Btw thank you for not over-praising the ship too much pq. We should try to avoid buying these kinds of ships as much as possible it will only make wg more greedy.
11:54 It's about velocity and fuse time, not penetration. American 356's are quite fast and against thin hulls that are flat broadside, you can expect lots of overpens.
I bet I'd personally love this thing - my preferred playstyle with Iowa is using its good speed and relatively good stealth alongside the Brisk skill to sneak/sprint across the map for good angles/cap potential. RI has one of the lowest detection ranges among battleships at t10, and shares the upgraded Iowa's 33 knot speed, in addition to a speed boost to push you well over 40 knots. Seems like a great time to me!
Exactly, the ability to show up on a flank when needed is of huge impact. 41 kts. AP does surprisingly well, very different from my Florida experience and I am not sure why. Perhaps Sigma is better? Rudder shift is also quite good.
I don't mind the AP on this ship. It has always served me extremely well. Obviously, it won't be going through angled battleships, but it does fairly well overall. Everytime I try to spam HE, I get extremely unlucky because it does not do the damage I see it does in videos.
If u do rudder mode on this ship the rudder shift time will be droppped down to 9.6s. This ship is beyond broken in terms of survivability and gun power.
As much as I love the Floorida (carried me through ranked with multiple 5-kill games), those same guns at TX would drive me up a wall, 381's already mean you don't use AP, 406's mean you use a mix of both generally and 459's give you pretty good reign on the AP, so 356's will always just be worse 381's in my opinion. So if you don't have good firepower, you need good armour, and well this ship obviously doesn't have that.
@@johnnypatterson7512 The audience here is people who are considering whether to buy Rhode Island. Charleslynch mentioned why the ship doesn't seem appealing. Why do you suggest we buy the ship?
RI gets petro pen angles on the AP and 22 second reload base. it's more than capable of chunking with AP or HE spamming. you just have to not get smashed in return to where the ohio heal can't save you. if smaller guns meant the ship was worse, bourgogne wouldn't be such a highly rated ship.
@@atpyro7920 Bourg has Reload Booster.... the biggest reason anyone even looks at it. RI doesn't have much going for it... Unless you consider a 9km Radar to be praise worthy...
@@andrewmbaba7608 bourg isn't just a reload booster platform. it's fast enough to get onto flanks and catch people when they don't expect it. RI can also do that. The radar isn't a magic "win the game button", it's a tool that you can use in the late game when you can get in closer. if you can think and breathe at the smae time (which, going by your comment, you probably barely can), then RI can become a monster.
I don't really think I will be spending cash for pixel ships again. The Rhode Island has its merits, speed, agility, and maybe volume of fire. However, smaller guns, even if there are more of them, weaker armor, and an exceptionally low hit point pool really limits the value, especially at tier x. Yeah, it's a "premium", but it's also weak enough to require exceptional play to be reasonably competitive. I just don't see a great deal of value for the average/casual player. There's not a great deal of incentive to buy it.
It's essentially a battle cruiser. It's not meant to be tanky or like other battleships. If people play it like a BC, then you'll have a lot of fun with it.
PQ you cant complain about overmatch in one vid and then in another vid say it’s necessary because cruisers will bow tank you. Overmatch is necessary because BB is supposed to beat cruiser to some extent. Overmatch citadel, on the other hand, happens way too often
Just get Duke of York. It has DM Riochet Angles on her AP Shells, stupid HE and a good heal, the playstyle is essentially the same aswell of being one big Heavy Cruiser AND shes for free.
Florida guns at T10 sound terrible. Plus, pushing another HE spammer into the game isn't going to help the meta or the retention of players who are constantly getting set on fire, pinged, and struck by planes. War Gambling is slowly killing their game.
The people playing HE spammers don`t want battle impact. They wanna farm damage, credits and xp and don`t care about their team losing. Good on them for adding another one. It`s what the game needed.
Are we really comfortable with this game company to slap together a ship with existing assets and barely any thought or work put into it to put it into the game at $140? Wtf, highway robbery.
Rhode Island is one of the most, if not THE most entertaining ship played this year. It is very squisy tho, but it really packs a punch! Just play safe at range in the beginning and become a beast mid to late game.
