Deamon93

In an ideal world would be: UK, Italy, France, Germany and Russia(France is before Germany because she was a naval power while post WWI Germany wasn't and the Kaiserliche can't cover a lot). Considering profit: Russia(Ectair said 70% of the players are Russians), UK/Germany(depending if Bismarck gets a premium version of herself), Italy/France(depending who wins the race to get their tree implemented, possibly France but who knows ). It's fairly similar to what WG is planning for. It may be wrong from a historical point of view but WG has to get cash from this game and they'll do everything to get as much money as possible.

Considering the recent announcement about the IJN CV line i think it would be plausible for Italy to have fighter bombers as unique characteristic(if it's plausible technically wise). If that's the case i may work on the planes soon enough when also the IJN plane arrangement is revealed

There are a lot of threads about this... Lulwut? Those two were naval powers and they are quite relevant for the game, more so than post WWI Germany. Germany can be considered mainly because of the Kaiserliche Marine, without those ships Germany wouldn't even be considered. Besides go check some history books and see why they should be relevant, although i kinda agree the fact that France hadn't a lot of action during both WWI and WWII. On the other hand Italy had a lot of action even from before WWI(roflstomping Turkey in 1911)

There should be a wipe between CBT and OBT yeah. From OBT there won't be wipes, at least those are the current plans(which may change)

They will be different, that's for sure. Better we'll see, i guess depends on what you mean by better

To be safe i bought a crap load of new slots since they are half price now.

In 0.3.1 so in the next big patch. I guess poor ST won't have any trace of life after testing it

Most of the awesome ships come from Italy while the rest is derived from such designs. Only Project 1(Leningrad) is 100% Russian.

You should ask in the Q&A topic. Regarding Le Fantasque she did that speed only on trials with a lighter load. She went around 40 knots with French armament and when Uncle Sam refitted her her speed dropped considerably(due to the sheer amount of stuff AA and other equipment mounted on her).

There's a smoother improvement in ships. In any case this particular ship may be placed a tier too low but not for gameplay reasons(with Project 7 at tier V making the Russian DD line up to tier X is complicated). Ingame wise i it's fairly balanced although if you use it properly she's surely strong.

The prop is in the way, so are the two tails(they put additional gear on so to avoid smashing them). The most powerful plane i'm aware of is the Shiden-Kai(there was a variant modified to be operated from a CV), in theory that plane can be powerful enough to fulfill the role without warping reality(back then was the best plane the IJN had to throw at the 'Mericans)

That's good news!

Possibly yeah, considering how the planes are distributed in the USN line.

All depends on how the Japanese planes will be arranged on the line. That may be true

Ah ok. Well those were actual studies which could have been realized, if Hitler waited a bit more(like years).

Fantasy? A-140J2 was the prototype of Yamato, just the name is fantasy. Besides A-150 won't be that much stronger than Yamato since you trade number of guns and RoF for a larger shell. Besides A-150 is as paper as A-140J2

Thank you! Hopefully i'll get more info in the near future(wherever needed) although the tree is in a good shape for now with DDs ready and cruisers in an ok status(assuming armored cruisers get implemented of course).

Thank you for the info! I wonder what the tier X CV is. I assume it's G-15(an enlarged Taiho), but difficult to guess.

There are the Long Lances, those torpedoes are mounted on the high tier ships.

At the moment tier Is are training ships, they weren't even supposed to fight. They may look modern but technically they aren't that great as far as fighting capabilities are concerned.

Greg is a nice ship. Is she worth that money? I don't think so since there will be quite similar ships, both in the Russian and in the Italian tree(she is pretty much an Italian DD with Russian stuff on)

To test maps we take our nice ships(usually fast DDs to speed up the process) and check the map. Those tests are time consuming and we aren't that many(as far as STEU is concerned, i don't know in the other regions) so it can happen those bugs get implemented if we don't stumble upon them during the tests.

The job of ST is much more than balance, too bad we are under NDA so i can't say anything specific. In basic terms whenever WG makes some changes, whatever those changes may be, we have to test them and give feedback. If the tests are satisfactory the feature gets implemented ingame, if not it gets reworked and retested. In any case regarding the lines: -Cruisers: the main problems are Cleveland and Des Moine(the former because she is misplaced, the latter because she can't be balanced without creating other monsters). The rest, while being fairly similar between one another, that's how they were built. All of them are improvements over the original Northampton but that was common also in other nations(every Japanese CA has something related to Myoko and so on). -Destroyers: WG improved the turret rotation speed of the JP destroyers which is a good thing, making the guns somewhat useful. Regarding the drop from Fubuki onwards i can't say since i haven't played them yet(i'm still at Hatsuharu). The US DDs are all similar but, as said above, that was the way of doing things.

Their line hasn't been announced yet, be patient . They'll come eventually

The BB should indeed be North Carolina. The other ship is Erie(easy to spot). The DD in the left looks like Nicholas although it's just an estimated guess. The carrier in the right is Essex(recognizeable from the single quad 40 mm mount over the bow).