This video came out at the right time, everyone who was doing the campaign challenges should be getting the defense this week. Looking forward to finally getting her!
Defence is everything i wanted from a LT cruiser. Accurate hard hitting guns, fast and maneuverable but can still get messed up if you dont play attention.
Great video as always. I love when you throw the statistics graph up there. I feel like you’re the only one that actually does that. I appreciate the work and the time it takes to do it. Favorite ship of 2024 is the Lushun, Schroeder aka (“the shredder”) and the Lauria. Also the Flaundre through pirate crates.
Hey derka, i love your videos. you have helped me out get better in the game. I was quite excited to get in the game with you. I was the bright red yammi. (NLCA) Good Game on your part
Ive recently started following you mainly due to your technical info suited to and aimed at the more experienced player. Shell penetrations and angles, armour layout and values along with commander preferences are all spot on. British cruisers are my fave esp the Edinburgh with her 30mm bow (lol) so im actually looking forward to a Campaign ship for a change. Many thanks
Been really enjoying the british battle cruiser line and just picked up monarch and nelson so kinda pumped to finally unlock defense and relive the glory of the british navy!
one suggestion, for 'free' to play players that got brisbane as a campaign, harold B farncomb is given as a commander and it has the same function as AZ Belfast. it has ship detect time -15%, ship detect range -15%, and Main battery reload -3%
That's an interesting perspective. I've been using Murray as the primary, for me he works better for the Brisbane than Farncomb, so I leveled up Murray. Hopefully they'll create a commander that's perfectly suited for Brisbane, but so far I've been quite happy with Murray, but I will give this presentation you mage here, a second look.
I go with Fraser as my primary work Mimbelli and Yamamoto, with an epic mod on the reload....so far this has worked well for me. I can't say it's THE build for this ship but I don't have any British commanders to use on it other than AL Belfast which isn't the best as mentioned in this video. I like the idea of starting off in a kite position at the start, it makes sense to do that bc and then move up when it's time to do so. Happy New Year Derka!
Can’t wait to try the Defence 👍Hope they get buff the Karl at some point. Could of been the best campaign ship of the year if it was similar to its PC counterpart
Ayyyyy first and first like without even watching Edit: Happy to see a longer video by you, what a nice suprise! Also Defence is a very interesting ship but somehow I haven’t really had the time to learn its playstyle. Pulled the Weimar and Adm. Schröder luckily yesterday which I‘m concentrating on😅.Ofc I had a pause when these beauties released. Comparing the campaign ships this year Michelangelo and even a bit more Schröder were/are so fun and unique to play. I think they are such a nice addition to T8 which was really mediocre. Lushün was also during my pause but this thing is complete busted 🤣. L. Katsonis is my desperate counter
Thanks! I hope I will lmaooo and yeah I’m hesitant on the costs plus I’m not too great even at VII so I’m gonna stick around there until I’m more comfortable
I've had Montana for almost 3 years and it's a very powerful, well designed battleship. It's fun to pay and can smash holes into ships quite well. Defence i've had for two weeks and it's fantastic. You're going to be likely quite pleased with both of them.
Great video Derka, nearly there with the campaign and you have me excited to use the Defense! Do you think the D. Pozharsky, is worth getting or if I should spend the currency on the decent cyber crates?
@@DubiousT1 really hard to answer that. 1. Depends what other ap centric tier 7 cruisers you have or if you enjoy the playstyle. 2. I’d never condone gambling but if you’re missing a ton of premium ships, you could gamble for them. Just don’t be upset if it goes poorly! Best of luck.
For tier 7, I reworked to all AA for my best AA ships to deal with all the carrier matches. I need silver! Defense is a great ship from the few games I played in it.
