delny lmao

[@dimvssometimes]

WG yes, Lesta buffed him, Kiev and Tashkent a bit in central deck armor to 25 mm, turret traverse and removed smokes from consumables. Kiev and Tashkent also got more armor in central part of broadside

[@wombat4191]

@@dimvssometimes So Lesta gave Delny a better deck armor. That's it? While buffing Tashkent more (a ship that was honestly already pretty okay) so that the difference between these two is even smaller? :D

[@mapmakerlich]

NB: The Soviet DDs and some cruisers were rebalanced on Lesta. They no longer have 4 km torps. Gnevny runs 7 km ones iirc now. It happened in a patch with ironclads.

[@wombat4191]

58:40 T9 premium that seems like it's very close to being just objectively better than Delny

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

I am honestly more interested in the Madrid & Anson from this devblog. The former being a large cruiser with the 12 inch guns off the wreckage of one of the Espana class battleships and the latter being Hood if she had gone through the same modernization that Renown class BCs and the Queen Elizabeth class BBs had.

[@Tundraviper41]

(1:10:25) Although Drach's Hood refit in his Video about the subject was pretty much based on one of the actual Refit design that would have Gutted Hood and effectively rebuilt the ship from the waterline up, which also included the KGV 133mm guns (although possible the improved 133mm guns would have been used instead.) Rebuilding the Superstructure to be like Queen Elizabeths, Vanguard, Warspite Ect. Lestas Modernized "Hood" is I guess modeled after another refit plan that would have made Hood much more similar to Renown in terms of appearance and dual purpose armaments than KGV and Vanguard.

[@admiralprinceeric323]

Some Upcoming Soviet DD are for the coverage in history of the Soviet Navy during and after WWII as well as Cold War ships.

[@antraxxslingshots]

Isn´t it really powerful to launch a narrow, manually spread 3 Torp Salvo every few sec? I mean with 10 Torps you have 3 of those ready at the beginning and if you get one set going every 20sec you can have at least 5 of those before you have to go for an entire reload. That reeks DOT for me.

[@quoniam426]

Single player training? Just like in good old Star Trek Starfleet Command -1999, just what I was asking from the start ! And I initially thought that the Katori was the good ship for that, all systems or nearly as a bigger ship all in a small paper armored cruiser. Of course, Starfleet Command had training missions with various ships depending on the aspects of the ship you were trained on. Earlier missions were on destroyers or frigates, later ones were on heavy cruisers or battleships. Just looking at the map layout just makes me so nostalgic... In SFC, the training was about a special aspect of the ship, weapons, secondary systems, countermeasures, energy management, etc... Once the mission was over, you had to use your skills on 1v1 engagements, trying to win the most you could one after the other, of course, you had limited repairing ressources so you would eventually die after four or five engagements. But that was a good way to train your skills to try to dispose of an enemy the most efficiently possible with losing the less HP and systems possible to fight the most engagements possible. WG take note, THIS is the way to go! Don't let just the Ruskies do it... Oh Soviet DDs that defended the Ukrainian part of the USSR against Nazis... I smell Rrrridiculous Rrrrrussian Prrrropanganda !

[@Bruh-qb8ir]

Surprisingly Most of them exist in real life

[@ChrisRand-gf7lz]

It's kind of weird how WG is basically power creeping every line in game when they release a new one, like, how can they make the next line even more powerful and stupid OP than the one previous. Where as Lesta is almost trying to release lines that balanced so as not to drive players away?

[@luukvst1032]

I recon that lesta has less space to lose its old playerbase because it cannot get the massive amount of new players WG is getting because its limited mostly to russia and china

[@bigpoppa1234]

@luukvst1032 difference between trying to grow with new customers vs milking existing whales in your shrinking playerbase?

[@Cat_in_The-Box]

Grass is greener

[@OldThomMerton]

Hmmm does that Hengshui look like a . . . Santander? Madrid . . . Britch turrets and secondaries . . . a modified Goliath with 305mm's?

