Hi Community! I would love to see these United States Navy battleships in the future updates. Or for the Suggestion Boxes!
We already have Mississippi as an event ship.
What’s different about USS California vs USS Tennessee that was added last major update?
Assuming a 1945 refit the difference would mostly be a significant increase in anti aircraft effectiveness. Each side of the superstructure gains two quad bofors for a total complement of fourteen quad mounts vs Tennessee’s ten. The 20mm single mounts were replaced with dual mounts, though I forget the exact number. Given the short length of the ship it would probably be the most concentrated anti aircraft firepower in game if added today. The radar sets were also upgraded compared to Tennessee’s 1943 fit, which would probably justify giving tracking radar which Tennessee lacks. As an aesthetic consideration she would in 1945 be wearing the by then no longer blue Measure 21 as an anti kamikaze countermeasure, giving the ship the iconic dark grey finish the class is mostly known for similar to in game USS Sumner, as opposed to Tennessee’s much lighter Measure 14.
Nice, thank you. Yeah, I can see that being a benefit under certain conditions. Though overall Im doubting theyd add a second WW2 refit at the moment, especially so soon after adding her sister ship
I’m of the opinion California is probably most likely to come as a premium around when treaty battleships show up. Being an easy remodel of a tech tree ship with improved anti aircraft capabilities and visually striking alternate camouflage options in flat Measure 21 or Measure 32 dazzle if they bend history a little she seems to fit the bill perfectly.
Yep, that is very likely, though at the rate they are adding ships. We are probably a good year or 2 away from seeing 7.0 battleships as premiums
I’m slightly more optimistic on the timeline, though I could just be coping. Bar the US and UK basically every tree is out or nearly out of better ships to add before the treaty fast battleships now. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the first ones before Christmas next year and I would expect they’d add new premiums to capitalize on whatever hype that generates.
Perhaps. As a Brit main, we are still waiting for a decent WW2 refit battleship or even one of our WW2 built battleships. Considering we’ve had 2 top tier BBs added to our Tech Tree in 2 years. (Hood 2 years ago and Repulse this coming update) then we could be a good year or so away from 7.3s being added. Unless that suddenly changes with them being added this december maybe.
It would be about time for them to take BBs forward, which would enable them to then start adding 7.0 Premiums, but I still feel there is something external holding them back, perhaps a full decompression of the air tree and then naval tree for example
USS Iowa 1980s refits with rq-2 and harpoons + tomahawks and ciws would revive naval
Ofc there would have to be some counterparts but it would be a great centerpiece for an update
While they’ve been much better about it recently I don’t think we can completely discount that they’ve been willing to do obscene amounts of powercreep at the drop of a hat previously. Nobody sensible would’ve predicted Scharnhorst before most nations had a superdreadnaught or Hood being the next ship after Marlborough, effectively preventing Britain getting a better ship until they eventually get around to WWII QE refits. Even recently I certainly didn’t expect Mutsu coming before Tennessee and Barham. Having a talisman on Hood I get the frustration but I wouldn’t put anything past them. For all we know next month it could turn out they’re skipping everything in between and selling new premiums to capitalize on a patch with DoY, Washington, and a late refit Nagato
That’s legitimately years away and would ruin the mode if added now. Also strictly speaking there isn’t any other ship to serve as a counterpart, depending on the size of maps when added late Iowas could be balance nightmares that no other ship will play like
Yeah, its possible. Im personally predicting another round of 7.0 ish ships for most nations and then perhaps the introduction of subs. Also the recent overhaul to ASMs and some datamining regarding a japanese destroyer that could come with ASMs makes me wonder whether Frigates/Destroyers with early ASMs could be in the relatively near future, like next year.
If they’re set on adding a subs I hope they make them their own mode similar to the event. I don’t see them meshing well with the existing mode outside maybe EC, and find it far more likely they end up being either a wasted slot on a team or wildly overpowered than anything resembling balanced. Missile ships could be interesting at a much higher br with much bigger maps but the current trend of putting them at 4.0-5.3 to play on Fiji, Fuego, and African Gulf isn’t inspiring much confidence in me either.
Yeah, id be inclined to agree. I do hope we see some more modern ships, like HMS Sheffield a Type 42 Destroyer. Would essentially be a HMAS Tobruk but with a SAM system instead of heavy AAA.
But they’ll definetly need to overhaul maps, at the very least to move teams out of line of sight of each others spawn, should they continue down the ship to ship missiles they seem to be added in a few places.
As for Sub, yeah, I hold the same view, either a meme or OP. Gunna be really hard to find somewhere in the middle
Agreed. The game mode has a lot of potential and while it has at times been a bit three steps forward two steps back I do hope it keeps getting better and doesn’t have to contend with fixing the aftermath of some massive mistake in the near future. Though at this point I’d say we are wildly off topic and in the spirit of getting back to it I’d say I really hope we see Wichita and Massachusetts represented in game at some point, as they’re beautiful and interesting ships and Casablanca is an under appreciated battle.
I would like to see Lexington class Battlecruisers, namely Saratoga.