Sevastopol - My Very First Match

Spammed a bit of the new Soviet cruiser in gold ranked today, and I've been enjoying it a fair bit. The damage output is lacking, but the tankiness can reach some real troll levels.
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[@Flamuu]

One of those figuring-out-the-ship-as-we-go games. Got a pretty good grasp of it in this first match. Discord: discord.gg/Flamu Stream: www.twitch.tv/flamuu Insta: instagram.com/flamugram/ Twitter: twitter.com/flamuchz

[@waleedmukhtar2925]

wish they gave it a short acting hydro with short cool down but 4/5 charges. would have been interesting combo of consumables.

[@ME262MKI]

This is weird, i remember Sevastopol being an old and obsolete Gangut class battleship, well everything is different in the "Russian world"

[@ryanli5803]

She's one of the Kronshtadt-class battlecruisers, started but never finished.

[@tpersch3359]

@@ryanli5803 Sevastapool is what kronshtadt would have been if it was finished, and the kronshtadt that we have in game is the original design. Original design called for russian design and built main guns.

[@bdub1682]

^^ later as the gun development dragged on they decided to buy german 380mm guns for them, and thats what sevastapol represents, the later design

[@Sfirodrepanoskarxarias]

"Blah, blah, in rl _____________ " ( insert armchair naval "historian" unrelated to a freaking GAME pretend "wisdom").

[@danh7411]

yea not like it's also the name for the second Kronshtadt class battlecruiser, stated building in Nikolayev

[@Ducky1760]

Wow this is some fresh content we all want from flamu

[@6uiti]

its just another kronstadth , that they took the uniqueness away nothing fresh just same old wows bullshit have fun with stupid russian bais game

[@longthai9091]

@@6uiti cry more xD It's no longer russian game. Lol

[@Voygliz]

You can't use all your 5 heals in a 20' battle unless you start healing 30" into the match and keep in using them as soon as cooldown is over. 5x 1'30" + 4x 3' = 19'30" out of 20' battle

[@mortimer5939]

Love how you have a different oppinion on this ship. For some reason most people hate it and i guess because they expected a Petro 2.0 and play it this way. Its fresh and unique and i dont regret buying it as well. Fun and different.

[@VidZarg]

People don't expect russian ships to require skill lmao

[@sameerkharade7750]

@@VidZarg True XD A Soviet Cruiser that's not coated in 50mm plating and does not get 6.9km AA is fresh. I am still not convinced about that heal though, but let's see which RB ship I buy next

[@lepastresgentil9467]

"Fresh and Unique" It would be like calling Azuma unique just play siegfried if you crave for such gameplay

[@lukagolob4755]

Congrats on getting married. Hopefully u2 stay happy together, your community is happy for both of you. :)

[@sunny3545]

"I wouldn't say it's terrible" while completely wiping the floor with them.

[@aurorabesalduch2499]

It has poor dpm

[@yurialexandre2037]

Like he said, the ship only needs good guns so based on that he'll wipe the floor with many other ships

[@justatroll777]

@@aurorabesalduch2499 it’s 380’s of course it’s going to have low dpm🗿

[@saturnascension]

@@justatroll777 What does that have to do with what they said, the dpm is ass

[@Sfirodrepanoskarxarias]

The reason he wiped the floor with them is not because the ship is OP or even good it's because the average WoWs player sucks more than a supermassive black hole.

[@JM16714]

Any ship that can fit kaptain krushnicrunch is going to be ok

[@seamon9732]

Lots of CVs in gold ranked compared to silver and bronze? Well, that must mean that CV players are good players. *trollface* ( Yes that was sarcasm )

[@Napalmratte]

Nice, another Flamu vid: Let's enjoy the animal research :D

[@TheSoulRavager]

Thanks flamu a lot of your videos helped me improve a lot in wows always fun watching you play.

[@Arthion]

I think the biggest problem is the sheer anti-synergy between limited DCP and that heal. Super-long heal cooldown and not having enough charges to just DCP a fire if you're unspotted is oof. For randoms you're probably better off going with Siegfried. (Also a tad funny how Sevastopol has better performance with the same guns just by virtue of being Russian and a tier higher..)

