OUR INFERNO | SMOLENSK

[@Yurobeat]

*YOU DID NOT SEE THE BALANS BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE* I'm going to give away one of this bugger to one lucky comrade. To enter, join my Discord server (link on the description), go to #contest-and-giveaways and react on the giveaway post [SMOLENSK IS BALANS]. Winners will be announced on the 14th of September in my Discord aswell. Now make sure you enter so others have lesser chance to get it )))

[@GRTL1000r]

Cool thx. GR21

[@minecartrider7057]

Giveaway for one person is capitalist pigs!!! Give everyone a Smolensk

[@Sleep-is-overrated]

Took me a while to notice the very, very faint Sekrit Documents Commissar in the beginning of the video. Forgot to make it visible, or are you sending us a hidden message?

[@americana_incarnate1717]

Are you going to do a Enterprise guide?

[@heliogt1961]

i dont know on which server yuro is playing... but on EU this thing has NO gameimpact and gets killed first blood ever round .... and if not... the player may be good enough to play for more than 5 minutes

[@michaelagustinsantos3015]

So basically the Soviets made an Atlanta and made it run on vodka, semechki and hardbass.

[@Metallica4Life92]

so that's what I keep hearing when I encounter one of these.. Drunk sailors dancing to slavic hardbass.

[@Metallica4Life92]

@Martin Der König My sights were occluded by the sheer volume of shells, really.

[@Metallica4Life92]

I still have nightmares of it. Me just casually cruising in my Harugumo, when suddenly a wild Smolensk popped up D:

[@Lightningshattr]

its an woester with smoke basicly... but than even more cancer was added.

[@christoperantoniojohan7562]

also STALINIUM

[@ichasegaming]

What feedback? Hell we told em in person and this still got released. Spreadsheet says balansed comrade, shhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@foowashere]

You didn't see feedback in CC summit because it's not there!

[@skylark306]

The sekret dokuments from the Kremlin says it's balans. It must be Tru.

[@vecioalpin8998]

Dear Ichase call me a conspirationist but I believe it was done on purpose: This ship will be withdrawn from shop and put among those mythological "unbuyable" that will be possible to get only buying Xmas lootboxes.

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

Putin released it actually Was that or gulag They picked release

[@Bigweave74]

U go to Gulag now.

[@devastator5042]

WG: "Removes the Kutuzov and Belfast due to their smoke and HE firing" Also WG: "Adds a T10 with smoke and HE that's just a more powerful version of the Kutuzov"

[@Panocek]

"but its for "free" so it can't be pay2win" - WG, probably

[@americanace96]

And with that, I counter that WG should either remove the Smolensk or bring back the Belfast and Kutuzov (and up tier the Belfast since its sister ship is the Edinborough and she runs a teir 8 where radar is as common as air)

[@teriyakiterry]

@@americanace96 Doubt they would ever do that, but they probably will put smolensk into santa crate, to milk more money.

[@trololoev]

@@americanace96 belfast has radar as well.

[@Squantanamo]

Kutuzov has a range of 18km vs like 13 in Smolensk

[@Paveway-chan]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. One scale: Smolensk Other scale: two Atlantas, a Mogami, five Gearings and the Battleship Hindenburg

[@terranceroff8113]

..*sings* and a partrige in a pear tree!

[@jamesharding3459]

Terrance Roff And a random Montana.

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

Cyka blyat...means balance xD

[@Bigweave74]

*Grinds to T10 American heavy cruisers* Me: Yes! Time to show off my shiny new Des Moines! I've learned through trial and error to effectively play the US heavy cruiser line. I know all the strengths and weaknesses, I can be a true asset to my team hunting enemy cruisers and using my radar to ........... Oh shit, I got burned down by a Smolensk....... oh so did the two DDs next to me.

[@Dragons_Armory]

Battleship Hindenburg?

[@Slntreaper]

This is the equivalent of throwing vodka on a raging fire.

[@falloutghoul1]

Barium Sand on a Burning Reactor Core.

[@MANTRAKKK]

Wimp

[@Chopper-AK47]

Lol

[@Linneom]

Like Don't want to ruin the 420

[@quatschkopq186]

= Molotov Cocktail

[@Hugothester]

I have never stopped playing the Smolensk so fast to open a video.

