World of Warships - Average Erik
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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Jingles was a senior NCO in the RN and Erik was a loader aboard a tank in the Dutch Army.
So, Jingles drank his way around the world and Erik worked for a living?
Yes. That is accurate
Wait, you're assuming a tanker works?
At what, making tea and biscuits (or whatever the Dutch prefer)?
@@ELCADAROSA He was a loader, not a driver or radio operator, so yes, he worked, those shells are heavy.
Don't forget that in addition to drinking his way around the world. He spent an unduly large amount of time giggling at the city of Brest.
Errrrmmmmmmm he was a Cpl lots of love. PONGO’s
I too am in my 50s and spent part of my Life in.... Well, here's a laugh for Jingles and other Vets.
My Dad, who is quickly approaching 80, is a Vietnam combat vet- my Grandfather was a US Marine PRIOR to WWII when he left to become a Sailor. I'm from a Military Family. My Dad, however, was NOT what One would call enthusiastic to the thought of his oldest child Enlisting.
Soooo, I told him I had enlisted in the Military.... He and I went out to their patio and sat down over an adult beverage.
"Ok Christopher.... After ALL that both myself and your Grandfather have said has been ignored by You. So.... Marines? Army...?"
"No Sir.... I'm going to be a Jet Mechanic in the USAF!"
"AIR FORCE?!? WHEW! You had me worried there, Kid! I thought you said you were going into the Military..."😂🤣
As a 58 year old military brat who’s dad is a retired United Stated Chair Force Chief Master Sergeant jet mechanic, I approve of this post 👍🏻 😝
@@nmccw3245 I thought a slightly silly Military story was just what folks needed.
BTW, my USAF AFSC (My "Job") doesn't exist anymore because the plane Model (s) I was certified on don't exist anymore. Yep.... Going back a *bit*
Funny! My dad was in the Air Force during Korea.
@@colinsdad1 I always wondered what happens when the machine your an expert in is withdrawn from service, do they offer the chance/tell you to train up on something new if you have a long career ahead of you?
@@jeros8258 not for secret info
You've never been insulted until you've had a SNCO from His Majesty's Armed Forces shouting at you.
Or a US Army Sgt Major with (not kidding)23 years in...
He started off as a Huey door gunner for 4 tours then went in the reserves with a mech infantry unit.
What a SNCO
Or laughed as quietly as you can while a joe gets absolutely destroyed by multiple drills who are going at him like a pack of rabid dogs.
I think it counts for non commissioned officers and drill sergeants in most armies. Got very fond memories of being shouted at when I was a recruit in the RNL Army in the 1980ies, trying to hold my laughter. The insults were so bloody hilarious, I wish I would have taken the time and effort to make a compilation of them. I've forgotten most.
@@mikemcghin5394 Senior Non Commanding Officer.
For hardcore fellas, its an average game, but for average players like PapaErik, its the game of a lifetime, especially if its featured by a fellow military veteran like Jingles. PapaErik, GG and thanks for your service.
Yeah whenever you hit 100k as a Average Joe its a grate feeling.
@@jaywerner8415 I think if 100k is your benchmark for a great game you're not an average joe, you get to look up at the joes from the stats ladder
@@ainumahtar What?
@@ainumahtar I know. My average was 50k and I never got above tier 8, subs are what made me finally quit but, the carrier rework is what made it less fun. Felt too much like cheating!
@@TheBitter73 A lot of tier9+ ships have 80-100k dmg as their average per game overall, so if your 100k games are your 'great' games, you're actually worse than 'the average joe'. I'm not sure how much more clear I can spell that out, so if you still don't understand I don't know what to tell you.
Since the majority of us all are/were average players I see nothing wrong with featuring an average game.
Not everything has to be 300k and 8 kills.
Nothing wrong with average games yet don't make a mental mistake of making that THE standard. Excellence should still be the standard. That includes firing, being in position, having courage, trusting the game, and playing for fun.
