Gouden Leeuw Legendary Upgrade Is Crazy Powerful & Update 13.0 Overview 

Wargaming says this is the way to gain access to research bureau: "Any player with five unlocked tech tree Tier X ships is fully qualified. Obtaining Research Points in other ways, e.g. through Dockyard events or Battle Performance Bonuses, partially qualifies the player for the Research Bureau." Partial qualification means: "Simply earning Research Points unlocks the ability to spend them - that is, the Research Bureau page in the Armory. See below. A partially qualified player does not receive a bonus, nor can they reset lines. "

Oh so THATS why I am seeing these goddam things everywhere, constantly dropping airmail on me!!

As a gouden leeuw enjoyer, it does me good to see her becoming more popular Edit: today also got the leg mod, and yeah it's definitely a solid upgrade

giving up the reload mod is totally worth it. petro camps on island, one airstrike to set like 2-3 fires, activates damage control, have fun with 4 permafires

Don't forget, players have different Battle Pass progressions. PQ has the Yorktown as his premium bonus. My premium bonus is the Des Moines camo and the Yorktown is my level 20 premium reward.

Perfect vid I was looking for

Interesting; perhaps now with the UU it might end up being quite good in clan battles. Being able to bypass islands would be really good for smoking out hidden radar cruisers, both outranging them and not needing to worry about poor RNG with drops - it would even be good at blind guessing where they are, without having to wait an ungodly time till the next shot. CB's are fairly predictable when it comes to placement of radar cruisers so educated guesses galore.

great review!

I originally got my access to Research Points through a dockyard event but was only able to add to my RP stash once I had 5 tech tree lines fully researched

With its legendary upgrade, it has become a complete damage machine.

This was the first cruiser line I played since I enjoyed the airstrikes, but tech tree ships (too expensive) made me stop playing it once I gotten plenty of special ships. This upgrade caught my eye and I was wondering how it would perform, but seeing this, looks like I'm certainly getting it. Need to finish getting to my harugumo reset though.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the Elbing LM, as I think it also came with this update and seems to make massive improvements from what I recall.

That's insane!

Holy shit. I need to try this line.

Yup, I was cycling through BB's yesterday, and on one of the tier 8's. I in what felt like 5 airstrikes at 10 of 15 second intervals had me obliterated in about 30 seconds. I mean I only got off 1 volley from my main guns. At the time I didn't know about this Legendary Mod... I was speechless.

Any chance you could show off any lower tier ships? Like realy low tier? (4 5 6 7) ? I just got into the game and slowly grinding my way throu it but there is never anything on how to play those ships

Any chance we could get a Wooster video? I've been having a lot of fun in mine lately. Loved the video as always!!!

Gouden's already one of my favorite cruisers. In Top 3 definetly. I feel like they are being slept on for some reason. Now with this legmod she is more of a menace to enemy than before man. Looks like the legmod worth is for a fun play.

Nice! I love this ship but the airstrikes take forever

Insane! ❤ I love this Ship

I wish airstrike upgrade was in the 3rd slot instead of the 4th to be honest. Giving up propulsion upgrade on the airstrike build is a bigger trade off than giving up reload/range because Gouden feels like a brick without it lol

I bought this mod and installed it last night and boi did I have some ringers. This mod is perfect for a ship that was an underperformer prior.

The fact that you basically got Vermont reload on these is wild

Seen a Reddit post about a triple div mauling everyone with drops. Now I know why lol. Great Vid as usual PQ

Got lucky... my first pack was the rhode island! So just 2000 dubs :D

Ah yes, my favorite CV: Gouden Leeuw.

Scary ship!

Should give Elbing a try too. Seems like a huge improvement.

" My Siegfried is on FIREEEEEEE.... My Siegfried is on FIREEEEEEE.... 🎶🎶

Bro you should make a video about what order to add what skill points at each class. For the commanders.

Damn you now ill need to reset a some lines today I am getting this.

replayed that 28k moment four or five times lol, it was beautiful

Man, now I am tempted to buy these Dutch cruisers even though if I am an average player.

Anyone have an issue in 13.0 where the dockyard event isn’t in port?

Question. Secondaries can be destroyed/incapacitated. Main batteries can be destroyed/incapacitated. Torpedo tubes can be destroyed/incapacitated, on surface ships at least, unsure about water turds as don’t play them. Can these air assaults that aren’t manually controlled (hybrids, CV’s, etc) able to be destroyed/incapacitated? From memory, I don’t think so. Balanced?

