The Alaska is a beast, and let's be honest, too strong for tier 9. Still it's one of the most misplayed ships, with people underestimating its strengths. Stream: / flamuu Insta: / flamugram Twitter: / flamuchz Discord: / discord
Alaska is such a bully against other cruisers. Really living up to that cruiser hunter design. As always, thanks for your support! Stream: www.twitch.tv/flamuu Insta: instagram.com/flamugram/ Twitter: twitter.com/flamuchz Discord: discord.gg/Flamu
I Really like the Alaska as well. They should give us a German T10 Supercruiser as well as some point with 13 inch guns or something and call it Wingthør or something. Nice Video! ^^
Hello hello Flamu. I'm very close to 1 million Free XP, do you think that I should get Alaska or should I wait for something else? Thank you for your videos, you really made me a better player.
Indeed, that DM not only knew exactly what they were doing, they also knew to watch what YOU were doing, plus respond to comms in chat. What a rare treat for a team mate.
Very nice video i like yours content and i want to ssk when i have money for alska so also for georgia but i know you can purchase georgia for coal what do you think should i do it this way?
I hate fighting this ship. Pretty much all the benefits of a battleship AND a cruiser with basically none of the downsides. Give it a fricking citadel and we’ll talk.
My god, I must not have the same ship ... what a piece of junk, running 100k€ games average and I cannot even get more than 4 000 damage on a single game ... waste of my free XP ! VERY VERY dissappointed. Firepower is just Okayish, very weak armor and so slooooooooooooooooooooooooow !!! It's a cruiser that behaves like a BB but with weak armor.
@UncappingBadger my understanding was that a BC is supposed to seek out and destroy cruisers, meaning the Alaskas were not BCs because they were supposed to defend the carriers *from* heavy cruisers. Cruiser-killer yes. Battlecruiser no.
@UncappingBadger due to improvements in gun and ammunition design, their guns actually had better penetration at most ranges than the older 14" guns on the US Superdreadnoughts, so she could probably give some of the older IJN capital ships a run for their money. But I agree on all other points, they weren't BCs.
@@darkodin2007 okay. I'm now at 800k free xp and it took me roughly 4 years to get this amount, I'm not sure if I should spend all on the Alaska if I reach the million. I could spend money. However 50€ is to much.
@@darkodin2007 thx, I'll think about it. Wasn't interested so far because I had the Missouri as credit farmer at T9. But it isn't a fun ship with its shotgun dispersion.
I've only been playing WOW for a few months and I love the game. I've been going down the USN light cruiser line (currently at the Cleveland). I started to get very tired of the USN LC line, as they get killed very quickly. I watched this review a few weeks ago and pulled the trigger on Alaska....WOW!! I'm delighted I did. Alaska is a beast and it's a blast to play. I had to make some adjustments to my gameplay based on my USN LC style. Once I figured it out, it is hard not to play Alaska all the time. I want to grind the Cleveland then Seattle, as the Wooster is the goal. But after playing in the Alaska, why go back?!?
USN CA > CL period. Cleveland was a monster when it was at tier 6, now it's a shadow of what it was. Dallas and Helena also are underwhelming. But boy, Pepsicola, New Orleans and Baltimore are monsters. Try going down the CA branch, you'll be surprised how fun they are. Baltimore is a freaking OP pos, in tier 8 ranked I just dominated with it, and in Coop i regularly do 120-150k damage. HE is brutal against DDs and at long range against BBs and bow-in cruisers, AP is brutal against cruisers and BBs at close range, and when you press Def AA and reinforce the sector, you can really punish attack squadrons. You can't delete them, but you can shoot down 3-5 planes in one run
tamas lapsanszki I’ve been considering going down the CA branch, once I get the USN BB’s done (I’m at the Iowa now). After reading your comments, I’m for sure going to try it. Cheers
I do love my Alaskas. I got the FXP one, then pulled the B version from a crate a couple weeks later :D All my credit problems seem to have been solved.
