World of Warships- I Finally Got This Insane & Goofy Ship (Austin)

Hello guys, today I finally picked up the Tier X American Freemium Light Cruiser Austin! Which is one down right goofy ship! Enjoy!
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[@JordanQuirk]

As someone who mains the ship and has unicum stats in it, the beginning learning phase of this ship is gruesome but once you learn to angle to certain ships, watch for long range shots from anyone, and go broadside to bbs within 8k to 10, it becomes a menace

[@adiaz36]

This is the first Steel ship I bought as well and I agree, the reload booster is the funny button. First couple of play throughs I Could not stop giggling. I got smoked a couple of times but all worth it to watch ships just get wrecked when you lay into them with the SAP.

[@scousersuk]

lets be real this video would not be possible without a personal smoke following you around in div all game :D

[@wisconsin1623]

We screamed at him on stream for this

[@jaywerner8415]

Well at least if the enemy is dumb enough to throw AP shells at you can bounce EVERYTHING that isnt a Yamato or higher.

[@jabaited]

The true glass-cannon among light cruisers

[@jejeje6034]

Actually angled it's pretty strong cuz it has 32 mm plating

[@jabaited]

@@jejeje6034 yeah but her citadel is still way above the waterline and her bow is pretty easy to get overmatch , Worcester got better armor than her but still blow up on a wimp

[@sealordmountbatten]

Glass cannon with a Glock 18

[@meneldal]

Isn't the Colbert as squishy?

[@jabaited]

@@meneldal yes but Cobert is small/shorter than Austin and they gave her 620 m turn radius, something that tier X DDs even jealous and a speed boost, she also got 5k hp more and even thought her dpm is way better than Austin, Austin's SAP burst is why she's such a glass connon

[@JoyousOblivion]

Great video. Nice showcase of the ship. Little too niche for me but I could see it being fun at times!

[@merafirewing6591]

Got to admit the Austin is a meme machine, but Atlanta was the original meme machine.

[@redharvst8638]

You're the man! I die all too fast in my Jinan to spend my steel on the Austin.

[@MadmanLink]

I love this ship. It is situational, but landing shells is easier then in the Jinan. The other thing is it will eat the odd citadel hit, but survives and the heal is surprisingly really big and effective. If spotted everyone with in range will fire at you, but are extremely cautious cause it will melt anything that gets caught in that insane reload booster!

[@maxwarejka745]

nice video about my most favorite ship in the game. It was my first steel ship and it was so much worth it. Im in the top 50 best austin player leaderboard and the funny thing is everybody can have this feeling of being good cause nobody plays this ship XD. Fun indeed but i wouldve talked about the sepcial commander skill for HE/SAP 10% more dmg without drawbacks cause your guns are to small. And yeah what can i say: you play like a god but one wrong turn and youre game over. and she has the ebst AA in the game. I litterally laugh at tX Aircraftcarries with this thing (except Super ones). So my recommendation for this ship is a commitment: hard to learn and hard to master but the reward for playing well with positioning are 200k games with ease. Happy sailing all

[@sameh59younis15]

personally the austin was my first steel ship and i have halsey on it with a full dpm build lets just say things get crazy sometimes expecially if you get confid

[@MidnightRoselle222]

The comedy of chat was so much fun to read lmao

[@jaywerner8415]

As people said when this ship first dropped all those months ago, this is NOT A SHIP FOR NOOBS. She is good ship, provided the Captain knows how to use her, and she is certainly a Random Battles ship. Still if you have played Light cruisers, Atlanta or Flint you know what your getting into: Dodge shells, Kill planes, and FORCE FEED YOUR ENEMYS SPAM! The RELOAD BOOSTER is definitely the "gimmick" of the this and when it works *OH BABY IT IS DIGUSTING* what you can do with it. That 32mm belt provided you know how to angle it will help vs any AP shells that are not Yamato Caliber or higher. Translation, the side of this ship can *BOUNCE* 457mm AP shells with proper angling, and you have both HE and SAP to bully them with (taking heavy HE and SAP is an obvious choice for extra damage). Long as you can avoid getting shot in the bow or stern you should be mostly fine. The WOOSTER is admittedly better then this ship in alot of ways, but if you REALLY want to play Atlanta at tier 10, the Austin is for you.

