I just learned something today Haven't played Worcester since the introduction of subs, and the fact that as a light cruiser, it gets airstrike depth charges, is actually extremely good, and wants to make me play the ship again. Great vid PQ!
Agreed. The difference between rolling depth charges and airstrike is not even a comparison. Airstrike is easy difficulty while rolling depthcharges are nightmare difficulty. Do any other light cruisers even get the airstrike feature?
That's exactly why, from this regard, German cruisers suck balls: they are heavy cruisers with deck dropped depth charges. The only chance you get at dropping a sub is if he's dumb enough to get under you.
Its all based on the hull, I believe Worcester is on a DM hull so she doesn't have roll offs therefore it would be a little weird if she had them in game
Worcester was my 2nd tier X unlock, and by far my favorite ship, with an full AA build (both captain skills and the 6th upgrade) no carrier can get more than one strike off without losing all his planes. 9 flak with DFAA activated, comparable to the next super destroyer. And also with a full stealth build the range of AA guns is the same as air detectability range Really enjoyable
I would say the Seattle is a complete downgrade over the Cleveland. Everything is either worse or equal comparatively. The only advantages it has is just because of being T9. But the worse propulsion, rudder shift, gun angles, detection, citadel make it where I'd rather be sailing a Clev even in a T10 game.
you are supposed to skip most T9 with money. There are only a few positive T9 examples so WG can say: "No, we don't design our games intentionally frustrating to manipulate you into spending money. There are good T9!"
Very disappointed with Seattle when I got her, cleveland much better. Seattle out classed in her tier and above. Flint is also better and you get smoke 😃
Excellent lessons in light cruiser play and tactics. When and when not to hydro and radar. Mahalos. The US light cruisers have extremely strong HE and start fires. AP can punish as well. Soo many BBs don't respect it, just march in on it's range, and then you drop a volcano on it and they have to learn the hard way as the fires just go to work. By the time they try to turn to run away, it's over.
That Daring in the first match was awesome. Having team members like him increase fun by a lot. That was already a nice match :) thanks for the videos!
Worcester is a defense cruiser, I built full into her AAA and depth charges. Able to pull 'round 3000 per flack shot. Even super CVs struggle to hit it. It's great at farming ships and planes, defending key points, and defending allied ships. Not so great at leading, if she gets alone in the open, run or die. A high risk, high reward ship.
I enjoy playing my Worcester, but I rarely do. I am terrible at aiming in her. Then again, I am also terrible at predicting where enemy ships will turn. Anyway... great demonstration...thanks.
After playing for 8 years (I've mostly just stuck around tiers 7-8 and playing Operations) I just acquired the Worcester as my first T10 ship and it does feel a lot better than the USS Seattle.
I'm enjoying the vid and you did well in game 2 imo because this game it's not just about dealing damage to the enemy team but also counter the enemy ships so they can't do anything that can wipeout your team.....
@@paddington1670 That's the thing: I have a 68% wr in Atlanta. Probably my best ship. I also do well in Cleveland. Worcester I am at 46%. I think PQ is right, I need to be more patient. At T7 and T8 I can make mistakes that get me killed at T10.
Incoming fire alert is super useful on almost every cruiser which is why I have it on all the cruisers that I have except Petro. Even though you call it the noob skill, you can't deny that it is super useful ;) Also, opting for RPF instead of IFHE might be of more value, I guess?
I love the Worcester. I actually have Legendary mod, rudder mod 2 (instead of concealment) plus prolusion mod 1. With 50% increase in rudder speed, it is very ez to dodge bb shells. And with Legendary upgrade, my consumables would be ready in no time after using them. Plus I got extra one of each consumables
Don't discount the AP on Worcester either. It has heavy AP, but doesn't get Des Moines pen angles. On a boradside BB smashing his upper belt, bow, stern, superstructure can net some insane volleys. I've seen 12-15k volleys into supers and at Worcester's RoF that's a dead BB very quickly if you can get his broadside while he's busy shooting someone else.