I quit 2 years ago buying ANY Premium Ships after they nerfed 2 of my Premiums. I bought them for what they did, not what they became. FRAUD! Still play the game because it's fun. But nothing else. YOLO, Charge, ram....ENJOY!
12:16 Well that's just the thing, because of the improved pen angles, that must be messing with the games logic regarding pen and overpen chance. I genuinely think that the penetration code and mechanics for this game must be awful to look at for a developer, especially in 2024.
Annnnnnd for some stupid reason he went for secondary build on this car. The ship is stupidly good, but guys please, for the ones that want to get the ship and use it, DO NOT use this build go for normal build, don't go for weird DPM build as it's already really good, and what the ship misses is a bit of survivability.
Exactly. He admittedly was trying for a close range, push in type build and it absolutely took away from this ship’s strengths. Stealth + speed + rudder shift + RoF are her strengths. I was unbeaten when reinforcing flanks and essentially playing long range cruiser. Winless when I tried his style of pushing or leading a flank charge.
when you give a battleship" low hp + no armor + no super heal", there is nothing in the game (not even secondaries or speed boost or radar or HE spam) to save it from being a complete trash.
My opinion is that they go off of the plastic models, which are also now around $200 for battleships. So this might be 2% of their rationale, with the other 98% of course being greed.
its not for everyone i guess. personally, i have been loving it since getting it for like 3000 gold back in the day. but it really is just that back row he spammer that can surprise people with its radar. i like to play a hybrid build with 9.5km secondary range, so if a dd gets spotted by my radar for example, my secondaries can shoot him. but despite me liking it very much, i dont think its worth it for more than around 10k gold.
The fact that this is a completely unique ship (and not a clone) that is only being sold for dubs/money feels like absolute garbage. The clone ships (arp yama/kleb color etc) are one thing since they have the same thing available in the tech tree. Even the dockyard tier 10s you can earn a heavy discount on. But this? it feels like such a fucking cash grab
You can also get it in the Premium Shop through the website for $140. Still damned expensive. But in the range of a good quality plastic battleship model.
I was set on getting it, then saw it in the armory and was pissed. But found it on the website premium shop for $55 less than the armory (ship only instead of the stupid bundle). It is fun to play.
@@jaysonnunley6602 my apologies for any confusion: the armory only has the $200 “bundle” option, whereas the Premium Shop at least has the “ship only” option for $145.80. That is the $55 savings I was referring to.
There's no reason to pay this much for such a meh ship; there's other ships that do literally everything this does better and that are cheaper or free. There's infinitely better "small caliber battleships" like the Meck, Bourgogne. And they balanced it around giving it radar... on a backline HE spamming battleship that doesn't have the guns, armor, secondaries or torps to get near the enemy.
Luv ya man, but RI was never going to work for your playstyle. Any ship that doesn't have super accurate AP just isn't your thing. You refuse to play passive and spam HE in a BB.
Stop feeding the Monster . the Most honest streamer is Flame and I never seen him play in unethical way . save your Money on RI because we are keeping to ffed the Monster , not matter what will u spend on Pixels you will be so disappointed to spend that IRLM on a cool ship maybe to meet and fight with sub-atomic IQ level of players WG ruins the king grind and gave way too much free Yamatos ... GL
is a mecklenburg not just that much better? they have practically the same alpha and reload but meck has 16 guns where rhode has 12 and meck has 2.05 sigma where rhode has 1.7. and it has more range, its tankier. meck has 57K HE alpha in a salvo, rhode island has 60, but again meck is much more accurate and has better ben because german HE… the guns and the armor/hull in general of the mecklenburg seem so so much better, and RI gets.. a 9km radar that ur barely gonne be able to use, and a speedboost. idk? meh?
Mecklenburg is a sweet ship. I think everything is accurate that you post here. Speed and stealth are RI’s biggest strengths. I will say I get citadels much easier in RI, on BBs and of course cruisers. Range mod is important for RI instead of the silly sec build shown here. Surprisingly accurate. Also great rudder shift.