[@sevi117]

Anda, tú por aquí XD

[@jozseftoth9368]

🤣🤣🤣👍🔥👍

[@padtrack]

Pretty sure arson at this level is a war crime

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

no, this is designed to paint the world in buring communism red

[@amazingblyatman5760]

Aint be a war crime if none of the enemy can report it

[@Paveway-chan]

*laughs in Dresden*

[@amazingblyatman5760]

@@Paveway-chan *laughs in Tree*

[@combativeThinker]

Erik Bergström I get that was a joke, but Dresden was a legitimate military target.

[@KnodsilMemeMaker]

Russain shipbuilders: *"Reality can be whatever I want"*

[@Benny_AUT]

Whatever WE want!

[@Mezha07]

They made that reality while being drunked on 5 bottles of vodka

[@JABelms]

Then the Kirov Class Battlecruisers were made

[@rabernod3022]

Smolensk: Lololol under 10km u can't citadel me BB gg Thunderer HE: THERE'S WHERE YOU'RE WRONG!

[@restarting_krnl]

Hindenburg also, fuse is short, easy to get perfect pen for citadels, so it can blap them into 4 digits health if smolensk go broadside and RNG played right

[@thomaskositzki9424]

Lol yeah, Brit BB HE spammers are the trolls who troll the Soviet Balans trolls. ^^

[@rudrakshmishra2761]

Monty can do it tho (SHAP)

[@maximilianf.4236]

"How many Chernobyl jokes do you want?" Yuro: "Yes"

[@mp7_acog]

wg: smolensk is balans tovarisch playerbase: don't you mean balanced? wg: no, it is literally pure balance

[@ofi1238]

Everything is balans before her.

[@andreipoplauschi180]

Smolensk is the thanos of the Wargamimg universe created to balance the playerbase by kiling 50% of them, poor bbs

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

It's either going to get nerfed (ha ha I get it), or people will learn to counter it (what happens to most new ships), or it'll get focused to hell (à la Belfast et Asashio).

[@wino0000006]

kurde balans

[@notaidan4451]

I think WG’s favorite game is World of Soviet Bias, even though it’s not made by them. It’s made by Stalin

[@deadjester]

QA tester: It exploded. The enemy ships are all gone! They exploded. Lead Ship Designer: My heart bleeds. Call the fire brigade. What does the spreadsheet say? Junior Designer: 3.6 Roentgen, but thats as high as the balance meter goes. Lead Ship Designer: 3.6? Not great not terrible. We can release this definitely QA tester number 2 :But the enemy are all gone! Lead Ship Designer: Thank you for the information comrade. Take him to the infirmary, he's delusional. It'll be fine I've seen worse.

[@FuryTomic]

Pure Soviet bias Dakka. Worse than Wooster and Mino combined already

[@Metallica4Life92]

agreed. there is no real counter against this volume of HE cancer

[@fokionleile7662]

@Ju lian hah nice joke. Gl hitting this pos

[@ryanc00p3r3]

Don't know what you saying but pls dont say anything about that Worcaster Before i get that ships cuz i almost going to give up on T9 Floating American Wallmart Fury

[@Frostburnphoenix]

in terms of FP yes, AA, hell no(even with DFAA and priority)

[@quazarKiragon]

despite that he just said avoid straight up fights against any of the other nations light cruisers and the des moans

[@redv6camaro]

Smolensk. Not great..not terrible. -Dyatlov....probably

[@grumpasalty3859]

Really liking the Chernobyl references here.

[@jimmyseaver3647]

3.6/10 not great, not terrible.

[@MrMatoro8759]

Smolensk is firing graphite. That's how she sets em on fire. Detonations are optional/intended. Do not worry enemy comrades very little risk of dying.

[@Tuning3434]

@@MrMatoro8759 Exploded?! You are delusional Comrade! GET HIM OUT!

[@rebelkommando6166]

You didn't see the Smolensk BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE!

[@StelzCat]

Swear to god, Yuro, one more Chernoshit joke and I'm roasting you on graphite embers.

[@ducc5198]

I see the Russian Atlanta is looking balanced.

[@jamesleon457]

I wish Atlanta had a heal...

[@Markus-zb5zd]

Russian Flint with Battleship trajectory guns and enough pen to pen BBs at close range

[@i_nameless_i-jgsdf]

@@jamesleon457 I wish Atlanta shells don't fly up to the edge of space before they react to the Earth's gravity.

[@jamesleon457]

@@i_nameless_i-jgsdf I'd be fine with it if they weren't so damn slow. This ship has laser pointer guns.

