I think the Italian navy got the answer to this question in WWII... Edit: The Bismarck wasn't sunk by a Swordfish, rather one got a lucky hit on it that jammed the ship's rudder, leading to it being sunk by the guns of the British fleet.

When the IJN Yamato gets added you need to reenact Operation Ten-Go for a historical battle. Can players save the Yamato and beach their ships on Okinawa, completing their mission, or will history repeat itself with Yamato's death?

The key to battleship AA is to manually control the secondary guns with timed/VT fuse shells and let the AI handle the actual AA.

If you are ever going into a ship vs aircraft battle as the ship, always pick the most heavily armed US ship you can. The US Navy had an interesting habit of covering every available inch of deck space in AA guns.

Muffin: "I wonder why there are so many biplanes hitting the ships." Me: Those are cultured players

During the Taranto raid the Swordfish flew so low that one returned to base with part of the radio aerial cable from one of the Italian ships wrapped around the undercarriage, Talking about anti-aircraft guns and the Italian navy during an unexpected night engagement between the Italians and British warships in the Mediterranean (which seemed to be the result of both side trying avoid a night engagement) which included ships from the famous Australian 'Scrap Iron Flotilla' one of the Australian ships had replaced their British Pom-Pom guns with salvaged and much more effective Italian anti-aircraft guns. during the night battle which took place at knife fight range for some of the ships. The Australian ship found itself sailing between two larger Italian warships, with nothing left to loose the Australian ship opened fire with everything it had including the AA guns. The Italians used a very distinctive three colour trace set up on their AA guns. The Italian ships seeing this and in the darkness and confusion thought that they had opened up on an Italian warship and ceased firing and mistook each other as British ships firing on a fellow Italian ship and open fire on each other while the Australian ship took the opportunity to get out of there. It goes to show what a confusing thing night fighting could be without access to modern technology.

This should really have been played in the open ocean instead of the San Francisco Bay to give the BB free room to maneuver instead of being sitting ducks.

The Bismarck looking at this with bad flashbacks all over again

Alternate title: cinematic version of birds trying to get a fish

The Swordfish didn't sank it, but they had an very big Part in sinking the Bismarck, a lucky Torpedo hit the rudder, disabling it at 6degrees or Something. When the Royal Navy started attacking it, the germans sank it themselves. The Swordfish or the Royal Navy never sank it directly, they Just disabled it

6:41 7:13 7:22 7:41 7:48 8:01 Images with HUD OFF are so awesome ! all this planes going down, USS on fire and so on, love it. Need a movie made just on War Thunder

fun fact about the Haruna, she holds the record for most times a vessel was declared sunk by an enemy nation. she was "confirmed" sunk by the USN and the Royal Navy a grand total of 24 times throughout WW2. also, for a slight correction. thanks to Britain and the Swordfish Torpedo Bomber there were still Biplanes in use by modern militaries until1947, when they finally decommissioned the last ones aboard HMS Illustrious good vid btw

This looks amazing! It feels so chaotic with 62 planes, I can only imagine how chaotic the battle was with the Yamato, 2 hours and 386 planes to sink it.

The Alaska battlecrusier was a formidable ship, especially the AAs

For fucks sake people... Here in the US we don't do "Battlecruisers" Alaska is officially classed as a "Large Cruiser"

Other Alternate title: cinematic version of the flies trying to get my food

American Shipbuilders in WWII: how many guns do you want on this thing? American Navy: yes

"Its even funnier the second time."

Day 08 : OTOMATIC vs WII planes

Biplanes look epic vs the battleships AA guns Great videos as normal!

Swarms of planes seem to normally be able to take out even large ships. Kinda cool

I would like to see leopard 2s versis however many mouse tanks

As soon as I heard the number of bi planes I emetiutly knew that the ship was toast.

You got to remember a plane is a small and fast target. A battleship is big and slow. I got a idea. Why not look up the scrap iron floatilla? A handful of obselete dedtroyers owned by the t Royal Australian navy. Survived swarms of stukas,ju88s and various Italian bombers in the Mediterranean especially during the siege of tobruk. Look it up.

The battle with the music makes it seem like a movie before the hero dies 7:07

as a naval main, this was amazing to watch, thanks!

God it’s cool seeing the players dive in from above and from the sides as the aa guns were firing at them

The reason the aa was less effective is actually very realistic. That’s how swordfish had barely any losses when attacking Bismarck in ww2, because the aa range and aim systems were adapted for newer, faster planes, leading to incorrect range gauges

The humble Swordfish didn't just sink "a few ships", they sank a greater tonnage of Axis shipping than any other Allied aircraft during the war.

