Velos (D19) began life as USS Charrette (DD-581) The Fletcher-Class USS Charrette was commissioned on 18th May 1943, spending her early War career on portals and escort duty. On 5th May 1944, she assisted the USS Fair (DE-35) to sink I-175 with Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar, the first ijn sub to be sunk by the weapon. 12th February 1944, she raided a Japanese base before returning to support duties. Her final action of 1944 was to take part in the battle of the Leyte Gulf. Where she would guard the carriers. She would end the war in San Francisco, being decommissioned on 15th January 1947. She earned 13 Battlestars during her service. After modification, on 16th July 1959, she was formerly handed over and commissioned to the Hellenic Navy as Velos (D16) Her career with the Greek Navy saw her sure with nato Fleets but her most famous moment in Greek service came on 25th May 1973. Under the Command of Nikolaos Pappas. She was taking part in NATO exercises off Italy. While on patrol, Commander Pappas decided to munity against the military junta in power in Greece at the time. The crew claimed asylum, with some refusing to join out of fear. On 25th July 1974, the junta fell, Cmdr Pappas returned to the Navy reaching the rank of Vice Admiral. Velos was decommissioned on 26th February 1991, being persevered as a museum ship in 1994 as a Museum of the Struggle against the dictatorship. She is moored at the Naval Tradition Park in Palaio Faliro, Athens.
Velos (“Arrow” in Greek) (D16) began life as USS Charrette, the USS Charrette (DD-581), a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, was launched on 3 June 1942 by the Boston Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. G. Charrette; and commissioned on 18 May 1943, with Commander E. S. Karpe in command. Entering service during World War II, the ship spent its career in the Pacific theatre. Placed in reserve following the war, it was transferred to the Kingdom of Greece in 1959 and renamed Velos (D16), remaining in service till 1991 before being preserved as a museum ship at Palaio Faliro, Athens. The USS Charrette (DD-581) received 13 battle stars for her World War II service. The ship was involved in a mutiny on the morning of May 23, 1973, as the Greek destroyer warship Velos was floating outside Sardinia, Italy, participating in a NATO exercise, its commander Nikolaos Pappas and his officers were listening to the radio in angst. The radiowave was terribly ominous for them: back in Greece, the authoritarian regime of the Military Junta arrested and brutally tortured Navy officers who had organized a Movement to overthrow the Dictatorship imposed by the Colonels, back in April 1967. As a result, the crew requested asylum in Italy, with some fearing the fate of them or their families being tortured, refused to join. It wouldn’t be until July 25, 1974, when the regime collapsed, and Commander Pappas was reinstated into the Hellenic Navy, ultimately reaching the rank of Vice Admiral. On February 26 1991, Greek Fletcher-class destroyer 'Velos' D-16 was decommissioned and became a museum ship, now anchored in the Naval Tradition Park at Palaio Faliro near Athens. Last year, strong winds and waves caused damage to Velos’s moorings and stern, which resulted in her being towed into the city’s harbor for repairs.
That Lushun definitely had a "Hello, Sunshine!" moment when y'all bait and switched that red Velos. Beautiful. Leave it to BigB to make the Velos look good while explaining that it really isn't...
@SpartanElite43 cope. 😄 I know I am a dadburger, but I can follow your tactics, and see how with time and practice, I can approach your skill. Tactics and game knowledge are replicatable. I watch BigB... well, I can't analyze voodoo level game sense.
It plays exactly like the Euro line -- except it also has a smoke to disengage, and the torps do more damage... If you play that line well, you'll play this well. The gun DPM is fine -- it has 1 less gun than a Fletcher, but fires 20% faster. And the torps will go 74 knots on a proper torp build -- the fastest for the tier. Coming from someone who wins most with torp DDs, I think it will be fine in the hands of someone with experience on that line. Most people do horrible on the Euro DD line because they think it's totally fine to open up in a 1v3 fight...