Can definitely agree on the player improving part; I feel so much more aware and improved as a player since playing Alaska. I still need to learn how to get better at it though.
I got my hands on the Alaska this week. First 2-3 games were a bit rough, because I overestimated it and got myself in stupid situations. But once you get the hang of it this ship is simply amazing. Feels so much more forgiving than any cruiser and many battleships. You can do things in the Alaska, that you absolutely can NOT do in the Missouri, because you are more maneuverable and harder to citadel. As a cruiser main this beauty is my new favorite ship of WoWS.
@LoneStrider well, Smolensk is not a premium ship, and let's be honest, technically it is a nerf, but with thinner belt armour it will get more overpens. About Graf Zeppelin i have no idea, pretty sure they won't directly nerf it
I spent a full year getting the XP. I got the Alaska this week. Like my Mercedes, this ship is smooth, very fast and very forgiving. I found that the crusiers I face will back away from you when you confront them in an Alaska. That being said: Always remember to angle. Crusiers will outshot you but your guns when they hit will crush them The ship handles well but, for me , it does better in open water. Islands are great to hide behind but open water is its element This ship, with a DD or another crusier with torps can actually hold a flank. It's the ultimate battlecrusier
The Alaska annoys me because my buffalo cannot penetrate the flat broadside of an alaska at 6km, whereas he can citadel me when I am angling against it.
stefanos perivolaris it’s also because the shop has such low citadel that most cruisers can’t hit it The citadel roof is only overmatched by big BB guns
In a match last night with my beloved Alaska captained by Halsey. First Blood/Dev Strike sniping a Chappa, radar 2 dds down, Dev Strike an angled Drake, got "Confederate" 5 mins into the match, triple citadels an Iowa trying to turn around because she didn't know I got 12sec reload now, HE shells burnt her to death, "Kraken", "High Caliber", 12secs reload on these guns just handling citadels to every cruisers, finally rammed an almost full health Bismark "Die Hard". Broke my Alaska record. Glorious match.
I call it Super Cruiser. Mostly because of the 305mm 12in/50 guns. Traditionally a Battle Cruiser has the same caliber of gun as a whatever current age Battleship just faster and less armor. 305mm is powerful for a battleship of the 19 teens not so in Alaska's age but certainly good for what all of the Super Cruisers were designed for, killing Heavy and Light cruisers.
i do have the Alaska, but its so boring to play that i find myself playing Azuma (with IFHE because f u Kremlin) instead all the time, even though the armor is trash, the consumable loadeout is worse, and some ppl might even argue the guns are worse, wich i doint agree with but hey, i like my Azuma.
I am about to watch your 1st of many videos a friend of yours from WOW recommended I do so he said u were the best community creator he ever met . for I am an older beginner. if that makes sense with a poor memory none the less i hope to spend many hour listening writing down all the advise i can get starting with my Newley purchased Alaska B i keep getting hammered or beat up because i stay behind enemy lines to fire . I was always a BB guy but wanted to branch out. Thank you Rocky069
Kronshatd next maybe? That thing is quite awful to play, and it gets countered by everything, especially cruisers that dont show constant broadside or are not RN light cruisers!
kills a t8 cruisers, then kill a broken engine DD. then kill a beached DD. can we have a showcase of the strengh of the ship? because this game was just shit.
Because the british invented radar and then gave it to the americans, yet the british do not have any radar and the american's radar is not as good as the russian's radar. Just make sure you punch the next russian person you see as a means of thanking wargaming for their historical accuracy.
I cannot begin to describe how happy i am that the only Coal & Fxp ships i have are Jean Bart & Alaska, I would not trade them for anything :) Took me years to save up to them, but it finally paid off ^^
The problem isn't that it's powerful, the problem is the other cruisers are masses POS's...!!! I know, because I just bought and then sold the AGIR, thinking I would have something unique with the nice Secondary's, and I discover they nerfed it!!! So bad, that one on one against ANY T8 Battleship, not using Torps, you will DIE, and only do 1/4 damage against the enemy battleship. They've made the ship utterly WORTHLESS... The secondaries can't hit the side of a barn. They need to put back the nice Secondary's it had, accurate and the 11.5 distance gotten with whatever extras. That actually made the ship competitive and unique, NOT in fact OP, cause you have to have perfect situations to do well with that, cause everything else with the ship is mediocre to poor for a T9 Heavy.
