Kremlin - Ranked Terror 

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WG-Devs watching this video: "This is frightening. Igor look at this, we have to buff the Kremlin turrets. They clearly break too fast."

The Russian Navy in this game is really good for a Navy that never really existed until the 50s.

"Let's put the best shell ellipse and the best armor scheme on the same ship, and then give it nearly best in class gun caliber and speed, what could possibly go wrong?"

You can tell its a paper ship. with such a low freeboard it would have been an absolutely awful wet bathtub of misery in heavy seas. But thats not a consideration for a game.

The Kremlin isn't a battleship at this point, it's more of a star destroyer honestly.

“No cruisers can tank you except Moskva’s and Stalingrad’s.” Noticing a trend?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="480">8:00</a> The hand of Stalin shall personally block any torpedo that dare to approach the mighty Kremlin

"Poor long range dispersion btw" *Precede to land 8/9 shells on the Montana 19.4 km away

i protecc.

Finally this guy starts to mention how low this ship sits above the water. Also the super angled broadside armor.

Stopped playing a while ago. I am just here for the "hello, hello everyone".

I’m surprised they didn’t call the ship “Balans”

I knew it, Kremlin definitely need a buff. See? Flamu lost a turret! Litteraly unplayable.

can we all just take a second and laugh at the enemy kremlin for running survivability expert, apparently the highest health pool in the game isn't enough for him

honestly it's sad to see the only "competitive" ships in game are only soviet ships.

WG prides itself on modeling ships to historic documents to retain "realism". I wondered if they knew if Stalin wasn't shown fantasy/impossible technical drawings by the Soviet naval design bureaus that they would likely be shipped off to the Gulag or just flat out executed.

"Kremlin - Ranked Terror" Wargaming's dream since the beggining of this game, that was their main goal, like in WOT, i still wonder why Flamu keeps covering this game

I found the conqueror to be quite effective at farming nose in kremlins

"Where's the citadel?" "What citadel?"

WoWS: The thinking man's game Thinking about what to have for lunch later I bet.

I absolutely love the understanding and honesty you deliver to the community. Thank you very much for the time and effort you put into your videos and streams. If people would listen to your advice it will help general game play across-the-board.

No bias here, I was in a yammy sent 9 shells at a full broadside kremlin and got 4 k damage.... spreadsheet says it’s fine

That Monty was secretly a WG dev and him not taking any citadels and breaking your turret is a strawman when people will complain about the Kremlin 😁

What i'm hearing is "the best...." "the best...." " the best...." yeah we know, that ship best at everything Edit :just realise my profile is kuznetsov... AHAHA GO RUSSIAN BIAS

Your'e drinking the Kool-Aid again Flamu, it's obvious to everyone this ship is in dire need of a buff.

As someone whose only tier ten is a zaõ, so this thing us the bane of my existence. My he does nothing when I hit him at range, and he lasers me down and blows me out of the water with his "poor dispersion" over matching.

WG should change their game’s name to World of soviet warships

As a DD main, I didn't realize just how broken this thing is until you laid it all out in this great explanation, thank you.

You can see nicely that the Kremlin is a fantasy ship. Sitting that low on the water would be very bad on any sea condition other than totally calm. Basically everything after the front turrets would be completely under water and washed/splashed by the sea. Open gun mounts would not be usable as people would not be able to stand the water splashes. Compare that to the Yamato which was designed for actual sea conditions from calm to very rough.

The only thing I’m scared of in Ranked is my Team

"and of course with 457s no cruiser can tank you... Except, of course, for the Russian ones"

For something like these game types, I imagine any German BB would also do extremely well simply because SHOOT ALL THE THINGS WITH ALL THE GUNS.

You make it look so easy. I usually get abandoned in the Kremlin and then "here come the torps".

Since you mentioned IFHE Hindenburg - are you still planing on doing a video on IFHE rework? For what ships is IFHE still recommented after rework?

