Thank you WG for bestowing upon us "Christmas Shimas". I am delighted at all the 5 point commander Shimas on sub-500 battle accounts running in and dying immediately.
Normally you do not recognize the new tech ship with low level commander. This happens all the time. I think it is time that you get a level 10 commander with a level 8-9 tech tree ship. And a level 14 commander with a level 10 tech tree ship.
I've never played a DD prior to today, but went ahead and grabbed the Shimikaze. Thank you for explaining the order to take for the Captain's skills. I'm sure I'll still have quite the learning curve when playing the DDs. Thank you for your time in putting together this video. 👍
0:23 Speaking of new lines, the Lesta version of WoWs just released a devblog a few days ago announcing a new DD line for the Russian tech tree. Which is also gonna make Ognevoi a premium.
I have Shima so picked Gouden. Probably won't play it as much as Shima. But I too am grateful for all the Shima newbies playing her these days. Chef's kiss
I'm kinda wishing I picked golden lion. I wanted to pick something I didn't really want and didn't have. Only left balao and golden. I picked balao for some reason. I guess just to have for naval battles or for when I'm feeling a little feminine
It's easy to say "I don't recommend the 20km torpedoes", but those are the ones that come with the ship... and which have to be played through if the player doesn't have enough FXP or is saving it for something else (Research bureau).
@@jameshenderson4876 In this event, yes; outside of it no, and those who are watching the vid later as a Shimakaze guide will have to put in that work.
I picked Shima and have zero regrets. The stealth and torps are so much fun. All the other t9/t10 DD I play have poor detection and the difference is staggering (mostly gunboats until now). The fact you can still smoke and farm a bit is the icing. I can see why everyone plays this.
if you can play gunboats good then you can kill ships like these and that's more rewarding to me then watching my torps get to its target for 100 seconds. Bute each to their own
I probably should keep quiet on this BUT I'll share: I've not grinded the Japan line ( I only have tier one in the line) but since I picked tier ten Shimakaze it's offering that I can buy the entire line and or to reset the Japan line for research points (without grinding the line first lol) which is what I intend to do when it offers double research points again. Shhhh! lol So I'll reset for double research Points, then buy the line with Free XP to get triple research points, and then I'll grind the line (for the first time) for triple research points. A Win-Win!
Was not aware that this would count for that. I always have reset the Jap gunboat as its least xp threw out the hole line. Good little trick here. You can also multiply it many times more too btw. Myself and many Free xp it and reset and double up the xp for research a few times. Then complete it for massive amounts.
I really wanted to choose Shima, but I decided that I’d be useless if I didn’t learn the way of the torpedo boat first. So I went with the Gouden, which I sort of regret. But that being said, I’ve been focusing on the torpboats and I’m already at the Kagero and I’m doing really good in it. Ive learned how to use the torpboats and when I do get to my beloved Shima, I’ll be a much better player than if I got her for free.
Schlieffen and Gouden are the best ones to choose. Schlieffen is just an incredibly fun ship, and Gouden is something you play when you want to watch the world burn. Even better if you get to a point where you have its legendary upgrade. Fully specced, you get back each airstrike in less than a minute. And with the new Dutch commander coming out, Gouden will be a monster to contend with.
Kagero is an excellent trainer, and very strong in itself. Well chosen. I ran Kagero with Torpedo Reload Booster consumable, then Yugumo also. I was disappointed that Shimakaze is smoke only, but that does make it easier to survive. Enjoy!
I thought about shima, but then i remembered that grinding japanese torp boats is fun and Im on my way there, same for the other rewards, so i decided to get Audacious for some campaign missions, so i dont have to bother people by grinding cvs before i can do those missions.
After grinding through the rest of the line the Shima is a dream to play. You can outrun most of the competition, use your high alpha to hit and run gunboats when you have to, and the 3 quintuples lets you cover such a wide area with torps.
While I agree that the 20km torpedos can be seen from space, their use as a stand-off weapon in the current passive meta is valuable. You can nail camping BBs on the backlines as well as CVs that sit on the spawn, and work very well zoning predictable areas too. Don't sleep on the 20kms.
The 20km torpedos really are not bad. I have gotten so many hits with them even though I missed the target they were intended for, for example a carrier 17km away. They are not bad but the 12km torpedos are just better because you will never really fire at anything at 20km.
