New Player, seeking guidance.
Hey everyone! New player here, starting out with French and Italian cruisers and destroyers. I’ve only really actively been playing and grinding for a little bit, but I could use some guidance about some initial observations so far.
1Based on very preliminary research, it seems like Italy and France maybe weren’t the most beginner friendly nations to start with… but also whatever lol I like playing “minor nations” in these military games. In any case, I’m having a hard time figuring out the “play styles”?
I’m only up to tier 4 so far. Initial impressions:
I get the idea behind the whole “French destroyers have big guns” schtick, vaguely reminiscent of Chinese light tanks from WoT. That said, I’m having a tricky time with the Jaguar; it’s taking a long time figuring out what the 130mm guns do and do not work well against. At least the big fat HE shells basically work on everything… but like, do the AP shells for French destroyers just categorically have a hard time with things like heavy cruisers and battleships?
To that end, is there much of a schtick at all to the Italian destroyers? I’m not having a bad time with them, but… what really separates them from anyone else’s destroyers? The SAP shells are cool… but also they just don’t have much firepower to really take advantage of that?
Are Italian cruisers essentially hard counters to enemy destroyers and light cruisers? The SAP shells work beautifully on them but I haven’t found much else that they’re very good at, other than running.
Are French cruisers essentially analogous to French mediums from WoT? I’m not on the “big gun” line yet, but the basic gimmick I think I’ve noticed with them is “fast, fragile ships with a lot of guns that fire quickly”. Is that essentially right?
To that end, my final questions is; where else can I find good info about this game? Most of the info I try to find on specific lines or specific ships concerns the PC versions, and I’ve gathered that Legends differs quite a bit from the PC versions in some cases? Like the PC version, SAP shells from Italian battleships apparently do d!ck-all damage to destroyers for… whatever reason? My vague understanding is that the regular version of WOWS has a lot more “weird” stuff like that?
Thanks in advance!