World of Warships- American Battleship Guide 

Hey guys this was recorded, and edited days before the announcement of the US BB split. So unfortunately it’s outdated already. BUT the information is still applicable to the current ships. A video will be up for the new US BBs soon!

No one: Tier 3-7 American BB: *EXTRA THICC*

Got to admit, this kind of guide/overview would be GREATLY appreciated for EVERY line and ship class, not only BBs! I feel the wiki information and "descriptions" of the different lines isn't that up-to-date.

Sea Lord: ok everyone stay still Dan: VROOOM

This cinematic BB lineup looked EPIC, I NEED TO SEE MORE OF THIS, PLS GIVE ME MORE!!!!

god did you ever time this perfectly for me, just got the iowa and have been wondering how to play her right

Finally someone who is not the Devs who focuses on High tiers instead of both low tier and high tier guides!

i think it would be a really fun video to watch you guys try to do realistic formation changes in an actual battle!

Outtakes at the end were awsome!

I am currently playing the Colorado and I feel like people are too harsh on it. I have had many very good games and thoroughly enjoy playing it. I think the improved US heal has done a lot to help her stay alive and make her fun to play now.

Definitely was fun setting that up bossman. We should do em all

The Colorado is a satisfying bote. Suffers on harsh uptiers, but what doesn't? Stay in the middle of the map and use the good range and large shells to make the reds pay.

Good to see Battleship guides from a Battleship preference player, too many youtubers prefer ships such as DDs, Cruisers.. Battleships are where the fun's at. Personally I got amagi, Iowa, Kurfurst your guides help that extra bit; thanks!

colorado players when they hit 21 knots I AM SPEED

Great vid as always SLM. I'm grinding the USN BBs and this really helped and the intro is great! But why do you run Preventive Maintenance instead of Priority Target?

New sub alert. Just started the Ships after been a tanker since forever. Just creeping up the US BB line so excellent tips cheers

Man I LOVE his guides but his voice is so soothing it actually put me to sleep!

Make a video about franch BB.

What’s weird is that IRL the Iowa’s shell velocity is extremely fast

wait? 6:04 yuro California vid confirmed?

Thoughts on new proposed American BBs?

Thanks you for the amazing guide

I’ll make this very simple from tier 5-7 the American ship are good ships you’ll love them after you learn to be a skilled player . The new Mex The Colorado and West Virginia very much the California are dam fine ships . I have a 68 percent win rate in these ships . Only turd can’t make these ships shine

If there is one thing that looks incredibly good then its definetely a Line of Warships. Preferably BBs and Dreadnoughts 😍

Secondary builds are glorious on the Arkansas, Massachussets, Georgia, and Ohio if you have them.

2:04 I still don't get how USN battleships are considered to have only 'average' armor. Sure, the Soviet battleships are the tankiest, but wouldn't the USN battleships be second place in that category? Upon comparing the armor values of battleships at each teir, I have noticed that the USN battleships seem to usually have thicker main belts and athwartships than most other battleships of each teir. Regarding the German battleships with their turtleback armor, It seems that although they are often immune from being citadelled, it seems that the turtleback armor scheme is not able to bounce shells as effectively as the All Or Nothing scheme. Am I missing something?

maybe im just forgetting the bad matches, but i remembered loving my Colorado? i feel like i never see them in tier 9 games, but all the time in tier 6

5:52 A wild Yuro appeared!

As the Medic says OKKTOBERFEEEST!

TIMELINE Dreadnoughts Tier 3-7 2:57 General playstyle 5:32 Fast battleships Tier 8-10 General playstyle 12:12

*AA Build is POINTLESS in current WOWS! None of it makes enough difference without the slot 6 AA mod! And giving up accuracy or reload for that is still STUPID! Optimal modern AA Build = BFT, nothing else!* North Carolina up has good enough AA that you need NOTHING! Anything added will only barely change things!

Secondary focus not needed? “Laughs in Massa”

When i grinded throw the Colorado back in 2015, that ship was a beast

Good advice, watch out for those light cruisers seeing BBs as , load the he boys and let do some shooting

Excellent guide, thx.

When the Smolensk screws up, "You Will Reap it!"

I love jorg washingmachine in the start thing

Iowa is my favorite so far (still doesn’t get Montana though). Maybe because I played Alaska a lot before when I grind DM line. (I’m CA main btw) Alaska is like a light armored Iowa for me. Iowa speed is great to play her middle or flank to middle. When I’ve won a flank I’d rapidly sail back to help other flank or exploit the middle if both flanks are undecided.

Nice video I there any way to get the Missouri or will it maybe come back ?

4:35 Careful how you say his name dude amen 🙏

The US battleship line is the most boring line to grind from tier 3 to tier 7 (especially on a free to play account where you don't want to buy upgrades and unnecessary modules). Play your favourite ship instead and use free XP to get North Carolina. There is a reason Sea Lord Mountbatten only showed the tier IX and X ships.

Lol they announced the line split the day I got the Montana.

Have you ever wondered, what if Montana was armed with cruise missiles, SAMs, cavitation bubble torpedoes, CIWS and railguns?

Everywhere I hear that Smolensk is overpen-city. My Smol missed the memo it seems, getting citadelled 360

love these man god bless research messiah 2030 part 1 :)

I am currently grinding the Colorado

They still have drednots Kansas, Minnesota, and Vermont

No fly zone is a understatement, i prefer access denied.