I remember Flambass being asked how to improve by a viewer and his response was to learn to position; be in the right place at the time. He said something to the effect of being able to shoot is useful, but paying attention to the mini map and where ships are and then putting your ship in the right place to be where you're needed will win more games than being the best shot in the game, because it's no good being the best shot in the game if you yolo in and get blapped inside of 2 minutes.
This game is an Average Joes' demonstration of that; not the best shot, but was trying to be in good positions, firing at the right ship (including DDs) and later, not charging out after the Iwami. Sure it's not Unicum game, but a game to be pleased with. Well worth showing.
And yes, that Smaland was absolutely the MVP.
I'm sorry but there is no way you can say his positioning was good. And neither should he be expected to, he is a bad player (not even average). I don't mean to have a go at him because we fully acknowledge this. But he isn't utilising is health pool to the benefit of his team by just sitting back with a spotter plane.
Another comment sums it perfectly, copy and paste "The Iowa makes a good corridor gun platform but he played it way too safe and didn’t inch up with the team. Battleships exert pressure on the enemy team by existing and as your team moves up so should you to keep the enemy from doubling back on your over extended teammates. That’s what happened when the team went for B and he wasn’t there to keep them from thinking otherwise. You don’t have to go melee mode just scootch up a little and keep em scared of the big guns. Getting used to the weird guns on the Iowa isn’t easy and I don’t think he even had mods on the turrets as those things were glacial to turn. So yeah he played alright if he was used to the guns, positioning, and practice with the Iowa is where he needs work. Everyone is scared of everything in a wows match, you’d be surprised how much more often you’ll win if you get a little more aggressive. Trade some paint for territory then make them earn every inch they try to take back. You have ~4 heals a game try to use them all."
His positioning was actually quite poor for most of the game. He hung far too back behind an island and gave up too much map control. At the 9:30 mark he was clumped up with two other BBs at A, and ended up sailing further towards the 1 line. That was pretty much the worst place he could have been, and it was at that point someone started raging at him in chat. Where he really needed to be from the very start of the battle was up north between B and C where the team was weaker. There he would have been able to create a cross fire against all the enemy ships pushing south.
The truth is that he mostly got lucky. His poor positioning contributed to the enemy team getting a massive lead and in a majority of cases this would have just turned into another loss where he was "that" battleship, full health and last alive on the team with 50k damage. There was absolutely no reason all those low health ships needed to push in and give flat broadside at close range. This wasn't the case of his positioning forcing the enemy into a bad place, rather it was the enemy willingly putting themselves into a bad position for no reason.
*edit
Also as a general point, he spent too much time bow in not utilizing his rear turrets. I acknowledge its easy to fall into the trap of giving too much broadside in order to use all your guns, but the Iowa has decent firing angles and staying mobile with good positioning makes it a lot easier to get all guns on target.
@@yashma4187 The position will depend on what both teams do also, example, all your team races to cap circle a while you (in an Iowa) and a lone Akizuki go towards c. I ran into the whole enemy team and before I could blink, Torps galore!! We won because the rest of my team knew where the whole enemy team was minus 1 DD that was AFK in the start position. They knew what to do and I didn't because no one ever told me so, thank you for some wisdom!
please define "good positioning". this GAME is all about luck.
sometimes the average jow vids can be more fun to watch then the pros imo. beacuse the "pros" know what to and not to do and "sail his way to victory", while seeing the average joe fight his way to a win with the do´s and dont´s does make the vid a little more exciting. and we all have been there and some stay average a little longer then others, but hey this is just my 2 cents.
tbh the main contribution he made was not dying so the smaland had more time to carry him
@@ainumahtar in the big scheme yes but he also contributed kills and damage to even if he wasnt used to the ship. everything doesnt just boil down to not dying
@@xzeke666x Except he didn't do any appreciable damage for the first 10, arguably 15 minutes, so no, I disagree. His main contribution was just not dying, which meant that there was an Iowa there which probably kept at least some of the enemies from pushing, but mostly "because Iowa" and not because Erik was effective in it.
