World of Warships- 5 Mistakes You Need To Stop Making 

As a DD player, I urge everyone to ignore destroyers, it is useless to shoot at them. Unless you are on my team, then shoot them.

I'm a retired navy guy, and my friends have suggested this game.... So I'm watching a bunch of videos before I dig in. So for the guy that's "getting ready to play", this is actually informational, and I appreciate it.... Thank You.

Rule number 1: protect green DDs as if they were your children and hunt and destroy red DDs as if they were the devil.

5 things..... the first 5 minutes - Don't charge into 5 ships in your brawling BB. Don't try and cap in a 3 radar match till you know where all the radars are. Don't get stuck nose in till you see how many red ships are pushing a flank. Dont be giving broadside in your BB or cruiser to launch those torps that will never hit the target and losing half you HP or more in the process. Finally play to win cos no one gives af how much damage you did in a losing side.

1 thing missing: keep your turrets facing the direction you want to shoot next. Use Shift+X / Ctrl+X and/or RMB to look aroung without moving your turrets.

#6: STOP IGNORING YOUR MINIMAP. Ctrl+ makes it bigger. Look at it all the time. Look at it at the start of the battle. Look at it after every salvo. Look at where your team's ships are. Look at where the enemy ships are. Look for where you might need to reinforce your team. Look for where you can outflank the enemy. Look for where you need to run the hell away from. Look for where you need to push into in order to win. All the information you can have is held within the minimap. Ignore it at your peril.

Now that subs are a part of the game, here’s a mistake for each side to avoid. As a surface ship: do not immediately run when you get pinged or use damage control. The pings are a visible effect. Instead: immediately charge the sub by following the pings to the source. When you see a crescent shaped white effect in the water, you’ve found the sub. It will be right behind that crescent shape. If you have hydro, use it at this point, then use your depth charges. As the sub: do not ping too often or too much. If you payed attention to what I just said, you have concluded that the sonar pings, the thing everyone hates about subs is overhyped and a double edged sword because they give away your general direction. Instead: you are better off firing off your volley of torps, then turning around, avoiding pinging the enemy until the last second before your torps make impact.

More ideas: Stop saying things like "ab" or "bc". It will give the enemy a free flank to flank you from and shoot your broadsides. You will lose If you spawn in the middle, stop running towards a flank, consider supporting the middle cap, especially when one of your DDs tries to cap there Stop ignoring your minimap Start counting the enemy ships on your flank and your ships on your flank and decide if you have an advantage or not. Don't push if you are on the weak flank, you will die

The most common mistakes I see (and I do them myself from time to time) is rushing to the middle/caps early on and getting focused fast, not reading the map on what each time and player is doing, and finally taking on poor fights (1v2 or more). Seeing players rush into die has to be the worst though, and it only takes one or two to cause enough of an imbalance in a flank to cause a blowout game. Every ship matters and you make more money/XP surviving as long as possible, even in a lost game.

This is one of your best video. I come back to it regularly as a refresher. The comments from other players is useful. Keep it up

As a BB, large / heavy cruiser main, i like playing agressive, putting pressure to the enemy team. BUT, what most CQ players make as mistake is to push right away, always resulting in a early death. The trick is patience: Like for example when i play GK, GL, preussen etc, don’t push right away, fire from distance with your teammates. When a flank is exposed or there is a gap you can exploit, than push in. If the enemy DD are dealt with or far away from you, than you can be more agressive as long as you have island cover, absolutely NEVER sail in the open So again long story short: when you push, only do so when the opportunity is there and you know who you could encounter

17:30 Quick notification, the healing ratio for citadel damage on Conqueror is 10%. Meaning that if you take a citadel(14800) from Yamato, only 1480 can be restored. Which is absolutely a big deal. No offence btw.

Thanks for the tips. As a newbie I’m going to work on incorporating those suggestions into my game!

Helpful Info. Thanks! Please do more of these.

