Alaska In 10.0: Still The Best T9 Cruiser
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2021
- Before 10.0 Alaska was easily one of the best ships at t9, and even after the patch where it lost some of its survivability it is still one of the best t9's. Unfortunately, it will be unable to be purchased after the next update so get it while you can!
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You can only get Alaska for the next couple weeks, then it will be removed from sale. This also goes for Georgia, Massachusetts, Thunderer, and Smalland. All very good ships that I highly recommend getting.
She is expensive for buying, for me is!
And free XP...oh my, 1000000 this is unreacheable...I am on 70k without camos and special flags...so only dream for me.
@@ratkobelajac It's so easy to farm free XP with tier 6 premiums in Scenario battles using signal flags.
@@LordAnubis85 Not a million in a few weeks though
@@ObristPlayep WG announced this months ago so there has been plenty of time to flag up and farm free xp. You can certainly farm 1m free xp in the span of a few months if you are determined to do it. I've been playing very casually for 5 years and I'm sitting on a few mil free xp.
@@ratkobelajac u can get it for 13k dubs with coupon ,, rly worth imo. But the good think is that alaska have the black variant so u can get for dubs in 8-9 months but for 19k dubs
I am watching here then... spotter plane... spotter plane? spotter plain!?!? ok, spotter plane.
I was thinking about that too. come and think of it, it makes sense, Alaska is almost like a BB, that is not build for CQ fight like Des Moines, so a 10km radar is less useful because Alaska is better engaging beyond 15km. a spotter plane will just extend that heavy HE/AP.
when you see a spotter plane Alaska it's the worst kind of damage farmer - the selfish one ... no regards for team utility, just to farm damage ...
@@lubossoltes321 I don't get it. isn't the whole point of the game is to do damage to the other team? How is that doing damage consider "selfish"? Alaska reload is almost 15sec and turn and handle like a BB and with a massive concealment circle. How do you play it so it's not "selfish"? get close and brawl like Des Moines? or rush in and die in the first minute?
@@sweetpoison5341 One of best BB´s in this game (the one we are no able to get for a long time except through satan crates with dubloons spent and gambling) is T9 Missouri, the only BB equipped with radar. And what is good on radar on BB? You cannot be suprised with DDs, at least not for long.
42s radar on Alaska is extremely usefull right due to availability of spotting everything no matter what in 10 km circle around, which is the range of (almost?) every DD´s torp range at her tier and of most from the T10. If you encounter something like Friesland, Smolensk, Kitakaze ... it can smoke up (or be smoked up) 8 km from you, lob HE shell over your island cover and burn you down, and everything you can do about is precisely nothing - if you are not having radar, which is a big gamechanger and pumping HE/AP to any said ship suddenly turns the tide.
I know how carefull I needed to be with Stalingrads in my Shima in ranked - 12km radar vs. 12km torps was a game you need to play well. One single radar enlightment is enough to kill a DD with focus fire from your team.
Problem with non-radar Alaska is not having a selfdefense against DD, but also in your teammates partly expecting you to have one to help your team, that´s why it is a good slowly pushing cruiser. As PQ said - less cruisers and more BBs and DDs -> you can counter both in this ship, trading more damage for less team-ability performance seems therefore a little selfish and I agree with Lubos here.
Of course there is a "bimbo" going round the ship, so when you see enemy Alaska in a DD, you stay away as much as possible because it usually HAS radar, no matter if it uses it (or even has it) or not :D
@@lubossoltes321 I cannot think of one time that I have run with or against a spotter plane Alaska. On a side note, I always find it amusing when I run against a radar Neptune or Mino in random. Once the shock wears off, they disappear from the map because the team realizes easy citadels are available. I bet DDs might feel similarly if they saw a spotter plane Alaska.
You forgot to mention how beautiful Alaska is too.
Thanks PQ, you are putting out the best WOWs content right now. Kudos!
Love your vids mate. I like how you are explaining your gameplay step by step and what to watch out for. Clear and precise information as well as entertaining. Keep up the good work 👍
Excellent overview of the best playstyle for the current patch.
