Ragnar - Swedish Steel Destroyer | World of Warships

The Ragnar is a Steel Tier 10 Pan-European (Swedish) Destroyer. It has 4x 152mm guns. This video shows 2 games, 1 played on Hotspot and 1 played on Mountain Range, where I showcase myself with my thought process on what happens in the match.
Price: 27,000 Steel
I do play this match when I record the video, giving you live commentary and thoughts whilst playing the ship.This is actually a recorded video, and not taken from twitch. :D
I hope you enjoyed the video, and if did, leave a comment, like or sub. Also, if anyone would like to ask me question about the ship, you can join me on twitch/discord/youtube comments, and if anyone wants to know any of the builds I run for T8, T9 and T10 ships, they are available on discord, link below.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Armour Layout
03:00 Build
03:50 Camouflage
04:44 Ship Characteristics
08:37 Game 1
28:03 Score 1
29:33 Game 2
39:07 Score 2
40:17 Build
40:55 Statistics
41:35 Price
42:00 Summary and Conclusion

[@artoahremaa9253]

Ragnar has some of the highest HP of its tier and there are only 5 T10 DDs in the game who have enough HE pen to penetrate its broadside one of which is the Ragnar itself yet it still retains a fragile platform. Now... if WG gave it the specialized repair party of the Neustrashimy (and 1 more base charge)... And maybe a few more thousand HP it could make up for where its seriously lacking

[@AUsernameWeShallMarchToKiev]

Ragnar is inherently underpowered. It lacks the necessary attributes to make meaningful impact on match result. No burst damage to speak of, split turrets, and yet still retains a fragile platform. I would take 1 Conqueror..Thunderer or 1 DM or even 1 of just about any CA over 2 Ragnars on my team any day of the week. Now... If WG gave it the specialized repair party of the Nestrashimy ( and 1 more base charge).... And maybe a few more thousand HP if could make up for where it is seriously lacking with longevity. /s

[@samuelhakansson6680]

@@AUsernameWeShallMarchToKiev Underpowered, lol.

[@MalteseKnight]

Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a good day! This is the first video on my channel which is available at 1440p, let me know if the video quality looks better than previous videos! Big Fan!

[@Sabieri]

Pepega :mega: If only Malta upgraded his camera feed to see his handsome face in stream in glorious 4k and martch this video quality

[@Fridge123m]

Switched out my Ragnar stealth build with this. Much more enjoyable to reach out and touch most ships and have an impact. Enjoying it so far. Great vid.

[@KarthikVishwamitra]

Yo Malta, really appreciate the 1440p video man! KZbin compression makes 1080p look like garbage; the 1440p is much better. Big Fan!

[@zedburg]

Been thinking about this DD, watched your other vid from 10 or so months ago but I still wasn't convinced that this DD is for me, but now with this video, it might give me more motivation! Big Fan!

[@MalteseKnight]

Thanks, and good luck with it if you do decide to get it!

[@weabootrash5891]

I used my last steel coupon to get Ragnar and adore mine, she takes a LOT of points to actually make great, but once you get to that point it's one of the best DDs in the game. I would highly, highly recommend her if you like gunboats

[@zedburg]

Those guns too, they are intriguing, you don't miss unless you miss, not much RNG with such guns, decent reload and great alpha. Radar, heal and strong speed boost too, what's not to like. Gunboats i find fun, but we'll see, still waiting for my coupon in the next 2 days.

[@saiyajinog7424]

Great video, I'm looking forward to picking her up on friday after the steel whaling cheers :) BIG FAN

[@MalteseKnight]

Big Fan! Good Luck and Have Fun if you choose to get it!

[@-is-short-in-wwr8221]

I'm just considering buying it at the end of this CW season, thank you for your video and ideas! I think this ship acts like a Khaba while it have choices to counter dds when needed(Khaba 9.7 conceal so sad), and another thing is it's guns have 30mm pen which means it kite and kills most CAs in a short time.

[@Artem_Shepelev]

1440p finally, huge upgrade, big fan

[@MalteseKnight]

Indeed, hope it was a good video!

[@llittle725]

GREAT VIDEO!!! you had me laughing through a lot of it. I have watched your Kleber videos and wonder which one is easier to play? (I think you favor the Kleber, but have more damage in the Ragnar) I need to know whither to go for Ragnar or Kleber. thanks so much, you are just awesome.

[@cbdiesel8707]

Congrats Man! Beautiful Score!

[@ironharvest8458]

No Torp Hits. Malta didn't even give me the option to 'predict' :maltamadge: Well done on the Ragnar Video.

[@MalteseKnight]

Big Fan and Thank You!

[@wastelander89]

Would u be willing to show Friesland game and how you play it and set it up? I would greatly appreciate it. Also great video nice damage too👍

[@flazederg6800]

what a giga chad play from the Henri lmao

[@sciencethygod]

That situation with the Henri and Naka was hilarious af, not gonna lie!