I’ve played almost all the euro dd there’s a huge difference your dpm is similar but when you compare to tier the 8 (can remember name) has a radar and very rapid guns and 10 torps and is much more tanky this ship is just really bad
@coopergoebel9943 I'm working on unlocking smaland but from I can tell smaland is very strong in tier 8. Which doesn't make velos bad, just not that good. As someone who is newer to the game and has no tier 8s but got lucky with a kidd in a champion box im looking forward to playing it. Plus I've been maining french and pan eu dds so used to difficult play style
0:35 the 2nd pronunciation was right ( I'm greek) and I honestly think they should buff this ship a little bit... It's kinda mid rn at its current state. Or make it a t7 it would fit in t7 better than t8 I feel like...
@@SpartanElite43 yeah I have been having more worse nights than better, after this last update I struggle to get citadels as they sail broadside for 15min 😅
Oh.. I had so high hopes for this one, it actually saddens me to see this. Great video, dont get me wrong. But Ive been grinding for three weeks and are one percent away. Shoot..
I looked at the campaign ship and the drachma ships and felt that this campaign is a good one to pass on. After watching your video it confirms my thoughts. Thanks Spartan.
Now if memory serves me the Velos is the fourth destroyer/campaign ship for 2024. If one has a fully upgraded Fletcher, I don't see the motivation to pursue the Velos. This will be an easy pass for me, in what has been a very lackluster year of campaign ships... I'd like to see a few premium Tier 8 cruisers over the next few months from the Japanese, British, Soviets, or Italians and maybe, just maybe a premium Soviet battleship for Tier 8, but that's just me. 😜 The monthly campaign is in desperate need for a ship that can cause a LOT of unilateral enthusiasm.
Alright a bit help from Greece here. Velos (Βέλος) is pronounced short /ɛ/ as in "egg" and in greek it means arrow. Mati Mataki (Μάτι Ματάκι) means Eye Small Eye and letter "a" is pronounced short /æ/ as is "apple".
The new French commander from the tie-in makes the French battlecruisers much better. Use mimbelli and Scott as inspirations. Use the commanders special trait in the third row. Also have fully packed
So its a T7 Fletcher with less guns, one rack of torps, and it gets uptiered? Why? Also, I think this would have served better as a T6 in the store than a T8 campaign.
Good video Spartan I would have skipped this one but I buy out these campains so I can spend that update getting steel, I am saving to Mighty Mo, and I need a little over 4k steel I got 12, 525 steel as of now, but once I get her campaign ships like this can rot, Ijust get the backing not by it out, if I get the ship okay if not no loss. I know some are excited it was a new nation, and if you come from there that is even more understandable, but to me this is just another Fletcher Class Destroyer I have 2 before I got this, so yeah another torp ship, great, but then I hear but it is a historical ship more of these, less paper ones or the reskins like the Montana we got this update as I look at this ship, Well to them I say then get ready for tons of DDs because they were the only ships built in large numbers to fit that historical ship built so a port full of DDs, I mean there are a few sister ships left of BBs, CLs, and wait for it CVs to build like Washington, Also by the way got this Montana this update reload to 19.6 stock still not maxed on the 1 insperation commander, and the commander that was for this ship I bet I get that to 18.9,
I debated buying admiralty backing for this b/c the ship seems meh, but did it for the increased bonuses throughout the campaign. Would have been cool if they gave it some sort of ramming ability where the ship doesn't take much damage, since that's how the old triremes fought.
I also want to point out that the last match my torps got knocked out 1 min in because I actually made a tun mistake and was spotted. But hell no torps this ship is done.
Hello Bro Spartan 😂😂. Eai Spartan qnd vamos jogar juntos? Kkk. Se um dia voce tiver sendo atacado por algum porta-avioes, é eu viu. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. Arrangei um tempinho pra ver seus videos, te adoro.
