I would like to take a little bit of time to thank everyone that comes here every week. its been a little harrowing to see the amount of traffic coming through my Blog. Sentimentality aside this week I will be reviewing the Gremyashchy (its just as well you only have to read this than hear me say it as I have no idea how to pronounce the name), the Project 7 Destroyer 'Thunderous'.
The Gnevny Class Destroyers were the product of five year plan for the Soviets in the 1930's to restarts construction of their naval fleet. The design was a collaboration between the Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy to make a line of Destroyers similar to the line that currently served in the Greek and Turkish Navies.
30 Destroyers were built out of the total 36 ordered before a major structural weakness was found in the ships infrastructure which resulted in the Destroyers having limited the sea worthiness. In pure Russian fashion despite these grave structural errors the ships were already paid for so they went straight into service rather than go to waste. This was to prove fatal killing 35 sailors when the stern of the Sokrushitelny (another Project 7 Destroyer ironically Destructive in Russian) simply broke off in heavy weather conditions in November 22nd 1942.
For those of you waiting for the closed beta to move into open beta and are simply bursting to get into World of Warships, the purchase of this ship earns you a one way ticket into the closed beta. In terms of a purchase this is a good one. you can definitely do worst then this ship. I am not the best destroyer captain as I play a lot of Battleships. the play styles are very different and I tend to use my destroyer like at battleship.
The Gremyashchy lends to the longer range Battleship style of play more than the american line of destroyers that I have explored so far. Americans need to get close and personal where the Russian Gremyashchy excels in long range mixed with stealthy combat.
The range of the Torpedoes enables you to get within 8 km drop its metal fish in the water and retreat without being detected. The Gremyashchy is pretty quick at about 38 knots for a tier 5 destroyer. Its pretty nimble on its feet too having a complete rudder shift time of 3 seconds helping to dodge the inevitable rain of fire you will experience. The Torpedoes while not being as quick as Japanese ones have a very good range which works with the long range style of play this destroyer seems to fall into. This long range style of play is further enforced with the very slow turning speed of the turrets. This is no american destroyer with fast turning turrets meaning close range brawls tends to leave a nasty taste in the mouth whilst they run rings around you whilst you struggle to bare your guns on him.
Playing a destroyer is quite like driving light tanks in World of Tanks where mistakes rarely leave you alive but there is nothing quite like dropping torpedoes and watch their almost innocent splash run towards the enemy ships and hit for tremendous damage.
The Mighty Jingles with yet another Ship Video
(I will get round to doing a ship he hasn't reviewed soon)
The guns on this destroyer do pack a decent punch so harassing other ships that are distracted is really this ships strong suit. The surface detectability of this ship is 7 km so enables you to be sneaky, race up to the enemy, unload at your own leisure and run away in a puff of smoke.
I do like this destroyer even if I'm not great at captaining that class in general. There is a certain amount of excitement that comes with destroyers that is wildly addictive and it keeps you coming back for more. With the added bonus that this grants access to the closed beta its a prime buy players that prefer stealthy play. The USS Sims plays very differently to the Gremyashchy so really is goes on your style of play you normally fall into as these are two fantastic destroyers. I would say that the Gremyashchy is more nooby friendly as it is a lower teir and you wont need to close to deadly close ranges. Experience is needed to stay undetected and launch ambush attacks and this ship enables you to get less threatening distances before being effective. They are both great fun so which ever you choose you wont be disappointed.
That's all for this post. Catch you later in the week for another post.
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