[@onaucc9899]

My favorite ship in the game. She's perfect. She's essentially a light cruiser without citadels for 80% of the game and the scariest DD hunter ever the other 20%.

[@lubossoltes321]

That's my description of the Khabarovsk :-) I have to invest significant time into Ragnar yet, but from the first few games I do agree :-)

[@shadowsaberXYZ]

@malteseKnight would you say get the Ragnar this coupon reset or wait for the Z42?

[@MalteseKnight]

We're not sure how Z-42 is going to turn out yet, so up to you if u want to wait, or get Ragnar.

[@rowinglove4ever]

I have smaland, i wanted my first steel ship to be the Ragnar , then i hear for that z42! ,but after that hard nerf from 3.1 seconds to 4.5 seconds base reload @ main battery of z42 made me no longer want it! so i might go for the Ragnar now and in the future maybe get z42 if she diserve it! actually keep in mind that they close teasting fro Brisbain but not for z42 , so this ship might get long time to go for steel! If you dont have Smaland get the Ragnar!

[@Lperez3829]

Great Video Malta!

[@MalteseKnight]

Thank You!

[@sala5093]

currently on 17k ish steel and waiting for coupon. Can’t wait to get her!

[@MalteseKnight]

Good Luck and Have Fun when you do get it!

[@ynge8046]

I just got this ship today, with discount, my first and probably only steel ship.

[@jedpratte]

My coupon resets today. Already have bourg and incomp. Trying to choose between Ragnar or Stalin.

[@bryanchase1897]

Do you always take incoming fire alert on your dd's?

[@MalteseKnight]

Not always, I think for the one's it fits on the build, I have builds available on my discord server: discord.com/invite/malteseknight

[@TrailblazerAlpha]

Rangar is inherently underpowered. It lacks the necessary attributes to make meaningful impact on match result. No burst damage to speak of, split turrets, and yet still retains a fragile platform. I would take 1 Conqueror..Thunderer or 1 DM or even 1 of just about any CA over 2 Ragnars on my team any day of the week. Now...If WG gave it the specialized repair party of the Nestrashimy ( and 1 more base charge)... And maybe a few more thousand HP if could make up for where it is seriously lackin.

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

It already has radar, armour, heal and out-trades most, if not all other DDs. Yes, it's a bit of a 1 trick pony and maybe it needs something else, but not hp, dpm or smoke. The way she is means it's very hard to do much without making her OP. As Malta proved, it can farm over 300k damage, which isn't possible in truly underpowered ships. If it get more DPM, it'd have to be in exchange for the radar or heal or something. If they're not careful they'd create Smalland 2.0 and she truly is OP.

[@TrailblazerAlpha]

@@Joshua-fi4ji Imagine not falling for a copypasta xD

[@Choukai_Chan]

@@TrailblazerAlpha True. Imagine not knowing your own stupidity💀

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

@@TrailblazerAlpha yeah, I realised afterwards when I looked further down the comments lol

[@TrailblazerAlpha]

@@Joshua-fi4ji XDD issokie

[@parvuspeach]

got the mecklenburg today with coupon, damn, was not sure and now im pissed off :D

[@TheFuzzypuddle]

Edit: by the end of the game I realize this question is obvious. the cv ignored you the entire game. He literally flew over you to farm bb's. do you think the enemy cv misplayed @14:50 by not going after you, or at least spotting for his team, when you are capping C? Actually, same thing at B a couple of minutes later. I guess he was focused on farming the A side of the map.

[@MalteseKnight]

I must say, getting allowed to get those 2 caps helped us extend the game quite a long time, now I don't really play CVs so I wouldn't be the best to judge what he should've done, but probably getting me spotted there, does make it harder for me to actually get the caps.

[@blusafe1]

CV wasn't farming, he was securing the flank. At B, he had jet rockets. At the angle of approach, it was not ideal for spotting more than a few seconds, not long enough for anyone to get a shot. If you look at where the fighters were dropped, that was the closest angle he could get to while still efficiently lining up for a strike on Conqueror In an organized match, CV could spot the capping DD, but in a pug match time is money for a good CV player. You really want to prioritize damage and kills over non-productive spotting. Take note, every ship the CV harassed was killed quickly and efficiently. TLDR: As a pug CV, you spot if you trust your teammates to finish kills. If you want to win, you need to apply hard damage and finish kills. I can't fault the enemy CV here, and definitely would not dismiss his acts as just "farming BBs." If you want to be critical, the Gearing here almost lost the game. At the beginning, he made the same mistake Yamagiri did. If Yama had support, the Gearing would've died. Then later, Gearing chased BB damage instead of flipping B cap (the game wasn't guaranteed yet at this point). Cherry on top was picking a duel with Ragnar, in which he should've died. Could've smoked up outside of radar range but just gunned a Ragnar full broadside, no kiting, no torps out - zero advantage. Went from 100% to 5% for nothing.

