BATTLESHIPS VS SMALL + RESERVE BOATS SWARM - How Many Does It Take? - WAR THUNDER 

They’d probably do better if the secondary guns could track multiple enemies at the same time.

I suppose the ideal battleships to have for a challenge like this are the "newer" battleships, not because they're newer, but because they have more AA guns. A North Carolina would probably have an easier time mowing down all the smaller craft with their 40 mm Bofors and 20mm Oerlikons.

If and when Gaijin adds the really big battleships like Bismarck, Iowa, and Yamato, I would like to see this done again. An excellent video as always.

Killing torpedo boats with the battleships main Canons is like using a long sword to cut cucumber.

Honestly not even mad about not having the players pov. felt like a movie and honestly kinda liked it. 10/10

It does make sense the torpedo boats did so well as they were designed to sink battleships. That's the reason destroyers were invented as they could protect the battleships with their guns which could track the small boats.

Just goes to show how deadly a swarm of small, fast torpedo boats are to a large battleship

The camera work in this is amazing! It looks like something out of a movie

1:03 the amount of pain saying "The Iconic USS Arizona" to describe Wyoming brings me is immeasurable, and my day is ruined. Otherwise fun vid :P If I were to go about this as the battleships, you'd want one with as many anti-air guns as possible. Against those small torpedo boats, a full canon is too slow, the rapid-fire AA autocannons is what you really need. Any WWII configuration ship would be your best choice, but specifically, late-war American ships that had autocannons bolted to any free bit of deck. This is probably more than anything what saw the BB players improve as the rounds went on, as in War Thunder Scharnhorst and Kongo both are in their WWII configurations, while Wyoming is in her WWI configuration, and thus are covered in Autocannons. Arizona finally replacing Wyoming in the final round wouldn't have changed much since she never got auto-cannon spam due to Pearl Harbor, and arguably may have been worse due to her longer main battery reload making her less capable of dealing with the destroyers.

NOt too surprised, destroyers were created to keep packs of small fast attackers off of the big ships that would have a hard time targeting small fast movers

As one of the torpedo boats, we pesky bees have demonstrated the strength in numbers as we crushed countless titans of the sea before going down in a blaze of glory, long live the torpedos. (Also the filming process in my experience was kinda lengthy as for some dumb reason someone decided that it was a funny idea to cap the base, to the point where the employment of a "Decapper", aka a destroyer was a thing) There were suggestions for the employment of destroyers (Full name being "Torpedo Boat Destroyers") but since this is a BB vs Torp Boaty match, I guess a "proper" match up will have to be done at a later date, and I really wished that the filming is done at like 4 PM US Mountain Time as I live in Australia (Sydney, NSW) (It's 10:15 A.M. at the time I wrote this)

Just think how frightening it would be to be a small PT boat charging a Battleship, staring down ten or more 12-14" guns as their shells fly overhead. It would be terrifying.

Alright someone has to say it...that first battleship wasn't Arizona. Arizona was a Pennsylvania class battleship and had four turrets, two fore two aft, with three guns each the turrets separated evenly by the superstructure consisting of two tripod masts. The ship you were filming was a Wyoming Class battleship easily identified by it's six two gun turrets (two fore, two center, two aft) with the towers separating the turrets into three sections. Then again, someone probably already mentioned (and Arizona was present in the final battle, so maybe you were just referring to the wrong clip? Arizona was the last one to go down for reference) this and the video was otherwise great.

It would be intressting to see how many reserve or br 1.0 planes it takes to destroy a Battleship

Thank you for doing my idea! I do feel that the destroyers did mess it up a little bit, but still good!

I suggest submarines vs aircraft carriers. The submarines will need skill to sink the CVs, the carrier/carriers will also need skill to launch and land craft seamlessly.

Thanks for this which as a navy player and knowing my ships and boats the result doesn't surprise me as the torps are meant for large capital ships.

Please Do more ship battles this was awesome

How to win: “Gunners are searching for surface targets.”