Thank you this video, cemented my goal to grind it out. I got it, 10 battles later I have a 70% WR, 100k avg damage a game and just got a kraken with 241k damage lol, 5 kills with 2 more than only survived because the timer ran out. I tanked 2.4 million potential and another 160k actual damage. And still had like 30k health left at the end. I don't even have Kuznetsov. This thing is ridiculous. The one thing I have done different from the skills/upgrades, is I went with the +10% consumable length in Mod 5 for more repair. I also didn't take CE, I took BOS and would also add High Alert. I'm also going to get the Damage Con Coal skill in Slot 1 eventually after I get Kuznetsov.

Your issue with the Montana at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="940">15:40</a>. Same thing happened to me last night. Numerous decent salvos at a flat broadside Montana, and not a single citadel.

Flamu videos in the past 2 months: we are getting close to that 100k giveaway...

I love how wargaming keeps adding russain 50's fantasy designs. It easy to design a ship that's great at everything but well reality can often be disappointing. If wargame wants over power designs how about the U.S. Tillman battleship. But not really.

Better adjust the health of the secondary gun barrels by -7.8456%! - WG "balancing" team

@Flamu it has been an entire year since we've got a Kremlin upload! Crazy how hard it's fallen out of popularity.

Last time I was this early, Yamato was still relevant.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="265">4:25</a> well, of course it has the best torpedo belt - it's a sovjet ship, what else did you expect?

Where did you got those nice waves that you produce with a ship after sailing

Fun fact: The Kremlin used to have the highest damage of 15500 AP damage of any Sjip in game before it was nerfed

With the montana breaking your turret, I think it shot through the hull and into the turret "citadel". I've lost turrets in BBs to carrier dropped torpedoes. It doesn't have to be a shell penetrating the actual above deck turret, even though it makes very little sense.

I just unlocked my Kremlin today and have only experienced 4 battles in her so far so maybe I'm just not familiar enough with her yet, but right off the bat her handling felt alien and like trash to me. Keep in mind I also own the Yamato, Republique, Grober Kurfurst, and Montana so I am very familiar with how the other top tier BBs handle and feel as far as acceleration, deceleration, etc. I can't quite put my finger on it yet with Kremlin but I immediately noticed how long it seems to take her to slow down and coast to a full stop from full speed. Then I began to notice that during full speed 180 turns the ship seemed to be presenting broadside for a longer time than usual at exactly the most nerve racking moments of the turn where you're giving flat broadside to any ships that were just directly in front of you. To me it feels like WG might have programmed in this extra little hang time section of what normally should be a perfectly smooth and even turning circle probably for balancing reasons. If you have a Kremlin and haven't noticed this yet pay attention the next time you're nose in and then need to execute a full speed hard rudder 180 turn to start kiting away and falling back. If you're being shot at during this turn pay attention during the most vulnerable moment of the turn where you've just turned the first 90 degrees and are presenting perfect broadside to any enemies who were directly in front of your ship prior to beginning the 180 turn. Maybe I'm imagining things, but at this most vulnerable point during the turn the ship seems to just hang there almost coasting straight for a bit instead of continuing the smooth turn just for a few added brief moments before the ship finally starts turning enough again to begin angling away from presenting broadside to the enemy. Every other ship I've played in this game so far handles exactly as you'd expect a ship to turn after pinning the rudder to one side, and that is that the ship will execute a smooth continuous half circle turn the whole time turning at the same exact rate during any given point in time during the turn. With Kremlin I swear she turns more like a U with a small flat section at the bottom rather than a smooth normal sweeping turn.. There's got to be a way to actually test this in game somehow maybe with some time lapse aerial view replay footage of the Kremlin during a full speed 180 turn, but I definitely felt like I was noticing this strange added hang time while presenting flat broadside exactly halfway through pulling a full throttle 180 turn. I'm really curious to hear if any other Kremlin captains have experienced this strange feeling I'm talking about here that the ship is somehow presenting broadside just a bit longer than it feels you do normally during 180 turns in basically any other tier 10 BB. Like I said during the opening of my comment here, I did just unlock her today and only have 4 or so games in her so far so maybe I'm just tripping here, but from the very first match I felt like something was just off somehow and abnormal about her sluggish throttle response and turning capabilities compared to Yammi, Kurfurst, really any other tier X battleship.