@@crad5476 Right, the 20km are just not as good as the other options. It's not that they're unplayable, it's just that you're doing yourself a disservice using them only
i went for the balao as my christmas gift, not because i wanted to play it, but because i would never want to play subs, and thus would never be able to get the t10. Now i get an additional certificate :D
I do enjoy torpedo DDs. And I got Shimakaze at the weekend. It's a hoot. Really enjoy it. New favourite bote. But I also got the Groningen today. So now an awesome torp boat and an awesome gun boat. Yay me.
gg PQ. will you rate all the leg mods in a single vid? weren't you supposed to? p))) would be hella fun. also do a gunboat shima for the fun of it. thanks man.
PQ you don't find the 70% torp traverse hinders you with the legendary mod? I love Shima although I favor Somers but that traverse kills me when I use the legendary mod on Shima
@@markblack3477 I disagree to many times you need to swing those torps around and the 3-4 secs it takes for them to get around or worse trying to track another DD isn't worth the extra reload time
i really hate seeing shimas in ranked battles, on my team..... they mostly refuse to spot even with the best spotting by far in most matches. they go forward slowly, waiting for their torps to load, turn, spam them, then run and sit behind an island or the BBs instead of spotting for their teams. they say they just want to live and have a big impact at the end of the games, but most BBs in ranked have hydro, and even if you don't, they are predictable as to where they are torps are coming from so you can stay bow in or run away and avoid 99% of their torps.
I picked up the shimi for free and it’s really fun to play! Glad I didn’t need to grind for it. Hundred percent recommendation if you haven’t picked up your tier 10 yet!
I've been playing the game for over 4 years now. Never really touched IJN DDs until... now. I like torps, figure they need no buffing, so I built for guns lol It's funny how completely people underestimate you
I have a question, if you choose a ship that you already have, does it give you the exp? like yamato last year. cause i already have shima ans schlieff, and im not interested GL, subs and CVS.
As someone who has played a pile of DD's,l i would say a DD main and even has the rare ones line smaland. My ranked performance is unicom win and great pr in dd and last few years have played with and been in great clans and usually run the dd. The biggest issue with shima is bad players in that boat. 95% of shima players perform badly in it. When i try to teach new people with the shima i try to get them to play the flank first to learn about leading torpedoes and also predicting based off the mini map what someone else is going to do. Also. Smoke up and farm some. Those guns hit hard and you can farm when its safe to do so. Yes never 20km as the space station can see it. 12km all day every day unless you are a gigachad in the shima and run the short ones. So many i try to teach instantly say this is a cap contending DD as the detect is so small. Then go into the cap and smoke instantly... that is the back to port for a new dd player to hit the cap first and smoke for no reason. I argue its same as a good Yueyang player. Both can stop a push so well when played correctly.
The 20 km torps arnt that bad expessally if you plan your torp strike right or just want to force the enemy to turn away into something more unpleasant
I need to play shima more, but it's hard to pick it over gearing. Gearing is my emotional support pixel boat lol. Plus I've been trying to play gunboats more. Mostly marceau but some ragnar and Forrest Sherman. Occasionally daring. Shima guns really can slap if you're accurate with them. I guess there's always hayate. Which is a decent and buffed boat. I just don't like the handling of the ship tho. One thing I love about gearing is the quick rudder. O I'll stop. I ca. RAmble on forever about this game. Also can ramble about fishing 🎣 too ha
Gearing is a much, much better ship. Better guns, 16km torps with better torp detection, much better smoke (for smoking your friendly cruisers). You see Gearing a lot at high-level clan battles, you never ever see Shima. There's a reason for that.
@@Cyanide_NL That is not what he's talking about. On the public test server, the Gouden is part of the paid battlepass for the next update but I am pretty sure it's going to be one of the new ships.
Shima was my choice. I did not care for Audacious, I never touch the Dutch cruisers, and I already had the German battle cruiser. It was pretty much an obvious choice and I wanted to play more torpedo ships that is not just jager
Randomness in torp spread isnt too crazy. Is annoying for the dd player certainly tho. It seems kind of plausible that something like that could happen in real life. O well.
i was going to pick this but this event also got me enough to coal to by hayate and i have been pretty dead set on it so instead i picked gouden... the free final reward in the 14.0 battle pass... awesome wg awesome
It’s the finding which is tough. Standard gold ranked defense is run hard until they chase you down (every dd runs RPF), shoot rear turrets to get a fire, then smoke up turn away and kill with torps. Reason why shima is the go to dd in gold ranked and you hardly see Marceau.
