if they add the crazy OP “laid down” ships for other countries, i think they should give iowas their historical nuke shells
bc iowa will have worse armor than a lot of the others, and smaller main guns, so it would make them sort of glass cannons
only 18143695kg TNT equivalnet dont worry
The Shinano often seems to be referred to as a subclass, if I remember correctly. (Pre conversion ofcourse)
Which are those ships?
g3, h-class, lion class and sovietsky soyuz
I don’t think H class (just H-39) would be too powerful though, just a larger Bismarck with 8 16" guns instead of 15". Probably not much anti air either.
H-41 and up are completely unrealistic as they were never laid down, and have rediculous statistics
ah ok, good to know
Also think it’s likely we will see Stalingrad at some point. Believe the model is already in the files.
cool battlecruiser ig
When next BR Changes?
We don’t know.
(sorry for the ping)
This Shinano talk is funny as she just came in today for me
Still they will have turtleback that is even better than Scharnhorst, while other battleships(except British)will be even more vulnerable when penned.
H and J has no difference in design, then only one of them could be in the game.
Though '90s Iowa is definitely worse than WW2 Iowas.
Would have missiles, ciws, better radar, but less 5in and little to no 40mm
Gaijin already saids they are not interested in ‘modern’ naval missiles, and even they are implemented they are useless against armored ships(because they are not desgined to face such ships)
And CIWS is just anywhere worse than Bofors and Oerlikons. Only 20 seconds of burst, and it will silenced because of ammo shortage.
And you did not mention about crew too. More than 20% of crew diminished after modernization, which is huge nerf ingame.
I think modernish (90’s after all) missiles would be pretty effective against even armored vessels since, y’know, that’s what made them almost completely obsolete
what armored ship obsolete was guided bomb fall from high altitude bomber, and value for money compared to aircraft carrier. Modern missiles never was to be designed against armored vessels, and armoured vessels were already almost out of service when such missiles were developed.
Modern anti-ship missiles are mostly just HE-fragmentation warhead unless it’s warhead is too small to make enough fragmentation(in that case they use SAP). Exocet for case even use VT fuze to wide spread fragment against unarmored part of ships.
Next month, my guess
Uh, no, we tons of ship classes with more than one ship in the game.
What we can’t have is two versions of the same ship.
That is for comissioned ship. Stands different for non-comissioned ones. Only example of two different ship with same non-comissioned ships were Z-46 and Z-47, which has serious difference in AA armament design.
wait, so if missile ships get added, missile iowa will be excellent? bc they will be at much higher BR, and missile iowa is well armored and protected against most cold war and modern anti ships threats.
ww2 iowa will be good in current meta but bc of the extravagance of some laid down ships (they were never actually completed for a reason), it wont be that good which is why it should actually come in both a ww2 and early cold war version. one which is just ww2 iowa ofc, and the cold war one with the historical and correct W23 nuclear shells (15-20kt)