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

God help the DD or light cruiser that blunders into your path when you have a reload booster ready to pop. It's definitely a giggle inducing moment.

[@AABELAC]

Can’t wait to pick up the Austin

[@connycontainer9459]

gonna get it now my first steel ship after 7 years of wows

[@yourmamom]

I prefer Range-mod over Reload, the range is just slightly too little to where you will actively see good targets just out of reach, but also that you need smoke with such range or else you get demolished by return fire unless you have overwhelming team advantage. And I feel the high velocity and slow reload lend themselves to range gameplay far better. While Jinan can shoot over islands better with the inexplicably worse shell drag, spam torpedoes, and provide it's own smoke. In exchange for 1 of the rear turrets being removed for AA.

[@truckdriver1982]

I had no thougt about getting this ship...it seemed to s*ck. But after your video I went and got it. And oooh myy gooood! That "fun button" really is crazy Fun! 😁😁

[@xyz6106]

Ah, yes. Perfect light cruiser.

[@user-sp6wm5cb1d]

Can i ask one thing. What line of dds or cruisers is the best for sit in smoke and HE spam i mean like a salvo every 4 sec I am rly serching and i cant find a single peace of info about it

[@BigLinsMuzik]

Royal Navy, IJN (Harugomo and Kitakaze Line) and USN DDs are probably the lines you are searching for. RN Light Cruisers like Minotaur have smoke and fast reload, but only AP shells. Other cruiser lines don't have either smoke or fast reload. Smolensk with smoke and fast HE spam is also worth mentioning, although it is not a research ship.

[@gamkem1405]

Try the IJN line of dd’s. Tier 8 Akasuki and tier 9 Kitakaze. Both great HE spammer’s.

[@user-sp6wm5cb1d]

thank you guys

[@Micharus]

Sounds a lot like the Schors, but T10, plus she gets those gimmicks. Can you imagine Schors with the same gimmicks?

[@gustavocabrerea1341]

This ship can spit out more firepower than half of Texas with just the burst.

[@90witito]

funny a similar ship with dif gimmick at the beginning on the match

[@ae3464]

Cute neko turret

[@sardaukerlegion]

Close to get the asian variant Jinan, dont like that style enough to spend steel on it.

[@h2overthinker]

i'd love to get Austin but grinding steel is absolute pain

[@weabootrash5891]

Took me literal years to get my first steel ship (Stalin) and it was a heck of a grind. Just play ranked on occasion and save your coupon for a steel ship and you’ll get one eventually!

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

I am decidedly AVERAGE player and it takes me about a year at a time to get a steel ship. ALWAYS use the resource coupon on steel ships. Play your daily missions, play ranked and join a clan to play clans (and for the resource bonus).

[@h2overthinker]

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 damn, but i hope it's worth it

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

@@h2overthinker it is. I don't think there are any truly garbage steel ships, but some are better than other. Bourgogne is money, Austin is challenging but fun. Everybody and their brother says Stalingrad is still awesome. Everybody hates playing against FDR. Good quality premiums you can grind for are always worth it in my book.

[@carllanger8873]

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[@HowzitMan96]

Welcome to the goofy kids club

[@aidanhart9871]

Even more squishy now ..only 30k hp

[@paulobryan712]

im waiting for christmas to get my Xmas Steel ;) YOU know what im saying Mount!! Then ill have austina dn maybe one or two other steel ships :)

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

Goofy? I figured Donald would’ve been more fitting.

