@@Koopastomper I wouldn't know, as I was up in Sonar and never got near the weapons personally. I know some used Hydrogen Peroxide, which would kill you if you drank it. That's all I know.
Yeah, at the start he said it’s ‘a carry of legendary proportions’ or something similar. He carried his team to a loss? Lol Obviously not trying to put the Kidd down; he played great
Thanks to your excellent recommendation I read Hornfishers Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, the story of the shellbacks and crossing into Neptune's realm is till fresh in my mind from Hornfishers book. I volunteer at a WW2 Aviation Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US were I have handle many artifacts of pertaining to shell backs and the naval tradition of crossing the equator. Certificates and Charges with Davey Jones and Neptunous Rex's signatures on them as well as the stories of the servicemen. Thanks for the recommendation and the fantastic video evil overlord.
The Kidd was one of only 2 premium ships I ever bought. Why? because I went to university at LSU and was aboard the Kidd many many times. one of my favorite pastimes. It was a grand ship back when AA actually mattered. Nearly every match people would say , " Yes! we have a Kidd!" and I could play a dedicated AA role and enjoyed it greatly. sailing among the big boys and grinding planes to dust while cruisers and BBs applauded my heroic support work. now ...now people say, " oh great, all we have is a Kidd." nice to see a Kidd replay here. Well played. thanks Mr. Jingles. *Hat off*
Great video. I am a Shellback also, a US Marine Shellback, in 1976 we went through the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean, ACROSS THE EQUATOR, to Mombasa, Kenya. .
Semper Fi Devil Dog! I'm also a US Marine Shellback. I was on the USS Tortuga (LSD-46) in 1999 on a Unitas/Watc float crossing the Atlantic. I think the Captain of our ship had a hard on to get it cause we did gator squares all night where the equator and prime meridian intersect. Actually crossed them 6 times that night, lol.
When Shellback was up against that broadsiding Leander, it was a serious mistake to not switch to AP. American DDs' 5"/38 guns can absolutely citadel a Leander at that range. And same thing with the Ryujo.
Well with the ryujo he can citadel it with HE so not necessarily a mistake there as by using the HE he doesn't have to worry about angles and non pens or ricochets but certainly should've used his AP against the Leander.
Hats out to WG for the wave effect. I was fighting a z25 in rough seas and that little bugger was bouncing up and down in the waves. I was almost sea sick just watching him, Great stuff!!
Same here - first time I've seen the wave effect on that small of a hull. Very, very nice. As Jingles says, once again WG's art department carries the day...
Congradulations! i missed out on a gold shellback when i was in on the uss gettysburg (didnt get shellback either) even though we were 20 nm from it, I was a quartermaster and while i was looking at where we were I saw we were pretty close to that point, measured it told my qmc that and suggested we could pop over real quick and get it, he liked the idea so he brought it up to that nav and he thought it was a great idea too. he took it up with the captain, but the captain said no, would take too much time. biggest disappointment of my naval career. also, is hms defender the funny looking destroyer? because if so I think it was the ship that we did joint training ops with. (it was in 2009 or 2010 if i remember right)
I built a model of the Fletcher when I was a kid, and I loved the design. A few decades later when I visited the Kidd in Baton Rouge, I immediately noticed the lack of a second torpedo launcher. It was weird that 40 years after building that model, my brain was telling me that something was missing. If you ever get the chance to visit her, you should. She is still beautiful.
Kidd is a name that will carry on for a long time. There have been three ships named Kidd; the DD-661 that you visited, the DDG-993 that I served on, and the presently serving DDG-100 that is carrying on honorably.
The weird thing for me was seeing the Kidd in Greyhound, with it's anti-kamikaze armament rep'ing a destroyer in the atlantic theatre escorting convoys in the early\mid war. Still awesome that the movie was basically filmed on the Kidd though
14:00 - What is it with carrier players? - Recently I've seen a short clip from Flambass in a carrier. He was quite close the map's border and tried to instruct the auto-navigation system to sail the carrier in a certain direction. The navigation system did plan a path in that direction, but not without first making a loop into the other direction. So since the enemy carrier player was quite close to the island, and since he had a destroyer closing in, I'm guessing it was a "shit his pants" moment for him. What might have happened is that he tried ot instruct the navigation system to sail away, without checking the path that was set.
