How to play Pensacola: Detect an enemy, wait 84 years for the turrets to turn, get nice citadels on cruisers, get deva striked by a triple citadel, go back to port.

@dannyeden6244

5 жыл бұрын

and complain at wargaming that the citadel is to high above the water line. lol

@DynamoNED

5 жыл бұрын

This is the most accurate description of typical Pensacola play I've ever seen.

@radityadaffa9280

4 жыл бұрын

Wow 84 years ahahahaha without torpedo

@powerboost72

4 жыл бұрын

....you must skill you pepsi bro - my turn is 34 sec and she turns in 5.6 sec with double ruddershift. Pepsi - The 203 mm puncher. Great ship!

@This_Pleases_The_Nut

3 жыл бұрын

No joke I got full health dev striked by a California earlier today in the Pepsi...

How to play Pensacola: Take some painkillers, grind until you get enough free xp to unlock tier vii.

@gabrielcalile6445

4 жыл бұрын

y e s

@powerboost72

4 жыл бұрын

...in Tier VII you have the same probs ! hehe:-). Not the ship is weak!

@Suorodolam

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Omaha strategy on the prior level.

@nickr0785

3 жыл бұрын

👏

Pro-tip for any USN cruiser. Don't be the first ship spotted or the only ship spotted. Let your destroyers get ahead and stay near your islands and battleships at the beginning of the match. Hold fire till enemy ships expend their salvo then let yours fly. If more than one ship is shooting at you, get undetected. As the match progresses and there are less enemies you can set the engagements a bit more aggressively, but always try to have an escape plan. You are a support ship. A great cruiser hunter and pretty good destroyer hunter. Yes, you can chip away at battleships but they are not your primary source of damage since you are their food. Everyone loves shooting at a Pensacola :) The longer you can stay in a match as a USN heavy cruiser, the more of a threat you are. Even when I play my Des Moines and I see an enemy Des Moines, I'll call on my team to focus fire it because I know it's a huge threat. Never pick a fair fight because you only have your guns to rely on since you don't have torpedoes. That means if get stuck behind an island shooting and get corned a smart enemy will rush you (BB, CA/CL with torpedoes, DD, even CV). Yes, a CV can target you. Use your defensive fire wisely. Once activated, if the planes are shot down and no more are near press P twice to turn off AA and enable it again. This will reset the defensive fire cooldown quicker so you can have it back up sooner.

@manhphuc4335

5 жыл бұрын

PorscheRacer14 didn’t know the last part tks a lot.

@leojiangtheterrible7142

5 жыл бұрын

the IJN cruisers spend their days deleting USN cruisers too.

@PorscheRacer14

5 жыл бұрын

@@leojiangtheterrible7142 that's odd. When I play USN cruisers, IJN cruisers are a good source of food. Heck even the Yamato can be dealt with pretty quickly by a Des Moines if you can catch it on its side. I love my 155 Mogami but the IJN heavy cruisers are slow firing, slow rudder shift, slow turret traverse, crap AA but the Zao has troll armour, amazing HE, torpedoes, stealth, speed and good enough range to work in just about every scenario. USN cruisers take lots of skill and luck to play correctly in the game. Then again the real life ones sent a good portion of the IJN cruisers to the bottom.

@leojiangtheterrible7142

5 жыл бұрын

As in deleting bad scrubs who shows a broadside. Also, yes, those IJN guns give you a battleship experience, feels good just to shove in 6 shells into the enemy citadel. Pepsi Cola is very much like Furutaka(without C hull), feels like trash, sometimes enjoyable, and get you ready for the ships to come.

@rugby86

4 жыл бұрын

@ArmchairWarrior team baits 😃

i miss tier 7 pensa with its OP tier 7 mm and its turrets that could rotate 180 degrees in slightly under a century

Great advice here. Normally when I play my Pensacola, 90% of the time I only last about 5 - 10 minutes, but I will now try and play this way and maybe I will stay alive in more games. Thanks again

How to pensacola: play 1st half like a dallas, 2nd half bow shield foward and engage enemy cruiser -s- tip: learn to shell beat.

Thank you so much. I really wasn't sure which way to go between Dallas and Pensacola, but your video helped immensely.