@@xPureNRG007x how does it compare to Thunderer? I like the long range HE spamming kiting playstyle, I wonder if it's worth getting since I already have Thunderer
@@jonasdeejee890 Definitely more of a cruiser feel. Crazy speed for a BB, so that is the biggest difference from Thunderer (which I also have), and 12 14” guns do cause a lot of damage, so that is satisfying. The vertical dispersion I feel is better, meaning more hits on broadside targets, kind of like Russian BBs do. Thunderer is great, but I have more fun in Rhode Island due to the versatility. Thunderer has more durability. I find myself (for better or worse) finding a time in every match where I end up pushing in Rhode Island. I do not think this is wise, but the speed makes you think you can pull it off; and when you do it is pretty awesome. Lastly, most videos talk about HE spamming, which it is great at, but the AP to superstructures is definitely something to mix in, like when they hit DamCon.
@@xPureNRG007x I couldn't resist buying it since writing that comment, you're right it plays like a big kiting cruiser which is a playstyle that really fits me. Whenever I get into problems I can just use the engine boost to get away and the 24 km range (with range mod) allows me to still deal damage. The AP and secondaries are good too indeed, though she's quite frail at close range due to the waterline citadel and only 74k HP so pushing is quite risky. The radar on it is really cool since it allows you to spot and take out the pesky DD's that torp you.
yeah can buy it... admiral pack. neither ship is worth £140 sorry. if they sold it for maybe 1/4 of that i might try to find some money. cost of living crisis still WG.
So if the chat is blurred that means some gamer words were used? lol
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@@Perry47395 hello there
They should put this ship for coal at the shop, GK is still the only tier 10 coal BB
I agree. Maybe they will if it does not sell all that well for cash. WG hasn´t brought out a coal ship in ages.
@@TheBigGiant_SpaceChiken because theyre too busy milking all the whales for doubloons
@@paddington1670won’t lie I whaled the entire Wisconsin dockyard…. And I mean The Entire thing.
@@PigPissBeUponThem yikes. i spent $25 on doubloons to finish it because the end of the dockyard was ridiculously long and i couldnt finish it.
@@paddington1670 Long?
It was the shortest and easiest dockyard ever.
Btw thank you for not over-praising the ship too much pq. We should try to avoid buying these kinds of ships as much as possible it will only make wg more greedy.
11:54 It's about velocity and fuse time, not penetration. American 356's are quite fast and against thin hulls that are flat broadside, you can expect lots of overpens.
Velocity is one of the variables of penetration.
I'm 100% certain at this point that PQ would try to force it close range even with a Yami
Not wrong
I bet I'd personally love this thing - my preferred playstyle with Iowa is using its good speed and relatively good stealth alongside the Brisk skill to sneak/sprint across the map for good angles/cap potential. RI has one of the lowest detection ranges among battleships at t10, and shares the upgraded Iowa's 33 knot speed, in addition to a speed boost to push you well over 40 knots. Seems like a great time to me!
Exactly, the ability to show up on a flank when needed is of huge impact. 41 kts. AP does surprisingly well, very different from my Florida experience and I am not sure why. Perhaps Sigma is better? Rudder shift is also quite good.
@xPureNRG007x Sigma and dispersion ellipse is the same, but with 6 slot American dispersion mod, the accuracy is better.
I don't mind the AP on this ship. It has always served me extremely well. Obviously, it won't be going through angled battleships, but it does fairly well overall. Everytime I try to spam HE, I get extremely unlucky because it does not do the damage I see it does in videos.
Mate I'm wondering if you and I have played the same Rhode Island. This thing is a beast.
If u do rudder mode on this ship the rudder shift time will be droppped down to 9.6s. This ship is beyond broken in terms of survivability and gun power.
As much as I love the Floorida (carried me through ranked with multiple 5-kill games), those same guns at TX would drive me up a wall, 381's already mean you don't use AP, 406's mean you use a mix of both generally and 459's give you pretty good reign on the AP, so 356's will always just be worse 381's in my opinion. So if you don't have good firepower, you need good armour, and well this ship obviously doesn't have that.
You've obviously not played the Rhode Island. I would recommend you do.
@@johnnypatterson7512 The audience here is people who are considering whether to buy Rhode Island. Charleslynch mentioned why the ship doesn't seem appealing.
Why do you suggest we buy the ship?
