Placement of USS Iowa and KMS Bismarck

So with famous battleships being announced to come in 2025, I think it’s time I start paying attention to naval, but I still don’t know in which line the ships I’m interested in would come. I would like to know where the USS Iowa ( or any Iowa class battleship) would be placed in the Tech Tree, same for Bismarck.

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Wait is this true , I do wanna know where you got it. Please provide if possible

This is hard to say cause content for naval is not being updated as fast as air or ground. And given naval itself having a lot of problem I doubt we gonna see them soon. But they are probably 10.br~ or even higher cause there are still a good amount of ship that could fit in behind them

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Sure thing!
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Here you go

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Damn that a big good new for naval. Hope next year we be eating good

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Yeah I’m sure there are still plenty of ships to be added, but I really would like to know cause I don’t want to grind out all the lines just for 1 ship lol

I mean you still gonna have to grind them all cause the vehicle require to open the next rank is tend to be all the vehicle of the previous rank (not including foldered vehicle)

Right, but still, if I can avoid grinding 3 390K RP ships in rank VI it would be great lol

Understandable but I don’t think there is a way to tell what line those ship will be in. Might as well grind out the whole of rank 5 for now and wait

Given what they’re doing to the Japanese tree, who knows? I’d assume middle line for Iowa.
They’ll probably put her after Alaska for the same reason Mutsu follows Kongo. “Thing look like other thing!!”
Bismarck will probably be left line and Tirpitz will probably be right line.

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That’s exactly what I thought, just as if the Battlecruisers we have in game look like the battleships cause they are pure WW2 designs…unlike the current battleships we have lol
I guess people just ignore this and expect the Iowa to be added after Alaska because of that.
Anyway thanks for your help I will prioritize those lines

The thing with this is they are basically the same ship. Same class battleship , just one live longer to get more modification. Given that one will most likely become premium. I don’t think both gonna be in the tech tree

Yeah, and Bretagne and Lorraine are in two different lines in the French tree.
They’re not going to make one of them a premium either. Unlike Wargaming, Gaijin can’t just make up new ships to fill in the gap left by making Bismarck or Tirpitz a premium.

They could if they just fix the damn mode instead of kicking the can down the road. Decompression ,fixing map maybe fix the aiming as well, spawn point and what not. It would be better, cause with the current tech tree. I see no way to cramp Bismarck/Iowa/Yamato in

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I don’t disagree, but as Gaijin has proved with air and ground battles, you don’t need to make the mode better if you can just add new things for people to buy. And right now, naval is probably losing them money so long as they’re still dragging their feet in regards to adding ships that everyone knows and wants.
For example, as much as I love dreadnoughts, I’m just kinda tired of them. I’d pay 90 bucks right now for a Richelieu, but I wouldn’t spend a dime on another New Mexico.

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Iowa is not close imho. There is still something to add in between.

Also Bismarck / Tirpitz should be probably held back to add whats missing in between. There might be still two WW1 BCs to add and probably the Gneisenau project with 38cm guns.

We even don’t have Colorado class or North Carolina class. If Gaijin wants to add Iowa class , it should placed under them. For German , you guys have Scharnhost overpower in 3or4 years , isn’t enough? And at least Bismark should placed under Scharnhost’s 380mm plan.

Wow man the only thing I asked is, when they inevitably come, where will they be added?

Theres really no sense or reason which line Gaijin puts the dreadnoughts. I remember when Arizona was announced and I suffered through North Dakota because surely Gaijin will place it under the two BB lines the US had?

Nope, she was under some irrelevant cruiser line that i didnt slog through.

Looking at the Japanese tech tree also hits you with its randomness or demonstrating the lack of naval knowledge by the devs. I specifically remember them putting Mutsu after Kongo because ‘the Nagatos are the Evolution of the Kongo class!’

You’d have bigger luck flipping a coin to determine where Iowa or Bismark will end up. So i recommend just grinding as many lines as you can then focus on one of them as theyre released.

Currently, nothing competes with the Scharnhorst with the possible exception of the Mutsu and Amagi.

The U.S. battleships are not very fun to play due to not having their proper drafts, so your magazines and shell rooms will constantly explode, and their reloads mean that you will be firing every 40 seconds at best.

The U.S. destroyers and light cruisers are some of the best in the game and very fun to play though.

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Yeah the german as of now have the best BB out of any nation in the game. Even with Rodney being added in the next major update , i expect the situation to be even worse. What we need now is a overhaul of the whole thing not adding more to a pile of problem

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