[@BPKPhoenix]

Hah! Haven't seen a conceal like that on a BB since the mighty days of finding a conqkek at 10.1km with AP loaded and you're doing a turn because like, ITS A BB, WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE!? blap.

[@Yukon.72]

Second line t9 dd was literally called "modern" )

[@Yukon.72]

@@dimvssometimes oh right, didn't took attention of text color. Anyway, its called "Modern"

[@allensanders5535]

there average is a variable estimated on how much vodka is left in the bottle, the less vodka the higher the average. half bottle = 16k torps quarter bottle = 21k torps you and me average 11 - 13k torps

[@LaNfinity]

Anson was originally planned as a Hood-class battlecruiser but the Great War has ended, so Hood stayed alone in its class. Then the next Anson (the names are often reused in bigger fleets) was a part of the KGV class.

[@anthonymartino1993]

anyone know when some of this crazy stuff will be added in?

[@derkernspalter]

They misspelled Fengshui i guess.

[@FlamingZombie626]

So they functionally remade the French torpedo destroyer line?

[@angelmatzumoto7642]

Will i get chat banned if i type Makarov in chat ??

[@somethingincurrentyear]

I miss the time where your videos had some cohesion, to explain or inform the viewer about a ship, a patch or something similar. Nowadays it's just "a new dev blog, time to upload an uncut vod of me reading about it for more than an hour".

[@Terrados1337]

refitted hood kinda hype

[@orun713]

Sorry for the ignorance but is Lesta only the RU server? Do any of the changes/ships end up on NA?

[@stefanpajung113]

Only RU.

[@MartialEmperor6344]

It's a separate WOWS

[@WobbleJelly]

Bruh, Blitz has had the dragon port for almost 3 years now.

[@sheabrockhoff2279]

Sad gnevni noises in the corner of the port.

[@tsuaririndoku]

I don’t understand of Hanoi tbh. Yes, it use Soviet design but it would be more interesting if they use French design. Vietnam used to be colonized by France so it would make sense if Hanoi is a French BB. I still don’t like Chakri tho. Thai ships doesn’t need to be always British and Americans they can be Japanese too. But apparently WeeGee makes things boring. Seriously when was the last time we get French Battleship design. Hanoi still can use maybe Jean Bart hull with no reload booster and swap the guns 406 from Soviet. Chakri can still use a hull like Fuso Class but swap from 12 356mm to 4 381mm British Queen Elizabeth guns. Or just make Chakri having Queen Elizabeth Hull with Nagato Guns. I mean it make sense considering that a lot of weapons and equipment of Siam during WWII are mostly Japanese. Even aircrafts are manufactured and licensed from Japan. It’s kinda pisses me off that Chakri is a British design instead of IJN. The historical aspects are not very consistent. Plus, Chakri shouldn’t be named Chakri at all. If they’re going to naming the style of Royal Navy. Chakri should not be a suitable name. It should be named after Kings not the Family name. So Chakri should be named after either First or Second King of Siam. Yes, it long to read but atleat it does make sense. Thai doesn’t care if the name is long to pronounce. Heck we have a Battleship that named FDG for god sake. So Chakri should be named: Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke. Named after Rama I. King of Siam he is not the first king but because first king of Thailand have already named after a Destroyer. Phra Ruang. BYC should be a correct name instead of Chakri. Anyway it just my rant on how WeeGee naming ships. Seriously they named a Japanese BC after a Province instead of Mountains like the rest of IJN BC because the “Developmet” is a longer Kii. Despite that no one is complaining about Longer Tosa named after Mountains (Amagi). If Japan going to make a Battlecruiser, then they will name after Mountains reguardless it should never have a Province after the name. Which is why Bungo is so out of place for a ship name. WG has zero sense of naming ships. I bet, eventually they will named a US CV USS Kentucky Fried Chicken at somepoint. I’m not even sure if Vietnam will name Capital ships based on City instead of Province. Vietnamese out there what will you name a Capital Ships based on? Name after King of Vietnam? Or Province or City? And would you rather have a French BB design with some Soviet weapons on it or Soviet BB hull? Not a gameplay wise but for your lore story wise. Yes as a Thai person I want Thai BB to be either IJN or RN hull but weapons always Japanese. Because it make more sense considering that during WWII Thailand is part of the Axis and assist Japan and get a lot of Japanese technology in duration of the war.

