Extended Naval Aiming Guide [War Thunder]

In this naval artillery aiming guide we discuss the settings, theory and the gameplay of shooting ships in War Thunder's Naval Forces. This shall enable you to do considerably more damage and kills than before!

Time Stamps:
0:00 Pre Intro
0:50 Intro
2:32 Settings
9:55 Theory
14:52 Practice and ammo choice

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[Napalmratte]

Hi guys,
Let me know if this was helpful or not.
Should I have focussed on something special more than I did?
Did I forget something?
What was the most helpful thing in this guide?
etc etc...

[billbillson]

The most difficult part of aiming is that you have to consider how to lead the target while compensating for your own direction of travel. It is very realistic for sure.

[Drgunzo]

Came back to Naval after a two years hiatus because Ground RB had beome so unbalanced and toxic. Took me about a month to learn all of this just by playing. Once you get the hang of it you can determine your range and lead before you have a firing solution. Especially satisfying in ships like the Glorious.

[venooby]

This is the video I was specifically waiting for, I really enjoy naval but sometimes I feel like I have no idea what to do

[ansongarcia]

Ripple fire if ur in ships with fast reload rate. (I mained America) it is very effective at getting hits and kills if u pay attention to the fall of ur shots.

[CCaravan]

Biggest thing to me is making sure to reduce the distance by 200m. Can be more can be less depending if one is getting closer (so reduce aiming distance more with fast ships going straight at each other it can sometimes be up to 700m less aiming distance from calculated distance), approx steady (keep distance as game suggest with maybe 100m less to hit the water line), and slightly increase if enemy is getting further away.

[itsjordanf]

I would say the most difficult part for me is to not always follow the cheveron that shows the middle of the ship, but to aim infront/behind it to get the ammo detonation

[Stuka_Pilot]

I highly recommend this video as it's the right starting of the right way to learn how to play with the navy in war thunder. Much respect to you my friend, this is such a great video!

[wilkinsyeung]

Thank you for your super useful guide, I am now able to feel more confident to play Naval RB and deal tons of accurate damages and lots of kill assists.

[bristoliankiwi]

Thanks for the great vid. It's been awhile now since someone did a good break down on aiming in navel.
More vids like this are a great help.
Keep up the good work.😊

[hotsnow]

more Naval love!!! Thank you, Man

Also... Love the Beethoven's Alegretto nostalgia! ❤❤❤❤

[youwotmate]

Thankfully it didn’t take me long to learn how to hit targets consistently, but I had to come here to learn what components I should actually be aiming for as I’ve put it off for far longer than I probably should have 😂

[rodericklenz]

I'm a little slow in discovering your channel, but good to see someone making naval vids.
I wanted to comment (even though this is a few months old) and add a tip you seemed to have missed: Direction correction.

You'll find it in the control settings for naval, and it allows you to manually adjust the horizontal position of the shell drop indicator relative to the carat.
It makes aiming a lot easier as you can simple line up the lead indicator and aim carat and adjust the shell drop left or right to put the rounds where you want them.
But it is most incredibly useful when aiming during turns as it allows you to compensate for the drift of the shell drop indicator by bringing it back where you want it.

I use a Razer OrbWeaver, so I have d-pad under my thumb that I have bound to distance and direction correction, but you could either bind it to the arrow keys and bind right contol or num-pad 0 to fire or bind direction correction to mouse thumb buttons if you have them.

[danielmostert]

Torpedo guide. I suck with torps.
PLEASE.
Almost forgot my manners

[mcx]

Always good to come back to fundamentals, this helped me relearn basic aiming after a few months long hiatus!

[teejayaich]

Beethoven's 7'th Symphony, 2nd Movement - waaaay too intense and emotional a piece of music when one is trying to focus on your instructions!

Sadly, it's extremely unknown to most. A lot of people can recognize at least the first movement of the 5'th, the 1'st and the Choral sections of the 9'th (and maybe vaguely part of the Scherzo), and even fewer than that maybe the first few notes of the 6'th rings a bell (I think i'm being extremely generous for a lot of the world).

The 7'th is utterly unique and absolutely worth knowing. I'm also partial to the 3'rd and 6'th (so if you were going to cut my arm off if I didn't choose my favorites it would be - in no particular order - 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9).

I don't know why i'm writing all this. Adderall is a hell of a med.

Good choice of music for taste, poorly chosen for the mood of trying to mess around with controls in a video game :D

[chesterdecowski]

Excellent info! I shared this with my Squadron mates. Thank you

[thesilentdj]

Well done and well explained. I've been playing since the start of the game but this really really helped... Thx

[AlbionAirsoft]

This is super helpful, going to go and play about with all this, thank you

[elbartosimpson]

This guide is just Perfekt! Keep it up