Before Wargamming ruined this game with the CV relaunch I used to play every day. I used to laugh at people who would sleep on the Atlanta's AP. I can't count how many heavy cruisers that would come around an island at very close range thinking they had nothing to fear. Two salvos of AP and 13 citadels later they had realized mistakes had been made.

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Definitely gonna get this ship in the old fashion way, just like currently what I'm doing with all those new tech tree ships. Thank you for the heads up as always

Finally something that hard counters island camping. Edit: the turtleback only works for cruisers, just like the italian bbs.

Glad you are back, but your audio is really low (your voice has gotten deeper too, which doesn't help).

Thanks for the informative video and welcome back! I've never seen Three Krakens in one game... have you?

Very last bundle for the ship... same dude, high five!

Layered armor in WoWS is such a liability. if the outer-belt can't bounce or shatter shells you might as well not have it. Belt plus torp bulges are the only exception cause you don't take hp damage from bulge pens. Anything that gets past the belt will do damage. Literally the best ships in game tend to be those that have all or most of their armor on the outside belt

Purely stat-wise, she seems to be very similar to Drake. Similar guns size, very similar DPM, health, range, very close in maneuverability, speed and concealment. Main differenes would be strong(-ish) AP vs very strong HE, fast heal vs. super heal, air strike vs torpedoes. Drake of course is way more accurate, but has slower shells. de Witt burns as well. I don't have de Witt and I can imagine their playstyle might be different, but I still found the similarities curious.

That was a good game 👍

Would be interesting to see the bombers used as a counter to a ship parked in a smoke screen.

Although I like the new Dutch Ship, and I am looking forward in seeing videos of the future Dutch Cruisers. I am really hating the new Captain Skills and the rework. But there are some... Reasonably good skills so I feel like if Wargaming is ever going to revert the original Skills, they should keep at least a few skills from the rework.

I am kind of disappointed in the Dutch cruisers.. The airstrike mechanic is such a great way to implement the "hybrid" BB and CLs that IJN has like Ise and Tone. Instead, they turned those into half CVs. As is now, they have turned the new mechanic into such a non-historical gimmick for a mostly fictional tech tree.

Lovely, being first. Also, WG do be pretty disconnected tbh.

Wasn't Johann De Witt the dutch prime minister that they actually ate?

Just out of curiosity: wasn't Johan de Witt a political leader who was forcefully taken down from his position, murdered, mutilated and somewhat eaten? He didn't come up to me as a Dutch hero or anything, so I wonder why the dutch named a ship after him. They could have named it with something more dutch-like... Like, Tulip or Stroopwafel. Imagine getting blapped by a tier IX cruiser called the Stroopwafel, that's peak (dutch) gameplay

Welcome back ichase

This is how the INJ CV/BB work

I really don't like the airstrike mechanic. In my opinion, it is a stupid way to "fix" island hugging BBs. The problem with that is: The reason BBs are island "camping" is that their survivability is a f***ing joke. Those stupid fires do so much damage and CVs constantly force you to either eat a bunch of damage or give broadside to the enemy team if you are out in the open. Instead of improving BB survivability they now implement a new, kind of braindead, mechanic that comes with its one set of new problems: What if you have either 3 of those airstrike spammers or 2 plus a CV in a division and you actually time your drops? One of you forces a damage con and the others farm him afterwards. There is no counterplay to that but to not be on this flank. The only thing WG achieves with this mechanic is that even brawling BBs will camp several kilometers further back now because they will get blapped the second they are spotted. Also: I think all the gimmicks result in an unfair advantage. Whether it's being able to see the current speed when switching to your torps (even when they are way out of range) or getting that bird's eye view with the airstrike: It's basically a passive buff to your ship giving you information you cannot get if your ship isn't equipped with that gimmick... They should make those things permanent and available to everyone since none of those buffs are rooted in realism anyway: Having torps doesn't magically predict the enemies path for you. And the airstrike airplanes (which have to be ground-based planes if you think about it which makes the whole thing even more ridiculously stupid) cannot help you look over an island if you don't actually call them in for a strike. So just screw realism and make the game actually balanced. Half of these ships are completely invented anyways. And several of them would probably sink the second the weather gets even remotely rough...

Love how every new cruiser seems to have better bow armour than a lot of existing battleships 🙄

I spent $40 trying to get this ship, trying to be first in the special olympics. Im such an idiot at times 🤦‍♂️. Although i can say is that im not Robinson Crusoe during these events, that's not mitigation for my minor gambling addiction.

@18:41 you said the Atlanta should go with AP? Against your armor those 5''/38's would have very little chance at shit!!!

Finally I can ship on Russian BB with cruiser without much risk

Harsh beat down between you two..lol BZ I hate that they got rid of awards, No reason to try.

Good game for sure. But honestly this video is not telling me anything. You are top tier in a unicum division and almost get beaten . all the weakness of the ship are "hidden" by your superiority as a tier IX vs Tier VII. Division also can mitigate weakness. I would rather prefer to see a solo game in a tier IX game. That would be more of a "test" for the ship strengh.

What happened to your channel? 90k subs and 10k max views per video. I still watch your videos, they're good 😞

Look up who Johan Witt was en what happend to him and his brother. Warning: not for people with a weak stomach..

Faint praise indeed. I wonder if WG looked into the name they were going to give this ship?

You're talking quicker than usual. Did you OD on caffeine?

Ship is very bad. Weak guns, weak armor belt, burns for ages.

love CCs "Dont but the loot boxes!" but i can cos i get free dubs

Yeeey more planes and more stupid gimmicks. No point returning to the game then.

LOL... imagine making a whole new WG account just to pad your WR stomping noobs in low tiers.