[@matsab7930]

I think you’re completely wrong. The synergy is perfect - you should literally never dcp a single fire because the slow super heal heals an absurd amount. Essentially you don’t need dcp for single fires anymore and can instead save it for torps or multiple fires precisely because you have this crazy long heal. Throw in the special commander and this ship can sustain like essentially no other ship in the game.

[@EvoraGT430]

@@matsab7930 You should almost never DCP a single fire in any ship, ever.

[@sofielee4122]

so is this "we have Gneisenau at home" or is Gneisenau "we have Sevastopol at home"

[@Myomer104]

Siegfried is the closer comparison, being also a super-cruiser with 6 x 380mm guns.

[@Taliyon]

Sevastopol translates to: 1 pen and 3915 damage per volley, all match.

[@Lucarionape]

I need to ask sorry, but what key do I need to hold to get the detailed breakdown of ship characteristics in large? I only know of holding h, but that is much smaller than what Flamu has, and I can’t find anything about it in the settings.

[@danh7411]

You hover your mouse on it

[@Lucarionape]

@@danh7411 thank you very much

[@Autumnal_Reaper]

When’s the PQ collab coming??

[@mariodrv]

Just build some AA into any ship you play and you will maybe see one CV in 10 games.

[@mariodrv]

@@JohnSmith-fs2tw Thats how an O.G. rolls, bruh. Deal with it.

[@yourfavoritelawnguy2722]

lmao your right. if you build AA the CV's stop playing, pick a poor AA ship and they all que

[@038alpha]

would it be worth to equip the +10% to consumable duraction thing ? since the repair party lasts a bagilion years

[@CarlosdCover]

no

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

For repair yes but the heal is meant to heal whole boat

[@Derguz]

Flamu: "I play ranked to avoid CVs and subs"... Well - I play something else to avoid CVs and subs.

[@T.K.9]

With the speedboost, seems like she shares the Georgia gameplay running down ships or going for flanking crossfire. But those guns, seems to be very nice dispersion wise. Mini Slava much

[@zenakulla99]

Any recommendations for tier 8 doubloon bb/cruiser? I want alabama but never played us bb before mainly playing soviet/japan/british and german bb

[@bella_ciao4608]

Kii is solid, lots of good options, maybe wait for Anhalt, new German bb seems neat, Black Friday is coming soon and Massachusetts will come back

[@zenakulla99]

@@bella_ciao4608 massa will be available again in doubloons?

[@Spartaner627]

​@@zenakulla99 massa has been removed from sale because of "popularity", totally not because it's too strong. you might be able to get massa b on black friday though, they did sell jbb after jb was pulled.

[@zenakulla99]

@@bella_ciao4608 ok i will wait for black friday

[@zenakulla99]

@@Spartaner627 thnx mate for the info

[@thepiratemongoose8965]

I see that WG has finally succeeded in killing the DD class completely

[@michaelsullivan7544]

Dd main. I still carry. Cv games are different play style. I would usually bring in ranked marceau daring or vampire 2 and Sherman. Those are my favorite boats i don't struggle with carrier matches. Bringing things like kleb Shima... You have a glaring weakness. You must remember your job is to spot early game do not suicide into the cap. There is circumstances like being inside the vampire and having no radar lets you cap bully. To be a dd main you have to play them a lot, play very dynamically don't get caught up in farming. No doubt it is the hardest class of ship to master and im coming from someone who was played since the start has every techline t 10. If you want to get thru ranked master dd and carry.

[@michaelsullivan7544]

I'm always looking for friends i play solo... Hit me up in game breakermike I'll be back state side October

[@belsteed6050]

Sincerely, there is so many hydro ship now and radar and CV and subs, yes it's getting harder and harder for Dd's to play concealed. I don't think DD is harder than anything else, I've been playing since 3 years and I find that ship classes are equally hard to master... Subs , CV and crazy spamming cruiser make it hard for BB, crazy accurate overmatching BB make it hard on cruiser, every classes got a bump in difficulty to master since last year.

