New Tier 10 Hybrid Battleship - Louisiana First Impressions

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[@johnnychaos1561]

Next is carrier subs (since it was done during WW2). Of course, the sub won't just have one or two scout planes, it will have a 75-plane complement.

[@skld1295]

With 1,5 minute cooldown that restores entire aircraft and 2 attack flights, of course

[@jabaited]

The planes will drop enough torps so you guarantee getting flooded after you already DM your flood from the Sub torps

[@Michigunner]

Dont forget the nuclear missles to keep everything in check. Don't want them to be defenseless

[@basmca1]

Actually would not change much since you can't play against CV's now anyway. Only a small number of DD's can go after CV's and only in a few type of games.

[@skld1295]

@@basmca1 You should definetely try japanese cv line to understand how difficult cvs can be

[@duke223_]

Good thing WG always nails it when it comes to things we really needed.

[@hwill2453]

Yup. I just love those T9 ranked games where a Kearsage does nothing good except harass the opposing DD all game long. The Kearsage finishes bottom of the team but he's still the MVP for spotting the DD to death. Thank you WG for expanding that experience to all tiers.

[@SuperCrazf]

Yeah, they should really be working on a major gameplay rebalance for everything

[@rjcolombe]

Yeah. Wait till we see how outlandish combat missions get a year from now.

[@torpedosoup128]

Omg those Hybrids clearly look broken!!!

[@chadofchads7222]

I'm a world of tanks player, can confirm

[@waverleyjournalise5757]

The best thing about the first game was that Vermont... Saying he would devstrike the CV and then doing just that. Should have been a +1 immediately xD

[@Temp088]

Haha yeah true chad move

[@bruinsfan3725]

you could see the shells in the air lmao, didnt catch that the CV was dead til halfway through lol

[@Just_som_Ottur]

100% That shot was gruesome and hot af

[@Pepega_Ch]

I hope wg wont see this vid or they'll nerf vermong lol

[@Formulka]

thanks for the heads up, 3:55 is the money shot

[@Fackeldackel]

Playerbase: BBs are no longer pushing and just camping in their spawn because they get farmed by CVs and subs! Playerbase 2: Keep CVs out of clanbattles! WG: Let's turn BBs into CVs then! *pepegah*

[@borriblehastard4770]

The vermont one shot the enemy Lex... @3:55

[@siriusczech]

Nice and planned if you have read the chat from the start. Lovely

[@NDK0]

Soon, we will see hybrid-hybrid ships. A carrier with planes that drops ships

[@samuelmorton4422]

Wow the carrier battleship has better dispersion than a standard battleship......

[@jimmtheballs]

and they have guided weapons!

[@juleskerstens4472]

Yep, the realisation that the monty actually has worse gun dispersion is really depressing. I really like the monty but the guns can be a bit questionable sometimes, especially when comparing to this gameplay

[@jaywerner8415]

@@juleskerstens4472 Could be worse....could be German.

[@jammo7370]

@@jaywerner8415 mf really didn’t get the memo that german dispersion isnt awful anymore. Right now it is literally the most average BB dispersion in the game, 1.8 sigma with an american dispersion ellipse is very ok. You want bad dispersion, talk to the italian BBs

[@jaywerner8415]

@@jammo7370 That may be true but it STILL feels like you can't hit what your aiming at. Its better then it was but your never hitting WHERE you want, just the General AREA of where you want.

[@mikestion4629]

loved the convo between the allied Vermont and the enemy Georgia in chat mid-game.

[@arkenthor8106]

I realy think the cooldown for planes should start after the end of the attack instead of after you lauch it, it really feels like you can just spam it all the time

[@kagakai7729]

Not really, since if you're far enough away from a ship that your 2 minute cooldown ends in the time it took you to get over there, it's still going to take you that extra 2 minutes after your cooldown expires to return and set follow-up fires or finish him off. It's not constant planes like fighting a Nakhimov at 5 km

[@MICROKNIGHT3000]

If they make it like that don't be sutprise if they make the planes pump up more ridiculous damage who wants that to happen

[@mrsswindon]

the carrier overhaul they did in world of warships for me, is probably the most braindead game design ive ever seen. All they had to do was a few fixes for the old system. Instead they dumbed it down for simpletons to play

[@SuperCrazf]

Something interesting about the Louisiana, the secondaries are good enough that you can at least scare destroyers and Subs with them

[@rjcolombe]

Too bad no hybrid player will ever get that close..... because it has planes.

