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Seem like hybrid would be moved into their own class and Mogami, as the only ship in the class, could be moved there in its 1944 refit. So technically there is a chance for at least three sisters to appear in different configurations, for example Mogami as hybrid, Mikuma with 5x3 155mm guns and Suzuya with 5x2 203mm guns.

I think you are underestimating how many players already reached Petro. Grind was not that long and many could get a hefty head start by getting Tallinn or even Riga just by grinding those tokens or spending some money. In the same weak, for which you are using you stats, there was more Petro players then Nevsky for example, 4737 to 3776 and yer Petro has much higher WR. That is more then number of people who played HIV, Wooster, Venezia or Goliath. So I wouldn't count that only good players are playing the ship currently, and while stats might fall I doubt they would fall significantly unless there is some changes to the ship. And this week Petro nerf will go live and it is questionable how much it would impact ship WR. It is not a huge nerf but still rising of concealment could make mark on performance. But just the fact that WG is already nerfing Petro, so soon after it is released is indicator that even the are thinking that there were issues with a ship. Especially when you consider that they were so stubborn in defending stealth radar capability during development despite all critics.

How original. Sure that they can do it but I doubt they will. But I could see Hindy with quadruple 150mm gun turrets as a T10 premium.

With what ships? As far as I know there is no CL design available above T8, if WG decide to use Mainz as a base for T8, to be used for T9 and T10. So if it happen, two top tiers, just like for CAs, would be product of WG imagination.

Even moved at T8, Florida would never get 32mm bow and stern but kept 25mm instead. It is a same concept as Slava or Champagne so no 32mm plating for it. If you want for her to get 32mm than some other stats would probably be changed, like dispersion for example.

Yes https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Campaigns

There was a lot of campaigns that were not permanent before, usually those New Year campaigns which lasted for only one patch.

Simple camos are sometimes the best. Italian Azure camo is just great and I would really love to have (permanent) MS 22 for Helena and couple of other US ships. Not everybody has same taste as there are people who like HSF camo for Yamato. How much camos do one ship needs. All premium camos in Armoury for tokens are for steel ships (camos for Black and Flint are from the time when those two were premiums ships). For example you can't use Flint camo on the Atlanta which basically is using the same base model.

Kobayashi camo HSF Camo Halloween camo

No, it does not mean that. While it is uncertain will this game stop at T10, WoWs will always have T1-T4 ships. But technically you only need 1 ship per tier and the rest can branch from whatever tier they want. Just look at T2-T4 premiums, when was the last time we got one? Is it difficult to find something that could be used as premium on those tiers? No, it is not. So why we are getting so few of them if any at all? I don't know is missing T3 Italian BB an exception or new practice, we will have to wait for future lines. But even if it is not a new practice, IMO we can expect more cases like this. Why is that? I can guess several reason but in the end all came just to one - money. Just to be clear, I'm not supporting WG decision to not provide T3 BB, I'm just giving my opinion on why they decided that.

They will not, you will only get refitted hulls while original configuration could appear as premium some day. WG stopped with that practice long time ago and now difference between hulls is mostly in number of AA guns and some other "soft" parameters. Difficult is what way? By the fact that there is a ship design that could fit at T3 or that it would still require enormous amount of work hours to produce that ship. I don't think that it is an issue to find ship that could fit at T3, and WG is probably aware about existing of Cuniberti's design, but the will to waste money and resource to make such ship that would mostly be ignored by playerbase. IMO main reason for this decision is just cost effectiveness, nothing more.

There is a lot of thing do develop beside the ships. There is a lot on inconsistency by WG. Sometimes they care, sometimes they don't. For examples, Flint, as part of Oakland sub-class, is using same hull as Atlanta even tho it had completely different bridge shape. Another ship with completely wrong bridge is Black, which looked more as, in game, Kidd than Fletcher and WG even have correct bridge modeled but they are not changing it. Edin in the game is actually Belfast so creating a new premium, Belfast '43 is quite easy but, on the other hand, Plymouth, which is basically an Edinburgh sub-class with quadruple turrets, got new/improved hull which represent original HMS Edinburgh/HMS Belfast hull. There is plenty or examples for both sides. And every time you ask WG about this incorrectness, you will get a same answer, "maybe someday but it is not priority". What you can do is reminding them about these incorrectness and hope they will do something about that but you can't force them to do anything as, even if they acknowledge mistakes, there is always a priority for something else.

