Nice to have this upload from iChase. Good stuff, even if we are not REQUIRED to agree with every Oort and leaving. This at least presents that there ARE considerations and choices to be made. Please consider that even to this day, WoWs does not really have an integrated series of 'How to's for the beginning player, and even though it took me the not too bright many months, I did finally stumble across iChase and others who cared enough to lay down some videos that posited many 'Did you know that a player can ..." WoWs, and WG had really given nothing, CC's like iChase gave much to us newbies. I've not gotten that much better than I was at the beginning, but with the help of some of our better CCs the game certainly has become more comprehensible and enjoyable that it was without what they contribute. I really don't think that the weak and cheap shots taken (e.g."uh, dummy, WG is going to change things, snarf, snarf!") were appropriate. Anything to help players as early in the process as possible is a good thing.

I'm a double rudder Zao player and I'm personally offended by the first part :)

Well done again. I truly wish I had seen videos like this when I first started playing

Your going into a lot more in depth with your new series. I decided to to start playing again and your videos are a good place to start.

iChase, the value you bring to the community is invaluable!

Thank you bro ! i came form WOT and Wows is more complex. It helps me a lot

very useful advice indeed, thanks!!!

I have to disagree on a few things here iChase. The double rudder mod is a viable thing for ships like a 155mm Mogami played in open water shooting all the time. You want to keep shooting so stealth mod just doesn´t give you anything beside the 5% dispersion malus. There, and i will grand that it is a rare case, the stealth mod is pretty useless for most of the time. The auxilliary mod 1 upgrade is pretty usefull on BBs that don´t lose their main gins often.(french being the exception) This safes aa and sec mounts for later in the game which is pretty good with the many CVs that are around these days.

remember to load Magazine mod 1 on HMS Hood bois

Chase note one thing - WG will change a lot of module upgrades on 0.9.1

I'm new to WoWS and this video series have bean immensely helpful. It has helped me as a newbie to improve, and I am very thankful for that. Could there be a video later that focuses on concealment? As its benefits not very apparent to newbies like me, especially since concealment doesn't have any effect in Co-op where I try to train and get better.

The ad preceding this: "GET CLOSE... To the words of the Prophets." Seems apt.

Hey iChase, love the videos! Please keep up the good work. Have you already done a video about positioning? That's honestly my worst part about playing this game and would love to know what you're take is on it. Thanks!

late night posting! Good work iChase!

Watched lots of videos, played lots of battles. Totally suck, until I saw your videos. Thankyou.

7:44 - Auxiliary armaments mod increases the survivability of your AA mounts as well as your secondaries which you didn't mention for some reason. Very situational on what ships you might wanna opt for Aux mod instead of main battery mod, but for me I chose to run Aux mod instead of main on my GK because obviously I want her secondaries to survive longer with all the HE spam in this game now, but it clearly would benefit me to keep as much of my AA active as possible as well. I realized I literally cannot recall the last time I even had a main battery turret get knocked out while playing my GK so I took the risk on that to have secondaries and AA mounts that survive longer. If a main turret does get damaged go down for a bit it's usually only when I'm knife fighting at 6km or less away from another BB and I'll usually also be burning or flooding as well at the time so typically my damage control party will either be up already or be up shortly, and I'll just fix the turret with that or worse case scenario just wait the 20 seconds or so it takes for the main battery turret to repair itself. So it's just brawling secondary ships where I've made that call to use aux in slot 1 instead of main battery mod so just my GK and Mass B at the moment.

Your logic for Concealment is fine and works well for CA/CL. However, here is a counter argument. I have built my USN BB Iowa with increased range and a dispersion buff. Yes, I took Target Acquisition, Artillery Plotting Room Mod 1 & 2. It has a range of 27.1 km and a 23% dispersion buff. If they can't acquire you as a target and shoot at you, what does it matter if they can see you?

would apreciate a video about positioning radar ships like des moine.

They did buff Main battery mod 2 in the latest update, it's viable now, though admittedly not as good as aiming systems and is still situational.

I use double rudder in Russian dds in which concealment is not as important, like Tashkent and Khabarovsk. Also Azuma, to dodge shells at long range. I use range mod for Zao, and for a while Hindenburg.

This episode reminds me of WoW talent trees: there was only an illusion of choice.

