UrPeaceKeeper's How to Play VMF DD Videos

[UrPeaceKeeper]

Hey guys, it's UPK and I'm about three weeks (four weeks?) late to making this thread now, but here it is anyway!  For those who don't know my YT channel, I do a lot of How to Play videos for ships, starting with the lowest tiers and working up.  I generally start off with a Captain Skills build video and then work my way up to the T10.  As of this post, we are up to the T3 Derzki but will be posting the T4 Izyaslav on Wednesday.  I will be releasing future VMF DD videos on every Wednesday of every week until we hit both Khabarovsk and Gorozhevoi  at T10 so follow along, toss in your comments and suggestions and hopefully we all learn something new!

 

Captain Skills Video First:

 

 

Storozhevoi Next:

 

Now getting to Derzki!

 

If you guys want to leave comments, feel free to do so here or on YT and hang around for more videos every Wednesday! :)

[Chaos_EN2]

Cool more to watch

[UrPeaceKeeper]

1 minute ago, Chaos_EN2 said:

Cool more to watch

 

 

Lots to watch! :P

[Chaos_EN2]

Just now, UrPeaceKeeper said:

 

Lots to watch! :P

Yup I watch them when I take a break from the game, or while I eat breakfast in the morning.

[Lonewolfpj]

Thanks for all the hard work.

[Sovereigndawg]

I entered the Storozhevoi in the Sea Smack Down, Confederate and Kraken in a 7 ship per team battle with 6 DD's and 1 Cruiser. https://replayswows.com/replay/3023 I got more with guns than torps tough. Nice reviews. The Derzki is my favorite, just plain old fun to play ship in the game. I had a 10 point captain in the replay ship.

[Lightninger]

58 minutes ago, Sovereigndawg said:

I entered the Storozhevoi in the Sea Smack Down, Confederate and Kraken in a 7 ship per team battle with 6 DD's and 1 Cruiser. https://replayswows.com/replay/3023 I got more with guns than torps tough. Nice reviews. The Derzki is my favorite, just plain old fun to play ship in the game. I had a 10 point captain in the replay ship.

 

This is for everyone's benefit, so people don't think they are only ambush torpedo boats. As Sovereigndawg has stated about the Storozhevoi, and my comment on the video for that ship on youtube, both the Storozhevoi and Derzki are very strong gunboats and very easily played as such. With gun ranges for each ship at 9.7 km (Storo, 11.6 with AFT) and 10.3 (Derzki,12.4 with AFT, previously was terrible before buff), they are easily played as gunboats that can carry. You can look up my Storozhevoi's stats to see this, with a 75% win rate, and a good number of those games where I division with tier 3 ships and many of those games coming out top exp on the winning team.

[m373x]

 Good info but AR does not help AA deal more damage. AA guns do not have reload time, they deal damage per second.

[UrPeaceKeeper]

7 hours ago, m373x said:

 Good info but AR does not help AA deal more damage. AA guns do not have reload time, they deal damage per second.

 

WG said that AR does actually change the rate at which AA damage is dealt and they've said that since the patch that redid the captain skills changes.  There was a bug that it wasn't impacting AA or Secondaries and they stated it should be.

 

In other news, we must ask important question:  Is he a Slav?  Or isn't he?

 

Lets find out together! :)

[m373x]

2 minutes ago, UrPeaceKeeper said:

WG said that AR does actually change the rate at which AA damage is dealt and they've said that since the patch that redid the captain skills changes.  There was a bug that it wasn't impacting AA or Secondaries and they stated it should be.

They said that about secondaries but I'm going to ask you for source about them mentioning AA.

[UrPeaceKeeper]

4 minutes ago, m373x said:

They said that about secondaries but I'm going to ask you for source about them mentioning AA.

 

Hmm, in digging further, it appears you are right.  Re-read the Q&A where Sub_Octavian says it was going to be patched for secondaries, but nothing about AA.

I don't know why it wouldn't.  The Current AA in game ticks at 1 per second except the DP guns which is one every five seconds IIRC.  Wouldn't be hard to have AR apply to them too.

[m373x]

6 minutes ago, UrPeaceKeeper said:

 

Hmm, in digging further, it appears you are right.  Re-read the Q&A where Sub_Octavian says it was going to be patched for secondaries, but nothing about AA.

I don't know why it wouldn't.  The Current AA in game ticks at 1 per second except the DP guns which is one every five seconds IIRC.  Wouldn't be hard to have AR apply to them too.

It will just be too strong for a skill that takes only 2 points (it is already very very strong). 

