[KHAN_] Hibana_Banana Players 1 post 2,156 battles Report post #1 Posted January 8, 2019 Hi captains ~ Just wanted to ask how many of you guys wish for more pre-dreadnought ships? In all honesty the Mikasa is such a lovely ship to play, or the ships such as Aurora or Bogatyr-class, I kind of wish for more of those, it would make for fun and engaging matches don't you think? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[NEXT] ColonelPete Players 35,265 posts 17,736 battles Report post #2 Posted January 8, 2019 Mikasa is not lovely to play. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[XTREM] Miragetank90 Players 2,580 posts 17,352 battles Report post #3 Posted January 8, 2019 More will come, just a matter of when. And Mikasa is lovely indeed. Full secondary Mikasa should be banned, it's illegal to bash puppies like that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[ELEC] LiveWire___ Players 919 posts 7,393 battles Report post #4 Posted May 31, 2019 I would pay money to control HMS Agamemnon....oh, wait....I actually could. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[LAZY] funky_1961_steel Players 1 post 13,154 battles Report post #5 Posted June 4, 2019 How about King Edward VII Class or Scharnhorst/Gneisenau (WW1 Armoured Cruisers) ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[BABBY] StringWitch Beta Tester 1,607 posts Report post #6 Posted June 12, 2019 I do, but they need actual range on the secondaries. I'd suggest they use the same type of dispersion model as RU BBs, supposedly being awful at range but great close up, so they can get the guns firing without improving the overall damage done to OP levels. Mikasa just feels bad when everyone stays away from you. One needs to be able to comfortably fire secondaries across a capture point for the map control/presence of such a ship to be useful, so I tend to play Konig Albert instead for the same feel (5km at tier 3!). There are a lot of fascinating designs from the pre-deadnought era, but WG opted to span only the period that everyone 'knows' when you mention words like battleship, cramping a vast array of ships from 1872 to 1908 into only tiers 2 and 3. All actually built and not sekrit dokuments from 1955, to boot. One funny feature of note is that the Indiana class had thicker main belts than Yamato (18" vs 16"). I think armoured cruisers with 2x2 8" guns are a better fit for the game, less damage potential so less weird RNG fudgery required. The later ones could very well appear up to tier 4 in complete heavy cruiser lines. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[TACHA] NobleRipper Players 1,210 posts Report post #7 Posted December 29, 2019 I love the pre-Dreadnought era ships (especially RN as that's what I'm most familiar with), it would be great to see more (a Majestic would make sense given how many of them there were) although given the characteristics of the type we would run the risk of ending up with just a bunch of Mikasa clones. That said, there are always the semi-Dreadnoughts: the Lord Nelson/Agamemnon, King Eddie VII, possibly something in a Radetzky class. Then as well there are the second-class battleships (smaller and faster generally), like Renown of 1895 and Triumph/Swiftsure. Of course if we open the pre-Dread can of worms, does that mean we could end up with (more) armoured cruisers...? ;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites