I still remember when we were all freaking out when we first got the picture of this thing. The concept of a Napoli with better guns and a funny button was kinda fucked. But it's 2024 so it gets all it's armour removed for no fucking reason and they removed it's ability to smash broadsides with the funny button because god forbid they allow damage to a BB. Meanwhile in the same breath they add Battlecruisers (in a WoWs context at least) like Rhode Island (has better air detection than Castilla btw) and Wisconsin that can do everything cruisers can do while actually having armour and the ability to smash broadsides because they also have better dispersion than most cruisers. Very cool WG.
Yeah, instead of nerfing other aspects of burst...such as very long shot interval, or very long penalty to gun reload, which would make it less toxic for DDs and Cruisers....nope. Delete the ability to hurt idiot BB players.
Just like the Alvarro, this is another ship that is barely talked about since its release. These videos have definitely helped me get to know these ships
one of my fondest memories playing this game is in Castilla, we were losing badly (like the other team was 45 seconds to winning), and the only ships the other team had left is a Mino and a Yamato camping on a rock. I zoomed around the island, sent 12 shells into Yamato's cheek citadel via burst and torped the Mino. love this ship so much.
Started bingeing your vids and saw you echoed a lot of my feelings with current BB vs Ca design, but then on this vid you said something I have said to my friends multiple times spot on. I love this ship/line conceptually, I think its meh if you dont take advantage of burst fire which leads to playing in a mobile dynamic way. However which is the thing you said I kinda just feel bad that it specializes in fucking over cruisers which are already so beaten down. Also if you dont see a lot of enemy CAs in MM you mostly become a HE spammer unless BBs let you get in positions to get great AP chunks. Cruiser vs cruisers was always my favorite part of this game because it feels like there is more skill expression there but there is less and less of it due to ships in queue and how cruisers play with all the overmatch out and about. Also more of an impact player than Dmg farmer myself. (ANTIDAD on NA)
I really feel you on the cruiser ranting. I love cruisers but they sort of feel like Wargamings red headed step child. Also I swear BB mains csn be so dented sometimes
Man i remember the original had like vermont alpha on the F key AP, that was a bit much. But it was still an interesting concept back then before the battlechimps started screeching. Its still a fun little (large) ship to play especially when you can curbstomp light cruisers that are already getting shit on by literally every other class in the game
was it a bit much? it changes nothing against cruisers or destroyers. it exclusively punished (not even crazy punished) idiot BB players. 100% okay by me
@@hagostaeldmann did it not get the alpha reduced? I 100% agree that this ship should have more AP pen because like what the fuck is the point otherwise. I know its not a close comparison but I would rather by in a marseille in most cases.
The Spanish cruisers I feel like need some sort of increased accuracy, or upper side armor buff, or both That would make them perfectly fine ships, along with a slight increase to fire setting capabilities. I’m honestly really sad to see a gimmick centric line or game design, like Wisconsin’s combat instructions that imho should only function as a tool to sustain your ship, rather than a free reload booster. Alas, here I am griping about wows 2024 when I take comfort in 2017 daring and des moines
I'd hate to buff the accuracy because this thing would become even more absurd against DDs and cruisers. I'd overall like to see the burst nerfed BUT give it real armor. 40 deck/upper belt and up the icebreaker out of the water. But nerf the burst because it's insanely toxic against DDs and cruisers. But the armor makes you candy for BBs.
2024 is not the year of the cruiser again. 😔 Wg is too busy trying to stealth buff their privilegied class, and making more crazy BBs. About the icebreaker, i guess it's not an icebreaker, it's more of a reinforced bow in case you hit stuff at sea on high speed. Or if a shell makes a hole you don't want it on your bow's waterline because water would get inside super quick because of your own speed, so making this more resistant is not a bad idea. I'm no ship designer but that would make sense, but i've never seen that kind of things even IRL so not sure (altought there are some warships with real icebreakers, in the russian navy, but as i said it's for ice, not that thing WoWs likes to add). The thing i'm pretty sure tho is that the WoWs community calls those icebreakers but they are not that at all lol (unless russian ships ofc, why would Spain need icebreakers on their ships?).
yeah I was under the impression in warships this started as real icebreakers...russians and germans had them because IRL they did but then WG just used it as an armor buff for other ships. In the case of Castilla it offers effectively no protection AND makes no sense in a historical context. neat!
