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Well, Kitty supposedly get Brit DD smoke, which can prove rather effective deterrent against CVs Random guess - she will be reclassified as DD with removed citadel. After all we already have Khabarovsk, "cruiserlike destroyer" for years, so we can get "destroyerlike cruiser" for once

With game remasters being rather popular recently, maybe its WG take on WoWs beta times?

Cossack is excellent ship for playing for the objective and 7 smokes lets her thrive in CV matches too. Struggles a bit when it comes to quickly dispatching BBs though due to only 4 fishes on board.

Or bring Molotov if you want HE pen without fire chance penalty. Bonus points for AP penetration on par with 203mm guns, if you really don't want to bring London heavy cruiser

Most of which we have already in game or in function are clones to existing ships. And then from "hightier" ships we have only South Dakota and Iowa classes. First exist as two premiums, one forcefully gimmicked into the game and other being in essence clone on NorCal.

And? 4x1 180mm guns would be either massively underpowered by tier 5 standards and I doubt their overmatch capabilities against cruisers would suffice for tier 4

Atago, Dunkek and Bestfap Belfast skins

It was stated to be part of 0.9.6 patch. And given preload of 0.9.6 already exists, "next thursday" is quite probable to be patch day with collab announcement in friday, just before weekend as usual its with the events.

From, funnily enough, Steam article about WoWs offer because that was easier to find than WoWs one https://steamcommunity.com/games/552990/announcements/detail/1691554794577392148?l=english

Enterprise, Nelson, Cleve, Hood and Hipper already have these... so that leaves Atago, Azuma, Kaga, Prinz, Dunkek, Kektune and Belfast

Its all matter of perspective. I had NC years before SoDak sisters appeared and had dedicated captain on her for a LONG time, so getting essentially premium copy was of little use to me. But as you already have Alabama, then should you get your US BB line going, then you have no need to keep NC. Or little reason to go through US BB line in first place, because -standard battleships up to and including T7 -Iowa being in my book a sidegrade over NC than actual upgrade -Montana is significantly powercrept by 30mm plating and everyone else getting guns to defeat said plating So, yeah. Having a premium clone of a highlight of the line isn't that bad after all. Captain wise, Baltimore doesn't need 19pointer, 10pointer with usual PT/AR/Demo (or SI)/CE gets the job done just fine

MVP question, if Rossija will be for FXP/coal as well probably not.

Got Massachusetts from first pull. Not entirely happy with the ship, but might just do for secondary coop farming.

They are sister ships, with the same handling and armor. Massa trades main guns (sigma and range) for substantially improved secondary range and accuracy, while also having much faster heal reload. otherwise differences between them are token ones, like 300m concealment, 0.5 degrees per second turret traverse or 3k hp Massa stands out with meme secondary builds (which can be fun, I'll give her that), while Alabama is basically premium copy of a NC. And why pay for her when you can get NC for free?

I can confirm Ayyygle being decent ship and having perfect captain skill synergy with French DDs. And you can get her for free, for Coal in the Armory. Only issue - playing silver French DDs without smoke in Aviation Age is asking for trouble, as if playing big and not exactly stealthy destroyer wasn't an issue already.

The only "must have" in this game is to have fun. And what goes for fun, you and only you can answer. From mid tier premiums that are worth recommending though... Graf Spee never was good ship and recent IFHE/armor plating changes only made her relatively worse as midtier heavy cruisers got 25mm plating you can't overmatch. Murmansk is premium copy of a Omaha, so if you liked her, why not. Exeter I remember getting positive opinions, but you might want to try IJN Furutaka first, because 6gun slow(ish) reloading heavy cruiser might not be your forte. Warspite is still solid battleship, albeit bit powercrept by West Virginia and Mutsu in terms of "BFG battleship"

Pinging (un)usual suspect @_Warfarin_ From my experience when bumping into Hayate, she can be very dangerous cap brawling DD, combining rather hard hitting IJN HE with quick reload. But, her concealment leaves plenty to be desired and lacks Daring utility and handling, if you're looking for a "gun hose" type of a destroyer. if you have Siegfried already, I see no point of Agir and personally I'm not convinced of Hayate. Thus I'd keep free exp for something else that will be eventually added to the game.

Brawling ship without means of immediate disengaging when things get too interesting in camping meta is... But, Yoshino is quite a blast in coop, her tall and long citadel actually works in her favor as you can bait bots into firing angled at plate, while its hard to argue with forward launcher of quad Type 93 and 310mm capable of perforating BB grade armor up close.

Kinda this. They don't stand out and then I can't help but notice Odin art being... overdetailed? Overcrowded? Akin to that motorbike skin of Enterprise, with signs all over the place for reasons and a half

Average player prefer to shoot the ships, not get shot by ships thus WG only follow where the money is with long range snipers with actual excuse to not get close. Its not like WG could set "nothing" armored sections to saturate much faster, making these ships bit less vulnerable to damage

Gamemodels3d should have datamined values, but nothing official because reasons. That said, base AA mount hp value is "enough" to get oneshot by single DD caliber HE shell, so I wouldn't bother too much with those numbers.

This is part where you discover "all or nothing" being an actual armor scheme. And used by actually majority of battleships me thinks

Personally I find Massa to be handicapped version of a NC. Fast reloading heal is nice, but sacrificing main guns for secondaries that are firestarter at best... no.

As long as he has CE and SI he's good to go. On a normal BB you can put potato stamp as a skipper and it will do to be honest.

Why buff Dunkerque when WG can sell you Strasbourg with that gimmick?