My father in law is a shellback. He shared some of the details of the hazing ceremony with me, but definitely kept a few to himself. The one point of his that stuck with me though was, "the bigger the ship, the more elaborate the ceremony because there's more room to set things up on deck." I imagine carriers can create quite a production, if they wanted to.
Amazing video and thanks for the brief description of the shell back. I am a shell back after crossing the equator in a Submarine a couple years ago and spent the entire video wondering if you were gonna talk about it haha
The fog effects remind me of driving across Nevada in foul weather last winter. I actually saw the atmospheric condition responsible for the Flying Dutchman legend that day. I saw a mountain floating in the sky.
Jingles the art department had an impact on the graphics but all of the wave animations had to be done by the programing department, as a programer myself im very very impressed by thei work on the wave animations.
I usually watch your videos like a podcast while playing another game. I had to stop what I was doing when you started counting down the ships. 9:20 Holy crap that was fast change of pace to the game.
He wins my respect for one of the best player awards for his reponse and not badmouthing his team. It's just a game, we all make mistakes, someone has to win, someone has to lose. No sending being rude and insulting. Nice game Shellback, well played.
Got my Shellback (Golden type) on USS Nevada, hull number 733 a couple years ago on a visit to Guam. We took a bit of a detour on the way back, said hello to the Seamount the SanFrancisco ran into and hit International Date Line and Equator intersection 😁
Why are there people in the comments saying that the captain here has no skill? Is it zooming? Or because enemy team were potatoes (not all and not the worst, but some of them were just bad)? I understand that some of the kills were due to luck/enemy incompetence - but that doesn't mean that Kidd's captain lacks skill. Very well played SigsShellback!
I think the player is using some kind mod that zooms in his camera more than usual, and on top of that, his mouse sensitivity is turned up way too high and he keeps over correcting his aiming causing the camera to bounce around constantly
@@dgritsak147 That's what it looks like. I only have trouble with people telling me that people who use scroll cannot be good players - there is a trade off for sure, but I found that zooming (using shift) and slight de-scroll helps with firing on super fast destroyers for example. Because otherwise lead you have to calculate means that the ship is over the side of your screen.
@@jannegrey yea I totally agree, especially when trying to hit French DDs at more than 10km, but in this particular case I really think he was using some kind of zoom mod. the Kidd player was shooting the Asashio at like 5km and had to go completely off screen to land shells. That's just way too zoomed in and his jerky motion was from an overly sensitive mouse in my opinion. People see a weird/disorienting camera movement and assume the player doesnt know what he's doing cuz of his preferences and that's why their criticizing
You were on the Vinson ? I'm a plankowner. I did 5 patrols on the SSBN633B but always in the North Atlantic so didn't make it to the equator until Vinson's first cruise when we moved from East Coast to West Coast. About 80% of the crew were Pollywogs until that crossing.
I like how the depth charges set a fire... On a submarine... Whilst submerged... Yes I know it's not impossible but it seems humourous to ignite something that's completely underwater.. Also, shouldn't a vessel, that has been hit by penetrating fire, not be able to submerge? Or more correctly, submerge and stay in a fighting shape, rather than submerge in a sinking fashion
I guess the fire was internal? (Still an amusing concept tho) In theory they could seal off that compartment of the sub and let it flood? Not like it would have anything they need in it like... the captain or the torps lol
@@AFNacapella I am not disputing that fires on subs are a thing, just that it seems humourous to set fire to a submerged vessel (albeit one full of combustible material, and oxygen) Either way, a sub receiving penetrating fire, getting impacted by 8 depth charges, and being set on fire would probably not be bin the best fighting condition!
@@AFNacapella I think he means that if the explosion was strong enough to start a fire it should have also burst the hull in that part of the submarine, flooding it and preventing a fire.
much Kudos to Shellback, as you say, Jingles a rare |Gentleman. Also, unlucky to lose,+ if he is retired USN, Many Thanks to Him for His Service. Incidentally, I was at the IWM on Thursday, and they have as an artefact, a piece of BB-39, post 7-12-41.
*Eight* depth charges struck the enemy submarine and it's still afloat? I'm sure there are submarine crews that wished their sub was that tough while they were sinking.