Happy New Year Derka ! 🎉 I was waiting for a review of DefenSe because I might get it soon ! 👍 I have just a question, what do you think about the event "easy" free reward, the Tier V french Cruiser "Dupleix" because I'm sure to get it soon and as a casual player, I'm not sure to know how I can make it work greatly 🤔
You are so right Derka, Tier 7 is a dumpster fire especially because of the massively OP Russian Chkalov! I won’t play tier 7 anymore and that was by far my favorite tier up to now!
The one campaign ship from 2024 I am most disappointed I didn't get was the Michelangelo. Though, I did get the Schroeder, which is a whole lot of fun. The Defence... I think a lot of people are going to see the 3 turrets up front and think they should go bow in. As you pointed out, that's probably the worst position you can take as pretty much everything at LT will just smash right through the 25mm bow. Find some cover, or stay back enough that you don't get hit with the smoke firing penalty. Hope you have some spotting, then cycle through targets. She's definitely a glass cannon.
Defense is such a good ship. I run Al Cheshire as well... My only complaint is the ability to out run and out turn your turrets. It's fast becoming my favorite cruiser at LT. I almost never switch to AP in her and just get all the fires
IMO the spectral crates/ the whole fiasco with the drops chances being significantly lower soared the mood for this update for me. I started playing the game at jeager update so I had hoped that my first Christmas event was gonna be a blast. Now cue me getting hundreds of insignias from crates and no ship now that I exhausted the last F2P crate with no ship yet. I can’t believe that I have gotten more ships from The anniversary event rather than this.
Ran tywrit for his smogathon, while not a super dpm machine, makes it so you can pretty much stay in smoke the entire game (if you have someone spoting for you). Kinda like using him on mino.
Hey dude I have a question.So you finish your weekly missions and admiralty back in but you're still on level ninety two until you get the defense what to do
My stats in this ship are 2.4k average xp and 140k average damage even though I play super aggressive and bow in 😅. Also Derka, would you consider uploading your bar charts of ship stats to the wowl wiki as it would be great for players like myself to be able to compare ships to one another😊
Hey There Derka, I've got an idea, unless ya already did this and I missed it. How bout a video that discusses the ships on PC that you'd like to see come to Legends?
The ONLY thing I dislike about the Defence is her camera. Hope they will make an exception for her and pull her camera back a bit. I’m running a Fraser build utilizing speed, HE, and Lemonnier. Pretty much using speed as a hit and run tactic and throttle juking!
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Man you really made me want this ship, but its sooo damn ugly. Just like its BB uncles. Might not be a good reason, but its the main reason (besides all the guns being in the front) that I dont have one. We'll see about this one though. Thank you for your service. Nice work!
@@fatwithmoney8953 oh for sure! Full dpm with her is great and yay for fully packed. Goddess of the sea would be good as well cause you don’t really need fixated, and when it comes to damaging BBs, you have fire chance. Base trait is just okay I guess… cause it’s likely you’ll shoot HE more in her than AP, and I really dislike her slot 2 skills, I think they’re useless
As a history nerd i despise these kind of ship, yes its a video game but that's literally an underguned Nelson with a million more thing to make it Legendary tier, kinda like Incomparable or Jager. There is a lot of great ships and/or project yet to be implemented in the game and we get this kind of stupid design, this thing would have made a great tier 5 or 6, much like other overtuned older design way higher in tier than they should be Still a great video of course, just a small rant because why not 😂
Are there a bunch more designs left? Kinda feels like most of the paper ships have been put in the game (even if altered a bit to be balanced for the gameplay)
@@kurtwagner350 yeah there is A LOT of interesting Yamato and North Carolina designs, French BCs, Lyon and another Alsace design, British Lion got its fair share of designs too and that's just some the battleships
On the money with tier 7. I dislike Chkalov as much as the next guy but Graf Zeppelin, Parseval and Enterprise have been my issues. I play bbs and cruisers in my time and I understand that ap bombs counter cruisers but as a bb I really dont think I should be taking ~16k damage of bombs with no counterplay other than playing an AA ship and even then its most of the same story. And its EVERY game, one of the four. Maybe im just unlucky but I think about people grinding tech trees and they must be miserable trying to grind t6s like Nagato, Lyon, Colorado and they are just being nuked by something they have no power over. Its just really annoying. Maybe im just terrible as someone can give me advice but it seems to come down to luck on whether the carrier targets you or not (and they LOVE targeting me). Not game breaking, but just annoying.
