Battleship Central Positioning Example #2 - Yamato 

That Volley at 10:10 was something else. This game could've easily been another 50-80k more damage with some more favorable RNG, but it does show how to deal with such terrible RNG, just keep your positioning flexible and don't stop firing. Eventually your guns will have an impact. Stream: www.twitch.tv/flamuu Insta: instagram.com/flamugram/ Twitter: twitter.com/flamuchz Discord: discord.gg/Flamu

I love this series! This educational style of video is great.

Thank you so, so much. I found Yamato so painful to play, being constantly burned to death, among many other things. I'd basically given up on BBs, when I saw this video and thought "I'll give it a try" and suddenly all my time spent playing Yamato suddenly clicked, and I got my highest damage record so far (a little over 200k)

"Flamuu": I dont understand why so many BBs throw away their ships ramming "BB Player": Haha Very honorable!

Thanks so much for these videos. Dropped off playing BB's because I thought the gameplay was getting boring. Tried playing my BB's in centre yesterday and haven't had so much fun with WOWS in ages. You're the best!

Yet again SUPER GREAT VIDEO. I say this again (like JB video) u can learn aiming, u can learn all the small things bcause u get response asap u make mistakes. Positioning is not those small things.

2 videos back-to-back in such a quick succession? What a day!

Can we have some German battleships positioning coz I grinding that line in my other account and I'm struggling a lot.

your engagement with that ohio is pretty much every engagement i have with broadside on ships in my bbs. full broadside, more or less in a straight line, and all i get is 0 dmg pens, bounces, overmatches, misses. also, every time you turn while spotted, i'm all "if i do that, i'd be dead."

99,2k subs only 800 more and you reach a well deserved 100K and a youtube shield! GG Flamu! I would love a new how to play Scharnhorst video since last u did it was over 2 years ago!

i ve taken the same approach when playing bb and it works most of the times but got a couple of objections : 1st is that you count on your other potato bbs to go 1-2 9-10 lines so you are the crossfire, 2nd bb guns are so untrustworthy/rng based most of the times that crossfire goes to the thrash and 3rd and last is that when you spawn on the edge of the map you somewhat have to be that potato bb on 1-2 9-10 nose in or else you cls there have no tank and will eventually fold the whole flank. what i find most people lack in this game, besides skill and knoledge of the mechanics, is patience and they dont stand their ground either fleeing from pushers or pushing themselves to get dmg early on and thus games lately are defined in the 1st 10 mins max. keep up the good work there , gl on the 100k

This is perfect, i literally just bought the yamato. Very helpful. :D

hi flamu, are you interested in making a video ranking legendary mods by usefulness? e.g. yamato legendary mod vs moskva legendary mod etc.

Yamato is a great ship for slow rolling into a fight with it's insane 26k range. It's a ship you want to take your time with but not end up like that one guy backing up all game in it (we all have THAT guy in a Yamato every game). With the turrets moving so slow (especially with legendary equipt), just take your time moving into engagements. Try and angle yourself towards a fight with all your guns, be the last guy in so you don't get HE farmed because it's hard to turn this boat around. The 457s presence on the map from the middle should cause ships to always be paying attention to you or be punished. Lastly, always try to help your team help you; target those radar boats as much as possible. You basically overmatch everything and get penetration on all these cruisers, so shoot them and help your destroyers out to move more freely.

GK Next?:)) Good stuff, btw! Have a nice weekend!

4 Pen 0 Damage. Absolutely perfect.

wargaming announced they will be chaniging the way the yamato legendary works so it willl be nerfed probably because it overperforms in their book so gg accurate yamato

Does being in the middle work on the Deuce Freres map?

I've played for two years and i"m terrible at the game. When I watch Flamu it's like I am watching Einstein explain space/time. I get it, but when I play, I end up charging into bad situations when someone asks for help. The few times that I've been top scorer on my team, we lose. If I am top player then I am on a very bad team. I still love to play but I also hope I get better at it.

When Flamu plays like this, it's great. When I play like this, I get reported by the entire team for not being bow in and not getting burned to death.

HAH! That volley on the Ohio is literally the story of my life of every broadside battleship I see that isn't a N. Carolina and the Kremlin can just take my paycheck on every other day of the week! Still, very fantastic video and I think I'll take all these to heart. I've always tried to play the flank heavy battleship that stretches to the farthest side to help that entire half of the map so I play ships like Republique, Yamato and Montana that way with only my repubs showing any desirable results. But this video opens my eyes so maybe I can finally achieve that Battleship Tier 4 Emblem I want so bad.

