Reload & Accuracy Upgrades On Iowa - Xuan Wu First Impressions 

They just added Wisconsin.

Because they need to milk the history nerds

@@j_taylorthis, the damn thing was added a couple patches ago and most people just recently got it NJ will come, just not for awhile, my best guess would be late next year, back half of the year

I hope if they ever add the New Jersey, she would come ith her original round bridge. Would make her a bit diferent from the others, even though its just the looks.

@@BigD321 Iowa was realeased in 2013, Missouri was released in 2016, Winsconsin in 2024... my guess is more like 2037 for a NJ release lmao (or when the game will be truly dying, as a last resort)

It's too OP for regular release, its basically tier 12.

Nu uh​@@ReDiR20

@@ReDiR20really? It’s a complete damage sponge.

@@matsab7930 Only if you play her wrong. She's a long range slinger that can leeroy jenkins once per match decently effectively. She has the range and speed to casually reposition while constantly dealing damage, and is excellent for ensuring all big ships that would stomp her are forever burning and forever unable to deal with her. When the heavy hitters are out, she can rush in and smaller ships that are victims to her cannot easily deal with her due to her maneuverability, speed, shell volume, and radar. It comes down to big speed, farm big ships at range. big ships dead? get close and be a menace.

@@williamturner7131 I guess. I just find it extremely boring to sling he from half the map away, especially when you have such floaty shells. I love pushing in with her when the game goes late, but the early-mid game is boring in her imo.

yeahy It looks pretty good :D

Xuan Wu 玄武 translated in English is Black Tortoise

You can on this ship. Were you not paying attention?

13:44 i think it does

This is just another ship in the tradition of Pan-Asian copypasta premiums based on other nations' tech tree ships. In the same vein as Wukong and Bajie, which have been in the game for over four years.

Always have, at least a third of the tech tree are paper ships.

I managed to name myself BARON VON PUSSYHAMMER in the game snuck that through somehow

Too bad. PQ has declared it to be pronounced John Woo 😆

@@Frigidblood john woo better

Ohio also. easy ship to play and +50% credits...

nah, still same with others T9 and this iowa, no improved for her

@@lotarrrrr +50% is standard for t10 special ships even special bonus package for tech tree (that you buy for 4k doubloon) has same credits gain, the reason why t10 is "bad" for credit farming because its way more expensive than the service of t9

$60? You could be arrested for burglary at that price. At release, looks like 36,336 dubs for the bundle on my end, which is a *cough-cough* 20% discount, which is $144 US.

@@billcrisp1804i literally just got this thing in some random box. I just reinstalled the game today.

The Sodaks and Iowas have functionally the same armour scheme with the same immunity zones against the 16/45cal firing the Mk 5. This was reduced somewhat by the Mk 8 fired by that same gun, and even moreso by the 16/50cals of the Iowas firing the Mk 8. So realistically, Iowa is going to have a wider immunity zone than Sodak and the speed to dictate the range of engagement. So the advantage lies firmly with Iowa.

@@Thraxus please correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that the game does not portray the armor correctly as compared to real life. The bow plating on the Iowas is 26mm as opposed to the 32mm presented in game. The South Dakotas had actual 32mm bow and stern plating. I am basing this off of Ryan from Battleship New Jersey. He has said the bow plating was 26mm numerous times. The Iowas' armor was based on the armor of the Sodaks, particularly their All or Nothing scheme. However, with the bow and stern much longer, they sacrificed further armor to gain more buoyancy. I will readily admit I am not a scholar of the US Battleships to near a degree that many are, I am basing off of what I've heard and come to understand. Both the Iowas and the Sodaks were far better armored than the North Carolina battleships, both classes were powerhouses in the war, I simply feel the Sodaks armor was superior to the Iowas

@cerneysmallengines I was referring to IRL rather than in game. I'm not entirely sure as the specifics of bow and stern on both ships and that's largely because in the context of the all or nothing arrangement, its largely irrelevant. And realistically, in any meaningful engagement, 6mm of armour difference wouldn't make really any impact, there's no magical universal thresholds for autobounce when it comes to naval combat and both ships Ideally will want to be fighting broadside anyway. And with the all or nothing scheme, the ships are generally designed to be able to keep fighting even with their bow and stern having been pulverised. It's citadel and deck protection that matters most of all in this fight, and they both have the same 12in inclined belt, the same 6in main deck in effectively, the same layout. All of that extra tonnage of Iowa got devoted to speed. It makes sense because the Iowas, in the design we see, were essentially upsized sodaks that could reach the 33kn speed minimum of the "fast" battleship requirement put out by the US navy, after attempts to design from the ground up resulted in ships that were either too compromised or too far overtonnage, the US navy was still working within the 45000t treaty limits of the escalator clause with their design.