[@slypask9185]

I really don't want to meet the Ensk, since this thing is only the smol one... Don't hit me pls D:

[@NoahHofer]

Lol good one

[@Arengeesus]

Russian flint*

[@ya7ioo]

STAND IN THE CORNER

[@calanon534]

GO TO GULAG

[@saltefan5925]

It doesn't have to be balanced. It just has to be *WORKING AS INTENDED*

[@Xavagery]

I've watched this like 20 times now and it never gets boring

[@Taliyon]

I'm at a solid 5-7 🤣

[@nelsoncheng2674]

Okay so after the shout out from WOWS devs, you’ve finally felt guilty enough to make a video for all of us.

[@TheGuyThatsNotFunny]

Germans: we have turrets with four 20mm flak guns! (Edit) Motherland: hold my vodka.

[@cancersillycrab]

sextuple Bofors was a thing

[@jamesharding3459]

cancersillycrab octuple

[@andreasmuller4666]

@@jamesharding3459 the octuple were pompoms though not bofors.

[@jamesharding3459]

Andreas Müller I know but still cool. MORE DAKKA

[@Arengeesus]

Hold *our* vodka

[@ryanc00p3r3]

Dat armor... Is this the true deffinition of "No armor is Best armor"?

[@MarijnRoorda]

Wargaming should make more of these ships. The crying of the unicums, the community contributors and the folks like Yuro(eurobeat) that make video's about the OP'ness are what makes this such a great game. To watch mind you, screw playing it, i prefer paying others to play it.

[@thegrayseed2792]

How to Smolensk (brief version) : 1. Aim at Enemy with HE loaded 2. Hold M1

[@snavsmatiq]

Also Harugumo, but less damage, and range

[@Metallica4Life92]

@@snavsmatiq harugumo takes a little more skill, but only little.

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

3.drink vodka

[@nl7458]

4. Play Hardbass As Loud As Possible

[@SoldierOfFate]

5. Wear an Adidas tracksuit and squat during the firebombing.

[@Tenacitybrit]

Atlanta: Who are you? Smolensk: Я ты ... но лучше

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

Hahah

[@Sorain1]

Had to look it up, but yeah, sounds like it.

[@m4rionettealastor702]

I’m you but stronger

[@Tenacitybrit]

@@Sorain1 You know...because it's Russian?

[@Event_LUNAE_Horizon]

@@Tenacitybrit or because,ya know.. it's 3 tiers higher..?

[@roberto577gaming7]

Yuro outdid himself this time on the intro... Those first 37 seconds get me every time.

[@spartanonymous113]

Hehehe. Years later rewatching videos and the intros get me everytime

[@masonuch]

Я один зашел на это видео, потому что я из города СМОЛЕНСК в России?

[@z0nix923]

Net ne odin

[@chikibamclyde]

Masonuch жиза я тож

[@ГошаКупцов-л5ш]

я думал Смолян в комментах не существует

[@nikolaybugrov179]

Ну привет, земляки

[@ololosh4258]

Дарова, парни

[@ZinXlX]

One thing I really love about Yuro vids.... is that after each one I often have a new song to put on replay for a couple of hours. Thanks Yuro !

[@PointyHairedJedi]

As ever, clearly the correct answer to the problem is "nerf Yuro".

[@foowashere]

PointyHairedJedi I mean, spreadsheets say that there are no statistically significant proportion of unicums. It can't be a problem then, can it? Kappa

[@amaidolce2x660]

"I serve the soviet YunYun."

[@jojodivas9211]

*We

[@alexlucas9535]

3:13 am finally gonna go to bed like I should of a couple hours ago, instinctively checks subs, new yuro vid from 13min ago. Who needs sleep anyway?

[@BL4CKSK]

Just like Slovakia? Hello?! :D WE ARE HERE!!! srlsy we ARE ;)

[@457mm.stalinium]

*can be seen from space* ;)

[@cwshellhamer342]

I was holding my breath for a yuro “how to Smolensk” video and now can breath in prep for holding my breath again while watching. Iz totally balancz Tovarsch

[@furubaka9544]

wargamming. "hey we heard you liked Harugumo!" "Have a russian version. But 10x more cancerous"

[@maximilianrediger98]

Whats the song at the start?

[@jshkohler]

Lol, I just deleted one of these with a Bismarck. Got a salty message from the guy who thought he was invincible. 🤣 I laughed.