RI gets petro pen angles on the AP and 22 second reload base. it's more than capable of chunking with AP or HE spamming. you just have to not get smashed in return to where the ohio heal can't save you. if smaller guns meant the ship was worse, bourgogne wouldn't be such a highly rated ship.
@@atpyro7920 Bourg has Reload Booster.... the biggest reason anyone even looks at it. RI doesn't have much going for it...
Unless you consider a 9km Radar to be praise worthy...
@@andrewmbaba7608 bourg isn't just a reload booster platform. it's fast enough to get onto flanks and catch people when they don't expect it.
RI can also do that. The radar isn't a magic "win the game button", it's a tool that you can use in the late game when you can get in closer.
if you can think and breathe at the smae time (which, going by your comment, you probably barely can), then RI can become a monster.
I don't really think I will be spending cash for pixel ships again.
The Rhode Island has its merits, speed, agility, and maybe volume of fire.
However, smaller guns, even if there are more of them, weaker armor, and an exceptionally low hit point pool really limits the value, especially at tier x.
Yeah, it's a "premium", but it's also weak enough to require exceptional play to be reasonably competitive.
I just don't see a great deal of value for the average/casual player. There's not a great deal of incentive to buy it.
It's essentially a battle cruiser. It's not meant to be tanky or like other battleships. If people play it like a BC, then you'll have a lot of fun with it.
It's a oversized cruiser in a bb slot. That's how I describe it. It has insane potential and I had insane amount of fun with it.
I buy, battlepasses, dockyards and xmas containers.. Nothing more nothing less.
Don't forget radar, a battleship that can run down dd and cruisers.
Wow, what was going on at 12:50, that you had to blur out the chat...
I can't find it in the Premium shop. When was it supose to be avaleble?
Its available to purchase for ship only in the website premium shop, Its available as a admiral package in the game's Armory.
What are the Green ring above the ships?
"I didn't do well during these matches, the ship is bad" - PQ
PQ you cant complain about overmatch in one vid and then in another vid say it’s necessary because cruisers will bow tank you. Overmatch is necessary because BB is supposed to beat cruiser to some extent. Overmatch citadel, on the other hand, happens way too often
Just get Duke of York. It has DM Riochet Angles on her AP Shells, stupid HE and a good heal, the playstyle is essentially the same aswell of being one big Heavy Cruiser AND shes for free.
Plus hydro. Very under--rated ship.
Or a Florida. Tier 7 is actually a pretty decent battleship tier - lot of very soft tier 5 targets.
Doesn’t it have improved secondary accuracy as well?
Yes, i run it with secondary build. Good for mid to late game
Yes he literally says it
Florida guns at T10 sound terrible. Plus, pushing another HE spammer into the game isn't going to help the meta or the retention of players who are constantly getting set on fire, pinged, and struck by planes. War Gambling is slowly killing their game.
It seems like you can surprise a dd some times with that radar and speed boost +some secondary fire mb.
Was screaming at the universe last night about overpens in my Whisky…left easily 200k on the table because RNG decided I was an asshole.
RNG decides everything in this game. Sad.
The last 2 stages of Wisconsin were a no brainer for me. Pass on Rhode Island. Wisconsin is the thing right now
it's just a matter of time before coal, steel, and the RB go away like the fxp ships. everything will be only dubs soon.
The people playing HE spammers don`t want battle impact. They wanna farm damage, credits and xp and don`t care about their team losing.
Good on them for adding another one. It`s what the game needed.
Are we really comfortable with this game company to slap together a ship with existing assets and barely any thought or work put into it to put it into the game at $140? Wtf, highway robbery.
$140 is ludicrous for a ship. You could buy 3 masterpiece games like the last of us, or you could buy a pixel ship.
My chat would always be blurred. I use a lot of gamer words 😂
Rhode Island is one of the most, if not THE most entertaining ship played this year. It is very squisy tho, but it really packs a punch! Just play safe at range in the beginning and become a beast mid to late game.
If they were looking to stick with a 3x4 main gun setup, maybe they should've gone with Richelieu guns instead of Florida.
That’s an he firing ship and AP only when broadside.