Some of the earlier iowa preliminary designs could definitely be called battlecruisers though. There was one with a belt that could protect up to heavy cruiser guns, in return for something crazy like 35kn of speed. Of course this was abandoned because really, the primary class of ship the Iowas were intended to counter were the Kongos. There was a lot of concern that the fast congos could penetrate past the existing slow battle line and wreck havoc on cruisers or carriers. The slower much more heavily armed and armoured Montana's were the intended response to Japan's heavier battlefleet. Though of course, war broke out and the carrier proved itself more valuable than any battleship so the Montanas were cancelled and the Iowas only rushed through because of their ability to server as fast carrier escorts

What’s this trend of bugging people everything until they do what you ask?

@@drink15 ship request duh

@@jaxmathews4835 you have to request it everyday and track how many times you asked?

@@drink15 This trend was started by the worchester guy and it is has proven that it's effective.

@@jaxmathews4835 Everyday asking for the same ship and counting each day?

xuan wu even though the bajie for some bs reason gets better accuracy than izumo

bajie, way faster shells velocity and smaller superstructure is better than xuan wu

@@eiresby2344 youre forgetting about the Japanese bad vertical dispersion though

@@jaysonnunley6602 nope, bajie doesnt have japanese vertical dispersion like you met in tech tree and some premium ships. comparison in 20km bajie vertical is 163 meanwhile izumo, hizen, iwami and adatara has 170+. Well she is still "bad" in vertical compared to standards BBs (standard bbs around 150-160). Bajie gun has same treatment with musashi, horizontal same with japanese (better than standard) but the vertical is better (musashi 160 and bajie 163 in 20km) but better in sigma however worst in reload

China has no real history with their own naval ships, but Chinese people have lots of money to spend. so to get some of that money, they make these fake Chinese ships in hopes of selling a lot of them.

in an alternate universe, the incomplete Kentucky hull was sold to China to be transformed into a casino.

@@xuansu9036 lol ! They did that to one of their ships for real . But it failed

Because they are the masters of bootlegs IRL, makes sense they get all the clone ships!😂

Wow this game is bad, and the developers lazy AF at this point. Can't even make a totally fake ship for China. Instead they just copy paste most of it from an Iowa, and then tweak some stats.

It’s pronounced like shwen. I’m Chinese so I think that is the right pronunciation.

because USN BB line cannot slot dispersion mod in slot 3.

The US BB line has a special dispersion mod for the 6th mod slot, which improves dispersion as a choice along with a reload mod, but because they have acces to that you dont get an main battery accuracy in the 3rd slot. A double dispersion buff would be unfair, so you only get one in a different slot, which is still a better choice then a reload mod.

just to be clear... I'm just curious.. you're a gun junkie.. just look at your Yodo... I GET... BBs is your thing... but.. even just you looking at them is SOMETHING for me...

sorry.. that was douchie.. I just mean.. you SAY.. it's a boring game.. just sitting back torping... well... ? man up and spot for the team? (big talk from me the coward)

as for the K14... I think BETTER in randos... in brawls you lose the whole point of the conceal for the cruiser.. sorry... BB

These videos genuinely take my mind off everything else, which for me is a huge thing! Thank you

Well, of the 4 fully competed Iowa we have 3 of them, missing New Jersey. There was also 2 patricianly completed hulls, Illinois and Kentucky, we have Illinois, so we have 4 of the 6 real Iowa’s Then theres Delaware which is completely made up and this thing. You could Head-canon this thing to being “Kentucky if it somehow got sold to a foreign county had it been completed”, so we *technically* have 5 of the 6 real Iowas, but that is with having that head-canon in mind. I expect New Jersey to be added at some point, and hopefully we dont get any Iowa hulls afterwords, I love the Iowas but I dont want more abominations like Delaware.

Captain Alex as captain

John Bird's Idi Amin comedy routine 'Gunboat Dipperlomacy" is pure gold.

Play war thunder then bro

@izaiahdatu7794 I love how these fools complain about realism but they end up having a non historical ship in their dock as well and one they play alot

@@b-17gflyingfortress6 😂