[@Mr_Secondaries]

As someone with 800+ games in Atlanta, i get the appeal of Austin, but Colbert, even jinan, does everything it does, but better. Colbert having a rediculous reload time, and jinan having smoke. Only reasons I am hesitant to get it. If it had its own smoke, I'd get it, but I'd be too powerful. So I get the decision not to give it that.

[@Roo23th]

One thing I need to add. Now you need to be EXTREMELY cautious when playing light cruisers right now... ESPECIALLY if you are behind the mountain or so. I am talking about Malta [ CV ] players ^^ today I had 8 cits on two drops so you now need to be aware of that , I think nowdays if Malta player will focus you... You're dead...

[@cirno9356]

sometimes i feel that He getting way to strong in this game , Ap feels so gimped nowadays with overpens

[@Dik131WZD]

Jinan looks like stronger ship

[@Roo23th]

It depends on people. For example I do prefer Colbert even tho it is not the best light cruiser ;)

[@gaby27722]

Still prefer Smolensk instead of Austin

[@weabootrash5891]

I’ve been really conflicted on Austin vs Incomparable recently, what would you all recommend? I’ve already got Stalin and Ragnar

[@larswhitt1549]

hahaha have same - have the coal just damn if I can chose 😂

[@demian7567]

If it were me I'd probably get the incomparable just because of the devstrike potential. But then again, that reload booster is a psychological weapon.

[@weabootrash5891]

@@demian7567 see, that’s my exact issue! I love battleships and CLs, so I really don’t know which would be worth my time. I know neither are great for comp, but I’m here for some fun boats

[@ryanbrochu3336]

Bourgogne.

[@demian7567]

@@ryanbrochu3336 Yes, if you don't have a steel ship, get Bourgogne first.

[@todorpamukov7435]

damn this is cancer division hahaha......Austin is awesome but i like my Jinan also....this torp soup is insane :D

[@longrider42]

Oh, another "Super" destroyer. No thanks.

[@giantdwarfulf]

This is objectively one of the worst tier 10 cruisers, because its made of paper and super reliant on its gimmick. When you don’t have reload booster ready, you just cant do anything.

[@projectyellow3041]

First

[@Mike-DuBose]

An achievement is a time to take a step back and reflect on how far you’ve come to get to this moment. Think ahead to what the future holds for you. I am so proud of the work you have put in. I am proud of your sheer grit in striving for excellence. Well done.

[@projectyellow3041]

Dude i was just lucky

[@projectyellow3041]

I just happened to open YT 30 seconds after SLM uploaded

[@projectyellow3041]

@@Mike-DuBose also is that sarcastic

[@cd6583]

paid actors. that buffalo was from the same clan \s

[@Fly80531]

dont know why but i dont like this new shit i like tech ships, some of coal ships and premiums this all hipe of super ships, subs , cv and this gimick ships is just not for me. old and crap that is me xd :)

[@monkeyrater]

I dont get why you have to make clickbait titles for your videos like: "This ship drove me INSANE!!!!!", like somehow people are dying of curiosity to guess what ships your discussing. You would actually get more views on your channel if you would just name the ship youre discussing, then you channel could serve as a resource of information rather than honeypot for people with no life and no value for their time.

[@sealordmountbatten]

The Algorithm says otherwise, it’s the unfortunate state of KZbin at the moment. Unless you have 100s of thousands of subscribers, the algorithm won’t push your video out. If you do notice, I go back after a few days and add in the name of the ship I’m talking about in the title once the algorithm does it’s thing

[@SofaKingA]

@@sealordmountbatten Yup, Linus Tech Tips had a video explaining this. That's why when I saw this click baity title I knew what was going on. YT is making the dumbing down of content mandatory for content creators.

[@monkeyrater]

@@sealordmountbatten I see that youve added the ship names to the end of the video title which requires people to mouse over each video to see what the ship is. Maybe you could show a little more bravery and put the ship name at the front of the title.