You are correct in that it is intended as armor, it's just called an icebreaker because WG originally used that term way back when for their Russian ships, I don't recall if it was bbs or cruisers. As a historical example, the US navy originally wanted the entirety of the waterline of their bbs to have some armor, to safeguard against rapid flooding especially at speed, but abandoned this either when they went All or Nothing for the armor, or to boost the top speed of the NC bbs to make them competitive with Japanese ships.
Hi, i like your vids because you are not one of these ytubers that are climbing asses in talking the game nice and also describing stupidity of wows players with nice words.
that "bug" with castilla with not shooting all your guns during burst fire... you can actually single fire your turrets while burst is enabled. so like turret A would fire twice, whilst B and C would still have 2 shots loaded in them. try it in a training room sometime. it's odd.
3500 Base xp is absolutely insane. Though I guess its deserved since you pretty much singlehandedly got rid of both their carrier and 3 DDs. That team definitely would have lost if you weren't on it.
I still remember when we were all freaking out when we first got the picture of this thing. The concept of a Napoli with better guns and a funny button was kinda fucked.
But it's 2024 so it gets all it's armour removed for no fucking reason and they removed it's ability to smash broadsides with the funny button because god forbid they allow damage to a BB.
Meanwhile in the same breath they add Battlecruisers (in a WoWs context at least) like Rhode Island (has better air detection than Castilla btw) and Wisconsin that can do everything cruisers can do while actually having armour and the ability to smash broadsides because they also have better dispersion than most cruisers.
Very cool WG.
Yeah, instead of nerfing other aspects of burst...such as very long shot interval, or very long penalty to gun reload, which would make it less toxic for DDs and Cruisers....nope. Delete the ability to hurt idiot BB players.
Just like the Alvarro, this is another ship that is barely talked about since its release. These videos have definitely helped me get to know these ships
I think this is a really fun one. Maybe more skill dependent but situationally very strong.
one of my fondest memories playing this game is in Castilla, we were losing badly (like the other team was 45 seconds to winning), and the only ships the other team had left is a Mino and a Yamato camping on a rock. I zoomed around the island, sent 12 shells into Yamato's cheek citadel via burst and torped the Mino. love this ship so much.
“Oh fuck it’s a bungo!” Lmaooo
legit cannot think of a more toxic BB in the game when you're in a 30mm cruiser than Bungo...legmod Colombo/Lauria follow close behind
Started bingeing your vids and saw you echoed a lot of my feelings with current BB vs Ca design, but then on this vid you said something I have said to my friends multiple times spot on. I love this ship/line conceptually, I think its meh if you dont take advantage of burst fire which leads to playing in a mobile dynamic way. However which is the thing you said I kinda just feel bad that it specializes in fucking over cruisers which are already so beaten down. Also if you dont see a lot of enemy CAs in MM you mostly become a HE spammer unless BBs let you get in positions to get great AP chunks. Cruiser vs cruisers was always my favorite part of this game because it feels like there is more skill expression there but there is less and less of it due to ships in queue and how cruisers play with all the overmatch out and about.
Also more of an impact player than Dmg farmer myself. (ANTIDAD on NA)
60 winrate w key gaming > 65 winrate damage farming stay woke
Just found your channel. Liked this video, and bookmarked some others, subbed!