[@paddington1670]

spood beest

[@xmlthegreat]

This was playing in my head every time he said speed boost and every time he activated it

[@Biggie862006]

What is with the audio? Feels like i'm in a cinema!

[@gn0me420]

There is no better feeling than animal hunting in this game

[@stormbreaker3027]

So between Sevastopol, and Moskva which is the better ship iyo?

[@belsteed6050]

In ranked? Probably Moskva, this thing can shoot decent He salvo and high penetration AP, has crazy accurate gun with quick reload, good armor nose in and a radar, Moskva is a monster and very good if you don't have Stalingrad. Stalingrad guns are better than Moskva so it's the best cruiser of the entire game gunwise.

[@SeraphimZero]

I stopped last season in bronze and this time in silver for exact the same reason. Didn't wanted to put up with the CV-shit. With the old system I got to R1 multiple times. But all the interest is gone... Without CV I can at least carry some games but with them I can't do shit. :-/ Sad that WG is so focused on keeping the CVs like they are and favor letting the game die (and grab as much money as they can before this), insted of changing something or admitting an error.

[@EvoraGT430]

Because World of Warplanes was SUCH a success......

[@fahmimike4999]

so good gun on zao means u will obliterate everyone too?

[@zb10948]

Take the prop mod on 3, and steering gears mod on 5. 1 km of extra concealment changes little. You want to be trading (and taking damage) because of how long heals run, the maneuverability will help you mitigate incoming damage bcz you can't get farmed faster than heal heals and it heals slowly.

[@happyblt624]

take steering gears all the way, didnt use the prop mod that much and instead used speed boost remember the prop mode doesnt help with deceleration

[@matsab7930]

The concealment of this thing is literally one of its strongest aspects, you should spec into it as much as you can. Remember, this thing has high calibre guns with fantastic pen, it’s almost at Stalin level but has absolutely insane concealment and a speedboost to get close.

[@meneldal]

Why would anyone take prop mod anywhere when you can have last stand instead?

[@zb10948]

@@meneldal Prop mod gives you acceleration. You buff both acceleration and rudder shift with Prop mod and SGM2. Last stand ain't nothing to got to do with it unless you're referring to the bug.

[@meneldal]

@@zb10948 Well the bug makes it stronger than prop mod

[@buster-jr5lr]

love how you call everyone and still do the same thing well done my m8

[@eze8970]

🙏🙏

[@XanderTuron]

So, it's a slimmed down Gneisenau at Tier X?

[@Panocek]

Siegfried being exactly that also exists.

[@ryanbrochu3336]

No, it's a Kronstadt with Seigfried's 380mm guns. Comparing it to Gneisenau isn't fair, Sevastopal hits what it aims at.

[@belsteed6050]

It's neither of all those, it's a unique ship with unique traits, it doesn't feel like any of those ship in-game and not that much on paper if you look closely to the specs or layered armor and shape, guns specs etc.

[@belsteed6050]

For comparing, the guns feel like fenyang AP characteristics to akizuki guns its just a small tweak with AP specs with same guns... Even if the shells are 380mm with good velocity it has kinda more air drag with a small pen angle buff, the guns feel satisfying but sometimes it feels lackluster, not enough shells and poor dispersion at time all that considering the reload time, it doesn't punish that much but is ok consistent overtime I guess, it's definitely an overtime ship gimmick. Like probably the best 380mm gun in the game but too few of them to have a battleship characteristics hull, it would in my opinion benifits alot from a buff to dispersion or sigma or reload because right now you are just a fragile hull with battleship weakness so not very maneuverable, ok guns, nothing scary to me. imagine if incomparable tier X had 4 X 406mm Vickers with great accuracy buff over 508mm, this is how I feel about Sevastapol. There is alot of worthy gimmicks but something's wrong, there is no great strength to combine it's mandatory weakness and feels just tier 9.5, Siegfried performance wise like.