Greetings Spartan, I am Patrick, I like your videos, Can I ask you for advice, How can I do more damage to my targets with each volley of my shots? A big hug and thank you. 😊
Just takes time to learn where your shots are most effective but if you check out my path to playlists I go over strengths and weaknesses of lot of the lines in the game
so was in contact with wowsl people they say I got crates and opened them which I never received so how can I open them if they didn’t arrive on my screen so I’m now a lying been playing game doing ok on the game for 5years waste of space paying customer. The crates not appearing is the issue not the fact that most of the time you only get paint or other stuff maybe a slim chance of a ship if this is happening to me who’s next ? But they don’t want to know.
Will this event be the only chance to obtain the Boradino or however you spell it? Love the ship but not seeing a way to get it without spending more money on the bundles. 12500 drac is kind of steep. If I’m missing something please let me know guys!
I think the ship gets too much hate if you make a torp build and don’t just yolo into the cap you will get decent results. Just play it like a ijn destroyer and you will be fine
Better to use the other DD cdr as you can get reduced spotting, the guns are floaty, and this ship is paper. You can only use this for spamming 5 torp every 39 sec with my build, space fishy, and Bey. That being said it really sucks.
They have naval ram on the front of the ship... I get it's for looks but why have it if ya cnt at least cause damage with it... Fuck up on wg part in my opinion.... Should be able ram light cruisers... Or DD.. considering they nurtured this thing.. would be nice counter as last defence... I'm sorry this triggered the fuck outta me
A historical ship ruined by wargaming’s tendency to do every campaign tier 8. Seriously the ship has nothing that it can render it tier 8 no good stats even consumables the lack of radar and sonar make the situation even worse. The ship should be a tier 7 and it will be a great ship . What is a fletcher doing in tier 8?
It's like a nutterd fletcher up tiered to tier 8 it's sad .u lose a gun and torps . Why even play it? I love fletcher but taking off one turret is not good and only 1 torp rack is bad. U could play kidd and get 5 turrets and a heal and better aa at tier6. They should have made it tier 6 not tier 8 idk what they were thinking
Velos (D19) began life as USS Charrette (DD-581)
The Fletcher-Class USS Charrette was commissioned on 18th May 1943, spending her early War career on portals and escort duty.
On 5th May 1944, she assisted the USS Fair (DE-35) to sink I-175 with Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar, the first ijn sub to be sunk by the weapon.
12th February 1944, she raided a Japanese base before returning to support duties.
Her final action of 1944 was to take part in the battle of the Leyte Gulf. Where she would guard the carriers.
She would end the war in San Francisco, being decommissioned on 15th January 1947. She earned 13 Battlestars during her service.
After modification, on 16th July 1959, she was formerly handed over and commissioned to the Hellenic Navy as Velos (D16)
Her career with the Greek Navy saw her sure with nato Fleets but her most famous moment in Greek service came on 25th May 1973.
Under the Command of Nikolaos Pappas. She was taking part in NATO exercises off Italy.
While on patrol, Commander Pappas decided to munity against the military junta in power in Greece at the time.
The crew claimed asylum, with some refusing to join out of fear.
On 25th July 1974, the junta fell, Cmdr Pappas returned to the Navy reaching the rank of Vice Admiral.
Velos was decommissioned on 26th February 1991, being persevered as a museum ship in 1994 as a Museum of the Struggle against the dictatorship.
She is moored at the Naval Tradition Park in Palaio Faliro, Athens.
The ship is anchored in Thessaloniki about 3-4 years now
@@nikos_para2329 OK, seems both me and wg got the wrong info, thank you.
Velos (“Arrow” in Greek) (D16) began life as USS Charrette, the USS Charrette (DD-581), a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, was launched on 3 June 1942 by the Boston Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. G. Charrette; and commissioned on 18 May 1943, with Commander E. S. Karpe in command. Entering service during World War II, the ship spent its career in the Pacific theatre. Placed in reserve following the war, it was transferred to the Kingdom of Greece in 1959 and renamed Velos (D16), remaining in service till 1991 before being preserved as a museum ship at Palaio Faliro, Athens. The USS Charrette (DD-581) received 13 battle stars for her World War II service.