I wish my games are like yours lol, TheRed team is not pushing in, In the games, I'm in wow its like heavy traffic, I cannot go out in open water for a long time I get clobbered.

I would disagree what you said with the AA, if AA is so unreliable, why a single BB manage to shot down a whole torp squad, this is either the CV player is bad, didn't dodge flak, or the player is prepared. I've seen countless players complain about AA even they are AA ships, that's because they don't know what's the point of playing CV then they complain in the forums saying CV is weak, then they say is OP, so basically, is based on the player skill to manage CV and the ships AA. Not the mechanism.

Being honest is bbs up till tier 5 kinda meh , just seems like dispersion is so hard core it’s completely unreliable

4:00 You serious? 26mm plating literally everywhere in a T7 ship... not really I enjoyed the Colorado anyway tho. Yes, it gets overmatched by everything, and it is terribly slow, but those guns are just pure love. By far my favorite of the US Dreadnoughts. Still like playing it.

Super Dreadnoughts would be from T-4 to T-7. T-3 is too soon for Super Dreadnought. Just a standard Dreadnought.

American BBs up to tier VII: Put put put put put put American BBs tier VIII and up: Speemd

New subscriber here! Excellent video. How do you enable the free camera controls?

the s carolina is good cuz its so fast for a low tier bb and good menouver ability and it packs a punch and is so tanky

It’s the 5th now you are LATE!

WG really likes to piss off its player base huh?

Love playing my Montana but a lot of the maps doesn’t give you a lot of move abilities

um did you not see the announcement of the US BB line split today T8-10 super dreadnoughts are coming.

I hated Iowa at first but now it's my favorite ship ig.

Well well, where do i begin from? Yeah, 2:22 Royal Navy BBs' AA isn't nothing special compared to US BBs' AA, the dreadnoughts have slightly above average AA but nothing special, somewhat on-par with the French and English, the fast BBs have good AA but rivaled/slightly surpassed by French BBs, especially Alsace and Republique, while the only russian BB whose AA is better than US is the Kremlin (however someone in comments made a detailed AA comparison). 4:05, big bullshit, US dreadnaughts have crappy plating, especially felt at T6/T7 compared with russian BBs, yeah they're thick and under their plating have a solid armor so usually you don't eat massive salvos but you get pinned constantly because of the weak plating, and as you further say they're broadside isn't nothing especially tanky, and if you get shot by anything with 16" guns... you have to be sharply angled to mitigate the damage. 6:15 well, T6/T7 US BBs have decent turret angles, so you don't have to give all that much broadside to use all of them. Another abomination is using the fighter on US BBs, as you said you have slow shells and the arches really high so you want to have spotter plane high vision to lob shells over islands and catch broadside ships, US slow shells are really made for that, lobbing shells over islands. Regarding builds, i think you really underestimate the importance of priority target, like you have never specked it on any of your BB builds, but it's super important to know if maybe a DD is drooping torps on you, how many ships are aiming at you so maybe you can commit to a turn... surv expert it's yeiiish, i mean you aren't supposed to brawl and if you take primary armaments in slot 1 the turrets get tanky enough. In fact i don't uderstand why you should spec secondary armaments in slot 1, i mean your primary guns are your main armament, you don't have secondaries and the AA at the end of the day isn't so important to spec into... in slot 3 there's another BIG ABOMINATION: the AA module has been nerfed so much that it has become useless, it really sucks, on dreadnoughts you should spec the plotting room for range because you have faster shells, while on fast BBs turret rotation module is literally made for US BBs now because the reload nerf has been cancelled and you haven't nothing more useful to slot in there. Like every other wows youtuber has recognized this but still. Seen that you're gonna ran a tank build (fire prevention + basics + fire flag) slotting fire control isn't worth it because the improvement is minimal (like Flamu said, these reductions of fire duration are percentage based so the more you stack up the less the improvement is) rudder module is much more useful on the US BBs, especially the fast ones. You can fire, go stealth undetected and manoeuvre, and on Montana the rudder is just necessary to bring it on par with other BBs. So the rudder time is much more usefull to be coupled with the good speed and the sharp narrow bows of the ships.

I was under the impression that they were called "Standards"

I would say good people but thanks

At around 19min in, I disagree with AA Mod 1, it's worthless. Would take the better traverse module instead.

Just got a New Mexico. Slow as, just like the New York. Very tanky though. Gonna keep grinding until I can get hold of a 'fast' US BS.

I kinda wanna go for this line, but the Colorado.....

Can anyone tell me how you zoom in on rounds like he did at 9:18 please?

0:07 Filipinos every new year

your sound is to high

Am I the only one who absolutely hates Colorado? I'm fine with 21 knot speed, it's fast enough for bb, but the armor and the gun dispersion sucks. Can't tank 380mm or higher caliber shells, garbage dispersion despite its high sigma value. What's even worse is its low dps. 12*356mm from NM just out perform 8*406mm from Colorado. I spent 35k free experience to skip that piece of crap.

Intro music for anyone wondering about it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LzxYVoacXgg.html

God I hated colorado north Carolina was definitely worth the effort

Step 1 sell these trash power crept ships

Lumping multiple ships into two categories like that is just lazy. You spent more time and effort getting your pointless intro clip done than you put into the actual video. It's also a pretty good indicator that you don't really know much about the American BB line. The New Mexico, and certainly the New York, play nothing like the Colorado. Maybe your German ships all play pretty much the same, but the US and IJN lines had some actual care and attention devoted to them, hence every ship is unique.