@@Hero-wc6gq Bowtank, dodge, go broadside, angle, anything; it WILL get shredded by BBs and high calibre gun cruisers. The guns have terrible reload and a so-so range.
One of my favorite ships of all time. This ship is definitely one to be a dispersion build. This ship is absolutely nasty and can citadel mostly anything you come across. This thing can delete destroyers too, if you can spot them before they kill you.
Actually, no. It takes 381mm guns to overmatch 25mm bow plating. The Bayern is 380mm. Most T5 BBs have 25mm hull plating; some do not. The forecastle of this ship isn't that thick. The bow strakes of the main belt are much thicker. It just depends where you hit it. You can actually see the belt in port. Shoot above it when it's end on to you. Unfortunately, we still don't have an armor viewer, so ingame thicknesses and locations aren't readily apparent.
@@newbyt1717 hmmm I mean I can still give you advice as I went through it. The Colorado's guns are pretty strong when they hit, definitely build William Sims for accuracy. In the Colorado it is Imperative that you always angle your armor, slip up for a second and show your broadside and you will be citadelled, resist the urge to get the rear two guns firing whenever possible. When facing a tier 5 BB the Colorado is actually very tanky, but move the guns up to 15 and 16 inch, the Colorado will get annihilated. The ship is slow so never go chasing a sole survivor on an enemy flank, while you may kill him, after that you will remove your 16 inch guns out of the game for practically the rest of the match, if you see a ship running away, let them and help your team with more immediate threats to your base and caps.
At 8:56, your ship is being T-crossed. Crossing the T is a naval warfare tactic in which a line of ships crossing the bow of enemy ship so that each ship of the line can have different shooting angle. At that situation, I think you are in serious trouble as the enemy team is so organized that 3 ships formed a tight solid battle line. The lead ship sailed to your ship port side, 1 was to the front of your bow, and the rear was at your ship starboard side. At that situation, if you do not know you are being T-crossed, your ship will be a burning wreck in just a few minutes. Getting blown up is just a problem of time.
I found that I get Citadel a lot from the second conning Tower of the Izmail it seems that the back armor of the area is very weak. PS if you want to really decimate enemy Cruisers or battleships used Otto Ciliax inspiration instead of Jaujard.
People love throwing ranked matches when the points are in the bag... you got lucky that last BB didn't potato completely and the New Mexico was so low on health... great video Spartan, really appreciate these "meet the" Russian BBs you're doin.
This boat wants to kite away in a battle. Simply look at the gun placements. You have 3 guns facing backwards and only 1 facing forwards. Instead of coming to a halt and bow tanking 3 battleships within 7km, you should have used the mountain as cover for your turn and gotten into better position to use your guns efficiently. It would have also worked to help transfer your guns from side to side. Instead of forcing them to do 270 degree rotations.
Also, your aim is getting worse lately! Learn to use the damn auto aim to give you a better prediction of where they are going to be and then make your adjustments off that. You're missing great opportunities to get easy hits from behind cover. Any time your opponents ship is blocked from view, you start flinging off hail mary's that rarely find the mark. The computer is already doing most of the work for you... just allow it to do it's job! I've never seen any streamer cover the topic before, but I know I wrote a comprehensive reddit post about 6 months ago on the subject.
EinarOfBC TBull has videos on the auto aim. He talks about it often in streams and in RUclips videos. He’s where I found out about the auto aim, then I fine tune it a smidge left/right and up/down then I’m golden 😂
@@SbrGrendel65 What do you do for autoaim, lock on the Ship? i know once you have the range the camera moves with it creating a precise autoaim effect if you hit shots accurately before.
I have citadel the Russian battleships sooo much today. I guess alot didn't get the memo of dont go broadside on with ships and that what I am seeing alot. The despersion is yea whacky, feel like the Japanese dispersion is a lil better lmao. also notice not alot of destroyers in ranked play so far, been having like 4 min wait times, compared to playing as a cruiser or battleship. But keep it up spartan
Atleast the NM in your match doesn’t shoot HE and make you lose! 😂 I’ve had that happen to me to many times earlier today. So many people don’t even know how to play the game. Then you know has a mic it seems, so you can talk. Love the game but it can be so frustrating at Times
I really use to hate this ship with a passion, but after I took a better look at the gun lay out I started playing it kinda like a kiting amagi an worked wonders for me tbh.