[@belsteed6050]

We're not getting gearing cause I aimed like a dog 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I like you Malta..

[@i_nameless_i-jgsdf]

Currently consider between the Vallejo and Ragnar for the steel but i don't think i can get the Ragnar even with a coupon, i only have a little over 20k steel. I'm also planning on getting the Tromp for coal aswell.

[@onaucc9899]

Ragnar is only 20.250 steel witho coupon. You should really save for her, 3 ranked wins give 200 steel every 2 weeks, up to 600 total in bronze. It's easy to get the final few steel. Vallejo is probably not too bad either, but you will see Superships in 8 out of 10 games. T9 really is not a good place to be in at the moment, in my opionion. So i'd say wait for Ragnar.

[@saiyajinog7424]

I agree, try to get that little bit of steel elsewere, even the battlepass is gonna get you enough, I'd say definitely save for Raganar, I will pick it up myself this christmas after the steel whaling via christmas containers :) I have Vallejo already and it's also a fun and pretty good cruiser, but as said before me, T9 is not a fun tier at the moment unfortunately, it's plagued by the massive amounts of superships you'll have to face....

[@bias9440]

@@saiyajinog7424 fellow steel whale! im pretty new to this game starting in august of this year but is there any tips for whaling steel? im staying up till christmas containers drop tommorow so i can get the ships and steel. NA Username: TopG_PrPr

[@saiyajinog7424]

@@bias9440 Well, sorry to tell you, but if you're new to the game, you will not be able to whale steel. Not unless you have every premium ship that is available in the crates 😅 This will be my 4th christmas event in WoWs and there's only 1 rare ship left that they just added to the list and after that, every ship pull will be converted into steel for me. Still whaling these containers is always worth it, since you can get a whole bunch of new ships relatively quickly including some rare ones if you're really lucky or just whale hard enough ^^ Good luck on your pulls, greetings from Germany :)

[@bias9440]

@@saiyajinog7424 ohh yeah ive been preparing for christmas for the past month i bought up ships so i only have 57 left to pull, then ima need about 40 for steeel so i can get ragnar, stalin, and enough for z42 when it comes out. so ima need to pull about 97ships and i have 1.1million dubs in port so ill get it forsure

[@jarrodhroberson]

This is my first dealership no regrets. It is an incredible Minotaur assassin. I love hunting minotaurs in it.

[@weastie87]

First dealership. lmao

[@EvoraGT430]

Unless it's a radar Mino....

[@soffici1]

It’s cute when people like Malta say they don’t fear DDs that can’t HEpen 25mm. Obviously their engines, guns, torpedo launchers and rudders don’t break every time they are hit Nor do they catch fire more easily than a tinder box filled with petrol and matches

[@lubossoltes321]

You can build Ragnar 2 ways: 1. BB farmer (what you did) or 2. DD hunter ... in the 1st role you will do a lot of damage but your game influence will be low, in 2nd role you will have a huge game influence but low damage as you will lack the range to farm phat ships effectively ... and you will die a lot compared to 1. I have to try the 1st variant now :-)

[@ryanli5803]

BB farmer for randoms, DD hunter for ranked

[@sala5093]

Im gonna do like a hybrid build once i get her

[@karlonovakovic9509]

If anyone knows how to get the camo after the update 13.3 pls let me know.. i cant find it in the armory anymore or mybe im just dumb, would be appreciated!

[@boccaboi]

Big FAN

[@MalteseKnight]

Big Fan!

[@katherinesilens2994]

LMAO THAT HENRI Funny as fuck, good tactics to stay alive.

[@tahiribnmohammad5410]

woooo, defended ribbon, lets gooooooooooooooo

[@MalteseKnight]

Lmao

[@fruitdog]

big fan

[@MalteseKnight]

Big Fan!

[@lordlolhoo4348]

Big fan

[@MalteseKnight]

Big Fan!

[@RealX-Benz]

Do u like Ragnar or Incomparable more ?

[@MalteseKnight]

Ragnar for me

[@sardaukerlegion]

Would be interesting to see Ragnar vs Tromp.

[@EvoraGT430]

Ragnar should win every time.

[@sardaukerlegion]

@@EvoraGT430 Should, would, could, but did not.

[@JohnWilliams-sq7cj]

Ive beaten ragbars with tromps, ive obliterared frieslands/gronigens with ragnar. It all depends on the driver

[@sardaukerlegion]

@@JohnWilliams-sq7cj 👍

[@mcbrite]

In description: The Ragnar is NOT a "steal" ship... It's a steel ship! Unless you think that 20/27k steel is a steal! Still... 🙂

[@Sabieri]

Pepega :mega: imagine actually thinking Ragnar is not underpowered We can see in this game malta influencing wege balance decisions by showing a game with payed actors Neutrashimy buff for Ragnar FAN BTW!!!

