South Dakota class isn't post Naval treaty, they're still 35k tonners, which is why they're considered the pound for pound kings of WWII. They actually displace very slightly less than the North Carolina class battleships, and they're design was finalized in 1937 with the ships being ordered in 1938. The big advantages of the South Dak's was that they were designed with the escalator clause in mind (16 inch guns instead of 14 inch guns like North Carolina was originally designed and partially built for), and that they'd had time to see some of the problems the North Carolina's had with their prop's while they were on their shakedown cruise and avoided the resonance issues that would cause they're predecessor's so many troubles.
All I will say is this, Alabama earned me my only spotlight on Jingles' channel, and was the same battle where I got my only Solo Warrior (with the help of my friend in his Grau)
Always enjoyed my Alabama. I picked that up several Summers ago, during the WG "Summer Mystery Bundle Sale". Essentially, I purchased Alabama at the usual price, and got two more "mystery ships" of the same tier, for next to dirt. The mystery crates yielded me Lenin, and Prinz Eugen...for less than the cost of one. If I recall, they also offered tier 6 and 7 mystery bundles as well. Wish they'd bring this sale back for this Summer.
Got this ship as I once lived near her and have been to see her. BB’s are crazy up close and I’d recommend a visit!! Hell, more win % here for me than Massachusetts or NC. Great ship that feels like its own thing!
Bought it the weekend it was introduced and still play it regularly. And it excels in with every build. Full zombie, full AA, full guns and even full secondary works. In zombie mode, it's one of the toughest ships in the game and capable of slugging it out with t10s, which prints the credits. Invincible ship in the right hands.
I love the Alabama. My second premium BB way back in the day and she has served me well. I especially like the gun accuracy. She just gets it done. Nothing fancy.
Nah perfect premium was the 750k free xp mighty mo. It was free and printed credits and reminds me of when this game was still a lot of fun instead of something i play a few games as a force of habit after work.
Watching that sub chase you down. I wish we could opt out of games with subs. Carriers too. IMHO, WoWS is most fun as a surface ship to ship combat game.
Then go play a WW1 themed game. CVs have been in the game since the beginning and subs arnt going anywhere. You’ll never be able to opt out. Deal with it or uninstall. No one cares.
The Mighty A was a museum ship that I visited quite often. My sons and I crawled all around her when they were very little. They still talk about seeing her. I don't have her yet. I should fix that.
@@bhutchisonbh You must be really unlucky. I had 10+ premium ships from super containers from the daily crates since I been playing on and off since closed beta. Got the Malta last week, which I probably won't use at all unless they bring back asymmetric.
I had all three American Tier Three BB's form the Alabama, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. Not to be the contrarian but I always found the Alabama to be less survivable than the North Carolina. My good games in the Alabama were so beta and up to 2018. I finally sold the Alabama for credits earlier this year and I don't really miss her at all. Of the three the only one I have and play frequently is the Massachusetts.
She looks fine. I thought about buying her years ago, but I already had so many American premium ships. If I bought her she would just be another ship to train my Monty captain.
Just got her out for one battle after a long while about a week ago and had a nice 2900bxp battle on her. Defenetly not a bad ship, even though I prefer my PR printing machine Tirpitz
I don't see a point in getting Alabama when Massachusetts is not completely unobtainable, especially when I have the NC already, so Massachusetts with secondary build sounds more fun than a tougher NC.
There were several global changes in the game that affected Alabama, CV rework being a negative and the size decrease of the American battleship dispersion ellipse and the improvement to American battleship heal being positives. I also remember that originally Alabama had a 1.8 sigma. Don't know when it was increased to 1.9. Alabama used to be a literal no-fly zone; CVs would avoid you like crazy. Also had great torpedo protection. Very tanky ship. Haven't played her in a long time. I need to take her out.
