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This is not true. On Thursday's WoWS official EU stream, it was already mentioned that WG is not happy with dead eye and it would probably be changed, only to be confirmed that it would be completely removed and replaced with new skill on RU stream on Friday. The last one is the one that Flamu tweeted on Saturday. So that info is totally not true

Actually, USS Sullivans lost its from torpedo launcher for more AA guns, during refit in 1945, just like the USS Kidds Fletcher as T8 with both torpedo tubes would need to be quite crippled to not be straight better than either Benson or Kidd.

It is still separate ship even if belong to same class and WG could decide to try something else on Salem. I really doubt that Salem would get same LU as DM, highly unlikely that that would happen.

Nobody could tell you that unless working for WG and I doubt anyone from WG would give you direct answer. Even if Salem gets LU it doesn't mean that it would have same LU as DM. They did mentioned that all T10 ships should eventually get LU but there was any mention on this for quite some time.

They did say on the last EU Twitch stream that WG is not happy with Dead Eye and there will be changed but didn't specify which one.

It is already confirmed by WG staff that Austin will be sold for Steel.

Yes it does. Just like YY model is actually an original ww2 era Allen M Sumner class destroyer.

Actually they did exist in ww2 with this setup. Loyang and Hsien Yang were both represented by their ww2 configuration. For example Hsien Yang didn't even had torps when it served under RoCN and Loyand also only had one set of torps. Same for Fen Yang. So all of them are in ww2 configuration, only under RoCN flag.

But you are not completely right either, aren't you. What? Republic of China , or as you wrote "the Nationalist", was official country which had its navy, or the Republic of China Navy. How big it was it doesn't matter as THEY WERE PART OF THE ALLIES SO ITS NAVY IS PART OF THE ALLIES. Even after the China Civil war ended, the government on Taiwan was sill recognized as the official government of China by many countries, long after the ww2. And all the ships that US gave them were part of the Republic of China Navy. So what is your problem.

You are forgetting that Pan European ships are not all Swedish. Orkan did take part in the ww2 as Polish ship. Also, with exceptions of Siliwangi and Irian (both Indonesian), others belonged to Republic of China, which was one of the Allies. How do you think China got a permanent seat in the UN?

Pan Asian DDs and Orkan say "Hi" Yup. When released it was the best T9 DD. But that was before ships like Kitakaze, Jutland, Mogador, Friesland, Neustrashimy or Ostergotland were added to the game and at the time when there was much fewer radar ships. Smoke and radar combo is really powerful, but Black torps are quite a joke now. Current implementation of the Black is not even historically correct. If he like look of the ship he can just look into Fletcher. It could be good in CBs but not sure if it would be a top pick as there are many other DDs that could deal with Black quite easily. Don't trust what "some say". Unless WG officially announce it, all of those rumors are just pure guessing or wishful thinking.

T6: Aigle and Pepsi T7: Vauquelin, Jervis and Fiji

To be fair there is not much here for WG to work for. In her historic configuration HMS Tiger only had 2x2 6inch and 3x2 3inch guns. So to fit her in the game they must reach deep into gimmick box. But IMO they should give it HE shells as RN AP is not that great if target is too much angled. It doesn't have any mean of dealing DoT damage or to do any kind of dev strike or massive damage unless target cooperate and detonate by itself. Or if not HE than at least much better dispersion, like for example the one one the new German DDs. Without those I don't see how this ships could be good.

WG's "precogs" probably predicted that you are intending to be rude, so to prevent this they decided to act preemptively

Similar idea as original WG's NTC. Bonuses to ships, either via Clan Base or Research Bureau are horrible idea and should never ever be added to the game. Economy and cosmetics sure, but improving ship combat performance are definitely a NO.

With exception of superstructure and upper bow and stern, Austin could deal no damage to Moskva due 50mm plating, no matter the distance. So my guess would be that torps were involved too as killing almost full HP Moskva with just SAP seems highly unlikely.

For Takao was 50 wins in randoms with T8-T10 ships. Originally T9-T10 but good old WG EU decided to have some "mercy" for playerbase and dropped requirement to T8, even tho on all other servers was T6 and set of much easier missions. Nachi was crazy because it required 20 kills of US, German, Japanese and Soviet ships in randoms and at that time few people played Soviet ships at all, and during the event even less. Every Soviet ships was focused from the start and nobody wanted to be a target for the whole enemy team.

You are forgetting that SAP has ricochet angles. So if you catch Thunderer broadside you can deal a lot of damage, if it is enough angled you can barely scratch it. On the other side SG could also almost delete Thunderer in one salvo, with 9.2k alpha per AP shell, theoretically it could deal 82.8k damage, only 100 HP short of full health Thunder. Of course getting 9 citadels from one salvo is highly unlikely to achieve but maybe in 2 or 3 salvos could be done. PR have enough alpha in one AP salvo but considering its dispersion SG would require shorter time for the kill. HIV could also do in 15sec with MBRB active but it would need to be much closer. Petro could do it in two salvos, but again if Thunderer is closer (not because lack of pen but due bad long range dispersion). But again all this depends on whether you catch Thunderer full broadside or not. But I'm not a fan of that Austin gimmick at all.

Just like it is not. Assumption that R-10 will replace Khaba is just that .... an assumption. and we all know that ....

That is just assumption of playerbase. In the last Q&A So I would not take players assumption seriously unless it is confirmed by WG. Believing that R-10 will replace Khaba is completely groundless.

Austin is the only US "freemium" announced and it would be for steel as it is replacing Somers. There is no future US fremiums rumored or announced except players wishes which are just that .... wishes, nothing concrete. It could be that WG have some plans but as easily it could be that we need to wait quite longer for next US freemium. WG does not need to replace one US ships in Armoury with another, especially if there are other US ships available, like Salem, Ohio, FDR or, soon, Austin. Missouri is replaced with Musashi not new US premium, just like Musashi is not replaced with new Japanese premium, or Krony or JB or ... For WG, premium is premium,. They will replace a T9 or T10 premium with another T9 ili T10 premium, nation tag is less important.

So now the Sprit will last two weeks, I guess

Community asked for it just because it was such a meme and broken ship when it was added for the first time and not because its historical significance as it didn't have any. And that doesn't mean that it is a good for a game. What WG could do is try with somewhat different approach. For example during the Solomon campaign, Kitakame was refitted to serve as a fast transport ship. For this, four of its torpedo launchers were removed which left ship with 6 launchers, 3 per side. This would mean 12 torps per side for 24 total which would be way more reasonable than 40 per side. But I guess a lot of people would not be happy with this and would not accept anything but full torpedo set of 10x4.

It should be available for everybody or not at all. And even the seasoned DD players could as easily do a friendly kill as some average one. In the last testing phase of the Kitakami, I was in three matches with it. In first, a member of the hurricane clan obliterate friendly Halland while in the second, my div mate and very good DD player, accidentally killed a friendly Shima. With 40 slow long range torps, especially if there is multiple of them in one match, friendly hits would be quite common. Kiatakami should never be included in the game, at least not until this game became a meme by itself.

Season 10 of the Ranked Battles, in 2018, was the last season that reaching R1 was awarded with a Jolly Roger flag. For this new Ranked, you can get a Jolly Roger achievement badge, not a flag