What almost never gets noticed about the Brandenburg: it has the best armor amongst the German BBs at tier 8...it's even better than Pommerns at tier 9 and if you know how to use it, it makes up for the lack of HP...just look it up...Brandenburg is better than it's reputation...
I'm someone who loves playing Brandenburg. I play it with mixed equipment of aiming system mod in 3rd slot with secondary battery skills on captain. Then it becomes pretty accurate and people mostly ignore me, like they ignored PQ in this video and i tend to melt them with secondaries!
Most people forget that Brandenburg has more secondaries than Bismarck and Tirpitz. Almost GK levels. If you want a secondary ship, she is my choice for that fact alone
I got a Brandonburg in a box last year, and I was pleasantly surprised. I don't much like playing BB's because they are slow in all ways. But Brandon and Schornhorst are both good Premium ships to get in holiday boxes.
I won this ship in a container at least a year ago and never played it. This round of ranked I tried it and have been killing it. Tirpitz, Bismarck and Zieten go down like nothing. Probably the best tier 8 BB that I have tried in ranked, although he is right when he says to be careful of fires. I do play it fairly aggressively so maybe that is why. No matter what the reason it works for me. If you like the Mecklenburg you will like the Brandenburg.
I finally got lucky in this game and took the free 50 event tokens and bought the German loot box and pulled the Brandenburg, which is the one I wanted mostly because seeing this ship take the top spot in "Operations" multiple times and it reminds me of a tier 8 Mechlenburg which I think the Mechlenburg was based on. Anyway now that I've played the Brandenburg this ship puts out a lot of damage when the guns are having a decent RNG day.
Love my brandenburg, ranked, brawls, ops, randoms, it can do it all and with a lot of fun. Has the best secondaries at T8, torpedoes and fantastic armour. It not having the 15” or 16” guns of other ships I feel is more than compensated for by the HE performance across its 12 guns, I rarely find myself wishing for guns with more overmatch, just more damage per shell
I don't get why WG didn't give this thing Hydro, it's supposed to be a staple of KMS BBs (they even gave the BC line access to it earlier than the regular line). I can't seem to find any logic for it, Odin and Pommern both get access to it while still having torps and varying gun calibers so it's completely possible. And as if to maintain some weird habit, Mecklenburg is the same: lots of small caliber main guns with no Hydro....
Branden seemed at first to be an interesting ship....but no. It suffers from the Odin syndrome where they took off 10k of it's HP and has 305 guns which at T8 aren't exactly optimal and absolute lack of hydro, but you get torps (if you yolo in and don't insantly get melted) Speaking of the guns you get crappy accuracy and long reload compared to 380's of Bismarck which aren't known for accuracy too but you have 25mm overmatch *Not a great ship nor powerful,quite the opposite and getting Tirpitz would be much better*
Generally agree but I would add that you get 6 guns vs 4 on the front vs bis/turp, and ap works better on lite armor were 380's over pin, so the brandon works rhe best on decks and SS on BBs using HE the. AP, the higher velocity is useful on cruiser turrets knocking them out again with 6 front guns and german bb dispersion your hit ratio is higher.
@@ramtuff06 but the guns instead being an upside are the downside The ship would have been better if it had same hp as bismarck so you could go in brawl
Hope you réalise that if this thing got same hp as the bismarck it would be broken its armor and armor layout is superior to any t8 german bb and pomern too and 305mm are very good if you know what you do brandenburg is the maclenh of t8 @@MrTrool323
i was grinding bismarck and was a ok player with 47% win rate and doing fine and then i opened a regular daily box and Brandenburg was in it. Put in it a secondary build (without inertia ofc on a german bb it has good pen doesnt need it) and have to say ITS BROKEN AF. Still the same player just played 150 battles with Brandenburg and have 50% win rate now . I WENT 3% UP JUST BECAUSE OF THIS SHIP . Its so undarated because of no hydro , low hp , low calliber but you dont see the forrest ITS A SHIP with god like armor at tier 8 more secondaries than any tier 8 and TORPIDOS . I just go in the middle of the fukking map everty game 1 vs 3 focus 1 with guns 1 with the secendaries and 1 with torps and have 3 kills(dont you dare to use HE on the main guns just learn to use AP)
I have Bismarck, Brandenburg, Anhalt and Tirpitz, as well as Massa and Bama, and the only thing Massa does better thanthe German ships is slightly better accuracy and a little more damage with the 16's (but those 45 caliber guns have such a low velocity) and Massa starts fires more often. Other than that, I play Tirpitz and Bismarck the most out of any of those, I've got over 500k XP on Tirp and 400k on Bismarck, and I'd take the Bismarck sisters over any of the others. The only other ship I have close to that much XP in is Schlieffen, and that's just because secondaries go brrrrt.