Alabama sigma should be better than NC but hey logic in this game is not a deciding factor. Ahh yes i recall the Alabama she was one of the first premiums i got back in the day. Like you said SLM her maneuverability and hard hitting guns are a benefit. I wish they would buff her secondaries since Mass (which i have) is not available anymore, i mean every ship (BB) in the last couple of years has better secondaries than the Mighty A. I would recommend touring her if you have not yet, excellent ship and God bless those who served on her.
Nice Vid SLM, Speaking of tier VIII BB's. WG Please please please can we have a 10km ASW planes on the Massachusetts. It's 5km airstrike range just doesn't cut it anymore. Tier V BB's get 8km range, except for my Giulio Cesare with has 4km (Please sort that out while you are at it as well). That's right tier V ships have 3km more range than a tier VIII BB
And that's why I love her, But I didn't get her..... I bought the Florida instead. OH WELL, time to save up a few more YEARS worth of Dubloons and I shall Acquire her, eventually. The Alabama and the Massachusetts are certainly Unique, they basically a Smaller NCs with their own unique perks. Massa is a LEGONDARY Secondary BEAST and the Alabama has 50% torp protection. But they also have their own, better Armor Scheme then the NC.
Bought the Alabama just because its my home state ship and i have visited her in person, in the game its just a way too old ship for the current meta, worth playing outside of random battles though.
Hi mate mutch love from New Zealand. I'm new to your channel and wonder can you make a video on best grind money and XP Vl and Vll premium ships to get plz
Question for anyone with the HMS Incomparable (Steel ship)- are you having sound issues with the main guns? I just picked one up and can not hear the main guns, though I can hear secondaries/AA guns going off. Curious if it is a known issue or something with my client.
Alabama my beloved, i take it to ranked and rank up in 2 days . People say Massa is better but i feel like alabama is much better, mainly bc Massa players dont know what angling is.
Well, it's probably good (sadly I don't have it), but if you'd ask me, I'd say kearsarge is much better, the citadel is good, and 12 mk6 plus the tiny tims that can kill and spot, just be careful of the hanger, it's a farm for those who know how to hit.
Very good ship for a beginner to learn basic BB gameplay and to grind credits and commanders. However I would not recommend Alabama to any veteran players because there is really nothing that special about it.
But what's with the armor, the citadel top. I am no pro player but based on what I know every long distance salvo is pure danger. What's this 35mm? Then citadel bottom plus ship hull 92mm, general armor penetration is 60-80 getting lower with distance. So yeah the entire citadel top area is very tasty for any other BB because the all blow up in the citadel. I don't want to buy the cat in the bag.
Sea lord can I ask of you know this I can still compete the remaining 10 miss by buying them cos I'm on vacation until 25 June so I can't do the dorkyard. Mission atleast that last1
Massa all the way Bama just doesn't compare the amount of dumb shit you can get away with in a Massa do to its heal and secondaries is staggering sure you can only really get on black friday nowadays but if you want a tough as old boots brawling tier 8 american bb get the Massa you will never regret it
I wouldn't say it's perfect, i will say that in the right hands it is damn near invincible. But for me and the way i play the game i much prefer the massey line, Georgia in particular is my favorite ship in the game and i average 185k in randoms with it.
If I want the gun performance, I'll take the North Carolina. If I want more tanky and secondaries, I'll take the Massachusettes. I don't see the point of this one.
At some point veteran content creators of wows lost their minds and decided to "save repairs for the next fire/flood" and let full double fires run through instead of repairing them. Brother, if you eat a full duration double fire that's the same as using the repair early and then getting stuck with... a double fire. You just ate the consequence with no benefit.
Yo i looked up promo codes and i got 12k gokd and 30k coal and a but load of containers plus 3 free ships 2 were premium completely free hope this helps sum1
RECENTLY premiums have been coming with a gimmick? RECENTLY? Only if recently goes back to TIRPITZ, when it came with torps!! WG has been trying to sell premiums with gimmicks since the game began, or doesn't anyone remember that KITAKAZE was issued with 40 torp launchers all the way back to OPEN BETA!! Come on, Mountbatten, your name isn't JINGLES, so you shouldn't be making this kind of a mistake.
