Rare Tier 10 Cruiser Smolensk - Ship Request 

Doubt it'll get upvoted but would love to see ur take on HMS Cheshire! :)

What about Hizen? Haven't seen that thing like at all and I want to know how it holds up :)

Respect for showing the Dev Strike. "Happens to me too." :)

Please play Minotaur or Edgar. Long time ago you made a Minotaur video.

As a Smolensk main, my friend and me use this ship with his minotaur for some rage inducing times. Our only goal is to make the red team uninstall. Just doing our part since WG wants to kill this game so bad. :)

The heavy Italian SAP from the battleship line really put a damper on Smolensk because that stuff can and will citadel you if you are flat broad side and it does an absurd amount of damage. In that vein, I would like to put forward my request for a Marco Polo.

My everlasting regret, not getting Smolensk when I had the chance. I did not realize she was going to leave the armory and I was a noob at the time.

Smolensk, Jinan, Colbert, etc work best in a division. You just don’t get team spotting anymore, so they’re incredibly difficult ships to use. They’re much better in mode shuffle where people actually push in and get spotted.

I would love to see you play Bungo again

Keep in mind that Colbert's max dpm isn't attainable 99% of the time because there's only a very narrow angle and range combo where all turrets can be brought to bear in a target. Smolensk doesn't have that issue with its mythical Soviet quad guns.

Guilio Cesare, with Christmas event starting to creep up i want to see the original seal clubber rare ship.

@Potato Quality ! Play the Chikuma II! It was super rare, you've never played it, and I have one that I got out of a singular box. Lucky, I know

Gunboat jager. No one expects it

"He's got HE, that could citadel us." The absolute state of this ship -_-

So many 250k, 300k dmg losses in the smol. Truly the Smolensk experience.

It's kind of funny how people complain about over-penning the cit of very lightly armoured ships... but that legit happened IRL. We have the ship in game that experienced it. Lets not forget Johnston took 3 AP shells from Yamato and basically only lost one turret, and a bit of engine power. So to translate to in game, engine knocked out and turret destroyed. If Yamato had known she was shooting at a Destroyer, she would have likely loaded HE or possibly even her San-shiki-dan round. It may have been an AA round, but it was also an incendiary shrapnel round, and likely would have made paste out of the Johnston's bridge and deck, but as Yamato thought she was firing at a cruiser she had AP loaded, betting the target would have enough armour to arm the shells. When the shells hit Johnston they over-penetrated the ship leaving her mostly unharmed. At least relatively speaking.

Surprisingly honest review, i really did not expect this👍 The first 3 games are pretty common examples of Smolensk games. Indeed everything will run over 20 km or there is no vision at all. Thx for showing all the shit aswell, that people may have no idea about

I miss some strong DD Gameplay, Would love to see Ragnar! Or for another time: Lüshun, Småland, Zorkiy. Been a while since you played Daring too

I would like to see you play marseille or Brest! The French heavy cruiser line is super interesting

Since we’re doing rare ships, why not Gremyashchy?

attempt no. 3 at asking for lighthouse DM/Salem, they're good trust me

That shim was ACTUAL Potato Quality. :)

my personal most played ship by far (around 1000 battles). I love how funny it is (when you play it, otherwise is infuriating). It can be one shotted (and i get it often, first one to die). Try and play it with Kutsnetzov, when you ambush the enemy's dd at the start, you'll get an additional consumable charge, and youl'll get that often Go only for range, 13.6km won't do it, you gotta rush at the start to island spots really quick and always avoid getting crossfired. when targeted by bb over 14km, you gotta maneuver a lot, even with speed changes. Otherwise you'll get nuked. Always use hydrophone, and never trust smoke. Use AP as often as you can, when you get a broadside bb with huge superstructure, set a couple of fires and get the ap ready. I've done around 6-7k salvos on GK, on montana you can get easily 5k, same with maine and vermont. This cruiser should be called "dd's bane"

Smolensk....The Soviet Firestarter which was sliightly nerfed by the captain skills changes which either you could have 19.2 of orbital shells for 4.5 sec reload...or 16.6 with sub 4 sec reload

The tier VII Smolenks, Flint! :D IFHE is insane. BTW, what mod is that cross?

Go next? GO NEXT! You spoke that into existence :P

You could have easily edited out being dev struck, but did not. I respect your content for that. ✊🏻

With Jacksonville out some Worchester leg mod would be nice

the prediction with surviving by overpens 😅 Yeah man its wows

have a Jean Bart and Alaska from all the Black Fridays last years. Was worth it

Yubari. It is INSANELY accurate with the special mod, knowing how much you like accurate ships, lets see you play it ;)

Haven't played in years but these always make me miss the OG Atlanta days.

As you point out, this ship is absolutely dependent on spotting. Which means that you have to rely on your teammates. Which is a death sentence in WoWs. Unless you have a div mate who you can chat with, it almost isn't worth the gamble on this ship.