Yeah it's called grinding. Take your time with the tier 6. If you're in a hurry user XP boosters. Play your premiums with silver boosters. Then you should have it in no time. Good luck buddy.
Use XP boosters to complete the line to unlock Iowa then go back to T4 or T5(whichever you excel at) and farm the hell out of credits. Note: Be sure you have 1mil+ credits when going into T7 because you will get punished in terms of servicing. T7 is a absolute credit nightmare especially when you have to get her fully upgraded. Always have at least 1mil in credits to give you a nice cushion to soften the credit blow in T7 matches.
GG I think the Russian BBs look workable although a plane would be handy. I might swap Jo Jo for the bloke with better traverse, Madden I think. I did my usual last minute buy out of the last op but had nothing to spend all the leftover lolly except small soviet crates. No problem 64 crates later lol, I ended up with the tiers 3,4,5, Soviet BBs and all the bonus global to help complete them. Plus I have both BB commanders, sweet. Peas love and time to level up my Comrades, Johnno Bloke.
If you aren’t paying attention to the map then they can tell you when a destroyer gets too close for comfort. They can also light fires when in CQC. That’s what I use them for at least.
Maybe I've just been lucky but it seems that enemies get duped by the secondaries firing and swing their ass around to get the stern guns into the fight thinking that I've already fired. Free citadels on inexperienced players.
Oh no I wasn't clear, sorry. Going bow on with enemy ships and they think your main guns fired when the secondaries volley. So they turn flat broadside in front of you while you've been holding fire and then you let loose with the fore turrets.
I love all your videos so please try this out and i promise you will almost never have an over pen problem like you do now. Most of the perks i see you take are for penetration multiplier or something similar. I had the over pen problem too especially with russian BB that already have good AP pen. Use russian commander that has improved penetration angles and you will be doing so much more damage you will be surprised. I now use his improved pen angles as inspiration on almost all of my battleships and its so much more fun not bouncing all the time and not over penning with way to much pen multiplier. Plz try it out
I think the Russian battleships are very well balanced. Great armor if you're angling. Mean ass guns and if you catch broadside you will totally destroy. Then having lots of fun with the tier 3,4 & 5. Can't wait to get the tier 6. Already saved up 20 million silver to buy the 7 Next update.🏴☠️😎🏴☠️
Easy to citedal .. i had new mexico and i took 38k from Izmail from one salvo!! I know it is a coincidence but this is the first time that happened to me
Im not loving the Russian bb's. I got 3,4,5. They are ok, just not my favorite. If you angle correctly they are almost indestructible. As soon as you don't, kiss your ass goodbye. Im experience same issue as you, with wonky shell dispersion and penetration. But I'm playing both bb commanders at rank 6 until I figure out what way I want to go. Maybe I'll like better once I upgrade. I got over 500 promotion orders and 20 insignia so I can max one out as soon as I decide.
ky gun runner 500 promotion orders holy shit dude! That’s some saving up, and I’m pretty conservative with mine, only really spending when I know I like a certain build. Have you levelled up all the commanders you use and now just collecting like with credits and unlocking all tech tree ships?
You give me ulcers watching your videos. They way you make it sound like you wernt going to kill that Bayern with what ended up being a kill shot. And that last battle with the two New Mexicos you made it sound like your teammate was going to lose the engagement. And I don't know why I'm worrying about you possibly losing the match I can see that there's like 940 points on the board you guys have all three caps it's just about impossible for you to lose. But it's your tone man. It plays with my emotions. Lol but it's good for the entertainment Factor.
The Pensacola is an underrated ship.
It’s pretty bad man The guns don’t turn and if you build for it then your accuracy suffers
Hero777 I always blow them up
@@Hero-wc6gq Bowtank, dodge, go broadside, angle, anything; it WILL get shredded by BBs and high calibre gun cruisers. The guns have terrible reload and a so-so range.
It doesn’t have much of a use other than support and insta killing cruisers broadside that are close but my Dallas is better
One of my favorite ships of all time. This ship is definitely one to be a dispersion build. This ship is absolutely nasty and can citadel mostly anything you come across. This thing can delete destroyers too, if you can spot them before they kill you.
