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flamu remembered his KZfaq password! what a miracle!

WG: Releases Smolensk. Nobody complains about Kremlin, Stalin, Benham, or Radars anymore. Even CVs are saved.

still cant get by how oxygen fueled torps used by IJN somehow become the least stealthy torp.

"I don't know what to call this thing" It's a Clemson at Tier 9 with shorter torpedo reload time

musashi angry that the DD was hiding in the back instead of spotting you and your torps

Russian server, all enemy BBs on 1 flank, what a dream

"a wiggly torpedo boi just wiggling back and forth" -Flamu 2019

188 torps lol I don't even fire that many shells from my bb's.

Our twenty four minutes with potato king have come and gone, see all of you in a month

The Colorado has to face this thing. It was bad enough with the Asashio. WG said screw it to power creep and went full power sprint.

Incredible the enemy CV doesn't help his teammates by spotting you

This is a misplay by the enemy CV by not even once sending planes your way.

Seems like we need to buff Smolensk

I sure do miss recommended captain builds on KZfaq. Glad to see it back for this commentary.

The situation on this match is the wet dream of every torpedo boat captain

This video perfectly demonstrates most of what is wrong with this game.

Its a tier 9 clemson with usable torps who'd knew it be a sweetheart among DD players

2018: year of airborne broken sh*t 2019: year of floating broken sh*t

Man, I took a brake from the game to be more positive about it and let WG fix all the balancig issues. Now I see Flamu Video and realize that this game is done.

Thank you for uploading this on KZfaq, entertaining and educating.

Shit this guy is good, love the way he dissects the tactics and explains everything in detail, well done keep em coming....

I would like to see you do a video on the special commanders such as Yamamoto, Halsey, etc. I would like to see the top three ships you would play them in and what skill sets you would use per ship.

A fucking miracle. My man is alive. I wish only better things for you. You can literally change the game in a better way.

Awesome game Flamu, I love the Benham for just that reason....Torp launcher, but it's very vulnerable to other DD's and radar since you will be the priority target any time you are spotted.

The NEW Kitakami😋😋 very good played Flamu Gz.

I appreciate the upload. I enjoy your content but I cant watch anyone for 4 hours on stream. I dont have time and there is also alot of time waiting for games, picking ships etc. You are awesome tho I hope you keep uploading highlights and commentaries.

Thanks Flamu for the infos. Amazing game..

I feel like I need a shower just watching that. Nice game sir.

1. That Fletcher player was (edited) making a poor choice with his target selection in the first engagement. He should have been shooting you, not your BB and he sure a shit should not have smoked there. 2. Their CV was (edited) making a poor choice to allow you to keep twirling around on that flank, torping their BBs like they were all lined up in a water barrel, unspotted and unmolested. I love recking Benham with my Fletcher. Hell, I’ve enjoyed shutting down and destroying an entire 3 x Benham division with Fletcher. I have both and Fletcher is FAR more useful to me and my teams all around.

I love my Benham, problem is keeping friendly ships out of your way, or CVs from focusing on you, so such games are kinda rare.

This is one of the best ships in the game. It is very situational, though. If you picked wrong flank or your team is not doing a lemming train on one side, games could be boring. However, it is very satisfying when 2 opposing flanks are hiding behind islands and your benham is spamming torps at camping ships. Usually it sends 8 torps about every 30 seconds. This is truly a ship that can hold a flank against whole team

at 13:11 how do you toggle between the torps? i know by pressing Z you can switch to torp/shell cam but idk how to switch inbetween them in a full salvo?

I learned a lot with this video

Me: "Nice time for Benham!" *launches game, entering match* *fucking dies, like always*

The area denial of this thing is very powerful. Reminds me Tier IV Clemenson.

Enemy CV must've been reported by his whole team.

Thanks uploading to KZfaq

Jingles brought me here~! o7 Congrats on your world record. Now do that in Gearing!!!

Another addition to the "OP ships WeeGee added anyway" playlist.

When did it happen live? I want to see a VOD with live commentary!

He launched 3 times as many torps as he fired shells. 188 torps launched 63 shells fired

Amazing DMG numbers you pulled off on this game wow...

This fight reminds me of the Battle off Samar in the Philippines where American 'Tin Cans' went toe to toe with an Imperial Japanese Battleforce that consisted of 4 battleships, including the Yamato, 6 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers and at least 11 destroyers.

Still hope this ship will be available one day.

The serious lack of proper game design with counter play and consequences is really what drove me away, still sad many cool ships I would love to command.