Really great video, I bought the Alaska and was very confused how to play it because it feels like a light BB. But this video explains very well what it is and what it does. I dont feel so stupid now for owning this ship.
Can't wait for cruiser guide- I've transitioned into playing mainly cruisers after 10.0
Playing her a lot recently during the grand battles and having a lot of fun. You can farm BBs and hunt DDs who try to farm your own BBs at the same time. Alaska hits hard, is quite tanky, has great gimmicks, makes good money and is georgious to look at. The perfect heavy cruiser.
youre a pro, and your cap build reflects that. i would never build my cap like that, my brain just says no, that wont work with me.
but it does work for you and thats amazing.
I do use Eye in sky skill for Azuma. Didn't expect it so good.
Maybe I have to give Alaska another shot. Currently looking into the build after the patch, I really hate burning down in supercruisers. Regarding the range BBs and players in general stay now, I even had to go back to range mod DM...
BTW, watched the two games on stream, kinda fun to see your thought on these too! Big Fan.
Cool Chanel. Thanks. Your videos made me buy this game and Alaska 😂👍👍
How good is German Bismarck?
Would love to see your opinion on the Puerto Rico if you have it. I am finally getting around to unlocking Halsey and have been going back and forth between Alaska and PR to grind out the missions. Thanks for the vids!
I agree with you, i found myself liking cruisers more. They seem, to me, to have been given the better end of this. Been playing the PR like this as well, massive dmg and decent accuracy now
Just sucks that spotter plane Alaska is a thing. Thanks Potato for finding silver lining. Great video.
How do you get the Navigator mod UI offset on the screen? In my game it sits square in the middle of the screen below the crosshair center and I can't seem to drag it.
Been playing the Alaska to finish cruiser directives and it has been a lot of fun. Plying with diff builds, but I kinda thinking concealment is best so not to get stuck nose in. Strong ship?
just won a game probably one of my best playing the Alaska.we had all thre caps early and dominated the points till everyone tried to win harder.ended with me soslo against 4 enemy,managed to keep them at bay and take one out, Dreadnought and game.wouldbe hard pushed to thinkof another ship as capable.you#vedescribed the vessel spot on.
As a player who did the xp grind the Alaska was worth the time. Besides the large HP and great guns the best thing I like is its speed. The speed and other attributes as mentioned make this ship the most forgiving ship to play as it can get you out of trouble if needs be.
On play style I play mine aggressively as speed and positioning does kill (both ways) but handled correctly it can cause havoc against your opponent.
Its the classic battlecrusier.
So for a ten point captain would you recommend
Gun feeder
Eye in the sky
Heavy HE
Top grade gunner
I am wondering how is the situation now with the Puerto Rico compared to Alaska? I got the Alaska black and the Puerto Rico and not sure which of them to use since I am a bit tired using my American bbs.
I'm literally drooling watching this dispersion compared to what my yammy is getting post deadeye.
Hey
I love your videos
What do you think of the PoertoRico?
PQ could you try a shorter range cruiser like DM?
Idk, he doesn’t appear to be very fond of that ship.
I'm sure there was a friendly BB you managed to not crash into, but you may have edited it out lol. Great video.
Glad to hear that. I am only a few thousand fxp from Alaska and was hoping the captain skills had not hit her too hard.
They haven't, its amazing.
good stuff. on the subject of griefing, has the name change helped reduce that?
Why is IFHE not recommendation on Us cruisers with 220mm guns listed as not efficient??
now to figure out how to get on teams that have more than 1/3 of their ships left 5 mins in...
love it
Can you try Mogami in this patch, I find it hard to play with Mogami right now because of its squishiness and short range.
how is the concealment 14km with both concealment module and concealment expert captain skill? did I miss anything?
Heavy HE Captain skill increases his concealment range
Can you make a video about the venezia or brindisi please?
Hi, will show you a review on Agir, with perks and game tactics. For me, this is the most successful cruiser with good weapons.
