USS Halford First Impressions - World of Warships 

DD with a squadron of planes… nuts

Destroyer/carrier hybrid. Waiting for the submarine/carrier I400 class.

That Ending just felt dirty

To be fair, this ship is not entirely made up. In real life, the USS Halford was fitted with a plane that is used for weather scouting, but not for attacking. Just like in game, it lost a gun and torpedo rack. It proved ineffective and was later removed, with the guns and torpedo rack being put back on.

Benham with a bit worse conceal and less torps, but with planes. Being able to scout an area for DDs and radar cruisers seems like a good strength. Do that, send your planes to a nearby ship for additional damage and move in with safety. Or sail away from danger. I hate planes with a passion, but I could see people enjoying this ship. And remember when people said ships like Hyuuga, Harekaze II or Minegumo were going to be thrash ? As long as you don't throw away 75% of your HP to a radar cruiser you knew was there, in the first 2 minutes of the game, to try to get your torpedoes away...

Funny that the Littorio is called TurboLover and follows the Halford on his team

Halford. Has the funny 12km torps, slow but really rocking damage. You can launch F8F bearcats only if you find cover. You can spot the carrier for carrier sniping.

I’ve had pretty good games with this thing in ranked. Longer range fast reloading torps and planes has more Impact in those smaller games. Otherwise in randoms, it’s allot stronger late game when you can use the planes to finish off low health ships.

Crazy. But it does open up an additional method for DDs to help with spotting. Might be useful in battles where it comes down to maintaining caps to win with the ability to spot ships 3 caps away trying to flip a capture point and being able to reset them with plane rockets. It's certainly not a brawling DD and needs to stay in the shadows to be effective and survive.

Can't wait to see how soon we'll get the first sub flying planes...!

This ship sacrifice everything for the planes. Funny enough, she's quite balance because plane spotting and plane damage both unavoidable.

Even the actual US Navy during WW2 didn't like putting a scout plane on a DD

Now i get it. WG is slowly changing WoWs to WoWp so they finally said that game was a success.

Funnily enough the US was not the first to do this, back in WW1, Germany put a catapult plane on one of their torpedo boats but I don’t recall which one.

It works... if we are Flambass LOL

Skill and good decision making made that match happen. the ship looks like a hot mess. who thought up a DD carrier platform?!

Patrol ship...Testing Use of Planes, BEfore we got our Carriers up. Fletcher class. Saw Action for 3 years then To Navel Inaction patrol fleet.

The Brilliant Minds at WG ...DDs really hate the CVs, lets give them planes and maybe We can get them to like them! That is their balance plan?

did you did better in tromp? cause you mentioned it in the commentary

This would have been much better with Tromp "fire and forget" style planes.

You spot with plaines no atteck with them...

Hybird Fletcher

So Kearsarge needs this giant, tumor like flight deck to basically launch the same number of planes slower than this dd with a single catapult...

DD carriers? What will they think of next?

Those planes need torpedoes... Don't attack... Just loiter around spotting BB's, CB's DD's...

How will this Ship perform... after they add the Plane-Changes anyways? xD

You can't be close to the enemy, because in the moment you pop up the planes, enemy knows exactly where you are - you already were blind-fired because of it, any skilled shooter will use it with ease. So you really were expected to chill out with Delaware...

this ship seems so stupidly weak, yet able to ruin any other stealth ship's game in a wink. that's what it is all about now nowadays. ruin someones game completely, then die or sail around aimlessly because the ships purpose is fulfilled

so this or tromp for coal?

So ironic to see hybrid ships just right there on top of the chart and... that Delaware, please bro, are you really playing that game?

At this moment this game is running on gimmicks. Hybrid BB's, hybrid DD's... I'm waiting for a hybrid submarine with battleship guns.

the plane spotting is annoying, that's really what is going for it. Seen quite a few players sit in smoke and 'fly' which isn't a great move because smokes are torp magnets, and I've killed quite a few like that. Otherwise underpowered, but given how important spotting is and how quickly the planes come back up I imagine it would be good in a div, or ranked perhaps if for some reason you aren't allowed radar.

worst thing about this ship is that gameplay is incredibly boring. at least CVs you almost constantly have planes in the air for the early part of the battle, this you need to wait between plane reload and torp reload. Flambass in a DD should NEVER be boring

What did you expect from WG? If there is a way to screw up something they WILL find a way. 85 seconds to reload one torpedo launcher when it's faster to reload three on other destroyers is nuts as well. But the question is, Are you surprised? Nope, didn't think so.

Noice

Solo is weak. I play it only in division. And I spot for my cruiser the DD. But there’s one nasty thing about it. I have a mod that displays the rpf on minimap. So.... when I fly those planes I see where that enemy DD is. Yeah 😂

Ah yeah, the famous flat top DD‘s we saw in action all the time. WG completely lost it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

imagine this with the old school rocket planes without the stupid gun animation and long asss pause before they shoot.

It's a Fletcher, not a Benson. And, NO, WG is not the only one stupid enough to come up with this. The U.S. Navy did in WWII. Look it up.

