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Elbing
By: wows Date: August 27, 2022, 7:42 am
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The ship called Elbing.
It is easy to remember it wrongly as ElbLing which is not a ship
at all but a plant variety.
Because it belongs to the Poland today then the official way to
write it is: Elbląg /ˈɛl.blɔŋk/. And
Polish pronounciation something like: Ell-blong.
It has very slow 50 knots torpedos. Some fast DDs can swim even
faster than such slow torps. The 3rd Upgrade slot enables you to
chose an upgrade +5% torpedo speed. But that makes the 50 knots
speed to 53 and that is not any better. Under captain skills you
can chose 2-points skill that adds another +5% but again (55
knots), too slow. The german BB Shliffen line in tech tree has
the same 50 km/h speed but those are BBs and mainly use their
torps in 4-5 km short range which doesn't require much speed.
For DDs 50 km/h speed is too slow and 60 km/h is the minimum to
operate normally with torps.
Torpedo speed is important because with slow speeds you have
such problems:
1) the aiming is possible in large open waters but in more rocky
waters the aiming range goes too left or right which contains
already obstacles like rocks. With fast torps one the aiming
area is very close to the targeted ship. So, often you can't
even send the torpedos out because aiming triangle hits
obstacles.
2) the torps swim slowly so long time that the probability that
the enemy changes it's course/route is very high and torps will
fail.
3) And of course the main issue is that most ships can dodge so
slow torps.
Should you upgrade your torps from 50 to 56? I don't know, both
numbers are very small anyway.
You can get maximum of 6.5 km concealment. Can you spot somethin
with it? Yes, BBs, CRs, but only very few DDs. Some players
build cannon boat DDs so they don't chose concealment add-ons
and their concealment can be even worse than Elbings 6.5, for
exampel they may be 8. And russian extreme DDs and french DDs
may be outspotted by Elbling's 6.5 km. It is not bad to be
outspotted for 5 seconds if you are a french DD with strong guns
but Elbing's guns are not very helpful against enemy DDs so if
Elbing gets often outspotted then he gets damage in and can't
reply with guns much and can't run because it turns so slowly.
So, spotting is very risky because guns are bad and turning
ability bad too. But it is possible to spot BBS/CRs and often it
is enough and better not to try spot DDs. If the MM shows that a
weak DD like Shima is outspotting you then let him outspot for 5
seconds and spot him yourself and Elbings guns can finish Shima.
But if the MM shows gunboat DDs then better not to try to spot
the DDs. Spotting only CRs/BBs is fine too, at least the team
cannons can shoot something. Without any spotting a DD is
totally useless. Some DDs don't understand that nomatter how
specialized DD you are you still have to spot at least BBs/CRs.
Many don't understand that and including elbing players, they
stay back and wait that the other DD sports for them and then
they set smoke and shoot 20 bulelts from the smoke. This is very
useless for the team. So, setting the 6.5 max concealment is
important and doing at least some spotting is important. But if
you as a DD have in your team such ship then do Babysitting for
him, spot for him. Otherwise they just suicide alone or become
totally useless.
So, one of the worst DDs but if we talk about Good/Bad then we
understand that the main impact comes from the playerskill. some
play the best ships but die in 1st minute and become useless
compared to Elbing that makes some use. It is a very difficult
ship and it is a challenge to complete gold league with such
ship.
The main characteristics for the DD: best AP and HP in the game.
Let's talk about those next.
I play it currently with 55 knots torpedo setup and 6.5km
concealment with my 16-skills standard captain.
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