"Cap A" - "I know what I'm doing" LOL

This just helped me alot. Been struggling with this ship. Watched your video played a match and completely changed how i view the Pensacola

Nice vid Ichase, very helpful vid. Been struggling with the Pensacola and trying to get better with it.

she's a great ship once you learn the get in, get out style, switching ammo and on occasion she can brawl some of the smaller destroyers and light cruisers one on one if you catch them lacking

I'm not a very skilled player, but I actually enjoy playing Pensacola more than I thought I would. I always saw it getting blown apart in single strikes in replays so I thought it would be a struggle, but so far almost every game I've had with her has been very fun. Much more fun than I've had with New Mexico... Thank you for posting this!

This applies to all the USN line and its great advice, support is the name of the game great video keep them coming

It’s a tough ship to master. As always, Thanks for the great tips. I couldn’t agree with you more.

Nice series of videos Chase, I appreciate it... I have two requests 1) I'd like to see some videos on some of the stinkers of tier 8 and 9 AND 2) How to play Mikasa, that one ought to be interesting

Excellent. Would love to see more of these How To Play ship videos, particularly mid tier ships.

Excellent video! Although she is not my favorite - I appreciate your insight, especially on the gun angles!

She was my favorite cruiser when she was at Tier VII. Haven't played her as much since the split and downgrade. Played right, with a good team who actually understands what teamwork is, she's a lot of fun.

GREAT tutorial as usual. Thanks iChase!!

Thanks chase, this video made a difference. I suck at Pensacola, but after watching this video, first game 85k dmg and a Kraken, second game 105k dmg and Confederate. I now just hold back a bit and check which way the game is going before I start engaging.

The Pensacola with a good Cpt (not me!!) at the helm can be very scary to any cruiser or even same/lower BB at range. I have much enjoyed the Pensa in Operations where you have a better chance of choosing engagements. Great video of a commonly held mid-tier ship iChase! Moar please.

Great video! Keep em coming!

More please. Good video and explanation

Great commentary, very informative! I just got this ship and it seems underwhelming however it appears I was just playing it wrong lol

It made me chuckle a bit as you citadel'ed that Nürnberg. I really hate that ship. Every bit of damage you receive is basically a citadel... so frustrating. Few days ago a Shchors hit me at the tip of the stern at around 30-40 degrees... boom, citadel...

Really nice format

Thanks Chase. Tier VI may be the best for me - sure you get up-tiered a lot, but at least you are not facing the Tier IX and X insta-delete cruisers and destroyers. I started a WoWS sabbatical while Pensacola was still Tier VII - always liked the ship but did not do well. There was always the comparison with the fairly tank-ey Cleveland then at Tier VI. 8-inch guns at Tier VI offer some interesting possibilities - I think the Aoba is a bit tougher, but making six-gun warships work is a challenge. I have been playing the French Tier VI cruisers a lot recently, and it may be good practice for the Pensacola. Good maneuverability and paper mache armor.

Thanx iChase, I don’t play Cruiser but enjoyable video non the less. I absolutely love BB and would like a video on Colorado, Fuso tier BB’s.

Nice vidéo on a particular play style. I tend to be agressive and bad with cruiser.

Heh, I remember loving the good old Pensa back in the days when she had 15+km detection! I got on with that ship sooo much better than the Cleveland, which was at t6 at the time. I just enjoyed it much more and had a generally better win rate. Then I hit the New Orleans (which was at t8) and...ugh. I just gave up. This was in the days of +3 match making too, so I'd see Yamatos, Montanas, etc etc. The best feeling in the world was getting a detonation on a Yamato from max range and being accused of hacks. "lul" was quite appropriate! :D

@garethfairclough8715

5 жыл бұрын

My stats? Eh, they're not relevant anymore. It has been that long since I played. Anyway Chase, basically everything you said is bang on the money. You've got to play the Pensa "over the shoulder". She has good firing arcs for those turrets, she's agile and has a good number of guns. Use them. Hmm...you could probably use a Pensa in a division with two other ships with better concealment, using the Pensa as bait! Basically, you'd try to exploit the tendency for people to drop everything to shoot at the Pensa. Stupid idea, but I wonder how it'd work..

Yesterday I did what you said I should not do at 8:35 in the vid. Luckily he was stupid and did not shoot me for some reason. I was able to get a quad citadel on him for 22k dmg. He was a Nelson on top of that if he was not so attached to British HE he would have deleted me in return.

