To that you have to add the fact that turrets take time to turn on your intended target. Your rudder will shift slowly, and your ship will respond to it even slower.

If you order full speed ahead, acceleration will take quite a few seconds. While the game is very far from a simulator, just like with real ships, control inputs take quite a while to take full effect. If you're used to World of Tanks, you better prepare for a completely different style of gameplay.

The reality of the game, though, is that World of Warships isn't simple at all, and if you underestimate its mechanics, you'll end up decorating the bottom of the sea after a couple of minutes of each battle. To be honest, they should fix this now with a micro patch, the longer they leave it in the game, the mode damage it will make to the community.The basic concept of the game is fairly simple: two teams of ships are matched against one another, and need to either reach 1000 points by destroying enemy ships and capturing flags, or completely annihilate the enemy team. This glitch should be fixed in Update 0.5.9. Using your skill instead of this “indicator” would be a more reliable path to success. In many cases it does not trigger at all, in other cases it triggers in such blatantly wrong positions that it guarantees a miss (which can even be seen in the videos in the opening post). While it may appear to give positive results as an aim lead indicator initially, more thorough tests found that it triggers rather unreliably for accurate aim prediction. It is actually a remnant of old code back from Alpha that wasn’t intended to be left there – the icon “flashes” whenever the system thinks that the “distance to impact” point radically changes in a short time frame. Our developers are aware of this issue, thanks to player reports, and they were able to identify it already. Wargaming has officially reacted to this issue, when Brynd, EU Community Manager, released the following:

World of warships aim prediction