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A big shoutout to @Sehales Thanks for weathering the storm with us

Thanks for helping us throughout this mess@Sehales. Sometimes we, the community, forget to give credit where is due to WG, but this time we, I at least, are truly thankful

I’m afraid I can’t check maybe until Friday but gathering from what was said inside our community I believe is the Pre made battle messages (Like “good luck and fair seas”) and the achievements. For example, previously we got “Golpe Devastador” as the translation of “Devastating Strike” but now it’s “ataque devastador” which sounds terrible. The problem is that we would need lots of time to check everything But so far, the most obvious changes has been those 2 things. Hope this helps @Sehales

Don’t know the reason why they even bothered to change the lines, but I think a fix is easily doable. Let’s just wait and see

Hi all. The other day I played my Spee and enjoyed it as always. But the accuracy was somewhat lacking and the reload felt bad after a couple of days playing more rapid firing cruisers, nothing estrange so far. But I wondered if a small buff to the sigma, from 1.9 to 2.0 would make the ship better. I’m not saying is a weak ship or a underpowered thing; I just thought to myself that maybe it would help deal with the poor reload and low barrel count the ship has. Plus, in a tier where IFHE melts everything it meets, it would give a nice touch for the biggest gun armed cruiser of the mid tier MM. My personal favorite idea would be the sigma change from 1’9 to 2’0 but maybe they could tune down the reload to 18 or so seconds or maybe, as a way to emphasize the “pocket BB” myth, a better plating. Thoughts?

Thats great! Thanks

Does he misidentifies enemy ships? I hope that Cant wait to go spot with my British DD, see a Russian BB and hear "Looks like an Aoba to me"!

Hello. Im not entirely sure this is the correct place but as the title says "Suggestions" im going to write it here. Recently, I got my hands on the Georgia and im enjoying it. What I like most is how the large cruiser dispersion, partially at least, helps with low barrel count. So an idea struck me. How about implement it to the following ships? 1 Prinz Eitel Friedrich: Why? Because it has less barrels than others and of lower caliber. Coupled with its favorable sigma, I think it may help the ship quite a bit. 2 Gneisenau Is quite similar to Georgia, 6 guns with low DPM and consistence. So why not apply the same treatment to her? If Georgia isn't OP according to WG (despite having lots of gimmicks), why would the Gneis be? 3 Bismarck and Frederic the Great. They also have lower number of barrels than most other BBs of their tier and maybe they could get the accuracy that they lack. And now that we speak of Frederic, how about changing her and Kurfurst? Keep the 406s for the tier 9 and leave both options (406 and 420s) to Kurfurst but, rather than using triples, use the proposed twins for the H class but with a much better sigma (2.0, 2.1?), better reload and said large cruiser dispersion? Maybe some QoL buffs could be made and done. And also there will be people who say that they are good because spreadsheets said so. But I still believe WG should recognize that they need a revamp. Its one of the oldest trees and one of most painful to play correctly in these days and this meta, even if we don't count some of their direct competitors (Massa Choo Choo, Georgia, Ohio, Russian BBs). Thoughts?

Hello all. Recently I have been playing my Yoshino, after a long long grind, and Im enjoying it despite the fact that is a ship made only for being a damage dealer. Had the option to pick Smolensk, but found her extremely boring and I did not want to rain HE inside a smoke, already have Belfast for that. But speaking of Yoshino, or more specific, the B65 project, I found out that both current Azuma and Yoshino don't have their intended belt armor. If you check Wikipedia, and most other sources about the ship design, it says it should have a 190mm/7.5 inch belt, while currently both B65 sisters have 178mm. Is there any reason why? But ok, I guess it is because """balance"""". But I started thinking about how we, well, WG could make an IJN Siegfried by updating her armor and changing the guns. How? Is simple really; the design B65 had a planned update, changing the 310mm to 356mm /14inch in a 3x2 set up. I say we take the Yoshino and add that gun option or maybe create a whole new ship all together. Use same design idea as Siegfried, few guns with standard CA accuracy. Maybe reduce the range a bit, retain 1 quad torpedo mount per side, improve secondary guns accuracy, improve the belt to historical project levels and place the citadel at waterline level. Then you could have a "brawler" B65 class and maybe use the usual name that internet suggests for that ship: Ishikari. Of course, If this comes through, I would love to get one for free as I was the one who wrote this proposal What you guys think?

A friend ended his boicot buying this thing. As he says, the Virus should have been tier 4, as her contemporaries Gangut, Kaiser, Wyoming and Orion are. But he likes it no less. Maybe when I get myself a good amount of money I will buy her, but as of now, im saving up my pennies for others. Does the panEU flag change to Austrian one, like the Commonwealth does?

One day I hope. But better be before we all end up ragequitting Sorry for double post, but I had to say it

Feldmarschall Kenobi? Tbh, I would love to see more premiums to trees that lack them. Maybe one or two, but something. Which nation and which ships? Well, don't know for sure Maybe if they release Siegfried already they can start working on other ship lines and we could get premiums for those.

Im not entirely sure about the win rate argument in recent days/weeks. I think it may be caused because good players are resetting lines and the German BBs are the first ones they are doing it. Maybe the amount of playing time with those ships is higher than usual, because of that reset. I may be wrong but this are my two cents. The problem, as far as I see it, is how they are worse than the competition. Sure the stats on them aren't that great if you rule tanking and armor out, but the fact that the combination of long range meta and other things make them bad when compared to their opposite numbers. If we take for example the Kurfurst vs Montana, we can safely say that the Kurfurst is worse. She has better tanking capabilities but other important things, namely guns, maneuverability, AA and such are much better on the US ship. I strongly suggest WG studies how meta is making them worse. If the meta makes a build standard and compulsory to use, this is awful for the variety that should be ingame. And if that build makes ships far superior to others, or more precisely, German BBs (in this particular case) far worse than others, this needs to be changed. It is simply not fair that you are playing such inferior ships. Thats what balancing department should do, instead of ruling out OP premiums or making others very much pointless.