Always ram, because it is fun, ranked maybe 🤔 otherwise ram ram ram!

Flamu, would you like to make a video about Bayard? Next Ranked season will be held at tier 8, so I just wondered whether to get it. As an "excellent" (at least imo :P) light cruiser player I will definitely play Cleveland ('cause radar ofc), but in case, I'd like to have an extra ace up my sleeve :) Awesome video btw

central position a GK easy farmed by HE spammers and shell magnet

Can you please show some central positioning on Two Brothers? xD

what do you mean "your carrier," Flamuu? I only see a Graf Zeppelin.

bru please cud ye show how to play central position in oceans?

Why does your water look way better than mine?

RU server so most of your enemys ignored you at all. AGAIN!

3:54 ok..... I will never EVER get so lucky.... 2 cita on full angle cruiser. Just lol... How lucky is that pls.

Please keep making educational vids on positioning. It's such a difficult skill but also so important.

Well. U standing still, full broadside to mid. No dd, nobody Focus u. Cc Account = paid actors. Thats all. Never EVER this tactic would work in my random games.

What I like about flamu is he has common sense, not like the majority of the players.

I'm loving these BB positioning guides. It definitely helps with learning how to effectively play a BB and put the most pressure on the enemy team.

You gotta do BBs with poor range (GK with legendary mod) and show us how this central position will work because I feel like your tactic usually works with ships with great range that can reach the entire map

lol i just try it out in the same map in random battle and it works great, i got a confederate and a solid 178k damage with Yamato, usually i often go to one flank with Yamato and i could only dealt about 100k in Yamato, so thanks a lot Flamu

22:17 Allied aircraft destroyed They still haven't fixed that huh

I play not often, but after a bit of playin i got the GKfürst. And i often push to the boardes of the map to flank enemy ships, in the mid i am He spammer and DD food every time.Can you show how play with gk? (similar to that here, i know but still)

Flamu teaching the player base since 2015. Majority of player base goes like: Nah, this is too hatd. Ramming speed.

Flamu, you are spoiled. Calling your RNG terrible it's offensive for people who actually DO HAVE crap RNG. Hearing you complaining about a 278k dmg games-under like listening to Paris Hilton saying she had worked so hard to get her perfume on the market... If you want we can swap RNGs and I'll be happy with yours, while I'm not sure you'll be so happy with mine. Plus, if your team evaporates in the first 5 minutes of the game, a central position is a liability, rather than an asset.

I've been seeing RU-vidrs doing that backwards position a lot over 2020 videos. In 2020 I started kiting in the Yamato so I'm curious if the tactic is still viable in 2021 and if camping or kiting is more productive in game. Now I want to experiment with my Yammy.

This match had many typical components from the current state of the game. Irrelevant BB positioning and travel time, mind blowing RNG, an AFK bot and 4-5 players per side trying to win the match while 8 per side try to throw it. I'm pretty sure the Worchester pushed B because of your click commands and misunderstanding your intention.

I haven't watched the video yet but I played a match recently with my Amagii against a Yamato and the T9 german BB. The Yamato just stayed back never moving (wasn't afk) and just watched his team push, die, get pushed back, and then finally died because he never supported his team. He solely could have turned it into a win for his team as I was the only BB on the side of the map facing a T9 and T10 BB. Yet through slow pushing and using islands I helped push my team to victory.

Very good and thorough central positioning guide, Flamu. Thank you, will definitely make adjustments to my play style. BB mains, here's some food for thought ;) Even with the legendary mod, Yamato's vertical dispersion is not Thunderer grade. Because of that and taking into account ballistic properties of IJN BB shells in general you may want to consider aiming just a tiniest bit higher than usual relative to the waterline (the amount of this vertical correction will of course depend on the distance to the target, you surely know what I mean) when trying to punish those broadside dealing potatoes :)

Could we try for an iowa positioning example?

I have visions of this becoming commonplace. 5 battleships all center. They would be torpedo bait and carrier carrion but any flanking cruisers or BBs? Blap. Blap. Boom. Wise players would be mindful of the torpedo risk and use islands. Meme players would just ram their fellows and the islands while eating torpedos and citidels.