Did you compliment those two Survivability Expert Musashis that took care of their own DD so nicely? xD

Some comments from based on service on a ship with torpedoes. (Anti-submarine torpedoes, it was the 1970's.) 1. There is an interesting parallel with current carriers (WoWS arcade carriers, not real ones). There is no way the actual Benham could have carried 188 torpedoes. So just as WoWS carriers carry a fully functional (and fast) aircraft factory someplace in their cyber-hull, the WoWS Benham carries a torpedo factory in its much smaller cyber-hull. 2. Reload. Just no. Some of the newer Japanese destroyers were actually equipped for a fast reload for at least one set. But haul that many torpedoes on deck and load them with cranes. . . Kind of stupid to go on, but the high-pressure air compressors could not have kept up either. But the WoWS Benham does not get as much of an advantage with reload - just a proportional one because of the number of tubes.

Jingles will feature your video this coming week, and we will all tell him that we've seen this video. Congrats anyway!

love this!

will they ever make this ship available again?

So much eels in the water, you could feed a whole country with it.

@Flamu: Achievement Unlocked @Flambass: Challenge Accepted

15mins 41secs, so that works out to 1 torp fired every 5 seconds (yeah I know 8 torps at a time), and 1 torp hit every 38 seconds. Think I'll go fit the Rudder shift module to all my BB's

This torpedo boy did not meet a serious cruiser to chased him

WG - "Benham need buffs!"

The jingles definition of throwing enough shit at the wall

wait is that torp reload for real...

soooo, how does one even get a Benham if we missed out during the event?

I don't have the same upgrade options on my Benham. I don't have the green pluses on upgrades either. Why is that?

IJN Yuugumo need 50% reduction for torp cooldown buff

Welp, their Torpedobeat wasn't strong enough

That was a very lucky match for that guy. No CV support the whole match. Now a days that thing would have been burned down within the first 1-2 minutes of the match.

Bentham.. almost forgot it exist, was very popular at launch, then players quickly realized that not all of them are flamu caliber and gets deleted early..lol. Fragile ship, key words in this video, "in the right hands" "played correctly " can be a real beast. I don't agree that it is OP because of this 300k + dmg game though, many games have similar or higher results with all kinds of ships ... all them stars aligned every once in a while...

This is even better for potatoes than the super Shima build!! More glory for us! Bub_Zilla.

Benham is maybe one reason that cv's are still needed in the game

Getting witherer with torps! Is that the cc RNG i heard about? 🤔

What’s the range of the torps?

What a great job from wargaming. Their balance department is genious!

Hi flamu why did you recommend to take IFHE on the smolensk but not on the Khaba? They have the same base HE pen and play kinda similarly or am I mistaken?

And they were removed Kitakami for some reason.

Scamu is clearly a very talented guy, to say the least. It is clear that he can kick some major ass. It is also clear, at least to me, if not others, that it pays to be very selective when posting these world records and boasting about them. One can only wonder how overwhelming his achievements would have been if the game had 3 CVs per side and he was dipping and dodging rocket planes 85% of the time as most of us DDs do. To the best of my memory, Scamu barely had any worries about planes throughout his WORLD RECORD SETTING video. That is a HUGE, HUGE advantage! I would be the first one to compliment him on his play-style, but maybe he should pull in his turtle head a bit and aim for some humility in the future!

How i can know was the record damage with a determined ship?

9:23 you mean ‘How do you frustrate and farm those big booties’

you launched 60.5 tons worth of torpedoes, 2.6% of the floating mass of the Benham seems legit

This is ridiculous that one DD can single-handed can stop whole armada of BB's from pushing.

I wonder how does one get away from this kind of situation with ships like Halland, since they have no smoke.

Flamu is either an amazing player, the luckiest person alive to be matched against incompetent teams ...or a mix of both (DD in a CV match, never spotted/hunted by aircraft).

LoL 188 torps launched, at about 2 tonnes per torp that is 376 tonnes of torpedoes

How does the Somers at Tier 10 Compare to this?

A PT Boat with a liberty ship hold full of torpedoes.

WG : We removed Kitakami Player who hate torp spam : Yey WG : Now we have Benham Player who hate torp spam : Ah sh*t , here we go again

YOU get a torp! and YOU get a torp! EVERYBODY gets a torp!

imagine storing 500 torps in such a small boat...

'But what do I know about this game? I've only been playing it for... since it launched?' hahaha xD

Reminds me of Smolensk, only with torps and flooding.

Man, remember pre-deadeye pushing?

I see, so i wasn't alone when i say this is the most OP torp boat. I imagine if KOTS allowed to pick T9, why using Shima or Somers.

Don’t worry about the Benhem

I call it a torpedo fountain

i just realised benham has my birth month of march 97 as its number PogChamp

Meanwhile, in the IJN....

B-b-b-Benny and the Jets!

This DD should be already sunk with overloaded torpedoes.

Ah yes, imagine playing in a battleship against an invisible destroyer that chunks your health with a torpedo machine gun and can engage/disengage at will. Reminds me why I don't play this game anymore.

Heck yeah!

How do you get the Benham ?

I'll accept your Benham and raise you a Smolensk...... for ridiculousness. ;-)

would you say you want to be at the edge of a zone of danger?

This game has strayed so far from any kind of realism.