Sea Smackdown
Hi everyone!
I bet all of you have witnessed events that made you believe in miracles.
For me, this replay is that sort of event.
The Northern Lights map.
The standard battle mode.
A normal Roon and a genuinely incredible sea battle!
It was a normal start to a normal battle...
Our hero, kintush4010, cheerfully set forth to the center of the map
and enjoying the smoke cover of an allied Shimakaze
eagerly sent an enemy twin sister to the Port.
Next, a careless Moskva got a lesson in torpedoes
and was finished off with the help of allies.
A one-shot Shimakaze became another victim.
Three frags scored!
I wish at least my every second battle started like this...
ok, every third or fourth would be enough.
Anyway...
The battle goes on and we’re now witnessing a great tragedy.
Two allied destroyers are hiding in the smoke,
but an enemy aircraft carrier randomly blankets them with a single bomber unit!
That’s a Double Strike!
The following will be added to my personal list
of mysteries in World of Warships.
An enemy Iowa enters the smoke screen
to have some fun in troubled waters.
Two allied Shimakazes readily launch their torpedoes
in that direction and...
they’re going through!
None of them hit the target!!!
Iowa’s commander, if you’re watching this video,
please send me this replay!
Meanwhile, two enemy battleships avenge two allied battleships
and break through our left flank.
Our hero, accompanied by an allied Izumo, has to deal with the intruders.
Here comes help from an aircraft carrier.
Yamato goes down!
Suddenly, an enemy Udaloi rushes out from the island.
The destroyer’s commander has obviously overestimated the situation
and approached the battleship so closely that their torpedoes didn’t arm,
merely scratching the paint on the Izumo’s side.
The allied battleship was so offended that...
they couldn’t cope with the indignation
and returned to the Port.
As for me, I nearly fell off my chair!
However, our hero managed to keep their cool
and finished off this lunatic kamikaze with one turret and the Iowa with another.
A Double Strike!
An allied Des Moines fell victim to the torpedo attack
of an enemy destroyer.
So did both allied Shimakazes, destroyed by torpedo bombers!
The enemy aircraft carrier got a second Double Strike!
Four against six.
Meanwhile, our Roon is engaged in a courteous duel
with a British cruiser.
Gracefully dodging torpedoes, our hero easily sent
the Neptune to the bottom.
The torpedoes that missed their initial target
took it out on an enemy destroyer!
Take that for sneaking up!
The enemy Essex distinguished herself once again!
Her captain must have a special perk— Multitasking!
How did she manage to destroy both ships almost simultaneously?
Maybe, her commander was eager to get as many Double Strikes as possible?
My heart is overwhelmed with mourning and admiration!
Anyway, we’re standing two against four!
Judging by the capture speed, three enemy ships entered our base.
The allied aircraft carrier is helping a lot by spotting all three intruders,
and our hero is taking up the challenge of trying to decap on all three ships
and dodge their shells.
Luckily, the Khabarovsk has run out of smoke screen consumables.
The Roon sets the Baltimore on fire
and our torpedoes hit the Iowa,
but in vain!
In this highly dramatic moment we’re losing our last ally!
Now, the Roon is obviously an underdog in this battle,
but the events that take place in the following five seconds
will remain in my memory forever!
The Baltimore burns down,
the Iowa is sent to the bottom,
and the whirling Khabarovsk gets hit by HE rounds!
And this all happens at the same time!
Incredible!
Be it a skill or mere luck—it doesn’t matter,
because less than a minute remains before the end of the game
and our team is losing by points.
Victory is impossible.
And here comes the MIRACLE
that every player dreams of in a situation like this.
For the simultaneous triple frag,
our hero gets a unique consumable item—Teleportation!
With the help of radiolocation, the Roon finds the direction
to the last enemy ship and teleports there.
In my imagination, I can see a glass of champagne
slowly falling from the hand of the stunned aircraft carrier’s commander.
“Stop the celebration! Prepare the lifeboats!”
But the Essex has full HP, and time has almost run out!
Torpedoes are the only hope!
All we can do is to watch the timer
and hope that the torpedoes reach the target before it runs out!
Two seconds left.
One second...
BOOM!
Yes! Our hero did it!
Now, you can see the results of this epic battle on your screens,
and if you, my friend, have witnessed battles
even more epic than this one,
just remember
that today is April 1st.