TO Guides - Hammer

[Zekrom 316]

Hello, this is TO Guides here with another guide! Before we get into it, there are a few changes to the actual guides: there will be far fewer spoilers, due to negative feedback concerning them. This might be a bit of a text wall, meaning you will have to scroll down a lot to see the whole guide!

 

Also, Gauss will be my last turret guide! I'm also using Grammarly to help correct some unnoticed errors. There will also be a header (using cooltext.com), for all my guides. 

 

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This guide is on the Hammer turret, which has the extended clip, duplet and adaptive reload alterations, which are extremely deadly in the right hands! Now, let's get started!

 

Hulls:

 

Wasp:

 

Wasp has reasonable synergy with the Hammer turret. I would recommend using it in Rugby mode, and if you have the ball, go to the enemy base, drop the bomb and score the goal! Yes, it's not the best, but it's reasonable. It's pairing, however, is much better. You can get up to 30 kills easily with Wasp and Hammer!

 

Rating:

Synergy: B

Pairing: A-

 

Hornet:

 

Hornet has great synergy, but it depends on the alteration. Duplet and Adaptive Reload Hammers work very well with the Hornet OD + Booster drone. Although Duplet (I would say) is dying due to nerfs, if you have booster drone, you can still pick up plenty of easy kills! The pairing is also great. Due to Hornet's fast speed and great maneuverability, you can rack up kills without the problem of having to waste time searching for enemies!

 

Rating:

Synergy: A

Pairing: A+

 

Hunter:

 

It's synergy is rather awkward, but it works the best with the Dragon's Breath alteration due to the increased spread. If you use DD after freezing multiple enemies with the OD,you should be able to hit most, if not all, of those enemies. They will burn to a fast and painful death! Pairing Hammer with Hunter isn't the wisest decision, but hey, you can use the Slugger and Adaptive Reload alterations and dominate the leaderboard!

 

Rating:

Synergy: B-

Pairing B+

 

Viking:

 

The synergy with Viking is nice, but it doesn't quite match Hornet's synergy. It can work well, in TJR for example, when the enemy Juggernaut won't stop annoying you, or if you're surrounded by enemies, and there's are no teammates around, just get that OD out and hold/spam the space bar! Pairing, however, is quite awkward. Firstly, you have a hull that is easier to have its aim knocked off. Secondly, you have a hull that is barely a medium hull, meaning, you can use it, but I don't recommend playing in Highways battles with Viking.

 

Rating:

Synergy: A-

Pairing: C

 

Dictator:

 

Considering Dictator's sheer size and height, means that it's pairing is more awkward, and it's synergy is a disaster. Not much to say here, except, don't pair Dictator with Hammer!

 

Rating:

Synergy: D-

Pairing: D

 

Titan and Mammoth:

 

Just because they're big, doesn't mean Titan or Mammoth work well with Hammer! The synergy and pairing are extremely bad! (That's why there are no Titan/Mammoth and Hammer product kits)

 

Rating: 

Synergy: F-

Pairing: F

 

Drones:

 

Now that the hulls are covered, let's move on to the 5 top drones for the job:

 

Assault: Great, if you have an M3 (M2 maxed out) hammer at WO4, but even without, you will still do well. A-

Trooper: Great. Make sure to stack a few micro-upgrades on that, though! A-

Driver: Depends on the hull. Normally great. C- to A

Booster: An incredible drone if paired with Hornet and the Duplet alteration! A+

Camper/Trickster: Do similar jobs, cut supply cooldown time. A, would buy either of them.

 

Combining Hulls and Drones:

 

Now on to pairing the alterations with the appropriate hulls and drones:

 

Slugger: Hunter, and Trickster/Camper

Dragon's Breath: Hunter/Viking and Assault

Extended clip: Wasp/Hunter and Driver for Wasp or Trooper for Hunter

Duplet: Hornet and Booster

Adaptive reload: Wasp/Hornet/Hunter and Assault

 

What do you think? Tell me down in the comments!

[kaisdf 3,320]

Article Approved.

 

You have the makings of a solid guide here, but it lacks a few features. The basic details are great, and very helpful, but you should try talking more about the turret itself - what is it best suited to? Short/Med/Long range, open/closed quarters maps, tips and tactics like the shot ricochets, etc.