I recognized the term shellback from pop. He was a career CTR and I actually get to see the video of his shellback initiation from the late '80s and it was hilarious. Of course I went on to join the glorious Army as a Cavalry Scout much to my parents' eternal shame.....though it makes the Army/Navy football game extra fun 😂
1990 i was on the USS Whidbey Island LPD-41 with Kilo company 3rd BN *th Marine Regiment (3/8) south of Liberia as a US Marine (0352) we crossed the equator and I became a shellback my cammies where so badly ruined over the side they went was a good time. good video
yes , and i hate scroll wheel replays, it makes it look like you have no f clue or plan what to do , you can exactly notice with every zoom in and out from the target he is waaaay off the target even the slow one with aim
I think the player is using some kind mod that zooms in his camera more than usual, and on top of that, his mouse sensitivity is turned up way too high and he keeps over correcting his aiming causing the camera to bounce around constantly
@@dgritsak147 when I'm zoomed in and the lag I get in game hits I get the same display as this replay. frustrating because it is lag and nothing I can do but battle through until the end then shut down the game for a while.
Funny, in one of the last games I played on this map, I too encountered a sub in our starting cap while in a destroyer. I got so fed up with the bullshit that is submarines that I just ran him over. Killed him, took me down to critical health, but I lived and the sub was dead. Literally run over by a destroyer. I hope he felt the disrespect, because subs are the most disrespectful class in the game.
I've had 14 depth charge hits (on one target) without a kill! Yep, that's ridicules'/total Bull Ship. Most likely I was in my much played Pan Euros' which for some vodka imbibed reason they gave relatively weak Depth charges to. What a crock!
The Carrier changes and the introduction of submarines were the main reason I gave up on WoWS, still enjoy watching your videos of the game but just don’t enjoy playing it myself anymore.
Jingles, are you a shellback ? It wasn't until my final cruise but my ship's first cruise. I was a plankowner on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). We crossed at 0.00 Long on 01 April, 1983 after a port call in the Ivory Coast. We went east from Norfolk, Virginia, USA 0n 01 March and arrived in Alameda, (San Francisco) California on 30 October.
The art department did indeed a Hell of a job. Not only that but it looks super gorgeous on my son's 7 year old computer. I can't even see a difference between is old computer and mine (barely a year old).
The only reason I bought the Kidd was it was the closest in-game model to the Cassin Young, a destroyer preserved here in Boston. It can be a pretty decent brawler ship, and I've had good games in it (I'm present in one of Notser's vids, one of the radar Minotaur ones). Of course, I haven't played WoWS since the Great Community Revolt and I don't plan on rejoining, but it was a fun ship. And yes, kudos to the art department. That water!
MY DAD was a shell back as a armed guard on a big tanker that delivered oil to the African coast I have his documentation. The tanker was a big Texaco over 10,000 tons he was a gunners mate on the 5"38, the crew was civilian (merchant marine) there was a navy crew who run the guns.
hey Jingles. Crossed the equator on the U.S.S. Guadalcanal going from Diego Garcia to the Persian gulf in 1987. We weren't allowed to do the ceremony because we were trying to get the helos mission ready, so I don't know if I can officially call myself a shellback. Prolly still just a pollywog. Barely better than a sillyvilian. Sigh...
Bold of you to put the words 'balanced' and 'aircraft carriers' in the same sentence there Jingles, even more so with the word 'soviet'. Very brave indeed. XD Also I can't be the only one bothered by the fact that subs can't be detected by hydro if they're at max depth. I have legitimately had subs dive directly under me when I have hydro running and they go undetected because of course in wargaming-land sonar can't detect subs within 1km of it's source...
LOL, i was Army, Dad was Navy. I named my 12 foot john-boat the 'S.S. Polywog' as the only time I ever 'crossed the line' was in a troop transport jet..
I haven't played WoW in a couple of years now. A couple of weeks of the carrier re work drove me mad. Doesn't look like it's plagued like it used to be. Is it better? Should I get back into it? Been watching jingles' videos and it's making me want to play again
even though it was a loss he should be proud of how well he did and that he never quit trying. That was quite impressive. I would like to take a moment to say thank you to all our military and our allies military. May you always stay safe and keep your head low.
I learned that when I run with the Kidd, I spec into Full AA build and not worry about the torpedo launcher. I only use the torpedoes as a last resort or know I am able to kill the target with slow torpedoes.