More than noobs, its cause all anyone does is sit in the back and shoot shells. Thats why tier 7 sucks the hate secondary ships and they took the fun out of brawling. this game isnt boring when its always going to 15 minutes. we need a brawler fix and you should be rewarded for playing the game, not sailing around or to the corners of the map. my bud and I in defiance push up and make things happen in the game. meanwhile our DD turns and sails in the back of the map....
The best campaign ship of the year was….
Lushun
Im running full reload build with Cheshire for a 14.4 base reload in port and double rudder
Michelangelo obviously 🙄
Lushun
@@DerkaGames I only started in August of last year ☹️
Didnt expect Derka to post today, but I'm always glad when he does. Especially when he uses his spreadsheets to make his videos better for us❤❤❤
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This video came out at the right time, everyone who was doing the campaign challenges should be getting the defense this week. Looking forward to finally getting her!
Hey, good timing i guess 😅
@DerkaGames Yeah, I've got a feeling we'll be seeing quite a lot of them for the next few weeks lol. It's gonna be very popular
Maybe I'll be getting her, thanks for the review Derka!
Thanks for watching!
Defence is everything i wanted from a LT cruiser. Accurate hard hitting guns, fast and maneuverable but can still get messed up if you dont play attention.
And no waiting 2 months for a bureaus!
@@DerkaGames well...... i wait for more than a year 😭
Great video as always. I love when you throw the statistics graph up there. I feel like you’re the only one that actually does that. I appreciate the work and the time it takes to do it.
Favorite ship of 2024 is the Lushun, Schroeder aka (“the shredder”) and the Lauria. Also the Flaundre through pirate crates.
The Shredder is a great name for Schroeder!
Hey derka, i love your videos. you have helped me out get better in the game. I was quite excited to get in the game with you. I was the bright red yammi.
(NLCA)
Good
Game on your part
Nice to see you in the game! 🙏
Fantastic breakdown my man. I'm looking forward to getting this one. 1st campaign i will be finishing since Lushin lol.
Ggs🍻
You know how to pick em! Good choices
Defence is a great Legendary cruiser. I really enjoyed the graphs as always. Great breakdown of the ship. 😊
Ive recently started following you mainly due to your technical info suited to and aimed at the more experienced player. Shell penetrations and angles, armour layout and values along with commander preferences are all spot on. British cruisers are my fave esp the Edinburgh with her 30mm bow (lol) so im actually looking forward to a Campaign ship for a change. Many thanks
Edinburgh is an odd duck haha lets give this Brit CL battleship armor 😃 welcome aboard
Hey Derka, Thanks for this. I love the Defence, such great AP penetration. Having a blast.
Glad you’re liking her!! She’s pretty fun
Been really enjoying the british battle cruiser line and just picked up monarch and nelson so kinda pumped to finally unlock defense and relive the glory of the british navy!
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 long live the queen!
Let’s show them what we’ve got chaps!
one suggestion, for 'free' to play players that got brisbane as a campaign, harold B farncomb is given as a commander and it has the same function as AZ Belfast. it has ship detect time -15%, ship detect range -15%, and Main battery reload -3%
maybe even better in my opinion since you're only sacrificing 5% of conceal in smoke (0.3-0.4km of range) but you get 15% of detect time and 3% reload
@@NeaonX-x9q thank you for sharing! Appreciate that
That's an interesting perspective.
I've been using Murray as the primary, for me he works better for the Brisbane than Farncomb, so I leveled up Murray. Hopefully they'll create a commander that's perfectly suited for Brisbane, but so far I've been quite happy with Murray, but I will give this presentation you mage here, a second look.