Excluding german sec build BBs, everything else poping close range and NOT oneshot you is dead! Worcester AP DPM in close quarters is stuff of nightmares.
8:00...risks squadron and loses it into an AA bubble, still takes off 14k from Yamato(54k to 40k after the hit) , without a risk for his ship, just to come back a minute later....got to love Floating Cancer
I have an almost 10% higher win rate in this ship than my average win rate with well over 100 games, and I am an average player. It also synergizes well with Halsey if you are spreading fires around and you can get a couple decent salvos on a dd or two. Confederate can come pretty early if you get enough targets deployed on your side. I love this ship. Cleveland was excellent - Seattle was a nightmare. I wish I could have played the Cleveland all the way to Worcester. I got dev struck in Seattle often because of being greedy for turret angles. I only played maybe ten games in it before I burned free xp. Seattle is definitely in my top 1 or 2 on ships I least enjoyed. I might as well sell it because I'll never play it again.
In your video "Worcester: My Favorite Cruiser In Random Battles" you took IFHE for your captain build. In this one you didn't. Which build would you recommend? I'm currently using IFHE, should I repsec out of it?
My credits are always tight. WG prefers it that way. I only just stopped grinding lines because of it. Now I just use other ships (especially good credit earners) to grind up my credits count. Oh and now the superships are bought with credits so that's really fun....
@@woutervanheusden one of my favorite matches resulted in a tight match where I deplaned them Hak and at the end got to switch to AP and citadel it to end the match
Ok, as someone from the state of Massachusetts, it pains me to hear people pronounce it Wooster. It isn’t a long o sound, it’s almost more of a wuster…like you blend the o into almost a u sound. I know it’s tough but wooster is silliness. Great vid as always tho 👍🏻
A lot of the names of cities around me in Virginia have very similar weird pronunciations so I get it. Try Poquoson lol. Or something that you'd think would be easy, Norfolk, Suffolk, portsmouth lol
@@raw7576 Yeah, we have a lot of names up here that are rooted in Native American culture (Sassaquin, Agawam, Massachusetts itself, etc.) so I find those really easy to pronounce. I also have Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Norfolk, so those are no trouble, but Worcester confuses some people in the state still lol.
Great vids but the UI text, icons, minimap etc. are difficult to see/read with your current settings. I know that worka for ya best when playing so no worries but just something to consider. (Watching on 65"TV @ the max rez you upload: 1080p60)
Worcester is a nice ship, but in my opinion Des Moines is a lot better. The turret setup is much more versatile and you can really hug islands very closely and use 2/3s of your gunpower. Something the Worcester never can. Also the gun performance itself is a lot better on Des Moines in my opinion, let alone the forbidden AP power.
I saw you have a "Battleships: How to Support Your Destroyers" video. Any chance on the reverse? How to support your cruisers/battleships as a destroyer?
@@krzysztofivmocny7952 Gotcha. Thank you. Been playing for a week and a half at this point. Still working on #2, and still working on my evaluation skills for #3.
@@CiaranMaxwell No problem man, i like to make people to understand the basics of this game which is not so easy. The worst thing you can do is to die in first 2 minutes since at the beginning everyone is eager to get rid of dds. Basically you are an eyes of your team if there is no CV. Speaking of CV's make sure you turn your AA off while playing a DD. You got something like 2km spot from the air, but your AA will start shooting from ~5km making your visible. Of course ships like halland or any with good AA can handle CV's but its pointless to lose your hitpoints and get spotted. Its also includes while you are in smoke, enemy CV will blindfire you because he see where the AA shells are coming from. You need to know what ship is dangerous to you, be aware from italian cruisers and light cruisers with high fire rate. Dont push enemy smoke if you are not sure that the enemy doesnt have a sonar. You will end up in situation when he will see you and you wont see him.