 

It really isn't that much of a text wall in reality, it isn't long, it's more that there was little formatting and no change. I added quite a lot of colour, I added titles, etc. which should make it all easier to read. You mentioned having a banner in your intro, don't know what happened to that, but I do think that you need to include more pictures/screens - maybe some battle end screens of how you've done with each hull?

 

Also, just using Grammarly doesn't save you fully. The main issue was paring vs. pairing. Both are words, which is why it didn't get picked up, but paring means to trim/cut something.

 

If you want a good example of a guide, I recommend looking at @Person_Random's recent Wasp guide - quite long, but it has good formatting and detail.

 

Edits:

• Several "paring"s changed to "pairing"
• Added colour, added formatting, etc.

[C.O.N.Q.U.E.R.O.R 3,845]

The Art of Shaft

 

Not to self advertise (the article is ancient), but my above article is a good example of what a guide should look like. Other great examples of good guides are A Professional's Guide to Hammer (me), The Go-To Guide: Tanki Photography (Magenta), and It's Time To Excel In: Iran (Hexed).

 

The main things that I would comment on are the lack of images and the lack of proper formatting. Headers are practically instant positive karma. Also, length. Put more info in. Areas you could expound on are what MM maps Hammer excels/performs poorly in, what modes Hammer are good at, or how Hammer can be used differently (as an ambush? as an attacker? as a defender?).

 

 

Good luck!

[Person_Random 4,991]

Nice second guide!  It was definitely better than your first one (and far fewer spoilers to click on). One of the plus sides of this piece is that it is not a wall of text (like mine lol).

 

However, I felt like there were some places which could be improved.  I agree with kaisdf and conq on many of the points they made, you probably want to check out some previous guides before coming up with your own.  That's how I started (like kinda formally - like in most of the articles recommended above as well as my own (#shamelessadvert): Challenges Conquered).  Reading those, you'll be able to find out the general structure of a guide: generally a lead in followed by the advice (probably want to expand a bit on that and add some more advanced tips) and a bit of recap (which I had failed to include in my article that time) and a closing.  Otherwise, it feels rather impersonal like as if Google was talking to me about playing with Hammer as a turret.  A more defined intro and outro (like a transition from the guide-y parts to 'leave your comments below') would work wonders and make the piece feel more professional.

 

Additional note about proofreading - I think it would be a good idea to get someone else to take a look at your piece, not just Grammarly.  Grammarly corrects surface errors, like missing commas and spelling errors, but it does not do as well a job at detail work like text structure and tone - it can't tell a TO guide from a cruise company's brochure.  I'd recommend letting a second pair of eyes look at it, and if you want, you can send some of your work to me and I'll be more than happy to take a look. 

 

As always, keep up the good work.  I hope you take your fellow writers' advice and make a phenomenal Gauss guide.

Edited October 18, 2019 by Person_Random

[Zekrom 316]

 

It's coming soon in my Railgun guide - I think - a couple of guides away tho

 

These are just rough guides at the moment - "extended guides" probably will come out next year. Please just remember - this is the AWS, and I break down the information into a reasonably average guide. But it isn't detailed.

 

These are the TO Guides. Next year, expect TO Extended Guides, very detailed guides on each turret. This is my 2nd or 3rd guide ever. P.S I'm doing a kit review soon. Yes, it's an M1 kit, no, I haven't ever got close to Legend, but these guides are still average for my "rank range". Random is in that range, and he's well above he should be, and these guides are on my RTL. 

 

I'm not publishing it on YT, so I'm publishing it in the AWS (and possibly the TO Newspaper later on, who knows). Not me rn.  :huh:

 

More information on future Extended guides will come out in the next few guides (Railgun, Twins etc)

 

 

 

I've already read that guide btw. 

 

I am working on an intro (I was gonna do a Panzoid intro, but that's a video intro, so I'm doing a cooltext intro). 

 

Actually, due to a mass of words in the Tanki dictionary, Grammarly doesn't really help that much, anyway. 

 

Thanks! Instead of being released on a weekly/fortnightly basis, you could now expect 2 guides every 3 months. And I know a guy (@Cheerful), who made it into the TOF Solo Gauss playoffs, so, I could pick up some tips from him.

