Thanks for making this. Dangerously topheavy seems to be a common theme when you are giving the history of so many of these DDs. Knowing where these ships have to go and fight, I find it difficult to understand how safety and survivability wasn't the number one priority during the design. Attack dog style is more fun to watch and more fun to play especially if the dog plays to win and caps when necessary and disappears when necessary like you do. Thanks for always being so honest when giving your opinion of the performance in game so people don't waste their money.
The weight issue seems to come up a LOT, particularly with Japanese destroyers, but it is not uncommon for destroyers in general. The business ends of destroyers is all above-deck (a torpedo at the time weighs, by itself about 2 tons +/-, for instance); with things like the Mk 37 director and radar, you want that to be as high as possible; the higher your weight is mounted, the more it raises the metacentric height; and to maintain high speed you want as little draft as possible. In part, it's because shipbuilding wasn't (and still isn't) a perfect science, particularly when you're dealing with new technologies. But thanks, Rocket. I always try to give people the most fair representation of the ship that I can. So far, I haven't had anyone accuse me of misleading them, which is a huge relief.
As expected a lovely review from you tacticangel. The editiing and graphs created for this video were delightfull to look at and great for orientation. Quite frankly because i dont own any american destroyers i will never look into purchasing Sims although i like to look at these other nation ships to get to know my reaction when coming across them in a duel and as of now the sims seems like a great plaything against any german warship of tier six. Even in gneisenau my secondaries will shred her as they have a range of 8 or 8.1 km which is longer than the effective length of her high damage torpedo tubes so at the end she will not be a serious threat to any of my vessels and i will not complain about that. But ofcourse i will send my condolences to those who really wanted this warship to be more of an embossing force, maybe in the future her status will change, maybe in march of this year ;)
This review is very much a victim of its timing (which is mostly my fault). In any case, I don't think Gleaves is going to make this a really great torpedo boat, but it may make it a bit more serviceable between subsurface venture and torpedo safari. The Benham and Monaghan are getting a pretty significant buff the day that patch goes live, though.
I sense you might’ve used a line from Star Trek VI and adjusted it slightly with “ Just because you can shoot a thing, does not necessarily mean that you must shoot that thing” If not, I’ll go ahead and stuff myself into a locker.
I saw that, but obviously I'd already put this together (and haven't fiddled about with him, yet). There's some definite potential there, but I imagine he'll have even more potential for the Benham
Not sure what is going on there. I think it might have been the Resolve update. It may also be that my capture was choppy. I've been using an Elgato for the last couple of videos to get it to record in 1080 rather than 720... I'll have to look back at the Siegfried and Munchen videos.
If you really want to run it as a torpedo boat, he doesn't seem like a bad choice. If given the option, though, Gleaves is going to make a MUCH larger difference for Benham.
I totally agree. Honestly, I'd be most pleased if they dropped her to Tier V as she is now. I think she'd be a pretty good ship there, but not clearly better than the Mahan even.
This boat definitely should've been tier 5. Kidd and Benson are both tier 8 on PC for good reason vs Sims at tier 7. WG is not thinking as usual. No one should buy Sims over running Benson or Kidd.
It would be a pretty good choice at the tier, certainly not OP, but could even be revised downward just a bit and had a comfortable trade in capability.
I don’t understand how this can be considered a premium when just seems to be a polished turd. I mean shouldn’t a premium be better or substantially different from the tech tree ships of the same class?
I'm not sure we want premium ships to be clearly superior to tech tree ships because then the game is just pay-to-win. You would definitely hope that there was a decent reason to buy the ship though.
Thanks for making this.
Dangerously topheavy seems to be a common theme when you are giving the history of so many of these DDs. Knowing where these ships have to go and fight, I find it difficult to understand how safety and survivability wasn't the number one priority during the design.
Attack dog style is more fun to watch and more fun to play especially if the dog plays to win and caps when necessary and disappears when necessary like you do.
Thanks for always being so honest when giving your opinion of the performance in game so people don't waste their money.
The weight issue seems to come up a LOT, particularly with Japanese destroyers, but it is not uncommon for destroyers in general. The business ends of destroyers is all above-deck (a torpedo at the time weighs, by itself about 2 tons +/-, for instance); with things like the Mk 37 director and radar, you want that to be as high as possible; the higher your weight is mounted, the more it raises the metacentric height; and to maintain high speed you want as little draft as possible. In part, it's because shipbuilding wasn't (and still isn't) a perfect science, particularly when you're dealing with new technologies.
