USS Fort Knox - The Better $$Moffett$$ at BR 4.7 [War Thunder] 

Gaijin really solved the bots by adding another American premium destroyer, all hail the snail

I still find it genuinely incredible how this is their answer to botting... they don't say anything in writing, but their actions show they know exactly what they're doing.... pure unbridled greed and deliberately winking at the bot-ers that they'll not fix anything for the foreseeable future. (also giving a ship that'll regularly face off against reserve destroyers just to make the starting grind that much more miserable to incentivize people into buying zhelensnewkovs and Helenas and Eugens so they can just bypass the lowest BRs entirely)

gonna pick this up to start my journey to the alaska and make absolutely criminal stinky bank along the way

If that thing really makes money so well, then I'll dip my toes into naval for it

I'm new to naval, and was surprised how much I started to enjoy it. Picked this bad boy up on your recommendation and do not regret it. And once you get the hang of aiming and have a decent crew... What a blast. And the SL is fantastic. 😎

Oddly enough, the Moffet was a mid 30's design that was eventually replaced with at least 7 similar and Fletcher(similar) class destroyers before the Gearing Class, which the USS Frank Knox is, was introduced in the late war. I doubt there will be any upgrades to the Moffet, which was made as a "Destroyer Leader" in the 30's and meant to be a go-between and fill in for a light cruiser, which probably explains why it is so heavily armed for a destroyer. The Gearings just happened to be around the time that the 5in/38cal dual mounts were put on every ship available again in favor of the single mounts. That is why there is such a huge difference in handling and performance even though the ship lacks a turret.

Luckily I got moffett ages ago from warbond shop so now I can buy this crime

They really said "Let's nerf the Gearing to make the Frank Knox even more meta."

Gotta say, even if the we have more for these bs Premiums, this will make a *fine addition to my collection* of things to spam base fuse HE at in my USS Cleveland

G'day again Napalmratte, I definitely didn't expect to see you in that match but man you seemed to have had lady luck on your side while the rest of us foundered within the spawn heh. Sooo out of the blue question but do you intend to field the Large Light Cruiser Glorious any time soon?, For imho it definitely seems to be a fun ship and quite solid strangely.

Great vid :) Could you please take a look at the HMS Glorious? its a really weird ship having the Hood's guns at 5.7 and a shit ton of 4.5 inch secondaries, its personally love it

Really nice they lowered BR from 5.0 Dev server to 4.7 on release.

the new rn aqulia has some pretty interesting torpedo angles. it gave me a good laugh when i first saw it

This is actually so smart by Gaijin. The 50% sale coming up means Moffit will be on sale but because the Frank Knox is a new vehicle, it's not gonna be on sale. botters and naval players may opt to buy the Frank Knox at its regular price instead of the Moffit at discounted price. Stonks

Nice, I think I have to pick this up too.

I want a british premium destroyer, theyre all event vehicles but we need more modern destroyers to get people playing

I mean we expected this to happen but gees, put the moffet to 5.0 and then put this in at 4.7 and yeah blatant sales move, should be 5.3 soon depending on if it gets more players back into naval for a bit. Seeing 6.0 in the moffett is pretty tough imo, though I havent played much since coming back.

Talk about US torpedo CAS, the torps used to have 100kg of tnt for a long time but now they got buffed to 400kg, its a one shot on everything but battleships and the BTD is a monster

I got the Moffett through the warbond shop. This I might buy at full price given how fun I found the gearing to be.

so Gaijin not only turns blind eye to all the botting, but provides bots with even more efficient ship ...

This is 100% accurate. Glad somebody else noticed that Frank Knox is better then the moffet

Slight correction, USS Frank Knox costs 1600 GE, Not 1200 GE. Still dirty cheap for how much it earns

Have you tried HMS Diana yet? In theory she should be very similar to Fort Knox.

This Ship will not be for too long at BR 4.7!!! Next month it will have 5.0 or even more because it´s better than the Moffett !!!!!

I'm afraid they might raise BR for this one like what they did for the moffet.

I just got this ship as a battle pass / War Bonds vehicle and took it out into test drive while watching your video on a second screen. One thing I noticed is that I can't get a radar lock on an aircraft. Wondering if this is because of a nerf and also wondering what else has changed since the review.