Love this beastie, it’s my go to ranked ship with 8km torps. No other ship has the alpha strike. And you get that every 88 sec. Small team format monster. Never Ever use the 20km torps you will hit maybe 3 to 4% of them. Guns are a fabulous way to get ships to turn into your torps. They will almost always turn to help bring guns on you.
If you run the 8km and its your go to and you perform well. You are the minority of gigachad shima players. I congratz you on this as i don't think i have ever used the shima in ranked. You are 100% correct with never the 20km. The also shooting to turn them into ur torps is 100% true too. This again assumes as player who is well versed in the art of the torpedo DD. Most shima players are not. I deff am a gunboat guy as my go to is smaland, or marceau and 99% of time i see a shima i laugh. That 1% of the time though i pay dearly for it.
@@ReDiR20 Not true at all. 8km torps ensures you won't launch torps unless you are 100% sure you will dev strike the target + they reload faster than the 12km. And radar can be played around it bc it's not like enemy ships have radar on all the time.
@@ReDiR20 I have like 1400 battles in Shima with 2400 PR, you absolutely can. You just need to know what your enemies are capable of and what they would do.
It was wrong to remove dev strike. It was a real world thing. Look at the Hood and the Arizona, not to mention all the English ships that detonated at Jutland
under your commander tab and above the ship stats tab there's a small line called economic bonuses click on that and you should be able to choose your 200% free xp boost, it should be on the right side of your screen
In port, click on the , Economic Bonuses " button below your commander's photo on the right side of the screen with the ship selected you wish to use it on. Four rectangular tickets should appear. This is where you apply your economic (credits, ship, commander and free XP) bonuses.
"A fun ship to play" - well I object to that statement, good sir. When your main armament takes around 2 minutes to reload, you aren't having a lot of fun (unless you are aunicum like PQ and hitting most of your salvos)
Classic US-centrism going on here in the title "The most popular ship in World of Warships" No it isn't, it's second after Yamato. It's only top on the North America server, but NA has far fewer games than EU or Asia total On EU Bismarck is top with 22.5m games, Shima second with 20.5m. On NA server Shima is top (9m vs 8.3m for NC and Bismarck). And on Asia Yamato is top (14.2m), Shima second (8.5m) If you actually look at the most popular ship overall it's Yamato with a lead of around 1 million games, Shima second, Bismarck third Yamato = 17.5 EU + 7.3 NA + 14.2 Asia = 39 million games Shima = 20.5 EU + 9 NA + 8.5 Asia = 38 million games Bismarck = 22.5 EU + 8.3 NA + 5.9 Asia = 36.7 million games
I chose this ship bc it’s a decent ship, which isn’t commander heavy. Unlike sheliffen,. Gouden rlly needs the air strike research thing to be really good and those are the only 3 options.
thats what i did. Already have Schlieffen so i picked Schlieffen to get 350k fxp, half a research bureau run, I can grind the rest for t10s easily enough with economic bonuses. i have every tier at 8-10 already, so it's close enough to grind the rest.
I despise most shima players. The second the enemy appears they smoke up and run after launching torps leaving their cruisers and bbs to fight subs and dds alone while they go hide behind the bbs. 🙄 just absolutely useless 80% of the time and it’s so bad as soon as I see my side with one I turn and go to the middle simply because of how many shimas have left us hanging because their too afraid to be spotted.
God forbid that War Gaming force you to work through the tech tree and gain experience before laying your hands on a tier 10 destroyer. No, instead if you have enough cash or bullshit tokens you can start right away in this ship so you can screw up random games even more than it already is.......