Plank owner on two warships as well as a shellback. Sadly, the hazing that went along with getting your shellback was not allowed when i was in, because there's always some asshole who takes it too far and actually hurts people. Just like when i was in, when an enlisted got promoted, you "tacked on" the new rank with a punch to the arm where the rank symbol was located. But even when i was in, some assholes took it too far and actually really hurt people. Not talking just a bruise, talking deep tissue damage. We had people who had to be taken off the ship to go to a hospital, because of fears of DVT. When the entire upper arm turns a deep purple, you've taken it too far. Sure, when i got promoted, i got punched in the arm a lot, but it was usually a friendly thing, and just part of the lore of the service. It was considered good luck. But assholes are assholes and have to ruin everything.
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if he managed to score a detonation on the flint this would have been legendary
I was hoping for that...but it's pretty rare.
Me too: was totally hoping for this. After all that one in a million chance actually has a 50% probability of success :)
I was waiting for it!
He wasn't Soviet enough
Well flint is very flammable! 😉
I'll be giving away my age a bit, but I became a Shellback in 1967. Thanks for the memories. U.S.S. Laffey DD724. A Sumner Class FRAM II Destroyer.
o7 Respect
@@aluminumati_147 That ship was a beast. Amazing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Laffey_(DD-724)#Kamikaze_assault
The ship that wouldnt die....
Much respect, and thank you.
Is the torpedo juice thing true? Making a hard drink out of the torpedo fuel?
@@Koopastomper I wouldn't know, as I was up in Sonar and never got near the weapons personally. I know some used Hydrogen Peroxide, which would kill you if you drank it. That's all I know.
I was half-expectig a last-second Detonation on the Flint at the end there, with how Jingles was talking
he likes to explain how impossible the next scenario would be if it happens... its like a trap xD
Yeah, at the start he said it’s ‘a carry of legendary proportions’ or something similar. He carried his team to a loss? Lol
Obviously not trying to put the Kidd down; he played great
Thanks to your excellent recommendation I read Hornfishers Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, the story of the shellbacks and crossing into Neptune's realm is till fresh in my mind from Hornfishers book. I volunteer at a WW2 Aviation Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US were I have handle many artifacts of pertaining to shell backs and the naval tradition of crossing the equator. Certificates and Charges with Davey Jones and Neptunous Rex's signatures on them as well as the stories of the servicemen. Thanks for the recommendation and the fantastic video evil overlord.
My favorite Hornfisher book. I actually also had the pleasure of playing several games online with the author himself in his Boise.
It's sounds cool and all but it gets really stupid when you're drinking a mug of seawater and your Chief is yelling "ITS TRADITION."
Such a great book. I recommend it to everyone
Hornfischer has many great books
The Kidd was one of only 2 premium ships I ever bought. Why? because I went to university at LSU and was aboard the Kidd many many times. one of my favorite pastimes. It was a grand ship back when AA actually mattered. Nearly every match people would say , " Yes! we have a Kidd!" and I could play a dedicated AA role and enjoyed it greatly. sailing among the big boys and grinding planes to dust while cruisers and BBs applauded my heroic support work. now ...now people say, " oh great, all we have is a Kidd." nice to see a Kidd replay here. Well played. thanks Mr. Jingles. *Hat off*
Great video. I am a Shellback also, a US Marine Shellback, in 1976 we went through the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean, ACROSS THE EQUATOR, to Mombasa, Kenya.
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Semper Fi Devil Dog! I'm also a US Marine Shellback. I was on the USS Tortuga (LSD-46) in 1999 on a Unitas/Watc float crossing the Atlantic. I think the Captain of our ship had a hard on to get it cause we did gator squares all night where the equator and prime meridian intersect. Actually crossed them 6 times that night, lol.
Same here I am also shellback
hoo-ha!
@@darquehelmet hoo-ha!!
Congrats.
When Shellback was up against that broadsiding Leander, it was a serious mistake to not switch to AP. American DDs' 5"/38 guns can absolutely citadel a Leander at that range. And same thing with the Ryujo.
Well with the ryujo he can citadel it with HE so not necessarily a mistake there as by using the HE he doesn't have to worry about angles and non pens or ricochets but certainly should've used his AP against the Leander.
@@leodesalis5915 what angle the ryujo was broad and you kill it quicker
@@Steve-mw2dk Yeah he was broad but still this game can still be fucky,
@@Steve-mw2dk it wouldn't surprise me if you'd just get a load of overpens that's always the way😂
He was citadeling the carrier though, even with HE.