@@ainumahtar i didnt say he did alot of damage and kills etc, but he had some kills and damage witch contributed. when you are new to a ship you are not effective in it, noone really is until you learn the ship. but just saying that him not dying was his only contribution is not right or true
@@xzeke666xhe got kills because the enemy gave him free kills.
1) It’s better to be lucky than good.
2) Sometimes you make your own luck.
3) Never get in the way of an opponent destroying themselves.
WoWS in a nutshell.
Ya forgot one.
Use DD's as traps! They never see it commin!
"Insulted by Professionals" 😂
9:47 he isn't using his smoke mr jingles, because he used it just outside of the B cap on the right, to hide from the airstrikes 😅
Jingles never change, blind for one thing, focus on another
Ackshually Jingles 🤓, the torps came from the Iwami that was just sunk, yes the Iwami has torpedoes, also I just realised something is this a secondary Iowa? I think I just saw the skill that improves the ships secondary accuracy, yep definitely, not judging that part, I put a secondary build on the st. Vincent
Yes I have the strange habbit to make all my battleship a secondary build, to compensate to my poor aiming something :)
Good team effort with poor DD's breaking their back doing the heavy lifting 👍🏻
It's fun to watch as the match progresses. His aiming improves little by little. I had this when I got the North Carolina, those super heavy shells does come with a learning curve. But once you nailed it they are God tier.
Once ingot my Monty and fully speced into damage, one Grosser Kurfurst lost 66k of his health in one salvo
This! The first time I placed shots properly on a broadsiding heavy cruiser(I can't remember the name, French tier 9) and took it from 90% health to 0 with 3 citadels I was SO happy! That being said, people in DDs and light cruisers love to flame people in Iowas for not pushing and tanking...which is exactly the opposite of what the ship is designed to do!
Another jingles video, goes well with dinner :D
Good game PapaErik and from an average player like myself this makes me smile to see a game like this congrats dude
I noticed that in chat that somebody told publicly for both teams to see where his team mate is and he shortly died after that. Hilarius.
That burning plane flying by @1502 was hilarious
I had to replay that a few times 😂
A fair video comes with fair criticism. First of all, it is great that erik managed to get a nice score, especially when it comes to the ballistics that can be quite unique ship to ship. However, I see no reason why he is running a secondary build spec on a ship that is mostly designed around its main guns. Of course, every player is free to build their ship how they like, but afaik, the strength of the iowa comes from the mobility and the main battery firepower, rather than the secondary guns, which would be better suited for a ship like the massa
Dunno how hard it is to respec, but one thing jumps to mind; While you're still learning how to shoot the main guns, why not give the secondaries a boost since those guys are already aimbots.
ah... dutch panzer guys... back in the day when i was playing world of tanks i had the pleasure of stumbling across a whole bunch of them, joining their clan and having a real blast playing with them. fun times :D
Watching Papa Erik sail the LONG way around the south of the map for the first half of the match was just painful.
The true horror is on the minimap 6,5 -7 friendly ships are held off at A by 3 enemies and 3 friendles start kiting, others stand still or just sail around back and forth. I do not understand.
"...struggling with the ballistics" is flowerbunchian for "can´t shoot for shite"^^ (no harm done pls, erik^^)
PapaEric, GG and thank you for your service! Congratulations on the win and getting featured on the channel. Thank you Akizuki, I mean Jingles (Oh, come on, we all know who the boss is here) for the replay!
Thanks
@@erikvanderzanden8932 Your welcome.
not to sound like a ass but that first half is a prime example of what not to do in your BB especially a iowa... now with that being said, the second half of the game was pretty fun to watch lol. Good game papaerik
what, sitting in the back and only shooting at targets more than 20 miles away..... you surely jest!! LOL
This game gives me hope that my Destroyer replay I sent in may one day be graced with a mighty cast from Jingles. :)
Well played PapaErik. Great show Jingles!
Shouldn't this be a game of throws? Especially since the enemy team choked so hard?
I felt his pain with every shot. I do the exact same thing in my Alabama lol.
Jingles was giving him a bit of a hard time for not landing shots. But im sitting hear impressed that he did not die early on. Thats a major win even if you can not hit the broadside of a barn. Just not dieing is a great help to the team
Very true.