@@krzysztofivmocny7952 or a situation where he can see your torpedoes the moment you launch, but you can't see his until it's too late. I already knew of the AA thing, and Halland is one of the boats I want to play. I basically signed up to torpedo things, and Halland has good torpedoes. It may not be the *best* torpedo boat out there, but not all games call for one.
Ok i am gonna be the guy that will say if petro needs conceal nerf that the RN cl need nerf as well cause they can stealf radar with longer duration and better dpm
This cruiser, just like any other cruiser played in randoms (radar cruiser), all people just hurry up and get behind a chicken island near the cap, and spend the rest of the game doing nothing except pressing the radar button. Everytime they hit the button, a DD insta-dies. Easy. Wimps really have a home on this game.
@@Hydra360ci I play all cruisers, BBs, and DDs. I can tell you like a game where it is considered a very helpful tactic to just sit behind islands and press 1 button and wait until your team kills a DD. It breeds wimps. CV/Sub players freecast without any risk, radar cruisers hide behind a rock and live out their lives there not even needing a fire button, and those are successful strategies that actually help the team. There is no risk in wimp strategies in a game where some players are actually risking when they do things that cause damage. I do not know what you wimps will do if this game ever eliminates how successful wimp strategies are.
The worst thing about Worcester is f2p player can't afford to play this ship. You'll need premium account or premium camo, otherwise you can lose a million silver in less than 15 battles.
I just learned something today
Haven't played Worcester since the introduction of subs, and the fact that as a light cruiser, it gets airstrike depth charges, is actually extremely good, and wants to make me play the ship again. Great vid PQ!
Yes. Whatever can happen to get your vids more. I do amateur videography and watching those edits and cam angles you got is a treat.
Hello Robin! Glad to see you here. I would look forward to seeing a video on Worcester from you as well.
Agreed. The difference between rolling depth charges and airstrike is not even a comparison. Airstrike is easy difficulty while rolling depthcharges are nightmare difficulty. Do any other light cruisers even get the airstrike feature?
That's exactly why, from this regard, German cruisers suck balls: they are heavy cruisers with deck dropped depth charges. The only chance you get at dropping a sub is if he's dumb enough to get under you.
What's funny is that Worcester gets Catalina ASWs while a heavy Cruiser like Hindenburg gets the depth charge ejection ASWs.
And "light cruiser" Nevsky also gets the ship launched depth charges lol.
Its all based on the hull, I believe Worcester is on a DM hull so she doesn't have roll offs therefore it would be a little weird if she had them in game
Worcester was my 2nd tier X unlock, and by far my favorite ship, with an full AA build (both captain skills and the 6th upgrade) no carrier can get more than one strike off without losing all his planes. 9 flak with DFAA activated, comparable to the next super destroyer.
And also with a full stealth build the range of AA guns is the same as air detectability range
Really enjoyable
I would say the Seattle is a complete downgrade over the Cleveland. Everything is either worse or equal comparatively. The only advantages it has is just because of being T9. But the worse propulsion, rudder shift, gun angles, detection, citadel make it where I'd rather be sailing a Clev even in a T10 game.
Her gun angles are what truly cripple her. I wish that WG gave us the Fargo at Tier 9-she was, after all, a Cleveland improvement-rather than Seattle.
Yeah I'll take the Cleveland any day over the Seattle, I hate that ship
you are supposed to skip most T9 with money. There are only a few positive T9 examples so WG can say: "No, we don't design our games intentionally frustrating to manipulate you into spending money. There are good T9!"
and with seattle you have chance of facing T11so....yea
Very disappointed with Seattle when I got her, cleveland much better. Seattle out classed in her tier and above. Flint is also better and you get smoke 😃
Excellent lessons in light cruiser play and tactics. When and when not to hydro and radar. Mahalos.
The US light cruisers have extremely strong HE and start fires. AP can punish as well. Soo many BBs don't respect it, just march in on it's range, and then you drop a volcano on it and they have to learn the hard way as the fires just go to work. By the time they try to turn to run away, it's over.