Hats out to WG for the wave effect. I was fighting a z25 in rough seas and that little bugger was bouncing up and down in the waves. I was almost sea sick just watching him, Great stuff!!
Same here - first time I've seen the wave effect on that small of a hull. Very, very nice.
As Jingles says, once again WG's art department carries the day...
Became a shellback this year on hms defender, was a great experience
Congradulations! i missed out on a gold shellback when i was in on the uss gettysburg (didnt get shellback either) even though we were 20 nm from it, I was a quartermaster and while i was looking at where we were I saw we were pretty close to that point, measured it told my qmc that and suggested we could pop over real quick and get it, he liked the idea so he brought it up to that nav and he thought it was a great idea too. he took it up with the captain, but the captain said no, would take too much time. biggest disappointment of my naval career.
also, is hms defender the funny looking destroyer? because if so I think it was the ship that we did joint training ops with. (it was in 2009 or 2010 if i remember right)
Congrats. Shellback to shellback.
"They did what they could" Is literally the ultimate insult as well lmao
"They did what they could." Sick burn. :D
a very classy one at that
It's a good and bad reply - if they could do a lot, that's what they did. If they aren't capable of doing much... That's what they did.
"Jingles, want some potatoes for dinner?" "Nah I had enough at work."
This is like watching the USS Johnston last stand during ww2
ah yes the Johnston. fighting an enemy whose gun turrets weighed more than the entire ship.
@@tbwsarge1707 dammit the enemy is too far
_TURN AROUND BOYS_
@@MrX-un8cz "Dammit Boys they're getting away"
@@tbwsarge1707 bring the paddle out
_LET'S GO_
@@tbwsarge1707 "Because running is boring"
I built a model of the Fletcher when I was a kid, and I loved the design. A few decades later when I visited the Kidd in Baton Rouge, I immediately noticed the lack of a second torpedo launcher. It was weird that 40 years after building that model, my brain was telling me that something was missing. If you ever get the chance to visit her, you should. She is still beautiful.
Kidd is a name that will carry on for a long time.
There have been three ships named Kidd; the DD-661 that you visited, the DDG-993 that I served on, and the presently serving DDG-100 that is carrying on honorably.
The weird thing for me was seeing the Kidd in Greyhound, with it's anti-kamikaze armament rep'ing a destroyer in the atlantic theatre escorting convoys in the early\mid war. Still awesome that the movie was basically filmed on the Kidd though
"Well, the Fletcher guns aren't bad" at the same time as 10 Non-pentration. Nice timing Jingles 🤣🤣
Depends what you're shooting at really. The Kidd and Fletcher never let me down, that only happens when my team are glue sniffers.
14:00 - What is it with carrier players? - Recently I've seen a short clip from Flambass in a carrier. He was quite close the map's border and tried to instruct the auto-navigation system to sail the carrier in a certain direction. The navigation system did plan a path in that direction, but not without first making a loop into the other direction.
So since the enemy carrier player was quite close to the island, and since he had a destroyer closing in, I'm guessing it was a "shit his pants" moment for him. What might have happened is that he tried ot instruct the navigation system to sail away, without checking the path that was set.
Golden Shellback here. 1997 USS Essex LHD-2. Always great vids, Jingles.
Congrats.
My father in law is a shellback. He shared some of the details of the hazing ceremony with me, but definitely kept a few to himself. The one point of his that stuck with me though was, "the bigger the ship, the more elaborate the ceremony because there's more room to set things up on deck." I imagine carriers can create quite a production, if they wanted to.
Ours started on the hanger deck and finished on the flight deck. They was a huge number of us pollywogs to be processed. Lmao.
Jingles, I feel robbed! Where's the promised, world-famous post-battle-result screen, gracefully drawn in MS Paint by our salt mine overlord?
Amazing video and thanks for the brief description of the shell back. I am a shell back after crossing the equator in a Submarine a couple years ago and spent the entire video wondering if you were gonna talk about it haha
Congrats.
I got my Shellback in 93'... I still have respect for the sailors that took us Marines to the fight...
A masterful piece of play by shellback, a win in every other respect than on the score sheet. Respect to a job well done I for one salute him.
The fog effects remind me of driving across Nevada in foul weather last winter. I actually saw the atmospheric condition responsible for the Flying Dutchman legend that day. I saw a mountain floating in the sky.
As a Golden Shellback, I appreciated the name of today's hero from the time I first heard it.
Congrats.