The ship was involved in a mutiny on the morning of May 23, 1973, as the Greek destroyer warship Velos was floating outside Sardinia, Italy, participating in a NATO exercise, its commander Nikolaos Pappas and his officers were listening to the radio in angst.
The radiowave was terribly ominous for them: back in Greece, the authoritarian regime of the Military Junta arrested and brutally tortured Navy officers who had organized a Movement to overthrow the Dictatorship imposed by the Colonels, back in April 1967. As a result, the crew requested asylum in Italy, with some fearing the fate of them or their families being tortured, refused to join.
It wouldn’t be until July 25, 1974, when the regime collapsed, and Commander Pappas was reinstated into the Hellenic Navy, ultimately reaching the rank of Vice Admiral. On February 26 1991, Greek Fletcher-class destroyer 'Velos' D-16 was decommissioned and became a museum ship, now anchored in the Naval Tradition Park at Palaio Faliro near Athens. Last year, strong winds and waves caused damage to Velos’s moorings and stern, which resulted in her being towed into the city’s harbor for repairs.
That Lushun definitely had a "Hello, Sunshine!" moment when y'all bait and switched that red Velos. Beautiful.
Leave it to BigB to make the Velos look good while explaining that it really isn't...
Haha bigB cheats for sure I watched it live
@SpartanElite43 cope. 😄
I know I am a dadburger, but I can follow your tactics, and see how with time and practice, I can approach your skill. Tactics and game knowledge are replicatable.
I watch BigB... well, I can't analyze voodoo level game sense.
@@lurkingedge 😄 he is definitely on another level from me that's for sure
Good game Spartan! Glad you were able
To get your video!
I'm kind of interested in this ship... can't wait to unlock it
Great video as usual
Good luck it's definitely a skill ship and I don't have the skill
It plays exactly like the Euro line -- except it also has a smoke to disengage, and the torps do more damage... If you play that line well, you'll play this well. The gun DPM is fine -- it has 1 less gun than a Fletcher, but fires 20% faster. And the torps will go 74 knots on a proper torp build -- the fastest for the tier. Coming from someone who wins most with torp DDs, I think it will be fine in the hands of someone with experience on that line. Most people do horrible on the Euro DD line because they think it's totally fine to open up in a 1v3 fight...
I’ve played almost all the euro dd there’s a huge difference your dpm is similar but when you compare to tier the 8 (can remember name) has a radar and very rapid guns and 10 torps and is much more tanky this ship is just really bad
Smalland has the fastest torps.
@coopergoebel9943 I'm working on unlocking smaland but from I can tell smaland is very strong in tier 8. Which doesn't make velos bad, just not that good.
As someone who is newer to the game and has no tier 8s but got lucky with a kidd in a champion box im looking forward to playing it. Plus I've been maining french and pan eu dds so used to difficult play style
@@21starmygroup86 I’m sorry man but your going to be very disappointed when you get it
2:18 sounded like the torpedo, alert, voice line 😂
I love this ship as a torp reload meme.
0:35 the 2nd pronunciation was right ( I'm greek) and I honestly think they should buff this ship a little bit... It's kinda mid rn at its current state. Or make it a t7 it would fit in t7 better than t8 I feel like...
Yeah its hard to say it's a tier 8 when it's made of a tier 7 ship
My daughter was just in Greece and she said the “V” sounds like our “Z” unless she was just messing with me lol
No it doesn't really sound like a z...
@@troymiller6058yeah no…
Good game spartan!! Glad you were able to get your video!
It was a rough night
@@SpartanElite43 yeah I have been having more worse nights than better, after this last update I struggle to get citadels as they sail broadside for 15min 😅
Third pronounciation is the correct one ;)
I 'm Greek fan of the channel so what do you think if wargaming put more Greek ships in the game georgios averof salamis and more
Love the video Spartan, finally they added a ship of my country, but it requires a lot of skill which may not be very fun in certain situations
Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for letting me know spartan
The skin should increase ramming damage
Oh.. I had so high hopes for this one, it actually saddens me to see this. Great video, dont get me wrong. But Ive been grinding for three weeks and are one percent away. Shoot..