They could have won with two battleships if they had paid more attention to the small boats cause they can set there big guns to target the destroyers and manually use there secondary’s to kill the small boats since they probably have better aim then the AI which would have lead to then getting hit less by torpedos and thus giving them the chance they need to win But good job tho regardless

Not the Arizona it’s the Wyoming

That's why Battleships need screen ships

I really appreciate your content Always new and existing battles Keep up the good Work!

Baby sharks doo doo da doo... Would of been fun to see the aerial view from a plane

Splendacular video! Great work Muffin!!

the ship in the first battle is the Wyoming 12x 12" guns in 6 double turrets. the Arizona features 12x 14" guns in 4 triple turrets

ive been waiting for this

I been waiting for this video 😊

Battleship players didnt know how to use the ranging shot mode to fire individual main cannon rounds and also did not set secondaries and AA to AI control so they would fire independently. In addition they shouldve used airburst shells for the secondaries as their AOE damage could damage multiple small boats.

Whenever I get swarmed by the small torpedo boats in War Thunder. I usually just switch to the autocannons and aim them myself. And then do some drifting on the water to avoid the storm of torps.

Homie your video have had a massive glow up since earlier this year keep up the work

Nice vid !

Good job on the sound effects

If the "Battle Off Samar" is anything to go by then it takes a few tin can destroyers, a captain with tungsten testicles the size of a 1940's Buick, and a charge that'd make the Light Brigade go "Whoa now, that's a bit suicidal". Don't know about sinking but definitely made the Yamato flee in terror.

I can tell this will be a good one

THUNDER MUFFIN UPLOAD HYPE

6:10 I was honestly quite surprised I survived here.

Never realised how huge battleships are!

Should of had the Alaska with all the AA

If the muzzle blast of the main guns was modeled then those PT boats hugging the sides would get turned into mulchwood lol.

i love this

A smile comes to my face whenever you upload

I don't have the Arizona yet so I can't say for certain, but I know that on the Texas the best to use against ships smaller then a light cruiser are the high explosive shells from the main guns which glow red while in flight. The green which I saw from this video were armor piercing shells which are ok for destroyer, but mainly need to be used against cruisers or other battleships. Auxiliary guns can use either, but for gun boats high explosive are best since you only need to kill crew.

so cinematic !!!

Try Battleships with Destroyer support next time to see how that goes

3 Battle Ships vs 10 destroyer escorts and a few dive bombers

Now this is what you call an ASMR video

Hell yeah!

I think Round one would've been a bit more interesting if you'd used the Sevastopol (Parizhya Kommuna), heavy torpedo protection like the Arizona, but it also has a lot of 76, 37, and 12.7mm autocannons. Arizona has excellent torpedo bulges, but she's only got her 14-in, 5-in, and 3-in guns,

what a movie!!

Cool, maybe for future videos is swarm of small boats or ships against modern warships, or sort of ww2 battleships against modern warships, if ever happened, just curious about that

I like that at the first round you said the USS Arizona when it the USS North Dakota😂

“The iconic uss Arizona “ then this guy pulls up in a Wyoming class battleship

I wish gaijin will add newer battle ships like Yamato, Iowa, bismarck, king george V battle ships

I guess the problem with this is that the innovation of the dreadnought battleships was that they were designed to rely on a fleet to defend themselves against small boats

A good challenge to try would be to find what the largest vessel that land vehicles could reasonably damage and then do that vessel vs massed land vehicles.

good video

I really thought the Arizona would win in the beginning, and yes I'm saying that just because I'm from Arizona 😂 love the video tho

Nice naval battle

I'm the one who requested this!!!! Thanks muffin ❤️❤️❤️

This was a fun event. I could not hit a PT boat to save my life.