Pommern seems to work decently for me, the 380mm guns are not a terribly low caliber, it has decent secondaries, 6km torps, and Hydro which helps loads.
@@varungoculdas4181 Pommern is T9, so unless its like this Halloween's Operation, it can't join. So that guy is looking for T6-8 ships. Personally I only have Tirpitz but it can handle most operations
I can't speak about brandenburg because i don't have it, but tirpitz is a beast, the 380mm is really good against lower tiers, the secondaries are awesome and the torp is always a threat to other players. It lacks the hidro so that's a point... My fights against brandenburgs i always felt they are weak, like having huge superstructures and not the overmatch so... dunno...
I use my Mainz for my operations captain trainer. Good reload, good hp for a tier 8 cruiser, plus torps. You can burn down a lot of BBs and the AP into cruisers can hurt.
@@lch3778 This, the Mainz is right up with the cleveland for printing credits and xp. If you just want a battleship id say both tirp and Brandy are good as each other, just slightly different playstyles. Be warned however, the Brandys guns get wonky sometimes.
I'm considering picking up Brandenburg B, but I don't know if it's better than the Tirpitz B. Tirpitz more hp and better gun angles, but Brandenburg gets better armor, is faster, has better aa, the one extra 105 at each side, and has better concealment. Which one should I pick up?
Tirpitz hands down. The 380's have a lot more punch than the 305 crusier guns that Brando has, and that extra HP comes in handy when you want to brawl.
What really puts me off on both Brandenburg and Odin is that HP pool. It makes no sense for ships with such a size. Brandenburg has about the same as Gneisenau for example which is alot smaller. And Odin is also bigger than Gneisenau and has even less. Its just a lazy WG thing.
Why give it the same hp as most t8 bb in game when your armor is better thant any german t8 bb and pommern flandre is a good exemple t9 hp at t8 with t10 armor and same gun as tier 8-9 with french ap
I have done 400k plus dmg with Zieten in Narai. It is rare but doable. I love my full secondaries built Zeiten in ops. I wonder how is Brandy compared to Zieten in random ops. Because of its hydro , I can go very aggressively with Zieten. E.g. DD hunts in Cherry Blossom.
Historically Alaska has always been considered THE ship to buy during Black Friday if you are willing to spend money. The 2nd place usually goes to Jean Bart, or maybe Massachusetts if you are into brawling at tier 8 (I am not a destroyer main but I heard Cossack is good too) . All 3 of them could no longer be acquired in game anymore and are considered strong. This year with the introduction of Smolensk things might be a bit different so you might as well wait for reviews before making decision. (Smolensk as a t10 ship will be more expensive though)
Brandenburg on console way stronger than the pc Brandenburg because of the enhanced secondary battery booster + more secondary battery range and perks + more secondary reload perks and the epic secondary battery mod that can give you an extra 5% secondary reload up to 25% Braden on console is nutty
As good as the Brandenburg is (better than Tirpitz or Bismarck, better Secondaries, better armor scheme and faster), I still prefer the Flandre as Brawler. The Brandenburg got some flaws, like low HP and the low caliber main guns and the low range on them. The Flandre is better in all of that. Better armor, better guns, even faster, more HP and the secondaries are at Pommern level and extremely worth it when you get games T6-T9
I have both and sorry to say this but brandenburg is way superior in brawl thant flandre it has torp better armor in brawl secondaires are better and more hp for them where flandre secondaries get destroyed in one single shot and also 305mm ap or he clap every tier 8 at close range
@@hellisia-celeste-evangelin8925 I have also both and the Flandre is way more effective, than the Brandenburg. I played with every ship several hundred games and the difference in damage, kill rate and win rate is very well notable. But that's only me and I only have a few thousand games in Brawls with Battleships, nothing compared to the real good players.
I think they can earn much money if they sold next year Belfast B (7 tier), Missouri B, Kutuzow B, Kronshtadt B - all of this ships are not OP in 2023 meta ....mb belfast in tier 7 rank games...
