Bought this a few weeks ago and love it, but there really aren't that many 'how to play well' videos. There are some from PQ, Malta, Trenlass, etc. but nothing super comprehensive. But regardless would love PQs take on Marceau in the current meta.
Fun fact : Colbert's 127mm HE has natively more damage than its counterparts (2100 DMG VS the regular ~1800 DMG HE shells of this caliber get). When you pick Heavy HE shells (and you should, since the caliber is lower than 149mm, you don't suffer worse concealment), you end up with a whopping 2310 DMG per shell. That's more than Worcester's 152mm shells (2200 DMG) ! All with the rate of fire 127mm allows. And that's why Colbert's DPM is so high.
Yeah! I've absolutely murdered some cruisers with Zao's Ap, it truly is an underrated ship, it one of my favourites, and i'd pick it over Yoshino. Simply because Zao's dispertion and sigma are way better. However i like Yoshi too if RNG favors her a little
I have met Friesland only once in match . I was in my Thunderer and it was painful. Even Smolensk is not that strong in my opinion or maybe it was just very very good player.
@@smaug9617 must have been me haha. Yeah, I think it's a bit underappreciated, but very powerful. People hate you and call you mean names when you use it though haha
Colbert no conceal 13.8km range full damage is unironically the proper build. Not a preferred or aggressive build, it is truly the only build you should run on this ship.
I do agree that it's the only proper build for Colbert, but you can definitely be aggresive with it, you just need to be smart about it, in fact it's preferable, because you will be a constant pain to the enemy and with such a range you need to do risky things, otherwise that dpm goes to waste.
I genuinely enjoy your content, even when you occasionally get a tad stressed about actual versus expected performance. Many if not most ships perform much better when in a division with complimentary ships. For example, Bayern with an American DD providing approach smoke is a beast. Low tiers with little to no radars are a lot of fun.
Kii's a pretty decent ship, she can be a surprisingly decent IJN brawler like the Iwami if given a dedicated secondary build. Those 100mm turrets which possess similar characteristics (including improved armor pen capacity) as the Akizuki's main batteries, coupled with the common casemate 140s and especially the aft Long Lance torps give her a huge advantage in close quarters engagements. Only issues with her are the somehow worse main armor belt layout than Amagi that causes her to eat citadels more often when broadside (quite ironic that the battlecruiser design turned out to have a better protection scheme than the actual battleship), slightly shorter main battery range than her cousin, as well as generally wonkier dispersion and lower sigma value. Maybe she is indeed built to be the IJN take on German brawler BBs from the start...
Feast or Famine type outcome Ship, I don't Know what to thick, but That DPM looks juicy, which then makes the paper side armor go down a bit easier. I like it!!!. All the matches were fun to watch, Thank you Potato Quality. Any ship Allied only T-XII on the ship request question. Ok, now Thank you!. :)
Thanks for this video. Contrary to most streamers (who make you believe they only get 180K games) , you are posting also bad games where over extending gets punished. For the average player like me it is comforting ... I came back to the game after 4 years of absence and I'm really struggling. My experience curve is a bellshape centered on mid tier, (since I grinded all of my ships) but when I look at player profile now (90% T10), I realize most play very few low tier and than buy premium Tier 10. This has two consequences - Lower tier are less populated, and when you play T8, you get always a T10 Match Making (with premiums) - The majority stay in the back of the map and snipe, even when all the cap circles are red ... (very frequent with high stats guys, just farming). Stupidely I get frustrated, I try to compensate, push , overextend and get devstrike. I have to learn like you to laugh about it, and just concentrate to do my possible best ... especially since I love playing cruisers. Unfortunatly CL like my Seattle for instance is impossible to play, and I had to exchange coal for Napoli, to be able to play agressively and still get over 10mn of play ... Have to grind heavy cruisers like the French Marseille line, or the DM line (I love the Baltimore, and btw wouldn't mind seeing a video on it, from you ?). Will go through your other videos, I like the tone, the calm and the comments on positionning = one more subscriber for you 😀👍
The bullshit that passes for randoms these days is THE reason I almost exclusively play ranked. Done that for the last couple of years because people generally have to push. CVs being banned this season has made it awesome. Pure ship play!!!!