Nice video Chase! For a request, maybe consider New Mexico or Nagato?

Yes, more please! My one criticism, when you were showing the comparative stat block, it obscured a lot of the screen for a significant portion of the action. I wanted to see what was going on there. If you could either pause the game in the background while showing something like that, or make it smaller/not leave it up so long, that would be great! Thanks!

Once I got the upgraded turrets after a couple of battles, I loved Pensacola at t7 (with the little I played it after the rework, I actually enjoyed it a little more at t7 than t6). I get why people always hated her after the Cleveland (and I admit that hate did make me not upgrade to Pensacola until shortly before the rework) but she was such a fun ship to play and could pretty consistently put out decent damage games if you played intelligently. The couple of times I took t7 NO into randoms or scenarios I felt there were some similarities to the old Pensacola, but I didn’t feel like I had as much fun as I tended to in Pensacola. I wouldn’t necessarily be one to buy a premium that’s basically a copy of a tech tree ship, but t7 Pensacola would definitely make me consider getting Indianapolis in the future.

For me, Pensacola was very much an "all-or-nothing" ship to play. I would either have monster games where I would delete cruisers and destroyers left and right, or would get dev struck and sunk by a battleship in the first five minutes. Even on the old Tier VII Pensacola, the turret traverse made me want to pull my hair out, and after the cruiser line change, it got so much worse. I'm much happier with Dallas for my Tier VI play, but I'll keep these tips in mind for when I go back to my New Orleans.

Can you do the USS Dallas next? I'm really struggling to play it cause it's so fragile.

@Oats4Life

3 жыл бұрын

play like atlanta

@Refrigerator44

3 жыл бұрын

Islands are your friend. Love the islands. Keep them close to you.

To be honest, the Pensacola could probably use a bit of a buff (it has the lowest win rate and average damage of all 16 t6 cruisers). I think they should reduce its detection range by 1-2km. That would make it a lot more interesting to play, because it would be better at sneaking into good positions and ambushing other cruisers.

@markalvarado4450

5 жыл бұрын

or raising its range of firing it sucks getting into range getting spotted and getting deleted ...

Basically, how to go on the run, once you break out of prison

How to play the pensacola, get a Pepsi, get a Cola, hit broadside cruisers while drinking pepsicola, you have successfully played the Pensacola

@Ensign_Cthulhu

5 жыл бұрын

:-D

@franciscodetonne4797

5 жыл бұрын

After getting into a match, spend a minute penance because you chose this ship.

@KellyEastwood855

5 жыл бұрын

The only problem is that Pepsi is not a cola. And this is not a ship. It' garbage.

@Rammstein0963.

4 жыл бұрын

Actually it is, as originally (like all sodas that use the name "cola") used the Kola nut, hence the name.

thats it. thx for your work. and i miss the old melody 😋

I actually didn't find Pensacola hard to play at all, considering the first cruiser line I played was the IJN cruiser line, and thanks to the lessons of CA gameplay that Furutaka teaches early on, and carries through the entire line up, I had no problems when I started to branch out to the US cruiser line.

Calm down, I know what I'm doing! Love it

Hi m8, can you do a video about Dallas, whit the PEF campaign many got it, and for me used to play British/German/French cruisers it's a challenge . Thx and keep doing this kind of videos because they really help to improve my gaming.

I played the Pensacola at T7 before the US cruiser split and hated it. For all the reasons Chase stated. My situational awareness is problematic (still is), the turrets turned like glaciers...ugh. My win rate was like 31%. Maybe I'll take Chase's advice and buy it back as a self-trainer....

Can you also do a guide on the rest of the USN heavy cruisers? I am trying to grind up the line but am struggling.

@psmith6166

5 жыл бұрын

This guy is correct, they all play very much the same. You get spotted, everyone shoots you and you die because your armor is good enough to not get overpens from anything that normally fires AP. Tier 8+ just gets worse because Musashi/Yamato can overmatch your armor even bow on. You have to hug islands and get damage when you can and hope your team keeps the match close enough that you can be relevant later on.