@@sealordmountbatten And you are certainly entitled to that opinion; however, mine is different. How many BBs have torps in game? 3 that I know of right off the top of my head (Tirp, Gnies, and Scharn). How many more had them at one time in their lives in the real world? Or on paper before they were built or the plans shelved? And this isn't even going into other gimmicks that WG has removed from individual ships or from the game entirely because the gimmick pissed players off so bad they left the game. Thinking of stealth firing and the original torpedo rework when DDs were castrated. So ... yeah, BB torps, in my opinion, is a gimmick; and also in my opinion, WG has been selling us gimmicks since day one. Yubari, which you could BUY to get into closed beta, had an AA suite that was devastating, and advertised as such, and was absolutely gutted in the CV rework. Blys, the Polish DD, was advertised as being able to stealth fire. I think you missed the bullseye on this one, amigo!
@@xPureNRG007x Gorizia is a very good comfortable cruiser for tier VII, she can do anything. She’s tanky, has a smoke + hydro combination (6 km hydro at that), a decent reload for SAP 203’s, good range if you want to kite. Overall good cruiser. In my replay I put every one of those attributes to the test in a ranked match and do close to 110k damage
ITS the fake star ships and the subs destroying this game , they keep getting made up crap off pappers stored from the trash cans . the game is trash any more.
South Dakota class isn't post Naval treaty, they're still 35k tonners, which is why they're considered the pound for pound kings of WWII. They actually displace very slightly less than the North Carolina class battleships, and they're design was finalized in 1937 with the ships being ordered in 1938. The big advantages of the South Dak's was that they were designed with the escalator clause in mind (16 inch guns instead of 14 inch guns like North Carolina was originally designed and partially built for), and that they'd had time to see some of the problems the North Carolina's had with their prop's while they were on their shakedown cruise and avoided the resonance issues that would cause they're predecessor's so many troubles.
All I will say is this, Alabama earned me my only spotlight on Jingles' channel, and was the same battle where I got my only Solo Warrior (with the help of my friend in his Grau)
The "Bammy". Where we got the MASSACHUSETTS, but no SOUTH DAKOTA line, and no INDIANA off shoot. The BAMMY rocks.
Roll Tide.
Me still waiting for my USS Washington with Radar and Vice Admiral Lee
Indeed
Always enjoyed my Alabama.
I picked that up several Summers ago, during the WG "Summer Mystery Bundle Sale". Essentially, I purchased Alabama at the usual price, and got two more "mystery ships" of the same tier, for next to dirt. The mystery crates yielded me Lenin, and Prinz Eugen...for less than the cost of one. If I recall, they also offered tier 6 and 7 mystery bundles as well. Wish they'd bring this sale back for this Summer.
USS Alabama is a ship that will give 100% chance to attract to your sister
I only have brothers though. 💀
@@jakubslavik5595 Hole is Hole ☠️
@@tsuaririndoku Good soldiers follow orders.
@@jakubslavik5595Wake me when you need me.
but what if your sister is super hot? isnt it okay? giggity
Got this ship as I once lived near her and have been to see her. BB’s are crazy up close and I’d recommend a visit!! Hell, more win % here for me than Massachusetts or NC. Great ship that feels like its own thing!
Agreed! Fantastic ship with top performance all around. She is one of the few, which can be uptiered without having bigger issues.
Bought it the weekend it was introduced and still play it regularly.
And it excels in with every build. Full zombie, full AA, full guns and even full secondary works.
In zombie mode, it's one of the toughest ships in the game and capable of slugging it out with t10s, which prints the credits.
Invincible ship in the right hands.
Spent the night on the Alabama with cub scouts 20yrs ago....great to tour.
I love the Alabama. My second premium BB way back in the day and she has served me well. I especially like the gun accuracy. She just gets it done. Nothing fancy.