Chase I gotta ask, what is that opening music from? is it something homemade? I can't identify it with any music identifier app

There's something I have noticed, maybe you can test also and confirm this (or not), but is something that I've observed mostly with BB's. So the most often condition where you can encounter this is especially when a new ship is unlocked/bought in the tree and due credit issues could not upgrade immediately the modules for it. But you can still go into the battle without the accuracy module especially. And you may notice the dispersion was much better without the module than after, with it. Cannot explain it, very strange, then after buying and mounting the module the dispersion gets noticeably worse. I observed this with multiple lines/tiers of BB's . It looks like there is a global value, a "default" that comes preloaded with each new ship. Only after the module is applied the ship's specific algorithm is applied that changes values according to the ship "specification", eg: dispersion. From computing point of view this makes sense to have a generic value as initial stat, a common stat variable, instead of hardcoded values for each ship, as probably wg always considered that people will not play the ships without any modules, thus has not bothered to create a new set of hardcoded values specific to each ship. As anything can be programmed in the game back-end from computational point of view it would not surprise me to have just reused the same set of default values, or to be just a bug in the code or just some simple programming routine that loads the same generic values to be re-used for all ships once unlocked. WG knows that people will buy the modules as soon as possible so this might not even be detected very often. What do you think?

Are the modules you show for aircraft for CVs available in the PC console version? I don't see anything like that when I select modules

2:20 you're right, but.... that means you can't shot either. the very best is to shoot and not get hit in return and therefore double rudder is more usefull than concealment. that is a fact, not an opinion ;) but yes, you should only use it on very selected ships(cruiser) with good concealment anyway and depents on your playstyle with these specific ships. for me, mogami is the only one i use it.

some ships are better with double rudder/acceleration bc theyre shooting all the timr anyways, and dodging shells is better

Wait why shouldnt we take the main battery rotate module? I take it on my IJN cruiser line because of their slow turret traverse and with he spammers i dont really think the extra accuracy matters when they aready have decent dispersion.

Where do I go to research and purchase modules on a laptop? have modules available but can't find where to do the above. I am new at the game..

Slot 5: a few cases to take the rudder shift: Gunboat dds (since they dodge exceptionally well and shoot almost constantly from a safe distance) IJN cruisers, since you are already very stealthy, and dodging shells help with survivability Having less conceal also force you to play safer which might be a good thing for squishy ships. Target acquisition: 1v1 ranked and meme builds only where you don't care about being spotted and can't / doesn't need to slot rudder shift.

Will you make a new episode if they really change the modules? As it seems that they will remove the concealment module. You go onto this more explaining, not precise on modules, but there will be changed a lot it seems.

A video on upgrades when some are changing on 9.2? Maybe should’ve waited a bit

This may be a stupid question but how do you get more modules to put on your ships, or is not likely to have enough modules to fit out all your ships at once when starting out?

Shouldn't you go for Aux.Arm. Mod I in ships like Worcester because your AA is awesome and you should preserve it, and you don't care that much about one of your turrets being knocked out?

You're a teacher right? How do you have time to play this game? I'm one myself and I barely have enough time for work much less the game 😂

Thank you for these videos, very informative. As for aiming mod in slot 3,is nessary for dds since they have great desperation? , how about AA mod for dds with good AA such as grozovoi and Friesland?

Take not: the only thing that can distract BBs and carriers from a fleeing dd is a cruiser.

Great video Chase! Although your timing is quite horrible since we are getting new modules lol

i dont even have the modules menu for some reason. Anyone know why???

Italian, french and russian cruisers all have ruddershift builds, your going to be firing from range anways so concealment isnt going to help

this still up to date?

Its a bad time to explain on modules as weegee bout to change them in like 2 update ( aprox 2-3 month)

Stealth module is mandatory for DD CL and to some extent CA even if some Italian cruiser gets so huge that they rivals tier IX BB, but for BB (huge ones) I think the current CV meta made it no more the automatic choice. Yamato, Republic or GK (but also Amagi) are such huge ships that they are spotted for at least 3/4 of the match duration because you have to keep firing your guns and the problems gets worse in the last stages when few ships are around and the remaining ones are actively hunted by CV. In that case I think there are other viable modules. This been said, WG is thinking about redesigning most of the modules in the next patch, so I wonder if this video will still get relevant in a few months.

Hello IChase

When you make a tutorial but the developer announce to rework it in the near future patch 😂🤣

All modules will change very soon by Wargaming. The modules as we know now, will overworked.

I still want to be in your team 👍

i think u meant upgrades...

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Realistically the modules and captain skills for each ship doesnt really have much variety with the way how the game is atm except maybe for dds and that class is dead at the moment anyways

Too bad that this video is going to be outdated in a couple of patchs...

How timely! Just one patch before WG throws the whole meta into the blender... by completely reworking ALL the upgrade modules. IOW none of this stuff will be relevant any more in three weeks' time. forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/129646-st-upgrades-changes/

I really preferred your videos when you actually encouraged a variety of play styles instead of doing the usual shrieking of there being only one way to play the game....

Don't slot shame me.

5:41 Look I get you’re talking about things in general, but taking range on Moskva over reload (assuming no leg mod) is extremely cringy. Big yikes right there. Might want to avoid comments like that.