Comiserations Sigshellback you played one heck of a game and thanks Mighty One for the running commentary and the video.
You're right Jingles ...Shellback sure is a sports !! And bloody good game Shellback !!!
Jingles the art department had an impact on the graphics but all of the wave animations had to be done by the programing department, as a programer myself im very very impressed by thei work on the wave animations.
He probably plays legends. When you zoom in, it auto-aims somewhat for you
@@notwoodbutwood572 ???
I usually watch your videos like a podcast while playing another game. I had to stop what I was doing when you started counting down the ships.
9:20 Holy crap that was fast change of pace to the game.
Pushing a leander and myoko without smoke. It worked out, but it was bad choice
He wins my respect for one of the best player awards for his reponse and not badmouthing his team. It's just a game, we all make mistakes, someone has to win, someone has to lose. No sending being rude and insulting. Nice game Shellback, well played.
The best part about this video is the emphasis on the "classy" comment by SinkShellback. May the Fates, Furies and gods bless him.
Fair wind and following seas you nerds.... Or what evs. G'Day from the land under down under. XP
You are awesome, yes you in particular.
A fellow bad internet enjoyer
@ 13:50 those torps literally came out of the beach from that air strike there is NO way wait...W.O.W. nevermind ....
So good to see the same certificate here that I got for my first time 'Crossing the Line' way back in '97. Cheers Jingles
All I can say is wow at the skill of survivability watching him come back from 80hp to still cheat death and survive the battle and carry the team 👌
I became a shellback in 2003, CV-64 USS Constellation, AT2 (AW).
been a while since we've seen a heartbreaker of this magnitude. another great video as always.
Got my Shellback (Golden type) on USS Nevada, hull number 733 a couple years ago on a visit to Guam. We took a bit of a detour on the way back, said hello to the Seamount the SanFrancisco ran into and hit International Date Line and Equator intersection 😁
Thanks for showing this Jingles. Shellback, truly did,......"everything he could". 🏹🤠👍
Why are there people in the comments saying that the captain here has no skill? Is it zooming? Or because enemy team were potatoes (not all and not the worst, but some of them were just bad)?
I understand that some of the kills were due to luck/enemy incompetence - but that doesn't mean that Kidd's captain lacks skill.
Very well played SigsShellback!
I think the player is using some kind mod that zooms in his camera more than usual, and on top of that, his mouse sensitivity is turned up way too high and he keeps over correcting his aiming causing the camera to bounce around constantly
@@dgritsak147 That's what it looks like. I only have trouble with people telling me that people who use scroll cannot be good players - there is a trade off for sure, but I found that zooming (using shift) and slight de-scroll helps with firing on super fast destroyers for example. Because otherwise lead you have to calculate means that the ship is over the side of your screen.
@@jannegrey yea I totally agree, especially when trying to hit French DDs at more than 10km, but in this particular case I really think he was using some kind of zoom mod. the Kidd player was shooting the Asashio at like 5km and had to go completely off screen to land shells. That's just way too zoomed in and his jerky motion was from an overly sensitive mouse in my opinion.
People see a weird/disorienting camera movement and assume the player doesnt know what he's doing cuz of his preferences and that's why their criticizing
@@dgritsak147 I agree completely.
After that carry, I hope his back gets better 😁
I did my shellback on SSBN730G and CVN70 in the US Navy.. its fun and not fun at the same time lol
You were on the Vinson ? I'm a plankowner. I did 5 patrols on the SSBN633B but always in the North Atlantic so didn't make it to the equator until Vinson's first cruise when we moved from East Coast to West Coast. About 80% of the crew were Pollywogs until that crossing.
Flint: I think it is best if you surrender Shellback.
Shellback: We haven't the proper facilities to take you prisoner!
I like how the depth charges set a fire...
On a submarine...
Whilst submerged...
Yes I know it's not impossible but it seems humourous to ignite something that's completely underwater..
Also, shouldn't a vessel, that has been hit by penetrating fire, not be able to submerge? Or more correctly, submerge and stay in a fighting shape, rather than submerge in a sinking fashion
Wargaming and logic have never seemed to mix well.
I guess the fire was internal? (Still an amusing concept tho)
In theory they could seal off that compartment of the sub and let it flood? Not like it would have anything they need in it like... the captain or the torps lol
@@AFNacapella I am not disputing that fires on subs are a thing, just that it seems humourous to set fire to a submerged vessel (albeit one full of combustible material, and oxygen)
Either way, a sub receiving penetrating fire, getting impacted by 8 depth charges, and being set on fire would probably not be bin the best fighting condition!