I need to play shima more, but it's hard to pick it over gearing. Gearing is my emotional support pixel boat lol. Plus I've been trying to play gunboats more. Mostly marceau but some ragnar and Forrest Sherman. Occasionally daring. Shima guns really can slap if you're accurate with them. I guess there's always hayate. Which is a decent and buffed boat. I just don't like the handling of the ship tho. One thing I love about gearing is the quick rudder. O I'll stop. I ca. RAmble on forever about this game. Also can ramble about fishing 🎣 too ha
@mrswimmytanker7422 hmm. That's kind of strange. Gearing is a decent ship. Great torp range, decent torp speed, decent torp reload, decent he dpm, awesome team play ship when backed up by a good cruiser or two. The major downside to gearing is low hp with no heal or gimmick. Also, the gun arcs are very difficult to master. Unless the ship is close range and pushing you. Definitely don't want to buff gun range on it. Guns are very hard to use past like 7km lol. I'm somewhat decent at them but I have like 2400 randoms in gearing and quite a few ranked games. Gotta be patient and strategic with gearing. A high hp gearing in late game is a huge threat to everyone. Even gunboats because quite often they are low hp in late game. A place where gearing really really shines is when on a flank being pushed by the enemies. One gearing can delay or deny a push of multiple ships. The 16.5km range torps let you get lots of zoning hits and even hit some of the backline ships. Yea shima can spec 20km torps but those torps are seen from the moon. Gearing is certainly an all rounder or hybrid dd. Not super strong in any one thing but not super weak either. I guess that can make it seem very meh compared to other ships with gimmicks. Gearing is kind of a thinking man's dd. I guess it can be a super strong div/team play dd. Smoke up a colbert, dm, Wooster, or radar mino. Heck smoke up a svea even tho it has a smoke. Nothing lasts like a us smoke
the best "going back to port" speedrun ship
Yes but soley because it gets fucked harder than almost any other ship being offered by cvs
The best "throwing in ranked" ship.
Schlieffen and Napoli wanna say hello.
Did someone say Jäger?
Or apparently it's the best backline dd. You sit with or behind the already passive bbs on your team and launch 20km torps towards enemy spawn
Thank you WG for bestowing upon us "Christmas Shimas". I am delighted at all the 5 point commander Shimas on sub-500 battle accounts running in and dying immediately.
Normally you do not recognize the new tech ship with low level commander. This happens all the time. I think it is time that you get a level 10 commander with a level 8-9 tech tree ship. And a level 14 commander with a level 10 tech tree ship.
Trained for this ship
Yeah at least a 10 point commander is pretty much mandatory for any sort of higher tier torpedo destroyer so you can get concealment expert
I've never played a DD prior to today, but went ahead and grabbed the Shimikaze. Thank you for explaining the order to take for the Captain's skills. I'm sure I'll still have quite the learning curve when playing the DDs. Thank you for your time in putting together this video. 👍
0:23 Speaking of new lines, the Lesta version of WoWs just released a devblog a few days ago announcing a new DD line for the Russian tech tree. Which is also gonna make Ognevoi a premium.
I have Shima so picked Gouden. Probably won't play it as much as Shima. But I too am grateful for all the Shima newbies playing her these days. Chef's kiss
I'm kinda wishing I picked golden lion. I wanted to pick something I didn't really want and didn't have. Only left balao and golden. I picked balao for some reason. I guess just to have for naval battles or for when I'm feeling a little feminine
It's easy to say "I don't recommend the 20km torpedoes", but those are the ones that come with the ship... and which have to be played through if the player doesn't have enough FXP or is saving it for something else (Research bureau).
Except no. If you get as the Christmas gift, it has Elite status with everything researched.
@@jameshenderson4876 In this event, yes; outside of it no, and those who are watching the vid later as a Shimakaze guide will have to put in that work.
Yesterday, i got a Jager from Advent Calendar. Lucky me.
did you get it directly from the calendar, or was it from a super container you got from the calendar?
Yeah same question? I didn’t realise you could get ships
Honestly had fun using its guns to kill dds at times because most player forget to use their guns 😊
I picked Shima and have zero regrets. The stealth and torps are so much fun. All the other t9/t10 DD I play have poor detection and the difference is staggering (mostly gunboats until now). The fact you can still smoke and farm a bit is the icing. I can see why everyone plays this.
if you can play gunboats good then you can kill ships like these and that's more rewarding to me then watching my torps get to its target for 100 seconds.
Bute each to their own
Try the F3s for dev strike printing.
And with a little AR bonus you will have those torps every 75ish seconds.
