Should You Trade For Karl Johan? 

Some people in the comments are confused, you can get it for coal by buying a mimel/malta or higher and trading it for Johan. So you can get a doubloon ship for coal.

Karl Johan was in the 2023 Santa crates, that’s where I got mine

Honestly I've been having a blast in my Karl XIV Johan, the secondaries just kind of work, the torpedoes are funny, and I've pulled an average of around 100k damage out of her so far. Sure she has weaknesses, but almost every weakness she has is shared by almost every other T9/10 ship. 32mm overmatch is going to screw over basically everything. The low AP pen can be accounted for, and only really seems to apply to outside of around 10km. Seeing as I play a lot of and enjoy Odin I'm kind of already used to how those 305s work, only at least Karl can load the HE and still deal some damage if needed. Basically I'd say trade a coal ship for her, Forest Sherman is the cheapest to replace of the T10 ships, making her the best value to trade in if you have her. I traded mine in because I simply don't play it very often so it didn't make sense to keep her around, cemented even more by how fun Karl is to play. She can't play from range, but she has the concealment to push up, and her secondaries while not the most accurate can turn the tide in the early game DD engagement giving your team a massive advantage early on.

I love the Karl XIV Johan, very adaptable. I really only play Asymmetric Battles these days , when WOWS is running it. It is the only mode that I enjoy these days and it is great in those.

I jumped at the chance to get rid of Hizen. Because Hizen was a dockyard ship she is considered rare, but she's still a PoS so Karl Johan is a major improvement. What I really like about her is her incredible stealth combined with the 13.5 km torps. You can refrain from using your guns a lot of the time and still be a threat until later game. She's more like a cruiser in that respect. I was really happy with this iteration of trade-ins from WG.

I played this Ship already for about 240 games and the best way to play it with a full secondary build. All 3 parts of the weaponry are pretty equal (according to my kills on the statistic page). Bow tanking and kiting are really good, especially bow tanking, because the secondaries already fire at 5°. BUT never make the mistake to open up over 30°, because you want to launch your torps, while you are spotted. That is tempting, but not a good idea! Win Rate is reasonable good (as a medium player), because you have a lot of impact on the game with this ship. AA is quite good, hydro is available and the concealment is unbeatable for a BB. Downside: The main guns are like a shotgun and if you are used to 305s on cruisers or the Meckle, it is a bit disappointing. The range isn't so good either (when using full secondaries). Im averaging 30k less damage than on my Meckle. The speed is also not amazing with a lil bit over 30 kts., but still ok. As conclusion I'd say it is on par with the Rupprecht and a fun premium ship, when you like brawling and like playing close to the caps.

The speed of the torps and the ability to stealth torp almost 3KM is so underrated. You can fire them safely (bad torp angles) while undetected and by the time you get detected, the torps are almost on top of the target and that can open up better broadside opportunities are enemies evade.

Ship request: ochakov or congress!!!

I taded in a ship i got for coal for the Florida.....and my god am i glad i did! The Florida is exactly the tier 7 BB i was looking for. Its like the Duke of York but with much better accuracy. I love it.

I traded Moskva for this ship and it's soooo fun! I don't play Moskva anymore so, I think it's worth it.

With silver/gold ranked being T8-9, that imo is the mode to go for to enjoy T9 ships.

I traded in Khaba which I played maybe 20 times since 2016 for this one. I'm sure it'll get way more use.

Yes. The three torp hits on the Michelangelo was cool…that was me 🙃

I already did this. Funny that your doing the video on it. It is like having a more durable scheiflien with good aa, long range torps. The secondaries don't pen as much. But I do run full secondary build due to the increased aa. I've actually been enjoying it even though I don't do as much damage as my Jean Bart.

I traded World of Warships for 1000 of hours of free time, back in 2022. Best trade I ever made! 🤣

I believe that even if it doesnt have the best accuracy (Standard secondary accuracy to be precise) the rate of fire on the secondaries put the effective hitting DPM to be actually fairly good

This ship is really like a glass cannon, the problem is the cannon whimpers out and misses almost everything. Even with 10k hp doesn't do it.

I like the Johan, it is not fun when in T10+ randoms though. It is fun when grinding stuff in coop. Yep only consider coal ships as you can get them back. For about 7 dollars I traded in Malta and Immelman, as I never play carriers. Got Flint and Minegumo. I have no regerts. Not even one letter.

May I ask, what is the Camo you have on it, its great . Thx

Karl is soooo fun. ridiculous concealment, crazy torps, fire starter quick reload guns and short range but highly effective secondaries

I was considering trading Marco Polo for this one... I may just keep it... I don't like that they don't give you much for the trade in, but it's better than having a ship you don't like playing.

I traded in my Tier IX Hizen (which I never played) for the Karl Johan and I´m very happy with the trade. I had been waiting for it to come back as a coal ship as it was rumored, but I´m glad it came back this way after 8 months. Now I have a bunch of coal that I don´t know what to do with LOL.

I traded the F. Sherman for it and then rebought the Sherman with the coal coupon. Been wanting this ship.

Got a Jean Bart from santa crates, but I bought JB black years ago. She was my trade. WG scews the odds in their favor, but as long as you know what you'ee giving its not a bad system.