I quit 2 years ago buying ANY Premium Ships after they nerfed 2 of my Premiums. I bought them for what they did, not what they became. FRAUD! Still play the game because it's fun. But nothing else. YOLO, Charge, ram....ENJOY!
Agreed, WG should never nerf a ship that they have sold!!!!
12:16 Well that's just the thing, because of the improved pen angles, that must be messing with the games logic regarding pen and overpen chance. I genuinely think that the penetration code and mechanics for this game must be awful to look at for a developer, especially in 2024.
Annnnnnd for some stupid reason he went for secondary build on this car. The ship is stupidly good, but guys please, for the ones that want to get the ship and use it, DO NOT use this build go for normal build, don't go for weird DPM build as it's already really good, and what the ship misses is a bit of survivability.
Exactly. He admittedly was trying for a close range, push in type build and it absolutely took away from this ship’s strengths. Stealth + speed + rudder shift + RoF are her strengths. I was unbeaten when reinforcing flanks and essentially playing long range cruiser. Winless when I tried his style of pushing or leading a flank charge.
Nice vid!
Speaking of 12 x 14" guns, how is Florida today?
when you give a battleship" low hp + no armor + no super heal", there is nothing in the game (not even secondaries or speed boost or radar or HE spam) to save it from being a complete trash.
Rhode Island is no Marlborough. Far from it.
@@xPureNRG007x lay off the weed
@@LegionaryOfRome sssssssuu-u-aaahhhh!💨
200.00 dollars is just too much for these ships. I would do fifty and that's stretching it. Why is WG so expensive?
My opinion is that they go off of the plastic models, which are also now around $200 for battleships. So this might be 2% of their rationale, with the other 98% of course being greed.
Buy for what?
Even Georgia has 32mm bow and stern. So why they made this one so weak, I don't understand. It's already got low HP as well.
its not for everyone i guess. personally, i have been loving it since getting it for like 3000 gold back in the day. but it really is just that back row he spammer that can surprise people with its radar. i like to play a hybrid build with 9.5km secondary range, so if a dd gets spotted by my radar for example, my secondaries can shoot him. but despite me liking it very much, i dont think its worth it for more than around 10k gold.
The fact that this is a completely unique ship (and not a clone) that is only being sold for dubs/money feels like absolute garbage. The clone ships (arp yama/kleb color etc) are one thing since they have the same thing available in the tech tree. Even the dockyard tier 10s you can earn a heavy discount on.
But this? it feels like such a fucking cash grab
It most certainly is. Fun to play though. Unique, good in today’s long range meta.
200 f*cking dollars?? “We now have the ability to buy Rhode Island outright versus gambling.” You kidding me??
You can also get it in the Premium Shop through the website for $140. Still damned expensive. But in the range of a good quality plastic battleship model.
@@xPureNRG007x Yeah I get it and I know it’s a T10 but hell no. That’s way too much.
If a BB with radar is not completly broken and overpowered, then it has to have some serious downsides. just think about that...
I hate giving WG money for ships but I might make an exception.
This is not the ship
It's too expensive unless you have th money to blow!
T10 for dubs? wtf
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. Kinda bs
Still not paying 50k dubs for this thing.
Don’t see why you would play this ship in comp play over an Ohio.
gonna get her if i can but if they just wanna rip me off they can forget it
I was set on getting it, then saw it in the armory and was pissed. But found it on the website premium shop for $55 less than the armory (ship only instead of the stupid bundle). It is fun to play.
@@xPureNRG007x how i just checked Rode Island is still 145.80usd
@@jaysonnunley6602 my apologies for any confusion: the armory only has the $200 “bundle” option, whereas the Premium Shop at least has the “ship only” option for $145.80. That is the $55 savings I was referring to.
@@xPureNRG007x nah that was just me not seeing you put the less after the 55 goldfish brain strikes again
I prefer the Big Wisky over this
ima be real i got rhode island in 7 random bundles last time
Montana is a lot stronger than this crappy thing. The only downside is the missing radar.
It´s a shame that both this and the Johnston are ¨meh¨ships. I´m sure they will sell, but maybe not as much as WG is hoping.
This ship isn't meh lol, its completely OP.
Its an HE spammer BB. Just another reason to not push.