Siegfried, i would very much like to see a video about its state and your opinion on it in current patch. Please, pretty please.
what happens with siegfried agir krondstath?
Awesome advise. Island camping for cruisers as only viable game play if you have the arcs for it in the first place. So exciting to spend your time with. So, we have now DE BBs that are camping and CL/CA that are camping because everything else is simply throwing your ship away. Now WG can finally implement SS because the middle of the map is empty besides the occasional DD. I say, now is the best time to improve your CV game play.
I agree with PQ in this. people are all focusing on Deadeye like it's the only thing that gets updated. Cruisers are actually got buffed in more than one way too. both in reload and damage.
How do you play it when there are no islands?
How to get those minimap changes ? esp. that minimap crosshair instead of that minimap dot ?
He made an excellent guide about aiming. There it is also explained how to change those settings. Check it out. Really worth it
MalteseKnight going pink in this video is just hilarious
What mod are you using to increase the FOV? Or is it in the settings?
He has a video that walks through all the mods he's using. I'm now also using the same mods and they're crucial. Watch his aiming tutorial as well if you haven't already
Why not use the improved AP damage commander skill?
To be fair, even the late-Tier US BBs play better if you think of them as Cruisers, especially since you can get citadeled so easily.
The weird exception being the NC, that just has so much frontal Citadel armor that you can just bow-tank shots in it, even when they pen the nose.
Still can get fire-bombed to death though, but then again, that's valid for most ships.
Alaska looks like a great flanking ship
Nuking unsuspecting minos in one salvo is so satisfying. 6 ap shells were able to finish off a mino on full health, and they're always just sitting broadside in their smoke waiting to get radared
Spotter plane Super Unicum :works
Spotter plane potato noob : my God what have you wrought!
to that build: i thought you dont like the HE Spam? and what is the reason to play a cruiser whithout radar and worse concealment as a brit BB? A Lion can do the same just better
Long range crusiers are fine with the patch. However, IJN and US cruisers below t9 is a pain, those with sub 16km range....
I don't have the radar upgrade in the second slot? Can someone explain please?
You have to buy them for coal in the armory.
@@PotatoQuality I bought it, thank you
one of the best
Agir and seigfried are that easy to citadel?
Will you share seigfried gameplay.🙏
That deck gets over matched by smart US BB players.
the turtle back on those don't work.
Alaska doesn't seem to be on the shop how can I obtain it
It's been removed after update 0.10.1
kronsthadt plays really strong now too
That's good to know. I got it in a crate recently and haven't kitted it out yet
@@onemileperhour at least it feels like it
Wonder if this will be made available ever again. Buffalo was not a fun experience and I wish I had a good T IX cruiser
I do have to take issue with the idea that the Alaska is scary to fight with other cruisers. Without access to FP or BoS, there is not a single ship type in the game more vulnerable to HE spam than the large cruisers, and while the improved auto bounce angles are nice, the Alaska lacks the ability to overmatch most other Tier 9 cruisers. An Alaska is never to going to out trade a "traditional" cruiser like a Saint Louis with HE, and has to rely on getting lucky with AP and/or having the Saint Louis make a major mistake to win the fight.
*Granted most players in random battles aren't that good so it's not an issue, but from the perspective of having to fight against an Alaska with another cruiser, I simply don't see it as a threat.
@@ultravires7747 How is this relevant to my comment about how a well played Saint Louis can comfortably farm down an Alaska?
From a Saint Loui's perspective an Alaska is functionally just a BB without overmatch or FP skills (aka free damage), unless it misplays and gives too much broadside to the Alaska's AP. The Saint Louis has superior base DPM, better dispersion, access to MBRB and takes half as much fire damage, which means it easily wins the HE trade....on top of having superior mobility which means it also has an easier time dodging.