EDIT: I'd just like to point out that according to Flamu's twitch clip, it takes focusing only 1.5 million potential damage to kill a 1/3 health Kremlin. Taking bets on what they'll add to the Kremlin once subs are released: Depth charges? Depth charges on launchers with 5km range? It's own sonar pings? Layered torpedo protection, of which protection-ignoring torps with only ignore the first layer of? Something else more balansed?

I quit the game but still enjoy your vids. Glad you're still enjoying the game and making good content.

Is this a commercial for an overpowered machine?

i started this game about a year ago and just kind of played one or two games a month. i just recently started playing more and found out that the tree that i have been climbing (USSR) has some of the best ships. i'm currently on the tier 8 Battleship.

Hey flamu is there any chance you could tell me your exact mod configuration? I’d love to know so I could use them myself 😄

I call hidden changes: Since the last patch ive got like 80% more disabled and destroyed turrets on EVERY ship iam driving right now. Thats so massive that i literally have several times disabled turrets every fking game. Thats not normal and i hate it. Even Preventive Maintenance doesnt change it that much. I swear WG recently changed penetration values on the turretarmor or something stupid to let you get disabled turrets more often.

Soo.. å secondary built Kremlin is more viable to get close and make em work??

I had a disconnected Kremlin at 11km broadsided.. I tickled him in 3 salvos from my Montana.. That was last ranked, but Thunderer, Republic also have a tendensy to angle 1 degree to bounce

I believe my tankiest game, I tanked over 5mil in a Bismark, in an uptiered X match. Was a while back; over a year. Did not do monster damage however, and was still one of the first half of the team to die, but held a flank for half the game essentially alone.

Ill stick with my bourgogne for ranked. The speed boosts are adding up to make it a 44 knot ship the heals work for it too. The reload buff is making it even sicker I'm getting games with 180+ main battery hits and this is a bb. As for damage flamu in the last 2 days I had a 416k game and a 407k game the rest were all mid 200s. It is the wrath of god in this mode. Kremlin has a massive weakness and thats fire damage 5 repairs and your out and then that damage really ticks up and their is nothing you can do about.

Does Kutseysov (sorry if I butchered that) proc in rankes armsrace? I thought no special Captain skill procced in ranked?

Thanks, but NO thanks. I'm sticking to my Friedrich der Grosse.

Even at this best armored ship in the game, if you aim somewhere above the turrets you can hit the comand located in between the turrets, that's the most difficult thing to achieve in this game. When the ship is bow in against you it's the hardest to hit that part, as turrets are very good armored. On broadside semi broadside long ranges again try to aim somewhere above turrets line and you'll get awesome results with ap or he.

I installed the game yesterday after 2 years of not playing. I gotta say these new russian ships are not from this world, CV balance is absolutely fucked.

Me Slava firing at any broadside ship at any ranges = Citadels for days Me Slava firing at Kremlin, Moskva, Petro, Nevsky, Stalin at any ranges = shatters and deflected for days lol

Was there an order from WG for their CCs to not call the ship op?

Flamu, how do you play Kremlin post-nerf in Random? I am struggling with it. The guns have bad dispersion even at 10km, citadels are as rare as hen's teeth, and the HE spam is endless. The AA on the ship can't fight off tier 8 planes. My experiences with the efficacy of the Kremlin are 100% opposite of everything I have ever heard.

One ranked game with the Kremlin the team managed to get 3 health buffs. I took 160k damage in total and finished the game full health. Never went below half health. This ship is insane

A smart conqueror, can easily violate a Kremlin

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="978">16:18</a> Thats the first time i see a Kremlins main Gun get knocked out... Almost like playing other BBs is kinda pointless... thx for the video sir.

man, u're a monster :) play very, very well!

Flamu : it doesn't actually make sense When you consider it's a Soviet ship, everything make sense.

