So I somehow pulled this thing out of the crate and had no clue how to play it or set it up. Literally 4 hours later this video shows up in my subscriptions feed. Thank you for the useful information 😁👍
I got this ship recently and it is awesome. I would compare playing it to Mainz. You can approach undetected from a flank and then fall upon clumps of enemy ships spewing torps and shells. It is hard to find ships that provide a noticeably different play experience. This ship offers that. Besides Yoshino, I don’t have great luck with battle cruisers. This one is fun
Enjoy this while it lasts…it’s definitely going to get nerfed drastically. She seems to be the best X cruiser but if she had SAP mains….Smolensk beware
Hmm not sure 😁 I'd say she's one of the most tactical cruisers, with the great concealment and fuel smokes. The AP works just fine on the mains, SAP would be too much against DDs, what the alpha damage spread. And AP might be able to punish Smolensk, although they tend to hide behind the battle line, so Hipper would still be my weapon of choice. I just love this ship for the positional / carry capacity. Hope they won't nerf, and for a bundle...
Its a premium so dont worry about a nerf too much.. They still havent touched Roma, Smolensk etc. so why expect sth different this time. That being said I agree with Terry in that shes not just another broken ship that requires u to have 5 brain cells to score a 100k avg as the sap autos arent strong against anything really except for dds and cls. Also its still a cruiser in a meta that has stuff like colombo in basically every game lol
Smolensk is dreadfully overpowered. Don't think, this ship will change that. The enormous DMG the smolensk can do with just a few shots and fires while sitting next to an island in a smoke and people still don't know, that she has to be the main target... Uff. If I see a smolensk in enemy team and we don't have one and I don't play Friesland it's always: okay that's a loose. Especially if we have no Worcester, Demoines or minotaur.
I saw this came to the shipyard today, this is definitely what a premium German heavy cruiser should be. 😂 I decided to do a full secondary build as well - I’ve already started using concealment in the third slot as standard for battlecruisers and it makes eminent sense for this ship as well. Even for BBs, concealment can let you dictate engagements and choose when to disengage better.
Hey terry, obviously a great video, I hope you and your family feel great and are healthy. I have one more question: I recently got my Kurfürst and I built her for secondarys. Not to fight destroyers, to brawl actually. So run with my Kurfürst into close fights and open up all guns I have. Now I just saw your videos again and I was pretty sure you built her like that too but actually you went for more protection, is that still your choice or did you use the spezial mod for secondary reload too? I mean, you said, it's all about the secondaries on German ships or did I misunderstood that? So hope you have a great weekend. 🥳🙂
My original GK build was balanced, I did the have armour choice in the elite bonus. That was to deal with the very static T10 meta, where you're often the only one to push. I've since changed it over to a full secondary build, since we got a lot more maps that have island cover throughout, and the sheer proliferation of 457mm or higher means protection is a lot more meaningless. The original build only had Yama with those guns.
Looks like a very fun, very unique cruiser to play with. I am going to try to obtain this ship. Thank you for this video review Terry, it really made up my mind. 👍 How is your house project? Cheers.
Zao with concealment, leg mod and historical camo gets lower surface detection than harogumo base which is like not realistic but zao also gets 1 shot by yamas
This ship brings me fun 😀. Sure I dont get victories in every battle, but this is fun nonetheless. I installed the auxilliary armaments upgrade in slot 1, for 2-3 the elite bonus and the provisions all the same configuration as in the video. Just for the sake of information, the slot 1 upgrade brings the autocannons range to 7km+, the 152mm secondary cannons to 7.4km.
I ended up making an exception and opened a single crate. What do you know 😁 I'm still debating if I'm going secondary range or reload. Those 15% sure is tempting.
@@FunandGameswithTerry it is 😀. The reload is going down to 4.5s, it is hard to ignore that advantage 😁. Perhaps with that some adjustments to the playstyle can be made, i.e utilize islands more.
