American Battleship "Minnesota" Review - World of Warships Blitz 

The secondaries are just kinda there (although, especially on this branch, are your last line of defence - at least on a Monty, you can switch to HE, enable RR, kite away and make them regret their life choices.).

They hit really hard. They caused heavy damage while I had the GK

I quite like Seattle tbh. Minnesota is definitely a fun T9, in a laid-back fashion. Haven't played Vermont enough to say, but Minnesota is actually quite manoeuvrable (length-to-beam ratio), and size is often forgotten as a factor for BBs.

Like another commentor said, it's a question of fire discipline. On my first attempts on this line, I was playing them more link I would normally play BB - tank & cruiser hunter. Doesn't work in these at all. Once I figured that I've got to make the salvos count, and should hit BBs at range as primary targets, plus position like in a Colorado, I'm actually surprisingly enjoying this.

@@FunandGameswithTerry Yesss, every salvo counts for this type of ship. It's alright to miss one or two, but you can still compensate by citadel-ing the heck out of everyone. You'd be surprised how many citadels you can do in mid-range with auto-aim off. One tip is to let them come to you considering this ship has a pretty long range on the guns. I really enjoyed shooting into the smokes as well to surprise those pesky cruisers.

Problem is, you'll probably not know in advance :) I sincerely hope they don't nerf the PA CLs, since I'm pretty excited about those.

@@FunandGameswithTerry True. However, in my experience so far; if a player just do an honest grind from the lowest tier possible to preserve money (my case), it often happens that the nerf comes when one was not that high in tiers yet. So at least total waste of time and money might be avoided. No need to buy camos, no need to convert fxp using gold, no need to grind any captains intended for those ships, saves a lot of high level blueprints and silver coins, saves a lot of grind time, too. At least, that was the case for me when I was interested in the daring, vermont, malta, and colombo in the past. I have not a lot of playtime due to real life obligations, therefore I guess those real life obligations actually save me from continuing on useless grinds 😁. Typically, I was at around tier 7 or 8 when the nerf announcements came. I was in the middle of the Lightning, Kansas, t8 uk carrier, and that t8 italian bb grinds, i forgot the name as it was not an enjoyable grind anyway for that particular bb. In one very rare instance, we actually received official information regarding the nerf even B E F O R E the entire line was officially released, or at the moment of the line's official release. That was the case for the Kreml and the entire line of CCCP Bbs. I deleted all of those ongoing grinds as soon as any official nerf announcements were confirmed. 😀

@@FunandGameswithTerry me too. If there is no nerfs coming, I intend to grind the chinese cruisers all the way to jinan. I bought that commander xi jin ping dalian bundle, and I am approaching his t9 skill.

Pretty much the same experience for me. I had to change my mindset, and value the shots - don't waste them on a CL at long range, getting maybe two shells on target. With the long reload, make them count.

@@FunandGameswithTerry Yea playing this line helped me in many ways. I guess having a decent reload makes you waste many shots on maneuvering ships, but this line, you have to avoid wasting the salvo. I shoot CL's that are broadside on, or some (like an Ibuki in a recent game) that rush forward like a bot, but without that insane turning speed. Yea this line is great, especially because I also have George Dewey, but he is almost Level 8 on my Kansas. Most of my captains are not really high level, the highest I have is 10 lol

Don't even try to sail uphill in those things. Have a great weekend! :)

I actually quite enjoyed it. It's sort of a mellow style. Just target battleships, and don't worry too much.

Well, at the end of the day, you do what needs to be done. If a top tier designated brawler battleship with powerful secondaries is scared to cap, then the slow, long-range lumbering standard class has to go.

It's a pretty good T9, actually. Being able to stay at range, combined with the relatively compact size and good manoeuvrability, really helps when you're hitting T10 matchmaking.

@@FunandGameswithTerry well that is true, but the reload still bothers me

I think Dewey is the designated legendary captain, if you can manage to get him. I'd ignore marksman personally and go for a heal build, since you can only use the skill for the cooldown.

@Fun and games with Terry thank you Mr Terry I appreciate the advice you've been helping my ships since 2020. Thank you sir

I'm at the NC on my personal account, I might actually pick up the Kansas. But it'll have to wait, the PA CLs are first, I'm pretty excited about those.

I'll be revisiting Freddy, I wanted that for next week, actually, but I've ended up having to spend a lot of time with Mecklenburg, so that'll have to come the week after.

@@FunandGameswithTerry Awesome👍🏻 Could you compare it alittle with Black Freddy (know you don’t like Black ships). For me it looks like normal Freddy is more sniper and Black Freddy is an brawler… but it looks to me that if you want an brawler at this teir then Pommern is an better choise….🤔

I will need to test this, but my understanding would be that if the target is on fire and/or flooding, your guns do 1% more damage, regardless of who set the fires/flood.

That'd be sweet :)

I'll add it to the list

@@FunandGameswithTerry Thanks

Dispersion on Yama is actually not that great, I prefer playing her at mid-range, since those guns hit really hard, the armour is decent, and that opens up more possibilities in controlling the battle. These ships are, for most parts, long-range snipers against other BBs.

I'll add it to the (already very long) list, but I'm kinda keen to know myself, since I'm very fond of my Hsien Yang.

Yup. I might actually pick up this line again at some point.

@Fun and games with Terry yah vermi is so excellent to delete any light cruiser in maybe 1.5 salvo she is excellent eventhough full pens get 2k damage pee shell so its like 24k in all the full pens and if there is any citadel it will add value lol🙃🙃🙃😆

It takes some overview to position correctly, but that's a problem you'll already have starting at lower tiers with the standard battleships. You've got pretty good range on most maps (that aren't fault line), and you're still contributing by dealing damage to enemy BBs. I agree that it's a more laid-back line, and carrying a team that is derping around, especially on domination or epicentre, is a lot harder in those ships.

Wouldn’t grind this line at all in the first place, if not for pulling Dewey out of a random crate

This line is really good… it just all about positioning and fire discipline. You’ll want to fire every time your reloaded… don’t do that. Wait for a good shot then fire. You’ll pull 80-100+k games regularely with it

That was when it clicked in my brain as well - I have to not play my usual BB style. "Fire discipline" is a really good term.

You're right, this only works for CVs. Not sure how I got that twisted...

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@@aminrodriguez4707 😂