I came around the corner with my Alabama the other day and ran into a broadside of the Kremlin. While I eventually ended up with Davy Jones, it was an exhilarating pounding that I haven't taken since I stuck up for a pretty girl in 4th-grade schoolyard in 1969 Brooklyn. Gotta get me this ship one day.

"If" you have that captain

Me sitting in a Halland or Thunderer.... "Hey Kremlin, how many DCs do you have again?"

I just came back to wows after a break, and I have to ask why is Flamu's ocean so clam and clean? Is that only the map, or a mod? Thanks if you let me know!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="55">0:55</a> In real life, that Kremlin would've capsized that destroyer. **eye twitch** My immersion is ruined.

Since IFHE rework, almost every-time i fight a Montana, it breaks at least one of turrets in first or second salvo.

Bu-but Russian bias isn't real! Kremlin: *exists*

Everytime I've played Kremlin I've ended up against a Conquerer or Thunderer which counters Kremlin quite well

His closing comments about DDs are so true. After spamming Kremlin for about 10 matches I grew tired of the nonsense and took my Halland out and ranked out within 2 hours. DDs are harder than ever to play, I understand that, but there's definitely an influx of players who have no idea what they're doing..

And why do the turrets turn so quickly?

Sick ship! Gotta get me one!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="796">13:16</a> I remember the 3 Yammy, and 1 Montana sniping besides the carrier on my team.

There is a somewhat fresh replay at Panzerknacker with Kremlin. You can see that the captain is mediocre at best and yet he stacks 406k dmg in this esence of cosmic idiocy ship.

I just got this thing a couple days ago after a long grind through the Vladivostok and Soyuz, and in my opinion it's as op as the Smolensk.

Can you even imagine if the Kremlin got a legendary mod?

Did they nerf Kremlins armor by now?

Alaska is super fun in this ranked too.

Ranked out easily using the kremlin. Extremely useful in the HE spam meta for tanking

People call these ships Russian, but they are Soviet. The Devs sit in Belarus, which was a part of the Soviet Union. Belarus is maybe the country where people miss the Soviet Union the most. They still have the KGB there and they even call it KGB. To be honest, maybe the Devs have no choice. It might be soviet bias or the Gulag for them and their families.

Yeah, did something like that to other teams in ranked too. Ships that are OP before get even more OP with all the buffs. A Kremlin with 26 seconds reload...and everybody starts REEEEEing. You get away with stupid broadsides thanks to the armor layout. And then the shells...you fire at fully angled Stalingrads at 15 km and blap him for 10-12k damage. Just insane.

that montana at least managed to balance a little this cancer

A Kremlin going 35 kts is terrifying.

As an aside, in terms of "how high the ship sits out of the water", the usual naval term would be "freeboard". Not that it matters, just thought you might like to know. Cheers

unfortunately not everyone is as battle intuitive like you Flamu, had a kremlin player in my team happily sailing the side of the map watching his team mates die in the middle because he wanted to shoot the CV (which was last seen at the starting position) so he was sailing to that direction from the side. I was so pissed, we could've held the cap if only he helped us out mid battle. my thunderer doesn't have enough armor to tank in the middle, but I basically had the same strat as you. use BBs to hold the cap, and let the little ones hunt

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="462">7:42</a> Well it makes sense if you consider the small superstructure and the fact that the Kremlin sits so low in the water...

but the continue healing you get is from the ranked mode?

GK is more tanky, it has much better armor. The only thing Kremlin has going for it is better fire resistance. Kremlin has 60mm armor only in its mid section while its massive nose and aft sections are 32mm. Kurfurst has much more of its deck covered in 50mm than Kremlin has in 60mm. Also GK is much more resistant to citadels.

Kremlin is so armored and sitting so low.... One would say it is ARMORED SURFACE SUBMARINE

They should just give it smoke, radar and German secondaries.....

Good video!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1699">28:19</a> lol a survivable expert Kremlin, so more than one hundred HP still not enough (sigh)