BoS alone will reduce fire duration by 9 seconds and flag alone will reduce by 12 seconds.If you combine them you will reduce it by 20 seconds for 3 points.In theory it might sound good but in reality those 3 points are better spend for JoAT and EL where first will reduce CD on all cosumables be it heal,radar and damage con and second skill will reduce reload while swaping ammo.So in the end flag alone is just better option,it's not bad to take BoS if it's your BB captain and you use but the more skills/flags/equipment you stack to reduce flood/fire duration the less bonus you get.I for example use max 2 things that reduce DoT duration because they don't give too much bonus for me and i got so used to play with Expert Loader that i feel weird playing without it.
@Flamu when they make the armory changes, which would you recommend Moskva, Flint, or Black. I’ve seen videos on your price for steel opinions but which would you recommend getting first for coal?
I just grinded out the Moskva and i absolutely hate it but it's worth it just so you will get another tier 10 as the replacement and 2 for 1 is always a no brainer.. And the Alaska is way better than the Moskva.
Hey flamu I love all your videos, but I need some help from you. I am playing world of Warships by watching your videos, I downloaded it on Steam. But I don't know how to set cross hair like yours. Just plain no indication, I really need that. How to change that in my game. Can you please tell me that.
Love the Alaska video. Used to subscribe before Financial setback. Spend what little money I have on flambass and give my twitch prime to trenlass. Sorry, wish there was more money to go around. Wouldn't mind supporting you and rougemonkey. Maybe I'll win the lottery someday😊. But great video
The last five vids "i have DFAA slotted but I'd probably be better off with hydro since DFAA has been brutalized lately" Also sadly alaska's he resistance is going to be ruined with the he rework since ifhe 152mm guns will be able to pen 36mm
Okay, I've noticed that every single damn competent person seems to be using *something* with no bloody damn cross-hairs. Is that how folks get good, turn off distracting cross hairs?
How about ditching Jack of all Trades and AR and getting RPF (radio location)? Radar plus hydro plus constant enemy location awareness-or DPM and consumable reload boost?
I bought this ship and love it. I play it a lot so I probably was one of the bad players you saw lately lol. After a zillion matches, you can't stay focused. I would argue however that Puerto Rico with the US flag camo looks sexier. But yeah fantastic ship. As I'm building my captain, I'm starting to get hungry for PR. Thought this time that $185 was too much for a ship. Maybe next time tho.
Hm .. am I missing something ? You can use captains for your premium ships ACROSS the classes ? I play wows ... well, since beta and whole time, I thought that it works just like in WoT, where you can move your crew between different tanks (prem) without penalty, but only inside the same class .
I have no idea how to play this ship. Alaska always catch to much AP damage (citadels maybe?) right in face, in terms of survivability for me she is worse than Moskva and even De Moines.
Favorite ship in the game, best combination of a BB and a cruiser there is in the game. Good concealment, accuracy, speed, AA, decent HE for fighting BBs and radar from the cruisers, great armor and phenominal AP from the BBs.
Totally agree lately a lot of new alaska captain dont know how to play it right. I was in a game in yugumo facing friesland. An alaska stay on 12 km away while no bb presented, he even turned away in fear of friesland....
Hi, how does it compare to the Kronschtadt. I already have the kron and am unsure if getting the Alaska is redundant and I should fxp the t9 fxp dd instead. What's your view?
Yes! A fun forgiving ship to play, very powerful short to medium range. The one caveat I have is that at long range it is very challenging to hit smaller maneuverable ships due to her very slow floaty shells. If you do connect though.. they feel it!
Even 8 months later I just got mine and it's status stands as the Unbreakable Crusier. I love her so much the punch and the armor that tells you that you messed up bad without sending you to port instantly