Actually it has a very small citadel so unlikely it will be citadeled but it ha sno armor so it is very susceptible to get penned by everything and Japanese HE melts it hard
More like "overpens all day". The County-class had high freeboard for sea-keeping, but very little armor. This ship has more because she's second flight and her modernization, but it's still pretty light. There's only so much you can put on 10k tons with a 30kt speed and 8x8" guns. Her belt is readily apparent when you look at her. Anything else is essentially unarmored, apart from the armor deck which closes the top of the belt. Mostly.
Dude, that ship isn't as bad as everyone makes it seem. i have done a whole lot of damage in it. I have come to notice that the secondaries have the best damage output at around 7.5-8kms
Matthew Yakush yeah it might be able to do a lot of damage if you have skill but every time I find a Bismarck broadside I get at least 5 penetrations for a total of 20k without any citadels and when it try’s to shoot back it misses every shell except one and that shell ricochets
I use John Jellicoe at 16.3 and the heal can repair 40% of total HP, providing it's not citadels and if you take the fully packed perk you get 3x health ribbons, it's hard not to get dreadnought medal every game! Plus I run the concealment perk and Mikawa 16 so you can get concealment down to 9 kilometres. I prefer to run that set up on the Exeter.
@@olegwinner Yes it's not the thickest armour, in a way that's good if you get shot in the side of the bow or stern as you will only suffer over pens not citadels, but it is possible to receive citadels through the front of the bow. I suppose my playstyle is like a large Destroyer with the improved concealment and smoke, but it's kiting play is strong too.
I've noticed a trend. WG tends to add a premium version of a line they plan to add soon and since it has 203's. I'd say a Heavy cruiser line will be added sometime in the future for the RN. We got Atlanta then Boise for USN then we got a branch for light cruisers.
@@snowykaze yes benham is a premium destroyer we just got two BB campaigns makes sense we get a destroyer campaign shimikaze will be a legendary tier ship we don't even have one legendary tier destroyer yet
I’ve noticed a good maneuver that helps is when you try to avoid getting hit by those torps and you try to go the opposite way I hit full reverse and then speed up the torps will overshoot you and they will miss.
Who else thinks ppl defending the base with an enemy ship nearby should get extra points towards their xp? I literally had to stay at the base keeping a dd from capping for 8min and only got 800xp in a tier7 match as a result my team was able to win by capping cuz of it
@@iamsuzerain3987 bruh i did he was always hidden tho i did like 5 laps around the base shooting blind actually hit some but he probably had less than 5km detection 😂
@@meep6258 I hear you on that bro...it's not the easiest thing to do. Always nice if you've got a radar left, or a commander with the twist and track or intuitive skill activated. You won though, so GG!
Funny I was on your team in a match as Konigsberg man I couldn’t believe you were mad as hell when you got destroyed so early as a London but the match was horrible but beside that, but glad to see ya and keep it up and I enjoyed your videos.
Hey spartan I’m really close to the legendary GK what captain should I use cause I have a maxed out otto for a secondary build but I didn’t get Henry Hide when he came back out do you think I could use Otto on the GK?
Congrats and personally if all you have is Otto or Hipper I would use Hipper because the gun accuracy buffs will really benefit this ship more than the secondary build.
I agree with Spartan, the secondaries are not the 7.5km secondaries on the Bismarck. Großer Kurfürst has actually good accuracy so I recommend Hipper. Ciliax is meant for a survivability/secondary build and you’ll be handicapped by not having the extra main gun range.
GG. My Aunty would of called her clever, she meant ugly. So much to hit, I think I will love her from a BB perspective. I will no doubt be thinking of the song “London calling” by The Clash every time I see her. I WILL call every time I see her. Sorry Have not commented much lately, getting lazy and watching most posts on my big screen brain the size of a planet TV that does not appear to have a type button for RUclips. That could just be me needing a teenager to show me though lol. I still watch and like. Peas love and the sound of old Big Ben, Johnno Bloke.