Traded my Khaba I never played for this (before watching this video) and I agree fully with it. Fun ship that but she is hurt badly by this game terrible 2 tier uptiering. That will never change, WG has zero interest in ever doing that). I see her being very good for mission farming, especially kills, with the torps. I'd be interested in trying a brawl or ranked game with her though, that close in brawling would be interesting. I took the typical gun build for my first time out but I now want to try the brawling secondary build.

My recipe to counter sucky T9 MM: 1) Take Missouri 2) Use Radar to kill T10/11 DD in cap early 3) Seagal-era credit modifier 4) ? 5) Profit

i traded my GK for this ship. 1000% worth it. its a meme ship with power vs the GK is just a XP penata

Torps get knocked out, but do they get up again? Can you ever really keep them down?

I think you were getting focused on because of that fancy Camo. When I see a ship like that it's just to fun to give it a makeover.

I traded Forrest Sherman for it. I had a bunch of coal and nothing interesting to get with it, so I used it to get Forrest Sherman back. If you do this it takes a few minutes for the game to realize you traded the ship away and to allow you to purchase it for coal again.

I traded a coal ship for this one, this ship is so much fun and I am almost getting back the ship that I traded in. Florida next to trade?

Any opinion on the Yudachi? I got a Mainz and Mainz B so I would like to sell the Mainz, but the selection of ships to trade it with is rather poor

Traded the Forest Sherman for Karl and yea, I do like it despite the crap accuracy. I’d say Karl is a funny BB, CA concealment with an Ostergotland strapped at each side… tankier than I expected… Funny how I deal more damage with secondaries and torps than the main gun

It does not have quarter pen.... the secondarys are barely penning DDs. You could just as well build a French ship for secondarys

I got Brandenburg, my beloved

I watch all your content and really appreciate the channel. I always learn something watching your content.. But I learned in about 5th grade the parts of speech; nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions etc. Now I am not a grammatical expert, in fact I am just an old retired shop teacher. But you make the same grammar mistake in all your vids multiple times and it is distracting and drives me nuts. And if an old shop teacher notices it, I bet most better educated than me do too. When you say "play aggressive" or "play passive" passive and aggressive in these cases modify the verb PLAY and are ADVERBS which requires the use of an "LY" at the end. "Play more aggressively" "Play passively" are correct. And I know you know better because I have heard you use them correctly once in a while. I don't mean to be a stickler or to embarrass publicly in "comments". I don't have a way to raise this concern with you privately. So, how about an effort to sound as intelligent as I know you are?

Exactly the video I needed, can't wait to watch it

Is a secondary build really the meta build? No improved dispersion, no improved reload.

I exchanged Sherman for Karl, and the same time I spend coal to get back Sherman to my collection. 😁 I spend also one of my 2 Atlantas for Dupleix. The rest availible good ships I already have.

I was gonna trade for this ship but i cant open the armory for 2 DAYS not even a single thing is right in this stupid game

If you have say the Salem, you can trade it in for the the Karl. Pay your 1,650 Doubloons and you have the Karl. You will be able to repurchase the Salem for coal in the Armory after you do so. I had to restart the game for this to work. But... if you have a ton of Coal. Go nuts....

What mod do you use to see the sub direction when they ping?

Yeah, T9 is rough. You get put in T10 games more often than you don’t. The only cruisers and BBs that T9 is okay for are ships that are over-tuned for their tier. Alaska, Musashi, Kearsarge, etc. The DDs are good in T9 as long as there is no CV. Preferably one that has a strong gimmick. Mogodor is still insane for a T9 ship tech tree ship. You’ll be fine in T10 mm and you get to maul everything if you happen to get into a T7-9 match.

Very thanks mr. Potato.

Question - on the first game when you rush the Wis. Why didn't you used your Right Torp and why no ram him instead of trying the pass by ?

The best T9 BB in the game even counting something like Musashi. Hydro, best BB torps in the game, good secondaries, solid guns counting good HE, great concealment, pretty good armor. I still cant believe they basically give away this OP ship in trade in. Whats the reason?

I traded my Max Immelmann (she was dusting for over than 2 years in port) for San Diego and man, i love it, after 20 games my average is almost 90k

I picked this one up the second I saw it. I love BB's.

Well, I had Jean Bart and Jean Bart B, so I traded one of them for this one to have more variety. So far so good.

Had the coupon for Coal, has the F. Sherman, traded the Shermy in, got Karl on my team, and used coupon to get my Sherman back.

You're wrong about how to build and play this thing. It can stealth torp something virtually no other BBs can't do. You need to upgrade your turning so it can spam torps and then stay out of sight range. The main guns are secondary weapons to be used mostly against cruisers and destroyers. You're playing it like a normal battleship, firing the guns which eliminates your stealth. A standard BB is not what it is, it has more in common with a stealth cruiser.

IwamI Secondary Build ?

Should trade 8lvl ship for Brandenburg?

Its squishy the secs are just not worth it and very dead very fast and the main guns lack a punch. I cant recommand it tbh. Rupprecht seems to be the much better alternative

you forgot the meme part karls concealment is the same as her secondary range

Minegumo next?