He spend 13 minutes shooting and not hitting anything. If the first 20 salvos where useless then maybe, just maybe, you need to get a bit closer.
They had the ships advantage but wasted it by going in one by one.
The only reason they won is the miracle that the north flank pulled off.
Moving closer wasn't necessarily the issue, I'd say, but being able to figure out that you are not giving enough lead and then correcting that issue shouldn't have taken more than the first 3 or 4 salvos, not most of the match.
"Insulted by Professionals": never have I heard a more apt description.
Oh Jingles, dear old Jingles. Here comes the Swedes again.
Småland is not Shmalland.
So drop the H after S, and pronounce the Å, instead of just saying A.
Ä sounds like the A in Damn, or Ram
Å Sounds like the O in Gorge, or Borg
Ö sounds like the U in Murder, or Fur
And pronounce it as a composite word, Små-Land
From Sweden with Love
- Kami
So to summarise... He hid 80% of the game and then pops up to mop up.
After which he sends replay in...
Great way to lose 8 out of 10 times!
Hate players like this.
Cant believe people like this.
Its the prime factor in me not playing this game.. overstuffed with 60+ yearolds
Finally, A guy that knows how to spell Erik correctly! lol My commiserations on the struggle with the US AP rounds. Took me a while as well. Nice job and congrats on the win. Cheers!
Some friendly advice Erik, you could use to be a little more aggressive.
That's what I was thinking the whole game through tbh, a little further forward in his central position and he could have helped the north, not going ALL the way south he could have attacked the same ships he fought toward the end much sooner
Yeah you are right, normally I do, once even played ranked and I mistaked my self, thinking I was playing co-op, after 4 kills, and in the middle of a crossfire and ofcourse dying, I remembered ai this waas a ranked game....
This video should be titled "Below Average Erik" ... but nowadays this is "average" ... Gameplay in Wows is total cr*p.
The other day Flamu was once again blaming bad game play on the "boomers", and I pointed out that wow pop says the average age in warships is 28 years old. Yup, most players are not bommers, thus most of the bad play is not us. I reality I am sick of him laying bad play on our door. So there ya have it.
Congrats on the Iowa and the win Papa Eric. As a USA military vet its always a pleasure to meet a vet from another country. (this includes both of you haha) :)
@The_Mighty_Jingles I come here to watch superunicom players making average player mistakes lol
It is always a wise idea to get used to the gun characteristics in a few training room sessions. For a 12v12 PvP environment getting a feeler for the first time is not very nice to your peers. No hate, just constructive observation.
Sitting in spawn, then advance when your team is dying.
Id say below average.he got carried by the hayate and smaland. I'd rather see that smäland replay.
Yes but who is an average player? For example, I don't normally sit in the middle of the map for those crossfires, and I am bad at hitting targets at range, and I have problems with map awareness. But I always pay attention to where my shots go, so unless the target is switching speed every salvo, I don't need a whole 10 minutes to tell me that my lead on a +/-30 knot ships is off. Not to mention the simple rule - if you have HP, and you are hitting jack from your current range - move closer.
If you judge by stats, an average player has 48% to 52% WR more or less
@@stefanocrosazzo3262 Ok. Then PapaErik, who is 46,89% is a very bottom line average/borderline bad. And actually seeing how he persists to shoot from a distance, from which he can't hit anything, I kind of understand why.
you are right most players are average, and papaerik does make some bad joices and his aim is not good, but sorry to say dont call him average, no bad feelings but he is below that
Honestly gameplay aside id probably watch Iowa videos all day long. There isnt a ton of them.
Well played.
Jingles, how many WoW and WoT players are in thier 70s, like me?