[m373x]

 Izyaslav is just fun on roids 

[UrPeaceKeeper]

Just now, m373x said:

It will just be too strong for a skill that takes only 2 points (it is already very very strong). 

 

Hardly, by the time AR has a noticeable effect on your ship, your AA batteries are going to be pretty closed to wiped out. At least that's been my experience with it.

[m373x]

1 minute ago, UrPeaceKeeper said:

 

Hardly, by the time AR has a noticeable effect on your ship, your AA batteries are going to be pretty closed to wiped out. At least that's been my experience with it.

For a battleship, yes, because of the shell spam. But a cruiser that takes 2 citadels from a BB, the added 15% or so damage will make a huge difference.

[UrPeaceKeeper]

The T5 Podvoisky Video is here!

 

As far as T5's goes, Podvoisky is a bit of an odd duck.  While she is faster and had 360º gun turrets, I can't help but feel like she is a downgrade over Izyaslav.  Mostly because Izyaslav has better damaging guns and more usable torpedoes while not giving up much to Podvoisky, and probably because at T5, Podvoisky is in perpetual T7 matches where she is easily outclassed by the T6 and T7 DD's...                  

 

What have you done with your Podvoisky?

[Greenday4537]

Just started playing RU DDs and oh my God are they trolly. Their guns are awesome. The short range torps are fun (though not super useful) and because you are so small and fast, it's easy to get up close to low tier BB's and unleash a ton of torps too close to dodge.

[centarina]

For my playstyle, I really like udaloi the best, eventhough i also have grosovoi and kahb.     Even with 8.9km conceal,  I find it more than great for hunting  dd,  burning down other ships (due to its amazing agility combined with decent speed combined with best range of gun)  very easy to farm fire dmg on them, and you can usually kill other DDs well.     

[UrPeaceKeeper]

On 8/28/2017 at 5:34 PM, Greenday4537 said:

Just started playing RU DDs and oh my God are they trolly. Their guns are awesome. The short range torps are fun (though not super useful) and because you are so small and fast, it's easy to get up close to low tier BB's and unleash a ton of torps too close to dodge.

 

They definitely start off and end that way (IME) but the mid tiers are brutally bad.  Podvoisky is tolerable, but Gnevny is just... bad... 

 

On 8/29/2017 at 0:02 AM, centarina said:

For my playstyle, I really like udaloi the best, eventhough i also have grosovoi and kahb.     Even with 8.9km conceal,  I find it more than great for hunting  dd,  burning down other ships (due to its amazing agility combined with decent speed combined with best range of gun)  very easy to farm fire dmg on them, and you can usually kill other DDs well.     

 

I'm not all the way through grinding the lines but when the day does come, it'll be interesting to see which of the two lines becomes my favorite, if any.  Tashkent is not nearly as bad as she used to be, but I miss the old Kiev.  That ship was amazing!

[UrPeaceKeeper]

Speaking of Gnevny, here is the video for her:

 

If there was ever a ship that I felt deserved some serious attention in this line, you are looking at it.  Gnevny is just... awful.  There isn't anything good to say about him aside from he is fast in the water which is hardly worth the long grind.  How did you guys manage through Gnevny?

[Old_Hickory]

2 hours ago, UrPeaceKeeper said:

 How did you guys manage through Gnevny?

 

By playing her when she was a tier 5 :^)

In all seriousness though, I'll be waiting for an Ognevoi video from you, it's really weird at tier 8. 

[centarina]

ognevoi takes high skilled captain to be successful.   not easy without at least 14 pointer. 

[centarina]

and then CE is almost a wasted on udaloi, but useful for grosovoi

 

[UrPeaceKeeper]

Minsk video is here!  Sorry about the delay in getting the video out.  I was on vacation last week when it was supposed to go out and I didn't have enough free time to get the video done.  Never the less, HERE IT IS!
 

 

The last of the 4km only DD's in the VMF DD line also suffers from the same problem that the three preceding DD's had with the lack of overall gun play making for a frustrating game.  At least that's been my experience!  What's been yours?

[Delicious_Flat_Chest]

On 9/14/2017 at 10:37 PM, UrPeaceKeeper said:

Minsk video is here!  Sorry about the delay in getting the video out.  I was on vacation last week when it was supposed to go out and I didn't have enough free time to get the video done.  Never the less, HERE IT IS!
 

 

The last of the 4km only DD's in the VMF DD line also suffers from the same problem that the three preceding DD's had with the lack of overall gun play making for a frustrating game.  At least that's been my experience!  What's been yours?

its kinda sad that these beginning ships take throw enough crapuntil it sticks well for a fire, to a tee. Thnx for your videos.