It's good to see that this is mostly stuff I am already doing. SLM, if you haven't already, could you do a video on how to prioritize the three defensive 4-point BB commander skills, especially for secondary builds that can only take one or two?

Tip#1 for DD players, going past the 50/50 line (midpoint in the map or cap) is suicide. You're not only going to find a DD but also all the other unspotted ships coming up behind him, this is doubly so if you're already aimed in on by being located from the captain skill.

Good advice. Please do more of these videos. Would cover how to take torp hits in your BB.

Very good video. And I do love BBs that sail in straight lines. Damage score and xp piñatas.

I was playing wow legends on consol last night in a DD and encountered radar for the first time. It was rather unpleasant to suddenly become visible surrounded by the entire enemy team, lol. My team of course was hugging the very back of the map. Also if aircraft carriers are in play, assume you are visible in open water. I love hunting down carriers in DD. They are usally abandoned by their team.

Great video! more of this please!!!

As long you're having fun, time will make you better. Stats are just for the show since you can't win alone no matter how good you are. After all victory comes from team work.

aiming by feel and aiming by looking at numbers of distance and travel time are 2 different concepts of aiming and for the most part most veterans aim by feel, therefore, getting used to aim by numbers is only going to set you back in the long run, and also requires too much information to process increasing micromanagement.

1 stop paying WG 2 enjoy what you already have 3 turn off in game chat 4 do not try to help other players (they aren't worth it) 5 division up with people that actually know the game

When it comes to damage repair, I try not to use it when I'm near an enemy DD location. If there was a DD nearby my ship, behind the island, or inside a smokescreen, I try not to use damage repair until the DD is sunk. This is because it can use torpedos which cause flooding. Flood + fire = a very bad time. Even when the DD has been sunk, it might still have launched torpedos, so caution is needed. Always nice to have: with big battleships I always get the perks that make the heal and damage repair last longer/heal more. Especially for those that are suited for brawling, such as GK, Schlieffen, Preussen, Pommern. The perk that reduces the amount of fires might help as well, but I prefer to have better heals. One less fire seems a bit too situational.

As a BB my main concern is to be close enough to help DDs but not so close as to be torpedo bait. More BBs need to do this rather than just hang back.

As a previous BB main who now is DD main. I prefer ranked to randoms now. A single DD can win the match in ranked. And the ammount of glue being ate in random is crazy.

Also as a DD player assume everytime you fire your main guns you are sending up a location flare to the enemy. So no matter how tempting it is...always ask yourself if it's worth revealing your position to use your DDs main guns? Also if alone and enemy aircraft is looking for you...turn off your AA guns unless they spot you of course.

For New players I have always recommended that they play One Country, One Branch until tier V. Then switch to a New Country and a Different Branch. (i.e. US DD, GER BB, IJN CL ...) ONLY, once you have 6-8 Tier V ship, do you begin to push on. Doing only One Country-Branch to Tier VIII, then again switching. Again once you have lots (6-8 Tier VIII) then you can push towards Tier X and Superships. This doesn't mean you have to play EVERY Country and EVERY Branch, but you should have lots of experience in different countries and branches. There are some Branches that I still haven't passed Tier VII. Finally, you should push your Captains up with as you purchase new ships. Your going to be focusing on the highest tiers, so have your best Captain with them. Your other thoughts are good.

A tip for the heal. There is an official mod that you can add that tells you exactly how much of your health you can heal at any one time. This is really nice for helping you know the maximum healing power of your heal, and when to use it.

I am a universal player period. Nice variety but you have to know the ups and downs of each class and you have to be able to adjust your tactics and strategy accordingly and I am looking forward to jumping back into subs. Flexibility is the key.

Some great tips there when I play BB I queue up HE then pick AP and watch my little DD friends in if they spot a red 🌮 use up the HE to help.

I've played 14k games in three years and didn't know the significance of the alternative HUD(spelling?) This type of video is greatly appreciated. I've encouraged my team to watch it.

Thanks for the feedback - good food for thought.