I know this statement is a little unfair, but I had many fun games in my Pensacola before WG moved and tweaked her. She has always been fragile but with 10 AP round at under 10KM would make BB player swear I was what playing a hacked ship and I was going to be reported to WG. The new and improved Pensacola requires you to play a little farther back then before. Mostly for the anemic turret rotation. Old Pen I love to go DD hunting, new is not so easy to now. I think I going to equip it with RPF to help be away of DDs to compensate for the slow guns turrets. Old or new you had to master one thing most of all. Your situation/map awareness. My advice is not to skip her. It was my first 19 point commander and it was fun to get high on the results screen being bottom tiered. Like the videos. Having you demo the ship of topic with a low point captain is a great benefit to the community. Not everyone will have a 19 point commander on her.

"Has good firepower" Don't be silly hahahha Best advice HE and try to start fires

@MFenix206

4 жыл бұрын

i am loving mine with AP. amazing amount of damage after coming out of the Omaha. it is my highest tier non-premium ship. just started playing again in june. the last time i had played before that was just after they added the warspite. my favorite game so far i got an Aoba broadside on at 7 km (cyclone) i blapped him with 4 citadels in one salvo. then i ran into a hawkins and deleted that with a 3 citadel salvo. my most interesting game was when i citadeled a BB at 14 km. think it was a fuso? or maybe a Queen Elizabeth? that was fun.

MORE OF THIS PLEASE :)Light CC next time may be ?

Hi iChase , can you recommend what kind of ship module upgrade for Pensacola ?? Thanks!

Nice ship, but tricky. I run John Doe on her, with buffed expert marksman, it makes all the difference. The guns are MONSTROUS at tier 6. You need to plan approaches and have jedi level WASD hax to live long enough to fully capitalize on the guns, however.

Great video,can you do Moskva next im struggling to make it work

Very nicely done. Can you please travel back in time and put this out immediately after the USN cruiser split appeared? (People like to knock this ship, but I have nearly 80K XP in her despite not even needing to play her. She can be a LOT of fun in co-op.)

The Pepsi is much better at tier 6 than it was at tier 7, though it's still a citadel fiesta for the opposing team if you make any mistakes. OK, sometimes you don't even have to make a mistake. This ship can take citadels from some odd angles. However, I like it more than the premium Indianapolis.

Great video., Please do more. Suggest you time mark the summary.

Omaha, Pensacola, and minotaur are the 3 ships that are most targeted for dev strike and citadels. Assume the 1st hit is going to take at least 1/2 your health. I agree with most posts that the turrets rotation is bad in that you can over turn the turrets in a hard turn and wait to turn them back. This can force you to turn a little then wait for the turrets. I would say that if you can do damage equal to your health pool your doing fine. Server average is 28,500 and the top 25% are 42,300. T8 Pensacola 285 battles 47% win rate, t6 Pensacola 57% win rate 28 battles.

@imamage

5 жыл бұрын

You missed Emerald ...

Plz do USN line and the difference of Buffalo from the others, I had trouble (finally got Des Moines) but it would help and I would like your advice on it.

I'm was an amazing Pensacola player, when she was t7.

Great video I’ve been playing for a good bit and I’ve gotten pretty good overall but the first time I used this ship I got crushed. 20 battles afterwards I was still dying with 1 kill or so, so I jumped on KZread and no one had a video up for Pensacola so I was screwed. I ended up not learning the ship and doing just enough to get the XP to get to the next Teir 7. But thank you I think I’m going to go back and see if I can actually learn her.

How to play Admiral Hipper! I have such problems making that ship work beyond "first spotted, first dead"

my DM captian goes to pensacola when i player her, works good^^

I'd like to request KITAKAZE and Harigumo.. are they any good ??

what is the intro song called? I have wondered for a while now.

When I unlock the "old" (T7 Pensacola) , my friend urge me just Free XP it without telling me the reason. I don't believe them and they were right. Pepsi was so painful to play (but it does have nice 203 US AP to fight cruiser) The old + stock version have concealment like 15+km , on map that require player to cap for team, once the enemy DD spotted you for their team , RAINS of AP shell from the red team BB + Cruiser will Focusfocus FIRE AT YOU until you area dead Because almost every capable BB player know Pensacola is a one hit EASY KILL.... The other "dreadful" cruiser for new player probably Emerald ... Full ship Citadel and bad range ...

You should review replays that people submit!