I played a game yesterday where John was on enemy team in colbert. His team was down so bad, and he was clawing them back the best one ship could. At the very end of the match, there were 4 friendlies against him. I had unfortunately died, but i did trade a ship out when i died. I was in daring trying to rush down a sub i had hydroed. I went around island and ran into an almost full hp thunderer in suicide range unexpectedly lol. When he was last spotted he was kiting, which was smart because he was outnumbered and getting pushed. So him turning around and pushing was a bad idea. So i didnt get the sub after all, but I did get him killed via my spotting and i got torps off on thunderer. We had the caps and points. Didn't need to kill John, but you know my remaining teammates had to try to win harder. In the final second of the game, John was finally killed. John's final Salvo killed my last friendly. I think John had like 6 or 7 kills and a bunch of xp for a loss
@@BSoDexe It is bad. Like if you play T9-10 there is mostly like 2-4 radar ships in each team. All cruisers have hydro and some BBs have radar. Also CVs and subs don't help much.
I saw this vid on my staring page and I was about to go watch it but then I started it playing my self first and I got some pretty good games today had fun in this car!
Actually Colbert is very fun & nice to play around. Fires, dogde & overpen really Colbert's "best friend". According to the RPs, there were many shots can be avoided with ease by dodging/overpen w/o showing broadside & over focusing on DPM undermine the power survival . Nevertheless survival can be a key for Colbert in many cases to farm more DPM & possible to turn the tide. Nice RP BTW.
Can u maybe pls tell me what kind of crosshair u use and how u get this little indicator on the left where u can see the angles of ur ship and the enemy 😅 would be rly nice ❤
Playing radar in today's META is just objectively dumb. Easily plane spotted = no ambush = dev strike. Smoke build Minotaur is stronger than it has ever been, while Radar build is at its weakest. I say this as a huge Radar Minotaur fan.
@@snorkman2 Unfortunately I do have to agree with you. I’ve been switching between the 2 since I got the ship but I find myself running smoke almost every battle. The only exceptions being in a division. Unfortunate, but my favorite part is the dpm, and that it still retains.
I would like to see Chung Mu in its current state. I personally have it now while grinding the tech tree, and I have surprisingly awesome results with it despite being an average player. I wondered why it is a ship flying under the radar, and got surprised hearing that it will get nefed soon...
@MartialEmperor6344 minnow at least has that heal. But yea it's basically got destroyer armor with a citadel. Hell some dds may have better armor scheme lol
In cv games, I get deleted a lot in cruisers. Especially if there are a lot of big gun overmatch bbs. It feels like they just all wait for me to get spotted then have insane dispersion when they hit me. Always feels that way anyways. Then when I'm in a bb I really struggle to ever do anything like these people do. I just hope to randomly get lucky lol
WG Need to give her some british DD smokes or a superheal considered how her range and shells speed just so bad that it forces you to get to near suicide range to make it work.
Now that you mention it... Marceau would be cool to see
Edit: The community has spoken, THE FRENCH STALLION RIDES
Bought this a few weeks ago and love it, but there really aren't that many 'how to play well' videos. There are some from PQ, Malta, Trenlass, etc. but nothing super comprehensive. But regardless would love PQs take on Marceau in the current meta.
YESSSS gunboat dds
Fun fact : Colbert's 127mm HE has natively more damage than its counterparts (2100 DMG VS the regular ~1800 DMG HE shells of this caliber get).
When you pick Heavy HE shells (and you should, since the caliber is lower than 149mm, you don't suffer worse concealment), you end up with a whopping 2310 DMG per shell.
That's more than Worcester's 152mm shells (2200 DMG) ! All with the rate of fire 127mm allows.
And that's why Colbert's DPM is so high.
IF they penetrate, that is.
Imagine an aa cruiser of the 50's literally covered by AA guns getting crushed by dive bombers
Only in World of Warships 😂
Yeah, Colbets AA is trash tbh
@@WaveCeptorGaming yeah and that makes literally 0 sense.