When im in a cakewalk competition and my opponent is americans in naval

tbh i may just buy both the moffet and the frank knox since theyre half off for the anniversary

Very good video thank you for the review, as the moffet is on discount right now but the knox isnt would you recomend the moffet over the knox? i want a SL grinder and american destroyers definitely seem to be the way so im torn between these 2 right now

Hi Napalm. Does USS Frank Knox have the same problem with USS Gearing when enggaging target that located close in front of the ship? On USS Gearing, when you want to enggage enemy ship that is in front of the ship and closer than 1 or 2 km, you can not use the guns on B turret because it can bot depress low enough due to the very close location of A turret so that it interfering with the B turret. Also, have you tried HMS Diana, the new Daring class destroyer on BR 4.7? It is a much better than battle class in term of fire power and the ability to withstand enemy fire (front magazine located below waterline, and much more crew number)

Italy suffering with just the RN Tiger 💀

Watching this gamplay frome u, i can just say that u are a inviolabel

i wish the Wilkinson was also rank 3, need me that full prem lineup

I would have bought it, but I have the David and Moffet already 😅

Also, USS Fort Knox have bigger crew than USS Moffet.

i just dont understand, america struggles on top cause they have only alaska vs other nations having 2+ top BC/BB, but they add another DD....

USS Fort Knox 1600 GE.

What about the Smelyi?

Its clear US had A-lot of ships and some epic heroes last standing destroyers BUUUUT milking the money from players because of premiums and .... I mean yeah this is getting out of hand but people still buy stuff that gaijin takes and make more money instead of actually fixing the game

Frank Knox 😅👍🏼

Is it worth to get both this and the Moffett, in case one of the two gets destroyed early, or is that a non issue in your eyes?

gaijin the most incompetence game developer of all time

fuck, late to this video :(

But what stops me from using both?

Im just cringing watching you play this thing, the US 127s are so utterly busted, how can anybody compete against these ships? Christ its the same BR as the Etna, Regolo and only .4 higher than the Verazzano, Corazziere or leone. Hell the undertiering dosent apply only to US TT ships seemingly, the Italian Impetuoso with the same cannons is just 4.0 for some ungodly reason

Speaking of not needed premiums, I can't want for your commentary on a *certain* bullshit vehicle added recently, lol.

When the sale coming?

Folks are sleeping on the Geniere. I kill Moffetts every game because Italy is constantly up tier. Playing 4.3 Italy is really 5.3. 5.7 Italy is always at least 6.3 . Pay 2 Win USA in Naval. Russia in Ground and I'm not sure about air rb. 5.0+ Italian Navy is not enjoyable due to Ganjin Pay 2 win money grab with big 3 love . Italy would be better off having a premium of the Duca Degli Abruzzi due to the faster fire rate of the smaller guns. Pola Guns are too slow so you often dont get kil credit

yes but is it worth getting the moffet for the 2 extra guns ?

Iv tried so hard to watch this all the way to the end and its just pain to hear someone giving such a one sided arugment for why "THIS ONE IS BETTER THAN THIS ONE BECAUSE X!" I swear you literally spat the word pathetic just made me cringe dude and doubt you even more. Hence why im not going to pick you apart. "ITS CHEAPER!" YES! by a whole 150ge. $1. For that price savings lets see what we get. Less firepower as stated. So when you swing the tail out to get the extra damage on target. Moffet you DOUBLE your damage output... this you get an increase of 50%. I know which risk id rather take when showing my weak point to increase damage dealt. Better gun move speed! WOW! Because the speed of the moffets guns were SUCH a hindrance were they? Lower battle rating. This one is funny because you know? Id say the moffets BR is way better than 4.7 for reason i will explain why. 5.0 and even 5.3 is below the worst of the compression. you will still kill cleavlands and helenas with the moffet at the battle rating. But you know the biggest reason why the moffet is at a good battle rating...? Its at the same BR as the moffet. It means your games more often than not depending on playtme will be FILLED with other moffets. What does that mean? A whole lot of botting players in the moffets. With massive exploitable weakpoints. I recently had a game where i got 7 kills in 2 minutes... Not bad consider the time to kill of oh idk... 4.7 destroyers with ammo kept below the waterline. And everything related to its anti air capability, your gun elevation, rotation speed, a radar that... has a use i guess or something cus your gunners totally dont scream (AIRCRAFFT 12KM!) can go here in one lump because.... When was the last time ANYONE here tied to a plane in naval? Iv face tanked B17s in the moffet and survived. Iv dropped 1000 pound bombs directly atop, and right beside others. Slapped them with torpedos, and everything else you can think of and they survive. Cas... Is not a problem in naval. Heck iv seen THREE PLANES TOTAL this past week. Two of those were when i was doing arcade for a task. So no. The "PATHECTIC" 28mm cannons do just fine thank you. If you let an aircraft sneak up on you or even worse a PATROL BOAT because you're blind thats a fault of the player not a fault of the ship. And id rather have 4 possible shots behind me rather than 2... So all in all no... i dont think the knox is better than the moffet for a saving of 150GE. Certainly not when im going to be put into a lower battle rating where i will get LESS KILLS Simply because of the fact enemy ships dont have massive weak points you can hit in the first salvo, maybe 2. And the fact they are generally more competent because they arent moffet players...

it got nerfed I guess I remember seeing it has 1800%+ silver lions but now it's 900%

Why are everyone bothered by bots? Less que time and more free kills... Naval was dead anyway, at least now we have some activity.