I am a fan of pensacola because it is a high skilled ship

That's my biggest fault in my playstyle...I am too aggressive. First line I got to high level was my DD's....but I still play ALL ships like a DD at times. Even my BB's. Try to run in and get up close and personal with other BB's at times. lol

I'd like to see a How to about the Seattle. That's a ship I don't understand at all.

How about Mahan? Although it was buffed ago, it seems still many people suffers because of its damn concealment.

Now for the Furious taco

Could you do the Ibuki again? Its been a year of powercreep since your last vid ^^

How to play Pensacola: stay close to BB give them extra AA support provide cover bugger off once they start targeting you oh and islands are your friends.

I would like to see the Nürnberg!

Almost done suffering my way through the omaha, should i go pensa or dallas? Also consider the tech tree for each cruiser

@RobbertLobik

4 жыл бұрын

Had the same problem last week, but went for Pensacola - simply because everyone's raving about the Des Moines at T10.

@Kris-bf6fr

4 жыл бұрын

@@RobbertLobik the des moine is the most versatile cl at t10 no qeustion about it but you do still need to be a good player. I personally dont play it much and opt for the wooster for randoms as that dpm is so funny. but in clan or ranked def the des moines. you are the best dd killer with your nice radar that makes dd useless in this meta. you have awsome AP that not even bb's can ignore if they show broadside. The legendary mod for time to accelarate makes anyone shooting at you decide to never shoot at you again and shoot that dd 15km away. its armor is insane bow in.

@RobbertLobik

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kris-bf6fr Awesome! Thanks for that!

@callofdutyguy9

4 жыл бұрын

I like Omaha. Fast and can shoot and turn at the same time, plus has torpedoes

method worked started gettin more damage and started livin longer

May i ask you for how to Graf Spee?

Plzz do amagi I have it just not long ago and I wanna see if I playing it right

Is she worth keeping? I could sell her for Bender aka New Orleans.

Could we see a Emile Bertin video soon??

how about the Helena please chase?

How to play pepsicloa: What HE? it is a RN cruiser in disguise. What armour? it is a RN cruiser in disguise. if you can make radar minotaur works, you surely can make pepsicola works. if you still have no idea on how to play this ship after watching this vid, watch "how to furutaka" by Yuro.

❤

Request for North Carolina, please :D

How about the tier 7 Colorado

8:53, if you used HE youd probably perma burn or flood that GC. But OK, statement is valid although kinda a gamble.

Other then the turret travers IMO this ship might even be Op.

@TheUltimateEel

5 жыл бұрын

Eh... Her concealment is still too bad for her fragility, and honestly, she is kind of large. Maybe I'm bad but I find it hard to dodge long range shells because of that. She often takes a lot of damage when running to get un-spotted.

Damn. No mention of the red who got 1800 base xp in losing battle with 6 kills. Jeez

@frysebox1

4 жыл бұрын

First Pensacola random battle: Get put into tier 5-6 match with a lot of cruisers, get 5 kills, kraken and 90k dmg+, yet still somehow lose. Do more battles, get tiered with five tier 7-8 battleships every single match, blap the odd cruiser now and then but unable to do shit due to drooling BB tard random dispersion hits being able to citadel you from literally any angle or distance.

imagine if this ship was still in tier 7 and you ran into a triple Musashi division

How about the Aoba?

Don't? Actually didn't mind the ship much but playing it on the CV Beta stock with 0 point commander was brutal.

How to play lexington?

I'd like to request Fuso ,Bayern and Gniesenau

I only play the Assashio best boat in the game most fun!

@jordanrea2311

5 жыл бұрын

ok Asashio is the best boat in the game? what happens when your 1V1 against ANY other distroyer? best boat my ass

How to play the bismark

Here's and idea. "How to effectively aim when you use that spotter plane" for me rounds rarely hit the ship I am aiming at.

@fernandomarques5166

5 жыл бұрын

I learned using the static reticle with the angled lines, helps measure the lead.

2 tips for pensacola. 1, dont get hit 2. hit enemy ships

wait did the code still avaiable?

How to play any tier 5-7 cruiser except for the Pensacola? Locate an enemy Pensacola, switch to AP, and collect citadel ribbons.

Pls the indianapolis next i find her very hard to work

How to play the błyska pls

Thank you Ichase, I was hoping you would have done this a month ago, can you do the New Orleans or Dallas please?