Hey Spartan, greatly enjoying your meet the ship series. Just a quick thought: you should partner with Drachinifel, he does historical guides on warships and classes and i often search for his videos after watching your video.
That's been my biggest complaint lately. CA players run away and often hide at the bottom of the map, DD's zerg rush straight up the middle and die right away...and my FPE is stuck in the middle getting destroyed by everything that can hit it. Way too many potatoes out there these days
You’re using H.E rounds you need to aim for the superstructure of the ship. It will do the most damage. And when you are using A.P rounds you aim for the weapons and the deck near the engine.
Probably awhile from now but not too far. They need to add the alternate IJN DD tree first and the pan-asian and pan-European DDs. Italian BBS aren’t even in PC. They’ve only just been announced.
Premium time and premium ships help a lot but if you don't have those then definitely run mostly tier 5 or tier 6 and do well and you'll earn decent money
Took me a week of playing but I finally saved up 18mil for the Baltimore. Save those credit boosters and use them in some tier 5-6 games. I was averaging at least 200k per game.
First thing I thought when I saw the ship “Damn, it looks really high in the water and easy to target! Citadels all day!!” Lol
Actually it has a very small citadel so unlikely it will be citadeled but it ha sno armor so it is very susceptible to get penned by everything and Japanese HE melts it hard
No kidding I was in the Bayern and completely erased it with 3 citadels from just the front two guns
@@SpartanElite43 but is ha sno amour
It’s freeboard is crazy
More like "overpens all day". The County-class had high freeboard for sea-keeping, but very little armor. This ship has more because she's second flight and her modernization, but it's still pretty light. There's only so much you can put on 10k tons with a 30kt speed and 8x8" guns. Her belt is readily apparent when you look at her. Anything else is essentially unarmored, apart from the armor deck which closes the top of the belt. Mostly.
Wargaming: “lets have the British cruisers only shoot AP.”
Marketing: “what if we made their premiums shoot HE?”
Wargaming: “DaT soUNdS fAiR!”
Well the heavies in the alternative line is gonna have he so only one ship the Belfast has that power but she trades it off with torps
These are British heavy cruisers that sit very high above the water have high caliber guns and can HE will get the grindable line soon
Like everyone else has pointed out.... Only the British light cruisers are limited ap (bar Belfast, and the Black Swan)
So what your telling me. Is that yes... their premium cruisers are still the only ships that shoot HE. Regardless if they are light cruisers....
@@NotTheBomb when the heavy cruiser lines arrives from WoWS to Blitz, they'll all be firing HE and AP
There are the durable ships, there are the accurate ships, and then there is me
Dude, that ship isn't as bad as everyone makes it seem. i have done a whole lot of damage in it. I have come to notice that the secondaries have the best damage output at around 7.5-8kms
The Roma has joined the chat.
Matthew Yakush yeah it might be able to do a lot of damage if you have skill but every time I find a Bismarck broadside I get at least 5 penetrations for a total of 20k without any citadels and when it try’s to shoot back it misses every shell except one and that shell ricochets
It's a excellent ship when played right
Guero I yeah Bismarck is a ship that you need skill to play and not everyone has skill
I use John Jellicoe at 16.3 and the heal can repair 40% of total HP, providing it's not citadels and if you take the fully packed perk you get 3x health ribbons, it's hard not to get dreadnought medal every game!
Plus I run the concealment perk and Mikawa 16 so you can get concealment down to 9 kilometres. I prefer to run that set up on the Exeter.
Jacen Dex Productions exeter is also kinda thin armor? Once I got 1 salvo demolition vs exeter in New Yorck. Was surprised... or just lucky rng.
@@olegwinner Yes it's not the thickest armour, in a way that's good if you get shot in the side of the bow or stern as you will only suffer over pens not citadels, but it is possible to receive citadels through the front of the bow. I suppose my playstyle is like a large Destroyer with the improved concealment and smoke, but it's kiting play is strong too.