[@oneangrycanadian6205]

@@rjcolombe dude not all play at the back just because they have olanes

[@AJ-ei2df]

The moment they announced it had planes, you already knew WG wouldn't let this line suffer.

[@427Arbok]

Even though it has that big superstructure, I feel like this ship would also be pretty scary nose-in. Eventually that superstructure is gonna saturate, and 6 guns + bombers is still a lot of firepower.

[@Swarm509]

The last thing the game needs is another thing that can spot ships. I'd be way more OK with them if the planes didn't spot for anyone else but themselves. Another ship that is no fun to fight against.

[@sameerkharade7750]

I do not take WoWs very seriously, but this game is way too stressful. It feels like everything is against you - long range HE spam, submarines, infinite plane spotting, instant death for DDs, long range & long lasting radar etc. There are so many things willing to counter you that you do not feel like pushing and I do not blame the player base for choosing to camp, because I do not see any other way of playing this game, at least at tier ten. Not every game can make you feel good, but this game gives you just too much stress. You need not be a game developer or anything to see the flaws in this game that seem to be beyond repair.

[@Beep2bleep]

As someone who stopped playing with all the spotting I think the fix for planes has always been that you show on Minimap only (maybe with a little jiggle or delay even) not on the screen. Not to mention this would be accurate/realistic. Planes of this era could spot enemy ships but were never able to give targeting accurate locations like a fixed ship with dedicated crew would be able to. The concept that a plane flying at speed while evading flake and dropping a payload would be able to help walk in artillery fire is just absurd.

[@burt591]

Yeah I don't blame the players either, it's the developers job to design the game in a way that incentivize balanced and fun game-play, but WG is clearly not interested in that

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

Spot u before u can spot it and if it plane is down,it can turn to it gun to clap ur cheek instead :D

[@intangible_kant]

Thanks for taking a look at one of the newer ships! Other than lack of overmatch, the Louis really does seem tailor-made to the current meta. Not sure if you meant to cut off the first half of the second game, but great vid.

[@jimmtheballs]

Yay! More planes! Regular bb's will become obsolete on the Asia server. Can't wait... I loved how you flew into the AA of four ships and nothing happened to you. This is gonna be sooooo fun to play against.

[@JohnSmith-ux3tt]

Just like happened in real life. And WG doesn't see the problem.

[@Bane_Diesel]

I played a game yesterday where the enemy team got a division of these and our team got 2 turpitz. I was in a cruiser chilling behind an island and the division focused on me and took 3/4 of my hp before I could even do 30k dmg. It was so much fun.

[@TheDgamesD]

Italy had a odd one of these too as a planned project, a single front and back quadruple barreled turret with a large carrier deck in the middle.

[@jackz166]

Wg is working hard to push players out

[@Mark-ml3nv]

WG, can I have a flight deck on my Smaland? Makes total sense.

[@justinanderson9126]

This ship would be so huge that ports would have to be built to hold this class

[@truefluekiller]

I think its very powerful. These bombs are better then Midways in terms of tankyness, the reticle is easy to use and it will hurt destroyers so much. Then it also has the 12 km ASW and it has enough deck armor to shatter all AP. Plus its very hard to citadel. Tip for bombers or CVs too: Start your attack run way earlier. The bombers get reduced damage while aiming down and you still have a lot of time to reach your target.

[@hergie409]

Those guns have some nice dispersion. Even when they spread out, it’s most horizontal

[@jozseftoth8731]

I love the looks of this ship

[@JLewisRacing927]

The biggest issue with the hybrid BB bs is the plane reload is based off when the planes takeoff, so in a game without a CV you can basically be a perma cv if you play it right for spotting and manage your time well with it.