I probably should keep quiet on this BUT I'll share: I've not grinded the Japan line ( I only have tier one in the line) but since I picked tier ten Shimakaze it's offering that I can buy the entire line and or to reset the Japan line for research points (without grinding the line first lol) which is what I intend to do when it offers double research points again. Shhhh! lol
So I'll reset for double research Points, then buy the line with Free XP to get triple research points, and then I'll grind the line (for the first time) for triple research points. A Win-Win!
Was not aware that this would count for that. I always have reset the Jap gunboat as its least xp threw out the hole line. Good little trick here. You can also multiply it many times more too btw. Myself and many Free xp it and reset and double up the xp for research a few times. Then complete it for massive amounts.
As a hardcore Shima fan, my best performing ship, I'm loving the Christmas event. Everyone is assuming I'm a xmas noob. Absolutely hilarious.
I really wanted to choose Shima, but I decided that I’d be useless if I didn’t learn the way of the torpedo boat first. So I went with the Gouden, which I sort of regret. But that being said, I’ve been focusing on the torpboats and I’m already at the Kagero and I’m doing really good in it. Ive learned how to use the torpboats and when I do get to my beloved Shima, I’ll be a much better player than if I got her for free.
I got Schlieffen and love it even without Lutjens.
Schlieffen is ridiculously fun
Schlieffen and Gouden are the best ones to choose. Schlieffen is just an incredibly fun ship, and Gouden is something you play when you want to watch the world burn. Even better if you get to a point where you have its legendary upgrade. Fully specced, you get back each airstrike in less than a minute. And with the new Dutch commander coming out, Gouden will be a monster to contend with.
Go for it. I stuck with Kagero until I had enough freeXP to skip Yugumo. Kagero is an excellent ship and a great trainer for torpboats.
Kagero is an excellent trainer, and very strong in itself. Well chosen.
I ran Kagero with Torpedo Reload Booster consumable, then Yugumo also. I was disappointed that Shimakaze is smoke only, but that does make it easier to survive.
Enjoy!
I thought about shima, but then i remembered that grinding japanese torp boats is fun and Im on my way there, same for the other rewards, so i decided to get Audacious for some campaign missions, so i dont have to bother people by grinding cvs before i can do those missions.
After grinding through the rest of the line the Shima is a dream to play. You can outrun most of the competition, use your high alpha to hit and run gunboats when you have to, and the 3 quintuples lets you cover such a wide area with torps.
I subscribed just for your little evil laugh, so the great content is just a bonus. Thanks
While I agree that the 20km torpedos can be seen from space, their use as a stand-off weapon in the current passive meta is valuable. You can nail camping BBs on the backlines as well as CVs that sit on the spawn, and work very well zoning predictable areas too. Don't sleep on the 20kms.
The 20km torps are a complete fail.
Only time the 20kms are useful are if youre using Yoshino, come on now
The 20km torpedos really are not bad. I have gotten so many hits with them even though I missed the target they were intended for, for example a carrier 17km away. They are not bad but the 12km torpedos are just better because you will never really fire at anything at 20km.
@@crad5476 Right, the 20km are just not as good as the other options. It's not that they're unplayable, it's just that you're doing yourself a disservice using them only
says people who are happy with 50k dmg and a loss.
Love Shima, and the Yamagiri is even better!
I got the Shima but I'm more of a gunboat guy so I upgraded to the Yamagiri.
You can sail a lot of circles when waiting for your torpedos to be reloaded i.e 130 sec for the 12K torpedos.
Someone who doesn’t know about equipment or captain skills.
Ironically, considering the popularity, this was literally the only ship form the winter selection I didn't have haha
SHIP REQUEST: Play with the Grozovoi, very underrated dd, no one play it these days
i went for the balao as my christmas gift, not because i wanted to play it, but because i would never want to play subs, and thus would never be able to get the t10. Now i get an additional certificate :D
Could you explain how to get to the free ship window, I can’t seem to figure out how to get there or how it works. Please and thank you. 😊
I do enjoy torpedo DDs. And I got Shimakaze at the weekend. It's a hoot. Really enjoy it. New favourite bote.
But I also got the Groningen today. So now an awesome torp boat and an awesome gun boat. Yay me.
Ha! Same here. Needed a premium for the nation!
Two really fun ships!