But thanks, Rocket. I always try to give people the most fair representation of the ship that I can. So far, I haven't had anyone accuse me of misleading them, which is a huge relief.
as always love the content and history lessons, fun playing you in arena last night - Faced1111
Thanks for your message there too, and of course, the support. I do appreciate it. 🙂
Another great vid, nice work tacticangel
Thanks, again, Gauzy!
A challenging ship for sure.
You continue to put out great vids and this is one.
Thank you sir!
Thanks, W M. Glad you enjoyed it.
Speaking of angry attack dogs...
Perhaps Kidd, Benham and Sims combined could be called Cerberus?
One head pit bull, the second a doberman, and the third perhaps a poodle?
Did you just call a poodle an attack dog? ( ･_･)
As expected a lovely review from you tacticangel. The editiing and graphs created for this video were delightfull to look at and great for orientation. Quite frankly because i dont own any american destroyers i will never look into purchasing Sims although i like to look at these other nation ships to get to know my reaction when coming across them in a duel and as of now the sims seems like a great plaything against any german warship of tier six. Even in gneisenau my secondaries will shred her as they have a range of 8 or 8.1 km which is longer than the effective length of her high damage torpedo tubes so at the end she will not be a serious threat to any of my vessels and i will not complain about that. But ofcourse i will send my condolences to those who really wanted this warship to be more of an embossing force, maybe in the future her status will change, maybe in march of this year ;)
Forget about Burke or Dewey because when Gleaves arrives it will take the cake for this boat, the Benham and probably the Monaghan.
This review is very much a victim of its timing (which is mostly my fault). In any case, I don't think Gleaves is going to make this a really great torpedo boat, but it may make it a bit more serviceable between subsurface venture and torpedo safari. The Benham and Monaghan are getting a pretty significant buff the day that patch goes live, though.
Not if he doesn’t have twist & track.
Haha it was pretty cool to play against you and Jc today. Very eventful 2 games😂
Yes it was! GGs
I sense you might’ve used a line from Star Trek VI and adjusted it slightly with “ Just because you can shoot a thing, does not necessarily mean that you must shoot that thing”
If not, I’ll go ahead and stuff myself into a locker.
I'm glad someone noticed. 😉
@@tacticangel 👊
Did you change encoding settings.
Frame rate is choppier than usual.
Great review as always
Sorry about that. I'll look into it. I just upgraded my version of Resolve, so perhaps something got moved around without me.
I've had a lot of good games in the Sims, and I think it's a great destroyer hunter as well as great at citadeling cruisers.
Allegedly a new sneaky US DD commander inbound so maybe a good choice for this ship?
I saw that, but obviously I'd already put this together (and haven't fiddled about with him, yet). There's some definite potential there, but I imagine he'll have even more potential for the Benham
tactic are you running 4k mode all of a sudden? video seems choppy unlike usual
Not sure what is going on there. I think it might have been the Resolve update. It may also be that my capture was choppy. I've been using an Elgato for the last couple of videos to get it to record in 1080 rather than 720... I'll have to look back at the Siegfried and Munchen videos.
Might be a good ship for that new DD commander?
If you really want to run it as a torpedo boat, he doesn't seem like a bad choice. If given the option, though, Gleaves is going to make a MUCH larger difference for Benham.
I should've asked miss Cleo about my life while I had the chance
I'm sure there's a 900 number out there for you somewhere. 😄
I hope they buff this at some point. This is hard to like with these torpedoes. Gorgeous ship tho
I totally agree. Honestly, I'd be most pleased if they dropped her to Tier V as she is now. I think she'd be a pretty good ship there, but not clearly better than the Mahan even.
@@tacticangel someone should remind WG that even a collector's ship as they call them doesnt necessarily have to be a chore to play ....
This boat definitely should've been tier 5. Kidd and Benson are both tier 8 on PC for good reason vs Sims at tier 7. WG is not thinking as usual. No one should buy Sims over running Benson or Kidd.
It would be a pretty good choice at the tier, certainly not OP, but could even be revised downward just a bit and had a comfortable trade in capability.
I don’t understand how this can be considered a premium when just seems to be a polished turd. I mean shouldn’t a premium be better or substantially different from the tech tree ships of the same class?
I'm not sure we want premium ships to be clearly superior to tech tree ships because then the game is just pay-to-win. You would definitely hope that there was a decent reason to buy the ship though.
The sims isn't the same class tho it's a sims class and it's different just not that different she's just a collectorship
I own both the Gallant and Cossack so noooo they are not always better.