The USS Wyoming is useless

[Kamiyama]

Want to get a USA BB (Iowa maybe) for my fancy new commander. Except the best USA BB I have is the Wyoming.

My last battle I survived and won a whole shocking 200 XP for this wonderfully useless ship.

Fun fact: the Wyoming was so useless that during WW2 it was used as a gunnery training ship because it was too slow to use in either theater. This was World War freaking 2. THE WAR and this ship was too useless to use in combat. It never saw combat and was sold for scrap in 1947 only two years after the war was over.

I think the US Navy screwed up. A better use for the Wyoming would have been target practice. Maybe they could have improved the Mark 14 torpedo if they had used the Wyoming in a live combat test? It would have been the most efficient use of the ship, I think.

Just think if they had tested the Mark 14 before WW2 started and it actually worked properly during the first naval combats? They totally missed this golden opportunity.

I can now look forward to many battles of snailing along at 18 knots and watching my team-mates eradicate the bots 10 minutes before I finally arrive to the aftermath of the battle.

This should have been a Tier 2 ship! To honor its career as a training ship the main guns could shoot confetti and streamers and only the secondaries would work. Would fit in just fine at tier 2.

[UnrepentantSinner]

It doesn't necessarily get better at higher tiers, US BBs are notoriously slow and because of that, at least for me, not fun to play, except for Iowa, Montana or Giorgia which sadly was removed.

[Jackson]

Your history is a mess.

But yes it was a gunnery training platform in WWII because it was too old. Fortunately it's not fighting WWII ships in this game much either ;)

[Ace42]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

My last battle I survived

Has no bearing on your score, and thus your rewards. Focus on having high battle impact, not on being alive when the match ends.

and won a whole shocking 200 XP for this wonderfully useless ship.

Hopefully this is in Random matches, and not co-op; because co-op gives nerfed rewards in general.

Been ages since I played low tier BBs, but I remember Wyoming being great. Lots of guns for the tier, and they're pretty punchy and good at finding enemy citadels.

Delete broadside cruisers (and battleships where applicable) with AP.

Accept it's slow as hell and position your ship accordingly from the very start of the match.
Force enemy to choose between showing broadside to either you or teammates; and once you've established that crossfire position, get as close as possible without showing more than 30 degrees broadside to incoming AP (take shells on main armour belt whilst it is properly angled), without pushing so far that you end up showing broadside to enemy torps at close range.

Works a treat. For bonus points, learn its overmatch threshold and the bow / stern armour plating of the ships in its tier-range and just nuke them through their noses / booties too.

[Beast of War]

It was built in 1910 so maybe you should compare it to WWI Dreadnoughts, not WWII Battleships.

And as far as i know old WW I era dreadnoughts were used in WWII by the US to give heavy fire support to US marines and US army kicking the Japanese off of every island with an airfield. And during landings in Europe and North Africa.

For that role in WWII speed was not needed, and age of the guns or caliber did not matter, they were all very large for use against targets on land.

Seen 152 mm-ish land base artilery can already bury soldiers alive by pushing trench walls to completely collapse, imagine what 305 or 356 mm HE shells could do.

None of that is of use in game though, although from T6 on you can shoot fortifications with naval guns in some Operations. But is it that bad vs other WW I era Dreadnoughts ?

[Banzai]

As above, it was a Dreadnought launched in 1911 so was pretty upto date in WW1 but obviously by the time WW2 came along it had been superseded by faster more advanced ships. Its a fact of life that BBs in general arent great in coop and the very slow ones like this will rarely have time to do a lot. If you are lucky enough to get a fairly central spawn then they can be ok since lumbering towards the middle of the map tends to be the best plan with BBs of this sort.

Probably would have more success in randoms with it tbh.

[christof]

Seeing as the ship was demilitarised in 1931 due to the Naval Treaties and had already been succeeded by several newer battleship classes at that point, it's no wonder she wasn't returned to frontline use in WWII.
As for ingame use, it's a tier IV BB. And those, let's be honest, are usually not terribly great ships. And certainly not terribly fast ones. And the USN line is particularily known for slow speed up to tier VIII.

[Dee-Jay]

1. Are you playing in co-op only or do you go into Random matches? Battleships (especially slow US ones) are terrible in co-op as the DD's and cruisers clean up all the bad guys and you end up getting very little in comparison.

2. I found the US BB's to be awful until T6, but Colorado at T7 is pretty good if you keep it away from the flanks - gravitate inwards. North Carolina is a beautiful ship. Kansas was pretty grim but Minnesota was a monster. Stick with them!

Get your positioning right on the 20kt ones (avoid the flanks), manage the range (the floaty shells can be easily dodged at very long ranges) and play through the Random battles. And watch some videos on the US BB gameplay and aiming.

You'll soon be flying up to Iowa!

[christof]

Colorado is still slow af, but the guns make up for it. I can usually get performance out of that ship even in Coop thanks to them being ranged, precise and hard-hitting enough. It is the point where the line starts to pick up, really.

[Jackson]

I liked them all :) Well after Wyoming, New York was meh, but workable.

[ThunderThug]

Mate, i think the others are right. Not sure what you have been doing, but maybe take some time to actually play the game better and look back later... Had my first Kraken with the Wyoming in Random Battles ffs...
(And of all ships, it was my first BB line as well. Those few years, I never forgot and I just double checked again)

Good luck!