Gave my Yoshino can always get it again for coal if i feel like it.

on ship tool im seeing that the secondary hitting dpm to be 50,726?

should've rammed the whisky smh

there are certain ship i pretty much only play in small brawls or ranked, and this ship falls in that catagory.

Tbh I’m just trading my coal ships in bc I wont be able to get them bc they are doubloons where as coal is can get at anytime

I traded my Khabarovsk for the Karl, since I never really play Khaba. I'm not super impressed by Karl, but it'll definitely see more use than Khaba.

would you trade a Friesland for it?

Hello! PQ my dude, this is a fun ship, i don't have money or too much doubs so I've been trying different builds in PTS server since its free. it's fun! Thank you @PotatoQuality great vid!.

I had 340k coal , I have trade Salem for Brandenburg as I needed T8 option for Lutjens (21p), I have Bismark , and GK,Pommren, + Scharnie 43 ,and my Lutens is on Schlieffen so is annoyng when I need to spend 300k com xp every time I need to use it on T8 , that made sense for me , and my second deal was F.Sherman for Karl Johan , I need to save 140k coal to buy back her , but it was worth it , I have played few games on her with Swirski on board and torp build that is perfect match , dont regret that deal.

Traded hayate that i got for free from that golden event, regret absolutely nothing, loving the ship

Talking of weapons being destroyed, I had a turret and a set of torps destroyed in one gaming session. That's the first time I have permanently lost a weapon on a ship, it's not fun.

9 matches today as a T8, all double up tiered to T10

Could you try Mutsu please

Ship request: Z-44

I traded Immelman for it about 15 minutes that I saw it active...... was a no brainer... seeing as I could buy Immelman with coal right back.

What is this red dot on enemy subs?

I did, and I'll fucking do it again.

Everyone saying this ship is so good, well if you like random battles it is not a good ship it even kinda sucks. But yeah for brawling its very good

traded malta for her, dont regret it. dont play malta much and having fun playing this ship.

I traded in the Neustroshimi that I bought for coal and 1.6K dubs. I can grind the shimi again.

Took Karl and Dlian against asashio and khaba, did not play those at all, and for about 10EUR 2x tier 9 prems is good deal in my book

I spec'd mine more to main guns and survival.

u had torps and the right side ready but go for the left side to do then... nothing?! ... well

I traded GK for Karl, because I dont play GK and I got it for free. Also I traded another free ship I got, Khabarovsk, for Minegumo and I paid with dubloons I got for free from a friend's bonus that I invited into the game. So 0 money spent in this trade-in event

Traded in my Moskva, for this, 1675 dubs total. with Petro and Nevsky around, I won't be playing my good old Moskva anymore. We'll see. Thanks

I am thinking of trading my Kurfurst. I can always get another Kurfurst.

In this patch, should I trade my GK for this?

I got the Karl XIV Johan in a Christmas container.

This ships rely too much on the gimmicky torps and knowing the fact that your torp tubes have randomized HP and might born poor, I don't think this ship worth it, imagine a single Conq, Vincent or Thunderer salvo pernamently broke all your torp tubes and now your gimmick is gone and all you have left is a gimped Rupprecht

Traded in my coal Sherman and paid 10 bucks for this ship so t9 premium BB for 10 bucks is a great deal. The Sherman is good only in some situations and even in a smoke screen you’re gonna get stomped because if you shoot then it’s a steady stream telling them where you are and the torps are useless. So could be fun but pretty useless. This bb is a blast even with a lot of t10s unless they have gimmicks or supers. Now subs are just op as fuck but that’s just wargaming being retarded. Had a 205 sit 6k away not moving and dropped charges on it and somehow missed both without him moving and then proceeded to 2 tap me with his alternative torps. Giving invisible subs did torps is fucking nuts. Overall this is a great ship and I just treat it like a heavy cruiser with what you would really think heavy cruiser armor is. Not gonna stop bb shells but you have the speed and turning radius to hunt some cruisers. Basically a battlecruiser with armor. 👍

Day 38 of asking PQ to play on Helena

With all do respect - if you are going to recommend this ship for ranked please ad a disclaimer saying this is not a noob or bad player friendly ship. This ship is not tanky and really works as a support/clean up boat.

I trade my s Sherman because it’s the cheapest tier ten coal ship for Karl John but it was worth it

i traded immelman for karl, good stuff trade, and also carlacio for kid.

Is it better than rupprecht? If not its just a waste.

I received a free Richtofen in a crate and I don't even play CV. Might trade for this.

Is it worth it Anchorage for Karl XIV Johan?

I got the ship from the santa containers

Also, that camo!

Wm thinking of trading Borodino to get minigumo . And my god the damn brawls in RB was gone 2 years ago when most of 💩 asia server player migrate to NA server . Worst move ever along with adding subs to this damn game

Trading Tiger 59 for this ship. Tiger is maybe the worst premium boat in the game.

Do a video on Italian Cruiser tier 8/9 plssssssssssssssss

Kutuzov for Karl XIV johan sounds good

Uploaded the vid right after I traded GK for it. lol