[@SSSam1975]

why did wg remove the bonuses from the camos?

[@PL-kt2hi]

"For a better in-game economy" aka to get you to use more RL money if you're not good enough...

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

Because camos are obsolete and now u can pay for more eco bonus and have whatever camo u want

[@Glider5858]

@@grimmshredsanguinus2915 But the way they did it made using camo's pointless. So like everyone else I sold all my camos and got 80 million credits.

[@kanar10444]

@@Glider5858 You mean like vast majority of games out there where cosmetics are a separate thing that does not affect your performance?

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

@@Glider5858 good for you anyway its just a paint why should grafiti change the aspects of your ship

[@worndown8280]

I may sound dumb, but how does this thing fight subs?

[@pauta9]

It doesn't

[@danh7411]

Nothing does

[@worndown8280]

@@pauta9 So they now have ships with no anti submarine countermeasures? What a dumpster fire.

[@belsteed6050]

Nothing can fight a sub 😂 sub is a predator with invisible camo and you are just human with a balistic gun.

[@flounder2760]

isnt the sevasto a a russian gneisenau?

[@opposingcritter]

Is this one worth it

[@benjamingasaway9882]

The ship is ballinced for tier.

[@superrodge8352]

They have started to get real lazy with the default camos for premium and research bureau ships etc.

[@EvoraGT430]

No-one really cares about camos any more.

[@superrodge8352]

@@EvoraGT430 yeah i know but art department used to make nice camos

[@alfredneumann4332]

last time i played wows was months ago. i was playing ranked in my des moines. took a cap, sat behind an island, nose in to support my DD. a cruiser is spotted full broadside in open water, basically sailing in a big circle towards us. some new russian cruiser i've never seen before. i thought: "i can nose tank this thing and shit on him with DM DPM" he shoots at me and pens my nose for 15k first volley. may i introduce: russian BS Sevastopol with 380mm guns. right when i thought after petro and the russian CVs they can't come up with much more broken russian bullshit.

[@partyboi69er]

how does this ship have a smaller concealment then a hindy? ships big and hits like a truck

[@danh7411]

same reason as Incomparable having 10.3

[@partyboi69er]

WG is on crack

[@ryanbrochu3336]

Because comrade, glorious Russian navy is best, most advanced navy that single handily won the war.

[@zpg743]

Mandatory youtube engagement comment.

[@yareyare6441]

The Russian Gneisenau/Siegfried

[@margaritarivera8246]

Yolo

[@Narkissos_1]

i pass on this one since i have sieg, i got druid poipoi

[@brahamarda]

Why not ask me about Sevastopol safety protocols?

[@justbite6355]

Not a bad ship but then again...why not just play stalin. More firepower and radar. I wouldn't say stalin is tankier because the heal on the sevastopol is better.

[@robbe3334]

Then again Sevastopol isn't trying to be another Stalingrad. I feel like it's more of a flanker similar to the alt baguette line. In my opinion at least.

[@justbite6355]

@@robbe3334 pretty much yes.

[@JanKowalski-si6sm]

Just Siegie but better in every departmet except for manuverribilty

[@hagostaeldmann]

Worse hydro, worse secondaries, no torps, worse armor. Basically worse than Siegfried in every way aside from the heal and the main guns.

[@petervanschepen8809]

@@hagostaeldmann Yeah, but... WG keeps pushing the distant sniping meta, so what good are secondaries, hydro, or torps? And unless the armor is bouncing >457, what's the point of the armor? BBs overmatch everything anyway.

[@danh7411]

@@petervanschepen8809 Sieg is tier 9, much less 457mm gun opponents

[@ryanbrochu3336]

@@danh7411 Except T9 sees T10 and T11 more than T8 and T7.

[@JanKowalski-si6sm]

@@hagostaeldmann both ships are long range snipers so hydro and secondaries are 3th or 4th row features. If you are in torps range on Siegen its means your team won and you yolo for fun or you lost and you die in next 15 s. You dont want be in torps range on Siegie due to her armor. You don't have Hindi turtleback. Your TB can withstand most of 203 mm. Thats all. Simply is too steep. 27 mm covers 50% of Siegie so 406 cit you from every direction and 380 are shitinig on your TB

[@atctimmy]

Who else thinks Flamu looks like Dr Strange?

