You can compensate for target speed (slower or faster) by placing the center of the sight on the bow of the ship and holding for three to five seconds. You can then see how many ticks the ship actually moved and adjust your aim accordingly. For example, if you observed for five seconds and the ship moved seven ticks, you know to give a little more lead. If the target moved three ticks horizontal and two vertical, you can also adjust your lead to more accurately adjust for the opening/closing of contact.

Hey Chase, I found a useful thing to help with aiming. When you zoom all the way in with binocular view, then back up one space at a time it changes the total view to increase area covered with the same markers. This also matches the major speed changes of ships. So fire completely zoomed in on slow ships(Arkansas Beta, battleships), one click on faster ships (Tirpitz, cruisers, fast battleships), 2 clicks on fast ships (destroyers, fast cruisers). This realization instantly boosted my (at least perceived) aiming, especially at range, and I feel it'd be a useful point for you to explore. I also haven't seen it mentioned in forums or videos at all, so unless it's an open secret probably not something people are exploring.

Well too complicated for me, let's go with feelings ^^

Dude. iChase, I like you man, I like your vids. I tell everyone who likes warships to like and subscribe. However, I don't think I've ever seen a more wrong or convoluted version of how to use the ABI aiming reticule tools. The horizontal bar is static, it doesn't move. It's not a magic 20 knot battleship speed indicator. The lead required on a Battleship at speed of 20 knots (or any speed for that matter) will vary wildly depending on your zoom level, shell velocity and target distance. A cleveland at 10km with max zoom will require a, substantially different target lead than a Nuremberg at 10km at max zoom given an identical target at identical speeds. The aiming reticule and tools are the same for both ships, it doesn't adjust per ship. Here's how you use it without having to pull out a piece of paper and write a calculus thesis before you pull the trigger on a volley: Can you count? Yes? Good. Now you have 100% of the tools required to hit your target approximately 100% of the time* (barring interference from dispersion and RNGesus). See those high notches on the horizontal bar of your aiming sights? They're numbered so you can count them, with key indicators at the 5 and 10 marks only so as not to cause visual clutter. 1: Use the alternate battle interface to show you to the shell travel time to target. 2: Place your target reticule at a static point in front of your target and count out a few seconds (or use the battle clock if you can't count) to get a guage of how fast the ship is moving. 3. Adjust your zoom so that your target passes one of the high notches on your horizontal bar every second while it's moving If you've gotten this far, congratulations! You are now using your aiming sights correctly. Since you've already picked a target and adjusted your sights to match one second of target movement to one high notch on your optics, there's only one step left now: 4. Use your optics to lead your target by a number of high notches equal to the seconds it will take for your shells to land on target. 1 second = 1 high notch. 5. Pull the trigger and watch those shells land right where they're meant to go. (pray to RNGesus for good dispersion) What this does as you practice it over time, is create a natural relationship in your brain between the shell impact timer and target travel speed. After a while you'll be making snap shots quite accurately since you've already subconsciously done the maths and worked out your required target lead without having to take those extra seconds to calculate target speed using the optics.

Good job with the editing and everything in this video, I can tell you put some serious effort into these videos and do really care. Thanks!

One trick I have figured out for aiming accurately when my target ship is coming in on an angle is to drag my cursor along the waterline of the ship to a point out in front of it. It isn't perfect but it works more often than not for an opening salvo.

After watching this video, my chances of hits at extreme ranges have gone WAY up. Thanks Chase.

This has literally kept me from quitting world of warships... i used to always miss, never using my reticule except the centerpoint, just using ranging shots and whatnot... Thank you Chase.

Ahhhh, this. I have been using this for a while and I discovered that if you zoom one more out it gives lead close to 32kts or so, which in turn is very good for Cruisers and such. DD's I go to the second zoom and then double the flight time to lead and it works very very well.

I learned the hard way. I was shooting without binoculars until I realized they were available. Later on it helped aim and hit ships without using binoculars in close quarters.

This Helped me a lot. I was strugling aim long time. Now My aim is better :)

It took me way longer to find this than it should of. Best guide thus far that I have come across.

This is really good. I seen others try to explain it. When I follow their advice it never works. This makes more sense. I have played enough games where it is now (like you said) more of an experience thing and I use the radical for where I want to hit depending on HE or AP. I will use cascading fire to walk my shells across to find the aiming point. It is a tip that works for me! Thanks for taking the time to but up the Academy and Know Your Ship series. Much appreciated!

First of thanks chase 4 all your videos, they are very helpful, second those vertical lines on the left side are the elevation of the guns. Keep up the good work and good luck in your endeavors.