Insane

goeden lieuw, as a dutchie I love your pronunciation :P

Possible tier list video idea; Unique upgrade tier list!

My battle pass did not give carrier till the end at start it had desmoine permanent camo I've already got (eu)

Only 1200 steel in the entire pass is a hard nerf. They usualy gave 3300 instead (with some of that being in the payed track). While they reduced the requirements to gain progress they now nerfed the rewards aswell. Feels bad man

This is probably the first leg mod I have seen that I "have" to have. I do enjoy Gouden but it was just missing a lot of things. I do wonder, as a non-meme ship, would it be good for competitive? Hydro, quick heal, decent armor, decent fire chance, and now the bombs are nuts? Edit, about RB, you dont have to buy or play the ships until you are ready. I currently have a x17 on my ship line. Just use free exp to unlock the whole line (dont buy the ships), build up multipliers, then you only have to buy the ship once and play one game in the ship to get the RB points on that ship.

Screams oh god the ships on fire in German chieftain

Nuts, now everyone knows the secret! :)

Ship request- leg mod elbing!

as a dutchy, im kinda happy about the ''cheesy'' buff

Great boat to run during a CV patch

PQ can you go into a training-room and test out these airstrikes? I'd like to know how good they currently are at oneshotting things

Hey PQ I wanted too ask, I have the leg mod for this ship also, and our builds are very similar, my question is I am at best only getting 18k bomb damage against british and french battle ships, yet I have seen you get 25k and 28k on different salvos, am I missing something, I even went in a training room I cannot get over 20k damage and the most bombs landed was 12?

So basically, Golden Lewd's legendary upgrade is just bringing back the pre-release version of her? 3 airstrike that can be dropped in quick succession. I remember that poor Alaska from that early review video.

thought you were gonna show the 320k game you had

Take it to a training room to see if you can one shot the Devastation?

finally!!!

For me Goudrn Leew is a really comfortable ship for me. It doesn't mean I will make massive damages, but it gives me a really high solo WR. it has great AA, meaning you can position yourself wherever you are without fearing that CV will delete you fast. Any sane CV player will try to avoid Gouden in the first place. It can farm people hiding behind the island with airstrike. It deals massive side damage from fire since both airstrike and main gun have insanely good fire chance. It has comfortable consumables: Hydro, DfAA, and Repair Party. BB fire/flood duration is not a massive problem since it is hiding behind island for most of the time. Even if you need to brawl, fast repair party reload is helping. Its only downside is against submarine, you cannot do anything to submarine hunting you with deep charges.

what i hate more with the "new" battle pass is that free player get one less port slot too, before it was 3 slot now only 2 and 2 other if you pay 3k duub ( sure there is some other stuff but at 600 duub for 2 port slot not sure there is something for 2.4k dub

If you can get a CV game on Two Brothers, you know what you must do. This ship farms AA Experts like you would not believe on that map. Most CVs can't resist dropping a ship in the middle all game, and the GL eats planes for breakfast.

"What have they unleashed on the world" Triple-legmod-Leeuw div incoming :P

When I researched 5 tier 10 ships I received 10,000 research points and access to research bureau.

So basically a T10 De Zeven

OK. gonna try 3 LegMod Gouden division after this

Dutch Jihad lets go!!!!!

This is my favorite ship. I still don’t have 5 tier 10s so I don’t have any of the special upgrades. Oh well

Watch them announce the super Gouden Leeuw who has this UU as standard within a year.

You smoked that Demoines Gouda with that cheesy mechanic....

I got the Rhode Island for 2k. Are the secondaries good?

Don't have the Druid? Missing out. Fun DD

Let’s see if the Leg Mod gets nerfed later. I feel like the Petro Leg Mod got nerfed. Not getting the Cits I used to get.

PQ: “CVs are bad for the game and air power is bad in this naval game” Also PQ:

Gouden Main here...I love this ship even more than I already did. I just wish IFHE would apply to the bombs. I'd trade off my fire chance for that any and everyday

You can just nuke an entire smoke cloud. Insane.