Lot of those ships that could be obtainable for free were not bad ships, I mean even Texas, by stats much better ship than Oklahoma, was available for free at some time. Even for free ship 40sec reload is just insane. I mean I can understand that they nerf, don't know does it needed nerf in first place, but this is just hammering a ship which doesn't have anything special to offer to justify such move.

I would really want to know what is a reasoning behind such nerf for Oklahoma. Texas, with same number of guns and with better AP shells and better AA, has 34.5sec reload, Arizona, in early war configuration, has 35sec on 12 guns. Why for, God sake, Oklahoma has 40sec guns on 10 guns at T5. Why not 36sec for example, why such a drastic increase by 6sec, what happened with fine tuning?

I doubt it is just issue of T4 CV sh*ting on anything else. WG completely (intentionally) neglected lower tiers. As T3 ship would take almost as much time and resources as T10 ship, while players usually spend less time on lower tiers or skip them completely, they are probably not profitable enough or at least not nearly as much as a mid and high tier ships. Funny thing is that, in this case, T3 ship would be a paper design which was never built IRL.

There are actually 2 non Swedish ships as T1, Gryf, is Polish. Considering that modeling a new ship is taking at least 6 months, if not more, creating a new T2 DD just because some people are not liking that Pan European currently is mostly composed of Swedish ships sounds like total waste of time and resources. And they could never "pay" for that time by making Tatra premium ship. And they would need to create two new ships, as they would need a new T1. Did you ever consider that current line of DDs is just a first of many that could be added under Pan European tree? WG could easily on the same way add Dutch, Polish or Spain subbranch to the line and than group all other smaller navies in one (or more) branch. For WG is more important for a line to have some consistency than cramp as many nations as they can into one line. And Swedish line has that consistency. They needed to start somewhere and, for whatever reason, they decided to start with Swedish DDs. WG leave possibility to split some nation, if there are possibility to do that, into their separate tree with time but for practical reasons, in first place for captain training/retraining, all those "smaller" European navies will start under Pan European tree. Considering it would be much easier later to do this if ships are already separated, instead of plucking the ship from the line every time WG decide to separate some nation into their own tree, creating nation specific lines/branches have much more sense that mixing all nation from the start. And it is making balancing and creating specific trait much easier. So why just not having some patience and wait for future additions to the tree and enjoy ship that are already added to the game.

Well, either that or they put a wrong silhouette.

It is probably a (WG) "modernized" version

They said on stream that there will be no T3 for now and the line will start at T4. Maybe they will add it latter, maybe not.

Sorry, ignore this, I thought you were talking about Slava but I guess you are actually talking about Enty.

Stealth radar is just one issue with Petro and this isn't a big nerf. Full concealment will be 12.1km so basically it is work almost the same as now as keeping or escaping from 0.1km will be nearly impossible. It could do with little more tweaking, like general maneuverability or small reload increase, personally I would like to see it been higher in the water. But no need for nerf hammer to fall as it is a fun ship.

Oh, you mean a Soviet ship Dunay. So there is a chance that we could get Soviet version too! Improved version maybe? Nice

I'm thinking the same. Going from 9 guns to 16 would be a little to extreme.

I really don't understand what is your point? Please show me a DevBlog where WG is listing specific nerf that target Smolensk alone after its release? Or any other T10 premium ship. I agree with you that WG probably did intended to nerf Smolensk or Colbert or both with those changes to IFHE but that was still a general changes nerf. You can considered it as you like but it doesn't change a fact. And there will always be exceptions to the rule.

Nobody is forgetting them but the way you listed those ships it looked like all OP ships were actually not Soviet. Which is kind of true but Soviets have more removed ships from store than any other nation. So there is a trend there. If you talking about Champagne, people did complain but on the other hand, that ship never reached efficiency of the Slava. Maybe look into thread from the last T8 Ranked season to see what people think about Enty?