A few problems with this ship. Obviously one is the lack of DD commanders selection. The other is this ship came very late in our game and farther into the power creep and a tier higher than PC. T7 in our game is so stacked with great premium DDs like Somers, literally a T10 on PC with pretty much no changes. To top it off they release it the same week they jack up CVs when it has no AA even know WG punishes tribal tribal class DDs with garbage firing angles and one less turret in lieu of "better AA" in the form of an AA mount. I still like it but it honestly feels like needs some love. Maybe a good DD commander could help it.
Currently pushing hard from the start of a game will work well if there's enough support. Most people are too cautious and will run for cover, especially at the higher tiers.
So, I actually saw this ship this last Saturday, and right before World Of Warships: Legends' D-day Live Stream. HMCS Haida is LARGER THAN LIFE in person. If Elbing was a real ship, Haida would be it, she's VERY big for a Destroyer. She, to us Canadians, means as much to us as the Iowa Class Battleships to the USA, or the HMS Hood to the British. As for builds, I would rather recommend Murray (Of course) while running Charles Madden and William Sims. This will buff your HP, Reload, and Turning of your guns. Combine this with Haida's Stealth, and she becomes a Tanky, Fast, Sneaky Gunboat. Overall, Haida may not be the best RIGHT NOW, but I have no doubt this ship is still fun. I may be a BB player so I've got some DD 101 to learn, but I'll be playing Haida for EONS to come.
I'LL ALSO SAY, not having a Flag of Canada is technically accurate, as Canada would not have their Maple Leaf Flag until after WW2, so it's reasonable.
Best non-review you’ve done! And good game to you and the Lushan. I’m one of the three people that purchased the whole Haida package. I had on day of release, thought the Assignment with Commander crate would have been a dedicated Commander for this ship, which would have made the deal worth it, for me anyway. Would have also had been nice to have released a Canadian flag along with the Commonwealth flag that came with it. I’ll have to hope the Epic Boosters pays off in my grind to ease the pain.
I hate it when they do this. It's so lazy to not release a dedicated commander for a ship. It leaves it at such a massive disadvantage compared to things like Friesland, Loyang and Lushun. I bought the ship and the frag camo because its pretty slick looking. That overpriced bundle is for the fattest of dumb whales. It just gives you a flag and some useless boosters you can get for free.
I’m still not sure what this ship offers above the Lightning. Very sad to see “X” gun mount replaced by a useless secondary. 6 guns with comparable reload to Lightning…but let’s give up a torpedo mount…well, you know…just because… Sad treatment for our Canadian friends, who were really looking forward to this ship.
Ah, the Secondary gun was a choice by the Canadian Navy themselves, to favor for more AA. If you play the Cossack 38', I'm pretty sure the gun actually comes back
Atlantico + one of the strongest f2p dedicated commanders >>> Haida + zero dedicated commander. What is actually embarrassing is that WG could have significantly increased sales by releasing a dedicated commander. Unless they're entirely incompetent, I guarantee them releasing a commander the next time Haida goes on sale. The real problem is that the Tribal class is a mediocre platform at best, with horrible gun and torp angles, and 1/4 speed crawling smoke as the worst type of smoke in the game.
I like these capture the basis because most people don’t read the damn caption and play it like domination which means the game is really fast because they don’t defend our base. I drive in a destroyer pop smoke 2 1/2 minutes later games over.
rushing in straight awat and capping gets old pretty quickly and you don't get much xp for it either. it's much more fun to play the game out and fight the enemies even if you could just end the game in 5 minutes
That is only going to work if the enemy team are complete potatoes. The red team did the same in this video, and they did win. But as I was saying, it’s entirely due to the blue team’s inability to pay attention to the map and position correctly. They won by default. Not because their strategy was a good one.