You can play using islands (but I do not recomend it because if your flank fall you can't disengage and you die) or play on open sea kajt and burn everyone, keep good angle and over 100k dmg is no problem. Best t9 cruiser.And In a first 5 min you can have 50k dmg already almost every shot is a burn,you can tank everythig just keep 17km range. Islands no needed ;)
Alaska is like a good ol AK47 to me. Been there for ages. Got lost in all the gimmicks but every now and then I put Halsey back to her and have a blast (no pun intended) every time. She just works. A truly pocket battleship.
"The main thing, is staying alive for the first 5 minutes of the game"
Still working on that one... XD
Mainz was straight up buffed this update.
The AP in this ship is no joke either. This ship gives PR the run for the money and that's a t10 ship. The only thing for me is to get use to what all American ship have, is those floaty shell arcs, specially I'm use to soviet rail guns. DD's are also scared of this ship.
I understand the new method of play, but if that's the case, why play am Alaska when you can do Azuma? It's got better HE.
Puerto Rico next?
Wish i had it in ranked i have the puerto rico but that ship is T10
often get cits from Alaska with JB
The Alaska is a brute. Have to be honest I favour the AP on it. Probably my favourite cruiser in the game. Definitely good using islands for the push, horrible for DDs, bosses most cruisers and can do serious damage to BBs. Best take all comers ship for me.
Where are you getting these thumbnails from!!?😅
War gaming has a ton of wallpapers on their site. This is one of them. The "Alaska" text was added by Potato Quality and is using some combination of photoshop filters to achieve the hollow drop shadow effect. (I don't actually know but I'm a graphic designer, so that's my guess)
@@onemileperhour oh.. interesting 🤔
may be biased because i was born here in Alaska. She's the best ship
man i was i had this
You drive into A LOT of people...
what you did not consider is the fact that cruisers got nerf by the simple fact that BBs are more accurate and have higher chances to land more shells on a cruiser.
In this meta kronshtadt fits in more because of its fast AP and busted armor. Sadly the deck is poor and US BBs with deadeye trash you. Its fun citadeling cruisers at long range
but does it get improved ap angles or standard ap like moskva?
@@x3ni487 standard , but due to very good pen any way faster shells than Alaska , you can still citadel plenty of targets. Also Kron got SICK amount of HP almost 10k more than Alaska and it is also hard to citdel. So still very nice Large Cruiser.
Let me make a case of cruisers being actually strong ships:
Just look at the last clan brawls. T8 with 2 battleships max. usually teams had 2BB, 3-4 Cruisers, 1-2 Destroyers. And it was the cruisers doing the heavy lifting.
This might be even a suprise. At most the cruisers (like baltimore) have 27mm plating, most of them has less. That means any 406mm ship overmatches their armor basicly all around the ships. And almost all commonly played battleships (NC, massa, lenin, vladi) have that caliber or more. So they get thrown in a setting where their armor gets overmatched 100% by every battleship in the game. Still you did not see cruisers getting dev-struck day in and day out.
While going up in rank, you also increasingly saw lenin or even roma. We picked those ships aswell, for the sole reason of 45mm deck armor wich cant even be penetrated by an IFHE baltimor. We just took it to reduce the cruisers damage output, because its so damn high. It was even worth the trade to lose some range for crossfiring on BBs, just to make them weather the storm of HE-slinging cruisers.
Thats because in the brawl, the cruisers actually do, what PQ says here: Work with island. Stay in hard cover, or at least close to it. So even if you suffer a slapp through the nose, you can disengage and not get finished of to easily. A Battleship cant reliably kill a cruiser, if he knows his place on the map.
So cruiserplay worked out just fine, and the cruisers were able to dish out loads of damage. Due to that fact, and the cruisers having the radars, they were pretty much key to the game. If you kill the enemy cruisers you free areas of the map for your Destroyers. If you lose cruisers, you lose DPM to fight the battleships and lose mapcontrol so the enemy DDs can really start using their torps and spotting advantage.
To me the main difference is:
- In normal battles there are more battleships at more angles and its harder to escape them
- Even if in a clear T8 match all battleships overmatch already you, its still way worse to play T10 BBs since their alpha is way higher, their accuracy aswell.