Nah perfect premium was the 750k free xp mighty mo. It was free and printed credits and reminds me of when this game was still a lot of fun instead of something i play a few games as a force of habit after work.
Agreed the free xp ships were nice but didn’t result in people paying to convert XP as much so the greedy Russians pulled it.
Yeah... Missouri WAS the perfect premie..... but Alabama is available as it was.
I agree. I got OG Mighty Mo and still sure as hell prints greenies. And it was pulled exactly for that reason. Ridiculous amount of creds it prints
Watching that sub chase you down. I wish we could opt out of games with subs. Carriers too. IMHO, WoWS is most fun as a surface ship to ship combat game.
Then go play a WW1 themed game. CVs have been in the game since the beginning and subs arnt going anywhere. You’ll never be able to opt out. Deal with it or uninstall. No one cares.
@@PigPissBeUponThem "CVs have been in the game since the beginning" Uh, no. Stop drinking pig piss. It's affecting your brain.
Got her out of a super container a while ago, my favourite bote till day :)
Alabama and Massachusetts are two of my favorites… but I haven’t played in probably 18-24 months. I enjoy your videos though!
The "bama" was my 1st premium when it came out. I've since picked up other premiums but it's still a big favorite.
The Mighty A was a museum ship that I visited quite often. My sons and I crawled all around her when they were very little. They still talk about seeing her. I don't have her yet. I should fix that.
USS Alabama was my first premium ship which I got from a super container from normal pay during the day thus it was the best ship because it was free!
First, as in you've had more than 1? I've been playing this game since 2015.....never had a ship in a super container!😢
@@bhutchisonbh You must be really unlucky. I had 10+ premium ships from super containers from the daily crates since I been playing on and off since closed beta. Got the Malta last week, which I probably won't use at all unless they bring back asymmetric.
@lobozzz wow, that's awesome mate. Nope, not had one!😢
I had all three American Tier Three BB's form the Alabama, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. Not to be the contrarian but I always found the Alabama to be less survivable than the North Carolina. My good games in the Alabama were so beta and up to 2018. I finally sold the Alabama for credits earlier this year and I don't really miss her at all. Of the three the only one I have and play frequently is the Massachusetts.
She looks fine. I thought about buying her years ago, but I already had so many American premium ships. If I bought her she would just be another ship to train my Monty captain.
Just got her out for one battle after a long while about a week ago and had a nice 2900bxp battle on her. Defenetly not a bad ship, even though I prefer my PR printing machine Tirpitz
That "ME" caught me off guard and got me laughing more than i care to admit😆
If WG will put a huge discount like when I got AL Littorio, I will get her.
I don't see a point in getting Alabama when Massachusetts is not completely unobtainable, especially when I have the NC already, so Massachusetts with secondary build sounds more fun than a tougher NC.
I have both and prefer Alabama personally. Much better main guns and ASW.
I dont often buy ships straight up but kind of want to buy her because I've visited her irl. Same as the Kidd.
There were several global changes in the game that affected Alabama, CV rework being a negative and the size decrease of the American battleship dispersion ellipse and the improvement to American battleship heal being positives. I also remember that originally Alabama had a 1.8 sigma. Don't know when it was increased to 1.9. Alabama used to be a literal no-fly zone; CVs would avoid you like crazy. Also had great torpedo protection. Very tanky ship. Haven't played her in a long time. I need to take her out.
Alabama sigma should be better than NC but hey logic in this game is not a deciding factor. Ahh yes i recall the Alabama she was one of the first premiums i got back in the day. Like you said SLM her maneuverability and hard hitting guns are a benefit. I wish they would buff her secondaries since Mass (which i have) is not available anymore, i mean every ship (BB) in the last couple of years has better secondaries than the Mighty A. I would recommend touring her if you have not yet, excellent ship and God bless those who served on her.
If i didnt have the Mass, i would have picked this up. But the mass is so much fun !!!
US DD line split needs to happen.