5:39 “ gets a good hit on us” lol dude he did literally no damage
The reason why the Bayern shot you straight through the bow is because he has 380mm guns, and those guns overmatch every tier 5 battleship bow
Hence why that and the Arizona are my favs! I bought the permo camo for the Bayern
Actually, no. It takes 381mm guns to overmatch 25mm bow plating. The Bayern is 380mm. Most T5 BBs have 25mm hull plating; some do not. The forecastle of this ship isn't that thick. The bow strakes of the main belt are much thicker. It just depends where you hit it. You can actually see the belt in port. Shoot above it when it's end on to you. Unfortunately, we still don't have an armor viewer, so ingame thicknesses and locations aren't readily apparent.
I just got the Colorado and what tips do you have to help me out to get Iowa. As fast as possible without using real money
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@@newbyt1717 hmmm I mean I can still give you advice as I went through it. The Colorado's guns are pretty strong when they hit, definitely build William Sims for accuracy. In the Colorado it is Imperative that you always angle your armor, slip up for a second and show your broadside and you will be citadelled, resist the urge to get the rear two guns firing whenever possible. When facing a tier 5 BB the Colorado is actually very tanky, but move the guns up to 15 and 16 inch, the Colorado will get annihilated. The ship is slow so never go chasing a sole survivor on an enemy flank, while you may kill him, after that you will remove your 16 inch guns out of the game for practically the rest of the match, if you see a ship running away, let them and help your team with more immediate threats to your base and caps.
At 8:56, your ship is being T-crossed. Crossing the T is a naval warfare tactic in which a line of ships crossing the bow of enemy ship so that each ship of the line can have different shooting angle.
At that situation, I think you are in serious trouble as the enemy team is so organized that 3 ships formed a tight solid battle line. The lead ship sailed to your ship port side, 1 was to the front of your bow, and the rear was at your ship starboard side. At that situation, if you do not know you are being T-crossed, your ship will be a burning wreck in just a few minutes. Getting blown up is just a problem of time.
I found that I get Citadel a lot from the second conning Tower of the Izmail it seems that the back armor of the area is very weak. PS if you want to really decimate enemy Cruisers or battleships used Otto Ciliax inspiration instead of Jaujard.
People love throwing ranked matches when the points are in the bag... you got lucky that last BB didn't potato completely and the New Mexico was so low on health... great video Spartan, really appreciate these "meet the" Russian BBs you're doin.
Lol
Got this, the gangut and the sinop from crates. Line definitely takes some getting used too but ive been havin a blast. Especially in the sinop
Wish I was as lucky as you! Have opened around 25 crates and haven’t gotten one ship
Lucky! I havent seen anything useful in my crates since I got my izyaslav in the last update
I think Charles Madden would be a good inspiration cause those turrets are killing me
Hiram A. Ibanez only if you have him probably ranked high, since he’s like a 7 for me and it’s not noticeable enough imo
Yeah, I've got Madden as an inspiration for my build. I also have the turret rotation skill set on Kedrov to make sure I get it as quick as possible.
Guero I use main battery mod 2.
I just played against you in ranked! Nice moves in the Fubuki btw.
I once took an Izmail out, in two salvos in my Bayern.
This boat wants to kite away in a battle. Simply look at the gun placements. You have 3 guns facing backwards and only 1 facing forwards. Instead of coming to a halt and bow tanking 3 battleships within 7km, you should have used the mountain as cover for your turn and gotten into better position to use your guns efficiently. It would have also worked to help transfer your guns from side to side. Instead of forcing them to do 270 degree rotations.
Also, your aim is getting worse lately! Learn to use the damn auto aim to give you a better prediction of where they are going to be and then make your adjustments off that. You're missing great opportunities to get easy hits from behind cover. Any time your opponents ship is blocked from view, you start flinging off hail mary's that rarely find the mark. The computer is already doing most of the work for you... just allow it to do it's job! I've never seen any streamer cover the topic before, but I know I wrote a comprehensive reddit post about 6 months ago on the subject.
