DONT BUY THE ATLANTA.

[El_Pollo_Locooo]

I play it rarely, just to train my captains. It's a dificult ship to play but I like it. 66 games in mine, 33 wins, 46k average damage.

[Eerieness]

Sneak around islands, volley at full speed, as coming out of corners gives you a surprise attack. Let fly! Bad at long range, but a shotgun at close ;)

 

[LittleNipper]

Armor = awful

Range = terrible

concealment = completely rabish

arc of shells = Houston we got a problem

torps = Ognevoi have much more superior torps (Tier6 and Soviet)

Hp = ......... where is the hp?

AA = THANK GOT THERE ARE SOME CV'S PLAYING ON THOSE TIERS

manoeuvrability = warspite and tirpitz look like real cruisers against an Atlanta.

ratio of good games from bad games = I live you the supporters tell me  

 

 

I am sorry guys but what ever you say this ship for me is absolutely waste of money.

 

I agree, i have an atlanta too.... no fun at all, i just keep it for the captain skill so i need to win a battle and then back into port.. sometimes for a long time. money trashed.

[ChiefBlueMeanie]

IMO the Atlanta is all about having fun, protecting BBs from air attack, killing DDs and the odd ambush on a low health target of opportunity and maybe support fire for bigger ships. Play it cautiously and like an OP DD.  It puts a smile on my face, almost every time I take it out. Don't seem to be too many around, so quite often, when you surprise an enemy, he panics and it's game over. You need to be very situationally aware, to avoid enemy CAs. 

I don't care too much about my stats thus far. I take it out, have fun and make a ton of credits and xp. 

[ChiefBlueMeanie]

Sneak around islands, volley at full speed, as coming out of corners gives you a surprise attack. Let fly! Bad at long range, but a shotgun at close ;)

 

 

Exactly! It's a shotgun. Simples

[anonym_UgMNTuWYVfiQ]

I bought the Atlanta because of threats like this one. You just know it's an unique ship after reading all the comments. 

[KillSlim]

Atlanta surprise attacks are terrifying. One wrecked my Kiev as it appeared from behind an island and rained hell on me.

[ChiefBlueMeanie]

Atlanta surprise attacks are terrifying. One wrecked my Kiev as it appeared from behind an island and rained hell on me.

 

Yep, that's why it's such fun. Killing DDs with one salvo isn't unusual.  A few salvos is normal, if you're at range. Cruisers can be more of a challenge. But sitting behind an island, in cover, solves that. Battleships can be sunk from full health in a couple of minutes, providing their attention is elsewhere. I've only very rarely been on the receiving end of an Atlanta,  but the few times I have, it was about as enjoyable as being kicked in the balls ;)

[C4PT41N_0BV10US]

Yep, that's why it's such fun. Killing DDs with one salvo isn't unusual.  A few salvos is normal, if you're at range. Cruisers can be more of a challenge. But sitting behind an island, in cover, solves that. Battleships can be sunk from full health in a couple of minutes, providing their attention is elsewhere. I've only very rarely been on the receiving end of an Atlanta,  but the few times I have, it was about as enjoyable as being kicked in the balls ;) 

Now, I also understand you wrote:

 

 I don't care too much about my stats thus far. I take it out, have fun and make a ton of credits and xp. 

However. I can understand having fun it. It is somewhat fun to just, like in the song, let it go, and watch some shells hit the target. But let us be honest. You say it's a "shotgun". I don't know which shotgun you ever seen, but Atlanta is a shotgun that will blow up in your own face. Atlanta, as you have written, takes minutes to put some BB down - however BB can take you down in 30 sec tops. Kiev that is semicompetent and stays around 11 km from Atlanta will take her down with almost no problems. Des Moines can be a shotgun, good rof, good damage, a bit tanky from front (at least vs CA's), Cleveland can be shotgun. But atlanta? Atlanta is like this one dude you had in counterstrike, that bought M60 and went guns blazing and screaming until somebody took him down with a knife. That's Atlanta.

 

Although, it can be fun. 

 

[ChiefBlueMeanie]

Now, I also understand you wrote:

 

However. I can understand having fun it. It is somewhat fun to just, like in the song, let it go, and watch some shells hit the target. But let us be honest. You say it's a "shotgun". I don't know which shotgun you ever seen, but Atlanta is a shotgun that will blow up in your own face. Atlanta, as you have written, takes minutes to put some BB down - however BB can take you down in 30 sec tops. Kiev that is semicompetent and stays around 11 km from Atlanta will take her down with almost no problems. Des Moines can be a shotgun, good rof, good damage, a bit tanky from front (at least vs CA's), Cleveland can be shotgun. But atlanta? Atlanta is like this one dude you had in counterstrike, that bought M60 and went guns blazing and screaming until somebody took him down with a knife. That's Atlanta.

