Getting Started With War Thunder Naval Battles (2024)

[@SAKOSNIPER]

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[@aaronho1914]

Nice to have someone who's willing to play naval and make a guide for the people that want to try or understand the game mode.

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Thanks mate, appreciate it 🙂

[@Dingguy333]

@@SAKOSNIPER I need to grind the battle pass, but I don't have rank 3 ships, so this helps A LOT

[@meteorwt2122]

literally earlier today, I went into a match with my 5.3 US lineup and spawned in with the USS Atlanta, I quickly realised it was an up tier and was ammo racked by a battleship within the first 3o seconds

[@boravedat2931]

damn

[@calmdown_4850]

Deserved ngl

[@meteorwt2122]

@@calmdown_4850 ahah I couldn’t agree more I hate fighting the Atlanta with 4.3’s and even over 5.3’s

[@RaptorMaitre]

Hahaha as an atlanta enjoyer, i target them first when they are on the opposing team. This ship can be dangerous if it gets into the right position.

[@richardhansen5562]

Look at the line up before you jump in man!?

[@Boromas_1]

Great video! One thing you missed is that instead of panning your binoculars upwards or downwards in order to reduce or increase shell falling distance you can go into controls and set the mouse wheel to distance correction. Then you'll be able to reduce or increase distance by scrolling while having your reticle right on the ship.

[@teejayaich4306]

That's called "realistic aiming mode" and then set the mouse wheel to "adjust aiming distance" and the sensitivity (i believe)

[@colewright7276]

This is the video that I’ve been looking for. Literally there’s little to no videos on naval like this. It’s very helpful

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Glad it helped!

[@underscorecascadian]

One thing about crew interchangeability: if you’re running a dedicated PT boat slot in your lineups, check before you invest in the skill. Boats with small crews sometimes get literally zero benefit from upgrading the skill to max because of the way it’s calculated. You can see how the number of crew increases by hovering over the little bar. Also I like the fire prevention skill, haha. And the spotting ones are pretty useless but they can be good for grinding up the total crew level a bit if you’re trying to expert the crew.

[@ansongarcia4747]

Thanks for the guide, any love shown to naval is appreciated!

[@Archmagos_Faber]

if only gaijin showed it some love, maybe it would be good and not a clunky mess with a super ugly UI.

[@ansongarcia4747]

@@Archmagos_Faber yeah, I agree that they don't give it enough attention. Them skipping the naval event was a kick in the nuts for the people who enjoy naval, especially since the last few event vehicles like the mortar tank and Chinese artillery tank are crap IMHO.

[@archon888]

Dipped a toe a few years back, but just now really giving it a go and this helps a lot to solidify what I have been learning on my own, as well as explaining "ranging shot" which I would never have figured out on my own 😀

[@nicholasleon7819]

naval is the only thing that really interests me in this game anymore, just off the sheer cool factor of the big boats. Ive got 4k hours total in the game and several top tier lineups, im all tanked and jet'd out.

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Same mate; haven't played tanks in weeks, and planes in months. Hoping for Warspite + KGV soon!

[@babyculji]

They need to turn this into modern warships & legit make ground battles near by

[@ForHonorHater]

3k hours in planes and ships, naval is in one of the weirdest places rn since 2019. Hopefully with the addition of WW2 battleships and subs there will be a real naval change.

[@jacknickolstine3355]

Subs would be amazing, they have them in wt mobile.

[@000theUnforgiven000]

Thanks for the guide. Been playing top tier jets and ground for years, always been shy to naval because of not understanding it. This helps

[@nikotvshow]

Thank you very much! Finally someone who creates guides for Naval!

[@kiubekpl5863]

43:11 those rockets irl were basically a hybrid rocket/depth charge where it could be used to destroy submarines, ships and most importantly torpedoes which they had good sonar coupled ballistic computers for.

[@TheHXCfrog]

This mode is surprisingly fun. Like when I first heard of war thunder I was thinking that it was going to be lame but man I was surprised to be wrong.