The fact that in round 1 the dude pulls out the most aa heavy battleship in the entire game is absolutely hilarious considering when I do customs with my friends for this specific kind of game mode my Gunners can kill the Jets my friends try to attack me with

0:35 We already know. See: The hunt for the Bismarck.

6:00 battlecruisers (generally speaking) share both size and armament with battleships, but have less armor and more speed.

The poor battleship in the first round got absolutely punished and murdered for existing in almost 4 minutes

9:07 Night naval battles are very nice.

I sometimes forget that the navy crews are just built different compared to the air crews and tank crews, dudes don’t give a crap about overpressure

13:38 it did not sunk it. Günter Lutyens, Captain of the Bismarck wanted to avoid the Torpedos, but gut hit in the rudder wich jammed the ruder in a 12° angle. I think it was 50km before they reached the German airspace where they could have become Support.

What a pleasure being able to participate in such events thanks Mr muffin

I enjoyed this one, although I only got into the night battle. In hindsight I should have submitted my replay for this one, especially since I was apparently 6th place on the biplane team and tied for 2nd in assists... Oh well, lesson learned...

I love the metal tracks you put at the start of these vids, do you have a playlist for them?

"Quantity has a Quality of its own" usually credited to Josef Stalin!

You should revisit this when the Bismarck or Tirpits comes out. I remember hearing that we are still not sure what actually sunk Bismarck. Didn't the group of Swordfish just cause the rudder to get stuck, causing Bismarck to keep going in circles?

9:54 you wouldn’t even be able to get outside in the first place 💀💀

Actually, the US wanted away from the battleship concept, so Alaska was called a “Supercruiser” when in reality, it was indeed a battlecruiser

Biplanes served until the 30s? The Swordfish has some words for you.

Me and my friend used to do this. 2/3 ships vs. A swarm of planes usually only naval aircraft.

Pacific war in a nutshell. Just monoplanes instead of biplanes

3:10 thats me dropping that torpedo

And great video!

Average World of Warships experience

The first ship pick being Japanese was pretty funny to me cause historically Japanese AA was abysmally bad.

if u play this video in reverse its a video of some reanimated really kind battle ships using magical bullets to fix biplanes

12:50 Here come all the KZfaq history nerds. I don't really see myself as one but I know a little about naval battles in World War 2.

Fun tip: when you get heavily damaged by a ship and you don’t have a chance to land, do not hesitate to kamikaze. There is no hope for survival. If you see that your plane is capable of landing successfully then try your best to survive if not just crash into the enemy battle bridge. (if you guys know a better place to kamikaze into just tell me and is it only the Japanese planes that are effective for kamikaze or all nations are equal with kamikaze power?)

I love the fun facts

This is really cool but (and ima nerd for a sec) I noticed that the IJN battleship didn’t have its repairs or fire extinguishers unlocked (which is basically almost a death sentence) and on top of that (if I’m right I’m pretty sure I’m right regarding the Alaska) the secondary armaments were being controlled by the player instead of letting the ships AI control them and that kinda sucks because most ship’s secondary armaments arm multipurpose meaning they are AA guns and a secondary armament. So…ya…ima go be a pancake now. Still fun to watch.

If I am remembering correctly, even though the USS Alaska was considered a heavy cruiser by the US, it is a battle cruiser. Secondly, it doubles as an AA cruiser

This was epic🎉🎉💯💯

I love these vids

Fun fact: what doomed the Bismarck was... a biplane torpedo. What sunk a lot of important italian warships were also british biplanes.

At the end of the day there is no single more effective anti-ship aircraft then the one, the only, fairey swordfish

I was the first to sing the ship I was surprised as well when I did, but I believe I know what happened I caught the ship on fire and maybe they did not put it out and the fire was what killed it

:O epic

I like how the biplanes were so underestimated.

In the last 3 weeks I have been noticing watches where a player(s) or bot(s) have died off using up all there spawns and left the match halfway through, and been totally replaced by bot(s) that have a full set of respawns. This usually turns the match. Also alot of 10 vs 12 matches. 1 side has 9 players and a bot, the other side has 10 players and 2 bots. It is only noticeable by comparing the players in the Player Stat's to the Players Battle Feed. This just isn't balanced matchmaking or balanced sides. This may also be happening in Ground and Air as well.

Why is it so fun to watch a biplane’s tail come off?