 

Although, it can be fun. 

 

FYI - I've seen plenty of shotguns up close. Plus a variety of large calibre revolvers, pistols, semi and automatic carbines, sub machine guns, heavy machine guns......yadda yadda. A shotgun is for close up work, which was the substance of the quote I commented on. Nobody said the Atlanta doesn't have weaknesses, so I don't know what you're arguing about.

[allufewig]

Atlanta is like this one dude you had in counterstrike, that bought M60 and went guns blazing and screaming until somebody took him down with a knife. That's Atlanta.

 

Although, it can be fun.

 

 

Accurate comparison from my very limited CS experience. I was that M60 yologuy on tilt.

 

After an hour or so I always got bored and bought the M60. Ran around with the trigger pulled and trying to mimic Rambos face in front of the monitor. Needless to say I never achieved anything. But I had fun.

 

The Atlanta is so WoWs M60. Spammy fun as long as you dont care for winning, damage and all the tryhards stuff.

[KillSlim]

I've played a few more games in my Atlanta and I'm quite disappointed in how lacklustre a ship it is. It's simply outclassed by other ships in it's tier and below a tier. It gets demolished when it loses turrets for the rest of the game which is simply a broken mechanic, who exactly thought that was enjoyable? That is the source of frustration for me when it comes to this ship. Atlanta needs to be moved down to tier 6 which would fix many of it's problems. Sure you can have a few fun games in it but that doesn't debunk the fact that it is under-performing and ... a bad ship. 

 

Edit: It's definitely not worth it's current price tag, it's almost as expensive as the incredibly versatile Atago. 

[operaatork6ps]

The secret to Atlanta shotgunning seems to be using AP at close ranges (big surprise, heh?). Apparently a lot of people don't switch from HE when facing enemy cruisers at point blank (6km and below) ranges, and therefore suffer. At less than 6km the Atlanta penetrates most cruisers and due to the number of guns and rate of fire, gets loads of citadels. I've wrecked cruisers in 3-4 salvoes like that.

[C4PT41N_0BV10US]

 FYI - I've seen plenty of shotguns up close. Plus a variety of large calibre revolvers, pistols, semi and automatic carbines, sub machine guns, heavy machine guns......yadda yadda. A shotgun is for close up work, which was the substance of the quote I commented on. Nobody said the Atlanta doesn't have weaknesses, so I don't know what you're arguing about.

Well, shotgun in gaming has a pretty comon meaning - very high damage on close quarters. Which I agree with, but it's not the case when you think of Atlanta. 

 

 I've wrecked cruisers in 3-4 salvoes like that.

Which cruisers did you wreck? Nurnbergs? Even angled Pensacola will bounce 127 mm AP shells 

 

[WingedHussar_Adler]

The secret to Atlanta shotgunning seems to be using AP at close ranges (big surprise, heh?). Apparently a lot of people don't switch from HE when facing enemy cruisers at point blank (6km and below) ranges, and therefore suffer. At less than 6km the Atlanta penetrates most cruisers and due to the number of guns and rate of fire, gets loads of citadels. I've wrecked cruisers in 3-4 salvoes like that.

And what "idiot" shows you broadside on 6 km???  

 

Any eaven a bit angled ship will bounce your 127 (dd) guns like paper darts. 

 

Also you have like 10 k helth Less than your cruiser oponent so in straight gunfight you are dead asap. 

 

Atlanta is excellent dd hunter. Pitty it is t 7 and will not get radar. 

 

In every other fight you will have chance of oponent is not looking at you. 

[Noobsplatter]

Forgive me lads for I have sinned, I ran over a potato field carried a game...in my...atlanta and even citadelled a myoko.

 

Take that evil statistics!

 

[Admiral_H_Nelson]

Forgive me lads for I have sinned, I ran over a potato field carried a game...in my...atlanta and even citadelled a myoko.

 

Take that evil statistics!

 

 

Well played!

[Pete_SB]

The Atlanta is one of my favorite ships, if the op doesn't know how to play one then they should stick to rubber ducks in the bathtub.

[SinkTheOthersNotMe]

Had hard times when starting with Atlanta but I am doing fine now and should soon be able to have games averaging 30k+ dmg per battle no matter if a loss or a victory.