[@jacknickolstine3355]

I did play a coast only game, it was the flooded city map. It was actually REALLY good

[@OutlawScotty]

Thanks for this man. I am brand new and still deciding if I want to play this or world of warships.

[@yellowpete79]

Which did you choose?

[@TheGuyYouLostTo]

Her Majesty's Fleet never dies!

[@mogu3reklame]

I just returned to naval after a while and just got my first 6.0 ship attacking a battle ship with 150mm for a min he turns around and 1 shots me with 300+

[@joseSanchez-ej2oh]

I pre ordered Marat, its the most expensive thing I've ever purchased,and have played to fund for SL gambling and also used it to distribute crew points to fully upgrade my ground crew with millions of RP I do not endorse feeding the snail but the RP gain was unexpectedly high and in a few months of playing it when I wanted pay to win big SL gameplay... I made more ground crew training progress on four crews than I had made since I started playing the game 😣 Shame on the snail Btw I only bought Marat bc I had already played naval and knew how much bias protects the ammunition on those ships 💪💪

[@captainvlad]

@2:40 well crafted?! every damn cruiser sails right in there and shreds anything that dares exist.

[@LifeHKX]

Underrated guide thank you Sako

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jacknickolstine3355]

If you're in smaller boats you can do some cool stuff just like in a real boat. Bigger ships are just too big to do those things.

[@IIW4RHAWKII]

Great guide I tried navy last bp challenge and it was actually really fun and then I tried again yesterday to get SL and fun again so I think I’m gonna play it more

[@Sal_Vito]

Great vid. Easy to understand and follow. Thank you for the efforts in creating.

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Glad it was helpful Sal!

[@Jun-o3l6t]

The HUD never dies

[@David_Bernstein]

Great guide, thank you! I'm more of a Ground RB player, but with the battlepass tasks requirements to play Naval, thought it would be best to learn it and might start enjoying this mode. I think you haven't covered low caliber weapons ammunition - would you say it is better to use HE/SAPHE for the lower tier coastal (40mm is very common) or AP is better for this?

[@frankwalder3608]

Your accent was a little heavy, but I think you said at about 55:45 to repeat, "The force never dies". I have been considering destroyers and frigates, fast and maneuverable, but big enough to not die too quickly. Moffet and Frank Knox look like good fits, but the soviet Project 56 vessels with 13cm twin mounts and RBU6000 rockets deserve honorable mention. Does a person have to upgrade to higher tiers or larger vessels when they reach that 4.7-5.0 plateau with those sorts of vessels?

[@ammonium4]

Make sure that you stay on your heels, even out of spawn, because someone will torpedo your spawn, and you might get yourself an unrepairable breach or die.

[@Leonydas_245]

Me trying to get the USS Brooklyn, a LIGHT CRUISER at 6.0, as it’s the closest ship we got to ARA General Belgrano in Wt: Well, shit

[@barnykirashi]

I'm just casually grinding naval, enjoying it as much as I can. But the game only begins when Kaga(1942) will join the game...... and as long as she's out there, the Hood will never sink.

[@Sheffieldthegoat]

Italian navy is great. The starter ships are very good, I don’t use it because my Italian aircraft are still very low tier and I don’t want to grind

[@TheSinlessness]

love this video. keep on the good work!

[@drakirger4297]

The pirate on the video pickture is the minister of baveria a part of Germany if im am right hes called Markus Söder

[@Tacom01]

Thats Jeremy Clarkson m8

[@antcutter2922]

Thank you, finally !❤❤❤

[@TheFreedomConcept]

Naval is my favorite!

[@baalrech]

If my ship is on fire, will I loose more crew if I'm repairing at the same time? What about if I have ai gunners turned on? Thanks for this guide 🤘🏻

[@crispchaos]

10:48 was a straight warcrime 😭💀.

[@digitaal_boog]

Not really. Those boats might be small, but they’re a real threat

[@nicholasleon7819]

I think conquest is way worse than encounter, and the criticisms you leveled against encounter can more accurately be made of conquest. Half the conquest maps are (essentially) open sea, (and if they aren't open sea then it's fucking south kvarken that blatantly favors the west-spawn team with that island in the southern half of the map) with nowhere for cruisers to hide and no use for coastal vessels except for very special ones. Plus in encounter, cruisers have an obj they can play for to win the match like in domination, vs in conquest they just have to target other cruisers lest they get swatted by a BB.