[@Pepega_Ch]

Wow, that's a very huge superstructure to farm dmg on lol Also, I love how the bombers use FDR high altitude bombing technique

[@noelmarcantel8927]

I'm a Louisiana native. The USS Louisiana was planned and under construction as a Montana class battleship when the Montana program was canceled in 1945. The keel was laid alongside the Montana and she was on her way to becoming a "real steel" ship. Now wargaming wants to make the Louisiana an abomination of a useless CV/BB hybrid line? This is as close as I've ever come to quitting the game entirely. They didn't even have to make up a ship. It was already there for them. It was under construction. It was a Montana class battleship. Give it a gimmick on speed or secondaries to set it apart. Ohio heal. Something. The work was already done for the game devs. The ship technically existed in real life to an extent. Now the one shot of having the ship I always wish existed in real life is botched in-game. It's a travesty.

[@Beep2bleep]

A div of 3 of these would be absurd. You could stagger your planes to hit someone every 40 seconds with 2 fires and just take out everyone one by one by fire without even needing guns. With a set of planes out every 40 seconds you wouldn't even need dds to spot since you could perma spot. I think hybrid BB need to be limited in matches like CV because one team have 3+1/2 CVs would just be absurd. Ever since subs got added to main, I've found myself playing less and in the last 6-7 months I'm no longer playing at all. I really enjoyed the classic BB/CA/DD gameplay (usually most DD) but super speedy subs and high tier CVs just make the game so much less interesting esp for sneaky DD players.

[@kirkdouglas8827]

Hmm, no one wanted aircraft carriers. Wargaming: Hey well make battleships carry planes so we get our carriers we wanted.

[@Nope-55]

Great video so over all the planes in the game and really no good AA ships I guess it time to take a long break

[@pummychaudhary4755]

What do you think is better, t10 Louisiana or t9 kerisarge bc it has 2 more guns and I like rocket planes for dds

[@speelangs7161]

Next are WW2 destroyers with Tomahawk missiles.

[@rjcolombe]

Notice how even though it's considered a BB, the damage audio when taking a hit is the same as a CV? 🤔

[@derrickstorm6976]

Wait a CV can take damage??

[@octopiegamer2669]

DUDE IM CAPTAIN_OCTOPUS AND THIS IS KNOW ONE OF MY BEST WOWS MOMENTS RIGHT ALONG WHERE I WAS IN A JINGLES VID.POG LOVE YOUR VIDS POTATO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

[@fritzfurz6442]

Louisiana has iowa guns (the longer ones) in contrast to kearsarge's NC guns right? so you have something like a montana with 2 less guns but bombers and worse armour?

[@ApeRSV4]

F yes, more planes! The more they F this game the more money I save.

[@jtanner2018]

as someone who is from louisiana Id like to quote along the lines of Kylo Ren. "BLOW THAT PIECE OF JUNK, OUT OF THE WATER"

[@samysnakke]

Nice. More planes. Exactly what we needed.

[@Vehehehe]

IM hyped to grind thesee NEW BB LINE

[@villiamanimelover]

I like how they brought this hybrid type of ship into the game, even though the superpower nations at the time tried and realize how dumb it was, interesting concept, but not feasible, unless they made an extremely large ship of the size of Californa (pulling this out of my ass). I'll accept it if it was a sci-fi Supercarrier or Assault Carrier spaceships.

[@kaollachan]

i do like the look of this ship, it look less "hight/ fat" than kearsage maybe because more long?

[@mcgee9777]

A weird thing I noticed is the back turret has seems to have a different gun sound to the front to. Back gun sounds like Colombo guns while the front 2 sound like regular American 16” guns. Nothing to do with gameplay but I just found it interesting

[@derrickstorm6976]

Well it does have 4 guns and WG can only do copypasta

[@kaollachan]

0:30 Ise crying forgoten in a corner XD

[@yourfavoritelawnguy2722]

So did these half CV's get NC shells like Kearsage? Or did they get Iowa/Montana shells?