Well yeah he didn’t play that well but he didn’t play it poorly. The Iowa makes a good corridor gun platform but he played it way too safe and didn’t inch up with the team. Battleships exert pressure on the enemy team by existing and as your team moves up so should you to keep the enemy from doubling back on your over extended teammates. That’s what happened when the team went for B and he wasn’t there to keep them from thinking otherwise. You don’t have to go melee mode just scootch up a little and keep em scared of the big guns. Getting used to the weird guns on the Iowa isn’t easy and I don’t think he even had mods on the turrets as those things were glacial to turn. So yeah he played alright if he was used to the guns, positioning, and practice with the Iowa is where he needs work. Everyone is scared of everything in a wows match, you’d be surprised how much more often you’ll win if you get a little more aggressive. Trade some paint for territory then make them earn every inch they try to take back. You have ~4 heals a game try to use them all.
You said better what I was trying to say in response to someone elses comment regarding positioning.
14:55 was cinematic
Some of the dispersions of those shots. Sweet jesus. Every time i feel like playing again i just watch a wows video, look at the bb dispersions and decide "nah fuck this pos game".
It's because he's specd into secondaries instead of main guns.
this could be labeled as a game of throws mixed with Average Erik
You know you not only shoot, but play really bad when a commentarist only talks about other things while you actually (try to) shoot something.
PapaErik, thanks for your game, aand your service
Eric: Consistently underleads shots
Also Eric: Was a tank gunner
I don't doubt the real thing is much harder. Wait, that doesn't help.
All fun and games ;)
Real thing is easier, just lazer point target, drink a coffee and shot when ever it feels good ;)
Jingles, as a fellow Veteran (US Army), I can only warn that us average World Of Warships Players and Military Veterans may prey upon your excellent spin doctoring to be featured in an upcoming episode by simply doing OK and hoping for someone else to carry us to "not quite mediocrity". Either way, thank you to PapaErik and to you for your fellow Service.
Is that a secondary specialized Iowa ?
If he hasn't unlocked all the upgrades on the Iowa he probably doesn't re-speck captains since you need either gold or lots of free commander xp.
Not everyone throws money at free to play games.
@@Ushio01 it could also be a module
JINGLES FOR THE LOVE OF WARSPITE! DO SOME MORE COLD WATERS VIDEOS!
(Day ‘fxck knows howling ive been spamming this’)
*proceeds to watch video B)*
There are some good channels that have some epic surface engagements, Iowa, Arleigh Burkes, etc.
Guy is running a secondary build Iowa though 🤣
A proper Swedish person here. Småland is pronounced as the English 'small' followed by the first syllable of 'understand'. There's no stupid German schm going on!
Considering how many different kinds of "sch" swedes got in their language, it's better to use them everywhere just in case. Some time you are bound to be using it correctly!
I'm just guessing, but I'm sure there's more than a few of us in our fifties, are veterans, an enjoy watching Jingles lol.
a bit boring for the first 15min of the game. still nice to see someone get a win.
Lets hear it for those lethal Iowa secondaries!
Thanks for featuring this video, Jingles. I feel miles better about my own games after watching this dude miss for 10 straight minutes.
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To be honest, I like watching average games lol. Often just simple positioning wins games, and also tanking by Battleships which in a way allows enemy ships to be spotted. GG Papa Eric, more lead on those shots, it's very very annoying how usa bb line ballistics changes so much as you go up the tiers, worst is from colorado to north carolina. Good Luck Have Fun Brotatoes.
Yeah, I remember going to NC from Colorado, with everyone in my clan constantly claiming the line would finally get good, but I hated every single game I played in that ship.
How is he aiming in that top down view?
Thanks for showing this gameplay - as an average player myself, it's good to be reminded that sometimes one of the best things you can do for your team is not do anything stupid and survive long enough to make a difference
Jingles finally posts an iowa video that I’ve been waiting on for a while as I’m currently in love with mine and grinding towards the Montana and he FORGETS TO GIVE HIS THOUGHTS ON THE DAMN IOWA.
Probably because it's one of the original Tier IX BBs. Then again, he's gone back and added flavor for _Des Moines_ recently, discussing how its position in the meta has changed over the years (and how it hasn't.)
@@boobah5643I know but I really wanted to hear him talk about it. I use his advice quite a bit when looking for new tech lines to go up
I like Erik!! Thx Jingles!
good morning across the pond jingles just finished my shift and a great way to end my day
This feels like the EU server.