So the brawls just made it easier to play the cruisers in the way they should be played in normal games aswell.
Make a Yoshino video please
I'm glad I spent 12000 doubloons to convert to Free XP and get this ship. I'm now in the process in getting the Georgia as well. I won't make it to 228000 coal, but I'll be close and use steel for the rest. I'll end up using around 3000 steel!
Don’t spend steel on coal ship. It’s a massive waste.
@@liamfreeman1812 I can see if it was a lot of steel, but 3000 isn't that bad. It also could be less than 3000. I'm just guestamating, but I want the Georgia and I'm positive I won't make it to 228,000 coal. I'm at 110,000 coal right now.
@@lickkittysplit3871 3000 steel is like the rank 1 reward of an old ranked season or 30 wins in the storm league of clan battles. In general, steel ships are much more valuable than coal ships, so spending a 1/9th of a Stalingrad on trying to get one really isn’t worth it.
@@liamfreeman1812 bullshit do use steel for broken ships. I remember I was on few months break and Smolensk was being pushed out of shop ... I was missing like 20 000 coal. And I was like... Steel ships are all cool and nice (and that was pre nerf aka pre 10.0 Smolensk) but Smolensk is just better than even Stalingrad or Bourgogne. And ship that is leaving shop is no longer coal ship... ship is gone so you wont be getting it even for steel. Only in WG lootbox lottery like JB recently. So yeah for ships like Thunderer etc. that are coal but they are stronger than all Steel ships - hesitate not and use steel to buy if coal ship is about to leave shop for good.
@@liamfreeman1812 I can earn 3000 steel in 1.5 months. Georgia is worth it. Like I said, it might be less. Right now it says I would have to spend the 121, 200 coal 5,800 steel. We still have 2-3 weeks left before next patch comes in and these ships are gone for good. It's worth it in my eyes!
really on the fence with buying it or not.
i want to love cruisers in general but im just terrible in them.
pre 10.0 people used to say how powerful the Zao is and seriously, i do so badly in her.
more times devastated than i could count, its like im a soap bubble waiting to get popped.
Alaska is really good. Tanky as hell, don't think I have ever been deleted in one volley even side on to a yama. Guns are brutal, maneuvers well, radar and hydro. Best all rounder in the game. Literally the only cruiser I play now and I have a lot of TX.
That Aegir got slapped lol
Yeah, I hate this thing .. It's more or less been the bane of my existence as a German BB player, I don't run into it often, but when I to it's either spamming HE from behind an island, or heavily angled trying to slap me with AP. It's just a ship where my guns are too small to seriously punish it if angled, I can't exactly turn away from without giving it broadside, and if I do, I normally pay for it slightly and even than it will just slowly kite away spamming me with accurate HE as my guns just become more useless as I try to disengage.
It was honestly the 1 ship I hated to find behind an island randomly in my Gneisenau, not to bad in the Bismarck ... they generally try to avoid you but my lord in the Gneisenau it made my feel like a cruiser.
cvs want to know your location.
An Alaska with spotter plane and AA and not radar and hydro. This is new.
Let me not refer to the fact that in the first game there is no CV in game and that is the only reason one could park a cruiser behind an island and farm.
So if you've gotten decent with a Pensacola you'll be good with the Alaska...
Its not called a super cruiser, I believe the correct term is: Battle cruiser. ;D
On xbox the dispersion is so bad it's a headache
All 3 Super Cruisers (Alaska, Azuma and Siegfried) have Super Cruiser dispersion on Console, which means it’s not as good as a Cruiser but not as random as most Battleships.
@@Mr-Hakim Agir has super cruise dispersion, Siegfried has *cruiser* dispersion on 380s
@@ObristPlayep I was talking about Console. The original comment mentioned about the Alaska on Xbox.
Interesting, but the two collisions that occurred in the second game you should talk about! You were the cause ultimately by being unaware what your team mate was doing. The rest of the game great analysis.