Nice Vid SLM, Speaking of tier VIII BB's. WG Please please please can we have a 10km ASW planes on the Massachusetts. It's 5km airstrike range just doesn't cut it anymore. Tier V BB's get 8km range, except for my Giulio Cesare with has 4km (Please sort that out while you are at it as well). That's right tier V ships have 3km more range than a tier VIII BB
And that's why I love her, But I didn't get her..... I bought the Florida instead. OH WELL, time to save up a few more YEARS worth of Dubloons and I shall Acquire her, eventually. The Alabama and the Massachusetts are certainly Unique, they basically a Smaller NCs with their own unique perks. Massa is a LEGONDARY Secondary BEAST and the Alabama has 50% torp protection. But they also have their own, better Armor Scheme then the NC.
Got this free from Fem at the first players get together at the USS Texas
Won her in a WG livestream, cant really complain, her guns are a bit frustrating, but overall a great ship :V
I would call "perfect" the ships that the best on it's tiers like for BB:
T7- Ashitaka
T8- Kii
T9- Karl Johan
Certainly not Alabama
+1 Kii
T7 - Poltava
T8 - Monarch
T9 - Duncan
No I’m not kidding
@@AshCatTrainz Some of the top choices, but these are a bit weaker than my list
I have the North Carolina and the Massachusetts, am I missing out on much on the Alabama?
Bought the Alabama just because its my home state ship and i have visited her in person, in the game its just a way too old ship for the current meta, worth playing outside of random battles though.
Hi mate mutch love from New Zealand. I'm new to your channel and wonder can you make a video on best grind money and XP Vl and Vll premium ships to get plz
Question for anyone with the HMS Incomparable (Steel ship)- are you having sound issues with the main guns? I just picked one up and can not hear the main guns, though I can hear secondaries/AA guns going off. Curious if it is a known issue or something with my client.
Surprised this wasn’t the Massachusetts!
Alabama my beloved, i take it to ranked and rank up in 2 days . People say Massa is better but i feel like alabama is much better, mainly bc Massa players dont know what angling is.
Uss Alabama still to the day the only premium I paid for
i wish i could play this game again
"That premium is the ship you're seeing on screen right now" *shows an enemy Iowa*
I chuckled.
Well, it's probably good (sadly I don't have it), but if you'd ask me, I'd say kearsarge is much better, the citadel is good, and 12 mk6 plus the tiny tims that can kill and spot, just be careful of the hanger, it's a farm for those who know how to hit.
The tiny Tims has been nerfed though.
Hey sea lord Could do a review on the azuma pls?
Very good ship for a beginner to learn basic BB gameplay and to grind credits and commanders. However I would not recommend Alabama to any veteran players because there is really nothing that special about it.
But what's with the armor, the citadel top. I am no pro player but based on what I know every long distance salvo is pure danger. What's this 35mm? Then citadel bottom plus ship hull 92mm, general armor penetration is 60-80 getting lower with distance. So yeah the entire citadel top area is very tasty for any other BB because the all blow up in the citadel. I don't want to buy the cat in the bag.
I got an Alabamser myself but I dont like her. Just like alot of USN BB's, the shells are way too slow and floaty.
Sea lord can I ask of you know this I can still compete the remaining 10 miss by buying them cos I'm on vacation until 25 June so I can't do the dorkyard. Mission atleast that last1
I want the dorkyarf ship
While the missions will be over in 6 days, you still have the duration of 13.5 to buy the Wisconsin
@@sealordmountbatten thank you
i go for Roma on T8 BBs Premium. more brawling is more fun
just wait for black friday massa
The perfect ship is the schlieffen with Missouri credit economy and the armor of a kremlin. 😂
Always preferred the NC and the massa
Massa all the way Bama just doesn't compare the amount of dumb shit you can get away with in a Massa do to its heal and secondaries is staggering sure you can only really get on black friday nowadays but if you want a tough as old boots brawling tier 8 american bb get the Massa you will never regret it
Lowest points given in 7 months thanks for this WOWS
There's only one explanation to trump all explanations which is "Sweet home...".
