Is Kearsarge Worth Getting In 2024? 

BB hybrids printing so many planes is ridiculous enough, but the explanation given by WG for Halford is just plain hilarious: "only one aircraft will be launched from the catapult, which will be joined by the rest of the squadron, which is already in the air".

Hey PQ have you considered doing a begginer's tutorial series? Strategy, positioning, aiming, 3rd party mods, best ships for each play mode, etc. I think it would be very popular

You forgot to mention that the tumor is considered Hull and the only Superstructure are the little towers on top. Thats important as the huge easy to pen part of the ship doesnt saturate

I like the blurred chat :)

I'm kind of torn on the CV issue, like on one hand I miss the days of RTS CVs having limited planes, not being able to launch or recover planes when on fire, AA actually having teeth... but I don't miss CVs being able to cross drop you on their own and delete 12 man teams on their own.

Hybrid planes should be a limited consumable, like heals. The end. Why should they have 90% of the capability of a CV while also being a BB? They have a limited hangar space, it should be related in the game.

Hey PQ, would you consider making a unicum guide to positioning? I’ve found your other guides to be immensely useful in increasing my battle impact, but I honestly don’t know enough about positioning and can’t find any other good guides on youtube.

really a good start would be to make squadrons/planes a finite resource again like they were originally with rts carriers

This ship is very powerful, but the problem is the players who play it, similar to but not as bad as bad-Azuma/Yoshino players. But gunless Kearsarge parking behind most distant island is just guarantee team loss

PQ blurring the chat at 14:03 lmaoo

This ship makes no sense at T9 to be honest. It has the strength of a T10. Wait for Black Friday and get the black version of this ship. It then does not look as ugly lol.

I love this ship! Ist's awesome for several reasons from my 53%WR noob POV: -it's great for credit farming -while you turn out showing full broadside, somehow you are very hard to get hit into citadel even at close range. -the hangar tumor takes a lot of DMG, but you can always repair that. It's also great bait saving u from getting hit for higher DMG value. -you can shoot at DD, spot it w planes and shoot again if you keep your guns aimed or use "lock on bearing/sector" while turning. -it may save the game if your team looses means of detection like DDs or radar cruisers. -it can brawl other BBs in right situation, when there's a limited number of enemies firing at you like in ranked for example. But there are downsides: -when you turn in, you are gonna get smashed into citadel. -it's really looooong, hence not exactly nimble -secondaries are good perhaps only for psychological effect lmfao. They're so inaccurate, it doesn't make much sense to build into them even partially. Perhaps for ranked if u take CQB instead of PT to boost your reload on main guns inside secondary guns range. (God I wish they buff them!) -avoid SAP ships! All of them!

CV spotting on consoles works that the CV can see the enemy with their planes, and the rest of the team can see the enemy ship on the minimap but not on their screen, so the CV gives info to the team and the enemy ship isnt bullied back to port.

Somebody on the WoWS subreddit was comparing the Legend's CV changes to the PC ones and they are very, very different. If the Legends changes didn't work, or if they did work, it means essentially nothing to the PC changes.

Great review. Question do you have a review on basic setting for the game. Audio… graphics …. And sites. That help optimize the battles. Thanks.

This ship is very strong, but thankfully most people are TERRIBLE in hybrids, playing them like CVs, with little game impact. If someone is good it them though, they are OP.

Getting ready for my next coal ship once the coupon reset and I've been looking at this. On a bit of an USA BB craze with the tech tree and premiums so would be nice to add it. I always see it near the top of coal ship tier lists. That being said Iwami is looking very nice and I don't have any high tier premium Japanese BB's....

It was an honor to fight along your side PQ! I watch your videos everytime you post. (I was the Yamato that was on your flank in the second round.)

Thr CV rework isn't too bad. They've really just turned CVs into flying light cruisers. They have limited fuel on the planes and reduced bomb accuracy and fires chance across the board. I don't mind them having a bigger battle impact from damage because now they can't spot me in a DD for the enemy team 😂

Sarge is a game changer just for the planes. The guns hit hard for what I call the Kearsarge combo. Get a salvo ready…Line up the rocket planes in attack, quickly hit F , and you’ve just spotted for yourself for full 12 gun salvo of 16” fun. The ship is also pretty fast.

Finally, thank you pq❤

I think I have reload mod on mine at the moment, and ended up in a tier X/SS match the other day. I wasn't even in range of any of the cruisers, definitely highly recommend the range mod in case of uptiers, the stock range just can't compete with all the Wisconsin's that are about.

