WOWS should pay this man for the great work. I have played this game for 6 years and saw many old dogs stopped reviewing ships like this. This collection of thorough reviews helps a ton to build new player base with updated knowledge. Good job man!
Regarding Slava overpens: “I often hear it floated around that the guns have too much pen - that’s literally not a thing - what they have is too much velocity” Strictly speaking, this is also incorrect (or at the very least, misleading): the post penetration velocity v2 of a shell is a function of both its impact velocity v1 and its penetration value p, with v2 = v1*(1-exp(-(p-d)/d), where d is the armor thickness. Increasing the penetration whilst keeping the velocity the same also leads to overpens. For example, compare Nevsky to Slava: below 7km, Nevsky shells have a higher impact velocity than Slava shells, but against say a broadside Des Moines at 6km, Nevsky shells pen whereas Slava shells overpen. (Note they have the same fuse timer)
They are both standard for their calibre - 68mm for Slava’s 406’s and 30mm for Nevsky’s 180’s. In the above example I was assuming they both hit Des Moines citadel, by the way, so this shouldn’t make a difference here, but of course it would if the shells are hitting upper belt, bow, stern, etc etc
My karma was 20. Then I got Slava, still one of my favorite ships today in randoms. My karma went to zero because I was reported every game regardless of how I played. Never had problems with survivability.
I've noticed that too playing Slava, boy do players get pissed blindly sailing along in what they think is there super tankie BB and get whacked for 30k+.
Most people think she is a typical bb that gets better accuracy. Slava is my most played ship by a large margin and I get reported every other match despite defending caps, dev striking ships and scoring top 5 almost every time. Some players have a very limited scope of how a ship type is supposed to function. These are the same people who don't understand it's a bad idea to cap contest while playing shima but see the triangle on their team and are purplexed why triangle isn't in large circle with letter in the center. Don't listen to people like that. Instead, position yourself to catch broadsides let salvoes fly
@@the_dented_NPC slava is more balanced than most battleships, it has amazing accuracy on the guns but to get that accuracy and shell velocity you give up damage output and survivability. Moat of these newer BBs dont give up anything to get absurd gun performance
Finally - an honest and real review of today's Slava. Had I seen this review a while back I would have NEVER spent my hard earned RB points on this ship and I would never recommend this be the first ship a player acquires using RB points. Ever since Wisconsin came out I have ZERO use for this ship - in fact, non-unicum players who play Slava in most randoms purely grief their teams because they have little to no battle impact.
Yeah, I mean Slava is better than wisconsin if you never leave spawn, but wisconsin is WAY better than slava if you leave spawn...and leaving spawn gives game impact so, pretty easy which ship i pick to play
I really appreciate how you always encourage playing the game instead of sitting back, farming damage. I get that this is how Slawa is meant to be played but could you maybe creat a pushing guide? I really want to become a better player, finding good battle impact but currently get myself killed more often than I should. Maybe a guide on how to push/take space properly could not only help me but the community in general to not make this game so increndivly boring sometimes. Love the videos, keep up the goid work.
As if every new battleship can’t play afk as good or better than Slava (ahem wisconsin) And honestly if you want to afk snipe you are dependent on people to be stupid but I’d still play Vermont to hang out 13km next to people rather than slava
Biggest problem I have with Slava was they nerfed the AP damage to the point that unless you're getting a paid actor black ribbon farm match, you're honestly better off in most any other T10 BB if you were ever planning on getting to within 20km of the action (if you're just max range sniping... Slava away!) for all the reasons you put in the video.
i used to love slava but these days i try to go somewhere interesting and i end up with a submarine on my forehead that ass blast me, and despite inheriting the kremlin geometry, it's armor get ass blasted by any BB shooting at nose cause it's huge and it's uniquely raped by 32mm overmatch BBs like ok guess i just die. so i have to camp in spawn and fish for citadel. legit if i'm not devstriking a cruiser in 5 minutes the game is lost not to mention the battleships are getting more demented like vincent or libertad who have a good enough rudder to just angle in time even when the shells have crossed half the map already, and not getting in their demented armor scheme that ship needs uniquely improved shell normalisation to redirect shells into the citadels imo
Both bungo and whiskey dont have anywhere near the pen or the fast flight times/improved dispersion at range. Having all 3 of them bungo and whiskey are more tanky but are nowhere near as much of a threat at 15+ kms when youre paying attention since you can just turn in most ships and eliminate most of their potency of the strike compared to slava with railguns that kills ships that try to turn more often than not compared to the other two alongside with slava having that hidden armor that makes it near impossible to citadel so if you know what youre doing you can just molly whop most ships similar to how gr4ngbang describes Wisconsin which this ship is kind of better and a lot of the shots you somehow underlead so its kind of you not being able to play the ship right more than anything and also if you didnt know the dispersion elipse is not only just the best but youre wrong in that it gets *better* at range like how flamu has found out and it also doesnt get the same lowered health aa mounts as kremlin as well. Bungo being "hard to citadel at close range" is too funny because i have no issues doing it with monty, hiv, bourg marsielle and as you can see during the clip you overled and somehow threw what wouldve been a guranteed kill if you got used to the guns more and it also has a 25 mm bow without the bullshit hidden armor plate the only thing bungo does better is overmatch, and secondaries given that it's shell flight times are too long to reliably hit anyone that bothers themselves with paying attention at those longer ranges. Its armor as far as preventing citadels as well isn't what makes it feel comprised it's the 1 km turning circle that doesn't let you turn enough to be angled well to prevent it
@@xxxthwagdrakexxx4672 Everything in this fever dream drunk redditor comment is something that is either factually incorrect or something I state in this very video. Are you ok bud?
