Illinois Is So Much Fun! 

As someone who lives in Illinois, this is the first time anyone has ever used "Fun" and "Illinois" in the same sentence.

the captains all went out to dinner and left their ships alone. the Monty looked over at the Des Moines and she smiled back. 9 months later and we have their shiny new baby, the Illinois, and now we get to watch her grow up......

I wish there was an option to try out ships before purchasing them. It would help a lot with expensive (ressource) ships

People don't generally consider accuracy mods to be "extra dpm", but you could consider consistently landing more shells to be an increase in dpm.

If only this had been the new American BB Tech Tree line instead of hybrid BBs. A T8 Norcal hull with 12 Mk15s (Buffallo guns), Illinois and then a T10 Monty hull with 16 Mk16s.

PQ you can actually reset the line, use free-XP to free-XP the line, reset again, use free-XP again to free-XP the line and play in co-op. What i want to say is you can stack the researchpoints bonus so you will end up saving a lot on credits.

I have heard a lot of people with buyer's remorse regarding Illinois. Remember, PQ liking it and doing well in it doesn't mean anything but that. Your experience may be way different. I haven't played the Illinois but I have played against it and my impression is that Illinois has weak armor and will get clapped bow in against BB. It's not that tanky.

Picked up Illinois yesterday - its a lot of fun. I play it like my venezia, similar to how it was played in the video. I definitely prefer the dispersion mod in slot 6 over the reload mod. Seems like I'm landing a lot more shells with that mod.

2:09 watch as the airstrikes fail to do anything to the submarine, followed the the Stalingrad losing half his health to undodgeable conga-line torps. So fun and engaging.

I got mine yesterday. And I agree its loads of fun. It is an Americanized version of the German Mecklenburg. The Reaload is more like Buffalo not Des Moines and they work great.

Best videos to watch during ramadan 🔥

You should consider brisk for your commander skills, combined with speed flag and you’ll go 37.5 knots when undetected (unlike Iowa/Missouri with 38.1knots because of different base speed).

This ship on console will be bonkers. Brawler -10% reload. Luigi inspiration-6% reload. Epic reload mod -35(with 5 stacks) Oh man oh man, i cant wait to get this ship there.

Once you get used to it's easy to consistently hit ships at long ranges in Illinois, however in cr-ap dispersion ships like Ohio that really becomes difficult.

I think the Illinois is the "Little battleship that could"....it's a ship that has guns that don't make other BB's fear her getting citadels on them, but she will absolutely farm damage off them like it was going out of style.

I am looking into a specialized build captain just for Illinois - trying to build a supercruiser. Going rudder and reload mod, captain with vigilance, extended range secondaries but no manuals, dropping the heal buff, looking to help her bad torp protection and low pool with better detection and wiggle. So far - I like it. CQC and you are at 7.1s reload on mains, only gets better with AR...

it's a scary ship, sorta like a desi, only far scarier because it's not as easy to sink. ran into one yesterday in my thunderer. beat it down because i played islands and spotting better then he did. but man was he a scary beast to fight. in the hands of a better player that fight would have went the other way.

Illinois is one of my favorite ship. very fun to play and easy credits farming.

I am now regretting buying the Gibraltar a few weeks ago, if I would of know this was coming I would of waited for sure, guess I gotta start grinding lines again, I have already done the harugumo line 51 times. Imagine this ship with halsey on and that game mode arm s race this ship will be insane.

I got mine today. 51K RP is more than other T9 ships there, but as only BB its expected. I was reseting US CL line, as I played them sooner for research points purpose without free xp use much. But lately I avoided playing Seattle and Worcester, I simply free xped line to get RP for Illinois. I am going reset Harugumo line next time, saving resources used is fine. I already have Ohio, Siegfried, so this "hybrid" BB was next logical step for me. I played Illinois just few ranked and focused on HE, so results were not great. Also main armament mod 1 is a must, although turret barbettes are pretty thick (I was worried it would get DM armor there), turrets themselves get incapacitated easily. Also concealment on captain looks usefull, that I have to reset. Thanks for tips on build, already looking to update my Illinois setup and try harder get better results. 321K with T9, WOW, that means the ship is capable, then its just on player and luck.

i love how "duty calls" starts playing as he brawls the Bismark

extra heavy AP and range mod wow , and xtra HE as well, wow ,love it, no body like to burn lol

Can't wait for your Ranked Illinois Video

The bane of Illinois are particularly Russian DDs that can shoot accurately at longer ranges while Illinois cant. Another problem is if you find yourself to be the only BB on the flank then you can't perform standard BB role which is deleting other ships.

Man i really love this ship. Its so fun and good. Still Subs and Carriers are plague. But its really just a different experience.

I had been thinking about getting either the Vampire II or the Hector, but I did´t feel like doing the re-grind again. I already have the Ohio and Druid. But as soon as I saw videos on this ship, I reset my Gummo line right away! I´m only 26,000 research points from the Illinois.

I wish the Florida had this reload :D Really like the Ribbons design you are using.

Great video and thanks for the lol'info. Gotta have this ship.

Just bought one tonight. About as much fun as you can have with your pants on.

She seems like a good and fun ship.

Yes it is, I get over 2 mill potential damage every game in it.

Bought her recently, she has a huge potential, but i still have to get used to her main battery gun angles/speed.

that reload time is pretty crazy

This ship is cool.its a cross between cruiser dpm with battleship armor .it's a bb captiains dream. Lol hopefully it comes to wows legends on console

Not Illinois related but, how do you still have the larger minimap mod working? ModStation and Aslains say that it is not available this patch so I'm curious if there is a backdoor way to make it work.

Just got Illinois as my second RB ship and I have to say that she is well worth the RB points!!