[@jamesbrown2184]

The Hood never dies 😉

[@ginsengmistwallow8577]

I have lost count of the amount of ads that popped up during this entire tutorial. KZbin has really gone to shit.

[@Lead1121]

Got over 200k SL in one match. Pretty nice

[@SAKOSNIPER]

EZ cash

[@tahap5917]

What does shooting without alignment do ???

[@kahlessreborn]

Please do a video on Naval radar!!!

[@nhientran4142]

bro i played the mitscher, sumners and still see heavy cruisers

[@triage9082]

was gnna try naval. then i tried searching for a match in first tier....... 0 players searching. literally impossible to actually get into naval.

[@hankstorm3135]

which do you think is the best nation to go for if could pick only one

[@Webly101]

Germany or Russia

[@313Blc]

Viděl jsem na prdeli jedné lodě Českou vlajku ... jsi Náš? 🙂

[@brim-skerdouglasson]

How the HECK do you bomb in a airplane when every ship has now AAA than the airfields do in ARB

[@pappa_jr_69]

I try to fly really close to sea level, you're gonna 100% die, but if you can hit a ship with a few 1000lb bombs, you're gonna hurt him too :) other than that you can try to cover your plane with a hill as long as possible, if you get out of cover and enemy ship is like 4-5sec away, no chance you can reach the ship. air is pretty much useless, I mean you can do kamikaze runs, but it's almost impossible to survive an attack on ship if it (or surrounding ships) has AA protection.

[@HONGKELDONGKEL1888]

I would love to play naval as it feels slow paced enough not to give me a heart attack like BR10.0+ GRB. Concerned that there arent enough players however, is this true?

[@SAKOSNIPER]

There are loads of players, never have an issue finding a game; there are a lot of AI bots in matches, but it's just free xp

[@alarminglyfastmovingskelet7289]

Are there any real advantages that lighter ships have over battleships? Or is it pretty much just a straight up upgrade?

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Rate of fire and top speed; don't really help you in game though. In real life, the smaller cruisers could travel further than BBs, and be far cheaper, due to only having a small crew. Obviously this doesn't make a difference in game

[@alarminglyfastmovingskelet7289]

@@SAKOSNIPER Yeah I meant as far as gameplay in War Thunder goes. Not that World of Warships is a good example to follow but atleast DD's have the benefit of being harder to spot.

[@yukiakito3083]

They haven’t added QE class yet This is a crime We already got super dreadnought s for US Germany and Japan Where’s the British?

[@theogmonk4299]

i mean all ships should be in the same battle, same spawn, the snail just have no idea what they are doing it sadly

[@TheNavypilot321]

Naval is my fav

[@TheCommentor-fe9el]

I cannot perform well in air and ground forces, but I enjoy playing naval battles, especially with my powerful German battleships, which my experience plays a high role. Also ı, I have Nurnberg with 3x3 150 mm cannons with 5 sec reload time, which lets me grind naval forces easily. In most games, ı run out of whole ammunition, 1000 pcs, without die. In some situations, ı continues fighting with 8,8 cm guns after 150 mm ammunition runs out.

[@radoslavkosil7450]

11:02 masochist* - would be correct term to use here

[@enelx6375]

Id actually buy a premium ship purely for printing silver lions if the ships were cheaper than a normal vehicle.

[@nlluke5207]

I just won a 7.0 Japan battleship it’s a good farmer yeees

[@jacknickolstine3355]

​@nlluke5207 i got some French ship, would've rather something else but I'll take it i never win shit lmao

[@Snicshavo]

Came here from WTM Naval. Call me submarine hater cause i hate submarines

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Mobile gamers suffer more than US mains

[@DavidTheConkerer]

Who never dies?!?! :D

[@crumpt8187]

why do all of your "air" syllables come out as "urr"

[@SAKOSNIPER]

Because I'm from the north of England, or accent is deeper compared to queens English

[@IsaacSpires7]

It’s kinda annoying because when you’re a battleship the whole server aims on you

[@wangl601]

The higher br it goes, the less fun you can get. Stick to br 5.0- bluewater

[@brianmcgoldrick9529]

36:11 What the sigma!?

