Amids the malcontent regarding the X-mas content, I want to express my gratitude & approval for the HMS Ajax camouflage we can earn.

[MrFingers]

While I'm still angry, disappointed, and feel lied to regarding Puerto Rico, Gorizia, the Shipbuilding collection and general WG-greed on display, there is a small silver lining to something not related to that all. This week we can earn a permacamo for the Leander (+50% XP, usual camo/accuracy modifiers), depicting that ship as HMS Ajax as it looked in 1940, in its 507A/507C scheme. And the mission requirements (1939 main battery hits, 25 fires, 5 victories as a division, all doable in CoOp with any T5+ ship) aren't absurd either. 
 
Being able to obtain stuff that makes ships look like historical members of the class makes me very happy, and is one of the few things I really liked in WrathHunter: being able to obtain skins for vehicles, changing the look of it (I kept playing the P40 for that reason, I wanted all those different camouflages). I hope that Wargaming will expand on this feature by offering historical skins that make techtree ships look like akin to actual members of that class, purely by changing the camouflage.

 

The skins, what I am concerned, don't even need to have any economic modifier attached to them (the dispersion/concealment modifiers is a different matter), and would in my book be a nice reward to work towards once one has gained elite status on that ship, for example by reaching XP milestones. It would also serve as an incentive that WG appeared to be interested it: get more people to (re)visit the mid-tiers, something the NTC was aimed to do.  By not attaching an economic modifier to those skins, those skins wouldn't eat in the potential sales of regular permanent camouflages. I fully realise this requires some effort from the art-department, since each camouflage has to be tailor-made for each class (it's not a multipliable tile), but it'll be worth it.

EDIT: yes, that means I want my pink HMS Berwick and HMS Kenya.

 

 

 

[wot_2016_gunner]

@MrFingers I'd like if they add "perma" historical camos for literally every silver ship in the game (form tier 1, maybe 2 all the way to tier 10). As you said, i can even don't have any modifiers, but it will be cool to have. Maybe they could do it so that you need to grind it after your ship got elite status (just as you proposed). I'd really like to... sealclub... i mean, take out my kongo (which i kept) for that.

 

Besides, i don't play WT, but i do play Il-2 1946 and there are tons and tons of realistic and what-if camos for the planes (the what-if are possible camos that look realistic but of course were never used, like the camos for the Horten for example). Plus, i'd like if they add a feature like in WT where you can choose the degree of weathering of your skin; because rust is actually the worst enemy for ship (even worse than Smolensk). Just look at how rusty is my New Mexico.

[black_falcon120]

just curious have they changed the secondary flags, my bismarck used to get 500 secondary hits + in co op but i havent hit 100 yet....

 

it's making the grind super annoying.

[wot_2016_gunner]

I have a magazine about Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and at the end there is a section that shows all the camos that those two ships had over their service; however i can't show it here because almost every camo has Swastikas on it (i counted 58); tho i can show you the front of the Magazine (it only exist in Italian). Actually did you know that the left facing swastika (the mirror version of the one of the Nazi party) was actually used a lot during ww1 by almost every country (even UK and the USA) as a symbol of good luck.

 

Here is the magazine

[NothingButTheRain]

1 hour ago, black_falcon120 said:

just curious have they changed the secondary flags, my bismarck used to get 500 secondary hits + in co op but i havent hit 100 yet....

 

it's making the grind super annoying.

Probably due to more severe competition as people are scrambling to get their directives done in time.

I notice a lot more killstealing in coop as well.

[Akula971]

This set of missions is pretty easy and quick if done in a scenario or co-op. My best ships for this just happen to be the Leander and Perth as they both have smoke. It would be even better if the camouflage changed the ships name to Ajax too. I did the last part in co-op and just created a division, invited people, and if if no-one joined it still counted as a division. Neat. Co-op is pretty good just to knock snowflakes off LOL.

[black_falcon120]

2 minutes ago, Akula971 said:

This set of missions is pretty easy and quick if done in a scenario or co-op. My best ships for this just happen to be the Leander and Perth as they both have smoke. It would be even better if the camouflage changed the ships name to Ajax too. I did the last part in co-op and just created a division, invited people, and if if no-one joined it still counted as a division. Neat. Co-op is pretty good just to knock snowflakes off LOL.

i'm usin it to farm in my edinburgh, downside is i can't use it to get the fire starter directive, but hey....

[slugford]

7 minutes ago, Akula971 said:

I did the last part in co-op and just created a division, invited people, and if if no-one joined it still counted as a division. Neat.