[@dclark142002]

Can you not use the top-down map mode autopilot to do torpedo dodging?

[@arrcadedus2293]

Do you use mod manager or Aslains ?

[@leossenkerik1819]

I got Nebraska and the planes are very good.

[@Daviid-2009]

Do y’all think kearsarge will get anti-submarine ? Or is that it’s permanent nerf now with subs every other game.

[@jaywerner8415]

Well you see Wargaming can't program more then 1 airstrike type per ship, Cus the DUTCH cruisers are getting Ship Based Depth Charges since they already have an Airstrike. So NO Kearsarge will probably NEVER have ASW.

[@Daviid-2009]

@@jaywerner8415 well then they could add auto airstrike like carriers 😂

[@BSoDexe]

@@jaywerner8415 wrong, the planes are not an airstrike

[@jaywerner8415]

@@BSoDexe WTF are you talking about? The Dutch cruisers have had their parachute bomb Airstrikes since they where released, the Depth Charge planes work the EXACT SAME WAY. Literal copy and past with a different purpose. Same UI, same camera, different payload. Knowing WG they probably cant have more then 1 "airstrike" on a ship at one time cus "reasons". So the Dutch cruisers get ship launched DC charges instead.

[@BSoDexe]

@@jaywerner8415 yes, but I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about hybrids. Their planes are not an airstrike.

[@VRichardsn]

His laugh heals the soul

[@finalchapter24k]

what mods are you using, your hud looks sick

[@old_guard2431]

Airplane penthouse seems a little lower than Kearsarge. Also presumably gets the big kid 16” guns, Iowa/Montana rather than the Kearsarge’s North Carolina guns.

[@bruinsfan3725]

that CV snipe tho

[@virusproofficial1086]

This looks too strong, what is this bomber dispersion?

[@esgeran1654]

I very much second this. I have been on the receiving end of this a couple of times already and took the time to view more of its performance in spectator after I got killed. The bomber dispersion is absurdly good, consistently dealing 15+k strikes plus effectively guaranteed fires, including harder to hit targets like DDs. Considering it has little opportunity cost and there being no defense at all against it, it seems blatantly obvious this should not make it to the game proper. And no, I am not surprised it apparently does anyways.

[@virusproofficial1086]

@@esgeran1654 i mean kearsarge is basically the predeccesor only difference is that rocket planes are argueably weaker than the tech tree hybrid bombers. Its really absurd

[@christran7633]

Whats the mod for the x on the minimap for targeting?

[@MegaCheeks122]

This thing in CB would be nasty

[@youreverydayhellknight4257]

Yay the ship name for my home state is a tier 10

[@Vaas109]

Ise: im no longer alone

[@vicdoesgaming7570]

Man Doesn't that thing just look like a giant pinata!

[@ronankuek8646]

I cant wait for asia server to be filled with 4 cv bbs 2cvs and 3 subs in 12 sub human team

[@Train115]

I almost forgot about this

[@dododostenfiftyseven4096]

Awesome

[@zacharytresidentdigimonenj3397]

Call me crazy, but I'm excited for these.

[@brianensign7638]

I’ll bite…you’re crazy

[@LaunchpadGP]

Yeah, if there's one thing this game needed it's another mechanic that encourages passive gameplay.

[@404-1]

The Cursed Line

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

Wait - why does it get ASW when Kearsarge doesn’t? ;(

[@joshtheking1772]

It appears to be a good Firestarter to get alot of burn damage. I think they should have made it a torpedo carrier instead of a bomber. Its looks like its been funneled into a fire boat.

[@davidpotts7116]

Ise and Tone are split between that HE and flood role. While I love a fire and flood build especially on Ise, sometimes it feels like you’re playing too much with rng vs having only a single status to focus on like with Kearsarge

[@kr4ftt]

@@davidpotts7116 people shit all over the Ise, how do you feel about it?