@@aurdel775when has AA ever made sense in this game, most likely never will
@@aurdel775 it does. colberts AA is primarily long range. continuous damage is king for aa, not flak
Since you said you will play some mid tier ships, I'd love to see Vanguard next.
vanguard is tier 8. likely to get uptiered. and... has no gimmicks or modules. plays like a very large large cruiser.
Let us meme!
Kearsarge secondary build
No CVs😉
@@FoefuRno planes, full send
The abandoned Heavy Cruiser Zao. 😃
Zao was my first t10. It used to be so good back in the day...
Remember stealth firing Zaos@@jimbo1637
@@jimbo1637 Stealth firing was SO broken
AP only Zao
Fought John the Ruthless's Colbert in my Bungo once, 12km engagement. Absolute nightmare, it was like that feeling of fighting a carrier.
Rip
Watching John the Ruthless play this ship is absolutely disgusting. The man has 3k battles on it and averages 189k damage
Full AP Zao, the Assassin of Cruisers needs to be shown.
Yeah! I've absolutely murdered some cruisers with Zao's Ap, it truly is an underrated ship, it one of my favourites, and i'd pick it over Yoshino. Simply because Zao's dispertion and sigma are way better. However i like Yoshi too if RNG favors her a little
Friesland/Groningen is one of my favorites. Love to see how you're playing it these days
I have met Friesland only once in match . I was in my Thunderer and it was painful. Even Smolensk is not that strong in my opinion or maybe it was just very very good player.
@@smaug9617 must have been me haha. Yeah, I think it's a bit underappreciated, but very powerful. People hate you and call you mean names when you use it though haha
Colbert no conceal 13.8km range full damage is unironically the proper build. Not a preferred or aggressive build, it is truly the only build you should run on this ship.
I do agree that it's the only proper build for Colbert, but you can definitely be aggresive with it, you just need to be smart about it, in fact it's preferable, because you will be a constant pain to the enemy and with such a range you need to do risky things, otherwise that dpm goes to waste.
I genuinely enjoy your content, even when you occasionally get a tad stressed about actual versus expected performance.
Many if not most ships perform much better when in a division with complimentary ships.
For example, Bayern with an American DD providing approach smoke is a beast. Low tiers with little to no radars are a lot of fun.
Seeing the Konig or Bayern would be nice. Haven’t seen very many low tier German battleship videos on your channel.
Because they’re all shit
I would love to see the Kii ! Its such a great Battleship at Tier 8
Kii's a pretty decent ship, she can be a surprisingly decent IJN brawler like the Iwami if given a dedicated secondary build. Those 100mm turrets which possess similar characteristics (including improved armor pen capacity) as the Akizuki's main batteries, coupled with the common casemate 140s and especially the aft Long Lance torps give her a huge advantage in close quarters engagements. Only issues with her are the somehow worse main armor belt layout than Amagi that causes her to eat citadels more often when broadside (quite ironic that the battlecruiser design turned out to have a better protection scheme than the actual battleship), slightly shorter main battery range than her cousin, as well as generally wonkier dispersion and lower sigma value. Maybe she is indeed built to be the IJN take on German brawler BBs from the start...
I play the Kii at least once a day so I can get that phat credit bonus.
Secondary Kii delivers!!
Feast or Famine type outcome Ship, I don't Know what to thick, but That DPM looks juicy, which then makes the paper side armor go down a bit easier. I like it!!!. All the matches were fun to watch, Thank you Potato Quality. Any ship Allied only T-XII on the ship request question. Ok, now Thank you!. :)
It is the highest HE and AP dpm cruiser in the game ...in dpm it is to cruisers wht Marceau is to dds
I literally only call that thing "John's ship". Also, tell John to make more videos.
Something you have never done: the Super Battleship Mikasa. Cross the T and go in with both broadsides blazing.
U had me lol at"farm simulator'' !!! Good vid bro !
Kitakaze seems like a nice followup to this
gearing?
Thanks for this video.
Contrary to most streamers (who make you believe they only get 180K games) , you are posting also bad games where over extending gets punished.
For the average player like me it is comforting ...
I came back to the game after 4 years of absence and I'm really struggling.
My experience curve is a bellshape centered on mid tier, (since I grinded all of my ships) but when I look at player profile now (90% T10), I realize most play very few low tier and than buy premium Tier 10.