And the issue with battleships is that itll take so long for their guns to turn that motor topeeo ships cam easily evade

Gonna be honest if the first bb actually had it’s aux n secondary’s on to help fight they would have one cause in the end if multiple ships are near u the aux n secondary’s will target different ships so idk if it was set to not shoot ships on purpose but it seemed really unfair yes big bbs are deadly but against 45 with guns that take a bit to reload your at a disadvantage massively even against reaserve

I don’t play naval but this is pretty amazing

Was the first destroyer that made the mistake of trying to broadside the battleship

Next suggestion sir muffin 😅 battleship then swarm of torpedo planes

Did the battleship player have ai targeting on for naval targets? Didnt see the secondaries or aa go off

Did the challenge brief include that modern BB's were not allowed to use, or even manually aim their secondaries? I saw not a single machinegun bullet leave the scharn.

And this is why an entirely new class of ship was made to escort the battleships. Torpedo boat destroyers or just destroyers for short (sound familiar?) Wow.... who could have guessed just like real life... A mass of small, expendable units that hit hard out do the big expensive and slow stuff? (as much as i love heavy tanks and battleships) There's a reason torpedo boats brought about new classes of ships and why the advent of naval air power completely removed the relevance of others.

Now that all the april fools events vehicles are back, can you do a video of the Minotaur from Warfare 2077 against current top-tier and the FV4005? I need to see how effective that ablative and reactive armor really is, and how oppressive those fire-and-forget missiles are against tanks with poor APS

I'm surprised there weren't more schnell boats of the ls 3 variety.

3:42 bro just chilling

I bet my Andrea Doria would have done really good in this with all the auxiliary cannons.

Why does the audio cut out?

This video is basically the accurate representation ofthe sinking of the Austro-Hungarian capital ship at the end of ww1 done by Italian torpedo boats

what is the soundtrack in the video ( 4:40 ) thanks

If someone wants to known, the music at 12:21 Is "Titan" by Scott Buckley

I was hoping it was going to be the Yamato, Bismark, or Iowa class battleship. Do the next one with these three battleships.

actually, this is a real tactic for torpedo boats as they can use their numerical avantange to win. the thing that why the battleships eventually sank in that their gun reload is too slow and the small ships hitbox too small

If those small ships had missles they would be better.

That song in intro... anyone has a link or source?

This happened because the battleships can’t split fire secondaries if it could it would single target each with as secondary and kill all of them

What's the song at the beginning??

Hey Muffin. I would like to see in future naval videos a small information text Like "enemy pov" becouse In many moments packed with perspective changes and action I wasn't sure if Im looking at enemy reserve ship or at hight tier battleship. Cheers

I love your videos and I'm still a newbie By the way how did u level up so fast?

>"In the iconic USS Arizona Someone wanna tell him that's not the Arizona in the first round or the second? Finally did show up in the third, though.

Gonna be bias here but I’d place my bets on the British DreadNaught hands down

IMO, unless every turret can track a target and each barrel can be fired individually with its own elevation, this will never represent the true power of a battleship. You gotta remember there's a whole gun crew per barrel, and that is true for ALL the guns. So you need to give a lot of that ability to players playing these massive warships, otherwise it isn't fair or realistic at all.

I don’t know what’s goin on but the sound has been cut out for over half the video. Other that that, great video!

This is why you need torpedo boat destroyers.

Get dollarplays to do be the battleship player. Really great player for naval.

I’d like to see a Battleship group with destroyer and frigate escorts vs a massive torpedo and gun boat attack

In all honesty, in a real match, two to three. They can carry torpedoes, and they could sneak up on the big ship.

4:08 my turkish guy goin mad 💀

If i were in situation, id run to open waters and use 2nd guns instead of main gun..let main gun do its will since firing main will follow 2nd gun..and i noticed that the BB' s are parallel to each other should have a lead ship so both ships can see others side..

Kronshtadt, shanhorst and Alaska is a deadly team, becos they have good AA capabilities, faster reload and can eat multiple torpedoes.

Would LOVE to see a swarm of PR 1124 (without rockets) take on a flotilla of Japanese battle ships

make italian fleet vs british fleet !!

Whats the music you used?

Some light cruiser might do better cause rate of fire & many auxiliary guns