Hell i didnt even realize there was a shima UU. Didnt know daring had one for the longest
gg PQ. will you rate all the leg mods in a single vid? weren't you supposed to? p))) would be hella fun.
also do a gunboat shima for the fun of it. thanks man.
I picked shima too. I got up to Kagero in the line and was just about to spend the credits for t9.
Not played a bunch yet but shima is nice
Hence the Flag Ship Ops are coming she is a good pick. Seriously, Flag Ship Ops you need a High Alpha DDs like Shima.
PQ you don't find the 70% torp traverse hinders you with the legendary mod? I love Shima although I favor Somers but that traverse kills me when I use the legendary mod on Shima
just have to plan ahead, the extra reload is worth the odd time when the traverse hurts
@@markblack3477 I disagree to many times you need to swing those torps around and the 3-4 secs it takes for them to get around or worse trying to track another DD isn't worth the extra reload time
i really hate seeing shimas in ranked battles, on my team..... they mostly refuse to spot even with the best spotting by far in most matches. they go forward slowly, waiting for their torps to load, turn, spam them, then run and sit behind an island or the BBs instead of spotting for their teams. they say they just want to live and have a big impact at the end of the games, but most BBs in ranked have hydro, and even if you don't, they are predictable as to where they are torps are coming from so you can stay bow in or run away and avoid 99% of their torps.
I picked up the shimi for free and it’s really fun to play! Glad I didn’t need to grind for it. Hundred percent recommendation if you haven’t picked up your tier 10 yet!
My all time fav, and my most played ship. Its outstanding :)
WE NEED MORE DARING VIDS PQ!!!!!
I've been playing the game for over 4 years now. Never really touched IJN DDs until... now. I like torps, figure they need no buffing, so I built for guns lol
It's funny how completely people underestimate you
My Yug is gun build for the lols.
I prefer YY as a torpedo boat. Lower alpha before the reload booster, but they are not spotted from the moon.
So many new little Shimas to snipe with my CVs its truly wonderfull
I have a question, if you choose a ship that you already have, does it give you the exp? like yamato last year. cause i already have shima ans schlieff, and im not interested GL, subs and CVS.
It does not give you any XP but researches the other ships in that line for free
As someone who has played a pile of DD's,l i would say a DD main and even has the rare ones line smaland. My ranked performance is unicom win and great pr in dd and last few years have played with and been in great clans and usually run the dd. The biggest issue with shima is bad players in that boat. 95% of shima players perform badly in it. When i try to teach new people with the shima i try to get them to play the flank first to learn about leading torpedoes and also predicting based off the mini map what someone else is going to do. Also. Smoke up and farm some. Those guns hit hard and you can farm when its safe to do so. Yes never 20km as the space station can see it. 12km all day every day unless you are a gigachad in the shima and run the short ones. So many i try to teach instantly say this is a cap contending DD as the detect is so small. Then go into the cap and smoke instantly... that is the back to port for a new dd player to hit the cap first and smoke for no reason. I argue its same as a good Yueyang player. Both can stop a push so well when played correctly.
1.2 mil xp on the ship and still didn't waste 30k on the F3s lol
respect
Where can I get that torpedo reload upgrade?
research bureau
The 20 km torps arnt that bad expessally if you plan your torp strike right or just want to force the enemy to turn away into something more unpleasant
Wait what? They removed detonations?
I would like to see you review the Brest please.
I need to play shima more, but it's hard to pick it over gearing. Gearing is my emotional support pixel boat lol. Plus I've been trying to play gunboats more. Mostly marceau but some ragnar and Forrest Sherman. Occasionally daring. Shima guns really can slap if you're accurate with them. I guess there's always hayate. Which is a decent and buffed boat. I just don't like the handling of the ship tho. One thing I love about gearing is the quick rudder. O I'll stop. I ca. RAmble on forever about this game. Also can ramble about fishing 🎣 too ha
Gearing is a much, much better ship. Better guns, 16km torps with better torp detection, much better smoke (for smoking your friendly cruisers).
You see Gearing a lot at high-level clan battles, you never ever see Shima. There's a reason for that.
Will Gouden Leeuw be available with the Netherlands next battle pass?
He is there on the test server.
It's a techtreeship...