@moonytheloony6516 it's depends how you think about it, i ran radar / dmg build
I go with Fraser as my primary work Mimbelli and Yamamoto, with an epic mod
on the reload....so far this has worked
well for me. I can't say it's THE build for this ship but I don't have any British commanders to use on it other than AL Belfast which isn't the best as mentioned in this video.
I like the idea of starting off in a kite position at the start, it makes sense to do that bc and then move up when it's time to do so.
Happy New Year Derka!
@moonytheloony6516 happy NY to you as well Moony! Appreciate your comments as always
Nice job thanks for the breakdown
Cheers, hope it helps!
Can’t wait to try the Defence 👍Hope they get buff the Karl at some point. Could of been the best campaign ship of the year if it was similar to its PC counterpart
Id love to see Karl get longer range torps!
Ayyyyy first and first like without even watching
Edit: Happy to see a longer video by you, what a nice suprise!
Also Defence is a very interesting ship but somehow I haven’t really had the time to learn its playstyle. Pulled the Weimar and Adm. Schröder luckily yesterday which I‘m concentrating on😅.Ofc I had a pause when these beauties released.
Comparing the campaign ships this year Michelangelo and even a bit more Schröder were/are so fun and unique to play. I think they are such a nice addition to T8 which was really mediocre.
Lushün was also during my pause but this thing is complete busted 🤣. L. Katsonis is my desperate counter
Hahaha yes Katsonis is the new “in case of emergency ship” 😂 also nice pulls! Weimar is still a fan spammer
Thanks for the video derka! Im on tier 75 so im hoping to get the defence this week or early next week! 🥳
Perfect timing!
michelangelo is in my opinion the best campaign ship of 2024. Crazy fun and a hybrid brawler suitable for almost every situation it finds itself in.
Agreed, super fun weird ship! Exhaust smoke is a blast
Pretty excited for it, it’ll be my first LT and I’ll get Montana shortly after!
Nice! Enjoy man
Watch out for service costs, they’re stupidly high at LT.
Thanks! I hope I will lmaooo and yeah I’m hesitant on the costs plus I’m not too great even at VII so I’m gonna stick around there until I’m more comfortable
I've had Montana for almost 3 years and it's a very powerful, well designed battleship. It's fun to pay and can smash holes into ships quite well. Defence i've had for two weeks and it's fantastic.
You're going to be likely quite pleased with both of them.
Great video Derka, nearly there with the campaign and you have me excited to use the Defense! Do you think the D. Pozharsky, is worth getting or if I should spend the currency on the decent cyber crates?
@@DubiousT1 really hard to answer that. 1. Depends what other ap centric tier 7 cruisers you have or if you enjoy the playstyle. 2. I’d never condone gambling but if you’re missing a ton of premium ships, you could gamble for them. Just don’t be upset if it goes poorly! Best of luck.
For tier 7, I reworked to all AA for my best AA ships to deal with all the carrier matches. I need silver! Defense is a great ship from the few games I played in it.
Not a bad plan at all haha
Happy New Year Derka ! 🎉
I was waiting for a review of DefenSe because I might get it soon ! 👍
I have just a question, what do you think about the event "easy" free reward, the Tier V french Cruiser "Dupleix" because I'm sure to get it soon and as a casual player, I'm not sure to know how I can make it work greatly 🤔
Thanks! Tbf I never played Dupleix as I don’t play low tiers any more. Aaron did a video on it and it looked solid
You are so right Derka, Tier 7 is a dumpster fire especially because of the massively OP Russian Chkalov! I won’t play tier 7 anymore and that was by far my favorite tier up to now!
Chkalov is doubly insulting. Not only OP but as a competitive Russian CV, it is fairy tale.