That Daring in the first match was awesome. Having team members like him increase fun by a lot. That was already a nice match :) thanks for the videos!
that whole dd chase was super interesting. I've screwed that up in the past many times so it was good to watch your thought process in real time
This explains why I have failed so many times to punish peaking Worcesters. Thank you.
Fun side note, I live in Worcester, MA and USS Worcester's bell is at city hall.
Worcester is a defense cruiser, I built full into her AAA and depth charges. Able to pull 'round 3000 per flack shot. Even super CVs struggle to hit it. It's great at farming ships and planes, defending key points, and defending allied ships. Not so great at leading, if she gets alone in the open, run or die. A high risk, high reward ship.
You earned a sub with that gameplay. Very educational.
I enjoy playing my Worcester, but I rarely do. I am terrible at aiming in her. Then again, I am also terrible at predicting where enemy ships will turn. Anyway... great demonstration...thanks.
Thanks for the great advice and game play.
After playing for 8 years (I've mostly just stuck around tiers 7-8 and playing Operations) I just acquired the Worcester as my first T10 ship and it does feel a lot better than the USS Seattle.
I'm enjoying the vid and you did well in game 2 imo because this game it's not just about dealing damage to the enemy team but also counter the enemy ships so they can't do anything that can wipeout your team.....
As a CL main I love this.
Where did you get the Don't Tread on Me camo? Awesome IMO!
Oh the Worcester. I so suck at playing her and yet I love her so.
practice with Atlanta
@@paddington1670 That's the thing: I have a 68% wr in Atlanta. Probably my best ship. I also do well in Cleveland. Worcester I am at 46%. I think PQ is right, I need to be more patient. At T7 and T8 I can make mistakes that get me killed at T10.
As a Brit, it's nice to hear an American correctly pronounce her name 😘
Incoming fire alert is super useful on almost every cruiser which is why I have it on all the cruisers that I have except Petro. Even though you call it the noob skill, you can't deny that it is super useful ;)
Also, opting for RPF instead of IFHE might be of more value, I guess?
I just picked this ship up, figuring out how to play it.. Timely posting Mr. Potato..
I love the Worcester. I actually have Legendary mod, rudder mod 2 (instead of concealment) plus prolusion mod 1. With 50% increase in rudder speed, it is very ez to dodge bb shells. And with Legendary upgrade, my consumables would be ready in no time after using them. Plus I got extra one of each consumables
i love ur one takes! pls make an elbing one
I love this ship, almost as much as my Mino. Like the Mino, if you can just stay alive, everything you do will have a huge impact.
the original bell of HMS Worcester is preserved in the city's guildhall :)
God I'd love that camo to come back
Maybe they'll bring it back for the fourth of July. It would make sense with the "don't tread on me". Murica
Which mod pack do you use for your in game theme? I like the icons. Thx
Don't discount the AP on Worcester either. It has heavy AP, but doesn't get Des Moines pen angles. On a boradside BB smashing his upper belt, bow, stern, superstructure can net some insane volleys. I've seen 12-15k volleys into supers and at Worcester's RoF that's a dead BB very quickly if you can get his broadside while he's busy shooting someone else.
Excluding german sec build BBs, everything else poping close range and NOT oneshot you is dead! Worcester AP DPM in close quarters is stuff of nightmares.
I know I'm asking difficult question but what's better
Worcester , Smolensk or maybe Colbert ?
I haven't figured out how make an Atlanta work on the new map.
8:00...risks squadron and loses it into an AA bubble, still takes off 14k from Yamato(54k to 40k after the hit) , without a risk for his ship, just to come back a minute later....got to love Floating Cancer
No more apt name than fun police
Gotta love Wooster’s special skin
I have an almost 10% higher win rate in this ship than my average win rate with well over 100 games, and I am an average player. It also synergizes well with Halsey if you are spreading fires around and you can get a couple decent salvos on a dd or two. Confederate can come pretty early if you get enough targets deployed on your side. I love this ship.