Also I think the tumours hitbox is considered hull rather than superstructure so there's much more damage saturation and acutally hitting the superstructure is very difficult.

In one of my myoko games i was matched into a tier 9 mm, i showed broadside to them planes and i lost 15k health.

So strong in ranked with that spotting. Had a few games where I'm a last man standing BB and DD doesn't get the danger. Launch, attack to trigger invincible spotting and nuke with HE. Kearsarges are why the sea is salty lol Took me some time to get the guns, but they're amazing. So many dev strikes with them.

Yes you should get Kearsarge. Easiest credit farming T9 Premium BB there is. 12 North Carolina guns with good firing angles would be enough to warrant a T9. The fact that it has planes to torture DDs who are spotting you is insane.

absolutly love this thing

Tbh, this should be PQ's favourite ship. Those rockets do 25k+ damage to broadside carrier basically every time. So if you don't like to abuse everything else, just use planes to remove CV

This is my 5th most played ship. Yesterday I had over 2200 baseXP with 2 Devstrikes and Confederate in arms race. Roon evaporated after AP salvo with 3 citadels, Asashio got 7 HE hits from 4km range. And I capped alone. Funny game. But at the beginning I had o a lot of troubles hitting with these floaty shells.

the best thing i love when playing this ship is bully sub if there is no cv on my team i usually has like 100k spotting dmg just by flying around

That camo is beautiful.

It would make more sense of the planes were a consumable, with say 3 charges?

Its one of the best. Recently took it for a spin in ranked with 6 pts commander and scored a 150k win.

it's just good, it's my first coal ship, and even as a new player, well, i just likes it and had a good time even with the god damn velocity of the mk6, wouldn't say it's the best ship for a new player to get the first coal ship though, the flight deck is a very big down side, don't go into a hybrid frenzy and buy it first, but if you're looking for a second one, especially if you played a mk6 or even want to train your American commander, this is the ship, assuming you don't have something more stronger like the ohio or wisconsin

13:40 Here's the thing PQ most CVs in game aren't even capable of launching the number of aircraft they really carried. Midway for example could carry a theoretical 137 aircraft often carried 100. Midway in game has a theoretical 30 rocket planes, 26 torpedo bombers, and 33 bombers, giving a total of 89 aircraft and that's assuming she starts to regenerate aircraft the exact moment battle begins, something CVs do not do. Those are stock numbers while also using stock rockets because they have the fastest recovery time, but are also still unrealistic plane numbers for how many a Midway will actually have in the run of a battle. I know what you're thinking, surely FDR with her absurd plane count is unrealistic right? Well... IRL FDR carried 131 aircraft, in game she gets 31 Rockets, 29 Torpedo Bombers, and 30 bombers, for a total of 90 aircraft. If anything for FDR to be realistic should be need 41 more aircraft available to her. There are some CVs that have slightly fudged numbers, like Essex, the Essex carried 90-100 aircraft in her hangar with room for ~20 more in parts, in game she has 27 torpedo bombers, 54 rockets and 48 bombers, for a total of 129 so when you consider she could carry aircraft on her deck, not a completely unrealistic number, though the Americans did never put that many eggs in one Essex shaped basket, doesn't mean she COULDN'T do it. If we start getting into arguments of "well with X commander skill/X upgrade CVs have an unrealistic number of planes!" then I'd have to get equally as strawman-ey. Des Moines auto loading 203mm guns has a rate of fire of 10 rounds per minute. Or in other words, she had a fixed 6 second reload, not 5.5 as we see in game. She also only had 150 rounds per gun in her magazine. So after 150 rounds Des Moines should be empty and have a slower reload with no way to modify it period. Yamato's 460mm guns could only achieve a 30 second reload while at a loading angle of +3 degrees, however that would make her firing range only 6km, to reach an optimal 41 degree firing angle after loading the guns, would add an extra 11 seconds to the reload. So not only should Yamato's reload change with her range, on average it should be 35 seconds with the only way to lower the reload being to lower the range of that shot. Elevating the guns should also take considerably more time than it does now. Richelieu's 380mm guns rate of fire was very much hampered by the slow rate her hoists could deliver the projectiles, leading to gunnery trials in 1940 she could achieve no more than 1.33 rounds per minute or a rough 45 second reload. "French Battleships: 1922 - 1956" states that in July 1940 "it took fifteen minutes to bring up a charge from the magazines to the guns, so the ship was realistically capable of firing only two initial four-gun salvos before her big guns fell silent." during the attacks on Dakar in September 1940 she was only able to fire a salvo every two minutes, or in other words had a rate of fire of 120 seconds per salvo. Even by POST war configurations she could only manage a 32 second reload. So her in game 30 second reload is unrealistic. Don't even get me started on Jean Bart's reload and reload booster. King George V's 356mm guns hate a rate of fire of 2 rounds per minute. So a 30 second reload, making her 25 second reload in game fully unrealistic. Also don't even get me started on torpedo reloads. Very few ships carried a reload of their torpedoes and there is no ship could ever reload their torpedoes in 8 seconds like a torpedo reload booster allows. Now with Kearsarge she does have MAYBE to many aircraft as she has a total of 50 stock, and her design specs says she held 36 planes, but those were interwar planes, not the F8F Bearcat she has in game. The F8F giving her the ability to hold more because they had folding wings. Keep in mind Kearsarge is a massive ship, only slightly smaller than GK. She has hangar space for a fair few aircraft and it's not totally inconceivable that she could have 50 F8F Bearcat. All that said, I'm not saying aircraft are fine in game, and honestly they could do with some tweaking, but if you are going to complain about the NUMBER of aircraft CVs have, maybe at least understand how many aircraft a CV had first, and be very careful about asking for realism. Let's not forget, real life BBs had a roughly 30% accuracy on a moving target the size of a battleship at 14km. The ranges we play at with top tier would be almost single digits of accuracy. I also feel it should be noted, Kearsarge has a lower average damage, and lower win rate than many T9 BBs, like Muashi, Bajie, Illinois, Daisen, and Jean Bart. She's powerful but she's far from even being the strongest T9 BB even with being a hybrid. (WoWs Numbers NA top 5%)

