I have no faith in their implementation, but for me, this is the British hype equivalent to the Iowa or Yamato or Bismarck. After something like warspite of course l.
Simply because of what their service importance which a lot of those other ships really lack.
We’re also waiting on a TT WW2 frigate, the French got the former HMS Torridge about this time last year, so its quite disappointing to see that we still haven’t got one yet.
Everyone talks about Bluewater additions, (which is fair enough, it is the more popular mode), but forgets that the UK Coastal tree has only gotten the MTB-460 and MTB-35 recently, both of which were not really needed. We had 5 MTB/MGBs at 2.3 alone before that update, we didn’t need another. But it is nice to see more Canadian stuff I suppose.
Besides, speaking of WW2 frigate, how about HMS ‘Black’ Swan as premium and adding it into Black Friday bundle?
We currently don’t have ship in those bundle.
I would prefer a TT version first, but if we get that I wouldn’t mind something along those lines.
Although the Black Swans are sloops and so are pretty much small destroyers without the torpedoes. So they might end up in the Bluewater tree rather than Costal. Either way I would be happy to see them.
We have a case of Destroyer Escorts in USA, Syonan in Japan, Albatross/Alcione in Italy which are the ships that doesn’t have torp. Usually sloop is coastal so I think Black Swan would be coastal.
I was more thinking along RN labeling ideas, as they thought of Sloops as destroyers without torps, and as such their had very similar armament and displacement to small destroyers, so it may not be a good idea to place them into the Coastal tree.
The HMS Calpe for example in the Bluewater tree, displaces less (1,050t vs 1,250t), and has the same amount of guns compared to the Black Swan, but is admittedly faster.
Still, one of the strangest decisions Gaijin’s made, really, is an odd ship to have where it is. Realistically, stuff like Sloops or DEs should definitely be coastal, and I think it would be of great benefit to move things like K2 and the Hunts over and replace them with more Bluewater-oriented ships.
That is correct. Some in game systems still treat it as a coastal vessel too. Such as AI gunners shooting at it with smaller AA guns, like they do against frigates in the coastal tree.
We’re also really waiting on a guided missile platform. Bravy has been in for what seems like forever, Charles F Adams is in game now… where’s the County DDGs?
The 1941 fits of KGV herself have the funny but utterly useless and unmodelled unrotated projectile launchers on B and Y turret, while PofW has the octuple Pompom instead.
on a mildly related note, my union jacks/white ensigns bug report on stat cards got accepted
guess we’re gonna find out if they A) do anything with it, and B) what they’re gonna do with it