8:51 why put inertia on a german secondary bb ?You dont like fires?And i was like this whole video "why this guys doesnt get fires like me with secondaries?Just put the torp protection thing instead of inertia and you will like Brandenburg 100 times more trust me .Dont you ever compare this delicate and elegant weapon of destruction with barbaric and brutal ship like massachusetts(joking ofc i love american guns but Brandenburg is still better)
Grinding the free artic tokens for black Friday prem containers got me pommern and Brandenburg. Not the ships I was hoping for but I'll take them I guess.
I think this ship sucks. It has much less HP than Bismark and worse guns. Only real benefit is if you can torp the enemy. Even then Tirpitz is a Bismark with torps.
Then you know nothing about brandenburg it as less hp du to the fact it has better armor and armor layout thant t8 german bb and t9 pommern it has grobbe kurfurst level of secondary same torps as tirpitz and 305mm will pierce anything at close range and 305mm he will rape any bb you see
What almost never gets noticed about the Brandenburg: it has the best armor amongst the German BBs at tier 8...it's even better than Pommerns at tier 9 and if you know how to use it, it makes up for the lack of HP...just look it up...Brandenburg is better than it's reputation...
“Yo did he just walk up, _slowly_ ?”
Also shout out to that Shroder for shredding 54 planes
I'm someone who loves playing Brandenburg. I play it with mixed equipment of aiming system mod in 3rd slot with secondary battery skills on captain. Then it becomes pretty accurate and people mostly ignore me, like they ignored PQ in this video and i tend to melt them with secondaries!
this thing is a beast in operations. except the torps are made of cheese and get destroyed when a seagull looks at them harshly.
Most people forget that Brandenburg has more secondaries than Bismarck and Tirpitz. Almost GK levels. If you want a secondary ship, she is my choice for that fact alone
Zieten has great secondaries too.
@@rokloY and torp have 13.5 km range 😮 like spear 😮😮
I got a Brandonburg in a box last year, and I was pleasantly surprised. I don't much like playing BB's because they are slow in all ways. But Brandon and Schornhorst are both good Premium ships to get in holiday boxes.
I won this ship in a container at least a year ago and never played it. This round of ranked I tried it and have been killing it. Tirpitz, Bismarck and Zieten go down like nothing. Probably the best tier 8 BB that I have tried in ranked, although he is right when he says to be careful of fires. I do play it fairly aggressively so maybe that is why. No matter what the reason it works for me. If you like the Mecklenburg you will like the Brandenburg.
I just think of the Brandenburg as the mini mechlenburg. That works out pretty well.
I finally got lucky in this game and took the free 50 event tokens and bought the German loot box and pulled the Brandenburg, which is the one I wanted mostly because seeing this ship take the top spot in "Operations" multiple times and it reminds me of a tier 8 Mechlenburg which I think the Mechlenburg was based on. Anyway now that I've played the Brandenburg this ship puts out a lot of damage when the guns are having a decent RNG day.
Thats the thing with the Branden, Its a slot machine on its guns. that being said, it is strong for most operations
Love my brandenburg, ranked, brawls, ops, randoms, it can do it all and with a lot of fun. Has the best secondaries at T8, torpedoes and fantastic armour. It not having the 15” or 16” guns of other ships I feel is more than compensated for by the HE performance across its 12 guns, I rarely find myself wishing for guns with more overmatch, just more damage per shell
Brandenburg is a beast in operations, easily > $1M credits with blue cards
Any played both tirpitz and brandenburg? Because I think I'll rather stick to my tirpitz. She's frustrating at times, but really fun at T8 matches.
Both ships look identical to me lol
Branden is better thant tirpitz
I don't get why WG didn't give this thing Hydro, it's supposed to be a staple of KMS BBs (they even gave the BC line access to it earlier than the regular line). I can't seem to find any logic for it, Odin and Pommern both get access to it while still having torps and varying gun calibers so it's completely possible.
And as if to maintain some weird habit, Mecklenburg is the same: lots of small caliber main guns with no Hydro....
Branden seemed at first to be an interesting ship....but no.
It suffers from the Odin syndrome where they took off 10k of it's HP and has 305 guns which at T8 aren't exactly optimal and absolute lack of hydro, but you get torps (if you yolo in and don't insantly get melted)
Speaking of the guns you get crappy accuracy and long reload compared to 380's of Bismarck which aren't known for accuracy too but you have 25mm overmatch
*Not a great ship nor powerful,quite the opposite and getting Tirpitz would be much better*
Generally agree but I would add that you get 6 guns vs 4 on the front vs bis/turp, and ap works better on lite armor were 380's over pin, so the brandon works rhe best on decks and SS on BBs using HE the. AP, the higher velocity is useful on cruiser turrets knocking them out again with 6 front guns and german bb dispersion your hit ratio is higher.