[@davidpotts7116]

@@kr4ftt I love it personally. Peoples main point of complaint is the rear turrets since they admittedly do have bad firing angles, even worse than St. Vincent’s midship turret. They’re good guns though - 8 guns that Hyuga has at t6 instead of t7, so they hit hard with both HE and AP and are reasonably more accurate than Fuso. She has amazing AA by t6 standards (think old Texas before the rework) and decent enough turning radius that she can avoid t8 carriers decently well, though with 6x30 rocket AA mounts I am really disappointed WG didn’t give her DFAA like they did for Hood and even Hyuga (who doesn’t have rocket AA). All in all, I’m one of the few who enjoy her because I have just learned to have fun and know I won’t hardly ever top the scoreboard with her. She’s a meme ship that I have a fire and flood build on, not a ship I’d slap a Fuso captain on because that just doesn’t work well. Best way to play her if you are interested though is a back-midline sniper. General thing you want to do is always have your HE loaded, then once you’ve gotten a permanent fire or flood from your guns/planes you swap to AP and slap your target with 14 inch plunging shells. She really can’t get close to anything, as she has almost no secondaries and can’t do drive-bys because of her turret layout unless you can guarantee the kill, but she excels at the role of status infliction. And once you get good at aiming your planes, you’ll find yourself doing about 1-1.5 drops worth of Ryujo damage which is honestly not bad for how weak the individual torps are. Her planes are also amazing for driving dds and cas out of their smoke due to the narrow torps spread and the sheer amount they drop too, and during the last t6 cb season that was my primary role as well as being an AA anchor for our main damage dealing bb. I don’t know if you were there for the Smoke Wars, but everyone was really struggling with Huanghe and how its smoke lasted so long that nobody could make a good game impact due to having nothing to shoot at. Not even the carriers could really do good against them (this was also before Soviet carriers released so we couldn’t even take in a Serov to torp/skip drop a smokescreen). It was just a bad season overall, but having Ise ironically earned us some wins thanks to being able to either deal heavy damage to a ship sitting in smoke or drive it out so the rest of the team could kill it.

[@rohanpreis6883]

I like these weird vehicles but i also like realism, so isk

[@recarunu868]

Sometimes you give normal impression to a ship & later you call the same ship really really good..😂😂 I am really confused whether to get Louisiana would be helpful for the team. I can spot enemies, I have half of Montana guns and similar accuracy, I do good in cv attacks.. I thought this ship would be my style. I saw 2 of your videos on Louisiana. this one made Lousiana look like a commoner... the later one made Louisiana like OP .. so confusing LOL .. I will still go for it, spotting enemies is the best help I can give to a team

[@Riful]

Ship actually seems pretty fun and strong enough.

[@derrickstorm6976]

"Strong enough" do you think CVs are balanced too?

[@WintersFinalstand]

So how do you get this thing?

[@ivanlakic9745]

When can we expect submarine with planes? We really need one or two.

[@mouth7137]

Boi imagine a hybrid Jean Bart

[@Jertzuu]

I’m so glad I stopped playing for good. What is next? I-400 class and Habbakuk?

[@danielefabbro822]

I've played some games with this ship and I have contrasting feelings about it. It have a weak armor, but an amazing AA. It have mediocre guns (shells are slow af) but good planes and bombs. Don't have fighters to deploy, but if used to spot stuff it can turn the tide of the battle. You can use it to spot and persecute DDs, but you will not gain enough damage for a ship of this type. In my last two battles I won one by using in a mixing role scoring 193k damage and taking down 58 planes of enemy CV. The other game? 89k and pretty basic medals. Lost game obviously. I don't know... It's an anomalous ship. It definitely requires a skilled player to shine. To me, requires a bit too much than what I'm used to, also because I'm not that skilled player.

[@cwshellhamer342]

Next we'll get the crazy air carriers out of the Ace Combat games 🤣

[@mattcasse7520]

I wish they would have just made the Louisiana a premium sku of the Montana, like it was supposed to be in real life.