@@Cyanide_NL That is not what he's talking about. On the public test server, the Gouden is part of the paid battlepass for the next update but I am pretty sure it's going to be one of the new ships.
@maltemejlstrup4746 ok thanks 👍🏻
think it will be on free pass
I went and got her as a ship. Still learning how to player her. I prefer the pan asian DDs tbh but she is still good
Shima was my choice. I did not care for Audacious, I never touch the Dutch cruisers, and I already had the German battle cruiser. It was pretty much an obvious choice and I wanted to play more torpedo ships that is not just jager
How to get Shima as a gift? I see only N. Carolina, another Japanese destroyer, and some ships I'm not interested in
Had to take Balao, it was the only one I didn't have lol
haven't touched good old shima since yamagiri came out...
Randomness in torp spread isnt too crazy. Is annoying for the dd player certainly tho. It seems kind of plausible that something like that could happen in real life. O well.
i was thinking about this ships but got schleifen instead
i was going to pick this but this event also got me enough to coal to by hayate and i have been pretty dead set on it so instead i picked gouden... the free final reward in the 14.0 battle pass... awesome wg awesome
Hi pq, gl hf.
Ps: keep playing with Malta. You two are just meant to play together lol
Please play Chukuma II
Best thing to find with marceau after jäger
It’s the finding which is tough.
Standard gold ranked defense is run hard until they chase you down (every dd runs RPF), shoot rear turrets to get a fire, then smoke up turn away and kill with torps.
Reason why shima is the go to dd in gold ranked and you hardly see Marceau.
@deaninchina01 on ranked ofc. Havent seen one gunboat dd once
Love this beastie, it’s my go to ranked ship with 8km torps. No other ship has the alpha strike. And you get that every 88 sec.
Small team format monster.
Never Ever use the 20km torps you will hit maybe 3 to 4% of them.
Guns are a fabulous way to get ships to turn into your torps. They will almost always turn to help bring guns on you.
If you run the 8km and its your go to and you perform well. You are the minority of gigachad shima players. I congratz you on this as i don't think i have ever used the shima in ranked. You are 100% correct with never the 20km. The also shooting to turn them into ur torps is 100% true too. This again assumes as player who is well versed in the art of the torpedo DD. Most shima players are not. I deff am a gunboat guy as my go to is smaland, or marceau and 99% of time i see a shima i laugh. That 1% of the time though i pay dearly for it.
For me it's the F3s for the win. Aggression is good.
Totally agree. Used to be insane with the old captain skill which gave it 90knot torps with 6.4km range.
I'm a little sad I went with schlieffen over shima
I tested shima on the test server and I am very in love with the 8km torps
whose are not practical at all. 12km are actually what you would use in random/ranked
@@ReDiR20 Not true at all. 8km torps ensures you won't launch torps unless you are 100% sure you will dev strike the target + they reload faster than the 12km. And radar can be played around it bc it's not like enemy ships have radar on all the time.
@@shoukatsukaiyou wont play around gunboat dds, subs, cv and radars in 90% of battles. Lets be realistic here
@@ReDiR20 I have like 1400 battles in Shima with 2400 PR, you absolutely can. You just need to know what your enemies are capable of and what they would do.
@@shoukatsukai just nope, I doubt you even play this game
It was wrong to remove dev strike. It was a real world thing. Look at the Hood and the Arizona, not to mention all the English ships that detonated at Jutland
Hi, i am a new player and i got this 200% free xp booost and I really wanna use it! Anyone knows how?
under your commander tab and above the ship stats tab there's a small line called economic bonuses click on that and you should be able to choose your 200% free xp boost, it should be on the right side of your screen
In port, click on the , Economic Bonuses " button below your commander's photo on the right side of the screen with the ship selected you wish to use it on. Four rectangular tickets should appear. This is where you apply your economic (credits, ship, commander and free XP) bonuses.
@@messigno427 tysm!
maybe try 8km f3 torps next time XD
Kamikaze and Benham are the best in the game.
That's what she said.
Maybe two-three weeks to late?
Or even two months
"A fun ship to play" - well I object to that statement, good sir. When your main armament takes around 2 minutes to reload, you aren't having a lot of fun (unless you are aunicum like PQ and hitting most of your salvos)
The most popular? I was thinking it’s smaland
The ultimate potato boat, shima already had the worst dd players using it, now add to that a bunch of new dd players, will be fun out there.
i pick shima as price coz i already have Schlieffen.
