My favourite situation with regards to ammo is when I'm in a USN DD and a cruiser gets close and shows a broadside. AP will absolutely melt them. With the high rate of fire you have, you can actually out-damage them (although be mindful that you've got a lot less health to begin with).

Thanks for this. Just started playing and I was struggling. I've a much clearer idea of what to do with destroyers now.

One thing missing from here is plunging fire. If you're in even a light cruiser, you can sometimes get good penetration damage even on battleships firing AP if your target is at the edge of your range. The German cruisers are especially good at this, particularly the Konigsburg. You won't get citadels, but you'll get lots of consistently good hits. I did 140K damage in a recent game with a Konigsburg and almost all of it was with long-range AP shots on BBs.

Ichase could you show how much water stops the shells, how far away from the waterline you can fire?

Chase - really, really good video. I learned carriers from you in Alpha (and blew you up a couple of times :) - these last few videos about detailed game mechanics are really good! Great job and keep it up!

Stalinium shell OP confirm pen BBs from 14 km no problem

If you are in a bettleship fire AP at another battleship Conkek: *laughs in british

Excellent series ! Thorough explanations and demonstrations.

When you see a charred low health DD, AP can be better since overpen ignores module's health so you can avoid those annoying 0 damage HE salvos on low health DDs. When I do run into broadside showing cruisers in my Yamato, these days I get overpen most of the time :(

Where's the W23 63kiloton nuclear shell for the 16" US guns? lol It was a real thing, the Iowas carried them just after WWII. :D

Something also worth considering is that Battleships (and T9+10 CAs) have heal... And that can heal light damage (HE, Fire, Flooding) pretty much all the way back up. So if you are the only one shooting HE at a BB (and you are in a DD or Cruiser), he will just heal it all back. So you might be farming damage this way, but your contribution is mainly towards giving the enemy ship "Dreadnought" and "Fireproof" achievements, not to actually winning the match ;-) Always worth it to concentrate the HE spam of your team on 1 target and keep him on fire constantly, whereas with AP you generally try to shoot at the target which presents you with the best chance to get some high damage salvos in. With HE it's worth it to shoot at a target already engaged by your team, even when you have targets you could hit more easily. This concentrated HE spam will then annoy the hell out of the enemy BBs. As a result they will be scared to push in and be the spearhead of any attack and resort to sniping in their future games. And slowly but steadily all the fun will be squeezed out of this game... So yay, HE spam! Very effective, requires no skill whatsoever and destroys the gameplay, all in one neat package! That's what brilliant game design looks like :-P

lol for a general overview this is quite good. Some ships however even for DDs you can fire AP at them (overpen deck armor in US 127mm guns ay lmao) if you know where to shoot. Still well done

Is there a training room I can go to to practice my aiming? How do you get to this area where you are making this video?

BB also can shoot HE to those german BB secondaries, to help your CV and DD.

Very helpful, thanks for sharing.

I usually start off with HE for those pesky DDs for when the get close (they're ALWAYS coming in first), then switch over to AP.

Could we expect another video on ships that are suitable for Ranked season 5, that is expected to start early october? I belive it will be tier 5 and tier 8. Take care Chase!

Thanks for the vid. Complete shells overview!

Hey chase can you do a video on how to get the training room for world of warships please

(1) In a Cruiser; arent my shells plunging straight down at realy long ranges? Should i use AP and be able penetrate all ships since the deck is always lightly armored? (2) If i aim for the deck, does the angle of the enemy ship matter at all?

Otherwise a good and informative video, but I found one thing badly lacking. When discussing choice of ammunition for battleships, there's a 20-30 second reload between making that choice and getting to shoot. In that time, not only might that destroyer have switched from being broadside to being bow in/out or vice versa, it might even have broken contact with you, maybe leaving you with the wrong ammo loaded for whatever there's left to shoot at. For that reason, I've started sticking with AP even when there's destroyers around. But then, I'm currently playing German BBs that (unlike most BBs) do more than twice the AP than the HE base damage.

fyi, you forgot to mention shooting carriers in a battleship. and fyi, when against Kuma, Cleveland doesn't care about range just go straight to AP =)

Excellent video as always, but I'd disagree about the CL rules when it comes to german light cruisers. their HE is useless while their AP have damage per shell comparable to 203mm guns. I've been easily getting 5k damage salvoes against BBs with the nürn.

very good video! should be a mandatory watch!

19:00 lol USN DD rainbows

I usually use hp at long range due to if 1 shell hit it could cause a fire

+iChaseGaming I would like you to take another look at the german BBs, considering you were quite upset about the T9 and 10, but after playing them for myself for a couple weeks, I find them to be very strong.

Great explaining, though it's for me not really helpful. With a bit experience you have learned it by yourself. But for the newer players it's very useful.

when im in my bb,i always shot ap,dont have time to switch all the time

Good video, but in that broadside demonstration against battleships, what about if you're targeting something like the Großer Kurfürst?

Hey iChase. Do you think you could do a video on HE shell functionality? I am talking about their penetration mechanic, fire chance (and how it's reduced) - that sort of stuff. Great vids man.

iChase, have you seen Flamu's Atlanta video? He VAPORIZED cruisers that showed broad with AP, it was kind of crazy... I'd love to see an Atlanta in your classroom :P

Chase, any thoughts on this? One thing that still bothers me even after lots of time in both the Königsberg and Nürnberg is deciding when to shoot AP because the HE is so weak, and since the armor is so weak much of that shooting done from >10km.