 

Atlanta =

- If carriers in game: Turkey shoot party + ofc DD hunting.

- If no carriers: I found best to follow at a distance of 4-5km the DD provided there is a push with other cruisers and BB.

Because the atlanta is the best possible DD eraser + can deal serious dmg to ships that either are too busy to take care of you or do not consider you worthy of their attention.

 

I now play my atlanta as a DD support ship while being cautious not to go alone against cruisers or BB and it works wonders

[Poster_2015]

Problem is 30k damage is actually very low for a cruiser (but ok for Atlanta ). I actually play Atlanta often now (well once per day lol for the x2), because i need to train my US cruiser captain+its easy to get the Hiei mission done. I do exactly opposite - im the guy with m60 running forward. I got rid of AA skill, i find it rather meh on Atlanta (everyone assumes you have it anyway, so you dont lose much of deterence factor). Sonar + Atlanta charging into detroyer playgrounds nets me not much damage (30-50k), but a lot of xp/money (i do damage on destroyers mostly). I die quickly very often, but usually can take more then 1 opponent with me. Its just "efficient" - 5 min you get as much xp as "support Atlanta" playing full game of 15. 

[ChiefBlueMeanie]

It's perfectly possible to carry games in your Atlanta. But if you yolo at the start, obviously you won't live long enough. 

As others have said. This ship eats DDs for breakfast.  One salvo killing a DD isn't unusual. 

Killing DDs and killing torp/bomber squadrons are what this ship does best and will make life much easier for your BBs. 

If you attack alongside heavier cruisers or BBs, so that you're not the focus of incoming fire, you can keep ships burning,

get endless citadel hits etc so enemies die faster and your teammates take less damage.

You can switch between HE and AP in six ish seconds, so it's never a case of either, or. Use both.

You must avoid taking damage at all costs, so that as a game progresses you can switch from the tactics above and go hunting ships with reduced HP and CVs on your own. You'll possibility lose a turret or two in the course of a game. Big deal. You got plenty!

If you're not enjoying the Atlanta,  you're playing it wrong. Simples. DON'T BLAME THE SHIP!

Sure you can have meh games, but that's either cause you have a noob team and a win is impossible or you get careless and if you get careless in this ship, there's a very limited margin for error.

Frequently,  you'll laugh yourself silly, at what you can get away with and the despair and destruction you can cause. 

 

[allufewig]

If you're not enjoying the Atlanta,  you're playing it wrong. Simples. DON'T BLAME THE SHIP!

 

 

 

39% win (your worst ship counting those with 20+ games played) and 13k average damage after 262 games. You dont carry even half of your weight. Youre not causing destruction, youre causing laughter. This is crazy bad, even for the low Atlanta-standards.

 

How come that perception of your impact in games and the actual recorded impact differ so vastly? Im beginning to call this "Atlanta-Syndrome" since youre not alone there. Every single day someone with T1-stats on his Atlanta tells the crowd theyre playing it wrong. Which is actually an Insult to everyone who can read (server)stats. Im not questioning youre having fun. Probably you have. But youre certainly not playing it right when it comes to winning and "carrying" teams. And again, this is not only your fault, but the ships as well. It is weighted as T7 when all its stats scream T5.

 

[C4PT41N_0BV10US]

 Im beginning to call this "Atlanta-Syndrome" since youre not alone there.

I love "Atlanta - Syndrome". A very dangerous illness! It's making people do horrible things, destroying families, ending friendships, righteous man cheats their women. Yeah, you have to be very carefull, or you will be next one!

 

[kotrc2]

....it's really strange topic this sounds like hystery "dont buy Atlanta" cose I would say - "just do it" and put on the ship the Nike's logo aswell, please status players consider that I am not a status player at all. Atlanta is a DD + aircraft killer and primarily a zippo lighter ...and very good money + exp maker, I have nothing to say against this ship, but must confess / its really hard to play it in a team of lemming - campers.

[C4PT41N_0BV10US]

 ....it's really strange topic this sounds like hystery "dont buy Atlanta" cose I would say - "just do it" and put on the ship the Nike's logo aswell, please status players consider that I am not a status player at all. Atlanta is a DD + aircraft killer and primarily a zippo lighter ...and very good money + exp maker, I have nothing to say against this ship, but must confess / its really hard to play it in a team of lemming - campers. 

You need to check the doctor, I sense first stadium of Atlanta - Syndrome...