Prolly 20km iwami torps
Yes, and the Tromp was already dead at that point.
Hey Jingles, do you plan to play Cult of the Lamb again? Also Way of the Woods come to Xbox and Steam in March where you play as another animal like a Deer.
5:48
And while Jingles was nattering about DDs, he missed Erik hanging 10K on that Smolensk.
Great game for Erik, let’s hear it for 50+ ex military gamers 😊like us
Congrats to you! 🎉
I don’t play and I am 60 I like watching the narrated action from Mr. Jingles.
i have been summoned?
"Just unlocked the Iowa, not used to the muzzle velocity" No offence, but I would assume that means he just got done with the North Carolina, which as everyone knows has some of, if not THEE slowest AP shells in the game. So if anything he would be OVERSHOOTING his targets having gotten used to the 45 Caliber 16inch guns vs the 50 Caliber16inch guns. I do have tip though, If you line up the "notches" on the binoculars with the "travel time" of the shells (indicated on the left side of aiming view by that little stopwatch), they will hit that exact spot every time. Its just something i noticed recently and started using myself.
Other then that GRATE GAME PapaErik. The enemy REALLY wanted that Iowa BOOTY, and thus suffered a sever loss of blood to their brains which compromised their critical thinking skills.
it's painful to watch, Erik did everything to throw it in tthe firsst 15 minutes but in the end enemy thrown harder
he did literally nothing due to shitty positioning
@@sarpkaplan4449 exactly
The Iowa doesn't actually have that strange of ballistics if you were used to North Carolina.
Both Iowa and NC used the 16" SHS AP round, but Iowa has the 16/50 guns compared to North Carolina's 16/45's, so Iowa has a faster muzzle velocity and flatter shooting arcs compared to North Carolina, requiring less lead than what you need to allow with North Carolina.
That's me right now trying to get used to the guns on the Vermont!! FINALLY unlocked the Ole girl and cannot get synced up with the velocity, lead, sigma, trajectory....it boggles the mind. It's like each Salvo is shot from a distinctly different ship! Disappointing really...
Now, I'm kind of a stat wh*re. Not that I'm amongst the top players but hear me out. Guy has 5k+ matches, 25k average damage. I mean come on, 40-50k damages are VERY doable even at tier 5-6. Not to mention he has only 3 tier 10s, and all of them are coal ships. People calling him average, saying It's an amazing match for an average player and all that. No guys, he is bad. He is very bad. I would just call him a bot if I were to come across this guy and check his stats, before watching this video. I'm not even being toxic here, I'm just saying facts.
13:45 Those were Iwami's torpedoes. She has Shimakaze's default torpedoes: 20km range, slow, high detectability, max of 23k damage. Only difference is her launchers are one quad per side while Shimakaze has 3 quints mounted centerline.
Nice win for Erik, but honestly just unlocking the Iowa is probably one of the flimsiest excuse for underleading i've ever heard. Just unlocking it means he just got through grinding out the North Carolina, which has the exact same superheavy armor piercing shells, but has the 45caliber mark 6 guns (Iowa has 50caliber mark 7 guns), which means far slower shell velocity with bigger arcs. So unless he free XP skipped the NC, he should've realistically been overleading shots, still expecting his shells to move at the speed of snail. He probably just got done playing a few games in Japanese, Russian, or French ships, which have much higher shell velocity, that or he got the last couple thousand free xp playing, again, ships with much higher shell velocity.
4 torps, probably the Iwami dropped them, the Tromp only has triple torp launchers, and they reach out 20km, and Eric has a secondary build on his Iowa, as a main gun/survivability build only boosts secondaries to 7.3 km, and his main gun only reach out 23.3 km, vs the 24.6 km of a base Iowa with APR mod 1.
to be fair Jingles, everyone has the ability to download mod station, and get the mod that tells you how soon you will win,
Dear Rear Admiral Mighty Jingles,
on behalf of .. myself, as I cannot speak for others ... I would like to point out, that it is rather your excellent commentary than the moving pictures in the background that entertains us ... err, ME.