[@heliogt1961]

playerbase: when do we get ships that really existed and were in ww2? wg: yes..... "soon"

[@thomaskositzki9424]

There was hardly any Soviet fleet to speak of in WWII. And those vessels that existed either were bottled up in port or got sunk. At least that is naval warfare in a nutshell in the Baltic and Black Seas. So WG got not much to work with really.

[@adamapkarian8555]

At this point the Era is solely determined by Tier I: WWII Coast Guard II-V: WWI VI-VIII: WWII XI-X: Man, what if WWII didn't end so fast...

[@navisinvictus7856]

Slovakia here, comrade. To Gulag with you!!

[@thatfinnishguy6575]

BS

[@thatfinnishguy6575]

Go to gulag

[@TemporaryINTER135]

Tier S: USSR Tier Garbage: everyone else WG: This is fine

[@verifeli]

Nationalism at its finest form.

[@NEXIS981]

Funniest explanation of the Smolensk i have ever seen 🤣 *thumbs up and finally subscribed* :)

[@beherith2874]

oh man. alot of chernobyl memes.

[@principalityofbelka6310]

There's graphite on the Smolensk

[@horikyosuke4794]

@@principalityofbelka6310 he's delusional, throw him out of the ship.

[@principalityofbelka6310]

@@horikyosuke4794 I apologize *VOMITS*

[@captainmatiastorres4425]

The FDR after getting added: "Hmm, smells like revenge"

[@liebeundhasst926]

Never enough balans Pretty toksik too But i forgive ya for the chernobyl references

[@admiralhans8273]

if school had gaming as a lesson this can teach us how to play world of warships and ships history

[@huanlecongquoc957]

4:23 Yuro, you could have made another Chernobyl reference by saying “It isn’t actually there, like graphite in the rubble “

[@siralanturing9103]

Yuro- *All it needs is a simple salvo to finish it off* Me- *Looks expectantly at the Yamato shells sinking Russian Vodka* Russian Vodka- *People power. Never fails*

[@pranavshinde4472]

Effectively deleting 90% of Smolensk hp is just too satisfying

[@ГлебГлебович-ч2й]

Я вырастал пацаном в Смоленске! Я знаю каждый здесь уголок!

[@vecioalpin8998]

LOL is it a nice city?

[@spaceunicorn4793]

@@vecioalpin8998 This is the song of a guy who is a meme in Russia

[@spaceunicorn4793]

@@vecioalpin8998aand... I am from Smolensk. Ordinary Russian city

[@giorgiograssi2123]

So far one of the best videos of this channel, what about the zao's review?

[@Gamle]

I cant stop rewatching the first 30 seconds... Whats the name of the song?

[@herrkommandant9900]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqSqn6SQrJafrK8 That's the link to the song in question

[@succmyyeet420]

Song at 6:22?

[@MisterGalahad]

Congrats to 100 000 subs 🙌

[@VRichardsn]

0:55 hey that sounds like the voice of that crazy philosopher, Zizek.

[@qq7793]

The Chernobyl jokes had me laughing my ass off great vid Yuro

[@verhREQUIEM]

1v2ed a BB and another cruiser and won with 500+ hp. What a legend

[@spedon2wheels267]

This is basically a ship that runs on vodka hardbass and anger

[@snowsoldier_9775]

“A floating PKM”

[@Green_Magolor_Gijinka]

Nobody: Smolensk: *sets everything on fire*

[@reaper_guardian_8214]

Me listening at full tone Headset at the beginning: :

[@hoaxpositive]

there’s nothing better than watching a video of the ship that arguably sent wows onto an even steeper downward spiral. it’s also crazy to say that it’s been outgimmicked

[@Nyannatwar]

This video made 1 million views lol. congratulations.

[@cmdrantezscar3368]

Yuro, i NEED a full version of that bass boosted Redfoo-Let's Get Ridiculous (Sonic Mine Remix)

[@alexanderroblox4557]

So its a tier 10 verson of the non capatalist atlanta but instead of dieing you make others feel pain before they go to gulag?

[@AT-yd7go]

Yuro - y videos and advices are really the best about WOWS. THANKS!

[@minecartrider7057]

Yes, AP fuse time. Something probably only Yuro knows

[@Markus-zb5zd]

funyn thing, Smolensk has 1 real hard counter, and these are the "battle-cruisers", they have enough pen to pen the citadel at weird angles but not enough to overpen

[@EvoraGT430]

@@Markus-zb5zd Yep, when I play Yoshino my main task is take out Smolensks and Colberts :-)

[@LeroyJ12]

This just made my morning! Thank you, Comrade Yuro!