@@ramtuff06 but the guns instead being an upside are the downside
The ship would have been better if it had same hp as bismarck so you could go in brawl
Hope you réalise that if this thing got same hp as the bismarck it would be broken its armor and armor layout is superior to any t8 german bb and pomern too and 305mm are very good if you know what you do brandenburg is the maclenh of t8 @@MrTrool323
@@hellisia-celeste-evangelin8925 oh boy that's a hot take
Tbh I would still take Tirpitz over this thing any day of the week
i was grinding bismarck and was a ok player with 47% win rate and doing fine and then i opened a regular daily box and Brandenburg was in it. Put in it a secondary build (without inertia ofc on a german bb it has good pen doesnt need it) and have to say ITS BROKEN AF. Still the same player just played 150 battles with Brandenburg and have 50% win rate now . I WENT 3% UP JUST BECAUSE OF THIS SHIP . Its so undarated because of no hydro , low hp , low calliber but you dont see the forrest ITS A SHIP with god like armor at tier 8 more secondaries than any tier 8 and TORPIDOS . I just go in the middle of the fukking map everty game 1 vs 3 focus 1 with guns 1 with the secendaries and 1 with torps and have 3 kills(dont you dare to use HE on the main guns just learn to use AP)
I have Bismarck, Brandenburg, Anhalt and Tirpitz, as well as Massa and Bama, and the only thing Massa does better thanthe German ships is slightly better accuracy and a little more damage with the 16's (but those 45 caliber guns have such a low velocity) and Massa starts fires more often. Other than that, I play Tirpitz and Bismarck the most out of any of those, I've got over 500k XP on Tirp and 400k on Bismarck, and I'd take the Bismarck sisters over any of the others. The only other ship I have close to that much XP in is Schlieffen, and that's just because secondaries go brrrrt.
I wanna get the Massa, as a player who loves the Alabama what other tier 8s would be a good pick up?
Same here I would like to issue a request for areview of the Massachusetts B
PQ, I need a German captain trainer for operations. Would you recommend Brandenburg or Tirpitz?
Pommern seems to work decently for me, the 380mm guns are not a terribly low caliber, it has decent secondaries, 6km torps, and Hydro which helps loads.
@@varungoculdas4181 Pommern is T9, so unless its like this Halloween's Operation, it can't join. So that guy is looking for T6-8 ships. Personally I only have Tirpitz but it can handle most operations
I can't speak about brandenburg because i don't have it, but tirpitz is a beast, the 380mm is really good against lower tiers, the secondaries are awesome and the torp is always a threat to other players. It lacks the hidro so that's a point... My fights against brandenburgs i always felt they are weak, like having huge superstructures and not the overmatch so... dunno...
I use my Mainz for my operations captain trainer. Good reload, good hp for a tier 8 cruiser, plus torps. You can burn down a lot of BBs and the AP into cruisers can hurt.
@@lch3778 This, the Mainz is right up with the cleveland for printing credits and xp. If you just want a battleship id say both tirp and Brandy are good as each other, just slightly different playstyles. Be warned however, the Brandys guns get wonky sometimes.
I'm considering picking up Brandenburg B, but I don't know if it's better than the Tirpitz B. Tirpitz more hp and better gun angles, but Brandenburg gets better armor, is faster, has better aa, the one extra 105 at each side, and has better concealment. Which one should I pick up?
Tirpitz hands down. The 380's have a lot more punch than the 305 crusier guns that Brando has, and that extra HP comes in handy when you want to brawl.
Ok then, even though Brandenburg looks cooler, I guess I'm picking up Tirpitz. Thanks!
@@crisps333 Smart move. Altho Brandy does really well in ops. If you do those. Also, Brandy has TERRIBLE gun angles for pvp.
@@Uthandol Then it will be Tirpitz, now that I'm being more convinced that it's superior. Thanks once agian!
@@crisps333well its not superior brandenburg as less hp since it as better armor thant t9 german bb and bc
What really puts me off on both Brandenburg and Odin is that HP pool. It makes no sense for ships with such a size. Brandenburg has about the same as Gneisenau for example which is alot smaller. And Odin is also bigger than Gneisenau and has even less. Its just a lazy WG thing.