Edited October 19, 2019 by Zekrom

[Zekrom 316]

https://prnt.sc/plcdkb

 

Who likes it?

 

P.S how to turn this link into an actual image? I tried it on the forum, but it said: "You are not allowed to use this image extension on the community". I want it to become a direct image/gif. What do I do?

Edited October 19, 2019 by Zekrom

[Initiate 1,306]

Titan/Hammer/Swash M1...  B)  :rolleyes:  :)

[Zekrom 316]

Titan/Hammer/Swash M1...  B)  :rolleyes:  :)

The only exception.

 

Idk why it still exists tho

[kaisdf 3,320]

Ok, thank you to Conq and P_R for repeating what I said but cramming in some shameless ads for their own works, nice :P

 

 

These are just rough guides at the moment - "extended guides" probably will come out next year. Please just remember - this is the AWS, and I break down the information into a reasonably average guide. But it isn't detailed.

 

Actually, due to a mass of words in the Tanki dictionary, Grammarly doesn't really help that much, anyway. 

Fair enough, that makes sense. You do have a good start here, but as you seem to know, it just needs more detail.

 

As for Grammarly, I had a feeling that would be the case :P

[Flexoo 6,980]

https://prnt.sc/plcdkb

 

Who likes it?

 

P.S how to turn this link into an actual image? I tried it on the forum, but it said: "You are not allowed to use this image extension on the community". I want it to become a direct image/gif. What do I do?

^ This is what your editor looks like when you are writing posts. To show your image, submit it into an image hosting website (like Imgur, or PostImage), then right click on it and copy the image location. Once you copied the image location, click on the icon that is showed above in the red square and paste the link there. And voila, now your image should be visible.

[Viking4s 10,791]

Great work. Not to self advertise, but you can definitely learn from articles I made, they are good example of what a guide should look like: How to write a guide, Beginner's guide to Overdrive and Viking: The Ultimate Guide.

Edited October 19, 2019 by Viking4s

[r_Given6 859]

Edited October 19, 2019 by Given

[Zekrom 316]

Great work. Not to self advertise, but you can definitely learn from articles I made, they are good example of what a guide should look like: How to write a guide, Beginner's guide to Overdrive and Viking: The Ultimate Guide.

Deception, deception and a Norse-themed guide

[Viking4s 10,791]

Deception, deception and a Norse-themed guide

it should be all deception...

[Devoid 2,601]

Good read, very nice information and format!

 

Regarding the information within this article, I would have liked to see a bit of a further mention of the "Slugger" alteration. You mentioned most of the other alterations several times, but rarely this specific alteration. It was the most-used alteration within the "TOF Solo Hammer" eSports competition this year, and for very good reasons. It increases the overall distance of damage, and also has a tighter pellet spread, allowing for more damage, if the user can hit very concise shots. Just from watching TOF Solo Hammer matches, I decided to buy the alteration for myself, and I can confidently say it is one of the cheapest, but most effective, alterations.

[Zekrom 316]

Good read, very nice information and format!

 

Regarding the information within this article, I would have liked to see a bit of a further mention of the "Slugger" alteration. You mentioned most of the other alterations several times, but rarely this specific alteration. It was the most-used alteration within the "TOF Solo Hammer" eSports competition this year, and for very good reasons. It increases the overall distance of damage, and also has a tighter pellet spread, allowing for more damage, if the user can hit very concise shots. Just from watching TOF Solo Hammer matches, I decided to buy the alteration for myself, and I can confidently say it is one of the cheapest, but most effective, alterations.

"Best alterations for different turrets" will either be released when the Gauss alterations get released, or when the extended guides get released next year.

 

NOTE: The last guide will be on Gauss, before I move on to "Extended Guides".

 

Also, I agree that Slugger is very annoying, and it's the main Hammer alteration @MrThunder uses in his videos. (I would say, other forumers would agree that Slugger Hammers are as annoying as Duplet and Adaptive Reload Hammers

[Initiate 1,306]

Dictator:

 

Considering Dictator's sheer size and height, means that it's paring is more awkward, and it's synergy is a disaster. Not much to say here, except, don't pair Dictator with Hammer!

Edits:

• Several "paring"s changed to "pairing"

The jokes on you though, proofreader  :ph34r: 

Edited November 13, 2019 by kaisdf
No idea what you mean *cough*