[@Tuning3434]

+1 For Boney M, best export of Holland (Bobby Farrell)

[@chrisb9143]

best way to visualise an encounter with a Smolensk : "Fire" and "the ship is on fire"

[@foxyfox3358]

3.6s reload time you say... *NOT* *GREAT* , *NOT* *TERRIBLE*

[@ON-O]

"))))))))))))))" -Smolensk, 2019

[@Moorbote]

YES THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER! And in one of your greatest videos too! Really happy right now 😭

[@khurdur2939]

A Soviet Black Sea pleasure barge, armed with 16 flamthrowers. Or a Gulag merge between Wooster and Harugumo. Stalin realizing the meta is moving away from his STalingrad TM and moving to the HE meta. Suddenly a new meaning to the phrase "Drop it like it's hot, komrad"

[@christophermatarazzo8862]

all the Chernobyl references....i love it!!!!!!!

[@bornaerdec533]

''the reactor 4'' that was dark i love it

[@danehutchins3845]

Euro making WoWS great again 1 HE spammer at a time.

[@tiggax2000]

can i just say i love the beautiful transition at 6:35 . just... marvelous

[@nekob1]

It feels actually sad that this reminds me of the Smolensk glorydays now that we have things like Austin and FDR

[@Matcha_Green.]

yeah, the comander rework really hurted Smolensk

[@m4rionettealastor702]

Schrödinger's Citadel. **It's there, but isn't.**

[@wino0000006]

7:38 - this situation is like dividing by zero.

[@angrywehraboosnoises8016]

Nobody: Slav's at 2 am: 0:24

[@dathsazoidberg3239]

God i hope this ship never comes in legends...

[@commitselfdeletus9070]

I found that it’s bigger Soviet bröther moskva is a very good counter because fast shell speed, long range radar, 50mm deck armor for the most part and it can kinda just remove it in 3 salvos

[@GoonMcGoonerson]

They removed the 30mm side armor it had. Now it just...can't get penetrated at all. *The world will burn.*

[@quocvinhnguyen2063]

Not with the French dd

[@quocvinhnguyen2063]

If they live long enough to met the Smolensk

[@semicolontransistor]

Still working on a full DPM build Smolensk. The armor nerf hurts a lot but at the same time, it helps somewhat with getting them holy overpens :)

[@sealordmountbatten]

Someone has been watching Chernobyl

[@Dysputant]

6:35 Really nice transition ! Gj Yuro.

[@abhinavkaushik3677]

also be careful of other soviet cruiser, i mean battleship Stalin

[@elrabin]

Don't forget about Kremlin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXibfX6AoZx4idE

[@robinekhoodekful]

Stalin is not overpowered at all. Kremlin is. And it is incredibly overpowered.

[@MilesStratton]

That opening scene was quite possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen on the internet...and I've seen some shit...

[@ScallywagBeowulf]

I despise this ship. Especially if there’s like 3 players in a division using them. They melt people quick as fucking hell. It’s amazing to witness, but it makes me want to never play WoWS again if I’m on the receiving end.

[@Ohzmann]

This maybe your best vid yet :D Great work m8

[@Brother_Rony]

As a Slovak I have to agree. Where the fuck is Slovakia? Please, I just wanna go home but I keep ending up in Slovenia

[@IsKor06]

Smolensk Yuro vid? Made my day mate. Another great one :)

[@warspitebstwaifu6453]

Well the spreadsheat says were having fun

[@Raptor747]

Seeing those absurd, purely fictional turrets made me want to scream. Also, those Chernobyl memes were fucking spicy as hell, m8.

[@Rimtsutaka]

Angered by Smolensk two times *cries in polish*

[@Y0SH1-.]

Me: don’t you dare put that disc in Monkey:hehe boi Puts in Disc is Yamato Me: gets 10 kills in one round The monkey: I control this universe

[@svidentkyrponos7530]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I can't stop watching the hard bass intro xD BTW, dat balans,WTF WG, it's the second game in a row they ruin by kissing up to the russian basement lurkers or their desperate money milking

[@Kris-qy7hh]

Russian Atlanta on drugs at Tier 10

[@railbaron1]

"Quantity has a Quality all its own" Joseph Stalin

[@kurumi394]

its

[@railbaron1]

@@kurumi394 I hate Its & It's, they're backwards to how you think they'd be and I have a hard time keeping the straight.

[@mzx722]

Transitions made me smile.