Know what I never get liked so why the fuck not, can you do October Revolution? She’s a powerful battleship for her tier, but you don’t see her often

Attempt 2 of requesting Bayern, the last dreadnought of the Kaiserliche Marine.

I wanna see castilla, especially in comparison to henri IV

Why would you take AA? Their planes are endless and on a short cooldown.

I would love to see the Charles Martel, very strong cruiser at tier 8 in my opinion

any chance of seeing the colbert?

A thing I remember from the time that both Thunderer and Smolensk where available. People where complaining so much about the Smolensk when thunderer was worse to face. But hey Russian bias amirite

I vote for full Gunboat Shimakaze Build with 8km torps

Yodo yodo yodo yodo!!! Let’s see you make it work!!!

Salem lighthouse build is stronger than Smolensk I think.

I am missing communication on your side. Press these keys; focus fire, need help, support ship, need spotting, need smoke (combined with ping on map). Some people listen to that. Sometimes that is the edge you need to win.

Hey potato, what mod do you use that shows you overmatch and dpm stat in unit statistics? I use aslains but I can't find that modpack

Me thinks you need to show some love to T6 & play Graf Spee. Get your Pocket Battleship outta your pocket !

Alvarado de bazan?

The thing about the Smol is that the moment you open up the red team abandons that flank and decides to try their luck pushing elsewhere. I find it better to let them push to about 13 kms before revealing myself.

So, is the AP totally worthless on this boat? I saw a couple of setups where it could've been used. Also, Dalian or Smolensk?

Expecting a 17.9 shima to spot and not do something insanely stupid. I feel for you. This game has been getting so terribly annoying to play for a while now.

i miss the bfk damage record streams with smolensk tbh

Conq HE loves the Smolensk.

Jinan in arms race 👀

I feel so dirty every time I play this ship that I need to have a shower.

It's good you show the "detonation" games as well as the slow death. I have a Smoly & its really good against cl's & dd's but needs range mod for anything else & cover or you're gone.. not many cv's like you either.

Colbert is actually a good bit higher dpm wise than Smolensk, Smol is much closer to Jinan with HE and somwhere in the middle with AP Speaking of Jinan how about playing that next... for brrrrt reasons ofc😂

I want to see you hunt cruisers in the Indianapolis!

Radar Minotaur with all Radar Upgrades

Gearing?

I request the mighty Maya! And I will not stop asking for it!

you just proved us that no ship is OP without a proper team. in the end it's a team game and it needs the combined effort of all players using their ships strengths to help win the game

Tromp torpedo build

BOB ROSSing the Duncan. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

I´m happy to have it in my port with Musashi and Kronshtadtoh the Kutuzow not to forget Sap is a defently weakness, also Elbings like to chunk light cruisers, whish for a Super Elbing maybe 4 guns like Kitakaze or with alternate hull turning it inot a german Harugumo with 150mm guns.

I remember when this ship was new and everyone was running it. Always the first target for me as a BB if I could get a good shot. Lots of ovepens on these damn things.

Imagine, expecting a Shima to spot. All I expect them is to run away, hide far away from caps and panic smoke.

Since you talked about the Tennessee, how about go over the California.

You're being, as some would say, umbiased per say.

wen dunkerque?

@PQ you need to use your torps more often

How come your Mini map is not showing islands?

It would be natural for you to now play the Kutuzov (og Smolensk)

Judging by that ping and Euro clan names, this is EU server.

I would love to see Repulse!

I think a full torp build schliefen would be fun

The most fun ship in the game 🎉

can you do tsurugi

Would love to see the Almirante Grau played with the new PanAm special commander!

T8 Wiesbaden, have some fun with the torps

AP is also busted. 7-10k every 5 seconds on broadsides

Graf SPEEEEE

What planet are you playing from with a ping like that ?

got Smol last yr @ Auction. God was a gigachad of a ship😂😂😂😂

Well, sitting in your smoke (torp magnet) ain't the smartest move, but sadly, DDs really aren't rewarded that well for spotting. If you've got a Halland or something like that, it doesn't matter, but otherwise many are just thinking "survive."

Siegfried the Agir with 380mm german Sniper I hope see you play it

Man, I remember back when the Smolenster was a coal ship, and it out ranging my FdG... I developed a special hate for this ship back then.

This might be potato quality

There is no bad ship, just bad captain 😁

Tip for Yammy captains vs a new wave of Smolensks, yammy HE can wreck a smol, if not Citadel her.

W to PQ looking at his own mistakes of blaming the team.

Ran into a unicum, double Hildebrand with Essex division today , yes they wiped out most of our team

Vermont with SAP. That's a scary thought.

I would love to see Congress

Nebraska?

Sometimes ships are so good that they’re almost boring to play

I got Smolensk years ago. Back then, it was OP. It's still good, but situational & often low impact. Today's tier ten meta is very hard on concealment & it is made of paper. Which, as you point out, has been made worse by the addition of SAP.

Everytime I watch PQ I think he's starting to lose it.

Montana with legendary mod

Grozovoi

Hey PQ could you do a video about Kamikaze R?