[@theredreiter]

"This makes a lotta sense." Who are you and what have you done with Flamu?

[@gotfrydzbouillon4191]

Project 56 well well well they also can add ORP Warszawa. 😂

[@Anonihmus2567]

Soob?...soobaru?

[@Nick-dw3sv]

I want a Toco Bell style DD

[@Reptilian.Complex]

Bias intensifies.

[@ОсликИа-я2ы]

17:49 - trust me, you're butchering Bagration much more by pronouncing it "bagreyshn" instead of "bagrateeon".

[@davis6048]

When are we going to get Russian sub lines?

[@luukvst1032]

Hopefully never

[@christopherhanton6611]

wow nice we get some real ships of cold war

[@Arhiman93]

As a Spaniard, we would buy french ships before even thinking of buying british ones. And we absolutely hate the french. Italians though, are welcome.

[@NavytroyXIV]

La SECN era mayoritariamente de John Brown & Company y la Vickers Company así que no, realmente España le ha comprado muchas cosas a Gran Bretaña.

[@Arhiman93]

@@NavytroyXIV Que los tiers bajos al ser mas antiguos fueran comprados a los ingleses, aún, pero con los tiers altos, técnicamente mas modernos, y con españa claramente del lado del eje, no tiene mucho sentido. Aunque claro, son buques ficticios, pueden inventarse lo que quieran.

[@jpage]

You need to read about Spanish naval history of the 20th century if you think that ! The Canarias cruisers were pretty much county class cruisers.

[@Arhiman93]

@@jpage The Canarias class was ordered BEFORE the civil war. That just confirms that only low tier spanish ships should have british style/origins, while high tier ones should lean to italian/german designs.

[@Arhiman93]

@@NavytroyXIV Puedo comprender que los buques de tier bajo tengan estilo británico, pero los de tier alto deberian ir en linea con diseños italianos o alemanes.

[@Whaley96]

Honestly war thunder naval is more fun than warships at this point and thats saying something.

[@Wetwilly87]

This is what WG needs to do with the Soviet DD line. 1. Move the Gnevny (Project 7) down to tier 5 so it is the same tier as the tier 5 premium Gremyashchiy, Gnevny doesn't belong at tier 6 with her current setup, she is too weak. 4x1 guns, 2x3 torps. 2. Put at tier 6 the Storozhevoy (Project 7u/30), this ship replaced the 2x1 130 guns on the bow with a 1x2 130 mount. 1x2, 2x1 guns, 2x3 torps. 3. Move tier 5 Podvoisky to tier 6, this makes more sense as this is a prototype Leningrad class, more natural progression for the destroyer leader line. 5x1 guns, 2x3 torps. 4. The tree split will happen at tier 5 instead of tier 7. 5. Move the Ognevoi (Project 30) down to tier 7, remove the DP 130 mounts, and the 2x5 torpedo mounts, she had neither in real life, but she keeps her 8km torps. 2x2 guns, 2x3 torps. 6. Add at tier 8 the Smelyy (Project 30bis), this ship is already in the game as the tier 8 Pan-Asian ship the Siliwangi. If they want to give her DP guns, I guess thats a tradeoff. 2x2 guns, 2x5 torps. 7. Replace Udaloi at tier 9 with the Spokoynyy (Project 56), make Udaloi a coal ship or gold ship. 2x2 guns, 2x5 torps. 9 Do the same for thier tier X Grozovoi, replace it with a better Spokoynyy. The Destroyer leader line will focus on gun power, HP, and speed as it currently does with either smoke or heal consumable choices, and the other smaller DD line will focus more on it stealth and torpedo power with both heal and smoke consumable available to use.