Earn Alcione in the Flight of the Albatross Event!

To be honest, I don’t think it’s needed to use both Albatros and Alcione in the same lineup. This is a bit complicated matter, because Naval is a bit different than tanks in terms of lineups.

The Albatros uses destroyers spawn, which means the game treats it equal to destroyers. It’s not bad for the first spawn, because you know very well where all enemies are (on their spawns). If the map is decently designed and you know it well, you can get a good start with such vessel.

But the situation changes drastically with the second spawn. There are barely any boats later in the battle and enemy ships are much closer to your spawn. With how the game is “balanced”, frigates are pretty bad against destroyers at the same BR (assuming both players have similar skill level). Currently frigates are more like: spawn, rush enemy boats positions, kill as many of them as you can, wait for the battle to end. Even if you die, spawning another frigate doesn’t make much sense.

It’s better to take something like 1 boat, 1 frigate, 1 destroyer as your lineup. In Italian tech tree you can take MC-490 as a boat, Albatros as a frigate and Impetuoso as a destroyer and you have pretty much a perfect lineup. Later in the battle spawning Impetuoso will be a much better option than another Albatros. And if you want to win, but enemies took most zones at the beginning of the battle, spawning MC-490 and capturing zones will be a very good option.

My playstyle is also different than most players. My way of playing is trying to stay alive. I play defensively, I prefer not to go into dangerous areas. I care more about the RP than anything else, because I like to progress in the game, discover new things, compare different vehicles to each other and so on. So even from that perspective alone, the Alcione will not only be useless, but I will have to spade yet another Albatros. I already played this vehicle, I already spaded it, and spading top tier vehicles is not easy. Albatros without engine modifications is a very slow vessel and because of that it’s not very enjoyable to play at the beginning. On some maps you won’t even be able to hide after spawning a stock vessel, you will just die from enemy destroyers/cruisers. Of course it’s more a problem of game balancing, but this doesn’t change the fact, spading Alcione won’t be enjoyable experience. And I already spaded almost identical vessel, the Albatros, so the experience will be the same.

I still don’t see a point of event vehicles that are not unique. Copy-pasted premiums are fine, as you get premium bonuses with them and they are spaded already. Unique event vehicles are fine (even if they only have e.g. different guns), because it’s a slightly different experience to spade them. But copy-pasted event vehicles just doesn’t make sense from my perspective. It’s just another identical vehicle to spade, that won’t even give you any bonus to RP/SL. Of course, this is just my opinion on this matter.

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Very nice set of rewards again, but I just can’t wrap my head around the logic behind the amount of Mission Score required per stage for these events.

Please cut us some slack, Gaijin. 🙏

Ofc when it come to italy having an event veichle it have to be a boat.
Also, grind 35k points 7 times ?
You surely know how to disappoint people
not worth the grind

Indeed, with so many italian planes and tanks as event veichles is right that this have to be a boat.

Naval event?

Get ready for the SKR spam!

Give fleet more live, not less, naval deserves it.

Well it is the second Italian event boat (third if you count BP boat).

Naval (3 coastal and 1 bluewater):

  • Freccia;
  • MC 485 (BP);
  • Alcione;
  • RN Aviere.

Ground:

  • AUBL/74HVG;
  • Zrinyi I (Hungary);
  • Toldi IIA (Hungary - BP);
  • Turan II (Hungary - BP);
  • Breda 90/53 (BP).

Air (only prop planes):

  • C.202D;
  • Ro.57 Quadriarma;
  • Bf.109F-4 (Hungary - BP).

More veichles than i thought
Still, i Will rather had and High be tank for Italy this time
Because with those Boat Italy Will have 2 high rank event Boat and not a single high rank event tank.

Not that much considering it’s all what we’ve got since the introduction of Italy as a standalone nation. After 7 years.
I would love to see some event ground vehicle as well or even better just more regular stuff XD

I like to play Naval, but I don’t know if I should do an event again. They are always so time consuming. I’m also not sure if I’ll ever start with the Italian Navy. I already have US, Japan and Russia.

What’s crazy to me is that you have this event going on, yet without looking it up, you wouldn’t even know it’s ongoing… how is there zero mention of this event in game and it’s still hidden somewhere in the achievements?

Wait times are making this take fore ever. I am spending about 1/3 of play time waiting in queue. During a naval event…

I don’t wait that long at 3.7, at lower brs it’s always hard to get into battle though.

Got 24k jsut doing the dailies… sadly heading off for a tropical holiday half way through so gonna have to buy something - ship or coupons…

Now it is very hard to get the cuppon upgrade as it was befire gaijin bring back the old system of owning event vehicles !!!

I give up. Between waiting 5 minutes between games and getting constantly shutout of pts by LVL100s and aimbotters getting all the kills (in tier III !), I realized a copypasta boat isn’t worth it.

Gaijin fix your game.

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And this is good. Event vehicles became so worthless exactly because of how easy it was to get the upgrades.

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Freccia P-493 sends greetings from 2020, when its BR was 4.0, and after the event it became 4.7 XD I think the same cruel nerf awaits this boat

The Albatros (which is the same vessel) was recently moved from 3.7 to 4.0, and it’s already too high in BR. Maybe not because of its power, but because of the +/-1.0 matchmaker system. It’s the same problem with all 4.0 vessels in the game, in like 80% of battles they are put into 4.0-5.0 BR range, because 5.0 BR American destroyers are the most popular in the game. And Albatros spawns at the same spawn point as destroyers, so they can very easily kill it. Keep in mind, the Albatros is a slow vessel, on many maps you won’t be able to even hide after spawning before 4.7-5.0 ships will kill you from ~10 km away.

The best way to keep Naval much more balanced would be to change the matchmaker to +/-0.4 BR, but this will never happen, as the devs prefer variety in battles than balance.

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Yes, sir, totally agree. But I think we should expect another nerf on BR, it will be in the style XD