Wasn't really planning on mixing in a video before the giveaway vids, but had so many requests about how this ship plays and how to build it so decided to squeeze this one in! Stream: www.twitch.tv/flamuu Insta: instagram.com/flamugram/ Twitter: twitter.com/flamuchz Discord: discord.gg/Flamu

WG: thank you comrade flamu for advertising how great our soviet ships are. Here's some pixel ships as payment

supersonic shells good armor good range good AA dakka 9/10 torps deny rushes perfect kiting angles destroyer speed good radar blessed by stalin wg give some smoke jesus

Soviet "Light" Cruiser: 2k HP short of newly released German BB; WG sleeps German BB: Slightly more HP than anciently released T6(!) other German BB (PEF); WG reaching for the nerf-stick

Sure hope this isn’t another Impossible Physics Firehose.

….and Zao is desperately in need of a health pool buff

WG: Perfectly bAlanS, as all things should be

Ah yes, the fabled Russian Relativistic 180mm guns on a light cruiser that has armor heavy cruisers wish they had.

Those ships are what the Hipper, Eugen, Roon and Hindenburg should be, gun-wise.

Who knew the Russian navy was so strong.

19km? The real question is can you run spotter plane?

Got the Nevsky today. Played 1 match: - rushed a Des Moines behind an island and torped it to death in close combat, meanwhile citadelling to death a Zao that tried to help him, at mid range, then moved my attentions to a Worcester that was hoping to be smart behind another, far away, island, at max of my gun range, blindfiring him using the last known position on the minimap and getting citadels in any case... ... after "HE spamming cruisers" (Kutuzov and Smolensk), now russian ships have the "AP spammer".

Comes with the usual "Totally not biased" tm camo.

We gonna talk about how this thing is faster than the haragumo with no speedboost? 37.5 kts kinda OP in its own way NGL

"Has 1000m/s shell velocity". That would explain why it has an 8.45s travel time to 16.66km as shown at 5:11. I guess when you ignore most forms of physics there's no reason not to go the whole hog and bend space-time itself.

I have a feeling that if this commentary was a few months ago you'd be laughing and asking wtf they're thinking. Can really tell that WG must've threatened you guys to knock off the criticism...

Flamu, congrats on getting 100k subs. I subscribed across three accounts in the last two weeks--because no one of your passion should be stuck at 99k.

This is what happens when you mash Smolensk, DM. Donskoi and Stalin... You can radar and chase down DDs (several of them are slower). You've got very strong AA Your guns are what Worchester can only dream of, with better range than most CA and AP that makes DM envious and challenge Zao because soviet shells are apparently immune to silly things like *physics*. Your HE is also better than the DM. With the Icebreaker, this ship is possibly tankier than DM. It has torps. It has one of the best engines among t10 cruisers. Perfectly balanced

By virtue of the ship being more reliant on broadsides for the best AP performance, it does feel more "fair" than other russian ships like Smolensk. The HE can be scary, specially for DDs with that radar. It is tough to play because you can get deleted with ease. Overall I think it is a good addition as a tighter jack-of-all-trades Moskva. Very good guide on how to make the most of the ship!

Thank you flamu ive been waiting for commentary on this ship

Great VIDEO, like always. Great job. Keep it up

no wonder dds are extinct in t8-10 random battle

Thanks again Flamu for what you do for the community .. congratulations on your subs and giveaway

Des Moines' reload speed was explained by an autoloader. This thing is just as fast, but has nearly a third more range and better ballistics. Do they even attempt to explain it?

In other words, as balanced as any high tier Soviet ship. From which fever dream was this thing pulled?

On the bright side, a ship this strong must surely do very well on the spreadsheets, which means WG will have to tweak it rather soon (TM) because they always act on what the spreadsheets tell them, right? So we could probably expect, say, some small AA nerfs....?

oh look, another fantasy ship that is OP

isn't heavy and light designation dependent mostly on gun caliber, while more armor meant an "armored cruiser" or "battle cruiser" designation?

Another Soviet cruiser that's the best at everything that matters and who's 'weaknesses' are everyone else's averages. These Soviet cruisers have been an absolute joke.

Only 3 minutes into the video and already you have gotten 13 citadels. At best, with one of my battleships, I get to see maybe 1 citadel. At best. The rest of the time I get to see shatters and bounces off of the armor of cruisers who decided to give me flat broadsides. I guess that's what I get for playing American ships instead of "The Great and Mighty Soviet Fleet that totally existed"

It is not generous enough, because this ship still needs a smoke consumable. Hope WG can fix this bug in the next update.