I looked at the campaign ship and the drachma ships and felt that this campaign is a good one to pass on. After watching your video it confirms my thoughts. Thanks Spartan.
Im actually Just into it because of that Modern Bridge it has, Looks Gorgeus
Now if memory serves me the Velos is the fourth destroyer/campaign ship for 2024. If one has a fully upgraded Fletcher, I don't see the motivation to pursue the Velos. This will be an easy pass for me, in what has been a very lackluster year of campaign ships...
I'd like to see a few premium Tier 8 cruisers over the next few months from the Japanese, British, Soviets, or Italians and maybe, just maybe a premium Soviet battleship for Tier 8, but that's just me. 😜
The monthly campaign is in desperate need for a ship that can cause a LOT of unilateral enthusiasm.
Well played anyway…. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you kindly!
Finally the first Hellenic ship 🇬🇷⚡️
Alright a bit help from Greece here. Velos (Βέλος) is pronounced short /ɛ/ as in "egg" and in greek it means arrow. Mati Mataki (Μάτι Ματάκι) means Eye Small Eye and letter "a" is pronounced short /æ/ as is "apple".
The new French commander from the tie-in makes the French battlecruisers much better. Use mimbelli and Scott as inspirations. Use the commanders special trait in the third row. Also have fully packed
I’ve seen starfallz and hippersdontlie in the past. Very capable players.
They seem to work together pretty well. In this instance we just had a better team than they did
Looking forward to your ranked stream
Hoping to get it done tonight but it may have to wait until tomorrow as I'm running a bunch of errands
So its a T7 Fletcher with less guns, one rack of torps, and it gets uptiered? Why? Also, I think this would have served better as a T6 in the store than a T8 campaign.
You got it right the 2nd time
and it means arrow in Greek
Good video Spartan I would have skipped this one but I buy out these campains so I can spend that update getting steel, I am saving to Mighty Mo, and I need a little over 4k steel I got 12, 525 steel as of now, but once I get her campaign ships like this can rot, Ijust get the backing not by it out, if I get the ship okay if not no loss.
I know some are excited it was a new nation, and if you come from there that is even more understandable, but to me this is just another Fletcher Class Destroyer I have 2 before I got this, so yeah another torp ship, great, but then I hear but it is a historical ship more of these, less paper ones or the reskins like the Montana we got this update as I look at this ship,
Well to them I say then get ready for tons of DDs because they were the only ships built in large numbers to fit that historical ship built so a port full of DDs, I mean there are a few sister ships left of BBs, CLs, and wait for it CVs to build like Washington,
Also by the way got this Montana this update reload to 19.6 stock still not maxed on the 1 insperation commander, and the commander that was for this ship I bet I get that to 18.9,
The issue I have is how many would actually try to use that ram
I debated buying admiralty backing for this b/c the ship seems meh, but did it for the increased bonuses throughout the campaign. Would have been cool if they gave it some sort of ramming ability where the ship doesn't take much damage, since that's how the old triremes fought.
Yeah its almost always worth the 2500 and grind out campaign if you don't want the ship you can always sell it
I also want to point out that the last match my torps got knocked out 1 min in because I actually made a tun mistake and was spotted. But hell no torps this ship is done.
4:08 I can tell. I saw you get dev struck by a tier 6 destroyer in this thing yesterday
Yeah that was my very first game in it and I'd forgotten to put equipment on it like a dummy...
I set up my commander and launched
Great vid as also
You could swap out Sims for the Pan Asian guy for better concealment and more torp damage.. it could be a thing
Hello Bro Spartan 😂😂.
Eai Spartan qnd vamos jogar juntos? Kkk.
Se um dia voce tiver sendo atacado por algum porta-avioes, é eu viu.
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.
Arrangei um tempinho pra ver seus videos, te adoro.
