Re: World of Warships, Ranked Season 16 Map Position Advise.

I have created one more video explaining what to do best do giving certain team setups:

https://youtu.be/BGi2dZmTGA0 

Basically there are three variations:

A. 3 Battleships + 2 Cruisers + 2 Destroyers (Very common)

Split the fleet and cover left and right flank.

Weaker fleet tries to hold and delay enemy advancement.

Stronger fleet tries to take both flags on it's side and assist weaker fleet.

If weaker fleet overrun try and pull back or fight to the death with torpedoes
and take a few ships out.


B. 3 Battleships + 1 Cruiser + 3 Destroyers (Worst case scenerio)

Destroyers need to work together to destroy enemy destroyers. If even one destroyer splits this is going to be a loss 90% of the time. In that case try and save your star. Easy to do with a destroyer, proceed to a flank flag and stay hidden till enemy leaves the flag and then re-capture it. Gives good XP, torp something and usually this is enough to save the star as all teammates get cross torped. Do not launch torpedoes until the flag is captured otherwise your position is compromised, harder to do if RPF-ed.

The cruiser has no chance in this setup, all 3 destroyers can easily burn it down. Also taking down 3 battleships is way too much for single cruiser.

Battleships are advised to stay back as much as possible, and to keep moving and rotating and playing like a snake and luring enemy destroyers away from flags.
And perhaps wait till some destroyers are killed off, if this does not happen then your basically screwed, might wait till enemy dd's attack and then shoot them for XP and try and save star. Can also maybe later push into flag or ram a BB. Though luck one this one ! ;)

C. 2 Battleships + 4 Cruisers + 1 Destroyer

This is basically a cruiser dominated match, here being sneaky in a cruiser can pay off, try and flank cruisers with AP shots as they rotate. Stay near battleships for fire support against cruisers. Target cruisers first, help battleships to take down cruisers. Cruisers have most DPM.

The destroyer is initially somewhat useless but can spot cruisers to help out... very maybe capture a flag but this is not really adviseable until all or most cruisers or spotted, definetly go to weakest flag, not strongest, if destroyer gets spotted it's at risk of being destroyed by cruisers. 2 out of 3 flags will usually be empty... so it's wise for the destroyer to wait a bit and then maybe go to the empty flag. 

However I do see lot's of destroyer attempting a quick cap and usually that pays off to some degree. Cruisers rushing these flags usually get killed, so watch out for those oppertunities.

If destroyer does get a torpedo hit with flooding on a cruiser press F3 immediately on the cruiser to ask for artillery strike/assist to finish it off with citadells and fires.

Good luck !
  Bye for no,
    Skybuck.