"obviously i am not going to spec def aa" ***has def aa instead of hydro***

13 citadels in 5:10 seconds, 'nuf said.

Absolutly no soviet bias....

so whats the point of des moines now? better turret placement? 30mm plating?

Doubt you'll see this but is there any chance you could do a positioning video for Moskva?

is their bias to some nations? so ground when the game was new and all good ships I had now suck

How do you get the radar module? Is it on kutznetsov?

1000m/s shell speed and travel time is on 16km distance 8 sec? So its diveded by 2 to have better game experience?

soviet subs will come with nuclear tipped supercavitating torpedoes

Where do you get main armaments upgrade?

At 5:11, the range is 16.76km and the shell travel time is 8.51s. So you are looking at about 2000m/s shell velocity at constant velocity without any drag, drop, etc. Even faster than L/55 DM63, omegalul.

congrats on 100k

How do we get it? Not in shop or armory.

Is there a reson to play any other silver cruiser? Maby Dm and Venezia form silver lines and ofc Stalingrad, but Stalin cost steel and steel its not easy to obtain for evryone. Wg took all the best things from other ships and put it on one ship Nevsky

i have al nevsky too i found at last a smolensk killer i have same setup like you but the only thing i changed whas the reload i go for the range 22,4 km thats indeed ridicilious for a cl but it works i punish bb at long range ....also steering mod very important to angle ...i tryed my al nevsky 3 times against a smolenks and at full speed straight to them and with the steering mod i zig zagged every time and geuss what smolenks couldnt hit me once not once hahahaha and yes in close range i destroyed all 3 wit ap ......godd balanced ship i love it im waiting for the petropovlysk and test both because i want to buy perm camouflage so im waiting wich is the best ....flamu you tested them both what is your opinion the best of the 2 ?grtz

"Fair and balanced."

What's up with high tier cl/a giving broadside and dds smoking up in front of a radar cl at tier 10 matchmaking?

For a soviet cruiser she is WEAK! She needs 3 sec. reload, inbuilt IFHE, turtleback citadel-armour, smoke, 12 km JPN-style torps, long lasting hydro and 100k healthpool.

funny: WeeGee: "We NeRfEd GeRmAn CrUiSeR äGiR aNd BaTtLeShIp OdIn BeCaUsE wE dOn'T wAnT tHeM tO pOwErCrEeP oThEr ShIpS" Also WeeGee: *releases Petropavlovsk* *releases A. Nevsky* *releases Riga* *releases P. Bagration*

You'll never see a title anywhere similar as this with German ships even if its fictional.

That answers my question if I should start grinding the Donkey again!

Flamu, would you still take IFHE on Dmitri Donskoi though?

4:35 I'm one of those degenerates who use range mod on my Hindenburg. I usually close in to about 15km and start AP spamming superstructures and if they show broadside I can do 10k volleys, no problem. Then I reach around 18km and swap to HE and do an avg of 3-4k dmg each volley. I really love my Hindi.

I don't care what WG says. This ship is a heavy cruiser...

God tier stats for a completely fictional ship. Russian bias confirmed

I fondly recall a Nevsky farming me at 17 plus km in my Alaska while I was pushing a cap and being spotted by a DD that stayed out of radar range. I hate Russian rail guns and the state the game finds itself in. I primarily play American and German BB's and it has grown incredibly frustrating to push caps these days with ships like the Nevsky able to keep you at standoff range and farm you as either the shell velocity of American ships makes it difficult to return fire at a cruiser 16km or more away that is actively evading your fire or the dispersion of German BB's just trolling you. If you are unfortunate and a carrier has targeted you for death, you'll rarely get to use all your heals and keep the push going.

I'd like to suggest Propulsion in slot 4. Start/stop memes are really effective.

Russian balans? Neyt, ship only got 19 citadels... if it had gotten 20, we might have to nerf its AA.

What graphics option/mod do you use for the water?

Zao and Ibuki completly powercreeped. Zao and Ibuki have very low HP for the displacement...

I know I'm late to the party and I know that scale is a bit (putting it lightly) off in wows but.. 1000m/s shells -> 16km < 8s?

how to get your used camou bro

New to the game, thanks for the content.

Interesting, maybe it's the amount of guns this thing has, but I had not much trouble dodging most of the shells from a Nevsky in a Khabarovsk withing his radar range ... I had more issues with a Smolensk at about the same range ....