Glad about that. I don't play  in divisions, so I can complete this mission! Weeeee!

 

The recent RAF camo for the Polish ship was nice looking, too.

[rilship]

Is this a joke? Leander camo made you so happy you had to express gratitude in the mids of the most blatant money grab by WG and WoWS?

[BlackYeti]

54 minutes ago, slugford said:

 

The recent RAF camo for the Polish ship was nice looking, too.

Yes, except the solo cap task took me so long that i missed the reward by 1 evening 

[slugford]

4 minutes ago, rilship said:

Is this a joke? Leander camo made you so happy you had to express gratitude in the mids of the most blatant money grab by WG and WoWS?

I think his opening sentence sets his stall out well on that point. 

[havaduck]

3 hours ago, MrFingers said:

Amids the malcontent regarding the X-mas content, I want to express my gratitude & approval for the HMS Ajax camouflage we can earn.

 

 

While I do concur with Fingers post, as is often the case, if I were to do that in the face of all else WG is doing, I would need somebody help me tie a dozen (thorny!) Roses around a heavy brick. So yeah more of that, less of "normal WG"; in fact I advise excision in toto in that regard.

[MrFingers]

1 hour ago, rilship said:

Is this a joke? Leander camo made you so happy you had to express gratitude in the mids of the most blatant money grab by WG and WoWS?

If it’s bad, they’ll know (and knowing they do... I tore them a new one over the Gorizia-lies without a single grain of remorse), but if something is good, they also have the right to know that, and that such things should be acknowledged.

[rilship]

@MrFingers Nice to see you here!I have quoted you in one my my latest threads and would like to personally THANK YOU for your fight against the blind greed and total disconnect WG is showing us all.

[wot_2016_gunner]

@black_falcon120 there still is Conqueror for the fires 

[black_falcon120]

36 minutes ago, wot_2016_gunner said:

@black_falcon120 there still is Conqueror for the fires 

isn't the midway or the indomitable better ;P

[Dampfboot]

If it would have been something for Fiji, I would have rejoiced. Leander, meh, never gonna play it.

But at least they made one player happy!

[Gnirf]

7 minutes ago, Dampfboot said:

If it would have been something for Fiji, I would have rejoiced. Leander, meh, never gonna play it.

But at least they made one player happy!

Yes, but as it is tied to River Plate fight, Fiji did not participate, only Ajax ( Leander), Exeter and Achilles (Perth).

[Yedwy]

16 hours ago, NothingButTheRain said:

Probably due to more severe competition as people are scrambling to get their directives done in time.

I notice a lot more killstealing in coop as well.

Kill stealing is just the same as every time a mission of any kind involving kills is in queue - horrible and you either jump the wagon or are left standing on the roadside while the a** are laughing at you....

[HaachamaShipping]

How long can this camo be earned?

[fumtu]

3 hours ago, Gnirf said:

Yes, but as it is tied to River Plate fight, Fiji did not participate, only Ajax ( Leander), Exeter and Achilles (Perth).

 

HMNZS Achilles is also a Leander class cruiser.

[invicta2012]

39 minutes ago, fumtu said:

HMNZS Achilles is also a Leander class cruiser.

He's right, you know. Perth was part of the Amphion sub class of Leander class cruisers (she has two funnels, rather than the Leander's one large trunk funnel).

 

3 hours ago, Dampfboot said:

Leander, meh, never gonna play it.

Oh, do. Great fun in any Tier VI Operation/Scenario battle.

[invicta2012]

22 hours ago, MrFingers said:

EDIT: yes, that means I want my pink HMS Berwick and HMS Kenya.

There's a very nice white/red stripe Mediterranean camo for RN G and H Class DDs which would look nice on Gallant:

 

[NothingButTheRain]

5 hours ago, Sleepy_Bunny said:

How long can this camo be earned?

https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/sales-and-events/missions-0811/

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The Battle of the River Plate

December 13 is the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate—the first major naval battle of World War II. For completing a chain of combat missions dedicated to the battle that pitted a British squadron against pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, you'll receive the Ajax 1940 permanent camouflage for cruiser  VI Leander.

 

Start: Fri. 13 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) / your local time: Fri. 13 Dec. 06:00

End: Fri. 20 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) / your local time: Fri. 20 Dec. 06:00

I inserted the link to this topic into the times as the white may make them hard to read when using the lighter layout.

[aboomination]

Yeh - nice looking camo for a great ship