The Palolo commander that comes with it is completely useless for this ship as his specialty is “engine acceleration”, so stupid. None of the ships in this line have acceleration which makes it even more dumb.
Yeah, it's the concealment, which is at almost Japanese levels, and the fuel smoke, that enable this ship. To be fair, you get the smoke on a Venezia as well, but obviously not the hilarious secondaries.
I appreciate the sentiment, and it wasn't a terrible play - smoke cruiser bringing some firepower to the centre to support their DDs. The mistake was more overstaying their welcome, and trying to play torp-around-the-island with me 😁
I wouldn't say she's a destroyer hunter, she doesn't have the utility (sonar or radar). She has excellent engines and a good manoeuvrability, murderous secondaries, fuel smoke and torpedoes. This is an all-rounder that rewards aggressive style, and can absolutely shine in the long-range "battle line" meta, since she has the endurance (HP pool, smoke) to operate in brawling range (7km), and put the hurt onto anything. Not a support cruiser, but a forward-positioned tactical ship, great for controlling positions. The 90mm SAP doesn't do an awful lot individually, but with the range and rate of fire, it adds up, even against BBs on superstructure hits.
@@FunandGameswithTerry I think with the battles I have seen, she is more on the "Oh Crap, a Smolensk" type fear (well I was in Ostergotland annoying the enemies) But If I ever get behind the wheel it will be just another Ashitaka, a forgotten ship. I took a closer look at your video, and she does seem to be the more "Useful" for the team but dangerous if not careful.
Same. I actually spent 1500 gold on the double crate, not something I usually do - of course, didn't get her. I'm hoping for a bundle, or shipyard, in the future
I always watch your video first before buying a new premium, that's how I got my Marco Polo. For this one, I decide not to. I believe, the thick armour and the excellent secondaries make the best combination and NONE of them can be absent. Therefore Napoli with a cruiser light armour would not be a perfect aggressive close-combating ship like the German ships. She has to endure and survive those big caliber gunfire before she could rain her secondaries, which I believe My Siegfried and Agir could do (with some luck) but the Napoli, could not. BUT what really draws my attention is that her main battery AP shells actually give the Shimakaze full penetration in 14:45 and that's really something unusual! If that's not yet another bug to be fixed, then I would say she's one of the best dd hunter in T10 and would have a top performance in a map with a lot of mountains.
Terry if you had this ship with the legendary commander would you spec him for SAP or AP in tier 11? Originally I thought AP would be the obvious choice (since SAP was not offered on the main battery ammo) but after watching this video and seeing how you really made the most of the SAP secondaries I am curious if SAP would have a significant enough benefit to make it a viable choice? Thanks for the video it was very helpful.
The shell penetration skills on the commanders only affect the main guns, so Sanzonetti would probably be wasted on this ship, unless you're sharing with the tech tree line. I'd say a regular commander, with a tank / secondary skillset and APCS would be a better choice here.
So I somehow pulled this thing out of the crate and had no clue how to play it or set it up. Literally 4 hours later this video shows up in my subscriptions feed. Thank you for the useful information 😁👍
Nice, you got lucky!
So basically this is a "I love the Napoli it makes me happy , (psychotic laughing chuckling noises) 😂video
I got this ship recently and it is awesome. I would compare playing it to Mainz. You can approach undetected from a flank and then fall upon clumps of enemy ships spewing torps and shells. It is hard to find ships that provide a noticeably different play experience. This ship offers that. Besides Yoshino, I don’t have great luck with battle cruisers. This one is fun
In addition to the 2 main super-firing turrets, when you go bow in you also have 2 of the 6 inch turrets.
Second and so far she has 100 percent win rate. After 12 battles
It's a carry cruiser. Not necessarily by raw damage output, but by tactical versatility
Enjoy this while it lasts…it’s definitely going to get nerfed drastically. She seems to be the best X cruiser but if she had SAP mains….Smolensk beware
Hmm not sure 😁 I'd say she's one of the most tactical cruisers, with the great concealment and fuel smokes. The AP works just fine on the mains, SAP would be too much against DDs, what the alpha damage spread. And AP might be able to punish Smolensk, although they tend to hide behind the battle line, so Hipper would still be my weapon of choice.