Thank you for this video iChaseGaming. I have quite hard time aiming in my battleships and tend to miss my shots. I can see my games improving after this.

thanks man you just save my butt.. with this vid, it can help me improve my aiming even more.

aiming only comes with experience, these reticles are a simple guide tool

Part of the reason I love this game is because of the aiming and firing mechanics. You're constantly having to do math in your head while aiming, with calculations for flight time, angle of attack, how the enemy is maneuvering and so forth. Yes, these numbers help to a point, but as others have said, experience is the key. Now if only RNG wouldn't completely wreck the whole point of making those calculations...

Thanks Chase. This has helped a Noob in WOW a lot. Cheers and a big thumbs up.

Well done and thank you. this is a big help

for angling you can use the cos() of your ship, aiming point and the estimated angle to compensate for the angle and calculate the percentage it is off

Glad to see you remaster the previous aiming tutorial chase :3 Personally I would say I prefer the new one since the reference point stuff was not so ideal. However, notice should be given about the zoom size.

Always look forward to your CA videos- learn something new each time.

Wait, so you don't calculate ~20 knots/flight time and put reticle according to the part of the ship you are aiming at, but always at the front tip of it? So, if I shoot at a perfectly broadside BB going 20 knots and my flight time is 10s, if I align the number "10" with the front end of the ship, shells will actually go to the middle? Well, that's... kinda odd.

My usual trick on this is get the ship centered, hit 'x' to unlock it from my view in zoom-out so it starts moving across the reticule, and count how many ticks it covers in a second, then calculate based on flight-time where to aim (don't forget to relock the turrets)

Good info, explains why I miss so much.

Thats very nice recticle...ehm. :D Nice to see someone using it, it was lot of work. czman

If your point of reference is not the bow of the ship but the center of the ship, then the size of the ship does not matter anymore. Also, the dynamic reticule is more convenient than the static one as it adapts to the zoom level and is calibrate for 30 knots that is the speed of many more ships than 20 knots

This is some spectacular learning material. Kudos, I say.

Wow, that realy helped me a lot :). Thank you Chase :). I just went with some Basic numbers on different Ranges. U know like with BBs on 17km Range i went with 16 Seconds, that worked out most of the time^^

Honestly, intuition and experience is still the best teacher.

Ty this really helped me I checked out other videos before this but just couldnt understand it XD

dude i love u guys i watch all u guys youtube videos the wife love u guys to how u guys get loud and having fun on youtube love it bro keep up the tubs and play more world of warships

great tips. aways helping the wows comunity. congratz. keep this good work.

Just watched the video and yes, I'm late for class and it's somewhat obsolete by now but then I don't feel that it was up to your usual standard anyway. Of course the two important parts of aiming are mentioned: Experience and incremental improvement. However, there are systematic errors here. First, the reticle's size doesn't change according to magnification level (the new dynamic reticle in 0.5.5 does though). Lead angle is not proportional to the shell's time to impact (it should be proportional to something like time to impact divided by distance and if you do the math you really shouldn't play fast-firing ships I guess). Then there's the "battleship-sized" target (Iowa is a hundred meters longer than New York) where you aim for the bow but expect to hit the center (which isn't helpful for any kind of lead angle rule - and yes, I aim for the bow, too). Greater detail, I think, might be too much for a simple comment.

simple rules I use today and it's decent enough condition, max zoom, enemy move broadside, assume full speed if enemy are CA and bullet travel time is 5 sec lead to 7-8 (+2 , +3 number on reticles) if enemy are BB and bullet travel time is 5 sec lead to 2-4 (-1 -2 -3 number on reticles) if enemy are DD and bullet travel time is 5 sec lead to 10 (multiple 2 number on reticles) adjust up-down as enemy heading away or toward you, reduce lead to compensate that too. the rest is experience and hunch , see smoke from his stack.

Nice one mate, now I can finally stop guessing my lead!

Stressed out from WoT , wanna have a break and have some fun. Your videos are great !!

This is valid in full (maximum) zoom of artillery view, what I'd like to know is the exact relation between zoom-out "steps" and the aim indicator lines. The reticule is not auto-scaling, so if I decrease the zoom by one step the same interval covers more distance on the visual perspective so it will correspond to more than one second. Do you know this increment ratio?

Hmmm ... I had no idea about the 20knot BB reference. I'd just been winging it by aiming by experience. I'll try this out when I get home in Random to see how well it holds it for my gameplay. I'm a BB driver by preference, so proper aiming is very very essential for me.

Thanks for the info ,Keep them coming.

the vertical line tells you were the enemy ships deck is going to be, for example if hes in an angle and moving away from you, first you lead it correctly, and then the top horizontal line you set it the hight of the front deck, maybe just a little bit higer or lower depending on the angle he has and you fier. Not 100% shure that im right on the explanation, but thats how i do it and in most cases if i lead correctly, ship continues its course and rng spread favors you, you will land those shots instead of waching them over shoot or fall short when you had the lead correctly. cheers!