One thing I always did wrong was pushing too far in. I always thought that pushing "in" literally means "into the caps". I drove my BBs into the caps way too early, causing easy crossfires for the enemy and therefore very quick ways to find myself killed. I kept doing it because people were complaining that I wasn't making use of my tanking ability if I didn't drive into the caps. So driving close to the caps in a central position is the way to go?

A VERY useful video. Recommended to all these guys that cry on forums "Yamato doesn't hit, doesn't pen, doesn't tank, doesn't win" :)

Why does Yamato accualy feel way more inconsistant then usual. a lot of times i also get solvos that doesn't connect or doesn't do much damage at all (mainly owerpens on waterline)... is there a reason for it ? becaus in games i got called out for being such garbage becaus ı couldn't hit easy shots or couldn't punish broadsides and nose in close range guys with it thanks to this so called ''good dispersion''

in wows who is unicum deserve to be unicum,WoT is so f... fake that you dont know who deserve good stats with skil and who WG give good stats(p2w)

Hey Flamu! Apparently on the NA server, lots of people have been watching/listening to your positioning tips, 'cause whenever I take the central position I am always fighting 3 other BBs and half the enemy team for a good spot. In all seriousness though, thanks for the masterclass on better playing.

Tried centrally positioning in JB for your last video, Did get a few more citadel opportunities but got focused and destroyed by T10's. I think I prefer flanking in it with it's speed and pushing in to bow tank, Seems to work better for that ship at least for me.

Slava returned to testing with a buff to it's heal and nerf to it's armor and AA. Guns didn't change. TY WG, exactly what the playerbase needed, a sniping BB

Didn't Little White Mouse do the math, showing that Yamato's Legendary mod doesn't actually do anything for you if you show average gun performance over time? Or was that changed?

Flamu is here providing such good content and giving so many good hints and tips on how to play BBs but I still play Secondary build Yamato... No wonder my win-rate with Yamato is very low

I love your videos and this series but as far as the yamato goes, I don't think this positioning guide for central positioning works. Everytime I try it I just get focused by a CV and deleted. As you say, there is absolutely nothing you can do about a CV attacking you these days and if you go central in the Yamato with your team going to the flanks, you can kiss your ass goodbye thanks to CV's.

T10 BB is hard to deal with nowdays. Too many spams and CV makes things difficult unlike this movie. CA get too much strong in long distance.

Hoping you could do this for other tiers as well; I'm currently on the North Carolina (close to Iowa though) and wanna see how this works for when I (inevitably) get uptiered.

Can you please show us a stock RU BB, e.g. Sinop or Vladivostok, that is bottom-tiered and starts out in open water (e.g. the western side of the North map)?

The reason why I quit WOWS was because of the fact that RNG exists. I dislike how much RNG exists in the game.

Hey Flamu, what about if positioning mid means you're giving broadside to the other flank and the other flank is able to punish you. Then what would you do?

Hey im new to wows, what are your pc specs? Im playing on my laptop now but im looking for a pc, which kind of specs should i be looking at to get around 120 fps and hd kind of like you have?

Ты подставляиш команду. Игра на набивание урона. Тебе дизлайк. Ничего полезного для команды !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should let you manually target with secondaries over 139 or something.So BBs can get in closer,the 155s would be quite useful against dds

Ramming is fun.... game is about fun no ? I mean i drop my tank on poeple head in wot when ever its possible, its just for the lulz

You can probably make the same strategy for super cruisers as well. Stalingrad, Krondstadt and Moskva.

@Flamu please give up that "hello hello" from the beginning, is so annoying. Great video by the way! Thanks.

sadly the ramming of a BB is a way to get a high damage count fast...i ended up on one side of a map alone in a kurfurst against 4 cruisers and a kremlin. No way i could survive, but yet the kremlin decided to ram just to get the damage count. This was 8 min in to the game. Basically the rest of the team behind me ran, and kurfurst not so quick to turn and get away..The ram for the kremlin not needed, and he cost his team a battleship less than half way through the battle.

I tried this positioning. Got burnt down by 2 smolensks in about 2 minutes. Had to run to the back of the map which was fun

Flamu can't make a BB video without requiring that everybody else does the tanking and dying for him. Is it smart play if you want to win? Sure, but being afk in the middle of the map only works if the rest of the team takes the enemy attention away from him.

why not the spotter plane mod on the first slot? Gotta love harassing players hiding behind island in an extended time And Steering gears mod can be also a good option for her 4th slot, her rudder shift time is so awful........ Good positioning advice tho

I'm going to ask a dumb question because I enjoy this little series you got here. In terms of positioning, when do you know to start disenguaging. This is one of the hardest things for me as I tend to realize that I need to disenguage only far to late and I end up perminantly commiting. Other then that I never realized the central posititon was so strong and I appreciate the content.