Rec'd my Bama free from my Verizon phone deal.
how is your map so large compared to the rest of the UI?
Hit + on the keyboard
best secondary BB?
Ödin, can get like 15km secondary range and it's obscene. Only have it on NA where I don't play anymore cause US players are scum.
IMHO it is ATAGO the oldest premium is still the best 😌
Port Queen , Her history is great but in Wow's their are just better options.
I wouldn't say it's perfect, i will say that in the right hands it is damn near invincible. But for me and the way i play the game i much prefer the massey line, Georgia in particular is my favorite ship in the game and i average 185k in randoms with it.
If I want the gun performance, I'll take the North Carolina. If I want more tanky and secondaries, I'll take the Massachusettes. I don't see the point of this one.
medioca ship .... i have her and im not impressed tbh
It's not perfect
True but it is still an amazing ship
@@randyclifford7350
Agreed
You sure showed them…
Georgia left chat!
At some point veteran content creators of wows lost their minds and decided to "save repairs for the next fire/flood" and let full double fires run through instead of repairing them.
Brother, if you eat a full duration double fire that's the same as using the repair early and then getting stuck with... a double fire. You just ate the consequence with no benefit.
It’s all fun and games until you put out two fires to have 3 set on your ship
I have been braineashed as i hear sigma rating 😭🙏🏿
Maybe for a bb main, but not for me.
kidd and massechuses?
maybe you could have won if the Wisconsin and Alaska didnt use the entire game fleeing!
Yo i looked up promo codes and i got 12k gokd and 30k coal and a but load of containers plus 3 free ships 2 were premium completely free hope this helps sum1
MASSACHUSETTS is better than this...IMO
Prettiest ship in the game
hello
RECENTLY premiums have been coming with a gimmick? RECENTLY? Only if recently goes back to TIRPITZ, when it came with torps!! WG has been trying to sell premiums with gimmicks since the game began, or doesn't anyone remember that KITAKAZE was issued with 40 torp launchers all the way back to OPEN BETA!! Come on, Mountbatten, your name isn't JINGLES, so you shouldn't be making this kind of a mistake.
I wouldn’t call having torpedoes a gimmick
@@sealordmountbatten And you are certainly entitled to that opinion; however, mine is different. How many BBs have torps in game? 3 that I know of right off the top of my head (Tirp, Gnies, and Scharn). How many more had them at one time in their lives in the real world? Or on paper before they were built or the plans shelved? And this isn't even going into other gimmicks that WG has removed from individual ships or from the game entirely because the gimmick pissed players off so bad they left the game. Thinking of stealth firing and the original torpedo rework when DDs were castrated. So ... yeah, BB torps, in my opinion, is a gimmick; and also in my opinion, WG has been selling us gimmicks since day one. Yubari, which you could BUY to get into closed beta, had an AA suite that was devastating, and advertised as such, and was absolutely gutted in the CV rework. Blys, the Polish DD, was advertised as being able to stealth fire. I think you missed the bullseye on this one, amigo!
Torps = not gimmick.
Torp reload boost = gimmick.
@@jackcasse Then why doesn't WG give EVERY BB that had torps in real life torps in the game?
@@ellnoskitties3908 because it's a game
day 5 of asking for my gorizia replay
Day 5 of asking for my Gorizia replay
Tell us about your Gorizia match! It is a fun ship, curious about your battle.
@@xPureNRG007x Gorizia is a very good comfortable cruiser for tier VII, she can do anything. She’s tanky, has a smoke + hydro combination (6 km hydro at that), a decent reload for SAP 203’s, good range if you want to kite. Overall good cruiser. In my replay I put every one of those attributes to the test in a ranked match and do close to 110k damage
only fools give them money. i play other games and im happy with it.
rng from wargaming and rage is on.
ITS the fake star ships and the subs destroying this game , they keep getting made up crap off pappers stored from the trash cans . the game is trash any more.
Roma is just better