[@LittleBird2184]

Man… I came here to possibly find out what good is radio communication and he skipped right past it

[@oakringmaster5728]

biggest problem: finding a game in 1.0-3.0

[@savagefox3530]

nobody plays Naval I have to wait for like 7 or 8 minutes for a game

[@SpriGgEx]

At Top Tier? You mean that Top Tier that has 80% of the time no Domination Mechanics?^^ Even at mx BR 5.3 or 5.7 Matches sometimes Gaijin forgets about cap zones and make Boats irelevant and on some Maps Destroyers can shoot right into the the Boat Spawns. And while some frigates can fight against Destroyers like the Köln Class or the SRKs or Japanese Ayanami. The Biggest Issue often is, Frigates have less armor and Crew and are mostly alot slower than Destroyers, making them basically a Sitting Duck in the Destroyer Spawn and everyone trying to kill them first. When the BOT User Spam was still live, they were often Set up to Target Frigates first and would shoot you from across the Map as soon as you spawned and wreck you because of your lacking speed to dodge.^^ Some Maps need Reworks and Frigates need their own Spawn. And Early Destroyers start at BR 3.3 to 3.7. 4.3 -4.7 already have pretty advanced and Meta Destroyers, with soo much secondary guns, they wreck most Air and Boat Threads easily.

[@upmateusfaria]

The targeting system is crap, we spend 100% of the time fighting with the aim, there is no time left to even look at the design of the enemy ships. The distance shown and the real distance are completely different.

[@toveribob1621]

Oh yea this exists

[@gigapromax]

38:02 bros thinks he is an aircraft☠️☠️

[@ManosErikosKlapsakis]

I don't have ads, I got premium 😅

[@AquaticAutist]

Aquatic > terrestrial & aeronautical

[@tahzib1451]

big L for gaijin to put the modern battleships in mobile but not in PC...heck even missile destroyers and nuke subs r there...

[@Boromas_1]

They'll come to PC eventually. The external model may be finished but the internal machinery for damage model is far more complex in PC. In mobile version the damage model is more simple.

[@oFalKs]

Naval desperately needs maps reworks tbh. Some of them are absolutely insane, spawning ~5km from your enemy is just flat-out retarded map design. And the compression is awful, way worse than Air or Ground.

[@pauln_dy2789]

too many speach ,.... too few info ...

[@fiamo91]

"gOns"

[@RayneN63722]

First step: hate yourself for playing war thunder.

[@RayneN63722]

Got that covered

[@johns3544]

The whole game is crap. 1.0 can singly win a game because no one can stop it. Also now Guns for Germens are usless.. Your painting ships Yellow Orange Red and Black and still kill 1 crew meber even with over 20 rounds hitting.. You can litterly shot the same ship from start to end.. The only good Coastle for Germeny is R130 because of the AA on the back. Ks3 and 4 just stick to 1.0 to 1.7. K2 was a good Coastle but its trash since they put it to far away to do any thing. Honistly just look at my kill to Death Ratio in War Blunder youll see the good ships. Gray Wolf 3rdX0 might be a o any how ill list them. R130 913 deaths with 2496 kills 2354 are ships Ls4 618 death 977 872 are ships Ls3 579 death 769 640 are ships Ill just list the ships from here cause they get screwed at times. Schawhorst, Admral Grafspee, Kolin, Nurenburg, K2 was good... SMS Bryan, SMS Kaiser, SMS Sachen,Z15 Erick Steinrink Good luck with the shat show....

[@genericbackgroundcharacter8431]

how to play naval step 1: you don't

[@morganfreeman4726]

The warthunder obsession with "realism" will be it's downfall, just play world of warships

[@chrisstevens4912]

ur buggin

[@lightcat1135]

Nah, still boring