[@nicz7694]

I thought about them aswell. Stories about the "Evil Twin" seem to be true

[@PapaBrejj]

CV in ranked? That an obligatory *Plays Poorly* report.

[@adimm78]

ppl that bring CVs to rank, sit when they pee :)

[@bulldog2000]

Limited dcp on a cruiser......

[@Shanex250]

I thought this was a battleship until I saw it had the cruiser label on the bottom left. I never thought I'd find something as strong or interesting as the Petro.

[@asrer579]

I agree. Its just as shit and uninteresting as petro. Maybe less. Atleast petro has a serious presence in competitive.

[@Shanex250]

@@asrer579 tf you mean the petro is shit and uninteresting, best cruiser in the game. Probably a destroyer player to say some stupid shit like that.

[@enzohumeau8864]

so why the fuck is there a soviet cruiser with german 380mm ????!!!! how could i've missed that lmfao

[@josynaemikohler6572]

Because russian industry sucked, and they couldn't produce the 305mm guns, Kronshtadt was supposed to get in time. So they instead as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact negotiation bought some of the 380 mm gun turrets used also on Bismarck and Tirpitz. Which Germany naturally didn't deliver however.

[@TheAnxiousAardvark]

Talk about confusion. I saw "Sevastopol" and thought WoWS had a new premium low-tier Russian BB. Then I see a top-tier battlecruiser. Oh. Another never-was.

[@Spartaner627]

they literally started building it. it is more real than montana

[@TheAnxiousAardvark]

@@Spartaner627 Is your point that a laid down and very incomplete (

[@Spartaner627]

​@@TheAnxiousAardvark no, reality has no real value in this game that's largely filled with what ifs and has been for a long time and it kinda has to be. my problem is with people putting this ship in the same "fantasy" realm as some of the other ships, that WG based only on early design ideas. if this design got to the point of approving it for the start of construction, i think i would not consider it fantasy. so there's only the gameplay aspects for wargaming to fill in. it did look to me like you were one of those from the initial comment. but i don't really understand the desire for the older Sevastopol. gangut as a tech tree ship already represents the class, oktrabskaya revolutsiya the ship itself in the later refit. if anything they'd just copy paste gangut, slap a gimmick on and sell it to whoever wants to bring kuznetsov to tier 4.

[@TheAnxiousAardvark]

@@Spartaner627 I started playing because of the great artwork, and attention to details like accurate turret rotation speeds. I accepted the absurd torpedo reloads for game play. I was less pleased with bizarre smoke and radar mechanics. I disliked the CV game play. Then things got worse. Absurd gimmicks. Subs. CV rework. New "premiums" that are the same with a nerf and a buff to "balans." Ships designed in the 1930's placed into the same tier as fantasy never-weres designed in the late 50's and 60's. I found I was playing more and more lower tier games to avoid the nonsense ships. Now I watch replays. I enjoyed the game, but they lost me as a paying customer. Battleships as ASW platforms?!? Cheers.

[@gram40]

Must have been an expensive wedding, adverts every 4 minutes!

[@DDayJayke]

Gold League CV Players are DOGWATER in randoms. As well as Co-Op. And don't even get me started on CV players in Operations.

[@JuanHernandez-pz2mx]

As a former EVE player, I learned to deal with changes and find effective counterplay when a Tech3 roam came into system or my fleet got cyno'd...etc. Wich is why I don't get it when top players in this game cry about ship classes they "don't want to play against".

[@redharvst8638]

If its Russian in this game its virtually guaranteed to be awesome. Russian developers - go figure. lol

[@Rmmmmmmmmmmk]

The devs aren’t Russian

[@belsteed6050]

They arent Russian.

[@000NULL]

another german ship with soviet super structure.

[@droidmotorola3884]

It gets the Russian treatment though.