clancy688's video: WoWs - YOLOing to Rank 1

Here is my final action in World of Warships, Ranked Season 3. :) This match was won by my team after I'd died, and I progressed to rank 1. I'd like to thank everybody in my team who made this possible, after I kinda YOLOd myself to death. Thank you guys! (open for more text) In order to preempt derisive comments - my mistakes in this particular action have been manifold, and I tried to make the best out of the shitty situation I brought myself into. So here's a lengthy list of what I did wrong: - First I drove towards that point because I thought our NoCa would drive into the open - you can see the Fubuki right behind the mountain, so I feared for her life. Thankfully she was a clever guy and stopped right there, but that left me quite a bit exposed, although I wasn't spotted. And of course I forgot that I had a heal ready... no idea why I didn't use it, maybe I wanted to save it in order to repair "more" damage. - Moments later I got a glimpse of the Atago turning broadside towards me, I had the impression that she would appear behind the mountain moments later, so I switched for AP. She couldn't know that I was here, she'd show me perfect broadside when she appeared, then this would have been a perfect couple of free citadels. - Well...the Blyska which appeared out of nowhere seconds later then took me by surprise. No doubt she was I surprised as me for finding me right on top of her, but I was in the process of switching ammo to AP, the worst possible situation - DD at less than five klicks, my guns are still loading and once they are finished loading it's only AP... uhoh... - I was kinda dead meat at that moment - if I'd turned away I'd have run into danger getting broadside torped, if I'd reversed my engine, I'd have been dead in the water, just waiting for her to sail past me and put a shitload of torps in me. So there was only one thing left I could do: Floor it and YOLO forwards. Unfortunately that left me with no option to GTFO, since the mountain was in the way... from that moment on, I was doomed - But in the short term, it kinda worked against the Blyska - the NoCa really took a nice chunk of her HP and I managed to kill her with my second salvo. This should have been the end of it, but somehow I got lucky - the Fubuki had rushed in as well! Free damage! - Seriously, if she'd stayed out there, I'd still have died, so this was kinda a heaven's blessing - I got the chance to take out one more dangerous ship. As soon as I saw her, I totally ignored the enemy Atago. If the Fubuki dies, our BBs can deal with the Atago, doesn't really matter if I kill her or not at that point. But if I die, the Fubuki will be one hell of a menace (and she's easer to kill), so I concentrated on her ASAP, throwing out a quick torpedo salvo. - Of course she did the same, but thanks to my YOLO-course, I managed to avoid almost all of them (by turning in either direction instead of YOLOing, I'd have been ripped apart), I think there may have been the chance of me evading all of them if I'd turned a moment later, but this was good enough because it got me the time to finish off the Fubuki - I should have been able to take out the Atago as well, but I fucked up the second torp drop - I dropped them to far forward, although the Atago was already turning. Should have noticed that, but there was a lot of shit flying towards me and I was kinda occupied... ^^* - So the Atago survived my torp run, but thankfully our BBs shot her down to 1k, and the Blyska did the rest shortly after the vid finishes That left us with four BBs, a DD and a cap vs three BBs. From that moment on, the match was pretty much decided, although Surgical75 on the enemy side did one hell of a battle and took out 1.5 BBs on his own. Bottom line: Sometimes it just goes into the crapper. In those instances, don't try to evade the inevitable. Instead, try to make the most out of it. I was dead the moment the Blyska turned up. If I'd tried to run, I'd still have died. Maybe a few moments later, but I'd have died, and I wouldn't have made the enemy pay for my death. But by embracing the inevitable and YOLOing in, I got two of their DDs (reducing their number to zero, so our BBs had free reign), and distracted the cruiser long enough for my team to shoot him to pieces.