[@007longboarder]

I'm watching it as promised lul

[@MalteseKnight]

Legend, hope you enjoy the video!

[@Seppe1106]

That's a good video, to be honest with you.

[@MalteseKnight]

Haha, Thank You!

[@HoshikawaHikari]

Marceau can still outgun a Rangar at close one-on-one fights.

[@MalteseKnight]

Yes, I’ve done in many times, vice-versa also.

[@rowinglove4ever]

you cant hit ragnar with marceau shells above 8 km! i have try it with marceau and i know! from the other hand ragnar can hit you from longer ranges because of that 900 m /s! Most of times you will end up losing at longer ranges, Marceay will be better at short range, but thats not always tha case! ragnar got plate that Marceau HE cant pen so less damage! during the fight ragnar push the heal too! so its so frustrating! most of times i lost in 1 vs 1 with my Marceau and i have 21 skill comander so a lot of dpm with fearless browler adrenalin rush and of course survivability expert! over all ragnar got 4600 hp pool + than marceau

[@syedushherahmad311]

Hate this boat so much as a bb player lol. it just goes around burning people down

[@xyz6106]

She has no torp. That is why Ragnar is inherently underpowered.

[@atpyro7920]

Ragnar is inherently underpowered. It lacks the necessary attributes to make meaningful impact on match result. No burst damage to speak of, split turrets, and yet still retains a fragile platform. I would take 1 Conqueror..Thunderer or 1 DM or even 1 of just about any CA over 2 Ragnars on my team any day of the week. Now... If WG gave it the specialized repair party of the Nestrashimy ( and 1 more base charge)... And maybe a few more thousand HP if could make up for where it is seriously lacking with longevity Big Fan!

[@Martinistatzengeil]

the first game shows why wows frustrates me so much

[@EZ-Videos]

For me this ship stands about 64% WR, but only because I use it when playing with friends, being the front pusher against DDs and some smoke cruisers. Working more as a scout than a dmg dealer. I can do good damage, but usually only against bad players that show too much of the ship. The ship itself is still useful, however it requires your aim to be very precise due to the low amount of shells and somewhat high reload. Overall it competes with the Småland, which is a much more competent ship. I'd rank it at 3/5.

[@michabanasiak2073]

Ragnar role I can see is light support and a disruption. It is not really impactfull. More for randoms then ranked for sure.

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

I've seen it good in ranked. It's a DD killer. That's it's job. Kill DDs and farm everything else. In ranked, killing the DDs is usually the quickest way to win. Problem is she's too hyper specialised and doesn't have the ability to do quick damage to larger targets. She's like Asashio, great at dealing with 1 class and mediocre at fighting the others.

[@michabanasiak2073]

@@Joshua-fi4ji when facing good opponent in DD she doesn't seem so scary. i.e. marceau will consume her if she gets too close and ... she is slow with boost on cd...

[@danh7411]

@@michabanasiak2073 ..do you realize Ragnar has a gigantic 25mm plate on its sides that Marceau shatter everything on?

[@danh7411]

and no, you don't play Ragnar in ranked because she's a light support and a disruption, you don't play her because people spam nothing but Napoli and RU cruisers in ranked.

[@sarpkaplan4449]

@@Joshua-fi4ji it is not strictly a dd killer, point of ragnar is it can do farm and kill dd as well as dedicated ships for those tasks. Using it as a dd hunter is dumb but using it to farm is also dumb.Doing both is the correct playstyle

[@luisbeaveeerr]

CLUELESS

[@luisbeaveeerr]

Rangar is inherently inferior. He lacks the necessary attributes to decisively influence the outcome of the game. No significant burst damage, split turrets and still a fragile platform. I would always put 1 Conqueror...Thunderer or 1 DM or even just 1 CA over 2 Ragnars on my team. Well... if WG gave him the Nestrashimy's specialized repair squad (and 1 more base charge)... And maybe a few thousand more HP to make up for the deficits. 50

[@juri8723]

what a pathetic team, did they do anything?

[@TheArmouredArmadillo]

Rangar is inherently underpowered. It lacks the necessary attributes to make meaningful impact on match result. No burst damage to speak of, split turrets, and yet still retains a fragile platform. I would take 1 Conqueror..Thunderer or 1 DM or even 1 of just about any CA over 2 Ragnars on my team any day of the week. Now...If WG gave it the specialized repair party of the Nestrashimy ( and 1 more base charge)... And maybe a few more thousand HP if could make up for where it is seriously lacking. In other means, start of the video looks great in 1440p, keep up the great content Malta