Why give it the same hp as most t8 bb in game when your armor is better thant any german t8 bb and pommern flandre is a good exemple t9 hp at t8 with t10 armor and same gun as tier 8-9 with french ap
Something I keep seeing not appreciated is that I use my Brandenburg for brawls and ranked and it is a monster every time.
Great ops bote to level captains, and farm credits. I've done 395k in her (Narai). Very good all around bote in operations
i agree, but lets be real here, 400k isnt unknown in Narai.but it is excellent for a branden.
I have done 400k plus dmg with Zieten in Narai. It is rare but doable. I love my full secondaries built Zeiten in ops. I wonder how is Brandy compared to Zieten in random ops. Because of its hydro , I can go very aggressively with Zieten. E.g. DD hunts in Cherry Blossom.
@@mp3butt did 469k in Anhalt recently
hi. could you play massachusetts next time? pls :)
Eh...if missing hydro is a reason not to enjoy a battleship I have to wonder how anyone gets through the other fleets.
What is the best Black Friday ship to buy? I have around 100$ to spend on the game
Alaska or smolensk b
Historically Alaska has always been considered THE ship to buy during Black Friday if you are willing to spend money. The 2nd place usually goes to Jean Bart, or maybe Massachusetts if you are into brawling at tier 8 (I am not a destroyer main but I heard Cossack is good too) . All 3 of them could no longer be acquired in game anymore and are considered strong. This year with the introduction of Smolensk things might be a bit different so you might as well wait for reviews before making decision. (Smolensk as a t10 ship will be more expensive though)
@@lennhsu smol is auction only, and is gonna go WAAAAY over a hundred, but yeah alaska.
For me Brandenburg is a T8 Mecklenburg without the accuracy. Best in ranked along with Tirpitz and Massa
Let’s go Brandenburg!
Shimakaze!
let's see some alaska(B) or massachusetts(B)
Brandenburg on console way stronger than the pc Brandenburg because of the enhanced secondary battery booster + more secondary battery range and perks + more secondary reload perks and the epic secondary battery mod that can give you an extra 5% secondary reload up to 25% Braden on console is nutty
Is B version different from originals?
No, just a Black Camo
fire prevention seems kind of garbage. I'm on fire all the time with it regardless.
As good as the Brandenburg is (better than Tirpitz or Bismarck, better Secondaries, better armor scheme and faster), I still prefer the Flandre as Brawler. The Brandenburg got some flaws, like low HP and the low caliber main guns and the low range on them.
The Flandre is better in all of that. Better armor, better guns, even faster, more HP and the secondaries are at Pommern level and extremely worth it when you get games T6-T9
I have both and sorry to say this but brandenburg is way superior in brawl thant flandre it has torp better armor in brawl secondaires are better and more hp for them where flandre secondaries get destroyed in one single shot and also 305mm ap or he clap every tier 8 at close range
@@hellisia-celeste-evangelin8925 I have also both and the Flandre is way more effective, than the Brandenburg. I played with every ship several hundred games and the difference in damage, kill rate and win rate is very well notable.
But that's only me and I only have a few thousand games in Brawls with Battleships, nothing compared to the real good players.
I think they can earn much money if they sold next year Belfast B (7 tier), Missouri B, Kutuzow B, Kronshtadt B - all of this ships are not OP in 2023 meta ....mb belfast in tier 7 rank games...
8:51 why put inertia on a german secondary bb ?You dont like fires?And i was like this whole video "why this guys doesnt get fires like me with secondaries?Just put the torp protection thing instead of inertia and you will like Brandenburg 100 times more trust me .Dont you ever compare this delicate and elegant weapon of destruction with barbaric and brutal ship like massachusetts(joking ofc i love american guns but Brandenburg is still better)
I have a Mass B 😊
Grinding the free artic tokens for black Friday prem containers got me pommern and Brandenburg. Not the ships I was hoping for but I'll take them I guess.
Would have rather got Massachusetts but o well
Smol B? I really wish they gave back the cruiser long range and reload skills.
I recommend you to buy nothing because the game is already dead
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I think this ship sucks. It has much less HP than Bismark and worse guns. Only real benefit is if you can torp the enemy. Even then Tirpitz is a Bismark with torps.
Then you know nothing about brandenburg it as less hp du to the fact it has better armor and armor layout thant t8 german bb and t9 pommern it has grobbe kurfurst level of secondary same torps as tirpitz and 305mm will pierce anything at close range and 305mm he will rape any bb you see
Armor layout is irrelevant when everyone just shoots your super structure@@hellisia-celeste-evangelin8925
I hate this ship