Chikuma II please! It was a FOMO gambling ship that I got unexpectedly out of a free box and I've been very much enjoying it due to sheer utility (#10)

I really liked the ship when I got her. But had to exchange her in the first trade-in event. I do miss her but with my luck I would just pull her form the Black Friday Containers after rebuying her for coal. The planes are unfair and 12 guns is very good damage. Even without the planes I would say Kearsarge is worth it.

Kearsarge is one of my favourite premium ships and my main credit farmer. ❤

can you try dalian, i love seeing kearsarge as dalian

The real question is whether a CV or a standard BB has more battle impact or fun. I’d say both standard CVs and BBs do a better job for the tasks required. As for fun, that’s YMMV. Personally, ruining other people’s day is just as important as winning in a PvP game. Whatever you play best is always the best tool for the job, regardless of meta. Subs, CVs, and hybrids aren’t going away, and crying over it has yet to win a single match.

"Hey guys....." I was almost expecting a CHRIS FIX HERE after.

bb positioning guide plz

Are you doing maro polo next?

Someone knows which is the mod that tells a ship top speed? I used to have it but lost it and i don't remember the name

I hears you comment about planes in the air. I am currious about how you liked the game when it first started when you could fly multiple squardrons at a time and stack the planes or cross drop ships. When you could and did one shot ships at the start of a match? Like real naval battles are. I'd also like to say that the Hybrid battleships don't have planes any time. The "reload" time is pretty long. If you want f'd up and game breaking lets talk about subs. Enjoy your content but I was currious.

Is there a ship you don't play well, My goodness! Thank you PQ, I bet what you call videos not suitable for upload to YT are games we all wish we could get one day. lol Thank you PQ!.

I built a little bit into secondaries on this ship just to push DD players back a little.

Kearsarge looks like she can lock down a flank, defend like a boss.

The thing is carriers are so unbalanced that any rework is going to either nerf them so much that CV players moan their heads off or be ineffective. One thing they could do though as you say is go back to finite numbers of planes on a CV... Hybrids are ridiculous.