1500 pts left and this beauty is mine , i can't wait !!!!!!

your makeing me want illinois

got 2 double strikes in this thing yesterday, in the same game lol

Question are those turrets the same as Annapolis guns?

Come on guys! Everyone keeps saying that those are DM guns! They aren't! They're Buffalo/Baltimore guns

Taking the american arty plotting room can significantly increase your shell dispersion so imo i wouldn't take it

How did u got that angle indicator in the bottom left ?

is this going to be a premium or is this a research/steel/coal ship?

Illinois and Halsey sounds like a decent combo

If you reset any line, do not play it! Research the line with free xp and then reset it a few times without purchasing the ships. This will save you 100's of millions of in game cash.

illinois is basically a super heavy cruiser

This ship, along with the new hybrid BBs are REALLY bad for the game.

You should rank the Nations. If you could only play one nation which would it be?

Dude What in god's sake is that fucking ship 💀

Does the ship have improve pen angle like Des Moines??

What mod is this for the crosshair

7 FIRES IN LESS THAN 8 MINUTES !!!

It also looks like you really strip the AA and secondary guns off people.

I did x2 research points Italian criusers and just Venezia left to play and I will get all together 67k research points and....OHIO or Illinois hard choice for me hehe.

i need this ship

Nice why not give it 15 km torps lol :)

Alright! Send it to console immediately 😁

I'm shocked that this is a tier 9!

crazy to think its a tier 9

The ship is overpowered and destroys the balance of a game..

The camera angles on pc make ships look way longer and skinnier. Compared to console version.

1 dd per side game oh my. 5 per side is very common on na when i play so no wonder you can farm like this.

So for those that have experienced both, which would you choose, Ohio or Illinois?

it should have Montana guns!

203 Montana next?

Cruiser guns on a Battleship would seem to make it difficult to damage a Battleship if this were a real fight wouldn't it?

You know it makes me kinda sad tho. Historically, this alternate design would’ve also had a redesigned superstructure with stronger AA and 36 dual purpose 127mm secondaries (18 twin turrets). It could’ve had a hilarious amount of, say, Massachusetts secondaries, but no, making a whole new superstructure for an already existing ship model was clearly too much work for WG.

When you get to play PQ for the first time and your team is so terrible is lasts 6 minutes

Accuracy mod is better in my opinion as the dispersion without it is way too bad!

still upset the name is wrong, this project was SPECIFICALLY designed for the US BB-66 Hull “Kentucky”

51K means one line regrind will not be enough, that gets me to only 47K :(

Not using RB points on a Tier IX

Great, cant wait for WG to make her, you know, not fun

So an HE spammer that's harder to kill. Seems fun to play against. And honestly there wasn't enough HE spam in the game already so the ship was sorely needed.

Just had a game with my tier 9 Black that had 3 hybrid CVS and a normal one on the enemy team.. Was bombed to oblivion as two of the Nebraska's were in same squad

Love your in-depth content, and im a huge fan. Can you please comment on this ship? is it still worth the investment? thank you in advance.

What bothers me about this ship is that the Superstructure doesn't look like it should, like why does it still have the raise fire control position which isn't present on the design? why does it have the two smoke funnels of Iowa and not the single trunked funnel from the proposal? why does it just have the 10 twin 5"/38 mounts instead of 16 twin 5"/54 mounts? The answer is laziness, or at least I wish I could say that but they made the effort to add the weird looking aft radar tower, which is also not present in design G (which Illinois is based of since Design G is the proposal with 3 turrets as opposed to F with 2 turrets and H with 4 turrets). I suppose that is an attempt to avoid claims of it being a complete and total copy-paste with swapped guns.

Had 80k rb points hanging around so I got it last night. I went range over reload. while it's only 1 point I wonder why you took shell switching. With a 7 second and lower reload, why would you need it. Also, torps are the bane of bb's so I almost always take torp damage reduction. My one and only game in the ill was not good at all. Subs...

I can't get it

another OP ship ..sigh

This thing is kinda op....Probably win all fights again most t9 cruisers and BBs....HE is way too strong. Burns alaska like BBQ... and It is not like AP is bad...AP is good too. I won't be supurised that they nerf the reload..

Well, do we need more HE-spamming? WG thinks so...

I haven't played the game in about a year, and for the first time I see a mildly interesting new ship .... aaaand its a Research Bureau ship. And there hasn't been a good new coal ship in eons. This game has gotten so stale man.

This looks like more of my playstyle but I Uninstaller months ago. Watching PQ is more entertaining than playing the game for me lol. No time for it these days anyway.

everyone keeps shitting on the Illinois for its dispersion, yet every video I am seeing a shit ton of hits, and that reload pretty much more than makes up for the dispersion of the 12 main cannons...lol...12 with what 7-8 second reload timer?

The dispersion is disgusting …

Stop praising it so hard! I don’t have time to grind it :,(

Needs radar.

Just wondering...does every World of Warships streamer have that same annoying ah ha ha ha laugh? I know there are like 5 of you streaming and posting to RU-vid that do it when you think something is cute....or are you all just annoying AI chat bots? :P

oh wow, how amazing. Yet ANOTHER HE spammer. Just what the game needs, more HE spammers.

Stealing the joy of going forward in a battle. YOu just staying bfhind and island shooting HE every 5 secs,, Another WG broken ship.

It is just plain bad. Playing like a cruiser behind an island wastes a BB. Any US cruiser would do the same.

I hope they nerf this to oblivion. Seriously. I mean this thing has all the benefits of the cruiser class, combined with the benefits of the battleship class, with none of the drawbacks. Oh and it's only for the L33T players who have tons of research points. So doubly unfair for 95% of the player base who can't no-life this game.

Clearly you have listen to Chef John you sound exactly like him

akous kota?