@@AFNacapella I think he means that if the explosion was strong enough to start a fire it should have also burst the hull in that part of the submarine, flooding it and preventing a fire.
As a US submarine veteran fires on subs are our biggest fear and danger
much Kudos to Shellback, as you say, Jingles a rare |Gentleman. Also, unlucky to lose,+ if he is retired USN, Many Thanks to Him for His Service. Incidentally, I was at the IWM on Thursday, and they have as an artefact, a piece of BB-39, post 7-12-41.
When I saw the water in this new graphics update, I nearly had a heart attack. It's beautiful!
*Eight* depth charges struck the enemy submarine and it's still afloat? I'm sure there are submarine crews that wished their sub was that tough while they were sinking.
Still a victorious game. Well done :)
Shellback from 2011. Good times. Great match. Hope Sig has better luck in the future.
I remember before the CV rework that the Kidd was terrifying as hell against TIER 10 CVs. Ah, the old times~
This one hurts bad, hard lines my friend, fantasticly well played
Kidd is one of my favouite dds - liked the Benson when I ground out the line a long time ago, Fletcher's also great fun too though :-)!
A true gentleman! Hello from Aegentina!!!
I recognized the term shellback from pop. He was a career CTR and I actually get to see the video of his shellback initiation from the late '80s and it was hilarious. Of course I went on to join the glorious Army as a Cavalry Scout much to my parents' eternal shame.....though it makes the Army/Navy football game extra fun 😂
Jingles quoting The Replacements was something I didn't know I needed.
1990 i was on the USS Whidbey Island LPD-41 with Kilo company 3rd BN *th Marine Regiment (3/8) south of Liberia as a US Marine (0352) we crossed the equator and I became a shellback my cammies where so badly ruined over the side they went was a good time. good video
Great match! Very well played. Congrats Shellback! 👏
Is it just me, or is the way the captain of the Kidd zooms in and aims very dizzying and weird?😂
yes , and i hate scroll wheel replays, it makes it look like you have no f clue or plan what to do , you can exactly notice with every zoom in and out from the target he is waaaay off the target even the slow one with aim
It's not just you. It was annoying
I think the player is using some kind mod that zooms in his camera more than usual, and on top of that, his mouse sensitivity is turned up way too high and he keeps over correcting his aiming causing the camera to bounce around constantly
It made the video un watchable for me. I had to just stop watching it and not finish the video.
@@dgritsak147 when I'm zoomed in and the lag I get in game hits I get the same display as this replay. frustrating because it is lag and nothing I can do but battle through until the end then shut down the game for a while.
Funny, in one of the last games I played on this map, I too encountered a sub in our starting cap while in a destroyer. I got so fed up with the bullshit that is submarines that I just ran him over. Killed him, took me down to critical health, but I lived and the sub was dead. Literally run over by a destroyer. I hope he felt the disrespect, because subs are the most disrespectful class in the game.
Wow what a round. Was sitting on the edge of my seat.
I've had 14 depth charge hits (on one target) without a kill! Yep, that's ridicules'/total Bull Ship. Most likely I was in my much played Pan Euros' which for some vodka imbibed reason they gave relatively weak Depth charges to. What a crock!
Awesome play back thanks Jingles!
Hmm, I'm early for once, so Mighty Jingles **and** a Near Total Lunar Eclipse in the same day? Yes please.
9:40 5 ships dead in quick succession isn't the only amazing thing happening. The enemy achieved 2 seperate double-strikes within seconds.
The Carrier changes and the introduction of submarines were the main reason I gave up on WoWS, still enjoy watching your videos of the game but just don’t enjoy playing it myself anymore.
Morning, Jingles, and my usual greetings from the States. Great video, as usual.
Ah yes, the Shellback life. Met my fate courtesy of USS Nimitz 2003.
I met on the uss John c stennis
Congrats.
@@Saiken_usagi Congrats.
Very entertaining and Shellback was a virtuoso with that Kidd.
Jingles, are you a shellback ? It wasn't until my final cruise but my ship's first cruise. I was a plankowner on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). We crossed at 0.00 Long on 01 April, 1983 after a port call in the Ivory Coast. We went east from Norfolk, Virginia, USA 0n 01 March and arrived in Alameda, (San Francisco) California on 30 October.