@@hagostaeldmann I love how everything is from reddit the second you disagree yet there are way better players like flamu, pq, trenlass and others who have been factually correct about this sort of stuff and honestly better at creating accurate content that isn't for the sake of being a vitriolic bastard parroting as an actual personality. The fact you think bungo is hard to citadel is proof alone youre full of shit when there's plenty of footage out there of people getting punished for showing a broadside and youre the only numbnut I've seen not decimate one with ease when it basically gives you a free kill at 6 kms and then you go on to blame the ship for something you clearly fucked up having the gall to compare it to in your dumbfuck words "preussen and republique" as if they aren't notoriously inconsistent especially compared to the likes of slava. Peak brainrot content but what else should I expect from idiots like you who think montys can go broadside and not get punished lmfao
WOWS should pay this man for the great work. I have played this game for 6 years and saw many old dogs stopped reviewing ships like this. This collection of thorough reviews helps a ton to build new player base with updated knowledge. Good job man!
Regarding Slava overpens: “I often hear it floated around that the guns have too much pen - that’s literally not a thing - what they have is too much velocity”
Strictly speaking, this is also incorrect (or at the very least, misleading): the post penetration velocity v2 of a shell is a function of both its impact velocity v1 and its penetration value p, with v2 = v1*(1-exp(-(p-d)/d), where d is the armor thickness.
Increasing the penetration whilst keeping the velocity the same also leads to overpens. For example, compare Nevsky to Slava: below 7km, Nevsky shells have a higher impact velocity than Slava shells, but against say a broadside Des Moines at 6km, Nevsky shells pen whereas Slava shells overpen. (Note they have the same fuse timer)
i wonder what the arming threshold might be on slava vs nevsky shells
They are both standard for their calibre - 68mm for Slava’s 406’s and 30mm for Nevsky’s 180’s. In the above example I was assuming they both hit Des Moines citadel, by the way, so this shouldn’t make a difference here, but of course it would if the shells are hitting upper belt, bow, stern, etc etc
My karma was 20. Then I got Slava, still one of my favorite ships today in randoms. My karma went to zero because I was reported every game regardless of how I played. Never had problems with survivability.
Yeah the community thinks this ship is overpowered because they dont touch their keyboards when you shoot at them.
I've noticed that too playing Slava, boy do players get pissed blindly sailing along in what they think is there super tankie BB and get whacked for 30k+.
Most people think she is a typical bb that gets better accuracy. Slava is my most played ship by a large margin and I get reported every other match despite defending caps, dev striking ships and scoring top 5 almost every time.
Some players have a very limited scope of how a ship type is supposed to function. These are the same people who don't understand it's a bad idea to cap contest while playing shima but see the triangle on their team and are purplexed why triangle isn't in large circle with letter in the center.
Don't listen to people like that.
Instead, position yourself to catch broadsides let salvoes fly
Ngl, I was waiting for this to be a rant review xD. I guess no more OP ships remain to be reviewed
Plymouth rant video
@@the_dented_NPC slava is more balanced than most battleships, it has amazing accuracy on the guns but to get that accuracy and shell velocity you give up damage output and survivability. Moat of these newer BBs dont give up anything to get absurd gun performance
He still has Yahagi left.
Finally - an honest and real review of today's Slava. Had I seen this review a while back I would have NEVER spent my hard earned RB points on this ship and I would never recommend this be the first ship a player acquires using RB points. Ever since Wisconsin came out I have ZERO use for this ship - in fact, non-unicum players who play Slava in most randoms purely grief their teams because they have little to no battle impact.