Happy New Year to you as well
🙏
The one campaign ship from 2024 I am most disappointed I didn't get was the Michelangelo. Though, I did get the Schroeder, which is a whole lot of fun. The Defence... I think a lot of people are going to see the 3 turrets up front and think they should go bow in. As you pointed out, that's probably the worst position you can take as pretty much everything at LT will just smash right through the 25mm bow. Find some cover, or stay back enough that you don't get hit with the smoke firing penalty. Hope you have some spotting, then cycle through targets. She's definitely a glass cannon.
Well at least you got Schroeder! Similar style I think, both super fun weird ship
Defense is such a good ship. I run Al Cheshire as well... My only complaint is the ability to out run and out turn your turrets. It's fast becoming my favorite cruiser at LT. I almost never switch to AP in her and just get all the fires
Yeah that’s annoying for sure, in spite of it tho, you’re right. Super fun
I used my smoke screens like I do for the Italian ships, they’re good for positioning.
@@michaelmayes7757 fair play!
IMO the spectral crates/ the whole fiasco with the drops chances being significantly lower soared the mood for this update for me. I started playing the game at jeager update so I had hoped that my first Christmas event was gonna be a blast. Now cue me getting hundreds of insignias from crates and no ship now that I exhausted the last F2P crate with no ship yet. I can’t believe that I have gotten more ships from
The anniversary event rather than this.
Whoah, surprised to hear that! Even I pulled Jean Bart and Colbert and had basically every ship in the game. Maybe more luck will be headed your way
0:20 Looking at this chart, it's a no-no for me. Waiting for next ship.Ty.
Ran tywrit for his smogathon, while not a super dpm machine, makes it so you can pretty much stay in smoke the entire game (if you have someone spoting for you). Kinda like using him on mino.
Was Smolensk on the data screen for hp? 😭 I thought she wasn’t in the the game
I am your biggest fan Derka omg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@@DerkaGames has a stalker!!! lol, where's Sank?
😂😂😂
Hey dude I have a question.So you finish your weekly missions and admiralty back in but you're still on level ninety two until you get the defense what to do
Those spreadsheets make me change my pants every time
😂
Some ships I hope to see this year is....
Nottingham, Rodney, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Puerto Rico.
Nice list! I’d like to see Kremlin, Thundererer, and Shikashima. I’m not even a Bb main haha but they’re just cool and iconic
In fact I play BBs less than any other class
That ship has a hell of a bow I try to take it down shooting in the bow with an Alaska could not get through it
Tried a John Fisher build using Dance with death and full reload build, got it down to 10.4 seconds haha
Ewww 🤣🤣🤣 that’s nasty thanks for sharing 😎
My stats in this ship are 2.4k average xp and 140k average damage even though I play super aggressive and bow in 😅. Also Derka, would you consider uploading your bar charts of ship stats to the wowl wiki as it would be great for players like myself to be able to compare ships to one another😊
Good stuff
Hey There Derka,
I've got an idea, unless ya already did this and I missed it. How bout a video that discusses the ships on PC that you'd like to see come to Legends?
I think Aaron just did a video on that sadly
Have you thought of using dunkerque, I really like the free shell switching on her.
Cant use AL dunkerque on this ship unfortunately, but that would be really cool!
Forgot she’s French and not British >.
Wait at 2:48 you see smolensk but that one isnt in legends right? Or not yet....
Right years ago added ships I was interested in
Derkaaaa colbert vidddd
Haha noted
The ONLY thing I dislike about the Defence is her camera. Hope they will make an exception for her and pull her camera back a bit.
I’m running a Fraser build utilizing speed, HE, and Lemonnier.
Pretty much using speed as a hit and run tactic and throttle juking!
Thank you! Haha it took me almost 20 games to finally get used to it. Odd camera
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- so half Xarkun and half Derka?
or half Derka and half Gerkhin?
just asking for a friend :)
@@vandemonian5412 oh Gherkin… defo 😅
Why is there the smolensk in your cruiser stats? Is it comming to legends?