While I agree that the stats across the holy spreadsheets are more or less ok, I find there are 3 problems, one for each of the 3 last tiers: -Bismarck/Tirpitz: All rounded ships which should excel at close range thanks to the secondaries, hydro and torps. Problem? MatchMaking is brutal (or it used to), everyone camps at max range and you burn like a cinder and other ships have been introduced, namely Massachusetts, which has absurd secondary accuracy and better heal, and better guns (less range but gains more AP pen and overmatch). Don't make me talk about the Soviet ones and their special accuracy. -Frederic the Great. People camp even more. 8 guns with horrible gun angles and without accuracy to make up for them. The good reload means very little because you usually end up with 4 inaccurate barrels and cant hit often. And the competition is much worse. Musashi, Georgia, Jean Bart..shall I continue? -Kurfurst: Probably the most accurate of the three last tiers, mainly because it gains 4 more guns, 1 per turret. Still, it doesn't have anything special for both their gun choices. Either you gain a minimal amount of pen and damage, at the cost of reload, or you stick with worse guns than the rest of the tier Xs (and I strongly believe even the 420s are inferior to every other BB gun at that tier, not sure how Bourgogne guns are, without taking into account the Reload Booster) The rest of the package is strongly below average if you rule the tanking properties out. And those are questionable with the amount of HE spam you take. And speaking of that, I really hate how the meta makes you use the Tank Stealth build....which makes the ship a worse ship than every other around at the same time and neglects the "uniqueness" of having good secondaries. It seems today that all you see today is the same. As soon as a new tree is released, most will not even try to develop new builds, they simply put the same captain build on 1, 2, 3, 4 ships. I can't wait to see Italian BBs and I know what will be the recommended build. You guessed it, the always present and incredibly boring Tank Stealth build.

Im afraid I don't know how to install it on my Mac Found the WoWs folder but after that what shall I do?

Hello fellow forum people!! Recently, after a long break, I have time to play again. Aside from the fact that I’m grinding coal towards Yoshino, something weird appeared on my inventory: Why is the Massachusetts camouflage, a ship I don’t have (although I have a 50% coupon to buy atm) appears there? Is this a bug? An attempt to encourage me buy her? Wish I could, but as of now I can’t. And if I buy it? What could happen?

Will check the carousel but I’m sure I didn’t buy her. Because I hate how the ship in question is so much better than my Tirpitz and Bismarck (hope the new buffs give them the help they need), I never considered buying the Mass Yep, I’m a bit crazy That may be the most logical explanation tbh. Thanks

And here was me hoping to see info about Siegfried because I’m writing a line proposal about Panzershiffes. Guess the myth about the “Pocket Battleship” is true and the Graff Spee and her heirs like the Siegfried were BBs all along

Call me crazy but what if: 1 They remove the 420s from the FdG and makes her still use the 406s?? It would be the H39 and its upgrade with AA 2 Make the Kurfürst a proper H class with 4x2 420mm Twin turrets? That would need a lot to work but is more historical than the 4x3 layout. The germans wanted 4x2 in twins, why not make it true?

Cant wait for a historical H class with twins now that they are becoming a trend.....but I bet she will be crap too

At this point im wondering why. Why not a proper line split? One with the Georgia and then this? I guess money is the reason.

I think the problem is also how meta is just the opposite of the ideal habitat for german BBs. But what I dont find logical is how things like Massachusetts and Georgia (not sure if she has been released, been away from the game for 2 weeks) have much better “gimmick” The heal and increased accuracy on secondaries would be awesome for encouraging a bit the brawling style. Maybe not the 40 seconds cooldown but 60 or so could work. The main guns would still be quite bad tho.

Ahh I see. Is for balance reasons then, fine with me. The Blucher one I still think a real ship would be nice instead of paper but no problem too. Thanks!

Hello fellow readers. Last night I was working on a project that involved some additions to the German tree (also have one for Italian CAs WiP too, don’t call me wheraboo.....even if I am one ) and I realized something weird. It is about how Admiral Hipper has much better concealment, both stock and with upgrades, than Prinz Eugen. According to the wiki, the tech tree ship (Hipper) wins in concealment by a 0’7 kilometer. This means that even with upgrades, the Eugen will have worse concealment than its sister ship. I don’t find the reasoning behind this decision. Is it a intended nerf to the premium or a buff to the tech tree? Sure I know that makes little difference but does it really? Hoping someone can explain this to me. I’m just curious . Also and speaking of Hipper class as a whole. Why WG chose to use the Yorck, paper ship predating the Panzershiffes, for the tier 7 spot? Why not use the Hipper class Blucher for that? Ok it may be the same ship but is not unprecedented, seeing how Monarch follows KGV or the Mogami and Ibuki are the same if not for the 155s. They could easily make her a decent tier 7, with old 13 seconds Hipper had for reload and the old fire chance and reduced range. Opinions?

Ups I derped that one. I meant Lion class so yeah one of those others should be the candidate for the tier 4...or rename current Lion to Temeraire, leaving the name free for the BC and the incoming Thunderer too. Up to WG still. The tier 8 and up I asume they could go for G3 and derivatives or other projects, but I’m not aware of how they were aside from the G3 class. We can always go to shipbucket but other than beautiful drawings and some tidbits of info thanks to the shared secondary guns, AA and that kind of things that can be guessed by just looking at them, I’m not sure how their capabilities (and modernizations) could look and play like.