The only option that best aligns with the two other premiums is Nagato, tragically.
Hiei is… not that good, and worse than the current BB premium Yamashiro.
A second Amagi or one of the Tosas isn’t impossible; I think they’d be a little too good to make premiums though. Not like Gaijin cares, France is either getting Normandie or a Richelieu as theirs, and I think Italy is left with only a Littorio. Shows how much thought and effort is put into the mode, right?
I suppose they could make a good decision for once and give us a second Mutsu from later in her life.
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That’s what I am thinking as well. Anything other than Nagato would basically at most be on par with Yamashiro
Yeah. Because they added Mutsu, any ship other than Nagato is going to be too strong or worse than Yamashiro. Should’ve been WW2 Hiei for the rank 5 premium and WW2 Yamashiro for rank 6, completely dropping their asinine insistence on adding the awful WW1 appearances.
Too bad Japan didn’t do what the Russians did, just throw something onto a slipway for the sake of it. B-65 might’ve been a decent one. Or maybe they’ll throw a curveball and do Musashi lmao.
What a stupid idea. Adding another useless rank where 6 of the 7 naval powers will at most be able to field 1 or 2 ships in the tree.
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So would you rather Tosa or Nagato was a premium? Both would be very good.
Tosa so I don’t have to spend $80 on Nagato.
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Is this an unfortunate reality of IRL design? Meaning that because of WT engagement ranges, Yamato can’t use its armor properly.
Or is it just modelled incorrectly? lol
Armor scheme is mostly correct. Some argue is on thickness of underwater part, but cheek is present at real life.
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They finally lowered the Yamato’s ammo loadout
And replaced the floatplanes with proper ones + added a couple of 25mm AA
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Yamato is missing a section of her armor belt on the left side, starting from the section beside the fore 155mm.
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But why…? What reason could they possibly have come up with for that one?
Maybe so Yamato grind can be a tiny bit quicker?
maybe because Ikoma goes up and something needs to fill the tree? I’m rather surprised they still don’t folder Suzuya/Mogami
Hopefully Amagi and Mutsu get switched, so we finally have a battlecruiser/fast battleship line.
Hyuga and Ise make sense to be in a line.
Unsure if the other IJN battleships should be moved around. But I definitely want to see a late-war refit Nagato after Mutsu.
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Let’s see Gaijin put Tosa between Fuso and Yamato and saying “Tosa and Amagi is similar to Fuso and Ise as they have more than four turret, and Mutsu is similar to Kongo because it has same layout of four turret!”
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Truly the 1 step forward, 2 steps back mindset
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With Settsu there for no possible reason there’s no point switching them anymore.
Incomprehensible to me why they’d separate Ikoma and Kongo into their own line just to then add ships that are nothing like them.
My report
I’d like to hear your opinions. I’m currently writing a report on the 230mm armor slope near the Yamato’s No. 2 turret. However, as the manager pointed out, the current blueprints don’t explain why the top of the 410mm vertical armor is a straight line.
So I thought to myself, “Maybe there was a serious mistake in the armor near the No. 2 turret in the drawing that we and Gaijin have been using as a reference.”
The photo above is the design drawing that I used as a reference. You can see that the horizontal armor near the No. 2 turret is raised. However, this was a mistake.With this armor layout, the angle of the slope armor connecting the 200mm and 410mm exceeds 7 degrees, just like the current dev Yamato. This means that Yamato cannot withstand 46cm shells from long distances. However, if the 410mm vertical armor is extended upwards, it will not match the straight 410mm armor of Yamato as shown in the photo.These issues are addressed by the following armor layout:
If the height of the horizontal armor near the No. 2 turret was the same as the height of the horizontal armor near the No. 1 turret, everything would make sense. The slope armor would be sufficient with a 7° inclination. This is the same as the armor of the No. 1 turret, which is why many sources did not make any special mention of the armor placement near the No. 2 turret.
The problem is that I don’t have this new material, and I don’t know if Gaijin will admit that there was an error in that excellent material. But I’m sure that this new blueprint explains a lot of the questions and is correct. Finally, Lord_Vader, please forgive me for using a number of images without permission.
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Except for 7°.