No idea, Smolensk has been on my charts for years same with Hindy
Man you really made me want this ship, but its sooo damn ugly. Just like its BB uncles. Might not be a good reason, but its the main reason (besides all the guns being in the front) that I dont have one. We'll see about this one though. Thank you for your service. Nice work!
You know what, fair enough, lol.
Awesome ship. Well worth it.
Yes indeed
@DerkaGames I've had a couple of krakens out of her so very happy. Thanks for the positive review as your reviews are none biased.
@@stutat6812 Nice! No krakens for me yet but Ill keep trying haha
Michelangelo has a 25second fire duration for me
Gotcha
Can dish it out, but can't take it. Expensive to play, for something made from Explodium.
Defo can explode
You think Neptune would work??
@@fatwithmoney8953 oh for sure! Full dpm with her is great and yay for fully packed. Goddess of the sea would be good as well cause you don’t really need fixated, and when it comes to damaging BBs, you have fire chance. Base trait is just okay I guess… cause it’s likely you’ll shoot HE more in her than AP, and I really dislike her slot 2 skills, I think they’re useless
Maybe not the best campaign, but the most balanced one by far imo
I’m happy with that haha
The defence is still a mystery to me, where are the torpedo launchers on the ship???? Have a look and there are none
They are submerged
@xor0001 oh dam that makes sense it's confused me ever since I got it 😂
Hi
Hola
Ugh Derka 😑🙂↔️thank god I’m more aggressive, you should of won that one, NO EXCUSE! lol
Totally my fault lol too passive 🥲
As a history nerd i despise these kind of ship, yes its a video game but that's literally an underguned Nelson with a million more thing to make it Legendary tier, kinda like Incomparable or Jager. There is a lot of great ships and/or project yet to be implemented in the game and we get this kind of stupid design, this thing would have made a great tier 5 or 6, much like other overtuned older design way higher in tier than they should be
Still a great video of course, just a small rant because why not 😂
You’re always welcome to rant here! This is your safe place 😂
Are there a bunch more designs left? Kinda feels like most of the paper ships have been put in the game (even if altered a bit to be balanced for the gameplay)
@@kurtwagner350 yeah there is A LOT of interesting Yamato and North Carolina designs, French BCs, Lyon and another Alsace design, British Lion got its fair share of designs too and that's just some the battleships
Yeah same staying away from T6, T7 and T8 that Russian Cv ain't fun to play against
@@mikxgaming2546 hoping it gets nerfed next update
@@DerkaGames I hope so too
If this has cruiser dispersion, why not Petro and Riga?
Ask father WG
@captainphilips5469 Fair enough for Petro but why Riga, she's suffering too much 😢
Britih broozah
💂
On the money with tier 7. I dislike Chkalov as much as the next guy but Graf Zeppelin, Parseval and Enterprise have been my issues. I play bbs and cruisers in my time and I understand that ap bombs counter cruisers but as a bb I really dont think I should be taking ~16k damage of bombs with no counterplay other than playing an AA ship and even then its most of the same story. And its EVERY game, one of the four. Maybe im just unlucky but I think about people grinding tech trees and they must be miserable trying to grind t6s like Nagato, Lyon, Colorado and they are just being nuked by something they have no power over. Its just really annoying. Maybe im just terrible as someone can give me advice but it seems to come down to luck on whether the carrier targets you or not (and they LOVE targeting me). Not game breaking, but just annoying.
2:53 Smolensk!?
Pulled “stats” from PC wiki years ago
More than noobs, its cause all anyone does is sit in the back and shoot shells. Thats why tier 7 sucks the hate secondary ships and they took the fun out of brawling. this game isnt boring when its always going to 15 minutes. we need a brawler fix and you should be rewarded for playing the game, not sailing around or to the corners of the map. my bud and I in defiance push up and make things happen in the game. meanwhile our DD turns and sails in the back of the map....
😠
Omgee is this the real Finalboss