“Not a great 180° turn time”
*Laughs in Pensacola*
Haha
I found one of these in my arizona and laughed at how tall it sat out of the water. I proceeded to one shot it to add to my enjoyment :D
I've noticed a trend. WG tends to add a premium version of a line they plan to add soon and since it has 203's. I'd say a Heavy cruiser line will be added sometime in the future for the RN. We got Atlanta then Boise for USN then we got a branch for light cruisers.
I might be crazy but, in the Benham trailer, dod anyone else hear the whistle from the waterfall view spotter on pc???
Wasn't that a seagull lol
Wait we’re getting the Benham before Shimakaze?! Really?! Shame.
@@snowykaze yes benham is a premium destroyer we just got two BB campaigns makes sense we get a destroyer campaign shimikaze will be a legendary tier ship we don't even have one legendary tier destroyer yet
lord Redlead 23 yea I think she’ll be a legendary DD.
@@snowykaze Benham or shimmer. Benham is a confirmed t6 dd
Gets 3,000 damage, "Oh look there, that's 5,000 damage." Oh Spartan never change.
LoL I try to add up all the damage i see per salvo quickly.
6:01 game play starts
Dang it I was having the sleep of my dreams when I woke up I wanted to stay asleep forever
@@imcoool9257 lol 😂
I’ve noticed a good maneuver that helps is when you try to avoid getting hit by those torps and you try to go the opposite way I hit full reverse and then speed up the torps will overshoot you and they will miss.
Who else thinks ppl defending the base with an enemy ship nearby should get extra points towards their xp? I literally had to stay at the base keeping a dd from capping for 8min and only got 800xp in a tier7 match as a result my team was able to win by capping cuz of it
Technically they do as long as they are getting defense ribbons
@@SpartanElite43 yea i know that but he was hiding just outside of the detect range just trying to torp and i was the last cruiser
@@meep6258 when I'm in a cruiser and a DD is trying to torp me I go after the little bastard
@@iamsuzerain3987 bruh i did he was always hidden tho i did like 5 laps around the base shooting blind actually hit some but he probably had less than 5km detection 😂
@@meep6258 I hear you on that bro...it's not the easiest thing to do. Always nice if you've got a radar left, or a commander with the twist and track or intuitive skill activated. You won though, so GG!
Looks like a good ship, but I much prefer the fast cycling 152s on the light cruisers!
didn’t look better than Leander
@@danightcreeper132 oh for sure, Leander claps cheeks lol
Love the vids spartan
Glad you enjoy!
Funny I was on your team in a match as Konigsberg man I couldn’t believe you were mad as hell when you got destroyed so early as a London but the match was horrible but beside that, but glad to see ya and keep it up and I enjoyed your videos.
We've all been there lol...the guy getting blown to hell at the start of a match i mean
Even a Japanese DD can citadel this ship but that was good game.I was surprise that you didn’t sneeze that Pensacola out of existence
It is technically an Exeter with one more turret.
Tim Scotford why these ships are so rarely seen?
Hey spartan I’m really close to the legendary GK what captain should I use cause I have a maxed out otto for a secondary build but I didn’t get Henry Hide when he came back out do you think I could use Otto on the GK?
Congrats and personally if all you have is Otto or Hipper I would use Hipper because the gun accuracy buffs will really benefit this ship more than the secondary build.
I agree with Spartan, the secondaries are not the 7.5km secondaries on the Bismarck. Großer Kurfürst has actually good accuracy so I recommend Hipper. Ciliax is meant for a survivability/secondary build and you’ll be handicapped by not having the extra main gun range.
Ok I have hipper but I don’t have any levels into him but I will start leveling him up
GG. My Aunty would of called her clever, she meant ugly. So much to hit, I think I will love her from a BB perspective. I will no doubt be thinking of the song “London calling” by The Clash every time I see her. I WILL call every time I see her. Sorry Have not commented much lately, getting lazy and watching most posts on my big screen brain the size of a planet TV that does not appear to have a type button for RUclips. That could just be me needing a teenager to show me though lol. I still watch and like. Peas love and the sound of old Big Ben, Johnno Bloke.