This has two consequences
- Lower tier are less populated, and when you play T8, you get always a T10 Match Making (with premiums)
- The majority stay in the back of the map and snipe, even when all the cap circles are red ... (very frequent with high stats guys, just farming).
Stupidely I get frustrated, I try to compensate, push , overextend and get devstrike.
I have to learn like you to laugh about it, and just concentrate to do my possible best ... especially since I love playing cruisers.
Unfortunatly CL like my Seattle for instance is impossible to play, and I had to exchange coal for Napoli, to be able to play agressively and still get over 10mn of play ...
Have to grind heavy cruisers like the French Marseille line, or the DM line (I love the Baltimore, and btw wouldn't mind seeing a video on it, from you ?).
Will go through your other videos, I like the tone, the calm and the comments on positionning = one more subscriber for you 😀👍
Almirante Grau! Let's see some of that "hit and run" cruiser in action!
The bullshit that passes for randoms these days is THE reason I almost exclusively play ranked. Done that for the last couple of years because people generally have to push.
CVs being banned this season has made it awesome. Pure ship play!!!!
I played a game yesterday where John was on enemy team in colbert. His team was down so bad, and he was clawing them back the best one ship could. At the very end of the match, there were 4 friendlies against him. I had unfortunately died, but i did trade a ship out when i died. I was in daring trying to rush down a sub i had hydroed. I went around island and ran into an almost full hp thunderer in suicide range unexpectedly lol. When he was last spotted he was kiting, which was smart because he was outnumbered and getting pushed. So him turning around and pushing was a bad idea. So i didnt get the sub after all, but I did get him killed via my spotting and i got torps off on thunderer. We had the caps and points. Didn't need to kill John, but you know my remaining teammates had to try to win harder. In the final second of the game, John was finally killed. John's final Salvo killed my last friendly. I think John had like 6 or 7 kills and a bunch of xp for a loss
That Venezia at the end was so bad
We’ve just got Venezia in world of warships legends on Monday. I would like to see you play it.
Leg mod Zao, let's see if it's worth it, and Zao in general.
I'd like to see a revisiting of the groningen/friesland
Man I really want to get groningen
Day 31 waiting for Patrie secondary build (with IFHE)
Oh jeez....John The Ruthless.....absolute Colbert GOAT. Love that dudes gameplay. Just won Kots, too. gg
Wow that Sap was ridiculous
Yo! I just played with you when you were in Napoli. I was the Vermont on your team. Nice kraken btw!
Btw sorry for kind of selling the game. According to that guy that reported me there was a lot of stuff I could have done
Indianapolis please. My home city and a very storied history.
Never thought to try lighthouse, gonna give it a go today.
Tbh I'd like to see PQ play petro
i kinda miss seeing PQ play ranked mogador
How about if a ship only spec'd for YOLO, you know. Paolo Emilio?
he did that recently
@@TheBjornEman yes, but he failed miserably and said the ship is bad in current meta (it's not true, I'd like PQ to give it a fair chance)
@@BSoDexe It is bad. Like if you play T9-10 there is mostly like 2-4 radar ships in each team. All cruisers have hydro and some BBs have radar. Also CVs and subs don't help much.
@@vitezslavlorenc3479 sounds like skill issue to me!
minotaur “lighthouse” radar aa build 🥰
Radar and AA build don't mesh that well in a Minotaur.
I saw this vid on my staring page and I was about to go watch it but then I started it playing my self first and I got some pretty good games today had fun in this car!
Actually Colbert is very fun & nice to play around. Fires, dogde & overpen really Colbert's "best friend".
According to the RPs, there were many shots can be avoided with ease by dodging/overpen w/o showing broadside & over focusing on DPM undermine the power survival .
Nevertheless survival can be a key for Colbert in many cases to farm more DPM & possible to turn the tide. Nice RP BTW.
I find Colbert to be the most beautiful and modern looking ship.
Prinz Eugen?
That keeps happening to me in Svea. My team keeps giving up the opposite flank and i get blown up from the crossfire that allows
I wouldn’t mind seeing you play the Smolensk again!
I would love to see henri in 2024
I’ve been leaning towards Salem as my first coal ship it sounds fun to play. You should definitely run Salem next
I'd like to know how to angle in the Collingwood.
