The main holiday of Irish culture and the memory of Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick, is celebrated on March 17th. Originally a missionary’s day of remembrance, it became widely recognized as a secular holiday at the end of the second millennium. It is celebrated worldwide, one example of this is the river in Chicago that has been dyed green on St. Patrick’s Day since 1962!
LÉ Orla is available at a 30% discount for 4,263 Golden Eagles!
When: From March 16th (11:00 GMT) until March 20th (11:00 GMT).
Where: Great Britain > Coastal fleet > Premium vehicles.
About this boat
LÉ Orla (rank IV) relies on a reliable 76 mm automatic cannon, assisted by two rapid-fire 20 mm autocannons. This corvette is ready to give aircraft that get too close a hard time, provide cover for allies, and defend strategic points!
Open the “St. Patrick’s Day” trophy!
When: From March 16th (11:00 GMT) until March 20th (11:00 GMT).
Task: Earn 3,000 mission points in battles where you used British vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “St. Patrick’s Day” trophy!
Inside this trophy, you’ll receive one of four decals that were previously available for this event so you can complete your collection:
“Leprechaun” decal
“Lucky pin-up” decal
“Leprechaun Hat” decal
“Four-leaf Clover” decal
These decals are located in the “Holiday” vehicle appearance section.
If you already have all four decals, you’ll receive a trophy and get one of the following when opening it:
20-50% Research Point booster for 3-10 battles
20-50% Silver Lion booster for 3-10 battles
3-5 universal backups
1 day of Premium account
Please note: After finishing the task, you need to collect the reward manually.
Additional details:
You can complete the task in random battles, except for [Assault] mode.
Track your progress in the hangar by clicking Nickname → Achievements → Holidays → St. Patrick’s Day.
Would be cool, though at least per Wikipedia, the Irish Air Guard never flew the Fury/Nimrod. It did, however, fly the Hawker Hind which the Fury/Nimrod are based on. Would in general be nice to see a few pre-WWII planes and the Hind would actually be interesting as it has a rear seat gunner and is the basis for the reserve planes, so a historical link to the planes, most GB tech tree players started with.
Other options would be a Gloster Gladiator with Irish skin… or a bit unusual as it is in game, but sadly not yet available and would likely be not researchable as a stand-alone plane, but naval scout, the Fairey IIIF (though the Irish didn’t fly the float version):
The camo’s a fictional one, so Gaijin probably don’t want to include it.
Ireland never operated Hawker Fury, and it’s sort of there in the image every year as a rough approximation of an Irish Air Corps Hawker Hind - which was a slightly larger biplane used as a light bomber.
Plenty of planes in the game with potential Irish camos though:
Gladiator Mk.I (Mk.I is in the Chinese and Belgian trees), Hurricane Mk.I, Seafire Mk.III, Walrus Mk. I (though this is only playable in Naval, so can’t pick the camo).
Seafire would be my pick, and I use an Irish camo from WT Live for it already.
But I think the one Gaijin would be most interested in, would be a camo for the premium Lockheed Hudson
Spoiler
Though the in-game one is a Mk.V with Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps and an extra ventral gunner position, where the real plane was apparently a Mk.I, so had Wright Cyclone engines and spinners on the props
Come on Gaijin. Give us the Headless Coachman as an event vehicle. You know you want to. Or the Churchill VI with a Merlin. Maybe the Timoney 90 or the AML 25
Heh Orla, the ship that doomed the worse sister due to stats & sits at 4.3 while below the better Type 12 in the research tree & has still unbuffed Rh.202 which were buffed for tanks but not this corvette EVEN THROUGH THE REPORT HAS THE SHIP LISTED!!! Sidenote they’re rated as subchasers yet where the hell is its ASW equipment if it’s a subchaser???
Still a worthy premium to get but no real lineup unless you place it with some destroyers.
