BTW does anyone know when new BBs will be added? I started naval recently in march/April but even I got bored of the same BBs every match , it seems GAIJIN hasn’t added any new top tier BBs for a VEEEERY long time.
I want actual modern BBs , tired of WW1 refits
Though it is a good idea… I think i shall write a suggestion for it when I get a chance.
They just moved top tier BBs up a rank, likely in prep for new BBs, the hope was either of the last updates, so now fingers crossed December
Having them in the same tree was one of the biggest reasons naval was so dead. Boats are not fun for most people and were the whole reason naval was stopped and delayed so long. Separating them means peoe get what they want most and that’s the blue water fleet. I wouldn’t be against the same treatment helicopters got where blue water could be used to research coastal.
What can we expect? What’s the next step for each nation that can be added in December?
What they should have done instead of separation was make a rank 2 reserve DD in the unified tree , bam , problem solved
I think for Britain, scroll up :P
Other nations im not sure. Some rumours though that now Yamato and Bismark are in WT mobile, they might be considered for WT
I don’t remember the whole wording but I recall it wasn’t unless they deemed it necessary would they do it but it wasn’t off the cards. Laid down was the preferred line.
Wouldn’t they be too advanced for 7.3? (İf they even make them 7.3 instead of 7.0)
Perhaps, though theyd suffer from limited mobility and the same kind of nerfs the Hood has with shell dispersal, I imagine even worse so. They’d be most vulnerable to destroyers and maybe even subs harrassing them with torps. We’ve also got AP bombs now, so that would also open up that avenue of attack
Nah, separation made naval look more appealing and it allowed you to research blue water and coastal in the same line up in the same battle. It was horrible before, especially as the coastal fleets got bigger and bigger. Naval was almost completely dead before the separation. It saved naval for sure.
I think what “saved” naval is the R2D2s in naval lol
Ahh I see, well I highly doubt that they consider it necessary although the UK Heavy cruisers are the worst in the game.
But if they ever waive that there are the 1938 cruiser studies, commissioned directly by Churchill for the outbreak of the war after the RN learned just how over-limit the Admiral Hipper’s were, they had 9, 9.2 inch guns in triple turrets, with a 203mm belt and a firing rate the same as the british 6 inch guns on the Belfast so 12 seconds. Would be a very good Prinz Eugen competitor as their secondaries were rather lacklustre.
Are any of these BBs in WoW based off of reality?
St Vincent
Thunderer
Conqueror
Incomparable
Devastation
Licks lips
British heavies didn’t get the same development as other nations. Britain found they could build more light cruisers then heavies at close to 2:1 which was more economical, wasn’t limited hard by the treaties and had more fire-power when 2 lights were operating together vs 1 heavy. As a result they ceased development into heavy cruisers and built battlecruisers like no other nation and a bazillion light cruisers. It’s not unrealistic
St Vincent is based in reality, but never existed. The RN had a few ship designs in the early 20’s. The St Vincent belongs to the L-3 class, this class was cancelled because it wasn’t suited for the UK’s dockyards or commitments. However a similar design would be the G-3 that i’ve already mentioned.
AFAIK Thunderer is completely fictional.
This is a modified Lion class design in a 1942 configuration I think. Not real, but a good rendition of what a finalised Lion class design might have looked like.
She is a 1915 design, the brainchild of Admiral Jackie Fisher, he was kinda nuts but in a funny way. He also designed the Courageous class, ‘large light cruisers’. Never laid down or accepted, but based on reality. She pushed the limit of a Battlecruiser right to the edge and would’ve been colossal, I wish she was built simply because she looked mean. She truly would’ve been incomparable.
She’s kinda like the HMS Hood but on every steroid known to man.
Entirely fake, she basically combined a King George V class Battleship, with the Vanguard and then concepts like the Incomparable and Thunderer.
Yeah they were good ships, we just realised that by the time it came to laying them, they weren’t what we needed as they thought they could build 3 destroyers per cruiser, and Britain’s blood was being drained by the convoy raiding.
Don’t remember if it got a name but my understanding is at some point as a thought excersise and not a true attempt to build her. The admirably told designers to design a ship that was practically invincible. They did this by saying it had to be immune to German 1000kg ap bombs, immune to 18 inch gun fire etc. The point was to see what it actually took. It was always going to be beyond reality to build it but they wanted to know what the line was.
Its not unrealistic no, it certainly worked, Britain was able to scrap these aforementioned heavy cruisers and build 3 destroyers for each in less than a year and a half. Realistically Heavy cruisers were for nations who either weren’t being bombed like the US, or for nations who couldn’t be seen to be obviously building Battleships like Germany, Japan and Italy.