I just love this ship for the positional / carry capacity. Hope they won't nerf, and for a bundle...
Its a premium so dont worry about a nerf too much.. They still havent touched Roma, Smolensk etc. so why expect sth different this time. That being said I agree with Terry in that shes not just another broken ship that requires u to have 5 brain cells to score a 100k avg as the sap autos arent strong against anything really except for dds and cls. Also its still a cruiser in a meta that has stuff like colombo in basically every game lol
Smolensk is dreadfully overpowered. Don't think, this ship will change that. The enormous DMG the smolensk can do with just a few shots and fires while sitting next to an island in a smoke and people still don't know, that she has to be the main target... Uff. If I see a smolensk in enemy team and we don't have one and I don't play Friesland it's always: okay that's a loose. Especially if we have no Worcester, Demoines or minotaur.
@@lebkuchenmann7663Roma is hiden nerfed a little bit😢
I saw this came to the shipyard today, this is definitely what a premium German heavy cruiser should be. 😂
I decided to do a full secondary build as well - I’ve already started using concealment in the third slot as standard for battlecruisers and it makes eminent sense for this ship as well. Even for BBs, concealment can let you dictate engagements and choose when to disengage better.
Hey Terry, will you be making videos on the armament changes to FdG and GK?
Terry analyzes Napoli, decides it’s bonkers & goes stealthy. Hides & beats around the bushes (islands) & sneaks forward. Enemy cruiser heads to middle & Terry suddenly pops up & cheerfully says, “Well hello there. Surprise!” Sports fiendish grin & drives his ship like a DD. ;-)
This ship was made for me, basically.
Terry the citadel protection increased to 17.5 % 😀😎
I just got mine and set it up very close to your's. It is awesome!
Hey terry, obviously a great video, I hope you and your family feel great and are healthy. I have one more question:
I recently got my Kurfürst and I built her for secondarys. Not to fight destroyers, to brawl actually. So run with my Kurfürst into close fights and open up all guns I have.
Now I just saw your videos again and I was pretty sure you built her like that too but actually you went for more protection, is that still your choice or did you use the spezial mod for secondary reload too?
I mean, you said, it's all about the secondaries on German ships or did I misunderstood that?
So hope you have a great weekend. 🥳🙂
My original GK build was balanced, I did the have armour choice in the elite bonus. That was to deal with the very static T10 meta, where you're often the only one to push.
I've since changed it over to a full secondary build, since we got a lot more maps that have island cover throughout, and the sheer proliferation of 457mm or higher means protection is a lot more meaningless. The original build only had Yama with those guns.
Looks like a very fun, very unique cruiser to play with.
I am going to try to obtain this ship.
Thank you for this video review Terry, it really made up my mind. 👍
How is your house project?
Cheers.
Coming along. Demolition is underway, and we're about to finalise the plans. The amount of details that need sorting out is crazy
Zao with concealment, leg mod and historical camo gets lower surface detection than harogumo base which is like not realistic but zao also gets 1 shot by yamas
It's almost as if they threw three playstyles into a mix - IJN stealth CA, Italian smoke & SAP and a German secondary brawler.
This ship brings me fun 😀. Sure I dont get victories in every battle, but this is fun nonetheless.
I installed the auxilliary armaments upgrade in slot 1, for 2-3 the elite bonus and the provisions all the same configuration as in the video. Just for the sake of information, the slot 1 upgrade brings the autocannons range to 7km+, the 152mm secondary cannons to 7.4km.
I ended up making an exception and opened a single crate. What do you know 😁
I'm still debating if I'm going secondary range or reload. Those 15% sure is tempting.
@@FunandGameswithTerry it is 😀. The reload is going down to 4.5s, it is hard to ignore that advantage 😁. Perhaps with that some adjustments to the playstyle can be made, i.e utilize islands more.