I want to get this mans subs to 10,000,000
Really like the look of this ship mite pick up the poverty spec package
I only play British ships (being from the UK) which is the better ship out of the London and Exeter?
Hey Spartan, greatly enjoying your meet the ship series. Just a quick thought: you should partner with Drachinifel, he does historical guides on warships and classes and i often search for his videos after watching your video.
I was waiting for this bro
That aoba was the real mvp
Sounds like Pensacola and Omaha had a baby and named it London.
That's been my biggest complaint lately. CA players run away and often hide at the bottom of the map, DD's zerg rush straight up the middle and die right away...and my FPE is stuck in the middle getting destroyed by everything that can hit it. Way too many potatoes out there these days
There's always potatoes but the better you get the more you notice the potatoes
This game seem much better than war thunder
Also your commentary is top notch
Hey spartan, would it be possible for you to do a vid on the Roma soon?
Already did a video on Roma ruclips.net/video/5CMe6aHxKro/видео.html
Spartan Elite43 oh thank you
Nice review. I have Exeter...does London differ enough to warrant her purchase iyo?
Honestly I don't remember enough about the Exeter to say yes or no
Exeter ha abetted sonar and faster foreign guns
Fucking autocorrect
Exeter is also more manoeuvrable
Lewis Shaw I hate autocorrect it’s annoying
Nice video spartan
You’re using H.E rounds you need to aim for the superstructure of the ship. It will do the most damage. And when you are using A.P rounds you aim for the weapons and the deck near the engine.
He knows this lmao
Hey spartan what that crate it has the sign,what kind of crate daily rewards???
Hi spartan I have a question I have some doubloons to spend and I’m wondering what would be a gd cruiser to cause after please? Many thanks
I would say Atago or Wichita is the best premium cruisers with Prinz Eugen right there with them.
Spartan Elite43 ty very much I’ll look into those two much appreciated 👍
The British Pensacola but slower
but with smoke and torps
Is it just me or does anyone else now want a British Heavy cruiser line
22.5 fastest turret traverse for any 203 guns and in actuality is very fast only beaten by Cleveland light cruiser and SOME dds not all.
Can you do a video on the molatav
we need to talk about your british commander build, living through you as im still Internet less :,(
Welcome to my world!
So is the London relatively the same as the Exeter
Yes
Exeter or London?
Spartan can you try to do meet the prinz eugen? Pls
First thing I thought of was man that is a tall ship and thiiccc
Spartan when is the Italian battleships coming
Probably awhile from now but not too far. They need to add the alternate IJN DD tree first and the pan-asian and pan-European DDs.
Italian BBS aren’t even in PC. They’ve only just been announced.
Gameplay starts at 6:00
Nice video
How do you guys earn credits faster? I have like three ships unlocked but I cant afford them.
Premium time and premium ships help a lot but if you don't have those then definitely run mostly tier 5 or tier 6 and do well and you'll earn decent money
@@SpartanElite43 thanks!
Took me a week of playing but I finally saved up 18mil for the Baltimore. Save those credit boosters and use them in some tier 5-6 games. I was averaging at least 200k per game.
@@TheOnlyKirk thanks much appreciated!
YES
We need italiano accuracy capitan for roma !!
GG
Get the Indianapolis please!!!
watching him misuse those heals kind of hurt and misusing the ship but thats not as bad.
RNJesus is not with spartan again
Were u high doing this commentary lol
You only used half your heal coz you used them to early.
When will they add Ssmussex her sister
First!!!!
Noice
Gosh that hurt
Hello Sparten, please reakt about my new Iowa Video I had 237 thousend Damage!
GG man the first 3 minutes had me worried but GG
That's a lie! British don't have heavy cruisers!
It has 203mm guns it is a heavy cruiser doesn't matter how little armor it has.
I like the video, but dislike the ship.
FIFTH
Crap
The ship is spartan not you.