[@rccola5167]

This is now world of gimmicks and magic spells...

[@michaelkenny7314]

as A Liousana native I find this skitzophrenic nature of this ship highly accurate to my state.

[@FIatIined]

Looks like Resident Evil Umbrella Corp has released the T virus on-board that ship which caused its disfigured mutations. Lol

[@StrikerWolf91]

Man has planes he can control. "We don't have a spotter" lol... All comments aside, I enjoy watching your videos, so please don't take this negatively.

[@BreadApologist]

So when do we get a Submarine carrier battleship hybrid?

[@gamerdrache8741]

Nah bb dd cv and sub and cr hybrid

[@badassforever1]

Lets just be very clear. This ship is good right now because it is new. Once sales slow down it will get a nerf like all other ships do. Again. Please, I beg all of you to stop giving wargaming money. You are why they are getting away with screwing everyone over.

[@daemonknight9413]

Kind of looks to me like a couple of them just threw their HP away due to New Ship Syndrome.

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

Huh,thought the run way would be at the rear,like taking up the entire other half

[@qwertpain]

No matter how much AA fire you got on your gunboat the planes will always hit.

[@mrsswindon]

I want a secondary DD ship line

[@rouleslite5312]

great, now it's harder to balance in rank when it's come to regular bb and hyrid

[@sknoppers217]

very excited for the line and esp 4 louisianna... keep up the good work PQ :) and just a good hint from a cv player 4 the next rounds, drop a bit later and more mid of the battleships so u dont hit the turrets that much which u cant pen :)

[@MeLikeSushi]

Omg not another one

[@rostdreadnorramus4936]

I prefer leaving my hanger and flightdeck away from the enemy, and my armor and guns up close and personal with them.

[@kevenuzamaki4243]

I made a lago ship that is a battleship carrier hibrid

[@agaspversilia]

And this morning I deleted the game client. After World of Tanks, now World of Warships is for me a “f*ck you Wargaming” too. It’s a pity because I used to love this game. But after the introduction of submarines in the game I realised it’s not for me anymore. Now hybrid nonsense. You guys keep enjoying the game 👋

[@edomar2r]

That's pure haxs.

[@johnbowen5336]

At last! FINALLY! BB's will have a reason to exist! 🤣

[@martin-krzywinski]

An interesting mechanic would be if the detection radius increased during plane launch, just as if you fired your guns. It would remove the idea of stealth plane launches. For CVs this doesn't make sense but for the hybrid ships -- for sure. If you're using your weapons, be it planes or guns: you're going to get detected.

[@sardaukerlegion]

I'm not leaving Ohio for this one

[@sethdrost5526]

Just wait till they add I-400 i hate Cvs and subs..... but...... id definatly buy it

[@jaywerner8415]

Feel its wroth pointing out the CITADELS for these ships are BURIED so low you basically NEED A SUBMARINE to hit them. (except the tier 10 funny enough, but its still CUT lower then the ship its taken from) Which seriously leaves you questioning WTF is with the ARMOR BELTS on these ships if they aren't protecting anything important. Also despite having that MASSIVE flight deck on top they SOMEHOW have better maneuverability then the Baseline Tech Tree Battleships. Guess PHYSICS does not apply to Wargaming.

[@micklane7306]

Montana's citadel is lower

[@jaywerner8415]

@@micklane7306 wait till you see the tier 8 and 9. They are just BURIED in the ship.

[@caa4118]

I honestly expect the planes to do more damage because they're twice the size of Midway attacking DB

[@josevoaks]

Balanced.

[@randomyoutubecommentersecu7639]

WoWs really forgot to take the pills. What's next . Yamato class with a flight deck and guns? Or maybe shinano, yamato hull with armour scheme and still being able to use secondaries and planes. Those steam catapults must be on steroids.

[@muhammadhafidzmustofa5410]

man to be honest I despise this game, probably because im suck at aiming, but whenever i watch ur video, I wanna play the game again and again and again x__X