I find your videos very helpful, keep on with the good job!

The fun part comes when you're in a _Benson_ and firing at max range, since then you'll be aiming about one or two ship lengths past the edge of the screen (at max zoom), depending on ship you're aiming at. And then you fire four or five more salvos before the first one lands and you see where you actually hit. :)

Thank you for this explanation of the sights. It makes me wonder how much of an advantage the flags and camo that add 4% error to enemy fire when firing at you, if that enemy is AI in the Co op games.

Chase this is really - i mean seriously - very good video explaining important things about aiming. But ... to be honest ... player need to "feel the shoot", because then i tried to masure this like you explained in the same kind of video from very long time ago - i felt that i acually aim worse. Now i just ... shoot how i feel ...

really great explanation thanks mate... just need to put it into practice now !!

This was very useful. Thanks. :)

Incredibly helpful.

This video would have been so much better with target tracking. Now it is a choppy mess. But the information is very good, thank you for that!

Thanks ! Leading is the Key !

i use "aiming reticle 9" and apply these same principles. i find it easier to hit angled targets

Awesome video!!! Thanks for taking the time and effort!!

I love this stuff. Thnx iChase

Great vid iChase, I'm learning a lot in your videos thanks for sharing them.

again substantial and very helpful

Thank you Chase.

Dear Ichase this was a really great and helpful video, since last patch 5.5 and the dynamic scope every thing has changed. I find that when firing on BBs with almost no regard to distance I lead around 5 to get ok hits. do you have any information on how this dynamic scope works?I would appreciate a new video on this two as I'm sure a lot more people. thx for you great work and keep it up

I would never have noticed this new feature if you didn't put up this vid XD but I don't care about it anyways bcs I'm already confident enough in my own ability to shoot

Watched this video, realized i was derping by putting the lead over the centre of the ship and not the bow with my shots, went and had a game, first 3 volleys that had landing hits got a citadel in them, along with more penetrations.

That sounds neat i use the Kentucky windage method lol... i know my aim point and i know my shell speed, so in short i place the tick for my flight time where it needs to be based on my estimated speed of the ship. for example say my shell flight time is 3 seconds that now becomes my center for aiming then i look at target and judge where its center will be in ~3 seconds and i place my new center there. i hit most of my targets and it takes a whole lot less thinking. works for a filthy casual like me haha.

Amazing VIDEO!!!..................But can you pleas do a "know your ship" video on the Colorado class battleships! its my favrout ship in the game as well as in real life

Hey I recently started playing this game and I frikkin' love it. I've been coming back to your videos a lot for advice it's helped quite a lot. There's just something I can't seem to grasp. I constantly end up with my shots scattering all around my intended target but generally centered around my aiming point and the few shots that hit keep overpenetrating on same tier battleships. My question is this: does your movement speed affect scattering? I notice in this video for example you're not moving and I'm going full speed trying to do strafe shots at 15kms. I'm sailing the Kongo by the way but as I understand, it's a relatively accurate ship. As for overpenetration I just don't get it. I use AP on everything as I've seen suggested online since it's the highest potential damage and most chance to hit citadel. I only occasionally do decent damage which is pretty disappointing since only 1 or 2 shots out of all 8 are hits.

this is for the simple cross hairs I use the one that looks like a spider web thinking that would help me on long distance and angle shooting but I am having mixed results and hit very few targets. I have a snapshot of the spider wed cross hairs but I couldn't see how to upload or otherwise show you this snapshot. I was hoping some gunnery officer or gunner's mate would help me so I can get more reliable results shooting at long range

Okay, got a question for you, Chase. Do you have an instructional video on how to aim while using a spotter plane? It drives me nuts trying to ain with that darn plane.

So in order to make perfect shots on battleship sized ships, you need to figure out the current speed of the ship, the speed of your shots in m/sec or seconds per km for simplicity, and then know the distance (which is the easy part), then you need to know a mathematical formula where you put these numbers in, and then apply that number to your horizontal line. Did I forget to mention that you need to also take into consideration the angling and heading of the ship, because we live in a 3 dimensional world therefore we have this thing called depth? So your mathematical formula must also take that into consideration. or... You can just use your instincts, do a test shot and adjust accordingly.

iChaseGaming ::⚓ well least this is a better Edited video then the last one i just saw, and what i mean is you editing "AND" pointing out, with green and red arrows is it so hard to use those arrows i think not, people are just either Lazy or don't know how to edit videos.Thank you iChaseGaming exactly the video i was looking for, going to my world of warship⚓ video folder.

I wish you had said what ship you were using because it makes a big difference, for instance you have the Atlanta with the rainbow arc, and you have some guns whose arc, from your point of view, go up and left or right, some have a better curve than my pitches did when I was in baseball. All these you also have to account for, you have to know the different quirks of whatever ship your using.