EinarOfBC TBull has videos on the auto aim. He talks about it often in streams and in RUclips videos. He’s where I found out about the auto aim, then I fine tune it a smidge left/right and up/down then I’m golden 😂
@@SbrGrendel65 What do you do for autoaim, lock on the Ship? i know once you have the range the camera moves with it creating a precise autoaim effect if you hit shots accurately before.
@@dgeneratio1 www.reddit.com/r/WoWs_Legends/comments/dorpvb/quick_aim_seems_most_people_dont_know_it_exists/
Tbh with you if this ship fires it’s guns at a ship at 10km it’s literally a floating shotgun if RNG says yes for a citadel or devastating strike
I have citadel the Russian battleships sooo much today. I guess alot didn't get the memo of dont go broadside on with ships and that what I am seeing alot. The despersion is yea whacky, feel like the Japanese dispersion is a lil better lmao. also notice not alot of destroyers in ranked play so far, been having like 4 min wait times, compared to playing as a cruiser or battleship. But keep it up spartan
matt waddill I got citadel but cruisers today in Russian BB’s
No sure what I do wrong but I hit battleships point blank with a salvo and Don't get a citadel. I get like 21k damage but no citadel
Working through all the videos slowly!
Good luck I crank them out!
This ship is insane, I was dev striking battleships, don’t think I’ve had a 190k game in a tier 5 before
You gotta drive this boat backwards, that way your angled and all your guns are firing.
hey spartan i bought 3 soviet crates and unlocked the gagnut, pyotyr, and sinop i’m loving the ships
Atleast the NM in your match doesn’t shoot HE and make you lose! 😂 I’ve had that happen to me to many times earlier today. So many people don’t even know how to play the game. Then you know has a mic it seems, so you can talk. Love the game but it can be so frustrating at Times
I really use to hate this ship with a passion, but after I took a better look at the gun lay out I started playing it kinda like a kiting amagi an worked wonders for me tbh.
I was playing ranked and everybody was American ships so it was the American fleet
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Cues freedom
I like your channel. I recently started play World of Warship on consoles. At what level do you have to be to place commemorative flags on your ships
I just got the Colorado and I need tips from you Spartan for how to get Iowa fast as possible without using real money
Yeah it's called grinding. Take your time with the tier 6. If you're in a hurry user XP boosters. Play your premiums with silver boosters. Then you should have it in no time. Good luck buddy.
Use XP boosters to complete the line to unlock Iowa then go back to T4 or T5(whichever you excel at) and farm the hell out of credits. Note: Be sure you have 1mil+ credits when going into T7 because you will get punished in terms of servicing. T7 is a absolute credit nightmare especially when you have to get her fully upgraded. Always have at least 1mil in credits to give you a nice cushion to soften the credit blow in T7 matches.
@@greybeard8012 thanks and...
@@godzillaiv2096 😄😄
Just got this ship. I know playing against this ship it can get citadel easily, even by US Cruisers. My first game this ship wrecked the other ships.
Queen Elizabeth is still my favorite bb for tier 5 ranked. Those 380s with a dispersion build are seeeeexy
Mitchell Erickson I personally like my Arizona over my QE, I just love my american AP
QE has some of the best sigma in T5 and having that dispersion build makes it even more satisfying.
GG I think the Russian BBs look workable although a plane would be handy. I might swap Jo Jo for the bloke with better traverse, Madden I think. I did my usual last minute buy out of the last op but had nothing to spend all the leftover lolly except small soviet crates. No problem 64 crates later lol, I ended up with the tiers 3,4,5, Soviet BBs and all the bonus global to help complete them. Plus I have both BB commanders, sweet. Peas love and time to level up my Comrades, Johnno Bloke.
hey spartan heres a tip for when u play the tier 4 dont show any broadside or give a big angle the citadel on that ship is legit the whole thing
I got one today from a big crate havent tried it yet gotta try it out hope its good
What’s the point of secondaries they are so heavily nerfed from the pc version
If you aren’t paying attention to the map then they can tell you when a destroyer gets too close for comfort. They can also light fires when in CQC. That’s what I use them for at least.
Maybe I've just been lucky but it seems that enemies get duped by the secondaries firing and swing their ass around to get the stern guns into the fight thinking that I've already fired. Free citadels on inexperienced players.