The art department did indeed a Hell of a job. Not only that but it looks super gorgeous on my son's 7 year old computer. I can't even see a difference between is old computer and mine (barely a year old).
The only reason I bought the Kidd was it was the closest in-game model to the Cassin Young, a destroyer preserved here in Boston. It can be a pretty decent brawler ship, and I've had good games in it (I'm present in one of Notser's vids, one of the radar Minotaur ones). Of course, I haven't played WoWS since the Great Community Revolt and I don't plan on rejoining, but it was a fun ship. And yes, kudos to the art department. That water!
Why don't I get enemies like that? No change in course or speed...
Jingles, back in the 90s I worked with a USN Petty Officer who was both a shellback AND a blue nose.
So...non-gameplay comment here
Anyone else LOVE the way the lil-bote just bobs in the waves now as it moves along? It just looks so damned good!!!
That was insane and i agree he was very polite with his response when he didnt have to be
Loved the uploads this week
Shellback here! UNITAS 2019
MY DAD was a shell back as a armed guard on a big tanker that delivered oil to the African coast I have his documentation. The tanker was a big Texaco over 10,000 tons he was a gunners mate on the 5"38, the crew was civilian (merchant marine) there was a navy crew who run the guns.
hey Jingles. Crossed the equator on the U.S.S. Guadalcanal going from Diego Garcia to the Persian gulf in 1987. We weren't allowed to do the ceremony because we were trying to get the helos mission ready, so I don't know if I can officially call myself a shellback. Prolly still just a pollywog. Barely better than a sillyvilian. Sigh...
Never been so early before jingles makes everyday a good day👍
Jingles I too am a trusty shell back
I got mine on board the USS Nassau lha 4 in 1982 going to St Thomas in the Virgin Islands
Two videos in a single day? Now what's this madness Jingles?
Jingles the man with jolliest laugh on TH-cam
Bold of you to put the words 'balanced' and 'aircraft carriers' in the same sentence there Jingles, even more so with the word 'soviet'. Very brave indeed. XD
Also I can't be the only one bothered by the fact that subs can't be detected by hydro if they're at max depth. I have legitimately had subs dive directly under me when I have hydro running and they go undetected because of course in wargaming-land sonar can't detect subs within 1km of it's source...
LOL, i was Army, Dad was Navy. I named my 12 foot john-boat the 'S.S. Polywog' as the only time I ever 'crossed the line' was in a troop transport jet..
A Valient Effort! Great Game Shellback!
Thank you.
The Cossack looking at Kidd's AA jealously.
I haven't played WoW in a couple of years now. A couple of weeks of the carrier re work drove me mad. Doesn't look like it's plagued like it used to be. Is it better? Should I get back into it? Been watching jingles' videos and it's making me want to play again
glad to see I'm not the only one now getting FPS fluctuations
even though it was a loss he should be proud of how well he did and that he never quit trying. That was quite impressive. I would like to take a moment to say thank you to all our military and our allies military. May you always stay safe and keep your head low.
Great performance shellback.
Get that man a back brace, he is going to need it
Thanks Jingles.
I became a Golden Shellback in 1993 when we crossed the equator and international date line at the same time. U.S.S. Cayuga LST-1186
I learned that when I run with the Kidd, I spec into Full AA build and not worry about the torpedo launcher. I only use the torpedoes as a last resort or know I am able to kill the target with slow torpedoes.
Plank owner on two warships as well as a shellback. Sadly, the hazing that went along with getting your shellback was not allowed when i was in, because there's always some asshole who takes it too far and actually hurts people.
Just like when i was in, when an enlisted got promoted, you "tacked on" the new rank with a punch to the arm where the rank symbol was located. But even when i was in, some assholes took it too far and actually really hurt people. Not talking just a bruise, talking deep tissue damage. We had people who had to be taken off the ship to go to a hospital, because of fears of DVT. When the entire upper arm turns a deep purple, you've taken it too far.
Sure, when i got promoted, i got punched in the arm a lot, but it was usually a friendly thing, and just part of the lore of the service. It was considered good luck. But assholes are assholes and have to ruin everything.
Golden shellbacks up!
My dad was in during desert storm on the uss Seattle aoe 3. He has the same shellback certificate.
The Fletcher-class: carrying since the Battle of Samar.