Sails Colorado. Aim perfectly, RNG, well...

Hello Ichase, thanks for your effort to improve the game mechanics knowledge among players. I have one question: can you explain the difference between a static crosshair and the dynamic one? I tried to use it but for some reason it seems weird to me. thanks

Do you have an episode explaining the two types of experience?

que buen vídeo muchas gracias esto ayudara un poco, ya que no entiendo muy bien tu idioma y ademas el traductor no es que sea muy bueno, sin embargo soy seguidor de tu canal y todos los dias aprendiendo en tus video y en el streming de twicth muchas gracias por todos los aportes y esperemos que sean muchos mas

The worst part of that movie is that is doesn't fully explain that vertical lead:) I think bottom section can help against angled, running away targets but at the end it all comes to experience since it's hard to find regular method for using vertical lead.

that's so complicated and doesn't always work... simple rule of thumb: 5 for battleships, 10 for cruisers, 15 for destroyers... aprox. if they're a fast ship you need more, if they're going slow you need less.

Thanks I will try it out.

It's TsunderAdmiral ! Shoot that guy ! (use Bradley Pitt's tune like Movie - Fury) LOL ~ Bad news is i am come from Asia server , hope can see him at Sea server some day :)

Fantastic video, although I'm from uk and on EU server. I do enjoy your captains academy videos on the NA forum, could you possibly publish them on the EU server, a big shout out of course to ThunderAdmiral. Kind regards Dave (buster1984)

My biggest grief in this world of RNG game is to aim With US gunboat + Atlanta on a fast moving target. Sometimes if i zoom in i have to lead the target so much that the target i'm aiming at is outside the screen, so then its hard to follow the target. My option is to scroll back on zoom With the scroll Wheel so i can find the ship i'm aiming at. This feature is thanks to slow and high Shell arc.

maybe I should learn from this video about shooting a ship, btw can you add a subtiles ? Its really hard to follow what are you saying in this video

You point out that shooting at shorter ships by counting lead from the bow requires some re-calculation beyond just allowing for a higher speed. So why not aim by putting the 10/15/20 whatever mark on the point of the ship you're actually trying to hit? One less step then, right?

Useful video, but need to use the right word and pronunciation. The word your looking for is the name of gun sight markings which is: "reticle" noun ret·i·cle \ˈre-ti-kəl\ : a scale on transparent material (as in an optical instrument) used especially for measuring or aiming a reticule is : a woman's drawstring bag used especially as a carryall Still give you a thumbs up.

thanks for the info!

still prefer using a 30 knott crosshair, helps a lot more for those 15km+ shoots.

I surprised you decided to explain this by the end of the bow. Instead of looking at the distance from the center to the bow, look at the center of your shot to *center of the ship*. This ignores the different sizes of the ships of bows distance from their center of mass. Look at 6:15 for reference. Your showing the distance between the bows the ships where their center of mass is the fulcrum or fixed point and same exact location to one another. Instead of looking at the 7 mark (battleship) or 12 mark (destroyer), *you should be looking roughly at the 17 mark because THAT will always be the same no matter the length of the ship.

I love the vids man they are amazing

I have aiming down but its my shell dispersion that keeps me from getting effective hits. Looks like I'm shooting a shotgun. Also, I've notice that sometimes it looks like my shells are hitting the target but nothing registers. No deflection or anything. Its getting very frustrating!

How much does the "zoom level" of the reticule affect the scale? Some times (upper long-range) it gets really hard to try aiming for specific parts of enemy ship and as such, getting a closer look could be beneficial..

thanks for advises. it's help me a lot.

i thought the horizontal reticle is about the distance between you and your target. if tirpitz is around 12KM then you aim it at 12ish + speed

Didn't realize how wonky the aim was. I figured if I led by bow shells would land at the bow, explains a lot of my misses now. I was leading centre mass.

A repeat of my last question, does the game have a tutorial phase for Newbies? Or tutorial tabs for controls in gameplay?

So on the horizontal line...one big stick is approx 1 sec? And good for broadsiding BB's ? Twice the lead of flight time for DD's broadsiding?

For DD I usually use flight time x3

Lets see if I can learn something new here! Also whew I survived that game against your udaloi, game ended before you could drop my ibuki. my team got trucked and pushed into the corner =/

i never really looked at those numbers and still my shooting is fine :3

another great vid

+iChaseGaming How about aiming with the spotting plane? I can't hit the broadside of anything with it. it is kinda weird to get used too.

cool :) thanks!

Certainly a good start to aiming but at different distance each tick is worth a different amount of space though. Shooting at a broadside BB 4km away is going to be a different lead multiple of flight time than shooting one 20km away.

I didnt understand and the vertical lines means the elevation range of your gun