Mind you that bridge got in the way too, should have been done in open waters

Billy Mitchell would've been proud😂

POV fairy swordfish attacking the bismark

Was a lot of fun playing as a battleship lol

Wait, some battleships have planes that they can launch, im suprised nobody used that

admiral yamamoto foresaw the future of ocean warfare. Gone are the days when dreadnoughts ruled the sea

I wonder if Duilio’s AA would be any good in this situation

Biplanes did NOT serve only into the mid-30s. Biplanes actually served to the middle of WW2 and till the end in varying degrees. Like you know... This scene? It's actually pulled off by actual biplanes against the Kreigsmarine's best ship, the Bismarck in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where swarms of Swordfish launched by the Royal Navy went after the Bismarck and sank it with relentless bombing runs and that was just in 1941. The Italians were also using biplanes for their general air fleet in conjunction with their monoplanes with biplanes like the Fiat CR.32 and CR.42s were used effectively by the Regia Aeronautica in 1940 across Africa and even the early days of the European landscape with Greece, France and Spain in particular. Heck even the Russians were using their Polikarpov I-15 till around early 1944 against the Luftwaffe in the mountain ranges of the Carpathian mountain ranges.

A little disappointed it wasn't battleships in the night fight cause it would've been cool seeing 3 or 4 battlesships tracers flying at night but still a cool video regardless

I like how, when given the choice, they go with the germans instead of the Americans who perfected AA during WWII

Feel like the ships would have done better if the guns targeted more then one plane more consistently

Got your biplane facts wrong, biplanes served in the Royal Navy until 1945, used to attack the Tirpitz & Bismarck.

Just imagine if the Battle of Jutland had hundreds of biplanes fight there too.

now that the Texas is in the game I'd like to see how she fares considering her entire deck is anti-air guns.

when there's a new movie called two battleships VS 5000000 bplanes

Btw, sorry for being so, but i have to say that the swordfish’s didn’t sink the Bismarck, the damaged it so that it can’t drive away. Later it was destroyed by several ships of the royal navy and finally sank itself.

Idea....Japanese Battleships and Zero fighters vs. Small Patrol boats and bi-planes....simulating an alternate history Japanese attempt at invading the mainland after pearl harbor attack.

This is why they had so many aa, they were scared of this

The ones that crashed into the battleship are just doing KAMIKAZE

I give it a fifty-fifty. Bismarck was crippled by a biplane, after all.

Love how tracers look at night

You got your intelligence wrong. The swordfish from the Royal British Air Force that hit the Bismarck only injured the Bismarck. Granted they were old biplanes fitted with torpedoes. But they only injured the Bismarck. It was the whole British Navy that had to get into sink her

Depending on the biplane bummer, they served until the end of the war

Biplanes vs big boy battle ship was my idea and I wasn't here when it happened 😢

8:01 Omg, poor guy

The Bismarck was scuttled, there is no hole caused by torpedo or shells under the waterline.

and that was only 1 WWII era America ship. I would like to see them try it on a modern day Carrier Task Group...I can almost see the entire Phalanx of bullets all those CWIS guns would create

Before prediction: the biplanes will do nothing

Dang, Yamato vibes...

G'day again, Muffin. Hm 10:00 Well with that kinda attitude you wouldn't go down in history as the valiant crewmember whom picked up a weapon on their doomed warship as seen by Cook Second Class Doris Miller or Ordinary Seaman Edward Sheean with the former manning an Oerlikon at Pearl Harbour aboard the USS West Virginia BB-48 Colorado class Dreadnought Battleship & the Latter also manning an Oerlikon as their Bathurst class AMS HMAS Armidale J240 sank in battle. Yep I figured seeing a Köln class Frigate such as Lübeck F224 would be getting a crazy amount of kills since the 100 mm cannons get HE-VT shells along with the 40 mm autocannons getting such as well, OOF thry could've been the coolest kill there if they brought along a few depth charges hah hah hah as depth charges can shot down aircraft & heh missiles as well.

This video gives a lot of good arguments for both sides of the quantity vs quality arguments. What do you think is better in this argument?

If only more Biplanes could be added to the game. Imagine if the Curtis SBC or the Vought SBU or the Great Lakes BG dive bombers could be added. The first 2 could only carry 500 pound bombs, but the Great Lakes BG could carry a 1000lb bomb. And the many other types of fighters that existed. And the Bombers, like the Fairey IIIF, the Blackburn Shark, Hawker Hart, Fairey Fox, Vickers Vildebeaste and Vincent, and so many more. And those are just the single engined ones. There were plenty of multi engined ones as well. Like the predecessors of the sunderland flying boat. Before the Sunderland, the british had a large number of Biplane flying boat bombers. And there are so many variants of these planes. Im tired of the game continuing on into the present, i wish they would start working backwards and start adding more older planes and also more variants of current planes, like more P-40s, P-36s, B-25s, B-17s, B-24s, He-111s, Ju-88s. There are so many different variants with so many differences that they would definitely be appreciated.

Wait so your telling me mass aircraft is super effective against small numbers of ships? Who could have guessed that...

Sinking of the Bismarck flashbacks.

In reality the battleships would be constantly moving as well as doing zigzags not staying in one place so I think that this video should be redone but with the ships zigzaging and moving but other than that great video