Cleveland was excellent - Seattle was a nightmare. I wish I could have played the Cleveland all the way to Worcester. I got dev struck in Seattle often because of being greedy for turret angles. I only played maybe ten games in it before I burned free xp. Seattle is definitely in my top 1 or 2 on ships I least enjoyed. I might as well sell it because I'll never play it again.
What's the reload on Worcester if you get Confederate with halsey?
@@raw7576 I think reload is 4s with mods. Halsey is 20%, so 3.2s.
@@TheFuzzypuddle noice
Won't be long before I never have to use that bathtub camo, again....
In your video "Worcester: My Favorite Cruiser In Random Battles" you took IFHE for your captain build. In this one you didn't. Which build would you recommend? I'm currently using IFHE, should I repsec out of it?
Probably no IFHE. It gets improved pen already and the fire chance is nice
@@aluminumati_147 improved pen?
Been sitting 10k xp away on my Seattle from getting Wooster for a long time. I absolutely hate the Seattle and credits are tight.
My credits are always tight. WG prefers it that way. I only just stopped grinding lines because of it. Now I just use other ships (especially good credit earners) to grind up my credits count. Oh and now the superships are bought with credits so that's really fun....
I run Wooster with Full AA build, and play it frequently. It…still…decimates…planes while racking up damage. One of the best secrets in the game.
interesting, gotta try that out
@@woutervanheusden one of my favorite matches resulted in a tight match where I deplaned them Hak and at the end got to switch to AP and citadel it to end the match
I have played 20 games or so since the update and never had the new map, sadge
So, would you recommend better maneuverability or stealth. 9.5 km conceal and 8.1 rudder shift vs 10.8 conceal and 3.2 second rudder shift?
Faster rudder shift is much better than the conceal. 3.2 puts you at destroyer level dodging at long range
concealment
with how badly armored, big, slow Worcester is, plus the bad shell arc forcing you to play closer, you won't be open watering much.
it would be awesome if you did a vid on the Alexander Nevsky
You should try stacking last stand with propulsion mod. Yes last stand also acts as propulsion mod and stack.
Small damage DD and sub killing games on US CLs feel disappointing but that 34k is all on absolutely vital hit points
PQ for real, how do you grind Steel so fast?
fishingboat chasing simulator xD
Ok, as someone from the state of Massachusetts, it pains me to hear people pronounce it Wooster. It isn’t a long o sound, it’s almost more of a wuster…like you blend the o into almost a u sound. I know it’s tough but wooster is silliness. Great vid as always tho 👍🏻
A lot of the names of cities around me in Virginia have very similar weird pronunciations so I get it. Try Poquoson lol. Or something that you'd think would be easy, Norfolk, Suffolk, portsmouth lol
@@raw7576 Yeah, we have a lot of names up here that are rooted in Native American culture (Sassaquin, Agawam, Massachusetts itself, etc.) so I find those really easy to pronounce. I also have Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Norfolk, so those are no trouble, but Worcester confuses some people in the state still lol.
a review right after i got worchester
Baltimore - 9.9km sea detection with 10km radar
I had the idea that worcester aa was the best of the best in the game. If not, which ship holds the first place above any other?
Stalingrad AA is pretty damn good. And I only have the captain skills for it, not even the upgrades
Great vids but the UI text, icons, minimap etc. are difficult to see/read with your current settings. I know that worka for ya best when playing so no worries but just something to consider. (Watching on 65"TV @ the max rez you upload: 1080p60)
you are watching yt on a 65? hotdamn
Finally!! :)
Worcester is a nice ship, but in my opinion Des Moines is a lot better. The turret setup is much more versatile and you can really hug islands very closely and use 2/3s of your gunpower. Something the Worcester never can. Also the gun performance itself is a lot better on Des Moines in my opinion, let alone the forbidden AP power.