Something you do quite a lot SLM is to do with not altering your aim when a ship you are targetting goes undetected. You do this about 15:50 into the video against the buffalo and you were aiming 300 meters past the line the ship was on so your salvo just sailed straight over the ship. Just a thought. :~)

Hey thank you helped me a lot love your vids thanks😀😀😀😀

In The Expanse Series , 6 martian destroyers and 6 UN destroyers face off to capture\protect a single rogue destroyer ,The martian Win because one destroyer is taken out early in battle by tye rogue destroyer ,so dont die first , 1 less means defeat

It never occured to me that people actually use the standard HUD. The first thing I did when playing this game was changing to alternative view but I came from WoT so I knew what to look for.

I downloaded this game a week ago....I'm In love with it👍👍👍🤘🤘👌👌👌

I like to hold my fire when I see what I know is going to be a big hit coming in that I can't avoid rather than fire right away just for that AR reload buff I am going to have. It catches peeps off guard when I start sending shots their way every 9 sec or so with JB because I have reload booster and an enemy within secondary range.

"There are 5 classes in this game" There are only 3 classes and 2 crimes.

Generally if I have 1 fire burning and I know more may be on the way, I pop my heal when the fire's countdown is roughly halfway or just over halfway through

Great tips Sea Lord, very helpful. Could you please add some more tips for smoke use? (especially cruisers) How can I support my team better with smoke? I know I can cover the retreat of a friendly BB or DD with my smoke but how else?

after years of co op battles started to play ranked and random and i noticed that 1 team,usually mine, huddles together in a part of the map while leaving enemies to push to them and shoot fish in the barrel. Bring back the flank cover damn it.

About the damage control party, i think if you play as a french bb you have to waste them much more because you just take heavy damages from fire/flood

CE is a must-have skill on most ships that can have it, unless your concealment is so bad for the tier (on a BB like, say, Fuso) that you just give up on concealment. Priority Target is also extremely useful on any gunship that has a citadel, and also run-and-gun DDs like the French. Another good tip is to disable AA on a DD, until you're actually spotted by a CV, unless it already knows exactly where you are. Especially at the start of a match with domination points, you can make it harder for a CV to find you by disabling AA. The key is P by default but should be rebound to something more convenient.

I recommend when trying to hit torpedos from a big distance click your torpedo button twice to make them kinda spread up so u have a bigger chance of hitting the target

Brilliant advice. !!! Thank you.

Please do more. Especially clan focused battles

I finally started playing DDs, man! DD is hard especially if your team doesn’t support you.

Blowouts happen when MM puts 4-6 50 - 60+ % winrate players on one team with a couple average (50-55%) players and the rest wayyyy below average players on the other team.

Damage control consumable. For DDs you are so often put in the position of have no engine, no rudder, no torpedoes etc while trying to run away or hide in your smoke... or popping the damage control. I mean a second nasty volley will probably kill you anyway, DC or no DC.

Great vid, ty!!

As a BB player never sai in a straight line and when spotted by a torp threat always vary your speed , also see dd shoot dd, and don’t damage con a single fire 🔥 and turn into you enemy and present your belt armour to bounce and shatter incoming fire

Great tips, thanks.

This the best advice A lot of US as players cant get threw to noobs in this game even when being nice DD fear is real ! !

I’m surprised you didn’t mention vision and managing spotting range. I found that early on that was my biggest mistake.

1- Playing the game 2- Spending money in the game 3- Being frutrated because you are playing the game 4- Saying you will never play the game again 5- Going back to number 1.

When you play Conqueror and someone dmg cons a single fire in their BB :) Also I recommend Yamato to learn dmg con/heal management. People might not know this but the Yamato hull is 50% oiled paper so you really get to know fires!