Classic US-centrism going on here in the title "The most popular ship in World of Warships"
No it isn't, it's second after Yamato. It's only top on the North America server, but NA has far fewer games than EU or Asia total
On EU Bismarck is top with 22.5m games, Shima second with 20.5m. On NA server Shima is top (9m vs 8.3m for NC and Bismarck). And on Asia Yamato is top (14.2m), Shima second (8.5m)
If you actually look at the most popular ship overall it's Yamato with a lead of around 1 million games, Shima second, Bismarck third
Yamato = 17.5 EU + 7.3 NA + 14.2 Asia = 39 million games
Shima = 20.5 EU + 9 NA + 8.5 Asia = 38 million games
Bismarck = 22.5 EU + 8.3 NA + 5.9 Asia = 36.7 million games
@@audigex Asia is doing a LOT of heavy lifting for Yamato. Even on EU, people play Shima more than anything but Bismarck
Bet you're fun at parties.
which server do you suppose PQ plays on?
@@paddington1670 His audience is global, and it takes 5 seconds to check...
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I chose this ship bc it’s a decent ship, which isn’t commander heavy. Unlike sheliffen,. Gouden rlly needs the air strike research thing to be really good and those are the only 3 options.
I would have loved to pick this. But carriers make it obsolete and i refuse to play against CVs
An intellectual would take a ship they have and get 300,000+ free xp and get something they actually want I got Venice good boan
thats what i did. Already have Schlieffen so i picked Schlieffen to get 350k fxp, half a research bureau run, I can grind the rest for t10s easily enough with economic bonuses. i have every tier at 8-10 already, so it's close enough to grind the rest.
I despise most shima players. The second the enemy appears they smoke up and run after launching torps leaving their cruisers and bbs to fight subs and dds alone while they go hide behind the bbs. 🙄 just absolutely useless 80% of the time and it’s so bad as soon as I see my side with one I turn and go to the middle simply because of how many shimas have left us hanging because their too afraid to be spotted.
the most played ship, but at the same time, the ship which has the worst global win rate out of all dds
God forbid that War Gaming force you to work through the tech tree and gain experience before laying your hands on a tier 10 destroyer. No, instead if you have enough cash or bullshit tokens you can start right away in this ship so you can screw up random games even more than it already is.......
I need to play shima more, but it's hard to pick it over gearing. Gearing is my emotional support pixel boat lol. Plus I've been trying to play gunboats more. Mostly marceau but some ragnar and Forrest Sherman. Occasionally daring. Shima guns really can slap if you're accurate with them. I guess there's always hayate. Which is a decent and buffed boat. I just don't like the handling of the ship tho. One thing I love about gearing is the quick rudder. O I'll stop. I ca. RAmble on forever about this game. Also can ramble about fishing 🎣 too ha
I hate the gearing it don't feel right to me vs a Japanese gun boat or torp boat
@mrswimmytanker7422 hmm. That's kind of strange. Gearing is a decent ship. Great torp range, decent torp speed, decent torp reload, decent he dpm, awesome team play ship when backed up by a good cruiser or two. The major downside to gearing is low hp with no heal or gimmick. Also, the gun arcs are very difficult to master. Unless the ship is close range and pushing you. Definitely don't want to buff gun range on it. Guns are very hard to use past like 7km lol. I'm somewhat decent at them but I have like 2400 randoms in gearing and quite a few ranked games. Gotta be patient and strategic with gearing. A high hp gearing in late game is a huge threat to everyone. Even gunboats because quite often they are low hp in late game. A place where gearing really really shines is when on a flank being pushed by the enemies. One gearing can delay or deny a push of multiple ships. The 16.5km range torps let you get lots of zoning hits and even hit some of the backline ships. Yea shima can spec 20km torps but those torps are seen from the moon. Gearing is certainly an all rounder or hybrid dd. Not super strong in any one thing but not super weak either. I guess that can make it seem very meh compared to other ships with gimmicks. Gearing is kind of a thinking man's dd. I guess it can be a super strong div/team play dd. Smoke up a colbert, dm, Wooster, or radar mino. Heck smoke up a svea even tho it has a smoke. Nothing lasts like a us smoke