I saw you have a "Battleships: How to Support Your Destroyers" video. Any chance on the reverse? How to support your cruisers/battleships as a destroyer?
Spot is priority, get rid of enemy dds, and cap if you know that you can contest that cap
@@krzysztofivmocny7952 Gotcha. Thank you.
Been playing for a week and a half at this point. Still working on #2, and still working on my evaluation skills for #3.
@@CiaranMaxwell No problem man, i like to make people to understand the basics of this game which is not so easy. The worst thing you can do is to die in first 2 minutes since at the beginning everyone is eager to get rid of dds. Basically you are an eyes of your team if there is no CV. Speaking of CV's make sure you turn your AA off while playing a DD. You got something like 2km spot from the air, but your AA will start shooting from ~5km making your visible. Of course ships like halland or any with good AA can handle CV's but its pointless to lose your hitpoints and get spotted. Its also includes while you are in smoke, enemy CV will blindfire you because he see where the AA shells are coming from. You need to know what ship is dangerous to you, be aware from italian cruisers and light cruisers with high fire rate. Dont push enemy smoke if you are not sure that the enemy doesnt have a sonar. You will end up in situation when he will see you and you wont see him.
@@krzysztofivmocny7952 or a situation where he can see your torpedoes the moment you launch, but you can't see his until it's too late.
I already knew of the AA thing, and Halland is one of the boats I want to play. I basically signed up to torpedo things, and Halland has good torpedoes. It may not be the *best* torpedo boat out there, but not all games call for one.
Have you considered any more legends videos? I really enjoyed them and find legends to be a better version of pc anyways
4:55 bruh when I play like this Ragnar, 5 people always aim perfectly at what ever vector changes I make 😡
I thought the Wooster still had the best AA in the game, but then I heard you say it isn't bad but isn't great.
So , you like the Worcester over the Minotaur?
Holy f this ship is world ender lol.
I Play the mobile version blitz. Currently rank 1 EU. the Worcester is my go to every time
didn't play the new map yet but funny how all the corners are basically no park zones xD AS IF WG WANTS TO TELL BB PLAYERS SOMETHING xD
FYI Alsace is pronounced like "Al's ass" not like "Al's ace"
Are all of his one takes gonna be txs I wonder. Say say in a nutshell you want to only use map shooting ships n passive gameplay.
looks fun without potatos in your team :P
Today I learned it's pronounced Wooster, not vor-sester
Ok i am gonna be the guy that will say if petro needs conceal nerf that the RN cl need nerf as well cause they can stealf radar with longer duration and better dpm
This cruiser, just like any other cruiser played in randoms (radar cruiser), all people just hurry up and get behind a chicken island near the cap, and spend the rest of the game doing nothing except pressing the radar button. Everytime they hit the button, a DD insta-dies. Easy. Wimps really have a home on this game.
I can tell, already, that you never played an American light cruiser.
@@Hydra360ci lol, love that comment.
@@Hydra360ci I play all cruisers, BBs, and DDs. I can tell you like a game where it is considered a very helpful tactic to just sit behind islands and press 1 button and wait until your team kills a DD. It breeds wimps. CV/Sub players freecast without any risk, radar cruisers hide behind a rock and live out their lives there not even needing a fire button, and those are successful strategies that actually help the team. There is no risk in wimp strategies in a game where some players are actually risking when they do things that cause damage. I do not know what you wimps will do if this game ever eliminates how successful wimp strategies are.
wow an average of 69% win rate ... my 47% looks like very rotten potato!! but I have fun :)
The worst thing about Worcester is f2p player can't afford to play this ship. You'll need premium account or premium camo, otherwise you can lose a million silver in less than 15 battles.
I love the ship, but I just don't wanna see Eagles and other shit paperships erase me, so i'm not playing T10 randoms
as light cruiser worcester is ok, smo and mino are way more scary ships
you forgot to press radar for a 6-7km dd
2nd battle Benham was very poor. Should have never let the cap be taken.