Good to know that Going after DD first is better than going after other ships of my class first

as a DD main.... thank you Sea Lord Mountbatten

Kill radars should be a nr 1 tip for any class other than DD's. In most games even if I spot the radar my team just keeps spamming whatever BB is still visible. As a result you can't cap, contest the cap or challenge the enemy DD

Love the Incomparable gameplay

great vid , but i found sailing straight is safest , i done 90' turns and still bean smashed , but ran for an near by island and tanked and they miss . dunking has become a thing, in mosvka , dunking dds are a pain to the point , i go after their support . but why i am playing mosvka , because of long range play , and the mosvka has a good long range mod

thank you dude

Another thing about using the health consumable to early the earlier you use it the less health it replenishes

If Conqueror eats a citadel, you heal 10%, so no, eating cits is the best way to make your Conq heal useless. Also, while indeed it is generally better to turn out in a ship, turning in (best at range) can actually work out, because most BB players with some experience will account for opponents to turn out, not in. If you can turn out again or go undetected or behind some solid cover before the next salvo is up, turning in can be a very valid option.

While I agree the alternative hud is useful, the base hud does work best with emerson, not knowing exactly how much health a ship has or how long a shell will fly for is a lot more accurate to commanding a real warship, though I get why most people like having more details It’s mostly a choice of what you like best, a game of numbers or estimation

from my personal experience, speed juking does work very well outside of DD and light cruisers.

Thanks for the 5 tips. Would like to ask a question. How do reds always hit u with every shell. Only one or two of mine hit.

Finaly somebody that say Cover your DD players in the group , am a great DD player they all want that we go spot sure , bud once we having spots they don't help you no more , and like you say even this Big ships don't shoot even more on DD's , bud one thing is'nt fair you all having mostly somebody with radars in group , that spawn us in a DD smoke , bud let have a DD then a system that can disturb this radar for some time . Sorry my english is'nt so good - Sea Lord Mountbatten - You Are Great! Thanks excellent video congrats !

Learning to play all the classes of ships from different countries is key to being good and proficient at this game. This gentleman is 100% correct

Learn to full reverse and turn on a dime. Most BB are even capable of dodging torps this way. It's not always possible, but it can help a lot.

A video description of some of the terminology used in the game would be great.

Sea Lord Mountbatten: Don't Just Play One Class. Me: Blasphemy, Heresy Absolutely Despicable! I Prefer Me Battleships!

The only time I have used the "Request support" option was, when in a DD I managed to be sitting undetected at the rear of the enemy, lighting up the whole path to that cap... but, on DD's and caps... I wasn't going into that cap, hell no, the enemy team had a DD and a sub and every BS and CS in teh map was just waiting for a DD to show up in there. Jingles taught me, as a destroyer you are far, far more useful and deadly later in the game. So I "disappear" as best I can, stay out of trouble. Sometimes the trouble is, everyone does that. Stale mate stand off and then it becomes the poor little DD's job to make the move and usually get absolutely wiped out doing so.... and no thanks.

1. Playing the edge of the map in BBs. 2. Pushing on the weak flank. 3. Playing in irrelevant parts of the map in standard battle mode. 4. Chasing CVs in a DD or sub. 5. Playing DDs without RL.

Know your ship and know your enemies will make you a very dangerous target on the field. A enemy with 1hp is still as dangerous as a ship with full hp.

I hate it when i’m in a ranked battle where a few players actually give good strategie advise, and a latecomer gives opposite advice while mist players are almost in position. Often a few players listen to the latecomer at that point and the whole strategie goes garbage.

I would like to add one stop doing trick, which is don't use the hydroacoustic just after you spawn. I see this happening a lot.

Exactly! Stop sinking Destroyers; let us throw up torpedoes, please!

As a dd player. Tell the blue team to shoot dds. Every time im playing dd, no one shoots dds i spot, but if i get spotted the entire enemy team stops what theyre doing just to shoot at me lol

I’m currently tier IX US BB once I hit X and max out I’m gonna hit up cruisers

Sounding like Arthas Roqthar The Cold with that "let It burn" segment lol.