Do they matter though, seeing that nothing bad happened as a result?
Oh, you're one of these types of people
Edit: you are not, in fact, one of those types of people lol
@@onemileperhour Nope, just commenting that one need to be aware of you team mates and what they are doing.
@@awathompson although that's true, I'm not sure if you're aware what PQ was doing. First collision has no impact on the game PQ knew this when he made the decision. This allowed him to position more quickly. Second collision was with his div mate and allowed PQ to stop more quickly while having no impact on his mate. New players exaggerate the importance of collisions, and often times make a big deal of it in-game, making it pretty easy to spot inexperienced players
@@onemileperhour I could see the collision was going to occur as soon as PQ start accelerating forward give the KG5 no room to maneuver. Not saying I have not done the same thing. If Blue on Blue collision did the same damage as Blue on Red player would be more aware.
I got both Alaskas. First day I played it, got spotte by sky cancer, got shot by some Thunderer for 2 fires. 30 secs later, I had 4 fires, almost dying. I quit the match right there and never played it again. In fact, after completing the Hizen, I am gonna take a long break, see how slowly WG fixes this mess, but I'll most likely dump the game for good.
Your assessment on the Alaska is wrong. You can push hard and fast (that’s what she said) in the beginning of matches. Surrounding yourself around ships that can support you is a benefit you as well.
alaska still plays the same. You still can position and still can punish people at any time in the game
where is radar?
Swapped for spotting plane. He says it over and over
Yoshino range mod engine accel mod= farm
More Games are just gonna end up like this one, no one is going to push and the losing side rather just choke to death than try to win, it’s sad winning a game like 12:0 or 10:3.
It’s extremely stronger than Buffalo, only have problem on handling Riga.
I remember when Riga was just released and I had to fight it with my Alaska. The Riga kept spamming ''WHY NO CIT'' in the chat. Probably didnt know that Alaska citadel is hard to hit.
I remember on Riga release I farmed them for cits with Alaska
I ran into Riga first when it was in Supertest - that was a scary ship. Good thing it got balanced somewhat to "normal russian" level. :D
@@savage_warior3449 I don’t know why they said that, but last time my Riga hit one Alaska with Crits at several different angles.
@@user-sg7hq2oz3u interesting
Very very very very...
The armour of the Alaska is pretty bad, you really need to play it like a ship made out of paper. As a credit maker, the Alaska is overall not suited for Coop. Yes i had nearly 160K damage games. Yet they are rare. Great ship funky citadel shots overall 10K broadside salvo's but paper paper paper yup canons also.
IMO, Alaska and agir are mutch worse, super cruiser that Camp behind island ? If she s cruiser then schould have fire duration like other cruiser. Azuma with her armor ok Camp is only way that could work. But bb are camping now cruisers Camp and brawlers also Camp? Before rework i play those ships on close distance now im forced to camp avoid dd, CV, cruisers , bb secondaries that put me more fires than I with 30% chance. IMO now only pros on this ship is armor. And about cruisers its hard to play if bb has better camo and laser guns that punish u whenever u get spot, and to get good profit form skill u have no any camo. Pietro is fine, riga also, HE spaming on hipper also work sometimes if nobody focus on u and u can kiting. Thats my opinion
A non radar Alaska...hmmm
look what i found here
So many salty comments on how selfish it is🤣 Meenwhile BBs played a selfish game since time immemorial, especially after the rework.👍
Come to Asia Server we play very aggressively your players are asleep. Not attacking Asia server they will hunt you down lol. That's why I like to join your NA server lol.
I dunno man....no Radar AND no Hydro? Yea Cruisers have high DPM good for them but.....Fuck me all of your utility is gone with this setup. I don't think I could make myself take an American Cruisers with ZERO utility into a match.
Sry Bro but not taking radar with you is not what i regard as helpful for your team. I mean a good alaska player can scare dds from caps and support own dds. Id hate an alaska player without radar when i am fighting in my dd for caps. This is selfish man.