She's a weak ship, can confirm. Good games in that ship requires finely balanced MM (in your own favour ofc lol), and that shit lines up perfectly for your rotation. Poor concealment, low HP and only 4 pea shooters... Why play that DD when you have other, superior DDs to choose from?

Ah yes WoWs solution to OP airplanes and aircraft carriers is to just give aircraft to all player types so everyone can enjoy the fun. If they haven’t already I’d put money on them doing this to the Japanese sub line in the near future. Clearly this is easier than just fixing the game.

Ok that is odd

Sub that outrun dds. DDs that launch entire squadrons of aircraft. Carriers with lower detection than cruisers. WG have incredibly low standards in game design.

looks a bit like a small version of Kid

you're first just because WG is buffing anyone's score who use planes

Thanks. I hate it.

Nothing special dd

I was looking forward to this review but after 10+ minutes of nonstop bitching about how bad it is while making misplay after misplay it was no longer a review just a whine festival. You want it to be exactly like every other DD in the game how mundane, play to its strengths instead same as every other ship in the game man. Just because it doesn’t suit your play style isn’t the dole meta yo define a review by. 🤦🏼‍♂

Why is it , you all need to have your faces on screen dont get it ? is it a complex or a hero type era that needs to bee seen ,dont need to see anything but what being talked about then i see why, your takling to me. ,but in like game play , you dont need a face to look at while watching a game play.

A very weak uss Kidd without any of the benefits.

The other side of the Russia Bias, weak American ships.

WG. Enough already, stop with the stupid ships. Just charge a subscription to play tier 7 and up.

and you feel like cheater ;p

The USS Halford a Fletcher class modified into a light scout with 1 scout aircraft which in the game is changed to a squadron lol.

Halford must have had a secure container. Those planes had to come from somewhere....oh WG's backside.

What next? Carriers that can drop BB's anywhere on the map? Wargaming have totally lost their minds..

i love how 4 planes pop up from a little ship like Halford

What!!! You expect WOW to make ships that make any sense??

ive been playing the halford intensively for some months now and i actually like to play it a lot. Yes it is kinda weak when it comes to raw damage but its very fun for its strategic posibilities. Yes you go back and forth between torps an planes but you can actually hold planes and you can have "saved" an squadron just after you launched one, so you dont have to use planes ASAP, you can wait and you wont be wasting time. i speced my halford with a captain that has torps and the extra aa + fire rate to be less usless defending my self against dds and cvs, and i use the aa consumable too, and actually shoot planes down, specially if you "ambush" the planes. The planes are really good at finishing bbs and cruisers, the torps are 13.5 km so you can play "safe" most of the time and as you saw, you can have 1 hp and still be effective

Good for competititve like Ranked or CB. Also, you can really create synergy between fires and floods, just need to time it well. Other than that, the ship does need some buff on guns and torps, not too fun for Randoms unless playing in a division.

How does it park 4 airplanes on a Destroyer hull? And yes, it will suck, cause CV's and aerial spotting is so underpowered... And you get guns, and torpedo's? This will have some insane skillcap.

Just wish they had put an ACTUAL spotter plane on it like the real metal ship. Yes I know it was a failure and was converted back, but with new CV rework one of the new spotter planes might work.

with this ship you're constantly giving away your position every single time you start your plane + you turn your ship braindead because of the moronic autopilot control... wtf is this shit? xD

One hybrid ship nr 1 the other hybrid ship dead last, and he had the ability to do massive damage with main battery between flights. Skillz difference. Looks like a terrible ship tbh.

Halford is a Fletcher with a plane instead of one torpedo rack and a gun. It's the dumbest idea there is (hybrid DD) and hopefully weegee learned from how ass this ship was and won't do another of these abominations again.

What is Halford? WHO is Halfod! JUDAS PRIEST!

I can't wait for the Russian hybrid sub. Pop up every minute and launch a flight of 6 planes

Komisar feels interesting but idk about 30k steel. Will it become a normal steel ship u can use a coupon on?

More GimmickBoats. Not a fan. Ever. But that is WG in 2024.

I have my spotting damage record in Halford. It racks up over time

You should not do torpedoes on that dd because they are weak and worthless so building it for guns is more worth it

Is it weak or is it more you are such a strong player that it feels weak to you? I mean you did come top.

I got one from a crate a while ago, I've used it once

when wargaming tricks you into playing a carrier...

Fuck me, now DDs have planes, fuck that game

8:30 @Flambass you're such a bad influence

It's now 18 months since I quit WoWs. I'm so pleased I did. Still enjoy watching the odd game though. ;)

11:16 when did they add the kamikaze mechanics

Its probably for the best you cant hit DDs with the planes. Being able to spot them, for free, while keeping yourself safe, completely slams the scales in your favor. Imagine a ship that did this but could also hurt the DD too, good thing WG loves the loli botes too much to subject them to such- waitaminute

Not very effective

Every fire you set was immediately put out.

What BS ship...

I have no played but saw your game and looks like a new developer recruited by wargaming and told him/her to code DD features.

Mini cv.😂

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