Smeghead what ship are you using that gets citadels with secondaries cuz I want it
Oh no I wasn't clear, sorry. Going bow on with enemy ships and they think your main guns fired when the secondaries volley. So they turn flat broadside in front of you while you've been holding fire and then you let loose with the fore turrets.
Smeghead ah that makes more sense. Thanks
This is the best ship in my opinion , I one shot cruisers all the time as all my shots never disperse with the build I use
What's your build? I feel like my shots always just lightly tap the cruisers... Even the broad side ones.
Why did you waste that damage con at 10:15?
Got this ship for free from the admiralty shop in the store. Love it more than my crush😦
Hate getting HE spammed tho
i'm jealous been trying to get the 5 and 6 battleships from crates and so far only got the t3
First. I doubt I will actually be first. But, anyway your vids are awesome spartan so keep up the good work
I like these ships, but have also noticed they do not score xp well. Very frustrating having an amazing game and finishing 4th on the leaderboard.
Arizona and war spite best premium tier 5 ships change my mind
Mutsu
@@leewidebeck749 Mutsu's a glass cannon shootin' hail mary's! Warspite is a beast!
I love all your videos so please try this out and i promise you will almost never have an over pen problem like you do now. Most of the perks i see you take are for penetration multiplier or something similar. I had the over pen problem too especially with russian BB that already have good AP pen. Use russian commander that has improved penetration angles and you will be doing so much more damage you will be surprised. I now use his improved pen angles as inspiration on almost all of my battleships and its so much more fun not bouncing all the time and not over penning with way to much pen multiplier. Plz try it out
Ranked battles aren't bad this time I'm at rank 11
:edit: I'm using the New Mexico for ranked battles it's my only tier 5 right now
I think the Russian battleships are very well balanced. Great armor if you're angling. Mean ass guns and if you catch broadside you will totally destroy. Then having lots of fun with the tier 3,4 & 5. Can't wait to get the tier 6. Already saved up 20 million silver to buy the 7 Next update.🏴☠️😎🏴☠️
i just unlocked this ship. i was a beast in the pyotr. but i really hate the gun layout in this thing
5:33 a broadside what?
How You get it?
hey spartan also when it comes to russian damage cons i woulf wait for 3 fires
Easy to citedal .. i had new mexico and i took 38k from Izmail from one salvo!! I know it is a coincidence but this is the first time that happened to me
Probably easy to repeat. Hell the Pensacola can citadel that battleship.
Isn’t the commander pronounced “me-heil” with the k being silent?
No
Is the sound working for anyone else
Worked for me
So far the best battleship I used
Im not loving the Russian bb's. I got 3,4,5.
They are ok, just not my favorite. If you angle correctly they are almost indestructible. As soon as you don't, kiss your ass goodbye. Im experience same issue as you, with wonky shell dispersion and penetration. But I'm playing both bb commanders at rank 6 until I figure out what way I want to go. Maybe I'll like better once I upgrade. I got over 500 promotion orders and 20 insignia so I can max one out as soon as I decide.
ky gun runner 500 promotion orders holy shit dude! That’s some saving up, and I’m pretty conservative with mine, only really spending when I know I like a certain build. Have you levelled up all the commanders you use and now just collecting like with credits and unlocking all tech tree ships?
The guns on this ship are pretty good, everything else sucks
This thing needs a nerf bad
also u play the ships wrong
Izmail is by far the easiest battleship to citidel.
Spartan you don't play well with Russian warship and i think you do this knowingly
I dont think I do too bad in them but usually meet the ship videos are within 10 battles of getting the ship
You give me ulcers watching your videos. They way you make it sound like you wernt going to kill that Bayern with what ended up being a kill shot. And that last battle with the two New Mexicos you made it sound like your teammate was going to lose the engagement. And I don't know why I'm worrying about you possibly losing the match I can see that there's like 940 points on the board you guys have all three caps it's just about impossible for you to lose. But it's your tone man. It plays with my emotions. Lol but it's good for the entertainment Factor.
If anyone wants to join up lmk!!!! Look me up! Chronickloudz I’m on ps4, been playing since launch!