She is a museum ship
Im going for it. New ship
A like and comment.:)
Much appreciated
Όλοι οι Έλληνες εδώ
Greetings Spartan, I am Patrick, I like your videos, Can I ask you for advice, How can I do more damage to my targets with each volley of my shots? A big hug and thank you. 😊
Just takes time to learn where your shots are most effective but if you check out my path to playlists I go over strengths and weaknesses of lot of the lines in the game
Hey, i have a question: Did I miss anything when i was on vacation in August? Is it a good or fun ship, or i didn't miss much.
It's OK but takes a good dd player to get the most out of it
Maybe try space fishy or something lol
hi just asking have you ever had the game rob you of two crates and other rewards after you finish a battle?
so was in contact with wowsl people they say I got crates and opened them which I never received so how can I open them if they didn’t arrive on my screen so I’m now a lying been playing game doing ok on the game for 5years waste of space paying customer. The crates not appearing is the issue not the fact that most of the time you only get paint or other stuff maybe a slim chance of a ship if this is happening to me who’s next ? But they don’t want to know.
It has great torpedoes with low reload time and you manage to set the commander like it’s a murican Kidd
Will this event be the only chance to obtain the Boradino or however you spell it? Love the ship but not seeing a way to get it without spending more money on the bundles. 12500 drac is kind of steep. If I’m missing something please let me know guys!
Its not worth buying as the bow is paper your better off getting the misori
Play it as a torp boat. Shoot guns if you have to.
It's called Velos...😃
Lol
Βέλος to be exact
@@trikosgr9334είσαι υπέροχος φίλε 😂😂😂❤
Touché
I think the ship gets too much hate if you make a torp build and don’t just yolo into the cap you will get decent results. Just play it like a ijn destroyer and you will be fine
3rd one was close Spartan. I don’t mind your pronunciation but rather fixing your mistakes 😂
Hello people
Hi
If it's Greek is the entrance in the rear bahaha
Better to use the other DD cdr as you can get reduced spotting, the guns are floaty, and this ship is paper. You can only use this for spamming 5 torp every 39 sec with my build, space fishy, and Bey. That being said it really sucks.
I'd bet kidd would wreck this thing. Lucky for me I can fail div to find out hahaha!
It only has 5 torps for you to dodge every 40-60 seconds so surely you won't die to them
Day one of asking Spartan to play Ostergotland
Spartan eu vi que voce esta ao vivo.
Mas meu cell ñ esta funcionando o app UA-cam ent ñ tem como usar os comentarios. Mais vi vc de Nova Orleans
Sorry to hear that but appreciate you watching when you can.
i am only getting this is that i am greek and i have seen it in real life 😂
Awesome
Spartan....We know your not a DD player lol.😂 But good try. -Oblivion068-
I may not be a DD player but most of my DDs have a 65%+ win rate with some having 70%+ win rate
@@SpartanElite43 That's sweet I guess.
This capture the 2 things in the game I dislike the most. DD's and tier 8. Pass
They have naval ram on the front of the ship... I get it's for looks but why have it if ya cnt at least cause damage with it... Fuck up on wg part in my opinion.... Should be able ram light cruisers... Or DD.. considering they nurtured this thing.. would be nice counter as last defence... I'm sorry this triggered the fuck outta me
Wrong Greek flag
That one is from the 60s
Hellenes unite!
Day 38 of asking Spartan to make a video with a meme gunboat built shimakaze
Another tier 8, looks like I’m skipping out on this one.
A historical ship ruined by wargaming’s tendency to do every campaign tier 8. Seriously the ship has nothing that it can render it tier 8 no good stats even consumables the lack of radar and sonar make the situation even worse. The ship should be a tier 7 and it will be a great ship . What is a fletcher doing in tier 8?
No more American ships weegee
But its Greek...
You had ZERO support on your push on ennemy cap... It's killing me the playerbase right now. So many stupid defeats because of it.
It's like a nutterd fletcher up tiered to tier 8 it's sad .u lose a gun and torps . Why even play it? I love fletcher but taking off one turret is not good and only 1 torp rack is bad. U could play kidd and get 5 turrets and a heal and better aa at tier6. They should have made it tier 6 not tier 8 idk what they were thinking