Day 7 mogami 155 secondaries
the more low hp ship the lower creadits we got and we must paid for game more :))
Maybe if it didnt cost so much I would get it but at that prices, lol, crack kills WG
if only it was for coal...
pls, wg, put it up for coal a few months later
I am a student how the fuck am I ever supposed to buy this shit
would like to see you play without the mods...
There's no reason to pay this much for such a meh ship; there's other ships that do literally everything this does better and that are cheaper or free. There's infinitely better "small caliber battleships" like the Meck, Bourgogne. And they balanced it around giving it radar... on a backline HE spamming battleship that doesn't have the guns, armor, secondaries or torps to get near the enemy.
T10 doob ship.
Man....I rather buy a copy of Dragon Master Magia (its even more expensive I tink) than this ship.
Luv ya man, but RI was never going to work for your playstyle. Any ship that doesn't have super accurate AP just isn't your thing. You refuse to play passive and spam HE in a BB.
49,900Dubs
Stop feeding the Monster . the Most honest streamer is Flame and I never seen him play in unethical way . save your Money on RI because we are keeping to ffed the Monster , not matter what will u spend on Pixels you will be so disappointed to spend that IRLM on a cool ship maybe to meet and fight with sub-atomic IQ level of players WG ruins the king grind and gave way too much free Yamatos ... GL
is a mecklenburg not just that much better? they have practically the same alpha and reload but meck has 16 guns where rhode has 12 and meck has 2.05 sigma where rhode has 1.7. and it has more range, its tankier. meck has 57K HE alpha in a salvo, rhode island has 60, but again meck is much more accurate and has better ben because german HE…
the guns and the armor/hull in general of the mecklenburg seem so so much better, and RI gets.. a 9km radar that ur barely gonne be able to use, and a speedboost. idk? meh?
Mecklenburg is a sweet ship. I think everything is accurate that you post here. Speed and stealth are RI’s biggest strengths. I will say I get citadels much easier in RI, on BBs and of course cruisers. Range mod is important for RI instead of the silly sec build shown here. Surprisingly accurate. Also great rudder shift.
@@xPureNRG007x how does it compare to Thunderer? I like the long range HE spamming kiting playstyle, I wonder if it's worth getting since I already have Thunderer
@@jonasdeejee890 Definitely more of a cruiser feel. Crazy speed for a BB, so that is the biggest difference from Thunderer (which I also have), and 12 14” guns do cause a lot of damage, so that is satisfying. The vertical dispersion I feel is better, meaning more hits on broadside targets, kind of like Russian BBs do.
Thunderer is great, but I have more fun in Rhode Island due to the versatility. Thunderer has more durability. I find myself (for better or worse) finding a time in every match where I end up pushing in Rhode Island. I do not think this is wise, but the speed makes you think you can pull it off; and when you do it is pretty awesome.
Lastly, most videos talk about HE spamming, which it is great at, but the AP to superstructures is definitely something to mix in, like when they hit DamCon.
@@xPureNRG007x I couldn't resist buying it since writing that comment, you're right it plays like a big kiting cruiser which is a playstyle that really fits me. Whenever I get into problems I can just use the engine boost to get away and the 24 km range (with range mod) allows me to still deal damage. The AP and secondaries are good too indeed, though she's quite frail at close range due to the waterline citadel and only 74k HP so pushing is quite risky. The radar on it is really cool since it allows you to spot and take out the pesky DD's that torp you.
Howdy PQ
yeah can buy it... admiral pack. neither ship is worth £140 sorry. if they sold it for maybe 1/4 of that i might try to find some money. cost of living crisis still WG.
Wisconsin is just plain better
yeah for 120 euro LOL
For free is it
So now your Puerto Rico is useless cos this thing is better in everything :D
But this sits in a BB slot, PR sits in a Cruiser slot
No for me
Day 25 of asking PQ to play the finest Russian BB admiral ushakov with meme lord kuznetsov
PLEASE DO NOT BLUR THE CHAT. WE NEED TO SEE THE DRAMA!!!
Meh. Just more of the same. NOTHING special about any of these new ships.
Does WoWs really need yet another HE spammer?
Not really, but this ship has been in the game for 7 months now. It's just back in the armory (soon) but the ship has been here since January 2024