*opens a game with nine citadels*

its fast and annoing with fires

I'm having trouble understanding shell velocity. He said this ship has 1000m/s shell velocity which is equivalent to 1km/s. However, when targeting a ship at 16km, the sight says the time to target is 8s. For the shell to travel 16km in 8s, it would have to travel at 2km/s or 2000m/s for the entire flight time. That doesn't add up. What gives?

so is the Nevsky better than the Petro?

"I dont select AA bc i dont respect it, i use hydro". Literally has AA equipped :D

Im on the fence with this ship: Didnt really like the Donskoi. Have Moskva and will have Stalingrad with next coupon refresh. Is Petropavlovsk a good addition or will Nevski will do the trick, expecially since I dont have the Worcester?? Help a fellow potato! :D

**See's that the video doesn't have WIP** **Starts hyperventilating** oh shit oh fuck oh fuck oh shit REEEEE DEATH COMES FOR US ALL **jumps off bridge**

You sure it doesn't have better pen angles? I've citadeled cruisers in training at a little over 35 degrees. Tested on different cruisers and it didn't matter.

Thats a beautiful blue camo

"Obviously I do not spec DFAA" (looks down at consumable bar)

Good video!

192,000 hp in a "light cruiser". I'm pretty sure the Alaska and Essexs had 180,000 hp. The 33 knot Iowa or the fastest BBs ever with 50k tons at full load had 212,000 hp. Even the engines have magical stalin physics to have more hp then a 33 knot 30k ton carrier with all its engine space available.

So why does Flamu's Nevsky have a Gold wreath, and my Nevsky has just the Silver wreath?

Do you cover Kuznetsov in another video? 175k Coal seems like a very high price, but then I see a video like this or the one where you reviewed Lutjens and it gives the impression that maybe I should consider using the coal on Kuznetsov.

Idk how many times I wrote it in the comments of Flamu's videos but here we go : Light/Heavy categories are not related to the armor but to the gun size. Thanks

Is the wet drean of Hipper/Prinze i mean like they should have been at least in reload...

So you keep sayin' the shells travel at 1000 m/s but it takes 9 seconds to hit a ship 18 km away. Explain?

Just finished watching your last vid hoping for the content! Thanks o/

Same guns of the tallin? Love it.

Honestly the best cruiser rn, very powerful if used correctly. Thanks I was waiting on a Nevsky commentary :)

To quote the old man, “Magical Russian bullshit”

Running double rudder shift ( 5.5 seconds) with a 5.2 second reload. D. Donskoi on steroids!!!! Jury still out on running IFHE or not. Still get a lot of non penetrations but its 50\50 now. Not running IFHE may be better. Lots of bounces at long range with AP. The range and rate of fire creates a false sense of security for some and with its speed, you can get into trouble and be quickly reminded this is a ship with light cruiser armor. Avoiding ANY BB shell is a must and the quick rudder shift and speed really gives the enemy fits at long range. Bring you kiteing skills.

A radar cruiser with lasers that can outrun half the DDs at tier 10. Of course it has to be Russian.

Who remembers when "Russian Bias" was a meme????

"i dont spec defensive AA, i spec hydro" --> has def AA equipped Pepehands

The guns are amazing, especially against DDs caught by radar. When inside 12 km, you can shred the DD. However, at longer ranges become inaccurate

I feel cheated since they took Moskva out of the line with a million or so XP on it and didn't put this one in my inventory. I kept the Donskoi but I still have to grind out half the XP again since it only had 100k or so and now its engine breaks more often than a DD.

If this thing is a light cruiser, then Des Moines is a super light cruiser

Only 19 citadels. WG pls buff.

IFHE or not?

With the loud wg Russian biased nevsky tree and pay to win policy I believe this is the end of my 26k battles journey of playing wows, something I should have done before, all what dev team brings is "silly" according to flamu, amongst existing frustrating unfair game design. I came from wot 65k battles journey as well, so I think I'm very well experienced with the idiology of WG now. I pray you guys don't lose your minds playing WG games.

I planned to grind legendary upgrade for Z52 as next goal but no way. First battle went like this: A cautious approach to the cap with Z52... Then radared, out of nowhere. And yes, later i saw that it was the Nevsky. One out of three that enemy team had. I run and wiggle but... No way to dodge shells that come with 1000m/sec. Escaped with 6k hp -.- Well then go and cap zones with 6k hp. Fck. WG really hates destroyers. Can´t be arsed to play that class anymore.

oh another op russian made up ship, who would have thought

let s buff the radar range to 20km and remove completely the citadel

3:47 "Obviously I don't spec DefAA because I don't value it at all" >has DefAA, as usual