Don't play that ship. Its utter trash.
Can u maybe pls tell me what kind of crosshair u use and how u get this little indicator on the left where u can see the angles of ur ship and the enemy 😅 would be rly nice ❤
Slava gaming perhaps?
Coal cruisers ranked 😎😎😎
Thnx for all content PQ. Me and my friends are leaving wows.. we are between 56-65% winrate. CVs and subs can go F it self. GLHF
Pommern would be coolio to see
What about Groningen? i guess it is one of the best coal ships in the game rn
The Chad radar Minotaur
Radar mino pushing with you when you are in dd is pretty powerfull. Like it may die, but it will take all dds on cap with him...
Playing radar in today's META is just objectively dumb.
Easily plane spotted = no ambush = dev strike. Smoke build Minotaur is stronger than it has ever been, while Radar build is at its weakest.
I say this as a huge Radar Minotaur fan.
@@snorkman2 Unfortunately I do have to agree with you. I’ve been switching between the 2 since I got the ship but I find myself running smoke almost every battle. The only exceptions being in a division. Unfortunate, but my favorite part is the dpm, and that it still retains.
Sampson? Truly the goated destroyer.
Ship Request: Anchorage
Flandre pls 🙏, no one talks about it !
I would like to see Chung Mu in its current state. I personally have it now while grinding the tech tree, and I have surprisingly awesome results with it despite being an average player. I wondered why it is a ship flying under the radar, and got surprised hearing that it will get nefed soon...
Always enjoy the videos
I haven't seen St.Vincent in a while
I see it a lot ..like god damn
You should play Lenin
CV's ALWAYS focus Colbert. The amount of chat bans ive got in this ship...
PQ please play HSF Harekaze
I'd love to see Druid!!
Bro he featured my comment!
congratz man
Idk if it's been done but the Benham would be nice to see
San Diego would be fun to see
Def wanna see Warspite
what about a classic Zao?
The Texas would be cool to see
Why reload over range? It already has blistering fast reload but terrible range.
I would take range mod too especially in combination with lighthouse build. Just gotta get comfortable with leading the shells.
I'd love to see you play the Neustrashimy.
It’s a ship that either does very well, or deleted pretty quick.
It's pretty much like minotaur in that way
That is pretty much me in every cruiser ever.
@MartialEmperor6344 minnow at least has that heal. But yea it's basically got destroyer armor with a citadel. Hell some dds may have better armor scheme lol
In cv games, I get deleted a lot in cruisers. Especially if there are a lot of big gun overmatch bbs. It feels like they just all wait for me to get spotted then have insane dispersion when they hit me. Always feels that way anyways. Then when I'm in a bb I really struggle to ever do anything like these people do. I just hope to randomly get lucky lol
Lion next? I don't see many replays of that ship.
id like to see some more of the mid tiers as well, Roma perhaps?
If you build for it Colbert has great AA. I am surprised that the CV focused you in that first battle as you could have been shredding his planes.
Would love to see Béarn :)
Ship request: KREMLIN cause why not?
Graf Spee since u can finally get the dispersion under control w the new commander skills
Mikasa would be interesting I think
Have had some fun games teaming up with random colberts when I'm in gearing.
If you would play Arizona or West Virginia (again), I’d be very happy!
instead of superintend id go for conceal and drop fire chance so 10.9 conceal more deadly
How about Wichita?
2nd request for Kutuzov.
I think you need to revisit what Mods you use in your setup. It's been a while. ;-)
How about Alaska next?
Saint John the Ruthless...
Amagi would be soo good to see :)
Did I miss the Jinan?
Fun fact this ship on console enjoys a 32mm nose and stern.
WG Need to give her some british DD smokes or a superheal considered how her range and shells speed just so bad that it forces you to get to near suicide range to make it work.
Would love to see Druid or Sherman
Come on guys.. we need Halsey plus Erie supremacy
The slept on battleship Izumo?
Lighthouse Henri?
2nd attempt at Z-44 please.
How about the reborn 1920 South Dakota-class battleship, the Kansas.
harugumo would be fun. Let the daka daka run rampant
return to an oldie: Loyang?