Good video chase :)

how do you get to that bot only testing area

i would say vs DDs in BBs use AP only u will do more damage and its more constant though less module damage

Chase, do you think now there is a British tech tree we will soon see another premium British battleship? if so, which would you like to see?.. Me personally, i'd like either HMS Prince of Wales or HMS Hood

Dat Khabarovsk's fire rate tho ..oh my sweet Jesus O_o

in a BB at closer ranges against some cruisers do I literally aim just below the waterline, then?

I don't get something, how are you supposed to do 100% shell damage then? Particularly with HE :S

Good job Chase! (as usual)

Oh yeah Ichase, what do you mean by aiming at the water?

SKILL POINTSSSSSSSSSSSSS AND US VS GERMAN VS IJN BB LINE

Are you going to give a ship review of the Konig Albert, or a second glance at the Dunkerque?

I would like to see a video about the recommended captain skills for the german BB line :)

Could you tell me two best cruisers for HE ? Between zao, Hindenburg, Moskva, Henri IV or petropavlovsk. When I compared them Henri IV and zao chance of causing fire are 9% so which is better to use ? I quite hate using AP and I like to play at long range

Is there a difference where on the ship you should shoot AP and HE? I understand shooting AP at the water line or in the water but do I do the same when firing HE or do I shoot the superstructure?

Howd you get the bot mode

Hey Chase! i would be interested into a vid about "plunging fire". would it be possible to come up with numbers regarding pens and such? btw, great vids! seen alot of em.

What about hardened HE for cruisers and Destroyers?

What have you meant Ichase, when you said to shoot into the water when lightly armoured ship is close to you?

Is there any historical reason as to why Soviet Shells have such a better Krupp rating than the other nations'? Is this actually how it was IRL or instead a gameplay, balancing factor to keep the ships diverse?

I swear the Khab is op in every way possible Ap/He speed and decent torps

Aye aye skipper! LOL

Why does the angle you use AP on depend on the nation? Didn't they set specific parameters on normalisation depending on the calibre? So that US ships don't have better normalisation than the other nation's ships?

What I use for Brittish cruiser?

my ap round have a picture of a shield over it can I change that or not ???

could you plz make a video on how to add music to the folder so that it plays in game, I keep trying to find it but cant

one question didnt they make all nations having same normalizations now? so 45 degres for usn to now it happpened 1 pach ago when german bbs were introduced

As for Russian DDs, at what tier is it safe to fire AP at broadsides? Like torpedoes, is it something only the higher tier ships have reliable access to?

What about the crappy HE on German CL's, don't they promote more AP use?

iChase i have a question. So recently i have noticed alot of non-penetrations with HE especially in a ship like a Cleveland or a USN DD. I was stitting in a smoke screen in my Mahan and i was shooting at a colorado about 7km away with HE and i had something like 45 non penetrations. Is there a reason for this?

who else has been playing a BB, spotted a broadside on cruiser and accidently fore HE?

Maybe its me, But US 5 and 6 inch HE has become very ineffective. It may not have ever done massive damage but since 5.10 all these rounds do is splatter on the armor at all ranges. Had an Atlanta game. and it was perfect setup, I'm hidden behind island and had a Tirpitz in range and couldn't shoot me so I lit him up out of all the hits I score probably 80 percent were stopped by his armor, and i was well over a 100 hits on him. I barely scratched him till i finally set some fires. Thats the worst I've seen but its been like that with all ships with those guns calibers.

Where we can use this kind of game to test ships? We can't?

It's weird to hear "delete" instead of kill

This was really helpfull!

i choose HE Cuz pen is high and can almost pen BB

lol waifu references for DDs ... Chase has been watching too many atsf videos!

Still looking for the playlist in the discription of the video :D

one will tell you ap and others tell you he... I sick to he most of the time and drop them all.

11:20 that can't happen anymore thanks to the MM changes

What does waifu mean?

But how can u replace your waifu lol Coment of the vid love it

紙上談兵 戰場上敵人會移動的 這實驗根本沒幫助

what are your thoughts on akizuki the new tier 8

How did u play in those games against bots?

how do you get that testing mode?

For the 28cm of the Scharnhorst: The BB oder the CA Rule?

make a video with low tier ships for a change.

How do I lock my turrets to one direction?

1:10... well, for 1/3 of the bb players the usage rate of HE is at 100% - sad that this isn't even a joke lul

Over in Asia server, it's irrelevant. Everyone shoots HE. Much to my annoyance

I liked the vid only because of the info - but the way you narrate is rushed and slurred sometimes

You say Yamato wrong XD

way too much information, im not at this level yet.

TL ~ Just HE burn everything. The Mechanics are fucked. Until they fix the HE Fire Bullshit, this game is fucking getting old. Just burn the B's

i didnt watch video, but wargaming ruins that game, i dont like it anymore, too complicated, no damage on HE, im angled in a NC and got CITA, no more for me, the game will die, i hate it more and more, all this aimassists and co, wargaming are bastards