Therefore, if I might be so bold to offer advice that was not asked for, I would like to suggest, however humbly, that the Rear Admiral could present to his devoted followers the most common of gameplays and spice it up through the power of his narration, the genious of his wordplay and the epitome of what makes RUclips such a great place: the ambiguity of hyperbolism. ;-))))))
Im a DD main. I can’t give BB advice to PapaErik but The most important piece of advice I ever received when I was just starting was that the 4 functions of a DD in any match were (in that order):
1. Survive
2. Spot
3. Cap
4. Deal damage
Any DD player should live and act by those goals
It's a specific skill to LET your teammates CARRY you. Playing League of Legends, I see people capturing resources, giving the enemy team a lot of resources, trying to be the protagonist, when all they needed to do was serve as a distraction and they would'Ve won.
I just can't enjoy this video. This is a perfect video for everything wrong with battleship players even if he just got the ship a few games ago. Staying at the back, not moving until the team is losing, bad aim, not moving to a good engagement range for your guns, and poor armor usage (backing out broadside to that bismarck). Overall a OK game with 100k damage, but it was all luck. Multiple chances where he should have been deleted.
Honestly speaking about 99% of games in World of Warships is now the same to me. LIke first you have two wings. Then all ships on one wing get instantly deleted by the enemy. Then all ally ships that are still somehow alive group somewhere on the border of the map and wait to lose the game while literally doing nothing but maybe occasional shots from battleships in the general direction of the enemy. Shots that obviously miss.
And since I play big, slow battleships, I simply cannot evacuate my ass in time from what now became the front lines and I get killed by overwhelming enemy fire while nobody gives a shit. Including ally aircraft carriers.
So the only hard thing in this game right now is to guess correctly near which border ally idiots will group and go there. And you have literally maybe 33% chance to be right - because they obviously won't be grouping on enemy side of the map, but apart from that anywhere is the fair game. And certainly all location that could potentially win the fucking game - especially cap circles - aren't possible by definition.
But it's no use to even try to win. Because allies WILL lose it no matter what. At least on my level.
My best achievement so far was helping to take the cap, once. Because only one time so far some crazy destroyer in my team actually did it seeing that I was nearby to draw enemy fire. And today I managed to dodge about half a hundred or so torpedoes that two or three enemy destroyers have sent my way as a welcome gift. But they actually killed me with their guns before I could withdraw. And they did so without revealing their position, tucked behind an island. And not one ally aircraft carrier bothered to send their bloody aircraft there to spot the fuckers for me so I can oneshot them.
But hell, I sure wish the enemy team would start throwing so hard as they did in the middle of THIS game. Sure would be nice to have enemies line up in front of my guns one by one like they did for him. Papa Erik, you, good sir, are ONE LUCKY DOG.
But well, what's even best skill if you don't have any luck, right?😎
Okay, shoot. I, a US civilian, will take a stab at it. Silly tanker, thinks battleship is a floating tank........I don't have anything else. What do you want from me? I don't wear my pants on my head, I wear my shirt on my a*s; there's. . . . not really any difference.
I personally hate the play style the Iowa showed here, and I really don't like glorifying it with a victory and a video. He wasn't hitting ANYTHING at long range, and he (along with a couple other BBs on his team) stayed at long range until he was FORCED by the enemy's advance to engage at medium range (where he actually started doing damage). The Neptune captain pointed it out in game ( 11:41 )! The Iowa hung back, letting all his teammates fight and die before he would commit his ship (with its armor, HP's, and heals) to any significant risk. He then got to mop up the few wounded enemy ships remaining. Yes, the enemy team should have pulled back and let the clock win it for them, but their Smolensk and FDG were already too close to get out of sight when their Kiev died, and why should they be particularly worried about an Iowa that had hardly done any damage at all the whole game? The Smalland was the real threat and they were trying to find and kill him.
