“Tell us about yourself and your role in the clan?”
Hello. My name’s Nicholas, I’m CorrinRoth.
I’m Tora Tora Tora’s clan leader.
We started in January 2016. We formed for the first season of Team Battles,
which if the viewers don’t remember was the precursor to Clan Battles.
And for that, you needed a team, you didn’t need a clan,
you needed about three or four players at maximum.
Tier VII and Tier VIII, 7vs7 with CVs.
And basically, I had been in play for around six months
and I wanted to create my own team.
I went on to Reddit, there was a nice post at the time
where you could pick up players, there was…
I think I picked up some very key players, actually.
Over the course of the first year, we expanded about ten, twelve.
Been quite slow in our expansion, we don’t hire everybody that comes our way.
So, I am Bram van Butselaar and I am from the Netherlands.
And my in-game name is Tuinhek.
Yeah, I’m the main in-game leader for the clan Tora Tora Tora.
Basically, all the leaders of the clan have been in the clan since its start.
So we know how we want to do things, and our whole ideology is,
“Do not antagonize other people.”
And also in random games,
if we catch one of our players just raging in the chat,
we will always talk to him that he should not do these things
because that’s not the image we want to be.
My real name is Stefano. My in-game nickname is 16axe.
I come from Italy, I’m the only Italian of the clan.
One of the biggest thing that I love of this clan
is the atmosphere, it’s the climate.
We are all friends,
and basically that’s the biggest thing that I appreciate being here
because we are so relaxed and we have fun together.
And that’s basically the whole point.
My name is Michał Gardocki, I am from Poland,
and my in-game name is Kooluch.
All we came here because this is our clan meeting,
first clan meeting we have.
Everyone is supercool, and if I just had these guys around me in real life
I would have, like, no problems to make friends.
It’s a very great community. I mean we come from all over Europe:
from France, Italy, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Norway, everywhere.
And we also have new clan members that come from South Africa,
even United States, and many others are trying to apply for our clan
So, it’s a very cool place to be in.
I’m Jan-Jaap Kramer, I’m from the Netherlands,
my in-game name is Durin_VI.
In the clan right now, I’m the head recruiter.
So basically, managing with a couple of other guys the recruiting process.
With all the ups and downs,
but basically we’re trying to find the right people
or we’re trying to sift through the applications we receive
because TTT is a quite well-known clan. So, we receive a lot of applications.
My name’s Dirk Eller, I’m from Germany, in-game name is Tyrendian89.
I got recruited into the clan during the Team Battle season
when, I think, one of the recruiters at the time
saw me post on the forums and thought…
Well, apparently looked up my stats and approached me.
And well, I stuck with them ever since.
In game, I was sort of playing whatever is needed at the time, except carriers,
but I play all the other classes reasonably well
and, well, fill whatever is needed.
“What’s up with the parrots?”
I currently wear this shirt that has some very colorful parrots on it.
So when I said that we use Slack as the communication thing,
one of the guys added an emoji which was a parrot
that was basically doing this movement all the time, in very colorful colors.
And then we found out there’s hundreds of these.
So we added all of them to our Slack.
So now we don’t use smileys anymore at all, everything is parrots.
We have all kinds of weird things:
Star Wars-themed, Star Trek- themed, all kinds of weird things.
And this kind of grew to being our mascot
because everybody is using it and everybody likes it.
So someone joins the clan, we have like a channel that we call Team Chat,
and this is where everybody just spams all the parrots when some friend joins
because he needs to know this is like the parrot indoctrination,
you are now part of us. This is it, you have to use parrots now.
“Got any tips you’d like to share?”
In Clan Battles, I would say, one of the big things is
‘know your ship’ and ‘know your roles’.
Know what your ship is good at, what it maybe isn’t good at,
and what you want that, what your clan wants
that ship to be used within a given battle,
whether you want that ship to push a flank
or whether you just want to hold your ground
and play accordingly within the strength of your ship.
Don’t expect more of your ship than it can give you,
but at the same time use all the strengths you have to achieve your goals.
Even more if you play, if you like to play aggressive
(and myself, I like to play Kaga, Udaloi—those kinds of ships).
Then, the minimap is even more important
because you tend to get into a tunnel vision.
At the same time, you cannot ram any island
so you keep looking at the minimap for your own position,
for your maneuverings, steer around the islands,
but also try to— even with those warships—
try to predict where you can expect torpedoes.
It’s super important that you have at least one person in the team
that is just calling what to focus. Cos focus fire is everything.
So if you see any battleship fires from 22 kilometers at you,
don’t shoot back, because you just give away your position
because you have no kill pressure.
So if something comes a bit closer,
and you know you can keep it spotted for a while,
that’s what you call a focus target.
Even if there’s something else that’s low, that’s far away and kiting away,
you switch to this target as it comes too close
because you can kill it very quickly because Tier X firepower is amazing.
Second thing is, don’t make this person be alone
because he is on one side of the map
and you probably have forces on the other side, he cannot make them for those.
So you have two commanders in the team,
so both sides you just assign before you split
who is gonna be the guy who says what to focus.
And I think the third one is do not go too quickly for the caps.
Because if you go very quickly to the caps,
big chance there's a radar cruiser
somewhere around of the enemy team is ready for it.
You might just lose your destroyer in the first minute.
And if you lose your destroyer in the first minute, it’s mostly over,
because you can no longer spot, you can no longer cap,
everything is big trouble.
Listen very carefully to your in-game leader and what he’s asking you to do.
Your, of course, ship’s position in the map—
just always constantly look for the minimap,
just take a look constantly, say, always 10–15 seconds to it.
Pay attention to in-game communications, your position, and maps geography.
And then try to add to your clan, while playing, your skills. That’s it.
“Future plans for TTT?”
Now we’re 40-strong,
we’re looking to challenge again for the competitive scene
because we’ve been around quite a long time,
but we’ve just been stable, we’ve had our fun,
we’ve won couple of things back in a day, finished quarters, semis.
We love it. We love playing together,
it’s the first time we’re going out together.
It’s been a lot of fun.