Asked AI to generate a ballad for hybrid ships lol: In the world of warships, hybrids take the stage, With guns and planes, they turn a new page. Not just a ship, but a floating airbase, Ready for battle in this naval race. Oh, hybrid ships, a marvel so rare, With cannons and aircraft, you’re a force to beware. Sailing and flying, in a crazy twist, In this game of tactics, you top the list! One minute launching shells, the next launching planes, With torpedoes and bombs, causing watery pains. From the mighty Ise to the bold Kaga, You’re the multitasking champs, full of bravado! Oh, hybrid ships, a marvel so rare, With cannons and aircraft, you’re a force to beware. Sailing and flying, in a crazy twist, In this game of tactics, you top the list! Surface ships they fear, when you’re on the scene, Blasting from afar, or air raids so mean. Sneaky subs and destroyers, you’re always alert, Switching roles so smoothly, never getting hurt! Hybrid ships, you’re the jack of all trades, Sailing with grace while aerial power cascades. Whether it’s dodging shells or planes taking flight, In this hybrid chaos, you’re the star of the night! Oh, hybrid ships, a marvel so rare, With cannons and aircraft, you’re a force to beware. Sailing and flying, in a crazy twist, In this game of tactics, you top the list! So here’s to hybrids, with skills that amaze, Navigating seas and skies, you’ll always daze. In World of Warships, you lead the charge, With your multi-role flair, you’re always in charge!

How do you make your plane's attack circle so small?

I know its op, but I just hate playing this thing I don't regret trading it in for Sandy

When is the next blackfriday? Cant wait for the black kear.

Carriers are still pretty low impact after the change on legends. No plane spotting is as good as it sounds.

As tier to tier Is Louisiana better than kearsarge?

The planes are not as strong as they used to. They used to hit harder and more importantly, the used to fire their rockets WAY faster, after you initiated the attack run, making it way easier to hit DD's.

I still see so many Kearsarge players hiding at the back behind an island thinking they are a CV. So sad !

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asking pq to play mahan as gunboat

Well, there's your alt account name: "Monarch Molester".

Received this one for free during last x-mas period..I do not really play this that much, to be honest..

nothing is worse than getting GB'd by a div of 3 Kearsage focusing one ship at a time. Was in a clauswitz and died in first 3 minutes of game

what did he say to deserve blacklist ?? 14:49

we need more MAINEEE

Day 17 of asking PQ to play the finest Russian BB admiral ushakov with meme lord kuznetsov

Day 2 of asking for 155 Mogami secondary build

WG gave this ship Montana hull and guns ( a little worse but still 12 406mm guns) then slap attack aircraft which could spot and deal consistent damage regardless of distance or angle. All those advantages could put her in supership tier but WG puts her at tier9 instead Fighting this thing as a tier7 ship is just unfair

Got it 3 times and sold it 3 times already. It's Just too ugly to stand it. 😅

main reason why I don’t want this ship. Just spotting dds just ruins their fun entirely.

Is Kearsarge worth it? Fuck yeah it is. I have no idea how this thing is still available, especially for coal.

Being able to spot for yourself and lay heavy salvos down range is a broken design.

12, 406 guns and a billion rocketplanes what could go wrong? Seeing how much damage you do with this thing i wonder how people who play this ship are usually so dogshit useless.

Slap on the American Flag skin, Use Rattlehead Captain, it basically belongs in Team America World Police lol

Woow this much firepower and yet havnt seen a single one doing much as you do 😢

That ship is so ugly it makes me want to play with my eyes closed.

Day 46 of asking PQ to play on Helena

Beginning is paid actors istg

2:08 "I am of the opinion that the war is worse when there are planes and subs in the battle" ~ Winston Churchill probably. Its World of WARSHIPS PQ, not World of Ships-With-Guns.

Won this at Christmas, played it once.

How could CV (which are categorically broken) + a BB be anything other than too strong?

No, no CV or pseudo-CV is ever worth getting. Or subs. Easy! (My CV hatred aside, keep up the good work mate)

Seems like the most obvious way to treat the hybrids is limit the number of flights. Something like 4 flights would have an impact but not THAT much of a ridiculous impact.

They just need to give the community a no carriers and subs tick box. If you have to wait, you have to wait. No crazy rework needed and everyone is happy.

Imagine if they gave the Tiny Tims SAP warheads, like they’re supposed to have

No. Don’t get any ship. Play a different game. Get WG to lower the price of their ships. $50 is insane!

Dude, carriers back then carried between 80 and 140 planes... The big one nowadays can sometimes carry close to 200. We have squadrons of what? Max. 8 in the game? We dont even reach the numbers in game what real world CVs carry around when we count every plane in the game we send and lose... Then theres the recovery from sending them back etc. Just straight up BS you talking.

After 10 seconds in my answer would be hell no brother

Only fools fight fair.

I hope PQ washed his hands after playing this filth.

HELL NO!! These ships are sci-fi fantasy never existed bullshit.

Short answer; no, it's a carrier. Don't feed the toxic play environment!

No views in 1 minute bro fell off