This kind of play style generally is a loser at lower and mid-tier games where being smartly aggressive as a team wins more often than not. I see it all the time (like currently now in T6 Ranked play) when high tier players move to mid-tiers and hang back rather than fight when it will really help. When people take themselves OUT of the fight it just hands the enemy an advantage. This game is won by doing the most damage the soonest. Top tier games are dominated by this super-cautious play style, however, I think largely because getting spotted early invites an immediate focusing-down by the enemy and several top tier ships can quickly kill/cripple even the most powerful ships in the game (e.g. see how ineffective the Yamato is currently in game). So, like here, no one wants to be the ship (esp an easily spotted BB) to get spotted and targeted early and they try to stay just marginally in the fight while expecting other ships to take the real risks.
7:10 Bruh, Erik already fired BEFORE the Mogami came to a full stop from running into his ally and by the time he reloaded, the Mogami was moving! That is just an unfair comment to make!
11:40 Wow, that's rich coming from the Neptune in chat who ran into the middle cap without any protection or smoke.
This was a poor game, with an adrenalin rush at the end made somewhat bearable by excellent commentary. It was frustrating as hell up until the 12th minute hiding behind mountains and taking potshots at targets 20+ km away, only made a comeback by red errors. This is a Game of Throws episode in disguise.
Smaland, it was very well played.
Jingles, as a fellow slightly over the hill, military vet myself, I love all you videos, but for the love of god, please stop laughing in the videos. Your laugh is contagious and has caused me to almost pass out a few times, never mind the coughing fits! As for Erik, I was an anti-tank gunner and during a couple of Reforger exercises, managed to take out a couple of German tanks, I have nothing but love and respect for my cousin tanker.
A few things that are apparent that Erik can fix is: stop investing into secondaries with your commander/modules in USA BBs (other than Ohio), and use grease the gears (could be wrong, but it didn't look like he had it).
We should also agree that the German DD player had the heaviest balls and got sunk by them, not the enemy team. ;) ... OK, OK, he got greedy mid-game and the Lord Almighty loves to teach us this simple and quick albeit hard to learn lesson. :(
Edit: typo
Having just unlocked the Iowa if anything is an excuse for OVERleading shots, since the North Carolina's guns have atrocious flight time, and the Iowa slightly improves on that. Once youre at the Iowa you should have gotten used to leading a lot
LOL -- I would say I constantly have to readjust as I change ships as those arcs and ballistics across the differing BB's change so much. But I am able to change how I am aiming at another ship after one salvo and I realize yep high arc on this one. And if Papa got to the Iowa he should have been used to those high arc long time American shells. So to be open and honest, the team almost lost early on as Papa could not do his job as an Iowa and failed to adjust quick enough. And the team only won due to Red being overly aggressive at the end (Oh we are up so much lets try to kill all) despite their low health. And interesting match, and Papa was lucky. As you said, just any standard WoW player. Congrats to him on the win.
you a riot, bro! "advanced in years". i did 21 in the USN, and retired at age 41 in Feb 1993. the USN has now paid me to just breathe for 30 years. i wonder what the vet population in your channel is, here? i wouldn't be surprised if it was a tad higher than in others.
I had a game worthy of a jingles video last night. 130000k damage. At the end 5 ships vs my kaiser. One cruiser, 2 destroyers and 2 half life battleships. Took them all out, while they were leading in points. The last battleship started blowing up as the timer ran out and i lost the game. Thats where i would have gotten one of those hearty Jingles laughs. Shame i wasnt recording.
Older vid I know and yes I fully realize that in this vid Erik was just taking her out for one of his first engagements in her. But his aim is unforgivable the iowa in game has been around forever really and has always had a notorious reputation for having floaty long hanging shells requiring lots of lead time. Erik either needs his Alzheimer’s meds because he seems to forget that between every shot or put the game down for good. This was torturous to watch and I haven’t played the game in years but even I could play the Iowa more effectively than that trash
Ill back up my armored brethren with this. The most important thing is, was it fun..... i can play extremely well in WOWS, WOT. But there are many times that im just like "fuck it, just a game. Lets make this fun" and then get another vic from the garage a min later .