Never Give Up, even in a Colorado

[Compassghost]

Our team got absolutely smashed early on here. I ended up getting an Omaha kill before three DDs started hunting me, chasing me west through our cap point. At one point, it was 4 v 8, and we were almost always behind on capture points and contests.

 

And... this was the result...

 

 

 

I went ahead and did a 6x play through the first few minutes of play and 2x for the rest because it's a full 20-minute game.

 

Lessons I learned.

 

• On battleships, maximize your damage output. This includes secondaries and both fore and aft turrets. If possible and beneficial, you can engage more than one target at a time.
• If you are heavily damaged, you should not be attacking. At 3:30, you can watch me split my fore and aft turrets on two different Nagatos, citadeling one and sinking the other for an easy 100-point reversal.
• Any kills you don't secure, or kills you secure late, can negatively impact the game later. No, this is not condoning kill-stealing. If you actively fire on a target and just so happen to secure a kill, that's fine in my book. If you just wait to get the kill, then you're wasting reload cycles for KD and being a potato.
• Become familiar with brawling. Spending a lot of time in battleship brawls will save you from torpedoes and unnecessary crits.
• Expect to get messed up in brawls. Shots will penetrate, things will break, fires will combust. Do not panic, handle your actions carefully.
• The Colorado seems to have a remarkably high repair rate compared to other battleships. While it may not have as much HP as similarly tiered battleships, it appears to overcome this by being able to repair a significant portion of its health back.

 

[BarbedWireRat]

Nice results! I plan on getting reacquanted with the Colorado now.  Glad I didn't pull the trigger on selling it after the pre-buff grind.  Only a few games in it since but it did feel like WG turned the corner on this ship...fixed?

[Ms_Makawee]

Yay for the Colorado!

People hate on the poor thing too much, one of my favorites if not my favorite. 

 

As for that game, "Good show!"

[suleiman71]

Are the rumors and gossip of pinpoint accuracy and obscene durability true? 

[Compassghost]

Accuracy is on par with other battleships. Fewer projectiles, but they're absolutely devastating when they citadel, and 4K for a pen. It feels a lot tankier than the New Mexico given its short and stout layout. Biggest threat is from torpedoes given how wide and slow it is. Damage control seems to be a bit higher. Colorado has 50K HP. Took 60K HP in damage, had 10K HP remaining. Each repair seems to have fixed 10K HP, so I could probably have repaired 10K more with my last repair crew.

 

[Shadowrigger1]

Ermm.. What kinda Voodoo did you use at 4:45 ish to gain back health without using your repair party?

[Compassghost]

Ermm.. What kinda Voodoo did you use at 4:45 ish to gain back health without using your repair party?

 

It's a replay, so it might have bugged out. If you notice, half of my turrets aren't lined up a lot of the time. It only happens when you're accelerating the game, because honestly, watching 20 minutes of a Colorado driving around is as miserable as it sounds.

[Destroyer_Tachibana]

Well played! Btw what's the mod for the kill message ("Colorado killed Nagato")?

[SpeedingBus]

Yeah your not always going to get so lucky.

[Zampy]

Colorados seem to be a lot more tanky lately, especially in regards to soaking up HE.  Their superstructure pool seems to let them immune damage much earlier than used to.  They still catch fire like a who-er in church though.

[sushimaster]

How do you make your replay to display the score board at the end? Mine always finish without any score screen.

[Compassghost]

How do you make your replay to display the score board at the end? Mine always finish without any score screen.

 

I took a screenshot and edited it in