We’ve been shown “the big 3” and got hyped for them. The mighty USS Iowa, Bismarck and Yamato.
Little did we know the real mighty one would actually be the impossible Sovetsky Soyuz. Only a far-fetched dream from the Soviet leadership to bring their country’s navy to a somewhat equal place the rest of the world powers found themselves in when we talk about naval power. A dream, that of course, ultimately failed because of their lack of experience with projects that big, technological limitation in their naval industry AND personnel (The Great Purge sent a good number of engineers straight to labor camps) and the cost of war itself.
And so we have the Sovetsky Soyuz:
- They were lazy and just copy-pasted the Kronshtadt’s shell rooms into it. They’re tiny, good luck hitting and igniting that.
- Apparently it was just IMPOSSIBLE for the soviets to build it. No experience, industrial limitation, technological limitation.
- 40kg of TNT equivalent in its AP shell, by FAR the highest in any AP in naval. Just a reminder this cannons barely even managed to work and actually empty the ship’s magazine if it actually got implemented IRL.
- Yamato just melts against it, as any other ship really
- Cannon overperforms like crazy
Now I won’t really bother gathering all the documents and claims proving everything being listed here, as it was already been done in multiple other topics and they’re easy to find here. But just let all that info sink in.
And to make something clear: Yes, every nation should get something that makes it competitive in any game mode. We should not totally exclude the Soviet navy. But making a paper ship, a literal dream from the Soviet leadership, a project impossible to be completed due to MANY factors, mainly technological limitations in industry… making THAT have its best THEORETICAL stats and be THE strongest ship in the game feels like they’re pointing at our faces and loudly laughing “xaxaxaxaxa”.