Last point is always an interesting, also I am still curious if AR does not work on heal lost but healed (maybe patched and I lost track of it). My counter to this point is, having a few tenths of a second faster firing time at the cost of tens of thousands of HP or being alive when your team needs you, health is more important in the game. That said, this is from the point of view from a fairly aggressive brawl type player.

Don't forget to use the mod station! Mods like Regen assist and the info panels are helpful!

I know there’s videos, two years old bro I hope you’re still playing and I can find you because you are correct on everything and I swear there is a bunch of idiots play in the swing in the higher tier level, the stupider they get

My rule is Destroyers go for unaware/unsupported high value or opportune targets, Aircraft Carriers torpedo cruisers and Battle ships and bomb only Battleships, cruisers I use depending on thier armament but is better to play sneaky because of thier low health and high spotted range. Battleships should go for citadel hits on cruisers and battleships, in support of other ships, not too close so that someone is getting torpedoed, but not far away so that you are vulnerable to air attack. 2-4k radius is fine. The other thing is making sure your destroyer perks are failed towards not being spotted. Can’t hit something you can’t see, can’t react if you never see the destroyer turn away, that’s why Japanese destroyers are so powerful. I got 78k at tier 2 or 3 I average about 30 over all games

Pro tip: as a aircraft carrier grinder and I sugest you PAY ATTENTION AT DESTROYERS ESPECIALLY IF YOUR A AIRCRAFT CARRIER if you don't they'll sneak up behind you and torp you to death killing them is best with bombers destroyers are to fast for atack or torp aircraft

The destroyer one is very true, I managed to brawl 8 ships and sunk them with a V-25.

Another thing for Rule Number 4 if turning out. If you are in a cruiser with a citadel allergic to shells, turn out as soon as you're spotted, turn faster by lowering your speed if you have the skill that tells you ships are locking on or shooting at you. But don't go full 180 away from battle, continue to stay angled and contribute but watch the skies for shells and have speed left ready to dodge them. Its damn hard to do meaningful damage to a ship angled away if they are greater than 15km away especially if they have the speed to turn away from incoming salvos. If you wait to see shells coming at you before turning out, its often too late to turn out, doing so while shells are inbound are a great way to take huge damage. You might just be stuck then slowing down and turning in instead and going bow on to make yourself the smallest target possible and hope your armor protects you from a shot or two, then wait to go dark if possible, then turn out.

the easy way to say run other classes and certain ship in those classes with differing play styles. Know what you can do unto others, as they can do unto you.

Time In playing makes the biggest impact with a player , I say It takes at least 1000 hours before its like a normal routine,at 1,200 to 1,600 should know most everything from ships and using your ship for the best advantages or more . People at 500 hours are still learning . There are a lot of new players and you can tell. Hours playing Is the only way you can get better. And watch Videos. A new player cant even begin to understand without time playing. So to all the new players have fun put your hours In playing thats the only way to get good at this game. YOU will be surprised at what you can do at 1,200 hours playing. Me I have 5,400 hours , wait till you can picture or count when you shoot at ships at range but that takes time. So many things new players will unlock with hours playing. Boy are you going to be surprised at what you can do....Best of luck to new players.

More please!

I'm a poor player and every help is appreciated! Thx a lot

DD players; 1) you're on your own so don't count on your team. 2) don't waste smokes. 3) get in the cap. 4) smoke up as soon as spotted. 5) if teammates aren't spotting for you after you smoke RETREAT!

Ah yes I remember just the other day I was playing de zeven provincien and I wasn’t paying attention to the fact that there was an I spotted yugumo on the enemy team… at least I got some cool torpedobeats before I died tho

I didn't even remember that alternative hud is a thing. I thought it was the default. You are telling me that some people play without it

Number 1 : blame others for your own faults 2: dont use hydro / radar at the start of the match - check those ranges

I noticed you missed one big point on damage con...what about when you're double pinged by a sub?

You should have addded don't sail broadside to enemies if you can avoid it. I se to many people doing this.