@@SofaKingA thank you
I really feel you on the cruiser ranting. I love cruisers but they sort of feel like Wargamings red headed step child. Also I swear BB mains csn be so dented sometimes
Man i remember the original had like vermont alpha on the F key AP, that was a bit much. But it was still an interesting concept back then before the battlechimps started screeching. Its still a fun little (large) ship to play especially when you can curbstomp light cruisers that are already getting shit on by literally every other class in the game
was it a bit much? it changes nothing against cruisers or destroyers. it exclusively punished (not even crazy punished) idiot BB players. 100% okay by me
@@hagostaeldmann did it not get the alpha reduced? I 100% agree that this ship should have more AP pen because like what the fuck is the point otherwise. I know its not a close comparison but I would rather by in a marseille in most cases.
The Spanish cruisers I feel like need some sort of increased accuracy, or upper side armor buff, or both
That would make them perfectly fine ships, along with a slight increase to fire setting capabilities.
I’m honestly really sad to see a gimmick centric line or game design, like Wisconsin’s combat instructions that imho should only function as a tool to sustain your ship, rather than a free reload booster.
Alas, here I am griping about wows 2024 when I take comfort in 2017 daring and des moines
I'd hate to buff the accuracy because this thing would become even more absurd against DDs and cruisers. I'd overall like to see the burst nerfed BUT give it real armor. 40 deck/upper belt and up the icebreaker out of the water. But nerf the burst because it's insanely toxic against DDs and cruisers. But the armor makes you candy for BBs.
@@hagostaeldmann or instead of improving the amor, just give it 1% or 2% more fire chance.
@@matthiasdarrington3271 What?? So you're saying just take fire cmdr skill and fire flag and suddenly it is fixed? lol
2024 is not the year of the cruiser again. 😔
Wg is too busy trying to stealth buff their privilegied class, and making more crazy BBs.
About the icebreaker, i guess it's not an icebreaker, it's more of a reinforced bow in case you hit stuff at sea on high speed. Or if a shell makes a hole you don't want it on your bow's waterline because water would get inside super quick because of your own speed, so making this more resistant is not a bad idea.
I'm no ship designer but that would make sense, but i've never seen that kind of things even IRL so not sure (altought there are some warships with real icebreakers, in the russian navy, but as i said it's for ice, not that thing WoWs likes to add). The thing i'm pretty sure tho is that the WoWs community calls those icebreakers but they are not that at all lol (unless russian ships ofc, why would Spain need icebreakers on their ships?).
yeah I was under the impression in warships this started as real icebreakers...russians and germans had them because IRL they did but then WG just used it as an armor buff for other ships. In the case of Castilla it offers effectively no protection AND makes no sense in a historical context. neat!
You are correct in that it is intended as armor, it's just called an icebreaker because WG originally used that term way back when for their Russian ships, I don't recall if it was bbs or cruisers.
As a historical example, the US navy originally wanted the entirety of the waterline of their bbs to have some armor, to safeguard against rapid flooding especially at speed, but abandoned this either when they went All or Nothing for the armor, or to boost the top speed of the NC bbs to make them competitive with Japanese ships.
Hi,
i like your vids because you are not one of these ytubers that are climbing asses in talking the game nice and also describing stupidity of wows players with nice words.
there's no way to sugarcoat this gaming experience sometimes without straight up lying.
that "bug" with castilla with not shooting all your guns during burst fire... you can actually single fire your turrets while burst is enabled. so like turret A would fire twice, whilst B and C would still have 2 shots loaded in them. try it in a training room sometime. it's odd.
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Is there a ship you dont get high caliber in every battle? 😮
I need to join your clan. I feel like the banter has enough shit talkimg to satisfy my thirst
Gokase at T6 is faster....37.5 kts. TIL :)
Blowing up in 30 seconds is my usual problem.
3500 Base xp is absolutely insane. Though I guess its deserved since you pretty much singlehandedly got rid of both their carrier and 3 DDs. That team definitely would have lost if you weren't on it.
i was expecting around 3k was legit surprised.