The Palolo commander that comes with it is completely useless for this ship as his specialty is “engine acceleration”, so stupid. None of the ships in this line have acceleration which makes it even more dumb.
He’s for future Italian dds
Hes meant for leone rn to train for the destroyers
If only the concealment of the German heavy cruiser has that detection range.
Yeah, it's the concealment, which is at almost Japanese levels, and the fuel smoke, that enable this ship. To be fair, you get the smoke on a Venezia as well, but obviously not the hilarious secondaries.
hehe von diggler my fellow fleetmate, this is why drake is terribly useless, especially when you rush caps
I appreciate the sentiment, and it wasn't a terrible play - smoke cruiser bringing some firepower to the centre to support their DDs. The mistake was more overstaying their welcome, and trying to play torp-around-the-island with me 😁
But yeah, I don't like the RN CAs much...
@@FunandGameswithTerry yup, i tried the drake and u basically cannot dodge anything if u rush
This is definitely OP. And I thought the Culumbio was OP in Destroyer Hunter.
@Barton Sparks woah, a Negative Nancy! Well, at least try to see *some* possible light on the thing.
I wouldn't say she's a destroyer hunter, she doesn't have the utility (sonar or radar). She has excellent engines and a good manoeuvrability, murderous secondaries, fuel smoke and torpedoes. This is an all-rounder that rewards aggressive style, and can absolutely shine in the long-range "battle line" meta, since she has the endurance (HP pool, smoke) to operate in brawling range (7km), and put the hurt onto anything. Not a support cruiser, but a forward-positioned tactical ship, great for controlling positions.
The 90mm SAP doesn't do an awful lot individually, but with the range and rate of fire, it adds up, even against BBs on superstructure hits.
@Barton Sparks i must not be playing teir 10 right.
@@FunandGameswithTerry I think with the battles I have seen, she is more on the "Oh Crap, a Smolensk" type fear (well I was in Ostergotland annoying the enemies) But If I ever get behind the wheel it will be just another Ashitaka, a forgotten ship. I took a closer look at your video, and she does seem to be the more "Useful" for the team but dangerous if not careful.
dude, how much money is did u use to get , wow
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I want this ship but it’s in a crate
Same. I actually spent 1500 gold on the double crate, not something I usually do - of course, didn't get her. I'm hoping for a bundle, or shipyard, in the future
@@FunandGameswithTerry I will also wait for a bundle
I always watch your video first before buying a new premium, that's how I got my Marco Polo. For this one, I decide not to. I believe, the thick armour and the excellent secondaries make the best combination and NONE of them can be absent. Therefore Napoli with a cruiser light armour would not be a perfect aggressive close-combating ship like the German ships. She has to endure and survive those big caliber gunfire before she could rain her secondaries, which I believe My Siegfried and Agir could do (with some luck) but the Napoli, could not. BUT what really draws my attention is that her main battery AP shells actually give the Shimakaze full penetration in 14:45 and that's really something unusual! If that's not yet another bug to be fixed, then I would say she's one of the best dd hunter in T10 and would have a top performance in a map with a lot of mountains.
I want one.
Me too. Maybe there will be a bundle one day.
@@FunandGameswithTerry Or perhaps a shipyard rotation.
Yeah, one can hope. I'm saving up my resources for something really good.
Terry if you had this ship with the legendary commander would you spec him for SAP or AP in tier 11?
Originally I thought AP would be the obvious choice (since SAP was not offered on the main battery ammo) but after watching this video and seeing how you really made the most of the SAP secondaries I am curious if SAP would have a significant enough benefit to make it a viable choice?
Thanks for the video it was very helpful.
The shell penetration skills on the commanders only affect the main guns, so Sanzonetti would probably be wasted on this ship, unless you're sharing with the tech tree line. I'd say a regular commander, with a tank / secondary skillset and APCS would be a better choice here.
Wooooohooooo first
Hooray, another ridiculously overpowered premium.