A way to counter planes Is add more planes

This “good and lover” looks alright😅

Love your stuff PQ, but you need to know this basic stuff like how to unlock Research Bureau as standard for when doing videos discussing it. The ingame HUD shows nothing about it, I remember watching all these videos about Vampire 2 when I started playing again, and no one discussed how to get Research Bureau. I couldn’t even find much about it on RU-vid. Eventually found an article somewhere, probably Reddit and then did my 5 T10’s grind. There is a lot of stuff hidden or hard to find, such as how to unlock unique commanders for some nations. What collections are good to grind through, etc.

So this is interesting. Your instant unlock for the paid battle pass line is the Yorktown and final reward is the DM camo. Mine was the opposite with the DM camo as the instant unlock and Yorktown as final reward. Is it possible they are tweaking things depending on user?!?! I’m guessing you don’t have a lot of CVs so they put it at the Yorktown at the beginning. On the other hand, I have a lot of CVs (don’t like them, don’t play them) they may think I’m interested in CVs given how many I have, and therefore placed the Yorktown at the end of my BP… PQ, do you think something shady is going on here????

hey cheesy and dutch go hand in hand

Imagine if it also gave +1mm penetration to the bombs 😅

14 fires, thats more than a Conqueror would get in a game using HE all the way through

A Des Moines sitting by the B Cap when a enemy is capping and hes NOT radaring?! Are there only bots on NA?!

Like in the meme "ITS FINE"

This line has always been dependent on the airstrikes to get consistent results IMO so this UU plays right into the strength of the line. I haven't really bothered much with any of the UUs but this one might be worth a look. Also - not gonna bother with either the Rhode Island gamble box crap nor the battle pass this patch. TBH, there is almost nothing in 13.0 that interests me; IMO it is one of the weaker patches we have had recently.

Saw a div of 3 f These things with legendary mods. So over powerd

Goulden Leeuw and Elbing leg mods are both pure buffs. Elbing leg mod removes both reasons Elbing is awkward to play and GL leg mod gives 50% more damage output on airstrikes at the cost of barely noticeably worse gunpower.

The Christmas battlepass was actually really good value IMO, so much that it was worth buying into the "premium" line, or whatever it's called. I know it was a holiday event, so they were being extra nice, but even so, this next battlepass is really disappointing in comparison.

"Miscommunication comrade. When we said we would be addressing your complaints about 'gamble-box' events we meant we'd be rolling out the new concept of gamble-box events for Tech-Tree ships."

This upgrade is so strong that it makes GL without it redundant...

Lol I was yelling at the end, drop the bombs because of the points haha

As for the battlepass, I dont think, that I buy me one this update. Usually you get 2800 steel during the pass time and a lot of coal after the end of it for each stage... it's definitely not worth it now. Completely nerfed, but that was expected. Who thinks, WeeGee gives you more stuff than needed, is pretty naive or dumb. So a nerf was suposed to happen. Also I got all ships I need and all resources for my gaming life in WoWS

Lmao the icon for the leg mod is literally a fucking telephone 😂😂😂

It's not inflation that raised the battle pass cost, its greedflation that increased the battle pass cost

As a dutchman i love how you screw up its name love it :) You can use the gouda (gou) to pronoce it better then you do now! love the vids btw ,great help for tips and what ships to choose and what not. Keep up the good work m8.

I was buying battle pass more for coal and steel, but now it became more expansive with less resourses and with harder progression (more focused on everyday playing in contrast with previous system where you could do a progress with weekly missions). Now i probably wont buy it anymore

No more battle pass for me. The rewards such as steel ( a joke ), zero research bureau points, economic bonus and flags have been getting fewer and fewer , along with the increase in cost equals to me keeping my money and no more battle pass. I now play with what I have or don't have with economic bonus, flags etc.. Never spent any money on the bundles over Christmas. Thanks as always for your review and view.

I've just started grinding the golden line, perfect 👀

elbing next please

In WoWS 2024 we’ll all be ”lol the guy DCP:ed a triple fire what a noob”

NA is such a mess at this point. Now that we have API again, we also get to see through games played per day that bot pop is like 10%, too.

Gouda = cheesey

It's almost like server population reflects the current state of the game.

You have an evil laugh 😅

Come visit my Halland with 20+ legendary J. Swirski. Oh nm I'll set up an AA dd and top it off with signals and never see any air to fight. Facts.

Keeping Early Access ships in that state to bank as much money from it before making them free to play.