Yeah, I mean Slava is better than wisconsin if you never leave spawn, but wisconsin is WAY better than slava if you leave spawn...and leaving spawn gives game impact so, pretty easy which ship i pick to play
I really appreciate how you always encourage playing the game instead of sitting back, farming damage. I get that this is how Slawa is meant to be played but could you maybe creat a pushing guide? I really want to become a better player, finding good battle impact but currently get myself killed more often than I should. Maybe a guide on how to push/take space properly could not only help me but the community in general to not make this game so increndivly boring sometimes.
Love the videos, keep up the goid work.
hago I think you are easily the best wows content creator, thanks for your reviews with actual knowledge
Love the Inspection series. I’d like you to consider a tactics series beginner, intermediate, and advanced tactics for each class
As if every new battleship can’t play afk as good or better than Slava (ahem wisconsin)
And honestly if you want to afk snipe you are dependent on people to be stupid but I’d still play Vermont to hang out 13km next to people rather than slava
Slava is alright. I mean montana is alright and look at her slinging 406mm. Plus Slava is just a sniper, thats her gimmick. It just work.
Biggest problem I have with Slava was they nerfed the AP damage to the point that unless you're getting a paid actor black ribbon farm match, you're honestly better off in most any other T10 BB if you were ever planning on getting to within 20km of the action (if you're just max range sniping... Slava away!) for all the reasons you put in the video.
24.7 Range on Slawa its not enough??? Its better you Play. With reload
i used to love slava
but these days i try to go somewhere interesting and i end up with a submarine on my forehead that ass blast me, and despite inheriting the kremlin geometry, it's armor get ass blasted by any BB shooting at nose cause it's huge and it's uniquely raped by 32mm overmatch BBs like ok guess i just die. so i have to camp in spawn and fish for citadel. legit if i'm not devstriking a cruiser in 5 minutes the game is lost
not to mention the battleships are getting more demented like vincent or libertad who have a good enough rudder to just angle in time even when the shells have crossed half the map already, and not getting in their demented armor scheme
that ship needs uniquely improved shell normalisation to redirect shells into the citadels imo
it's just giga frustrating solo now
I remember when slava was good 😢. In my opinion it is the best battleship in the game bar none
I meant to say balanced not best lol
better than vermont or CC? thats a bold statement, i would say mecklenburger is better than slava
TL;DR go play Wisconsin
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slava love that ship
Both bungo and whiskey dont have anywhere near the pen or the fast flight times/improved dispersion at range. Having all 3 of them bungo and whiskey are more tanky but are nowhere near as much of a threat at 15+ kms when youre paying attention since you can just turn in most ships and eliminate most of their potency of the strike compared to slava with railguns that kills ships that try to turn more often than not compared to the other two alongside with slava having that hidden armor that makes it near impossible to citadel so if you know what youre doing you can just molly whop most ships similar to how gr4ngbang describes Wisconsin which this ship is kind of better and a lot of the shots you somehow underlead so its kind of you not being able to play the ship right more than anything and also if you didnt know the dispersion elipse is not only just the best but youre wrong in that it gets *better* at range like how flamu has found out and it also doesnt get the same lowered health aa mounts as kremlin as well. Bungo being "hard to citadel at close range" is too funny because i have no issues doing it with monty, hiv, bourg marsielle and as you can see during the clip you overled and somehow threw what wouldve been a guranteed kill if you got used to the guns more and it also has a 25 mm bow without the bullshit hidden armor plate the only thing bungo does better is overmatch, and secondaries given that it's shell flight times are too long to reliably hit anyone that bothers themselves with paying attention at those longer ranges. Its armor as far as preventing citadels as well isn't what makes it feel comprised it's the 1 km turning circle that doesn't let you turn enough to be angled well to prevent it
@@xxxthwagdrakexxx4672 Everything in this fever dream drunk redditor comment is something that is either factually incorrect or something I state in this very video.
Are you ok bud?
Punctuation is overrated
@@hagostaeldmann I love how everything is from reddit the second you disagree yet there are way better players like flamu, pq, trenlass and others who have been factually correct about this sort of stuff and honestly better at creating accurate content that isn't for the sake of being a vitriolic bastard parroting as an actual personality. The fact you think bungo is hard to citadel is proof alone youre full of shit when there's plenty of footage out there of people getting punished for showing a broadside and youre the only numbnut I've seen not decimate one with ease when it basically gives you a free kill at 6 kms and then you go on to blame the ship for something you clearly fucked up having the gall to compare it to in your dumbfuck words "preussen and republique" as if they aren't notoriously inconsistent especially compared to the likes of slava. Peak brainrot content but what else should I expect from idiots like you who think montys can go broadside and not get punished lmfao
Truly deserving of the pin of shame.
Holyyyy shit, what a post of all time