Great video. Possible to do a bb positioning in ranked? I find it quite challenging as I feel pressured to really be aggressive and support dd’s in ranked, but either end up over extended or isolated using either sinop or nelson (though I find nelson a little easier to sit back as it’s quite slow)

is the Worcester even good for anything anymore? its the least stealthy of all the light cruisers, it has the most heath but everything overmatches it so that doesn't matter, the other tier X CLs outrange it and if im in range im somehow the closest target the enemy can see and so everything shoots me so radar is never in range let alone hydro CVs avoid light cruisers or kill them regardless of losses so AA doesn't really matter, it can start fires but only the minotaur does it worse, islands are ether too far forwards or too far back and theres always a DD 17km away spotting you for a BB across the map to kill you with plunging fire. anything the Worcester can do another CL can do better as far as i can tell

Trust me on this. Bb is so unplayable because of cv doing 40k damage ap bomb, he spammer, overpen madness, a class that is so rng base, it is not fun to play bb anymore.

I totally support and like what you are doing because I'am also a battleship player. And I really get bored because of my team mates doing absolutely nothing but yolo into one cap, get destroyed and call me useless trash because I was in a central position in my Yamato.

Central BB positioning is vital, but its important to understand that central positioning only pays off if you have ships anchoring the flanks. If you are a BB and you spawn on the far flank, dont abandon your flank to take mid position unless your flank is well supported and the situation warrants it.

I also often wondered about this bad positioning of many bbs players. I guess it comes to the fact, that most players dont play this game to win or do something useful for their team. The average or potato player just cares about getting one kill and hitting 2 or 3 times nice in a match in order to be somewhere at the top half of the score. Nobody wants to be the one who takes damage.

There's an unsporting conduct in the post battle screen, allied aircraft destroyed. How is that even possible? Did one of his shells penetrate a plane flying through his line of fire?

Should I even bother to grind out 5 Tier Xs for the Research Bureau at this point or just focus on getting Yamamoto and wait and see what they do to the legendary modules?

I'm a very new player. Just curious as to what the abbreviations stand for? RNG and DC?

@Flamu can you upload more videos where you are in maps with this much of islands in one of the sides or maybe both? would like to see how much oportunitys and how you create them when dealing with this. Also can you upload one or two in epicenter mode? i think epicenter is the name of the game mode when the 3 caps stay in the mid of the map.

the legendary mod really makes the gun a lot more reliable. I hate yamato's diamond dispersion so much

Flamu you and Flambass should have never teached people the ram. Now potatoes are making this their default play style.

I stopped playing two months ago. Looks like my RNG has gone to you. Enjoy the utter frustration.

22:09 I've also received a reprimand for shooting down allied aircraft. How the Hell does that happen???

Flamu.. I have Suggestion, Since DDs are the ones that Dies First, Why Not Make Vid of DD Gameplay? Many people will like it

I tried central positioning in my GK but I became the primary target and I got spammed by half the ships in the game, within 5 minutes i was dead.

Ramming: maybe because there is a flag with +20 dmg by ramming? I do that only if i have less HP than the red one.

You can win in about 50% battles. You can have ram in like 10%. So what is more fun ?

Have they upgraded the graphics ? i havent played for quite some time but it looks really different then i remember.

Weird I have my game at max graphics and it doesn't look like that, does flamu use graphics mods?

What about a Unyielding, Unstoppable and Unrelenting series with cruisers?

I have to ask. How did you get unsporting conduct for shooting down an allied aircraft? Never seen that before

Dream came true! Thanks!

Watch Flamu's weeb community unsubscribe just to troll the poor guy.

what is the point when CVs exist in the game? when the f*** are you CC's going to start working together to help the community against this trash that this game is becoming.

i must be doing something wrong. everytime i play mid, i get focused by the entire team and die. or a DD passes through and torps me first.

can't wait to see games with 5 BBs on both sides abandoning flanks and going for middle and reeeeeing that it's supposed to be good since flamu said so..

This ship was made for blapping, and that's just what it'll do...